cat blues

In the end, Chuya took the hat back from the store. The only thing he didn't expect was that it would cost so much to maintain a hat!

The big cat Yuji who went with him was so shocked that the cat's mouth was wide open, and he looked unbelievable. Later, he saw the cat studying how to maintain the hat. It seems that there is no need to use this hat in the future. Hats moved into this shop.

Zhong also thought helplessly, but to be honest, he really likes this hat. Although it is a bit old, it still looks very stylish, especially the two silver chains on the brim. Quite to his liking.

He started to like wearing hats because when the former leader of PortMafia went crazy in his later years, he wanted to kill all the red-haired teenagers on the street, so he had to wear a hat to take refuge, but later the well-known Mr. Mori came to power Nothing as crazy as this happened to PortMafia after that.

I don't know how brother Rimbaud is doing, but seeing that PortMafia hasn't made any moves, it seems that his resignation should be smooth.

Just when Chuya was thinking wildly, Oda Sakunosuke's voice came from the door, "Nakahara, the people from LME seem to have gone to the detective agency, why don't you go there?"

"Ah, that's it." Zhong Yuan Zhong also quickly opened the door and ran out.

Ever since he inexplicably missed several selections for poetry awards back then, Nakaya simply put his focus on writing songs to express his inner feelings. Writing songs can be released immediately, but he didn’t know that he would have to wait until the Year of the Monkey to write poems. Especially the more he valued poetry writing, the less he dared to contribute for some reason. He had written a lot of poetry manuscripts, but none of them were sent out.

On the contrary, in terms of lyrics and music, he is becoming more and more successful as a UP master, and now even people from LME are coming to him to sign a contract.

I don't know if my song "Mo Hei Ye" can be on the public trust list.

With a little expectation, Chuya hurried out to follow Oda Sakunosuke.

When Yuji Maomao came to the Armed Detective Agency with a basket as usual, he happened to see the postman leaving with his little sheep. The weather in December was already quite cold, and the famous detective in the family didn't want to sleep alone in the dormitory anymore. During this time, they all stayed at Fukuzawa Yukichi's house and refused to leave.

After all, Fukuzawa Yukichi has a kotatsu here, and Da Mao will spread the quilt for him, and even put a hot water bottle in his quilt in advance.Edogawa Ranpo said that he would never leave Fukuzawa Yukichi's house until Somei Yoshino was in full bloom.

However, living with the president and the big cat, he is also destined to be unable to sleep late in the morning. Yukichi Maomao will definitely appear in front of Edogawa Ranpo's futon on time every day, and then touch his with cat gloves that have been washed in cold water nape of neck.

Every time, it can very accurately wake up the famous detective who wanted to continue to sleep in an instant, and he will never want to get into the bed again.

For this reason, Edogawa Ranpo has great resentment, but he can't stop it, just like he can't control himself to get up early.

Generally speaking, Fukuzawa Yukichi and Edogawa Ranpo would sit at the dining table for a while after eating, and wait for Yukichi Maomao to clean the dishes before taking the cat out together.

Yukichi Tomomi would first take the bento box to the dormitory building, hand the bento to the children who were going to school, and then catch Osamu Dazai who was sleeping late and feed him breakfast before returning to the office of the Armed Detective Agency.

Before entering the office, the big cat will check the mail in the mailbox. Although the president will pick it up once every morning, some mail and courier will arrive late after that, so it doesn’t matter if you read it again .

This is the case today. The big cat just saw the postman leaving, and when he checked the mailbox again, he saw two magazines in the mailbox.

Big Cat skillfully opened the mailbox, took out these two magazines from inside, looked at the mailer, and immediately knew that it was sent by Yanbo Bookstore, but why did they send two magazines this time?

Big Cat glanced at the mailing list with some doubts, and was surprised to find that one of them was actually sent to Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

Yuji Maomao immediately happily put two new magazines into his basket, and ran to the office quickly. The big cat carefully placed one book on Akutagawa's desk, and handed the other to Akutagawa. I met Sakunosuke Oda who had already started working all day.

"Ah, did Akutagawa receive it too? I knew his words would be successful." Oda Sakunosuke also saw the action of the big cat. He took the magazine with a smile, and opened the well-packed envelope. Sure enough, it was the December issue of the monthly magazine "New Trends of Thought" that I contributed to.

He flipped through the catalog and saw Akutagawa Ryunosuke's pen name "My Demon", but to his surprise, what was published in the magazine was actually the essay written by Akutagawa, and there was no such short story. was published.

Oda Sakunosuke found it very strange. With the level of Akutagawa's novel, it is impossible not to be hired!He thought so, and called his editor in the same way.

"Oda-kun, why did you call me so early in the morning?" Mr. Mizushima, the editor, is a talkative man, and he is often willing to help Oda Sakunosuke with his writing.

"No, I mainly want to ask, why my ghost's novel was not published, could it be that it was brushed down?" Oda Sakunosuke asked directly.

"How is that possible! My ghost teacher's novel is simply a masterpiece!" Mr. Mizushima's voice became high in an instant, "The editor-in-chief also said that it is definitely a super masterpiece that you will see once in a century!"

"Oh, then why wasn't it published in this issue?" Oda Sakunosuke asked in a steady voice.

"Oda-kun, my ghost teacher's short stories will be published in next month's New Year's issue as a highly recommended novel. The reason why we didn't publish it in this issue is that we sent it here with a letter attached to the magazine. I Didn’t Mr. Ghost see it?” Upon hearing this, Mr. Mizushima quickly went to look at his desk, lest he really didn’t put the letter in it.

"Ah, that's right. I didn't open the letter from my ghost. He went to school and hasn't come back." Oda Sakunosuke still said calmly.

"That's how it is...wait for me! You said that my ghost teacher has gone to school? Is my ghost teacher still a student?" Mr. Mizushima was stunned for a moment, and then became excited again, "Is my ghost teacher studying at Yokohama National University? ? Or Yokohama City University?"

"No, my ghost is now in the second grade of the Lihai University Affiliated Middle School." Oda Sakunosuke decisively denied the two names proposed by the other party, "Well, since this is the case, I can rest assured, then I hang up the phone ah."

"Wait a minute!!!" However, before Mizushima could say anything, Sakunosuke Oda quickly pressed the call button, leaving him alone looking at his phone in a trance, Oda-sensei What did you just say?My ghost teacher is still in middle school now?Or the second grade of middle school?

How can this be?

Mr. Mizushima froze there holding the phone with a suspicious expression on his face.

When Ryunosuke Akutagawa came back in the afternoon, he saw a fully packaged magazine on his desk.Oda Sakunosuke had already gone out to work, he unwrapped the package curiously, and poured out an envelope with "Respect from my ghost teacher" and a magazine.

He looked at the envelope first, and saw the words of praise written by Editor Mizushima inside. He didn't show any emotion on his face, but nodded in understanding, and then went to look at the magazine again.

Just when Akutagawa Gin and Nakajima Atsushi came over to look at the magazine in his hand, Yukichi Maomao had already brought a big fig mousse cake from the tea room and put it in front of Akutagawa Ryunosuke.

"Mr. Yukichi, this is..." Ryunosuke Akutagawa was stunned.

Yuji Maomao had already put down the cake, and rushed over to give him another big Maomao hug, and patted the boy's head tenderly.

In an instant, Ryunosuke Akutagawa's face turned red from his chin to the top of his head.

"Did Yukichi-san specially make this to celebrate my brother's manuscript being published in a magazine?" Akutagawa Gin asked in surprise.

"That's right, Mr. Yukichi even made a special trip to the imported supermarket to buy figs." Edogawa Ranpo, who moved to their table at some point and knew that he had endured a lot of hard work, said, "Damn, I want to eat too!"

Two years ago, when Sakunosuke Oda just passed the manuscript, Mr. Yukichi also celebrated it for him, but Oda Sakunosuke likes spicy food, so he was not interested. Serving the delicious-looking fig mousse cake, Edogawa Ranpo was also a little ready to move.

Isn't it just writing a novel and submitting it?

He can too!

A detective can do anything!

Edogawa swallowed wildly, thinking this way.

In the end, the fig mousse cake was divided up by everyone in the detective agency, but Yukichi Maomao still prepared Akutagawa Ryunosuke's red bean paste for him to eat alone, which kept him in a good mood until the next day. The classmates looked at Ryunosuke Akutagawa who was actually blooming beside him, and they were so frightened that they almost turned into stone statues.

Even Doppo Kunikida, who was in high school, heard about what was wrong with Ryunosuke Akutagawa, so he went to ask Chuya Nakahara.

After they returned to the detective agency together, Akutagawa Ryunosuke rearranged his expression and grabbed Oda Sakunosuke's clothes.

"Hey, Mizushima-san told me that my work is automatically included in the submissions for the "Yanami Literary Award" held by Iwanami Shoten. Mr. Oda, you can try to submit your new work in that literary award. Ryunosuke Akutagawa coughed, and he looked at Chuya Nakahara beside him, "Mr. Nakaya, too, this year's Yanbo Award has also restarted the poetry project, you can try to contribute. "

"Ah, oh, umm." Hearing this matter told him again, Zhong Ye opened his notebook a little excitedly, and began to write quickly.