I'm surviving in a love game

"Shiori, where have you decided to go for lunch?"

Soon it was time for lunch break, and Ms. Haruno was sitting behind her desk, poking her head towards her.

Did time go by so fast... Hoshimiya Shiori glanced at the lower right corner of the brightly lit display screen, the number just jumped to "12", and her stomach, which had been feeling nothing for a long time, began to protest, "Sorry, I may not be able to accompany you Let's have lunch together."

Haruno expressed his understanding, got up and picked up the bag on the back of the chair, hung the bag on his shoulder, and teased Shiori Hoshimiya in a half teasing tone, "Are you going to see your boyfriend?"

"It's not." Shiori Xinggong quickly denied, "If you have a boyfriend, you must have known about it a long time ago."

Ms. Haruno, who was originally joking, smiled, and before leaving, she did not forget to tell Xinggong Shiori not to eat lunch too late, it would be bad for her stomach.

"Yes, yes." She nodded in agreement.

As the number of people in the office gradually decreased, and finally only she and Luanbu were left, she took a deep breath and realized that she had never been so nervous before, and her heart was beating too fast.

Well, without doing anything else, she mustered up her courage and stood up with a bang, and looked at Luanbu, his cheek was pressed against the tabletop novel and was pressed under his arms, and because the hat on his head covered him. part of his face, so that people can't tell whether he is sleeping or reading a novel.

Ah no no no, once you have made up your mind, you can no longer retreat.

Hoshimiya Shiori patted her cheek.

Wait, wait, he must have fallen asleep, right?If you wake him up now, you will get angry again, right?

A series of guesses popped up uncontrollably, crowded in the brain.

Her footsteps stopped, just a few steps away, Edogawa Ranpo was still Edogawa Ranpo, the noon light fell, and the gap between the windows drew a straight and straight line at an angle, connecting her and He divided it into two sides. Human consciousness is so strange. Once there is even the slightest sign of a self-defined connection, the consciousness will follow gravity and slide along the connection track to the reality of human self-imagining. results that did not occur.

And this law has been confirmed in Xinggong Shiori. She stood hesitantly behind the light, as if as long as she crossed this line, all the past and the illusion of peace in the present would fall into it like waste paper. Shredded like a shredder.

【"What are you hesitating about?"】

"I'm not hesitating, I'm regretting." Hoshimiya Shiori stared at the light that seemed to grow on the floor.

【"Regret is useless, there is no chance now."】"Actually, from the moment I entered the game, I have already lost the chance to regret." She suddenly remembered something, and Ayatsuji pedestrians appeared in her vision The two pale thin lips were tightly pressed together, and it seemed to hear his voice again, "This is a train with no turning back."

"Shiori? Are you going to lunch?"

Sure enough, Shiori Hoshimiya's previous guess was correct, Ranpo Edogawa was indeed dozing off, his voice was haunted by heavy sleepiness, and the ending was a little tired, but after seeing that she was already standing in the distance After he was not far away, he stood up neatly, straightened the hat on his head, and was about to walk towards her, but his footsteps also froze in place.

He turned his head, looked at his desk a few times, and finally took out a novel that looked like [-]% new from under the piles of sundries, and held it in his arms, probably to relieve boredom.

"Then let's go."

The heels of the dark leather shoes hit the floor, making a dull sound, like a judgment of fate, or a harbinger of the established ending.

Hoshimiya Shiori watched him walking towards her step by step, and then stepped on it as if she didn't see the light, "Why are you in a daze?"

"Hmm... Do you think I need to buy something other than donuts? Donuts alone can't be regarded as a staple food."

Walking chaotically on her left side, his footsteps kept falling on the light, and he stepped firmly on the soles of his feet. He raised his chin, "It's not impossible to use donuts as a staple food."

"If you say that, red bean mochi soup, dorayaki, taiyaki and wagashi will make you cry."

"Today is not their occasion, so naturally we can only retreat." He shrugged his shoulders as a matter of course, and he didn't feel like he was being fooled at all.

During the conversation, the two had already reached the door, and after a short walk, they arrived at the elevator entrance. They pressed the down button and waited quietly for the elevator to come up. Feeling that the waiting time was too boring, Luanbu had already begun to look through the pages before him. Take away novels.

Rather than reading a book, it is more like skipping, with his reading speed of almost ten lines at a glance, soon there was the rustling of the pages of the book, Xinggong Shiori couldn't help asking: "Can I really see anything like this? "

"You can see it." While speaking, he turned another page and muttered, "It's not necessary to see everything, and it's not necessary to know everything."

"Then will it be fun to read like this...?" She rubbed her chin, as if talking to herself, but she was still caught by the chaotic steps at the tip of her ears.

"Not everyone wants to know the details, as long as the ending is within their expectations, and—" He closed the book with a snap, not minding that the traces he had just read were about to be overwhelmed, "I only read it because I like this book. Just liking this is enough."

Just like what Edogawa Ranpo said, not everyone wants to know the extremely accurate and unacceptable truth. If it wasn't for the fact that she didn't say what was in her heart, she might think that he was in the dark. It guides her to tell the truth that was poorly disguised.

The elevator finally opened slowly, and there was no one inside. The two walked into the elevator and the door closed.

The two were confined in a closed environment. The surrounding environment was so quiet that even the sound of their breathing could be heard clearly. Shiori Hoshimiya leaned half against the inner wall of the elevator, with her head against the metal wall. After a long time, the metal had been more or less oxidized, and the turbid metal reflected her face which was also turbid.

"Ranbu—" she called out to him beside her in a very common tone.

The latter is also very common, as if he didn't realize what was about to happen, and said "um".

"I'm sorry... I've been lying to you all this time." Before he finished speaking, he leaned in front of her, resting his fair and slender index finger on her lips, his dark green eyes swept around, and finally stopped Somewhere, he laughed in the dead silence, and the sharpness of the corners of his eyes increased rather than diminished.

Afterwards, he silently said to her with his lips: "I know, but it doesn't matter."

Under Xinggong Shizhi's puzzled gaze, he said, "I'm very happy."

The author has something to say:

It doesn't matter if you cheat, at least you choose to confess to me in the end.

Explanation about the previous chapter:

[If Osamu Dazai spends his whole life looking for the meaning of life and the truth of the existence of the world, then Ranpo Edogawa has already understood everything, but chooses to live in the world he wants to see.

With a sound of "snap", the indestructible silk thread was easily cut off. Edogawa Ranpo, whose duty as a detective is to find the truth, stood at the place where the thread was broken, staring calmly at the cut.

He cut off the path leading to the painful truth with his own hands, then turned around and left without hesitation, where did he go...?

go to -

There is a place where Hoshinomiya Shiori exists. 】