Port Mafia doorman on-the-job pension

"Speaking of which," Shibasaki Geno was a little puzzled, "When did I become your assistant, Mr. Detective?"

"Just now," Edogawa Ranpo said naturally, "Didn't you also nod?"

That's what he said, but it was entirely Shibazaki's subconscious movement when he noticed someone looking at him.Shibasaki Yuansheng lowered his head and thought for a while, then said, "But generally no one would believe that a detective assistant is just a child."

Edogawa Ranpo didn't seem to care at all, and casually replied, "Aren't you also a mafia at your age, there is not much difference between the two."

Can these two be compared... Shibazaki Gensheng was a little tangled in his heart, but in the end he kept silent under the overly natural gaze of the famous detective.

So messed up.

The person in charge at the side was miserable, but when he saw Edogawa Ranpo's face, he knew that the other party obviously didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

He knew that this famous detective never played his cards according to the routine. After all, for this kind of supernatural being who possesses such a miraculous ability, some unusual behaviors are understandable.But it would be too much to bring elementary school students to work here.

The person in charge frowned even more when he thought that the group of people from Mafia at the port would come over today.

"Mr. Ranpo, with all due respect, this kid really can't stay here today. People from the port Mafia will come over later. It's too inappropriate for him to stay here."

However, Edogawa Ranpo just glanced at him indifferently, and the person in charge felt that the way he looked at him was a little strange.

"Their people have come."

what?

Before the person in charge understood the meaning of this sentence, he saw Edogawa Ranbu leading his elementary school student assistant forward.

"Mr. Ranpo? Mr. Ranpo?!"

Of course Edogawa Ranpo ignored him, and went straight to the meeting room.It was not the first time for the people inside to see him, so they were used to Edogawa Ranpo's freewheeling style. Although they wondered why there was a child behind him, most of them were relieved.

——The arrival of Edogawa Ranpo means that this case can finally come to an end.

"What does the assistant need to do?"

Geno Shibasaki quickly entered the role naturally, and asked in a low voice after Edogawa Ranpo.

Since the police have been staying here because of the case, they can leave as long as the case is solved, although this idea and approach are not very like Port Mafia.At the izakaya before, Mr. Dazai proposed that there are two ways to solve this matter. First, make an appearance and negotiate with the other party verbally. Fighters are in the majority.

But for Shibasaki Geno, as long as the problem can be solved.

"There's nothing you need to do for now, just follow me." Edogawa Ranpo's tone was very casual, which gave Shibasaki Geno a feeling that the other party didn't really care whether he had an assistant or not.

For the next period of time, everyone in the room was talking politely with Ranpo Edogawa. Geno Shibasaki didn't listen carefully, but he still listened to words such as "abilities" and "talents" that appeared very frequently. heard it.

Edogawa Ranpo possesses the ability "super reasoning", which is said to be the ability to see through all the truth in an instant.

It's really powerful, Shibazaki Gensei thought, but speaking of it, is Mr. Ranpo's ability activated all the time?

From the first time he saw the other party, he seemed to have no secrets in Edogawa Ranpo's eyes.

There are some materials and files on the table not far from Shibasaki Gensei, and the top one is a file about the escaped murderer.

A 35-year-old ordinary male living alone, his father died young, only an elderly mother living in the country, who just came to the city to visit him recently, other than that, he has no other relatives.The evidence of the other party's collision is also very clear. Only his fingerprints are on the vehicle involved in the accident. In addition, there are several overturned cans of beer on the co-pilot, two of which were drunk. It is obvious that the accident was caused by drunkenness.All that was left was a bunch of keys that had been left behind, and the killer took nothing.

Originally, this incident was just an ordinary hit-and-run case, but because the murderer was still missing, it led to the current stalemate.

The murderer's ID card was still at home, so even if he wanted to run away, he couldn't run very far.At the same time, his mother insisted that the murderer would definitely come back, but because his mother had mild Alzheimer's disease, few people took her words seriously.

Shibazaki Yuansheng flipped through the records, he read quickly, and the sound of turning pages caught the attention of others.

"Hey, you brat! Don't mess with the materials we've compiled! I'll show it to Mr. Ranpo later!"

Edogawa Ranbu also glanced over there when he heard the words. The material looked at least as thick as two bricks stacked up.

He tilted his head and thought for a while, then suddenly said: "Shibazaki, tell me."

The person in charge was taken aback for a moment.

"But Mr. Ranpo, let him talk," the person in charge glanced at the information over there hesitantly, and his voice became softer and softer, "When will this talk..."

"You don't need to tell the whole thing," Edogawa Ranpo said, "just talk about the part you just memorized."

The person in charge was speechless for a moment.Even if Mr. Ranpo has the ability to see through the truth without any reasoning, this is too much nonsense.Not to mention how much content that child can remember in such a short period of time, how much material he has only read is a problem.

"Do I remember the content?" Since Edogawa Ranpo said so, Shibasaki Geno answered honestly.

"The murderer's mother has Alzheimer's disease and often forgets what she has done. She had been living in the country before, but was recently taken over by the murderer.

"The schedule is very fixed every day. When I get up at five o'clock in the morning, I will go to the park first. Because the murderer is worried that she will be lost, he asks her to go with others every time, and usually stays until about eight o'clock. But after the murderer disappears, she The event was canceled.

"When it's almost noon, I will go out to buy vegetables. According to the owner of the vegetable market, she sometimes comes back after buying vegetables recently, saying that she forgot to buy something before." Shibazaki Gensheng paused here. Dun, "It can be seen from her receipts in the past few days that she bought extra ribs and rib meat."

The person in charge was a little surprised that Shibasaki Geno had actually memorized so much content. After all, he didn’t spend much time reading the materials, and there were many details in what he said that he would never pay attention to. .

But how should I put it, the person in charge looked at Shibasaki Gensheng with mixed emotions. The problem is that these contents are useless to the case.

For example, those small receipts were collected at the beginning just to prove that the murderer's mother really only went back and forth between home and the vegetable market these days, and did not go to other places.

What's the use of just remembering what kind of meat she bought?

However, Shibasaki Gensei seemed to have completely ignored the person in charge's gaze, and continued to speak calmly, "And there is—"

The person in charge couldn't help but interrupt him, "Wait, do you only remember the part about the murderer's mother?" What about the most important part about the murderer?

Shibazaki Gensheng: "I was about to say."

Person in charge: "..." All right.

"The murderer has a neighbor who happened to be away on a business trip a few days before the accident, so he asked the murderer to help him raise a dog, but his mother is allergic to animal hair, so the dog has been kept in the garage."

The person in charge frowned more and more as he listened. Although he felt that Shibasaki Gensei remembered only some unimportant content, after thinking about it, he decided to continue listening to show respect.

But Shibazaki Yuansheng gave him a suspicious look, "Sir, I'm done."

The person in charge nodded: "You are finished... huh?"

Co-author, you really only talk about what you remember?

All the information about the murderer's mother is listed, no matter how important he is, but the most important murderer is just this one sentence? !

"understood."

Edogawa Ranpo waved his hands indifferently, seeing him, the person in charge felt a little relieved.

"Mr. Ranpo, do you already know where the murderer is now?"

"Yeah," Edogawa Ranpo nodded, "So I don't need to ask such a simple question. Besides, hasn't he already said it?"

Not even a chance to let him wear glasses.

he?who?

The person in charge had a subtle premonition in his heart. He looked in the direction of Edogawa Ranpo's finger, and it was Geno Shibazaki with a calm expression.

Person in charge: "..." What the hell?

"He's in the garage now," Edogawa Ranpo said nonchalantly, "I guess he's been hiding there for three or four days. I advise you to bring him out quickly, otherwise his mental state will be in trouble."

"But wait a minute, Mr. Luanbu," the person in charge hurriedly stepped forward and said, "We have already checked his garage, and his garage key is the same as the house key, and has not been taken away."

"But one is missing." It was Shibasaki Geno who spoke.

The person in charge frowned: "Didn't you listen to me? I said I was not taken away."

"But there should be two of them," Shibasaki Geno said flatly, "The murderer's mother is allergic to animal hair, so the dog was not kept in his own garage at first, but in the neighbor's garage. Sir, you should never Find the key to the neighbor's garage."

It's not that I didn't find it, but I didn't realize it at all before this.

The person in charge was really stunned this time.

When Edogawa Ranpo's conclusion came out, although the person in charge was surprised, he believed it [-]% in his heart, after all, the other party's supernatural power was there.But the child in front of him gave him the feeling... as if he knew about it before Edogawa Ranpo came to his conclusion.

"...how did you come up with this idea?"

Shibazaki Yuansheng turned his head to look at the person in charge with a complicated expression, "What?"

The person in charge took a deep breath, "Just relying on 'the neighbor asked him to raise a dog' seems not enough to draw this conclusion."

Shibazaki Gensheng: "His mother."

Seeing that the other party didn't quite understand, Shibazaki continued to explain: "His mother has obvious symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, not only because she always thinks that her son will come back normally without any accident, but also because she often The vegetable market goes back and forth because she always remembers to cook for her son who is hiding in the garage.”

"The meat she bought," Shibazaki said, "was hard to bite and digest for an old man of that age, and she was allergic to animal hair, so of course it wasn't for feeding the dog. What's more, the dog Eat more dog food."

Person in charge: "...Excuse me, how old are you?"

Shibazaki Gensheng: "?"

Edogawa Ranpo was already yawning next to him, looking very bored, "Is it over?"

The person in charge remembered that Edogawa Ranpo was still nearby, and quickly bowed to him, "Anyway, thank you very much, Mr. Ranpo...and your assistant for your help."

When he mentioned "assistant", there was obviously something wrong with the expression on his face, but seeing that Ranpo Edogawa and Geno Shibasaki didn't care, he relaxed a little.

"Thanks to you, we won't have too much trouble dealing with the group of people from Mafia at the port."

Ranpo Edogawa felt that the person in charge probably had selective hearing, "So, they have already arrived."

Person in charge: "Huh?" Why does this sentence sound so familiar?

Edogawa Ranpo's eyes signaled Shibasaki Geno's direction.

"The guy you said was from Port Mafia, that's it."