I'm on the scramble

Ah Li dared to say that it was the first time in his life that his blood pressure soared so high.

(Ranpo, does he even know what he's talking about? Kiss me, kiss me——)

The tea chestnut-haired girl leaning against the door of the refrigerator looked like a little rabbit who had been forced into a dead end. If there was a slight disturbance, she would be startled and jump up on the spot.

Then, the black-haired young man in front of her took a step closer to her.

"Hmph~ You know how good I am." Luanbu, who successfully got two boxes of puddings, was quite proud, and couldn't wait to show off in front of her.

Ah Li is currently being poured with a basin of cold water, and the blood pressure balance has quickly returned to health.

"...Despicable." She gritted her teeth, and it took a long time to hold back the words.

It seems that what she said just now was a trick to deliberately sway herself so as to snatch the pudding. She mistakenly thought it was true and she was just like a fool.

"This is the intelligence of a detective, so it's not despicable." Luanbu happily shook the pudding in his hand, and handed one of the boxes to Ome, "Here, this is yours."

Ah Li snatched the pudding from his hand with an aggrieved expression, planning to eat the pudding as if it were someone tonight.

After going to the bathroom to take a shower, Ah Li returned to the room with refreshing moisture.She took away the glass she had prepared on the desk, held it up high, and drank the whole glass of milk in one gulp.

"belch."

She hiccupped softly, because she couldn't swallow the pudding on her own, and the anger caused by the fact that she was reluctant to share half with Ranbu finally disappeared with the warm and swaying liquid in her stomach.

Then the petite girl in the tabby kitten one-piece pajamas threw herself on her soft bed and rolled around, suddenly remembering the letter from Ranpo that she planned to dispose of.

Regardless of the fact that the long hair loose on her back was still slightly wet, she reached out to the bedside table and took the pink envelope on it and opened it.

"Since Luanbu said to leave it to me to handle it, it shouldn't matter if you open it a little bit to have a look..."

Ah Li muttered, but opened the envelope without any hesitation.

—she was so curious about who the letter was from!

However, it wasn't until Ah Li saw the contents of the letter clearly that she realized that things were not what she had imagined.

There were as many as five pieces of letterhead in the opened pink envelope!They were thickly piled up on each other, she leaned closer and smelled them, and a burst of fragrant violet fragrance wafted from the tip of her nose. Even after a long time, the tail note of the perfume still smells good.

On the letter paper made of high-quality wood pulp, it is written in lines of Japanese with jerky grammar.

[Mr. Ranbu, Gui'an.The weather is getting colder recently, I wish you all the best.It has been six years since I met you last time...]

"What, this is not a love letter—"

Ah Li stared at the contents of the letter dumbfounded.

Don't blame her, it's really that this exquisite pink letter is too confusing, so she can't help but think of it as a "love letter" at the first impression.

For example, when Ah Li received love letters in high school a few years ago, those girls sealed them in pink envelopes and stuffed them in her shoe cabinet—although the endings of the love letters they brought back were all used by Luanbu as table legs That's it.

"And the sender's handwriting is so beautiful, and the letter is delicious...I can't blame me for being crooked at all."

Ah Li tried his best to find an excuse for himself, anyway, he took it apart and looked at it, so he simply looked down patiently.However, not long after watching it, she actually felt her head becoming dizzy, as if she was fighting against the overwhelming drowsiness.

There is no other reason, the content of the letter is basically all about what happened in the detective competition six years ago.Long speeches such as what kind of blow the opponent suffered in that match, how they have worked hard in the past six years, and how they are eager to avenge their shame in the next "battle"...

Before I saw half of it, the bored Ah Li yawned rather embarrassingly: "It's so long-winded, it's just like anyone in my memory..."

She tapped the remaining taste of milk in her mouth, skipped the middle part, and turned to the last letter.I squinted my eyes a little and tried to read the handwriting of the inscription, and found that there was a name that was a little familiar but I couldn't remember it.

"Love... um, Poe?"

Ash looked bewildered.

After thinking hard for a long time, she couldn't remember who this person was, so she simply put down the letter, hugged the pillow next to her and rolled on the bed.

"Forget it, anyway, find some time and throw it back for Luanbu to think about it for himself."

Ah Li, who had completely lost interest in the letter, didn't know what kind of trouble he would bring to them later if he ignored the content in the middle of the letter.

Suddenly there was a buzzing vibration from under the pillow, and Ah Li reached into the pillow to find the source of the vibration hidden inside, which was her mobile phone.Swipe the screen to unlock it, and a new message reminder pops up on the line.

"Yezi didn't reply to me until now—"

Ah Li puffed out her mouth in dissatisfaction, and gently opened the frame of her profile picture with her fingers.

Okura Yeko, the well-known vice-captain of "Hound Dog", is said to be the "Queen of Iron Thorns" who is feared by countless enemies.Its ability "breathing of the soul" can make people she touches bigger, smaller and more beautiful-in simple terms, it is the ability to "manipulate age".

They are also legal loli, and because they both have a close relationship with the two men who are also called "Double Blessings", Ah Li met her naturally by chance and became a pair of plastic sisters.

Sure enough, the message sent by the woman who forced Ah Li to note her as 'Queen Yezi' after so many days was not comfort, but Bippi's own complaints.

[Queen Yezi: So what if you change someone, anyway, in your heart, no one can compare to your detective boy.If you want me to say, it would be great if you marry your father directly. I like a man as strong as the captain. I think your president is more suitable for you. ]

That's right, the key to the two becoming plastic sisters is that Yezi is a real woman who likes to push Ah Li to achieve the ending of her father's marriage.In her words, that is [if childhood sweethearts really liked each other, they would have been together ten years ago, and it wouldn't last that long at all].

Her poisonous chicken soup is actually quite reasonable, but Ah Li is always reluctant to admit her statement.

For this reason, the two had quarreled too many times, and Ah Li didn't bother to talk to her now, and just slapping his paw on the keyboard was just a question.

[Findaime Kazekage: That's all for replying to me after so many days? ]

[Queen Yezi: I was busy with missions before, and those enemies like soft-legged shrimps were simply impossible to fight.For the sake of their begging for mercy, I meticulously trimmed their useless hands and feet one after another. Who made my interest happen to be potted plants~]

There was a picture in Ah Li's mind, and he hissed in disgust, feeling some disgusting pictures appeared in front of his eyes.Needless to say, Yezi's expression when typing this sentence must be happy and ghostly. She is undoubtedly the craziest dog among the hounds, and she is an extremely ferocious woman.

Completely different from her, Ah Li felt that she was much gentler in her actions, and treated others with a little bit of aggression.

The girl with tea chestnut hair who had no self-knowledge at all lay on the bed, gently touched the screen with her soft fingertips, and gave her a reply.

[Findaime Kazekage: Speaking of which, I recently met a nice girl, how about I introduce you next time? ]

Unexpectedly, Yezi's reaction was quite big, and her furious appearance seemed to emerge between the lines at the moment.

[Queen Yezi: Scumbag!Forget about that detective boy, how dare you find other women behind my back? ! ]

Ah Li was immediately shocked by this woman's shameless cheekiness, snorted, and decided to teach her a good lesson.

[Findaime Kazekage: What is 'behind your back', correct your own identity for me! ]

In a blink of an eye, it was just like before, the two of them began to insult each other passionately in the chat interface of the line, playing various tricks.

Yezi: [Woo big wood big wood big wood big! ! 】

Ali: [Ola Ola Ola Ola! ! 】

Platinum Star is the strongest!Ah Li angrily typed the whole seven pages of Euler, which was bound to make the opponent bow down.

But they are all women with persistent perseverance, and they couldn't tell the winner until the end, and they both ended up hurting each other.

The two of them feebly poked the keyboard on the screen. There was no such thing as 'Muda' and 'Euler', and only entered meaningless sentences like 'Aba Aba Aba' into each other to show respect.

[Queen Yezi: To be honest, I can ask Suehiro to play with you next time.Don't even think about what the captain says, the captain is mine. ]

The senior licking dog appeared.

Okura Yeko doesn't need to care about other things, everything about the captain, as the captain's number one licking dog, she must be in place at any time.

Ali reluctantly agreed.

[Findaime Kazekage: What if that field tricked Suehiro and said he would come for him? ]

There was such a thing last time, that squinting eyes of Tiaoye always liked to target her, appearing suddenly at various unsuspecting times.

[Queen Yezi: I'll break his leg first, so you don't have to worry about it. ]

The 'humanoid cat' in one-piece pajamas on the bed kicked its legs as if it had been poked into a laughing point, and let out a barbell-like laugh gleefully: [Hahahahaha——]

These are real sisters, and then the two of them talked bad things about Tiao Ye in the line very tacitly.

Before I knew it, I chatted until ten o'clock in the middle of the night, and it was time for bed and beauty sleep.Ah Li also dried her hair while chatting, and seeing that it was almost time, she said good night to Ye Zi.

She was about to turn off her phone and go to sleep, but at this time she received a message from another person.

[Iwanaga: Do you want to come out to play in a few days?I made an appointment with a nice coffee shop. ]

Ah Li raised his eyebrows, looking forward to it: [Okay. ]

Waking up on a sunny day the next day, she went to the local police station in Yokohama to make a record of the last supermarket murder case, and then went to the place agreed with Iwanaga alone.

Iwanaga's appointment is a place with a signboard called "Polo Coffee Shop" in Mihua City, Tokyo. It is said that this coffee shop has also been featured in well-known gourmet magazines for its cheap and delicious meals and coffee.

Mihua is only 4 stations away from Yokohama, and Ari took the train to the destination soon.

Polo Coffee Shop is located in Mihua Town [-]-chome, downstairs of a building with the words "Maori Detective Agency" posted on the window.

This is a bustling street no less than Yokohama. There is a lot of traffic everywhere. There are trucks with the logo of the moving company parked under the surrounding apartment buildings. The driver is not in the driver's seat, and he probably went to smoke elsewhere.And a child wearing a cap who seems to be living nearby has been squatting with his head down next to the electric pole on the outside of the road, poking and playing with the white bouquet enshrined on the ground.

Ali looked left and right to confirm the surrounding buildings, so that he could find the agreed place. When he passed the grass next to the glass of Poirot Cafe, a girl in a beret who was always paying attention to the movement outside the window was waving at her vigorously. waved.

The moment their eyes met, Ah Li also waved happily at the girl, and quickly walked around the outside of the store to the main entrance.

'Jingle Bell'--

I don't know if it's the clear and sweet sound of the wind chimes, or the dangling golden bells on her headband are blowing with the wind.

Just after opening the door, a handsome dark-skinned guy who was bending over to wipe the table with a rag turned to look at her.

The pair of purple-gray pupils that reflected Ah Li's figure was stunned for a moment unexpectedly, and soon the strange light disappeared in the depths of his pupils.He straightened up immediately, and showed a gentle and energetic smile to the person facing him.

"welcome."