cat blues

The World Detective Contest, the name sounds very rustic. In the earliest days, it was just a promotional event organized by a publishing house to promote Kudo Yusaku's new book.

However, no one expected that when the young man from the owner's family of the publishing house came to inspect the publishing house, it took less than ten seconds to solve all the problems that the editor of the publishing house and Yusaku Kudo had thought up.

Although these questions are for publicity and not to embarrass readers, Yusaku Kudo did not make the questions too embarrassing for readers, but even so, these questions are definitely not so simple to answer.

But the young man really answered without thinking.

This made the editors of the publishing house a little bit embarrassed for a while.

The old housekeeper who came with the young man immediately signaled the editor to invite Yusaku Kudo over to ask some questions again, at least to let his young master feel some basic fun.

When Kudo Yusaku received the somewhat inexplicable call from the editor, he was also confused, but soon he also realized that the young man who easily solved the puzzle he set was a real genius.

Edgar Allan Poe, the second son of the Poe family, an American publishing giant family, is 22 years old and has a well-known terrorist mind in the industry. It is said that he has been the planner of the Poe family business since he was 15 years old.The only problem is that Mr. Edgar Allan Poe has a very strong social phobia and almost never attends any social occasions.

This visit to the publishing house was also because Poe’s parents felt that the child might grow mushrooms if he stayed at home, so they forcibly drove him over, and his housekeeper accompanied him.

Mr. Steward also promised Poe that if he was willing to inspect the publishing house, he would buy him the pet he wanted. Although Poe was a little reluctant, he still agreed.

Edgar Allan Poe is very fond of novels, especially mystery novels. After all, his supernatural power "The Black Cat of the Rue Morgue" is the ability to suck people into his novel world.Because of the restriction of supernatural powers, the world of his novels can only be the world of ordinary people, without the existence of supernatural powers.So he likes reading and writing mystery novels very much.Of course, the novels written by Edgar Allan Poe over the years have always been for himself, never for others to read.

He also collected a complete set of Yusaku Kudo's novels at home, but he only said good things about Yusaku Kudo's novels. After all, Yusaku Kudo's novels were too simple in his opinion.

The promotional campaign for Yusaku Kudo attracted Poe's attention, but the puzzles created by this campaign were too simple, making Poe feel that it had no practical significance and could not play a publicity role.

As a result, after he chatted with Yusaku Kudo who came in a hurry, when Yusaku Kudo didn't understand at all, and Poe himself was a little confused, the old butler of the Poe family finalized a "World Detective Contest" "Plan and plan to implement it directly.

When he went back, he realized that he had been tricked, and Poe looked at his butler with some dissatisfaction, but the calm Mr. Butler just said calmly: "You mean, second young master, do you think you will lose? "

"How is this possible!" Edgar Allan Poe replied without hesitation.

"Isn't that good?" The gray-haired old man said with a smile, "By the way, master, the pet shop that is said to be able to buy a lot of incredible animals is said to be reopening in two days, may I ask you where to go?" Does the store buy pets?"

"Buy..." Poe nodded vigorously.

However, this was all half a month ago. Poe had also heard of Earl D's pet shop before. It is said that before he was born, Earl D's pet shop had caused an uproar in New York's Chinatown. People in the upper class of the United States are proud to buy pets in Earl D's pet shop.

Later, Earl D closed the pet shop and moved to another country without knowing what happened.

Now Earl D seems to be reopening his own pet shop in the United States.

Edgar Allan Poe walked into an alley in Chinatown with some curiosity, and accompanied by his housekeeper, he walked down the long stairs.

"Dangling" as Edgar Allan Poe pushed open the door, the wind chime on the door made a crisp sound.

There was a sweet smell coming from the room, Poe looked up in surprise, and saw a beautiful young man with indistinguishable appearance sitting in front of a Chinese round table, eating a chocolate brown in front of him sweetly. Ni, with an intoxicated expression on his face, he didn't notice that there was a guest at all, and he kept sighing, "It's delicious..."

Edgar Allan Poe was at a loss for a moment. At this time, a tall and strong man in a black suit walked towards him. The tall and strong man was really tall. Edgar Allan Poe was already 182 centimeters tall, but the man in front of him This person is actually a head taller than him, at least two meters.

The man saw them, nodded slightly towards them, walked over and pulled the chairs beside the round table away, motioned for them to sit down, went to the side and poured tea in front of them, and finally put down two workmen in front of them. Fruit tarts so delicate they almost reflect light.

"Thank you, thank you..." Edgar Allan Poe said in a low voice, the tall man just nodded to him, and walked to another part of the room.

"I'm very sorry, I didn't notice the arrival of the guests just now." Until then, the man who had finished eating the chocolate brownies took out his handkerchief and wiped his mouth with some embarrassment, and looked at him with a business smile. The two people in front of him said, "May I ask if there is any pet you want to buy?"

"I, I..." Poe, who had a very serious social phobia, suddenly relaxed a lot when he looked at the smiling face of the man in front of him, and murmured, "I'm not good at Dealing with people, so I want someone who can accompany me..."

"Really? Then how about this kid?" Earl D smiled and waved in one direction of the store, and soon a raccoon ran over. The raccoon stared at Edgar Allan Poe, who covered half of his face with big bangs. , nodded and ran away again. When he ran back again, the raccoon came with a small raccoon cub in its mouth.

Earl D held the little raccoon in his arms and handed it over, "This child is already three months old, and he is also a very smart individual among North American raccoons."

This little raccoon immediately hit Edgar Allan Poe's heart. He took the raccoon carefully, and he didn't want to let go of this chubby and soft animal.

"It seems that you like this child very much." Earl D covered his mouth and chuckled, then got up to get a contract, and went to the side to get a raccoon breeding guide and raccoon feed, and walked in front of the two of them. "The deal is established, please treat that child well in the future."

"Of course, I will take good care of Carl!" Poe obviously really liked this raccoon, and he had already thought of a name within a minute of getting it.

"That would be really great." Earl D finished the business with a smile. After seeing off the two guests, he looked back a little dejectedly and saw the big Yuji cat staring at him with twinkling eyes, so he could only sigh helplessly. He took a deep breath, "Okay, Your Highness, please wait a moment, I'll call a car right away, and when we get to Kennedy Airport, they should be there too."

Yuji Maomao happily circled around in place, Earl D is really a good man.

Thinking about it this way, it decided to take out the snacks that it was going to hide and give it to Earl D. You must know that every time you see Earl D, you can see him eating all kinds of sweet things.Humans will have problems if they eat too much sweets. It is common sense that some cats are very worried about Earl D's health, but not only it can't be persuaded, but other animals in the pet shop are also said to be unable to be persuaded.

What a guy that worries cats.

Yuji Maomao thought so, and put the fruit tarts that had been hidden because they were sprinkled with sugar noodles into the refrigerator.

It was already the afternoon of the second day after they arrived in the United States when Earl D took Yukichi and Maomao to the Kennedy Airport in a special car. Going out, rushing from Yokohama to Haneda Airport in Tokyo, and then entering the long waiting time, this journey took almost 13 hours just to go out.

Even after a rough sleep on the plane, Ranpo Edogawa felt exhausted, and would suffer from jet lag afterwards.Fortunately, the detective competition will not be held immediately, they still have a few days to rest and visit New York by the way.

On the plane, everyone was still guessing whether they would go to New York's Chinatown to find Earl D. Who knew that when they got off the plane, they saw Yuji Maomao standing in the crowd and waving to them energetically.

Edogawa Ranpo realized almost instantly that Earl D's mysterious power might allow them to transfer to the United States in an instant, and his heart was sour, he swooped and hung on the big cat, "It can't be done. , Mr. Yuji, I'm exhausted, you carry me on your back!"

"Mr. Ranpo, you are too cunning, I want it too!" Dazai Osamu rushed over not to be outdone, and hung on the other side of Yukichi Maomao like another pendant.

Hanging two people, Yukichi Maomao still hugged the other children one by one skillfully. Nakahara Chuya and Kunikida Doppo both wanted to pull down that shameless Dazai Osamu, but were angered by the other party's more shameless actions. Half dead.

When Yukichi Maomao hugged Akutagawa Ryunosuke, a flower suddenly appeared on the back of the little boy, and he even had the strength to walk.

Grinning, Akutagawa Gin not only hugged the big cat, but also leaned over and kissed the big cat on the cheek.

Fukuzawa Yukichi, who was tired after sitting next to him for so long on the plane, had no choice but to silently withdrew his hand that wanted to pet the cat, and greeted Earl D with a cough, "Thank you very much for coming to pick up the plane."

"Don't worry, it's just because His Highness wants to find you as soon as possible." Earl D snorted and put down the magazine in his hand, "Let's go, I chartered a minibus."

When they drove all the way to the hotel prepared by the organizer of the competition, Ranpo Edogawa and Osamu Dazai had already fallen asleep leaning on the big cat on the left and right.