The world's No.1 detective doll

"Mr. Ranpo?"

"You... You are so loud!"

What kind of magical fairy tale script is this?

Ranbu stood up a little annoyed and patted the dust on his body, and bit off the last small ball as if venting his anger, with such force that he wanted to tear off a piece of flesh from the god-damned god that caused all this to happen.

"Mr. Ranpo... how did you change back just now?"

"Ben, how could Detective Ben know!"

"Huh? Mr. Ranpo doesn't know..."

Yingzi lowered her head regretfully, with a hint of disappointment between her brows and eyes.

"Mmm...it smells so good..."

The matter of cracking the method was suddenly forgotten by Luanbu, the aroma of the snacks completely attracted his attention, his nose moved, and he followed the aroma to see that it was a stall selling oden.

Ranbu suddenly became excited, grabbed Yingzi's wrist and ran towards the booth.

"Hey hey... Mister Ranpo..."

"Idiot Sakurako! This detective wants to eat this!"

"Ah... ok."

The Fireworks Festival is different from the Summer Festival in that it does not have all kinds of fun activities, and there are only some stalls selling snacks around the venue.

Ranbu is very satisfied with this, whether it is only the food stall or the matter of returning to adulthood.

The movement is no longer restricted by the body, and I dragged Yingzi back and forth between the various stalls. After a while, the two of them were full of cold or hot food.

Luanbu looked contentedly at the snacks that filled the entire bench, and sat down on the few vacant seats on both sides of the chair.

"That's too much..."

Yingzi stared dissatisfied at the action of Luanbu stuffing food into her mouth, with a hint of worry in her eyes.

"Although it is indeed rare to change back once, it can't be like this..."

"Hmm... You idiot Sakurako is too wordy!"

Luanbu took out a piece of oden from the paper cup in his arms, blew on it perfunctorily, and quickly stuffed it into Yingzi's mouth.

"If you don't finish eating quickly, you won't have time to find a good place to watch the fireworks, okay?"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...it's so hot..."

Yingzi quickly grabbed the bamboo stick and pulled out the food in her mouth, and subconsciously protruded her hot red tongue out of her mouth, leaving a small tip of her tongue on the outside of her lips.

"Ah... like a puppy."

"What! If Mr. Ranpo hadn't forced it on me, I wouldn't have been burned!"

"Hey~ It's actually the detective who is to blame..."

"It was originally Mr. Ranpo's fault, okay?"

"Wow——" Luanbu puffed his mouth in disbelief, lowered his head and tied a small ball with the bamboo stick inside, then put it to his mouth and blew it carefully, "This detective obviously did it well." Blow cool, okay! You are too stupid! I see how you can blame this detective on this time..."

"Don't eat!"

"Huh? What..." Luanbu leaned forward with some dissatisfaction, "This detective kindly feeds you, ah no, feed you, hurry up! Open your mouth, ah—"

Sakura curled her lips, and reluctantly stretched her head and opened her mouth to bite the little ball, but the second her lips were about to touch the ball, the bamboo stick holding the bamboo stick suddenly backed away, and she just bit it empty.

"Mr. Ranpo!"

"Pfft ha ha ha ha ha—"

Yingzi became a little annoyed and turned around to stop looking at Ranbu, and ran closer to her back with a smile.

"This detective didn't do it on purpose, a bug flew over just now!"

She doesn't believe it!

"Okay, don't be angry, ah - it's started!"

Sakura subconsciously looked towards the sky, and as expected, the second after Luanbu's voice fell, gorgeous fireworks tore through the dark sky and bloomed instantly.

'boom--'

'boom--'

'boom--'

"Stupid Sakura, let's go!"

Luanbu hurriedly threw all the leftover packages on the bench into the trash can, and rushed into the crowd with Yingzi.

Fireworks of various colors lit up the entire sky, and the eyes of passers-by were illuminated by the brilliance. Yingzi raised her head in surprise and smiled as she stared at the fireworks in the sky.

"so beautiful……"

The tourists around them kept walking and passing by them, only Ranpo and Yingzi were still standing still.

"Candy apples..."

Seemingly attracted by the sweet aroma of the candies beside her, Yingzi cast her eyes on the booth beside her.

In fact, Yingzi does not have high requirements for food, and has no preference or dislike, but apple candy has a very important position in her memory.

Every summer festival, enjoy the sweetness of apple candy with important people under the fireworks.

Yushi, Kenya, and... that person.

——"Have you ever heard of this saying? It's just...you can buy apple candy for whoever you like, that's it."

——"Yeah, Sakurako, I like you."

Yingzi shook her head to shake off the picture that suddenly appeared in her mind, and then reached for the two apple candies handed over by the boss, but she suddenly stopped when she wanted to hand it over to Ranbu.

To her, is Ranbu considered... an important person?

It can even be compared with the person she valued and relied on the most in her life... that person.

Together with Yushi and Kenya, Neng occupies the most indispensable corner in her memory.

Obviously...they've only known each other for less than a month, haven't they?

But she has experienced so much in this month, this short period of time in a long life has become an indelible memory for her.

"Hey, idiot Sakurako! What are you doing in a daze!"

"Ah... sorry!"

Yingzi came back to her senses suddenly, and stuffed the apple candy into the chaotic step in a panic.

"What...you're in a daze with that expression..."

"What, what kind of expression?"

"Hmm...whether you want to cry or not, and whether you want to smile or not! It looks...um, weird and weird."

"Yes, is it..."

So what kind of existence is Ranbu to her?

"Oh oh oh - huge fireworks!"

Before Yingzi could think about anything further, Ranbu seemed to have discovered something again, and dragged her away with a face full of novelty.

……

Only then did she realize that she was just pulling her wrist all the time. She didn't know when she held her. The warm touch and the moist feeling of sweat were transmitted from the palm of her hand one by one. Yingzi seemed to be able to feel that. The temperature called 'Edogawa Ranpo' spread all over the body along the place where the skin touched.

what is it then?

Is it what Hongzi said, the bond bestowed by the gods?Or is it the redemption that fate guides?

Redemption?

Why is it redemption?

Who is redeeming whom?What was redeemed?

A fate that attracts, implicates, and entangles.

This kind of puzzling fate, unfathomable relationship, overwhelming mood...

what exactly is it?

Is it fated to...?

"Pfft ha ha ha ha ha—"

"Ok?"

While Yingzi was in a trance, Luanbu stopped at some point, looking at her face with a happy smile, her emerald green eyes were sprinkled with sparkling fines.

"what happened?"

Yingzi blinked in confusion, but after looking around, she didn't find anything wrong.

When he turned around again, Ranbu had already taken out a photo of her with a 'click' on her face.

"Hey?"

"Stupid Sakura will get her mouth full after eating candy apples..."

"Hey hey?"

Yingzi stretched out to the corner of her mouth in a panic, and as expected, besides the warm skin, there was a sticky touch with her fingertips. When she put it down, she found that there were indeed light yellow sugar stains on her fingertips.

So, just walking around...was filmed? !

"Hmm... It's a bit blurry, but it's okay." Ranbu looked at the photo thoughtfully, "Okay! If the idiot Sakura doesn't buy ice cream for this detective, this photo will be taken away." I sent it to the group chat of the detective agency, huh?"

"Hey?! How can it be!"

Luanbu leaned back slightly, and hid himself behind him.

"If you guessed the taste that this detective wants to eat, maybe the named detective will show kindness and delete the photo?"

"No, it can't be done! Mr. Ranpo, you have enough snacks today!"

"Hey~ Don't you want to buy it?"

Sakura gritted her teeth, "No!"

"Are you really not going to buy it?"

Yingzi was slightly shaken, "No..."

"Before you say that, at least wipe the sugar off your mouth, you idiot."

"Hey?"

Hearing what Ranbu said, Yingzi remembered that there were still traces of eating apple candy around her mouth, she panicked and took out wet wipes and paper towels from her bag and carefully wiped her mouth clean.

"All right……"

After looking in the small mirror and confirming that there were no strange things on her face other than facial features, Yingzi was relieved, and stuffed the messy little things into the bag one by one.

When he raised his head again, Luanbu was holding something and fiddling with it.

"Mr. Ranpo!"

"This detective didn't post it~ After all, you haven't said whether you want to accept this detective's conditions."

"But……"

"The detective only needs one chocolate flavor and one vanilla flavor. I didn't eat anything cold today... Ah, except for shaved ice!"

"Mr. Ranpo also knows that he has already eaten a large portion of shaved ice!"

"It doesn't matter what kind of thing it is~ It doesn't matter how much ice cream you eat!"

"Can't!"

"Hey~? The detective book is going to be released? Ah... Maybe Dazai will print out your embarrassing photos as posters and stick them in every corner of the detective agency?"

? ! ? !

"How, how can it be!"

"Hey~ So hurry up and think about it!"

"No, no! Ice cream is not allowed! Photos are not allowed!"

"Oh~ Idiot Sakurako is a little too greedy, isn't she?"

Sakura blushed in embarrassment.

"Anyway... Anyway, it's not allowed! Delete the photo quickly!"

"don't want--"

"Well……"

Yingzi leaned over angrily and wanted to grab the one in Ranbu, but was easily dodged by Ranbu who had already noticed her movements.

"Did you actually use robbery? What a rogue~"

"Mr. Ranpo is the rascal!"

As if she had made up her mind, Yingzi stared at Luanbu with her mouth puffed out, and rushed up the moment he was placed by her side.

But the one that was held suddenly went around Yingzi's arm and put it behind her. Yingzi, who had no time to brake, just fell straight into Ranbu's arms.

"Hey……"

"Ugh-"

Luan Bu was knocked into an unstable body, staggered back a few steps, and then subconsciously stretched out her free hand to wrap around the slender waist of the person in her arms, so as to stabilize her body.

The touch on the waist was too obvious, and the scorching heat from there made Yingzi tremble uncontrollably.

Inexplicably, the two people who hugged in the crowd were taken aback.

The sudden rapid breathing seems to be sticky and entangled, her whole body is wrapped in the breath of chaotic steps, and the aroma lingering at the tip of her nose makes people slightly intoxicated, as if she is indulging in a gentle embrace like this aroma , there is no escape.

'Boom--'

'Boom--'

'Boom--'

The explosion of fireworks and the noise of the crowd were heard endlessly, but Ranbu and Yingzi could only hear the violent and rapid heartbeat from someone's chest.