A month later-

It was almost late spring, and most of the cherry blossoms clustered on the roadside had fallen, revealing new green leaves. The weather was neither cold nor hot, and the annoying rainy season had not yet entered, and the climate in Yokohama was comfortable and pleasant.

Sitting on the steps at the entrance of the whirlpool cafe, Nanako held a piece of soft bread in her hand, and while biting it, she used the cat teaser in her hand to play with the three-colored cats that often haunted the street.The bread is a seasonally limited "Sakura Bun" in the cafe. It is only sold during the two months when the cherry blossoms are in bloom. The bread is soft and the jam is sweet. When you eat it, there is a faint fragrance of cherry blossoms. It is very convenient and does not feel sticky or greasy when held in the hand.

Through the floor-to-ceiling glass walls of the coffee shop, you can vaguely see the chaotic steps inside, lying on a table for four, lazily eating cakes, and the fruity man sitting on the bar with his back to the glass window, waiting for the uncle owner to pour him juice. Gorey.

The three-flowered cat is jumping up and down chasing the cat teaser in Nanako's hand. It has been several months since Gogol caught it last time. Now this three-flowered cat will not be frightened and run away immediately when it sees Nanako , Sometimes I met Nanako who came back from school on the side of the road, and would run over wagging her tail, rubbing Nanako's leg to beg for snacks.

Ranpo said that this three-colored cat was raised by someone, but it just came to wander around the neighborhood every day, so Nanako could only give up her plan of selling cats to get rich, and continued to rely on saving pocket money to enrich her small coffers , the results are remarkable, now she has a hundred 1 yuan bills in her small treasury, save food and money, even if Luanbu is fired, they can live for another three months, until Luanbu finds another a job.

Although the president doesn't seem to have plans to fire Ranpo yet, the boss's mind is hard to guess, and it's always right to plan ahead.Her stupid father suddenly said something strange like "that white haired pillar paid us 3000 million yuan" last month. Anyway, Nanako would not believe it. A high school student took out [-] million soft girl coins as an apology Compensation—the last time she saw this kind of sentence, it seemed to be in some ancient Mary Su Bazong novel.

Money is impossible to have money. Nanako is more inclined to think that her stupid father has finally found out that his savings have bottomed out, so he started to lie to the child and tell lies. As the saying goes, "the more you emphasize, the more you lack". Nanako just felt that he was getting more and more guilty.

All in all, Nanako has already lowered her bottom line to a very low level. As long as Luanbu doesn't borrow usury, then everything is fine.

Nanako moved the cat teaser slowly and vigorously, watched the three-colored cat flopping around, opened her mouth again, took a bite of the fragrant and soft bread in her hand, her cheeks moved like a little hamster, and chewed her mouth Suddenly, she felt that the sun above her head was blocked, and a big shadow covered her, enveloping her whole body in it.

"Hey, brat." The young man's deep voice sounded above her head, Nanako slowed down a little bit with the cat teaser in her hand, and the three-colored cat pounced and bit the feather tied at the other end of the rope.

Nanako raised her head to look at the man who suddenly stood in front of her. The man was very tall. Standing in front of Nanako, she seemed to be pressing down heavily like a black hill. Nanako had to work hard to get up. neck to see his face.

A handsome, somewhat maddened, young man's face with a small scar evident at the corner of his mouth.

Nanako stared at him without blinking her dark eyes, opened her mouth, and took another bite of the bread in her hand.

"I have something to ask you." The man said, the topic was cut abruptly, as if he had appeared, "Last time - when you were at the beach, did you pick up something strange? For example, it looks like a bug spells or something."

Nanako bit the bread, without any reaction on her little face, and asked him in a serious tone: "...what is, 'curse spirit'?"

"You don't even know the curse spirit?" The man showed a look of surprise for a moment, but then he changed into a nonchalant tone, and said, "In short, it looks like a bug."

Nanako thought about it, and felt that what the other party was asking was probably the little bug she picked up from the detective agency, so she asked, "Is it red?"

"Have you seen it?" The man raised his eyebrows.

Nanako didn't speak, she climbed up from the steps, holding the bread in her left hand and the cat teasing stick in her right, pushed open the glass door of the coffee shop, and squeezed in through the crack of the door.The cat jumped down the steps, and the man squatted down, reaching out to scratch the cat's chin, but the three-flowered cat slapped his paws all over his face.

Leaping over the man's strong arms lightly, the three-flowered cat ran away wagging its tail.

The man gave an unpleasant "tsk".

Going into the coffee shop, Nanako ran to the bar, raised her short hand, and poked Gogol who was sitting on the high chair with the cat teasing stick in her hand. While eating bread, she raised her face and called out. he.

"Guoguoli."

"Huh?" Gogol looked down at her, the cloak coat on his shoulders was hanging down on the chair, so that Nanako couldn't see what was going on under his cloak.

"Bugs." Nanako took a bite of the bread and gestured, "The red one, the bug you are raising, give it to me."

A chaotic and lazy tone came from the table not far away, dragging the tone and raising the volume a little: "Nanako—what's the matter—?"

Nanako organized her words and replied: "The black uncle who was at the beach before ran over and asked for bugs."

"Bugs?" Lumpy, who was still slumped on the table as if he had no bones, immediately sat up, and looked out of the glass with his head, but from his angle, he could only see a black shadow at the door. He stood up , stuffed a large spoonful of cake into his mouth, and said vaguely, "Gogol, take that...that bug out."

"Okay~~" Gogol responded briskly. Nanako could only see movement in his cloak, as if pulling something out. Soon, Gogol took out a translucent The small plastic box, and then jumped off the high chair lightly with a "hey".

Nanako followed Luanbu and came out of the coffee shop again, only a quarter of the half bread in her hand was left, Gogol snatched away the smaller half, and two little radish heads followed behind Luanbu, Get out from the crack of the glass door that is about to close after stepping out, stand on the steps and nibble on soft bread.

Seeing Luanbu coming out, there was no surprise on the man's face. Instead, he grinned, smiled, and called out in a slightly subtle tone: "Hey, little detective."

"Don't call me that disgusting tone." Ranbu curled his lips unhappily, and then called out the man's name: "——Chanyuan Shier."

As long as the mercenaries entrusted by the Panxing Cult to "kill the astral body" have been investigated all the way along the things that the Panxing Cult has done, they will be able to find them easily with their chaotic reasoning ability and flower bag hacking skills. The identity of this man.

Breaking away from the "Zenyuan family" of the imperial family of the conjuration world, he was born in a family of conjurers, but he didn't even have a trace of conjuration power. On the contrary, he obtained a "super strong body" because of it.

Even an ordinary person will have a little mantra in his body, but he can't store it so he can't use it, and he can't see the mantra, but Zenyuan Shier is an extreme heretic, he doesn't even have a little mantra, so naturally he can't You can't become a conjurer, but a heretic in the Zen monastery.

"Then don't call me by that disgusting person's surname." Shi Er spread his hands in the Chanyuan, "I have already married into someone else's family, and my surname is [Fu Hei] now."

As he said, he didn't know what he thought of, his eyes wandered in the air for a moment, and there was a look of concern on his face: "Thanks to you, now I can't even get the money for a single entrustment. If you lose all your belongings, you will have to go back and ask women for money."

"The Panxing Sect hired you to kill the astral body, and gave you 3000 million dollars as a deposit." Luanbu said bluntly, "It's useless in front of a famous detective to lie about being stupid and poor." .”

"Ah...really." Fuheshier seemed to be recalling whether there was such a sum of money, and he said very simply within two seconds, "It seems that there is such a thing, but about two weeks ago I lost everything when I bet on the horse."

Ranbu: "..."

It was an answer that did not surprise him.

"So can you give me back my curse spirit?" Fuheshier said, "It's something I eat anyway, although it's not impossible to have it, but it's a bit troublesome, especially if I don't have it for a few years. After that curse spirit. After all, I have made a hard trip to Yokohama, and I have reminded you that it is your own problem if you don’t take care of the child.”

Luanbu took the plastic box containing the magic spirit from Gogol's hand, raised his hand and threw it to him, the man reached out to catch it very easily, opened the lid and checked the wriggling red bug inside It was the curse spirit he had raised for several years, so he closed the lid and stuffed the plastic box into his trouser pocket.

"A few things were deducted a little bit." Ranpo said, "Take it as compensation and ransom, stay away from Nanako."

"...It's really a loss-making business." Fu Heisher gave a "tow", but he didn't mean to ask for it back, and asked instead, "Since you are a 'local snake' in Yokohama, is there any job you can introduce? What? It’s enough to let me go to the racecourse to gamble twice, and this time I will definitely come back.”

"No." Ranbu didn't even think about it for half a second, he just wanted to drive this guy away quickly.

Standing behind Ranpo, Nanako finished eating the bread in her hand and looked up at Fuhesher. Even though she was standing on the steps and the other was standing below, she still had to raise her head to see the man's face.

"Don't you have a job?" Nanako asked suddenly, shaking the cat teaser in her hand, and staring at his face with a pair of dark eyes.

Fu Heisher stretched his arms and replied casually: "I lost it."

Nanako thought for a while, turned around, ran back to the coffee shop, found her small schoolbag on the sofa chair in the corner, buried her head in the schoolbag and searched hard, and finally found a wrinkled paper bag under the schoolbag. Baba's leaflets are almost torn.This is the small advertisement that was given to her by three rounds a few months ago, and she gave it to the "blind beggar" on the side of the road, and the "blind beggar" returned it to her last month.

The club is still recruiting recently, and they gave her the latest signboard advertisement a few days ago, probably because their club finally found an artist for the propaganda department, so the new flyer design is very cool, black and white Yes, there is also a simple and sharp [M]-shaped logo. The name of the club seems to have changed a little bit, but Nanako didn't look carefully. After she returned to the detective agency, she and Gogol folded the small advertisement into a paper airplane , I don't know where to fly to.

She grabbed the rotten old version of the advertisement, ran out, stood on the steps, and handed it to Fu Heisher for him to read.

"This place is recruiting employees...bodyguards, and the salary is very high." She pointed to the address at the end of the small advertisement and said to Fuheshier.

The densely packed small characters were next to each other, and it was still a little blurry, but Fu Heisher clearly recognized the address with his far superior eyesight, and quickly matched the address to the specific location in his mind.

He thoughtfully looked at the broken ad in Nanako's hand, touched his chin, suddenly stretched out his big hand, and took away the small ad in Nanako's hand, with a strange smile on his face: "It really looks good. "

He patted Nanako on the head, and said to Ranpo: "Your daughter is much cuter than my son."

Luanbu slapped his hand away, with an obvious displeasure on his face: "Go away!"

Fu Heisher lowered his eyes, looked at Nanako, didn't care about Ranbu's words at all, glanced at him, and saw Gogol who was also standing behind Ranbu and next to Nanako, the boy was obviously different from the Japanese face The features made him raise his eyebrows.

He suddenly asked Luanbu again: "Do you still accept children here?"

"...Do you think the detective agency is an orphanage?" Ranbu looked at him like an idiot.

Fu Heisher sneered, grabbed the tattered little advertisement, waved his hand, turned around and was about to leave, but asked in a daze:

"Who sent you to see Nanako?"

"Isn't it the Panxing sect?" Fu Heisher turned his face to look at him and asked him back.

Ranbu just looked at him without saying a word, narrowing his long and narrow eyes slightly.

"The sender's name is [Natsume Kinnosuke]." Fuheisher still replied, "The request is very simple, as long as I don't do anything to Nanako Edogawa of the Armed Detective Agency, then I can get one-thousandth of the Panxingjiao One's property, anyway, does not conflict with the list of Panxing Sect, so of course I took it-but now you can see that the property of Panxing Sect has been confiscated by the government, and I can't get any money. "

"It really is 'Er 兎 を Chaser は 一 兎 を Mo De ず'."

(Whoever chases two rabbits will not get one.)

He waved his hand as if feeling very unlucky, and walked towards the other side of the street.

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