The whole world has my vest

Today's Nagoya Castle is destined to have a noisy night.

Although Kunikida Doppo and Edogawa Ranpo left the Nagoya Metropolitan Police Department first, but for the police who had to work overtime, the work had just begun.

Even if those cases end in accidents, reports and transcripts must be written, and they must return to the scene of the crime for careful investigation and inspection.

At this point, it is no longer the work of the Armed Detective Agency. Kunikida Doppo looked at Edogawa Ranpo who was walking in the front, and couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Ranpo, where are we going next?"

I was still in Osaka during the day, but came to Nagoya at night, and ran around in other areas of Nagoya. Although the neon lights are still on outside, there are obviously fewer people walking on the street.

"Go to the hotel to rest." Edogawa Ranpo replied.

"See John tomorrow."

Kunikida Doppo didn't ask how the other party knew where John was, perhaps this was the tacit understanding unique to people with high IQs.

The next morning, Edogawa Ranpo woke up early, he sat on the sofa in the hotel suite, watched the morning news, and when he saw the person he was looking for, he called Kunikida Doppo , let him meet with himself.

John is in the Atsuta Shrine at the moment, those painted horses full of wishes are hung on the wall, each one is so sincere.

I want to get rich overnight, I want to confess success to the person I like, I want to win the first place in the basketball game, and I want to be admitted to the university of my choice.

John chuckled lightly, sliding his slender fingers over the emas bearing wishes, and then turned his head towards Edogawa Ranpo who was striding towards him, nodding in greeting: "Ranpo-kun, we meet again."

Kunikida Doppo didn't care about the fact that he was there, but was ignored by John.

Obviously, for this unfathomable and unknown blond youth, Ranpo Edogawa was his first goal.

"You are the person behind the twenty faces of the weirdo, right?" Edogawa said without going around in circles, directly opening his mouth and revealing the identity of the twenty faces of the weirdo.

John smiled but said nothing. He looked at this kind of shrine with a long history, and turned his head towards Edogawa Rampo to invite: "You haven't had breakfast yet, have you? If you don't mind, do I have the honor to invite you together? ?”

Kunikida Doppo wanted to refuse, but Edogawa Ranpo agreed without hesitation.

It is a very luxurious thing to have breakfast in Atsuta Shrine, and it is even more luxurious if you can order food here.

Kunikida Doppo looked at the thin menu brought up by the waiter, and controlled himself not to think about how many yen a serving of these dishes would cost.

But although the honest man Kunikida Doppo was trembling, Edogawa Ranpo was not polite at all, he opened his mouth and ordered obviously expensive dishes, and even ordered five or six desserts in a row.

The environment here is quiet, and outside the opened wooden barrier is a courtyard covered with cobblestones. The courtyard is full of lush trees, and it seems that it will take on a green color when the wind blows.

Not long after, the bubbling puffer fish hot pot was served, and the crystal clear, flesh-colored lobster sashimi, and the fragrant rice porridge were also placed on the tables of the guests.

John used chopsticks without the clumsiness of foreigners at all. His movements were pleasing to the eye and very smooth. The crimson chopsticks picked up the tender white puffer fish in the hot pot, then dipped it in the soy sauce bowl, and put it gently Taste it in your mouth.

Edogawa Ranbu picked up the rice porridge and took a few sips, then stretched out his hand towards the desserts with a clear goal, but before he put them in his mouth, he heard John say softly: "Let's eat some warm stuffing first." Eat your stomach, Ranpo-kun. Eating too much dessert is bad for your health."

Kunikida Doppo was in a trance, for a moment he wondered where and who he was.

——This blond-haired young man in front of him is the man behind the scenes who instigated several serial murderers to kill each other, created dozens of murders that were infinitely close to accidents, and escaped perfectly?

Before, they were still chasing after John hard, trying to find evidence of his crime, and put him in the police station. Why are they having breakfast together so happily now?And still care about Edogawa Ranpo so naturally?

"Eating hot pot early in the morning, don't you feel tired? Besides, if the meat of the puffer fish is not shaved, the whole puffer fish hot pot will be highly poisonous, right?"

Edogawa twitched his lips and asked back.

John smiled and said, "The fugu meat is very tender and won't feel greasy. Moreover, I believe that the chef here will not make such a mistake that ruins this dish."

Kunikida Doppo stared dumbfounded at the two, wondering if they were playing charades, or if they were simply communicating about the breakfast.

Edogawa Luanpo snorted, actually did not go for dessert, but ate the main course.

This delicious and expensive breakfast, which made Kunikida Doppo restless and tasteless, ended so blandly.

Originally, Kunikida Doppo thought that Ranpo Edogawa would question John, and then deduce evidence from him that could bring him to justice, but after most of the day, it turned out that the two of them were strolling around scenic spots together, and even He also watched John play with the claw machine on the side of the road with great interest, while Edogawa Rampo applauded without hesitation.

Kunikida Doppo watched in horror as John invested nearly [-] yen without changing his face, and finally caught a strange-shaped rabbit doll.

"Why isn't it a cat?" Edogawa Ranpo protested dissatisfiedly.

John also said with a good temper: "I'm not skilled...but this rabbit is also very cute, isn't it?"

"Its eyes are the same as yours, they are all emerald green, and it has a lot of fate with Ranbu-kun."

"...Then I will reluctantly accept it."

Edogawa curled his lips randomly, obviously he was already an adult, but this kind of expression made people couldn't help but make people smile knowingly.

John didn't say a word about their bet, and Edogawa Ranpo didn't say a word about the commotion last night. They said goodbye at the intersection of the street, and then drifted away in different directions.

"Mr. Ranpo, what is all this today?"

Kunikida Doppo couldn't help asking.

The detective held the strange-shaped rabbit and walked for a while before calmly saying, "I originally wanted John to stop, Kunikida."

When he knew the existence of the weird man with twenty faces, Edogawa ranpo knew John's plan.

However, it is a road that is destined not to be understood or recognized by others, and it is full of thorns and poisonous snakes.

"The 28 cases that happened in Nagoya... 21 of them, I can find evidence of their actions and let the police arrest them."

Even Dark Star, a procedural formula that can be called Laplace's devil, needs a certain executor if it wants to punish criminals, and Edogawa Ranpo can find more than half of the evidence, which is worthy of his name as a detective. title now.

"But he won't stop, Kunikida. Didn't you realize that along the way, you never said that those murderers have lives."

Kunikida Doppo was stunned for a moment. Indeed, when he first learned that John was instigating serial murderers to kill each other, he was outraged, and thought that John was a devil in human skin—only a devil would kill in such a cruel way. Humans for fun.

However, as he traced John in depth and saw the crime and blood permeated in the text of those materials, Doppo Kunikida could no longer say that those murderers should not die and should be tried in court.

Because none of these dead murderers was punished by law.

"But... Mr. Ranpo, since you have deduced the truth of those 21 cases, why didn't you tell the police officers in Nagoya?"

Kunikida Doppo suddenly realized this very serious problem.

His tone became anxious: "Don't you think John is doing the right thing?"

Edogawa Ranpo did not answer his question, but asked another question instead: "Kunikida, what do you think is the twenty faces of a weirdo?"

"Weird with Twenty Faces? Isn't that John?"

Kunikida Doppo asked in confusion.

Edogawa Ranpo handed the mobile phone to Kunikida Doppo, and the web page searched on it was exactly the scope of John's company.

Kunikida Doppo browsed quickly, and his eyes quickly froze on a line: "Artificial intelligence..."

"Yes, even if it's John, do you think he can create 28 cases in one night? And it's still when we're chasing after us and we haven't been separated much?"

"When I knew he was going to Nagoya, I had the police in Nagoya keep a close eye on John, and I also found out the hotel where he had fallen. I even asked others to monitor his mobile phone and capture any signals he sent."

Kunikida Doppo twitched the corners of his mouth, thinking that Mr. Ranpo has been looking down at the phone because of this.

It's no wonder that Ranpo Edogawa didn't tell Doppo Kunikida. This honest person who just joined the detective agency and obeyed the rules probably felt that this was an infringement of John's personal privacy.

"But no, John didn't use the computer, he didn't use the phone, he didn't issue instructions to anyone."

These 28 cases were all spontaneous actions of the people.

"Weird with twenty faces, it is the artificial intelligence he researched, it is hidden in the network, a convict device that will not age or die, and may even purify itself—"

Edogawa Ranpo's mood at the moment is also very complicated.

Although he has the temperament of going his own way, and possesses such a bug-like reasoning ability, he occasionally feels that there is a barrier between himself and the world.

He will be sad and sad for those weak and weak, but he also knows that his malice towards the behemoth of the upper society may not necessarily be able to overcome.

Even if Edogawa Ranpo uses his super reasoning ability to find out the criminals, so what? These criminals will not receive the punishment they deserve when they go to court. There are many people who pay lawyers to get rid of their crimes. It is easy to sentence the death penalty, but it will take several years or even decades before the actual execution.

This makes the grief-stricken families of the victims feel unbearable.

So when Ranpo Edogawa deduced that John had created twenty aspects of the weirdo, he actually wanted him to stop.

Twenty-faced eccentrics are highly poisonous to society. They will have a severe impact on the country's judiciary, and even cause people's distrust and resistance to the government.

Edogawa Ranpo has seen what a hell on earth it looks like when it is really chaotic, and the society that has finally settled down can't stand another turmoil for the time being.

But when he saw John smiling at him by the Ema wall, he knew that John would not stop.

Therefore, Edogawa Ranpo can only vaguely remind John not to let "poison" ruin his life and this society.

But unfortunately, as Edogawa Ranpo expected, John refused.

Kunikida Doppo was still shocked by Edogawa Ranpo's guess, he subconsciously asked, "But why did John do this?"

"Why..." Edogawa Ranpo laughed. He looked at Kunikida Doppo and asked, "Kunikida, why did you join the Armed Detective Agency?"

"In order to realize my ideal—" To save and help others, to realize my justice.

When he said this, Kunikida Doppo, who was a math teacher and later joined the Armed Detective Agency, understood what Edogawa Ranpo wanted to say.

Everything John does is to realize his justice and ideals.

Even if the methods were bloody and cruel, and even if the results were so horrifying, he did indeed sanction those sinners who were so hateful that their teeth itched but got away with it.

"Shouldn't we inform the Ability Secret Service Division about this matter?"

Kunikida Doppo gritted his teeth.

"If John is not allowed to stop the weird man with twenty faces, not only the judiciary, but also the society will be in turmoil."

It is impossible for the twenty faces of the weirdo to be correct all the time. What if the criminals he finds out are not actually guilty of such crimes?What if there is a bug in this Convict device?

Just thinking about the impact and consequences of these mistakes makes Kunikida shudder.

"I informed the people in the Supernatural Secret Service last night." Ranpo Edogawa didn't feel guilty at all for waking up Ango Sakaguchi, whose hairline was already receding, from his hard-won rest in the middle of the night.

"They have probably already started to use the power of the state machine to search for John's information. Next, we just need to wait."

Kunikida Doppo heaved a sigh of relief at Edogawa Ranpo's reply.

However, the blue-eyed famous detective who was walking in the front did not look relaxed at all.

There is always work to be done.

Ango Sakaguchi, a gold-medal undercover agent who used to be calm and self-sufficient in different organizations, returned to the Supernatural Secret Service Division and was promoted to three levels. He touched his receding hairline and sighed deeply.

Although the Supernatural Secret Service seems to have real power and unlimited glory, in fact, there are countless internal agencies that are always looking at the mistakes of the Supernatural Secret Service and are always ready to put on shoes for them. Among them, they are jealous of the power possessed by the Supernatural Secret Service. Still jealous of members with supernatural powers, then only those people know clearly.

Edogawa Ranpo made things easy, but the real investigation is not that simple.

John's background information is clean and perfect, even if he uses the power of the state machine to check, he will only get the same result.

Although Takayoshi Ninagawa, who hired John and handed over his invisible political assets to John, was old, he was not a character who could be disturbed and summoned by the newly established and not yet deep-rooted Supernatural Secret Service.

"You really gave me a problem..."

Sakaguchi Ango once again sighed deeply.

However, the twenty faces of the weirdo has become a new topic all over the country, and there is even his support group and a dedicated website, and many people leave messages on it.

He registered an account, clicked in and looked at it, and his expression became serious when he looked at it.

The same incident not only happened in Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya in Japan, but also in Europe, North America, Central Asia and other places, although I don’t know if this is caused by the twenty-faced man , but those unheard-of and unimaginable accidents are indeed very weird in the style of Twenty Faces.

If what these [-]-faced fans say is true, then not only Japan, but also foreign countries will be involved in this flame called 'Justice and Judgment'.

"It's really bad."

Sakaguchi Ango's expression became solemn, thinking about countermeasures.

"——the only one who can stop the spread of twenty-faced monsters is John."

Edogawa was sitting in the hotel in disorder, the whole person nestled on the sofa, and the coffee table beside him was filled with snacks such as yogurt and onion flavored potato chips, konjac cool, fruit jelly, and bozi soda.

"Isn't this considered spreading? Nagoya is in chaos!"

Hearing this, Kunikida Doppo couldn't help asking with a wry smile.

After meeting John this morning, Ranpo Edogawa was no longer obsessed with that bet. He turned on the TV and mobile phone, and while eating snacks, he looked like he had given up—this is the key to winning or losing. For a strong famous detective, it is extremely rare.

"It's just Nagoya." Edogawa Ranpo said lightly.

"What he wants to plan is not just a small place like Japan."

Although he unsealed all the snacks, Edogawa Ranpo didn't eat much. He looked up at the TV from time to time, and looked down at the phone, looking like a child addicted to the Internet.

And in another hotel, Joshua, wearing John's vest, saw the message sent to him by an insider, and learned that out of the 28 cases in Nagoya, the participants in 19 cases were summoned by the police. .

It's just that there is not enough evidence. Even if it proves that they did those things with killing intent, if they are viewed individually, none of them can constitute effective harm.

And these people will be defended by the lawyer team hired by Ninagawa Takako, and the possibility of acquittal is very high.

What he got from Takashi Ninagawa was of course not only these contacts, but also the huge amount of property.

Joshua is a man who owns an entire warehouse, and with the help of the Red Queen, the Japanese stock market and even Wall Street are his vegetable gardens.

The legal team foundation dedicated to defense has also been fully arranged. Even if the vest of John Libet can no longer be launched, there will be a dedicated and reliable fund manager to maintain the operation of the defense fund, for those who are twenty Face and stand in court for the defense of the person.

The middle-aged man and young man who avenged his daughter and wife were also within the scope of the foundation's assistance and defense. With the defense of the group of gold medal lawyers, there is a high possibility of being released on bail.

Although what Joshua brought out was the dark star formula that had not reached its full level, it was already an insurmountable wall for the judiciary.

But Edogawa Ranpo was able to solve the mystery created by the program in one night, and he is indeed one of the most buggy characters in the world.

Therefore, Edogawa Ranpo's performance has proved that he is indeed the nemesis and antidote of the "Monster with Twenty Faces".

At the very least, even if Joshua leaves him alone and Edogawa is walking around, the twenty-faced eccentric will not be able to go too far.

Next, just wait patiently, waiting for the time to exit.

After John left Nagoya, Edogawa Ranpo followed him just like the previous few times.

Although one is still laying out the layout and the other is solving the case, sometimes John will slow down and even buy some snacks or some interesting toys for Edogawa Ranpo.

For example, My Little Pony who can blow bubbles, etc. Edogawa Ranpo is quite fond of it.

But both of them knew very well that when that time came, this seemingly peaceful and friendly relationship would probably no longer exist.

However, neither Edogawa Ranpo nor John will stop because of the other party.

The cases committed by the weird man with twenty faces are still going on, and the dead are still those criminals who cannot be tried by the existing justice system.

Kunikida Doppo once worried that if the twenty faces of the weirdo were a procedural formula, there would always be a bug. However, this procedural formula has been in operation until now, and none of the hundreds of cases created has been wrong.

Even the best detectives can't do this.

Edogawa ranpo looked at the corpse in front of him, and after sorting out the action pattern of the "twenty faces of the weirdo", it became easier to deduce the murderer.

No matter how it looked like an accident, as long as the person who had the intention to kill the deceased was found out, and then reversed, everything would come to light.

His name was leaked out after all, Edogawa Ranpo did not search for his name on the Internet, he knew that those followers of the weird twenty-faced figure would definitely scold him badly.

However, although it seemed that he had the upper hand, Edogawa Ranpo still noticed that the number of times he could deduce the murderer was gradually decreasing, which meant that while he was constantly solving cases, the "Monster with Twenty Faces" was also constantly solving crimes. to upgrade.

With the existence of the famous detective Edogawa Ranpo, the folk "weird with twenty faces" cannot be expanded, because it means that the executor needs to have a stronger psychological quality, more perfect acting skills, and a smarter IQ— —But would people with these qualities be willing to let their hands be stained with blood for the sake of a weak person they didn't know?

Except for those desperate Avengers who have already mourned to the point of despair, the frequency of the twenty-face activities of the weirdo has become less and less.

However, this did not make Edogawa Ranpo feel relieved, especially when he heard that John suddenly stopped all social activities, the moment of calm was like soap bubbles in the afternoon, and if he applied a little more force, he would instantly "bang" "It shattered with a loud sound.