"Mr. Dazai, about Mr. Ranpo..."

Atsushi Nakajima hesitated for a long time, and finally on this day, he said such a beginning to Osamu Dazai who rarely went out with him to complete the entrusted work.

Osamu Dazai glanced at the silver-haired boy who was a little shorter than himself, and his tone was the same as usual, even relaxed: "I thought you would ask me earlier, Atsushi-kun."

"Huh?" Atsushi Nakajima looked a little surprised.

"Because Atsushi-kun, you are really not good at hiding your emotions." Osamu Dazai said with a smile.

"Let me guess, the question you want to ask - is what happened to that Mr. Ranpo, and why our Mr. Ranpo has such an attitude, right?"

Atsushi Nakajima nodded seriously.

Since that day, after the Armed Detective Agency assembled, they went through a lot, and finally exposed Fukuji Sakurachi's behavior and arrested the other party.

During this period of time, Atsushi Nakajima's strength has also become much stronger.It was a level of strength that he never imagined before—accepting the tiger's ability, accepting his own strength, after he really took that step, it seemed that it was not that difficult.

It was also because of this that he had the opportunity to stand in front of Fukuchi Sakurachi, grab the other party's collar, and force the other party to tell the situation of "Mr. Ranpo".

Fukuchi Sakurachi, who is extremely embarrassed on the outside, doesn't look like a loser in his temperament.Standing in a high position all the year round allows him to not show any behavior that damages his image even if he falls into such a situation.

——It makes people feel that he will make a comeback one day.

Atsushi Nakajima is the one who really fought against Fukuji Sakurachi. He has always been very concerned about the situation of "Mr. Ranpo" who let them hide in the book but stayed in place.

However, he was very good at reading people's faces, and he found out that Mr. Ranpo was unwilling to say more, so it was impossible for him to ask Mr. Ranpo for an answer.Mr. Dazai was not there at the time, so no one knew what happened except Fukuji Sakurachi.

So this is his only chance to be sure of the answer.

However, the answer Fukuchi Sakurachi gave was: "The kid disappeared by himself."

Fukuji Sakurachi's eyes were tainted with malice that made Atsushi Nakajima's whole body stiff: "Like Bram who was stabbed by the holy cross sword, it turned to ashes in the sun."

At that time, Atsushi Nakajima's expression was blank, and when he recovered, Mr. Dazai grabbed his wrist to calm him down.

He tried to look in Mr. Ranpo's direction, wanting to find an answer, but when he noticed the other's expression, he didn't have the courage to speak up.

And then the time is now.

Atsushi Nakajima has a certain fledgling plot for Osamu Dazai.Osamu Dazai is the teacher who guided him in the direction. Even if he behaved too unreliably at ordinary times, the respect of Atsushi Nakajima was wiped out bit by bit, and it was difficult to put filters on the other party in daily life.

But this trust and admiration hidden in the bottom of my heart from the very beginning has always existed.

So at this time, he subconsciously sought an answer from Osamu Dazai.

And on these matters—although it is incredible to say so, Osamu Dazai really did not deceive Nakajima Atsushi on these matters.

"Ah, let me think about it, where should I start?" Dazai Osamu touched his chin and said.

Osamu Dazai and Edogawa Ranpo had reasoned before, and they all believed that Fukuji Sakurachi picked up the "Edogawa Ranpo" from another world.Because "Edogawa Ranpo" doesn't know Fukuzawa Yukichi, he just has a special feeling for the existence of the image of a samurai.

Perhaps it was indeed fear, but that emotion—a sense of identification with the samurai—was something they couldn't ignore either.

Unlike their Mr. Detective, "Edogawa Ranpo" cares about good and evil, and will protect the weak, so it was only used by Q before that he got supernatural powers.

Osamu Dazai didn't think that there would be such a big difference between the same body in another world. Edogawa Ranpo was an egoist—his parents were good people in the conventional sense, and the teachings he had taught him when he was young would never fall behind.And the Fukuzawa Yukichi he met later was also a good person in an unconventional sense, and he would not let Edogawa go astray.

But Edogawa Ranpo, who was educated in this way, never changed his character.The motto has always been "if it suits me, all is well".

Therefore, his previous guess was wrong.

Childhood experience will not change the character of "Edogawa Ranpo" greatly, and let him change from self-interested to altruistic.So only after growing up and encountering something, can you start to change yourself.

In a sense, reasoning is a kind of bold assumption and guessing—after all, without monitoring and witnesses, if you want to restore what happened on the scene, if you are not good at using your brain, it is impossible to connect those clues together .

This is true for ordinary detectives, and even more so for the already extremely intelligent Osamu Dazai.

He peeled back the cocoons from the character shown by the other party, trying to restore what happened to that person.

When I was young, I was no different from Mr. Ranpo, and I lived a very happy life.And one day, an accident came suddenly, and the protection of parents was not there, so she exposed her own strength without any cover, and appeared in front of others.

Fukuji Sakurachi is different from the president, he will not use white lies to deceive Ranpo, saying that he is a supernatural person.Fukuji Sakurachi would only tell the truth, so that the immature boy at that time could rely on him subconsciously at the moment when his worldview collapsed.

At that time, "Edogawa Ranpo" couldn't understand what his parents did. He could only think that his parents had been lying to him, and the world he knew was false——

Fukuchi Sakura Chi is a disguise, no one can find out his problem.Just like the "hero" image he has maintained in front of the public for so long, no one has ever been able to uncover it.

And Edogawa Ranpo's treatment of certain people is more emotional than rational, just like the fact that he has always believed that he is a supernatural person because of the president.As long as you put Fukuji Sakurachi in your heart, then "Mr. Ranpo" will never find any problems.

At this time, "Mr. Ranpo", even if he knew that Fukuji Sakurachi was a bad person, he would not choose to leave him.

Not doing bad things for the other party is a very rare thing.

Unless, this injury fell on his head.

——On a certain day, "Edogawa Ranpo" suddenly discovered that the elder he could rely on, the one who protected him after his parents, was the villain who deprived him of his loving home.

...that is, the man who killed his parents.

Has already accepted the other party, and trusts Fukuji Sakurachi's "Edogawa Ranpo" wholeheartedly, and will not believe this fact at all.However, the truth was right in front of his eyes, and he couldn't ignore it.

The filter that had always been there was broken.

Fukuji Sakurachi became the second anchor after losing his parents' anchor that connected him to the world.But at this moment, the connection between Fukuchi Sakurachi and him was suddenly severed.

The collapsed "Edogawa Ranpo" will subconsciously find new connection points with the world.

But he was surrounded by hounds, and they were all on Fukuchi Sakurachi's side.

"Edogawa Ranpo" rarely contacts outsiders, so at this moment, those two people are the only ones he regards as life-saving straws.

——At this time, "Edogawa Ranpo", who had grown up to understand the expectations and love of his parents, recalled his parents again.

His parents taught him from an early age to be a good boy, to be kind, and to protect the weak.

My father is a policeman, and he is a very kind person who stands on the side of justice.My mother is also a very gentle person.

His parents love him and water him with love and kindness. After realizing that he has the super reasoning ability to see through the truth in an instant, they don't want him to go astray, and they don't want him to become a negotiator who hurts and becomes an enemy of the world. Therefore, before "Ranpo" has a mature mind, he grew up as an ordinary person.

【"Is it because I did something bad...that's why things turned out like this...?"

It is not so easy to give up after more than ten years of getting along, and the memories created by Fukuji Sakurachi and him are never false.

These years of getting along, Edogawa Ranpo couldn't even feel hatred, but began to blame himself inexplicably.

Many things the Hound does are contrary to the values ​​of its parents - but Ranpo Edogawa doesn't care.

He doesn't care because these things have nothing to do with him.

Until this day, these "bad things" that were originally "wrong" happened to him.

It was only then that Edogawa Ranpo suddenly realized that those people who were killed and hurt by the hounds were his feelings at the moment...?

He has seen countless tragedies that do not conform to his parents' values ​​happen before his eyes, but he has never become the good person his parents expected.

"If I had been a good kid... if I had listened to my parents and been a person who helped other people... wouldn't these things have happened?"

Could it be... Mom and Dad wouldn't have died at that time, wouldn't they have been killed by that person...? 】

This kind of thinking is illogical, but it is enough for a child who has not really grown up.

"Edogawa Ranpo" couldn't stay by Fukuji Sakurachi's side, but he couldn't even have hatred for Fukuji Sakurachi - this made him think that he was sorry for his parents, unable to avenge his parents, which made his heart break even more up.

——Shi Wu's world is too simple, good is good, evil is evil, he needs to help humans and kill evil spirits.This completely different state of mind from this world, combined with his vest identity, makes him actually out of place in this world, and looks extraordinarily special.

Osamu Dazai couldn't understand Shiwu's subconscious behavior of helping others without asking for anything in return. This kind of physical instinct appeared in Edogawa Ranpo's body, and even made Osamu Dazai feel a kind of "distortion".

【"I want to listen to my parents, I have to be a good boy..."】

Thus, "Edogawa Ranpo" became the "good guy" who instinctively protects human beings.

Even if he lost his memory and restored his original personality, this instinct still hasn't disappeared.

So, what happened after that?

Osamu Dazai didn't think Fukuji Sakurachi would let "Edogawa Ranpo" go.Osamu Dazai doesn't mind using the worst direction, the most vulnerable part of human beings goes to the worst part to think about the truth.

But he can't completely deny the occasional incomprehensible kindness of human nature.

"Edogawa Ranpo" can't fool the person who watched him grow up.Therefore, if there is a problem with him, Fukuji Sakurachi will definitely be able to find out at the first time—Osamu Dazai can even suspect that the situation at that time was "Edogawa Ranpo" who was unwilling to believe the truth, and demanded Fukuji Sakurachi collapsed. tell him the answer.

【"As long as you say it, no matter what you say, I will believe it..."

"Please, please tell me...someone lied to me about this...it's not true..."

"As long as you tell me, I will believe it...!"]

However, Fukuji Sakurachi will never lie about this kind of thing, just like telling "Edogawa Ranpo" that he is not a person with supernatural powers.

He will openly state the mission he accepted at that time, and personally tell "Edogawa Ranpo", admitting the truth.

But getting along for many years is not a unilateral contribution of "Edogawa Ranpo".If it was really only one-sided, it would be impossible for "Edogawa Ranpo" to care so much about Fukuchi Sakurachi.

So - Fukuji Sakurachi didn't kill "Edogawa Ranpo" at that time, even if he knew that if he didn't kill him at this time, he would leave a terrible enemy for himself.

The optimal solution at that time was to kill the "Edogawa Ranpo" who was not assisting, but resisting.

However, Fukuji Sakurachi didn't do that, which led to subsequent failures.

As for the problem of amnesia and the largest eye... It is Fukuchi Sakurachi's rare kindness that he didn't kill "Edogawa Ranpo".But it doesn't mean that he can accept Edogawa Ranpo's resistance in the future.

Even if he could—during this battle, most of the members of the hounds had been discovered, almost all of whom were mainly Fukuji Sakurachi. If they knew that there was such a potential enemy, what would they do? What a surprise.

The eyes of "Edogawa Ranpo" were gouged out, and even if they were fitted with glass prosthetic eyes that were extremely similar to real eyes, this fact could not be concealed.

Osamu Dazai had analyzed before that he was the leader in another world, and he became the leader only for Oda Saku, so it is impossible for him to hurt "Edogawa Ranpo".

The only ones who can hurt "Edogawa Ranpo" have a chance are the hounds - and himself.

It seems that the loss of eyes also made "Edogawa Ranpo" completely make a decision.

He stood on the opposite side of his former guardian, he realized his mistake, and he needed to correct it.

——Fukuji Sakurachi was wrong, and Uncle Fukuji who killed his parents was wrong.

In that world, the only thing that can fight Fukuji Sakurachi and "Edogawa Ranpo" can touch is the port mafia that has expanded extremely terrifyingly.

Thus, "Edogawa Ranpo" met Osamu Dazai who became the leader.

Then, "Edogawa Ranpo" knew.Nothing can hide from Mr. Detective who can see the truth with one glance.Even if he has lost the most intuitive "vision".

The existence of the book cannot be known by more than two people. Once it is exceeded, the possibility of the world's collapse will increase.

If there is no comparison, "Edogawa Ranpo" can bear everything.There is a completely unfair comparison——

Just like Shi Wu ever compared the world of if with the main world, he felt unfair for the leader Dazai.

However, he was Osamu Dazai in the last world—that feeling also spread to himself.

When expressing this emotion, Ranpo Edogawa noticed this in this world, and Osamu Dazai also noticed the other party's sadness at the injustice.

Edogawa Ranpo in the main world has a reliable backing, Fukuzawa Yukichi who will not betray him, and parents who love him.That Edogawa Ranpo never made a mistake. When he almost made a mistake, he met Fukuzawa Yukichi who could protect him and continue to support the lie for him.

That Edogawa Ranpo will help others because of Fukuzawa Yukichi's values ​​as the president, he will accept the commission of the police to find the truth, and he will protect the weak because of the commission.He was the center of the detective agency, and that was a very happy kid.

【"Are you jealous?" Before Edogawa Ranpo, Dazai, the only leader who knew another world, looked at Mr. Detective who asked him for help, who should have been as happy as the other world.

"...I just don't think it's fair." One blow after another was enough for this lively child to become quiet.

Just one deviation will make their future direction completely different.Just because the person they met was different.

Not only that, but the world is different.

This world only allows no more than two people to know the existence of books, and the leader Dazai has his own plans for the future, and Edogawa Ranpo is the extra person.

As the person who can see the parallel world, the leader Dazai certainly knows how different their world is from other worlds.But after discovering this difference, he never intended to extend his hand to Edogawa Ranpo, and even thought that with the mentality of the other party, Mr. Detective, who lived in deception, was already happy enough.

However, this person who was put out of his plan discovered the truth by himself and walked in front of him.

The moment Edogawa Ranpo appeared here, his fate was already doomed.

"He's a good man... the way mom and dad expected." Edogawa Ranpo said who he was referring to, and it was very clear.

"If, I also become such a person..."]

At such a time, "Edogawa Ranpo" will not deny the past that he has experienced.But this does not prevent him from developing a little empathy.

He is curious about Fukuzawa Yukichi in another world, but he dare not touch Fukuzawa Yukichi who belongs to his world.

In terms of how he dominates the world Edogawa Ranpo, Fukuzawa Yukichi is also different.

Fukuzawa Yukichi who has not met Edogawa Ranpo will not set up a detective agency - he will spend a longer time to find his own path, he will still find his own path, but without Ranpo, he Would not choose to set up a detective agency.

After all, from the very beginning, he made the choice for Chaos.

Maybe he still has other partners by his side, but that is by no means a similar detective agency in the main world.

Without Ranpo Edogawa, Akiko Yosano would not have been rescued, and even Yukichi Fukuzawa would not have noticed that such a child needed his help—she would still be in the psychological shadow at that time until Unable to accept the guilt in her heart, she would choose to commit suicide.

【"...You actually found that hair ornament." Looking at the broken golden butterfly held by the detective, the leader Dazai closed his eyes and sighed softly.

It's not that he can't understand—or on the contrary, he really can understand Edogawa Ranpo's mood at the moment.

Just like he knows that he and Odasaku will no longer be friends in this world, but when he is alone, he will study hard tofu, go to dismantle a bomb, and go to that bar as if Odasaku and Ango are by his side Same, ask the boss to pour three glasses of wine.

It's just that they all understand that it doesn't make any sense. 】

—The butterfly fell to the ground.

Then, the leader Dazai committed suicide.After he completed his task.

"Edogawa Ranpo" cannot be stopped, nor can it be stopped.

Fukuji Sakurachi used the vampire's abilities to cause a crisis in the world.And in order to protect the two guarding the book, to guard the world, and for everything he has done, like atonement, he has worked very hard.

In the end, he died in the knife of the elder he once respected the most.

The leader Dazai handed over everything after that to "Edogawa Ranpo". In order to avoid the collapse of the world, "Edogawa Ranpo" made himself forget about the book—and he also forgot that in order to prevent the world from collapsing, "Edogawa Ranpo" To some extent, let itself become the carrier of the book.

If it weren't for the deep connection with the book, on that day, it would be impossible for the other party to transfer the energy of the book to Poe's novel.

"Tsu-kun, don't forget the fact that Mr. Ranpo doesn't belong to this world." Osamu Dazai smiled and said, "He just went home."

Nakajima Atsushi completely trusted Dazai Osamu's words, even if his intuition felt wrong.Nakajima Atsushi hesitated: "That's really great, does Mr. Ranpo know?"

If Mr. Ranpo knew, it wouldn't be like this, right?

Osamu Dazai still kept the smile on his face: "You mean Mr. Ranpo? Of course he knows."

It is because I know that Mr. Ranpo has that expression these days.

【"Are you jealous?"】

["...Why are you asking me this question? It doesn't make sense at all, does it."

"Just like why you choose to guard this world, there is actually no difference between us."]

Edogawa Ranpo will show a pure smile in the sun, which is what another person wants to see.

【"Ranpo likes that world very much, and he likes the detective agency very much. So I want to keep him happy."

"Just like you. Just like this world, Oda can also stand in the sun with integrity."]

No one around Ranbu will die, and this world will be very, very happy.

Maybe there was jealousy, but in the next moment, it will still be covered by satisfaction.

——Because you have a partner by your side, who is completely different from me.That's why I have the courage to go back to where I should go.

——I won't cry anymore, I've become a mature adult who can protect everyone!

[So, I just went home.Random steps. 】

Edogawa Ranpo was lying in front of his desk, on which was a sightseeing poster with a drawing of the sea.

"fraud."

The author has something to say: Shi Wu: I'm sorry, the agreed agreement was not reached.

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