The power comes from Chaldea

"Well, the red crystals... the speed of blood coagulation is much faster than that of ordinary people."

Edogawa squatted in front of the dead body, raising his hand without any scruples and twisting the blood-like crystalline object on the man's face.

Mochizuki Chiyo answered: "Such a solidification speed, a different ability..."

The red liquid that was supposed to fill the gaps on the surface solidified and weathered in the blink of an eye, making a sharp distinction from ordinary events.

The touch between the fingers is as rough as gravel, but it looks like fine powder, overflowing with unnatural red in the afterglow of dusk.

Mochizuki Chiyo: ...

Wait—when did this guy, Ranbu, teleport to the corpse?

Subconsciously, he answered the conversation, only to find the brown hat brim when he turned his head sideways.

"Chiyo, help me turn this person around—"

Edogawa raised his head and looked at Mochizuki Chiyo after he walked in disorder, and called out lazily with a long ending sound, it was completely impossible to see that it was the first time they met.

The green eyes swept across the two of them for a week, and soon returned to smiling eyes.

"Well, Mr. Hat, it's fine too."

Nakahara Chuya: "...?"

Mr. Hat...?

Zhongyuan Zhong also pressed his hat subconsciously, trying to refute something but was choked back by his own actions.

Nakahara Chuya: ...

He gritted his teeth and emphasized: "My name is Chuya Zhongyuan."

Edogawa Ranpo nodded: "Alright Mr. Hat. Then, Chiyo, go hold your head!"

Just as she recognized Edogawa Ranpo, the other party also recognized her as a matter of course.

Although photos have never been exchanged, the information that can be revealed in a few words is enough for an excellent detective to deduce the required information.

only--

The first time a netizen met, they actually moved the corpse to show politeness...

Is this the cultivation of a famous detective! ?

Mochizuki Chiyo rolled up the non-existent sleeves in a gesture, and carefully supported the corpse, her eyes were painful and deep.

Nakahara Chuya: ...

The detective I met today seemed to be quite different from what I knew in the past.

"Are you... are you here to be funny?"

Zhongyuan Zhong also raised his forehead, and interrupted by tugging at the corner of his mouth.

The two people in front of them held their shoulders and held their legs, but they turned in opposite directions without any tacit understanding.

He really couldn't see it, so he snapped his fingers and manipulated the gravity to easily turn the corpse over.

Mochizuki Chiyo coughed, clapped her hands, and nonchalantly picked up the red crystals on the ground.

"Judging from the wound, there is no trace of homicide at all. If it is poisonous, there is no corresponding trace. Judging from the current situation, it looks like suicide."

Edogawa Ranpo nodded: "Bingo, Chiyo gets [-] point, Hat-kun gets [-] points, you have to keep working hard."

Nakahara Chuya: ...Why is he!

Mochizuki Chiyo pondered for a while, her golden eyes reflected the coquettish red crystals on her fingertips.

In the next second, the distance between the fingertips and the lips is getting closer and closer, as if they want to taste it.

"You...don't be a detective!? You don't even know what's inside!"

Zhong Yuanzhong was also frightened by her behavior, and swept across with a knife in his hand, and was intercepted halfway before it fell.

Mochizuki Chiyo held Nakahara Chuya's wrist with an innocent face: "Huh? I just want to smell it, and Mr. Nakaya is. Do you think I am going to do something strange?"

Nakahara Chuya: ...

It may be because I have been with Osamu Dazai for a long time, and when I look at other people, I always feel that there will be that kind of thinking that is too detached.

"Smell is also very illegal, keep a distance from me!"

Mochizuki Chiyo was discouraged: "Okay——"

It's just... the cobalt blue eyes are slightly absent.

Being able to easily block his hand knife, although the meaning of attack is not so strong, but just from the appearance, it can already be said that it is a person who cannot be judged by appearance.

This Miss Detective is definitely more than just a detective.

"Ranbu, do you know the answer?"

After recording all the information that can be collected, no more information can be obtained from the corpse in front of him.It is also difficult to judge where it fell. If there is surveillance video, it may be possible to judge one or two.

Edogawa Ranpo answered irrelevantly: "Well, let the police deal with the next thing."

He turned his head sideways and asked Nakahara Chuya again: "What about Mr. Hat, this matter has something to do with the port mafia, do you want to make a record together?"

It sounds like you're going on a field trip.

Nakahara Chuya: ...

As a mafia, why did I end up on the witness stand of the police...?! ?

"...No."

In fact, the police don't have much say in Yokohama now. The number of casualties since the beginning of the Dragon Head War has been countless. If the corpse in front of him hadn't met them, it would have only been stored in the file and become one of the numbers.

He held down the brim of his hat, feeling that today's experience was really rich... a little exhausted.

With the help of collecting evidence, Mochizuki Chiyo collected the crystals, and through the portable spirit base transfer module mounted on the 'brick', small doses of items could be sent to Chaldea soon.

Dr. Roman used Fufu to flick his tail to convey the desired information perfectly without speaking.

The sky gradually dimmed, and the light sources in the alley became less and less.

Edogawa raised his chin in Ranbu, and immediately began to be passive and sabotage: "Okay, I'm hungry now, Master Ranpo is leaving!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around and raised his legs neatly, as if he was not the one who was trying to solve the case seriously just a second ago.

Mochizuki Chiyo:? ? ?

Be a serious detective for me, baby! !

Edogawa didn't take a few steps in disorder, braked suddenly, looked at Tsukichiyo, and then at Nakahara Chuya.

"Chiyo, carry me on your back!" Edogawa Ranpo coquettishly said: "Master Ranpo has gone this way, he has gone the wrong way a lot, and even the detective agency can't be found anywhere, Chiyo is the best~"

Mochizuki Chiyo: ...?

Even with sweet words, she also...

Edogawa Ranpo stared at her with tears in his blue eyes.

…Holding one hand, her compromise is already huge!

Nakahara Chuya: ...What exactly is this unfolding? !

……

The sound of the music is exciting without losing the rhythm, and it is loud without covering the speaker's voice.

The smell of fried chicken and French fries in front of me keeps pouring into the tip of my nose, and I can tell that the bread is crispy and delicious only from the aroma.

"Why doesn't Chiyo eat it?"

Edogawa Ranbu's cheeks were bulging, and he muttered childishly.

Mochizuki Chiyo took a sip of water, and said with distant eyes: "The beauty of a girl is hard to maintain."

Chuya Nakahara: "...so why am I here?"

Mochizuki Chiyo nodded in agreement.

It's obviously calling the police, but why did everyone start the dinner party logically? Hey!

"Oh, don't the hat-kun want to know the answer?" Edogawa Ranpo vowed: "As long as Ranpo-sama is full, I can reveal a little to the hat-kun."

Zhongyuan Zhongye held back his veins: "I'm not called Mr. Hat, my name is Zhongyuan Zhongye."

"Yeah, the gravity manipulator of the port mafia, Mr. Ranpo is no longer a child, of course he knows!"

Edogawa Ranpo bit his food vaguely and said, "It's just that Mr. Hat is better at remembering."

Mochizuki Chiyo: ... Isn't this a child! ?

"By the way, Chiyo, have you received the commission?"

"Commission?"

Mochizuki Chiyo was taken aback for a moment, and quickly remembered the job commission Hibari Kyoya told her not long ago.

"There is such a commission in Yokohama, let me take a look."

Mochizuki Chiyo glanced at ten lines, and quickly got all the information in his eyes.

"The case of the missing jewel... Is Ranpo talking about this?"

"Hmph, that's right, Mr. Hat wants to play detective games together?"

Nakahara Chuya: ...

He endured it, and in the end he couldn't bear it anymore.

"Aren't you here to talk about the incident just now? What kind of case is the missing gem?"

The police side was completely done by Edogawa Ranpo alone, and it was completely impossible to see that such a childish person could also perform social actions skillfully.

Although he didn't face the branch problem of the Mafia's transfer to the witness stand, Nakahara Nakaya still sat opposite Edogawa Ranpo in a dizzy state as if he had been fooled.

This is a big round table, and the positions between the three are as stable as a triangle.

It's just that his mood is far from stable.

Edogawa Ranpo suddenly realized: "Oh, I forgot, Mr. Hat is a fighting school."

Mochizuki Chiyo: ...

This is right, isn't it just to show that the other party is not a brain school! ?

Chaos——

Mochizuki Chiyo subconsciously took a sip of water.

Zhongyuan Zhong also ignited the desire to win: "Tsk, just wait, I will solve the case tonight!"

Mochizuki Chiyo: ...

She tactfully said, "Mmm...Mr. Nakaya, why don't you put down the Coke when you're talking?"

You really look like you're drunk on Coke! Hey!

Fake wine harms people, honesty does not deceive me.

"The case of 5000 billion gemstones seems to be related to today's incident. The person just now should have committed suicide, Mr. Nakaya. It's just that compared to suicide itself, the meaning he represents will threaten you benefit."

Mochizuki Chiyo's fingertips dipped in the air-conditioning that fell from the frozen Coke, and drew a moist arc on the round table, finally pointing to Nakahara Chuya.

"So, this should be just... the beginning of a story that happened to happen together."

Like chewing a lollipop, Edogawa ranpo took the French fries in his mouth, raised his head and turned in his mouth several times before swallowing them.

"That's right, there is a connection between events and events. Regarding the hint of reasoning, Lord Ranpo can only say this, otherwise—"

He smiled.

"It's not fun anymore."

After all, the leading actors haven't even appeared on stage yet, and now we can only catch some miscellaneous soldiers, and it's enough to hand them over to the police.

Things have their own rules of development, uncovering the mystery too quickly, sometimes it will cover the deeper mystery behind.

Edogawa twirled the French fries in a messy manner.

Zhongyuan Zhong also said coldly: "The beginning? What does it mean that it is related to the port mafia?"

"Hmm... I just searched. Recently, Yokohama is engaged in a scuffle against some kind of wealth, right?" Mochizuki Chiyo took a sip of water and pressed the phone on the table, "Well, Mr. Nakaya, I wonder if this is Potion or the existence of supernatural powers, no matter what kind of battle it is in, it will undoubtedly become a key existence, right?"

Central Plains also pondered.

It's just that I don't know the specific content, it just fell like a thing from the sky, there are too many things that I don't know, but the only detective in front of me who understands it seems to be protecting something. .

"That's it, I should go."

He stood up, and the long windbreaker that was drooping on the seat quickly stretched out, and with the movement slightly swayed, he had already strode to the door in a few steps.

The doorbell of the fast food restaurant jingled, and Zhongyuan Zhong was also slightly stunned. What he saw was a silver-haired man with a serious expression, and the killing intent seemed to hit the store for a moment.

He lowered the brim of his hat with one hand, and squinted at the man with his cobalt blue eyes. Seeing him walk into the store, he quickly took it back.

...will have to do some research.

In the store, Edogawa Ranpo seemed to have foreseen it long ago. He squatted on the chair without looking back, and his hands danced happily like waving flags.

"President—this way!"

"you are?"

The silver-haired, beautiful middle-aged man sat down and politely replied, "Fukuzawa Yukichi."

Mochizuki Chiyo was very calm, holding the cup calmly and taking a sip of water.

Some distorted iron spoons in the hand can only show that the quality of this store is not good.

Come on, who doesn't have a literary friend yet?

When she gets the world line right, she's going to publish a book——

The name is probably... I walk with the literary giants :)

Literary world debut, really just around the corner.

The girl took another sip of water expressionlessly.

Wait - this is her first glass of water tonight! !

Mochizuki Chiyo looked at the empty cup with a delicate mood.

My mood seems to be overflowing with my stomach being filled with water.