Anomalous ability is Doctor Mori

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MIMIC disappeared again after attacking Pengo Lie.

Suspected of being threatened by an unknown organization, Umezawa Kinzo was attacked at a dinner party and died suddenly after announcing his will.

Nana Sawada is missing, and Ryuhiko Shibusawa, the white unicorn, is missing.

as well as--

——The leader of PortMafia, Sen Alice, was hijacked by a person with supernatural powers at the headquarters.

Intelligence was quickly gathered between Yokohama and Italy by means of invisible radio waves.The night in Yokohama turned violent in an instant.

At this moment, the PortMafia headquarters building is under full martial law.The Central Plains also blocked the information on Alice's disappearance.Armed detective agencies are already in action.Iemitsu Sawada, Osamu Dazai and Rimbaud are on their way to the airport.Vengley's special plane is ready to go.

Another key person at the center of the vortex of the incident has just been awakened by a sharp pain.

Alice opened her eyes abruptly, and the man smiled politely in the clear vision again.

"Nice to meet you, miss."

Under the moonlight, his short platinum-blond hair was blown by the night wind, and his lavender-blue eyes were so pale that they seemed to blend into the night.

"My name is Paul Verlaine."

Alice's pupils suddenly dilated.

***

Under the bright moonlight, a container ship more than 200 meters long floats in the port.On the unloaded deck, one side is a square steel mountain made up of neatly stacked containers, and the other side is wide and flat like an empty playground.Tonight's weather is clear, the sky is clear, the starry sky is high, and the sky is dark without clouds. The bright and round moon is like a silver plate, hanging low in the sky. The bright moonlight clearly projects the man's backlit figure on Alice's retina.

The girl raised her head, with the hard deck under her body and the cold metal container behind her, she was in a state of embarrassment.When she jumped out of the window, the bullet from the man's gun pierced her shoulder.Now her half dress was covered in blood.Fortunately, because the distance was too short, the bullet penetrated the muscle tissue and did not cut off the aorta and bones. Apart from being unable to move her right arm at will, she was not in danger of dying from excessive blood loss for the time being.

The trouble is another thing.

"Well!"

"Sorry sorry~"

The man—Verlaine spoke briskly, holding the gun in his hand against the girl's temple, and quickly pushed the medicine in the needle into Alice's arm with the other hand, then pulled out the needle and threw it aside.

Severe pain accompanied by a strange strong numbness immediately flowed through the whole body along the blood vessels.This feeling as if there were ants biting inside the skin made Alice's back burst into cold sweat.She raised her head suddenly, and hit the container with her handcuffed hands behind her back, sending out a cold and dull echo in the silent night.

"what is this……"

"Drugs for supernatural powers. Some necessary precautions." He said, standing up, "Don't worry, it won't damage your health. Ah, it just takes a while to metabolize."

"... FXXX!"

Alice's eyes were cold, and she squeezed out a curse from her teeth.

Verlaine just shrugged his shoulders, "I can't help it, and I don't want to use such a method against the lady, but you are too uncooperative."

Just as Ango Sakaguchi observed from the two bullets, Verlaine's supernatural ability [Moonlight Song] is teleportation within the range of sight. As long as he is under the moonlight, he can appear in any range of sight.He took the girl away with this ability.

But in the city, there is no shortage of places where the moonlight cannot shine.In order to prevent any accidents on the way, when he pulled the girl out of the window, Verlaine knocked her unconscious when her supernatural power was disintegrated by a single shot.

After all, it is too troublesome for a humanoid with different abilities that can disappear and reappear at any time and can act independently.

Fortunately, now this problem is solved.

Seeing the rose-red light spot on the girl's side tried to gather several times and then suddenly collapsed, until finally, like a dying firefly, it could only flash a faint light and then disappear in an instant.Verlaine took a few steps back, stood up straight, and put the gun back into his arms.

"Okay, miss." He said in a gentle and gentlemanly tone that was incompatible with his behavior, "Now, we can have a good chat."

"...So," Alice raised her head and sneered, "The scumbag who died for almost 10 years reappeared, instead of going to Bai Yueguang, who you let down, to commit suicide and apologize, but instead came to chat with a stranger like me?" ?”

Thanks to her memory, she really remembered who this person was - 9 years ago, the explosion that exploded the current Leibo Street.Come to find a member of the [Artificial God].Rimbaud's scumbag partner who stabbed in the back, the French intelligence agent Paul Verlaine.

After recovering his memory, Rimbaud said that the two of them were fighting, and he killed Verlaine, which alarmed the guards of the research institute.However……

Alice's blue eyes were cold.Now it seems that he is not dead, but escaped.

"Oh~" Verlaine blinked, "Did Rimbaud tell you that?" Before Alice could answer, he curled the corners of his mouth softly, "He really likes to escape like before. The annoying thing——I'm still alive."

However, when the man said this, there was no love or nostalgia in his eyes, no guilt or guilt—his eyes were like ice under the moonlight, cold and heartless, without ripples.

Alice twitched the corners of her mouth coldly, "...I'm going to vomit."

"I'm so rude."

"Heh." Alice leaned against the container, feeling a sharp pain in the wound on her shoulder, but it didn't prevent the girl from showing disdain on her face.In front of Verlaine, her cold blue eyes were full of real anger and killing intent.However, at this moment, Alice was actually extremely calm in her heart.

She forced herself not to think about the situation of the children.Eliminate all side effects, discard all distracting information.Bring all your attention to the most fundamental situation at hand.

——As a kidnapped hostage, how should she save herself.

Yang Xiaoqi never mentioned the name Verlaine.Therefore, her understanding of the man in front of her was limited to what Rimbaud had said back then—she regarded Rimbaud as her family and friends, so it was impossible for her mother-in-law to scratch his wounds and ask the root of the dead scumbag he said.Even this man's extremely powerful skills and extraordinary abilities beyond common sense, she just knew about it.

Therefore, the only entry point now is his purpose - since this scumbag chose to hold her hostage instead of killing her on the spot, he must have something to ask for.

Ask for money?impossible.If you are only looking for money, with this man's skill, there are countless better choices than her.And her only different value is PortMafia.After all, she has the clues of 5000 billion yen in her hands. Except for her and Mori Ou, only the dead Umezawa Kinzo himself knows. There may be an intersection with Verlaine—now that I think about it, the call she received before being hijacked was a warning from Luanbu.

And if Ranpo can't contact her, he will definitely contact Osamu Dazai or Chuya—as long as the three of them can get in touch...

The cold light in Alice's eyes flashed quickly, she made up her mind in an instant, and then raised her head coldly.

"...What exactly do you want to do?"

——So, what is this man thinking?

However, Verlaine gave an answer beyond Alice's expectations.

"I just want the lady to make a call for me." Under the moonlight, he laughed, "This is berth 53 of Xingang Pier, please call my dear brother and ask him to come alone, and then be obedient Come with me."

--younger brother? !

As if seeing Alice's surprise and confusion, Verlaine spat out a name.

"My younger brother, Zhongya Chuya."

Alice was stunned, and then sneered, "Do you think I'm stupid?" All the children in her family may suddenly have an older brother—except Chuya!

"Don't you believe it?" Verlaine's eyes showed coldness.

"Do you think I'll believe it?"

"Don't you understand? Miss." Verlaine's smile disappeared from his face for the first time, "It's all for your own good—a natural disaster that can breathe, a god with a beating heart. [Huang Ba spits], that's both An existence that cannot become a human being or a god, if he does not return to my side, all that awaits him is the destruction of everything around him, and he will face the end of death alone."

This is probably the closest to the true meaning that Alice has heard from this man so far.However, there was no wavering in her heart, she even just wanted to sneer.If it were any normal occasion, whoever said the above words to her would make her unable to help but think about whether there was any hidden meaning in the words, whether there were any hidden dangers in Zhongya that neither he nor herself knew—— Except for this moment.

No one would believe that a person who broke into his home, grabbed a 6-year-old child by the neck, held himself hostage, and said sincerely, "I am for your own good, and only I can save your child, so I hand him over to you." Give it to me" man.

What's more, the terms he used... Heh!

So, Alice didn't say a word.The girl's blue eyes just stared at the man coldly.As if she couldn't see his excellent appearance at all, her eyes were dark and mocking, as if looking at a clumsy clown.

However, Verlaine showed no signs of displeasure. "It seems that you don't want to." The man smiled, took out his mobile phone helplessly, and dialed a number.

After two short beeps, the phone was cut off from the opposite side.

Verlaine seemed to have received the answer, he stepped forward and grabbed Alice's wrist.Alice only felt a flash in front of her eyes, and in the next moment, she and Verlaine were standing on the top of a mountain of containers stacked to a height of more than ten meters.

What is this? !Alice endured the severe pain of being pulled from the wound, and followed Verlaine's movements to stand up straight.With the height of the container ship itself and the stacked boxes, she is now equivalent to standing at the height of more than 20 buildings.The salty, cold sea wind blew her long hair violently.The posture with her hands handcuffed behind her made Alice stagger.

Then she was pushed in a certain direction.

"Look." Verlaine said.

Alice raised her head, her breath suddenly suffocating.

At some point, a thick pure white mist filled the direction of the urban area.Under the moonlight, the dense fog, like a huge white snake waking up from hibernation, has a creepy and strange feeling, spreading and surging from somewhere towards the city center very quickly.From Alice's point of view, the fog was approaching the five familiar buildings at a speed almost visible to the naked eye.

"what is that?"

"It's a supernatural power." Verlaine chuckled, "It's Shibusawa Ryuhiko-kun's supernatural power. It can cover a city with thick fog. People with supernatural powers within the fog zone will be killed by their own supernatural power."

The man said, looking at the girl beside him.

"Miss, as I remember, there are quite a few people with different abilities in PortMafia and the children around you?"

Alice's face turned pale instantly.

***

I don't know when, Yokohama in the night was filled with thick fog.

The mist started somewhere and spread towards the urban area. The thick white was like a tide under the moonlight, quickly covering the streets and alleys.This mist is like a huge white snake waking up from hibernation, silently, in a creepy way, as if traveling through a dark forest, spitting out a message and lingering in the night.

Everything in front of him completely confirmed Edogawa Ranpo's reasoning and Dazai Osamu's judgment.The disappearance of Nana Sawada—no, the person who kidnapped Nana Sawada and the person who attacked PortMafia headquarters and took Alice hostage were the same person.

Paul Verlaine.

However, this step is now invalid.

In fact, at this moment, in the intelligence room of PortMafia headquarters, on the satellite image hanging on the monitor on the wall, what Alice saw emerged was a scene completely opposite to what Alice saw.

Different from what the naked eye sees from the port, on the satellite image overlooking the sky, the white snake-like mist did not fill the city, but it perfectly bypassed the urban area like the water flowing into the moat, forming an abrupt formation A barrier in the shape of a white ribbon separated the port area from the city center.

"...That's all right." A young male voice, as cold and gorgeous as jewels colliding with each other, came from the phone on the other side, "According to the agreement, I will give you 30 minutes. If within 30 minutes, you still find If you don’t reach Nana, I’ll kill all the people with supernatural powers in the whole city and find them myself.”

"Long Yan!" This time it was the voice of an adult man.

"Shut up, Sawada Iemitsu. If Nana gets hurt in any way, I'll be the first to kill you."

Following this sentence, there was the sound of the phone being hung up.Then came the slight sound of fabric rubbing and breathing, and then the familiar sound of Zhong Yuanzhong.

"Chung Ye?"

It seems that my partner on the other end of the phone has already got the phone back.Zhong Yuanzhong also narrowed his eyes and spoke in a low voice.

"Dazai, you succeeded."

"No, it was Ranpo and Mr. Fukuzawa who succeeded. If Ranpo hadn't deduced Nana's whereabouts and contacted Shibusawa in advance to stabilize the other party, we would have been very passive now."

A voice that seemed as cold as ice because of extremely depressed emotions came from the open cell phone.

"But you were the one who contacted Ranpo in the first place, so it's all the same."

There was silence on the other end of the phone, and Osamu Dazai changed the subject, "How is the situation at PortMafia?"

"I have notified everyone as much as possible, and Sakaguchi notified the Supernatural Special Affairs Section. It is estimated that there are more than a dozen people who happened to be caught in the fog area, and the others cannot be counted for the time being."

"... Where are Gin and Ryunosuke?"

"Not yet awake." Zhongyuan Zhong also paused, and added, "Jiu Zuo refused to leave the scene, so we had to let him go."

"so……"

"Now we are waiting for the kidnapper's call."

Nakahara Chu also took up what Osamu Dazai hadn't finished speaking.

The breath on the other side of the phone was stagnant, and the atmosphere in the intelligence room where only the young man was alone was almost frozen.

For a while, no one spoke until Dazai Osamu's voice sounded again.

"...Sorry, it was my fault. If I hadn't taken Rimbaud—"

"No, it has nothing to do with you."

Knowing that the person on the opposite side could not see, Zhong Yuanzhong still shook his head.

Nothing to do with Dazai.Rather, if according to Osamu Dazai, Paul Verlaine's intention to come has something to do with him in the Central Plains.Then, it should be him who is wrong.

But, Alice said, there is nothing wrong with the victim.

The orange-haired boy's lips were tight and stiff, and his cobalt blue eyes were filled with extremely suppressed anger and murderous intent.

However, his voice was low and soft.

"You've done a good job, Dazai."

It can even be said that it couldn't be better.

Zhong Yuanzhong also remembered the scene ten minutes ago.On the phone, Osamu Dazai's voice was as cold and hard as the strings of a piano soaked in ice water, which were about to break in the next second, but his tone remained extremely rational and clear.

"Zhongye, since Verlaine chose to kidnap Alice, it means that one of his targets is you—don't ask me how I know. Listen to me. After he kidnaps Alice, he will definitely force Alice to call you .But with Alice's character, it is definitely impossible to submit, so he will use Shibusawa Tatsuhiko to put pressure on Alice!"

"I have already contacted Ranpo, and he has set off with Mr. Fukuzawa. If they stabilize Shibusawa first, then PortMafia will be fine. However, no matter whether Ranpo succeeds or not, the only one who can save Alice in the end is you !"

"In terms of layout, the opponent has already taken the lead. The only thing I can do now is to eliminate disadvantages for you. Alice's location has already told you, absolutely do not deploy personnel around. Ordinary combatants are meaningless, Verlaine's ability It is very troublesome, and once transferred, it will be very bad for us. The specific battle plan is as follows..."

"Alice is not a character who is ready to die. Since the other party chooses to kidnap her, there must be some way to control her supernatural power. As long as Yokohama is not in chaos, it is meaningless for [the other party] to arrange more backups. So, you just need to pay attention Verlaine. After you replace Alice, you still have to—"

"I know." At that time, Chuya Nakahara interrupted Osamu Dazai in this way, "We still have to fight in the end."

——Exactly, this is the best way.

So, now, he says the same thing.

"Dazai, I will win." The orange-haired boy raised his head and pressed the hat on his head, "Just wait for me to bring Alice back properly."