Social terror players, forced to become king

Even though she couldn't find any useful information, Mrs. Edogawa still patted the boy's head lovingly.

Three days later, the results of the investigation were not satisfactory.

The weird thing is that, in the place where the Edogawa couple picked up Makoto Nanomiya, there were no traces of anything other than this child.Including if he was thrown from a moving vehicle, there might be drag marks on the ground, none of them.

The kid just appeared there out of nowhere.

"It cannot be ruled out that someone with supernatural powers made the move." Mr. Edogawa deduced, "There is no record of a child named 'Nanomiya Makoto' in the Yokohama City Police Station."

"There are too few clues." Mrs. Edogawa frowned slightly, "Although the child is more lively than before, he still can't tell his home clearly. I even suspect that he didn't live a normal life at the beginning, but has been Hidden, until this accident, he was picked up by us."

Wearing a newly bought detective uniform, the young Edogawa was lying behind the bedroom door in disorder, and when he heard the second half of his mother's words, he showed a curious and interested expression.

After staying in the hospital for a month, Qi Gongcheng's body was mostly recovered, and he was taken home by the Edogawa couple.

He vaguely felt that this was a systematic arrangement.

Because during this period of communication, Nangong Makoto discovered that the place where the Edogawa couple picked him up was not at all the area where the robbers took him away.Even though he had been locked in the trunk at that time, he still felt the distance gap across half the game map very deeply.

This is a small town at the foot of a mountain, with a beautiful and secluded environment, surrounded by mist and lush vegetation.

The car drove all the way across the avenue, past the scattered low-rise houses on both sides, through the corridor in front of the house, and into the courtyard in front of a neatly built and clean house.

Edogawa Ranpo opened the door first and ran down from the car, followed by Mr. Edogawa in the driver's seat, who took over the little boy wearing a hood and a mask in the back seat from his wife.

"Good boy, go in." Mr. Edogawa said gently standing in front of the porch.

Holding hands by Mrs. Edogawa, he walked across the two stairs in front of the house on short legs.

——I bought the shoes temporarily at the shopping mall I passed by.

Seeing how his parents cared for the child he picked up, Edogawa Ranpo pouted even though he knew that the child was just recovering from a serious illness, and ran over to grab his mother's other empty one. hand, and bent down to make a face at the boy.

The vigilance of the young man was obvious, like a kitten whose territory had been invaded by others, constantly blowing at the person who came.

"Random steps." Mrs. Edogawa lowered her eyes and called his name helplessly.

Then he pouted and stopped his childish behavior.

The front door of the house was opened by Mr. Edogawa, Luanbu ran in first, changed his shoes, threw himself on the sofa in the living room, and then looked back quickly.

The little boy’s hospital gown is the same as Edogawa Ranpo’s when he was a child. There are cute cartoon patterns printed on the jacket. There are two flannel cat ears on the hat, and a soft tail hangs down from the lower back. , flickering with his walking movements.

It was as if some kind of newborn animal timidly came to the new residence.

Edogawa Ranpo pretended to look to the other side indifferently, but actually shifted his attention unconsciously.

— kind of cute.

Makoto Qigong, who was tightly covered by a mask and a hood, didn't know what he would look like from a third-party perspective. However, probably only Gin would think that a good kid at this age is weak and troublesome.

While living in the hospital, Qi Gongcheng gradually realized that the identity of the host who picked him up seemed unusual.

Even if he had a supernatural displacement that night, it would be impossible for the organization to find him after a month.Names, looks, and physical appearance are all obvious clues.It can only be said that the information has been suppressed.

Qi Gongcheng's health is not yet fully recovered, what is more needed is long-term self-cultivation.His small stature always dampened his desire to open up dungeon maps, so he stayed in the room arranged for him by the Edogawa couple for two consecutive days without going out.

The bedroom door was suddenly opened, and there was a gust of wind.

"Why do you always stay in the room?" The voice of the visitor was crisp and clear, "I heard from my mother that you can go out for a walk properly now."

Makoto Qigong turned his head, it was Edogawa who was walking wildly, he obviously just came back from running wildly outside, his breath was not evenly breathed, and the air-conditioning mixed with the fragrance of flowers was still on his body.The face is flushed with a healthy color.

In two days, Qi Gongcheng's nerd attributes easily made the boy lose his original vigilance, but his curiosity about the puzzle itself overwhelmed everything.Edogawa Ranpo didn't know the existence of people with supernatural powers, so he hasn't deduced the result yet.As long as this is a case exam question given to him by his parents as usual.

Seeing this, Mrs. Edogawa also walked over, "Let's go out for a stroll with Ranbu."

She changed Qi Gongcheng's clothes, and said to her son: "Don't run when you go out to play, remember to take good care of your brother."

"I got it!" Edogawa patted his chest in disorder, like a reliable little adult, "It's absolutely fine to leave it to me."

Although they were going out to play, the farthest the range of activities of the two children did not exceed the corridor in front of this residential courtyard.

"What game are we going to play?" Qi Gongcheng was held by his hand and led to the porch.

"Hide and seek." Edogawa Ranpo said briskly, "Okay, we can use rock-paper-scissors to determine who will hide first."

The two children competed, and finally Qi Gongcheng became the character to hide.

"Find a place to hide, I'll find you by the count of twenty." Edogawa said loudly, closing his eyes in Ranbu.

"20."

The younger children looked around in a panic, and only found a direction and ran over when the countdown had passed several counts.

"0."

The young man standing in the shade of flowers and trees opened his eyes and nodded slightly, "No matter how hidden you are, you can see where you are hiding at a glance."

After 3 minutes, Edogawa stepped out of the lush bushes on the surface.

"Got you!"

Behind the two layers of branches and leaves, there was a child in a ball, and those gilt pupils followed the movement of raising their heads in a daze, and the focus of their sight fell on him.

Although it was not difficult to find him at all, it still gave Edogawa Luanbu a sense of accomplishment as if he had found a treasure after trekking through mountains and rivers.

He held out his hand to the boy squatting on the grass.

"Brother Luanbu is so powerful." Qi Gongcheng stood up following the opponent's strength, and praised sincerely.Because he understands that Ranbu finds him based on a talent for reasoning rather than a slow aimless search.

"What did you call me just now?" Hearing the boy say such a long sentence for the first time, Edogawa Ranpo showed a little surprised look.

It was a sudden strange emotion.Since he was a child, the Oedogawa couple have protected Ranpo very well. He has no friends of the same age, and has never had contact with other children.The feeling of being called brother by a child made him feel novel, and the compliment from the other party also made him feel elated.

This is different from the feeling when an adult who knows everything praises him, there is a feeling that he is truly worshiped and watched.

"Brother Luanbu." Qi Gongcheng repeated, with the softness of a child in his voice.

Edogawa Ranbu stepped forward and ruffled his silver-gray hair, the touch was as soft and smooth as imagined.

……

"It seems that they get along very well." Mrs. Edogawa sat on the chair where she could see out of the window, she relaxed and continued to knit the half-finished sweater.

When it was halfway through the afternoon, she called the two children into the house to rest, and each of them prepared crispy biscuits and milk.

Nanakiya Makoto, who had finished afternoon tea, showed a sleepy look. His body had not fully recovered, and even ordinary hide-and-seek quickly exhausted his energy. Mrs. Edogawa patted his head and took him to the bedroom to fall asleep.

Time passed day by day, although Makoto Nanakiya never beat Edogawa Ranpo in the game of hide-and-seek, but the two became much closer to the naked eye.

Compared with the childishness in the past, Ranpo also has the demeanor of an older brother leading a younger brother, which makes the Edogawa couple also feel gratified.More than half of the reason why they quit their jobs and came to this small town to live in seclusion was to carefully teach Edogawa Ranpo and guide his talents to the right path.

If it weren't for the fact that Chaopo's reasoning ability is also too inexperienced, they still want to give their children a normal childhood.

After going to the hospital for a review for the last time, Qi Gongcheng was finally revived with full blood.

The only thing that makes him a little depressed is that he has become the one with the lowest reasoning ability in this short-lived family of four, only reaching the level of ordinary people.

Although Edogawa Ranpo comforted him by saying "Because Makoto is still a child", Nanomiya Makoto, whose actual age is there, felt a subtle setback because of this.

However, even though Edogawa Ranpo is very smart, some inherent attributes cannot be changed by reasoning.

——For example, Lu Chi.

The size of this town is not large, but the two children, one big and one small, still stood in front of the fork and fell silent.

The source of everything is that Ranbo in Edogawa got tired of playing only around the house, and enthusiastically proposed to Nanakiya Makoto that he would have an adventure that belonged to a detective.

The Edogawa couple who live in seclusion here opened a small sushi restaurant in the small town, and their goal is to walk into that restaurant with their own feet and give them a surprise.

Unexpectedly, the plan died in the matter of getting lost.

Even Makoto Nangong, who has a game map, is not immune, because his game map is limited to the places he has been to.And this small town still belongs to the unknown area that has yet to be explored.

Now they are at a T-shaped intersection, facing a gurgling river, turning left or right has become a problem.

"What are you doing?" The sudden voice from behind startled the two children.

They turned their heads together, only to see the black-haired boy in the junior high school uniform looking at them, with a fringe hanging down his side cheek in disobedience, and the schoolbag on one shoulder indicating that he had just passed by after school.

——Like a delinquent boy about to blackmail a child.