I swept Yokohama with a vest

It was a nightmare, and Fukuzawa Yukichi had a headache.

When he learned that his client had been killed and passed away, he already felt troublesome, but he didn't expect it to be so troublesome.

The murder of the president of the trading company has been perfectly solved. He is now sitting in a restaurant eating, solved several troubles, and continued to face several troubles.

The first trouble is that my client has passed away, the second trouble is that the secretary who received me on behalf of the client is the murderer, and the third trouble is that the red-haired juvenile killer named Oda in the room , as for the fourth trouble...

Of course it was the kid who came looking for a job after solving the case casually.

The boy holding the cat said strangely: "Uncle, did you really not see it?"

Although it was an interrogative sentence, Ranpo Edogawa obviously didn't believe it, as if he was very sure that if he just dragged an adult around the scene, he would be able to recognize who the murderer was. If he couldn't recognize it, then he must be pretending.

In less than an hour of contact, Fukuzawa Yukichi accurately grasped the way to get along with this young man. Instead of answering the question, he asked, "Is it really okay to hold her like this?"

In view of the fact that Edogawa Ranpo used the title of Miss Cat when he called the cat, Fukuzawa Yukichi changed it to a female name.

After being frightened by His Excellency Silver Wolf, the cat has been huddled in Edogawa Ranpo's arms, and only meowed a few times in protest when he heard that they were going out for dinner together, but the detective boy coaxed , I endured it.

"Miss Cat?" Edogawa Ranpo asked back, and then said, "It's okay, she can't run away."

What Fukuzawa Yukichi asked was not at all whether the cat could find a chance and jump to the ground to escape immediately, but whether Ranpo Edogawa's action of covering the cat with the winter clothes would suffocate the cat.

Fortunately, the cat didn't have any other reactions except for lazily shaking its ears and flicking its tail. It is estimated that even the shaking of its ears was just frightened by Fukuzawa Yukichi's murderous aura trained in battle.

Closer to home, Your Excellency Silver Wolf said: "After dinner, do I need to take you home?"

Because the detective boy helped him solve the case and solve a troublesome matter, Fukuzawa Yukichi agreed to treat Edogawa Ranpo to dinner, and he only stopped at dinner, and did not plan to communicate with other people in depth.

"Hey, uncle, are you avoiding the important and taking the light of the day?" The detective boy was taken aback and looked at him suspiciously, "When you asked me to explain all the details of the case clearly, you agreed to invite me to dinner and help me solve the current predicament by the way. , instead of sending me home."

Please eat is sure, but solve the current predicament?Fukuzawa Yukichi really never made a similar promise. Except for employers and people he hardly knew in Yokohama, there was no place where he could introduce an underage boy to part-time job.

By the way, this teenager still loves to hug and talk with cats, and his behavior is obviously out of track with the current social situation. In short, he is a big trouble.

"You can't go back on your word." As if predicting Lord Leng Su's next words, Edogawa Ranpo said hastily.

He even raised the cat, and together with the cat, they looked at Lord Silver Wolf with a pitiful expression: "If we can't find a job again, the abandoned Miss Cat and I will starve to death together."

This pity was not focused at all, and lasted only a second. He lowered his head and took a bite of the red bean mochi stuffing, narrowed his eyes happily, and flicked the tail of the cat he held up in front of Fukuzawa Yukichi. He patted his detective hat in displeasure.

"Yes, yes, Miss Cat is abandoned. Do you want to eat red bean mochi? The red bean stuffing is delicious." The detective boy said without raising his head. He thought about eating the stuffing himself and Miss Cat eating the skin, because Cats can't eat sweets, but they calmed down after being patted continuously by the soft paw pads.

He changed to a more accurate statement: "For animals, the behavior of parents driving away their children is normal, which means that the cubs have grown up."

Fukuzawa Yukichi's eyebrows twitched: "...she is only three months old, and this is a city, cats don't need to live apart from their elders."

In recent years, urban pressure has increased day by day, and cats that are too young cannot survive in the city.

"So it was abandoned." Edogawa Ranpo said immediately, he glanced sideways at the closed store door, and carefully placed Miss Cat on the table to prevent himself from being patted by impatient paw pads arrive.

"Why do you say it was abandoned?" Fukuzawa Yukichi asked, "Young cats are also easy to accidentally get lost away from their parents, or their parents encounter accidents."

Chuluye Zhizi looked up at him, then turned around and jumped on the cushion, shrinking behind the detective boy.

Anyone can see how annoying Fukuzawa Yukichi is to cats. It should be because his murderous aura is too strong. For cats with a sense of intimacy, this almost means that the other party is their natural enemy.

"Ah, when I saw Miss Cat, she sat on the steps obediently, and she was not familiar with cat skills at all." Edogawa Luanbu said, "If she got lost on her own initiative, she wouldn't have been sitting there all the time. For a long time, I kept looking around."

Evidence [-] of Miss Kitty being abandoned. She is clean and has fluffy cat hair. It is obvious that she was taken care of by her parents or humans before, and when she was picked up by Edogawa Ranpo and frightened by Fukuzawa Yukichi, the other party's None of the first reactions were offensive, which means she lacks aggressiveness and should be well protected.

Evidence [-]: Ever since Edogawa Ranbu saw Miss Cat, she has been sitting on the steps, looking around and sniffing the air. A cat who can be so cautious and refuses to move a step, naturally cannot It may have been voluntarily lost.

As for the third evidence, of course Ranpo Edogawa saw a three-colored cat nearby, but the flow of people around was too big and the smell was very chaotic, so Miss Cat didn't seem to smell her own.

No, maybe I smelled it at the end, and that's why I rolled down the steps. I must have realized that I was abandoned.

"It shouldn't be abandoned by parents, right? The breed doesn't match." After explaining all the reasoning, Edogawa Ranpo said indifferently.

Chu Luye Zhizi poked out the cat's head hesitantly, and after listening to the whole process of reasoning, he backhandedly gave him a thumbs up: "Yes meow, that's how it is, this is the truth meow."

It's a reasonable and logical reasoning. Compared with the possibility of being abandoned, the so-called human beings suddenly become cats, so they can't even walk tremblingly, and even the selection of shit shovelers has become real. It's too embarrassing.

However, Miss Cat said again: "Meow, meow, meow?"

Sanhuamao?What Sanhuamao?

Throughout Yokohama, the Sanhua cat that Chulu Yezhizi is most familiar with is Natsume Soseki. Although the other party has never known that she has seen everything through the system, the cat form is still crazy about "Cherry", and the human form is still decent and amiable, as if facing It's not him, but another Natsume cat who acts like a baby.

Fukuzawa Yukichi lowered his eyes, carefully observed the cat's behavior, and calmly listened to her non-stop meowing.

In any case, Miss Kitty is enough to bear her nickname, whether it is expression or behavior, she is too human-like, or that kind of lively human cub.

"Yes, Sanhuamao." Edogawa Ranpo tried to deduce the meaning that Miss Kitty wanted to express, and said cautiously, "But you were abandoned? I was also abandoned, you are mine now , you are not allowed to look for other cats pitifully!"

Hey?

"Are you also abandoned?" Fukuzawa Yukichi grasped the point and asked when the faint headache intensified.

Hatsukano Ikiko is not familiar with the future Edogawa Ranpo at all, but he barely knows him, so he can probably guess his past.

The reason why the other party is so out of touch with society is because of his parents' unique training methods. It seems that Edogawa Ranpo has awakened supernatural powers since he was a child, so he finds everything in the world very simple. Such an overly intelligent child, obviously Easily broken.

So his parents took him and moved to the countryside. Together with his well-known father in the police circle and his mother whose reasoning ability is better than her husband's, they created for Edogawa Ranpo a man who is like him and can see the truth at a glance. world, through his childhood.

If things go well, when he is strong enough, his parents will remove this protective film and let him really contact the outside world, but obviously, his parents died before the other party grew up.

So Ranpo Edogawa insisted that everyone in the world is the same as him, until Fukuzawa Yukichi pointed out his supernatural ability, and then suddenly realized.

These are not the point, the point is being abandoned, Chu Luye Zhizi is a little unbelievable: "How could someone really abandon an innocent kitten?!"

Even if Edogawa Ranpo is out of touch with normal society, from the perspective of his parents, it is probably similar to the perspective of raising a cat, soft and cute.

"After my parents passed away, I obeyed my father's will and came to Yokohama to meet his acquaintances and go to the police academy." Edogawa Luanbu said, he took a bite of the dessert stuffing, "But not long after, I was arrested by the police. The school got kicked out, and then I got kicked all the time, like today, I've had it all the time."

After finishing speaking, he added: "Miss Cat is not often encountered!"

Fukuzawa Yukichi understands why Edogawa Ranpo is so strange, talking to the cat and calling her a companion, partly because of some similar experiences, partly because he wants to get closer to the cat, As for why...

Experience is second to none. The real reason is probably because of the feeling of being out of place.

For Edogawa Ranpo, the world changed suddenly from the moment his parents passed away and he arrived in Yokohama. It is not difficult to see the truth at a glance, but it is difficult to understand the strange Adults.

The people in the city are so strange that Edogawa Ranpo can't figure it out, and he never wants to figure it out again.

As for that cat lady, Fukuzawa Yukichi doesn’t have much experience of scaring cats. Few cats are so dull that they are frightened when he walks in front of him, but there is no doubt that this is also a cat that is divorced from the cat society. .

Compared with cats, Miss Cat's various behaviors are more like cubs with similar tempers as Edogawa Ranpo.

...Could it be a child who accidentally awakened and can become a cat with a different ability?