I'm on the scramble

The scenes in the novel are extremely vivid, whether it is the setting of the scene, the shaping of the atmosphere, or the demeanor of the characters, all are terribly real, as if falling into the gap that reversed reality, and then tumbled to another place that happened in another world. A world of one dimension.

In the huge ball hall, all the guests who were invited to the party stood up.

They were all staring at the miserable corpse lying on the ground, unable to conceal the astonishment and fear in their eyes.

The corpse is the male owner of this mansion and a well-known rich man in the town, but now his corpse is lying on the cold maple floor.It was unclear how much resentment the murderer had incurred. The head and body of the corpse were beaten to a bloody mess. There were dark purple bruises on the throat from being pinched, and the nail marks were deeply sunken, which showed the great force.

In a pool of scarlet blood, at the last moment of his life, the hero left a string of blood-colored death messages on his side with his fingers that were infused with extreme emotions before he died, and could hardly be put together into words.

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It was precisely because of the huge movement in the hall that everyone rushed to feel the scene before the start of the Bi Appreciation Party. They did not expect to encounter such a thing.

In addition to the guests, of course there are Ranpo and Ari who participated in the game, two characters who have a close relationship with the hero.

Ranpo, who came to the scene of the murder, is here as the son of the master.

My job is a mystery novelist, and I always like to stay alone in a dark room and write with an oil lamp on weekdays.Because he heard that novelists in Europe and the United States would conceive plots while playing the piano, he also began to practice the habit of conceiving while playing the shamisen.As a result, I didn't write a word in the manuscript, but I played the shamisen perfectly.

Ah Li, who came to the scene, is here as the male lead...continued string.

Five years ago, the male host's original partner left a suicide note and disappeared. The police searched for it but found that he had been killed.So the male host married another wife in the town, who is the character in A Li's book, young and beautiful, with a cat-like magical charm, and a pair of stunning golden cat pupils that attracted the admiration of many people.

In other words, she is the little mother of Chaos here.

Ah Li tried to imagine that if he married the president, he would be reluctant to call his mother, and he would feel bad all of a sudden.

"Wow, I'm so pissed off..." Ah Li hugged his head in pain, he was quite uncomfortable without the cat ear headband on it.

Befitting of her status as a little mother, she wore a dignified and elegant long dress in the mansion, with a noble hair bun, embellished with pearls. The expensive dress symbolized the status of the mistress of the house.

Although there is nothing wrong with being married to the president, he will definitely treat himself with obedience and love in every possible way as an old husband and young wife.But dad is dad!The person she likes is obviously...

Thinking of this, the unbearable Ah Li shook the hand of the black-haired young man who was grabbing his sleeve, and decided to give up thinking.

"Ranbu! Use your invincible [super reasoning] to think of a way! I don't want to stay in this crappy place for a second!"

What's more, they are locked here, and it is not known whether the 'Assembly' is a conspiracy. If they cannot prevent the 'Assembly' from attacking the detective agency because they lose their freedom of movement, the consequences will be disastrous.

So I'm too lazy to care about any games here, please solve it quickly is the best way.

But generally speaking, when she asks for such a situation, Ah Li can imagine in his mind that the famous detective beside him who has been with him for so many years will show the kind of "I really can't do anything with you", proud of being a green plum The small expression of dependence and request, and then quickly solve the case with the most handsome posture.However, Ah Li didn't expect to get a different reaction.

It was the kind of listlessness and uneasiness that was rarely seen on his face.

"That's what I want to tell you...not this time." Luanbu's fingers grabbing her sleeves suddenly tightened a little bit, and he looked listless, like a cat whose fur was wet in the rain.

"The glasses that the president gave me are missing..."

She couldn't help but startled when she heard this, that is to say... Ranbu can't use his abilities now?

"But..." The girl's moist lips with lipstick slightly opened, and she wanted to say something to him, but was interrupted by the people around her.

"Master! Who did such a cruel thing to him!"

A Li followed the sound and turned her head. It was the head maid who was in charge of the affairs of the house. Beside her were the guests invited to the appreciation party tonight.

There are three guests. They are the younger brother of the male owner who quickly made money by hunting exotic animals after the separation, and the old gold owner who has a strong interest in the "finale" that will appear in the cage tonight and has been allowed to appreciate it in advance. And the magazine reporter who collected the materials and prepared to publish the auction in January for the male host in the newspaper.

The sad cry of the head maid just now brought everyone's attention back to the murder scene.

In any case, according to Edgar Allan Poe's previous narration, only finding out the truth of this serial murder is the ultimate victory.

Presumably that is the way to return to reality from the world of fiction.

"This man died too badly." Out of the basic qualities of a detective, Ah Li still carefully observed the horrific corpse, and after a while, he couldn't help spit out this comment.

Unexpectedly, the head maid who heard this immediately reminded her not to ooc in disbelief: "Madam, this is your husband! How can you say that about him!"

From the bottom of his heart, he was unwilling to follow the human design, and Ah Li, who insisted on narrowing the road, immediately covered his ears in pain: "Don't listen, don't listen, don't listen!"

She hasn't even had a boyfriend!Why was he 'married' all of a sudden!

And the object is not the person I like, but a bad old man!

The more she thought about it, the more angry she became, Ah Li was determined to blame everything on the 'good thing' that Poe had done, and she couldn't help but gritted her teeth secretly: "When I go out, I want to give him a good look—"

Poe, who was eagerly awaiting the development of the plot, suddenly sneezed at this point: "Ah chirp!"

In the book, Ranbu, who was standing next to Ah Li, had a sleepy look, and his eyes moved around unconsciously.His eyes fell on all the doors and windows in the hall, the chimney of the fireplace, and the layout of the hall.

It was a three-story building with closed doors and windows, and it was raining heavily outside. There were no traces of crime left at the scene.This is a murder case in a secret room, a typical impossible crime.

Then he looked at the corpse on the ground again, and remained silent.

The miserable death of the male protagonist seems to be silently revealing a word.

"If the real murderer is not found, will we become the next 'victims' in this serial murder..."

The case was at a stalemate for a while, and for some reason, Ah Li was entangled by a certain man inside.

"Stop arguing, my brother was killed, and my wife should be the saddest one."

At this time, the host's younger brother extended his hand to A Li, with a smile on his face as if he finally got his wish, hidden in the corner of his mouth was a bit of pleasure and crazy obsession: "Don't be afraid, I will protect you from now on. Good lady."

"Do you have a cat disease?" Ah Li's eyes widened for this guy who just died and couldn't wait to engage in sister-in-law literature and missed him. He rolled up his sleeves and wanted to break his legs on the spot.

"Perhaps that's why I got a strange disease of wanting to collect the unique 'opal' in this world..."

But just three seconds before the man made a gesture to pull her 'death', Ah Li's hand was grabbed by someone.

The Luanbu who grabbed her was in a wrong state, his face was covered with dark clouds, and without saying anything, he held everyone's gaze and led her away to the door.

"Wait, wait, random steps..." Ali, who was completely dizzy from the fact that he was holding hands, didn't resist, and was just led by him to his bedroom to rest first.

After half an hour.

Ranbu returned to the room as if his strength had been exhausted. He was on the sofa and fiddled with the shamisen in the room with a tortoiseshell plectrum. Don’t look at him as a shamisen outside. For beginners, with the blessing of the human setting, this will play well.

The sound of clanging zither strings flowed shallowly in the room, but it disturbed Ah Li.Taking advantage of the time when she was walking around and being lazy, she lay on the coffee table next to the sofa, trying to glue together some weird homemade glasses.

First, draw various frames and frames on white paper, then paste them on thick fiberboards, cut out the shapes with a jigsaw, and then glue them together with a universal glue. Glasses with little difference.

"Look! I've made you several pairs. With these you should be able to cheer up."

There were several pairs of self-made glasses that she announced that she was done, scattered on the table, such as mosquito coil glasses, Ott glasses, big nose glasses... There are all kinds of them.

Ranpo slumped his shoulders just by looking at it.

"Why are there such funny glasses! This is not cool at all! If I wear them, I will have nightmares at night!"

"Now is the critical moment, so don't pick and choose and solve the case quickly!" A Li moved over with a bunch of glasses in his hands, Luanbu immediately threw away the shamisen as if something terrifying was approaching, and the whole body He shrank into the sofa awkwardly and turned his back to her.

"Don't! I've already said that even if you have glasses, you can't use it. Give it up. This time... I can't use [Super Reasoning]."

Ah Li didn't understand why he was so resistant to this matter, it was rare for him to make so many toys with his own hands... No, it was because he made so many glasses, he had to wear them no matter what, so as not to waste his time.

So Ah Li still stretched out his hand unwillingly to shake his arm.

"How will you know if you don't try!"

Ranbu got impatient with the noise, so he grabbed her wrist forcefully and pulled her into the sofa.

"Try yourself to see if you can use the power, and you will know if I am telling a lie!"

Ah Li, who had never been on guard against Luanbu, was suddenly pulled down on the same sofa.The glasses in her hand fell to the ground with a clatter, and accidentally hit the strings of the shamisen, giving off a wave-like echo, which shook slightly in her heart.

The body of the black-haired young man in a kimono turned and overturned, sandwiching her body between himself and the sofa.

Perhaps his actions were also done unintentionally without the brain, and Luan Bu who made this action was also speechless.

The detective, still holding her wrist, stared at her in silence.

The face close at hand looked clean and delicate, and the straight and slightly curled black hair was scattered on her forehead. In that moment, it felt that the souls of the two were invisible because of this inadvertent touch. together.

"Random, random steps!!" Ah Li, who was facing each other so closely for the first time, was very ashamed to find that he seemed to be shouting his name just now.

——If you don't let her heart beat so fast, she will die suddenly on the spot! !

But this broken heart seems to fail to reach the heart of the famous detective.

He looked down at Ah Li's expression as if he had been blown away, showing a hint of confusion.It seems that what a famous detective is facing is a thorny problem of the century. Although he can see through all the truths presented in the world, he can't see through the blind spot of his vision and the twitching mood hidden in his body. .

"Ali...you make Ranpo-sama so strange."

The kimono on his body was very suitable for him, and for this reason, he revealed a bit of elegance that was hard to see in ordinary times.The handsome and slender appearance without childishness, and the weight exerted on the body, make people have to admit that the other party is no longer an ignorant bamboo horse when he was young, but a person who has grown up to be far older than her. A rare handsome man.

It is also true that people can't help but betray their heartbeat.

The black-haired young man leaned over and hugged her. Where she couldn't see, his usual confident face was dyed a cherry color, awkward and at a loss, but he had to state a certain fact with a slightly unsteady tone.

"I don't know when it started, every time I get close to you like this, Lord Ranpo can no longer concentrate and think."

Unlike the embarrassment he said, he was making a test in action, and hugged Ah Li even more tightly.It seems that she is acting like a baby in her arms willfully, and it seems that she is drawing a sense of security from her. No matter how she reacts, she will not waver and regret her actions.

But Ah Li didn't resist, it would be better to say that she was almost gone.

"Wow, that means..." Ah Li stuttered from the shock of this confession, and could vaguely see a certain answer close in front of him.

But just before she asked for a more in-depth answer, someone from the direction of the bedroom door suddenly broke through their current ambiguous posture, screamed in shock, and dropped the things in their hands to the ground.

"What are you doing—"