The world's No.1 detective doll

Luanbu still passed out.

This act of returning to human seems to have consumed a lot of his mental strength, and with a shot in the shoulder, it is already very good to be able to survive until now.

"Sakura!"

Fortunately, it is not too far away from the detective agency, and Yosano, who received the call from Yingzi, hurried over with the members.

As soon as they turned the corner of the street, they saw Yingzi hugging the fainted Lihua who was crying in disorder, raining and out of breath, like a large-scale widow scene.

The large dark red color on the detective uniform quickly attracted the attention of the members. Everyone put aside the questions of "Mr. Ranpo recovered" and "How did Mr. Ranpo get injured" and rushed forward in a panic.

Yosano quickly took emergency measures to stop the bleeding, and then Pat turned his attention to Tanizaki and Atsushi who followed behind.

"Take Mr. Ranpo back, okay Sakura, it's okay."

Yoshino took off the blood-soaked jacket and put it aside, patted Yingzi's cheek lightly, trying to wake her up from the dazed state.

The latter sniffed. When Dun approached, she subconsciously protected Luanbu in her arms, and when she looked up to see the comer, she relaxed in a daze.

"Really, I was clearly sober after suffering such a serious injury, but when Mr. Ranpo had an accident, I completely panicked."

Yosano sighed helplessly, rubbed Yingzi's head and forcibly pulled her up from the ground.

"Don't worry, with me here, Mr. Ranpo won't have any accidents."

When Ranpo and Sakurako, who were covered in blood, returned to the detective agency, everyone was obviously taken aback, and Kyoka even came to Sakurako from the stool in an instant.

"Mr. Ranpo is injured?"

"what happened?!"

Ranpo's injury can be regarded as an almost zero occurrence rate since the establishment of the detective agency, not to mention that the partner who went out with Ranpo on the mission will protect his safety, because of his IQ above the entire world, It's an 'impossible' thing to get him hurt.

"Let's ask about these things carefully later, let Yingzi be quiet for a while."

After finishing speaking, Yosano followed Atsushi who was walking chaotically into the medical room.

Naomi and Haruno also quickly surrounded her, looking worriedly at the blood on Yingzi's body.

The tears on her face hadn't dried completely, and Yingzi was a little dazed.

"Those two..."

Yingzi suddenly came back to her senses as if remembering something, and stood up from the chair all of a sudden.

"Those two people ran away in the direction of Golden Town! I, I'm going..."

"Koganecho, right? Okay, okay, Mr. Kunikida has gone after them." Haruno glanced in Kunikida's direction, who nodded knowingly, and pulled Dazai who was on the sofa. Walk towards the door.

"Let's change our clothes first. If there are bloodstains all over your body, you will scare the client away if you come later."

Naomi involuntarily dragged Yingzi into the lounge, most of the clothes in it belonged to the part-time student workers here, it was too big for Yingzi, but she had no choice at this time.

"Ah, really."

Haruno looked at Sakurako who was still huddled into a small ball full of self-blame, and sighed.

"Sakura sauce, cherry sauce!"

"Ok?"

"Mr. Ranpo will need your care in a while. How can we rest assured that you will take care of an injured person when you look like this? So hurry up and cheer up."

"...I see, Miss Haruno."

The president was also called to the medical room in a hurry, and several people had some difficulties with the treatment method of Luanbu for a while.

"Using supernatural powers is of course the most effective method, but..." Yu Xie Ye held his forehead. She has never encountered such a situation in the years since she came to the detective agency. She glanced aside meaningfully. The ax and saw in the bag, "I still can't bear to deal with Mr. Ranpo."

Moreover, if he found out that he was treated like that, even if he recovered from his injury, Luanbu might have to make trouble for a long time.

"It is completely possible to treat a wound of this level with ordinary treatment. If so, it will take less than two weeks to heal, but there is nothing serious about the shoulder."

Fuze pondered for a moment, "Let's do ordinary treatment first, and let Ranbu make his own decision after he wakes up."

The probability of Ranbu choosing to use her ability is not high.

Thinking so, Yosano nodded.

Fetching bullets is not a difficult task for Xie Ye, but Yingzi who is waiting outside is very anxious, for fear that there will be some accidents in the chaos.

When Yosano came out of the medical room, it was already late. There were too many things happened today, Sakura was leaning on the chair and she was a little drowsy. When she heard the sound of Yosano coming out, she jumped wake up.

"Don't worry, it will be fine in a few days." Yosano picked up the cup in front of Yingzi and drank the tea in it, then heaved a sigh of relief, "I made some basic tea for Mr. Ranpo by the way. Check, except for the impact of the gunshot wound, there is no difference in other things, but...whether it will change back, I am not sure."

She cast her eyes on Yingzi behind the table, "Fortunately, the surgery is done, even if Mr. Ranpo turns back into a doll, it's okay... I just need Yingzi to help him change the medicine."

"Okay, Yingzi don't look at me like that anymore." The thin and tall woman walked towards the sofa beside her a little tiredly, "I won't stop you from going in."

"……Um."

After getting the consent from Xie Ye, Yingzi got up and walked into the medical room. Atsushi at the door was stunned for a moment, then turned sideways and left quickly.

After finishing the operation, Xie Ye and Xie Ye opened the curtains, the golden and red sunset sprayed in from the window and spread all over the floor, the face of the person on the hospital bed was a little pale, Sakura pursed her lips, and quietly took the chair Sit beside Luanbu.

She had never seen such a mess.

Even when she was sleeping, she would move around dishonestly or mutter something. It was the first time she saw such a quiet appearance that made her heart palpitate.

Sakurako's hand hung on his shoulder for a moment, and finally left trembling, and then gently held his hand down.

Luanbu's slightly curled black hair hangs lifelessly beside his face at this moment, making his excessively pale face due to excessive blood loss even more morbid. The coolness of fear.

It wasn't a serious wound, but Yingzi was still terrified.

What if she didn't have time to do something next time?

They all said that Ranpo had never been injured, even in the years when he hadn't met Fuzawa's wandering.

She has such a powerful ability, but if she can't protect her important people even then, what's the point of having this power?

"quack--"

The annoying crow sound came from nowhere, Yingzi frowned a little annoyed.

She is very clear about her feelings.

Before she met Ranpo, Yingzi always thought that she would go to school, graduate, work, get married, have children, and live a life that was ordinary and nothing like all ordinary people.

until……

"quack--"

Yingzi followed the sound and saw a pitch-black crow parked on the telegraph pole outside the window. The blackness of the feathers frightened her.

"quack--"

There was no warmth in the crow's scarlet eyes, Yingzi frowned even tighter.

-

Ninzuzu said that the year she met Edogawa Ranpo, her life changed dramatically.

Yeah, he saved her.

But... Was Ranpo also saved?

Or, has she become his burden?

If she had reacted faster at that time, wouldn't this kind of thing have happened?

If it was someone else who went out with Ranpo, wouldn't he be injured?

If they hadn't met at the beginning...

"quack--"

Yes.

It would have been nice if they hadn't met in the first place.

She doesn't necessarily need someone to save her.

If the price she needs to be saved is Chaos...

Then, things like light and warmth are fine if she doesn't want them.

If Ranpo turns back into a doll again, she will come back again.

He needs armor, and she can only be a weakness.

Her lower lip was turned pale by her teeth. She raised her finger to touch Luanbu's cheek, but she couldn't put her fingertips down.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Ranpo."

'Button'

Sakurako knocked on Fukuzawa's office door.

Fuze seemed to be dealing with something, and raised his head in doubt when he heard her come in.

"Sakurako."

"Mr. President...I...I want to resign."

Fuze paused.

"You decided to leave with Miyasaka?"

"No, it's not! I just think..." Sakurako opened her mouth, "Mr. Ranpo shouldn't be able to turn back into a doll again, so there's no point in me... staying here. If Mr. Ranpo Or turn back into a doll... I will come back again."

"Sakura, it's not your fault that Ranpo was injured."

"I……"

Isn't it... her fault?

"quack--"

How could it not be her fault.

"Mr. President, I have made my decision."

Fukuzawa sighed incredulously.

"Since this is the case, I have no right to influence your decision. But... If you want to come back, the detective agency welcomes you at any time."

"……thanks."

Yingzi opened her mouth, but what she wanted to say got stuck in her throat, and finally she only said: "Goodbye."

It happened to be raining in Yokohama when she got downstairs.

Not a gentle shower, but a rush.

"Sakura, she..."

The worried eyes of the members fell from the window, Yingzi stood on the side of the street, looking at the passers-by in a daze.

The damp wind blew gently, Yingzi couldn't help shivering.

The fine rain fell on the leaves, petals, benches, and her soft hair.

Yingzi couldn't tell whether the liquid on her cheeks was tears or rain, she just raised her head in a daze.

Ah, it's raining.

'beep beep—'

"Hey?"

"Yushi, can you... come pick me up?"

"what happened?"

A familiar voice sounded from the other end of the phone, Yingzi gritted her teeth, and finally couldn't help but bury Lian between her knees, crying loudly.

God.

Why do you arrange for two people who are destined to have no ending to meet?

Hearing the girl's sobs, he paused for a moment: "You're in the detective agency, right? Stay there and don't move, I'll go find you right away."

He grabbed the coat on the chair and looked thoughtfully at the unfinished book on the table. It was the collection of Salinger's short stories he bought recently. This one is "Broken Stories" heart of".

It read: "Loving you is all that matters, Miss Lester. Some people think love is sex, it's marriage, it's six o'clock kisses and a bunch of kids, and maybe that's what love is, Miss Lester, But you know what I think? I think love is about wanting to touch and then taking it back."