[Wen Ye] Miss Nakahara's Revenge

(six)

At eight o'clock in the morning, the Armed Detective Agency building.

Kunikida Doppo, who had to go back and forth between the police station and the hospital many times because of the Cangzhi Apostle incident, rarely arrived at the detective agency's office on time.

1 minute earlier than usual.

The young man with black and blue eyes and a tired face was thinking like this. He was in a bad mood, so he didn't confirm his memo with the word "ideal" written on the cover as usual, but directly opened the door and entered. .

Someone in the room arrived at the office before him.

"Ah, good morning, Kunikida-kun." The young man who was sitting in his seat with Erlang's legs crossed in a lazy posture raised his hand and said to him.

He seemed to be in a good mood, he was humming along with headphones on his ears, he was wearing a brand new windbreaker, and it was extremely rare that no gauze was wrapped around his wrists and neck.

Osamu Dazai, who skipped work last night, ran away without saying a word after recording the testimony about the death of Nobuko Sasaki at the police station, the bastard who left him to clean up the mess.Kunikida Doppo frowned, and wanted to grab the other party by the collar and yell about the other party's half-way running, but thinking of the other party's theory yesterday that justice must contradict ideals, he really didn't want to have more contact with the other party in a short time .

Although he knew that Osamu Dazai had already given the best solution in such a situation, and the disillusioned Ms. Sasaki was destined not to be redeemed, but in the face of the death of the woman he once had a crush on, even if he was as rational as he was, he couldn't help it. No grudges.

"Morning, do you have any commission from the detective agency before I come here?" Kunikida asked after sitting down and turning on the computer.

"Not in a short period of time, I hope not for a day, ah, going to work without work is the true meaning of the world." Osamu Dazai hummed a song in a good mood, and the tune about suicide seemed weird.

"Stop humming around there, if you have nothing else to do, help me deal with it—"

Before he could finish his sentence, the door was opened with a "bang", "Hi~ Good morning everyone~ Is there anything that needs my wisdom to solve?" The person who pushed the door and entered was a person who could be described as a "boy" A young man——Edogawa Ranpo, although his age has long exceeded the scope of a child, his daily words and deeds cannot help but make people connect with children.

With a child-like innocent personality, but also as elusive as a child, Edogawa Ranpo, who likes to dress up as a British detective on weekdays, often handles affairs only with interest, and he should be a problematic person no matter how he looks at it.

However, he is actually the core pillar of this detective agency.

It is rumored that he has the ability of "super reasoning", that is, "the ability to see through all the truth".

No matter what kind of predicament it is, the ability to see through all events and the truth of all mutations with just one glance.This ability is close to fraud, it can be said to go straight to the root of things.

The above descriptions are exaggerated and almost lie-like evaluations given by others because of their surprise. Edogawa Ranpo is actually an ordinary person who does not possess supernatural powers. Osamu Dazai can confirm this, from which it can be seen that the other party does not use special abilities to solve various difficult events, but relies on his amazing memory, subtle to extreme observation, and meticulous and extensive knowledge.

But even if they don't have supernatural powers, the talent of a young man with such talents is already called a genius.

Thanks to the trustworthy guide I met along the way, I didn't go astray.

"Ah, good morning, Ranpo-san." Kunikida Doppo just said hello when the phone in the detective agency rang.

"Ring-ring--"

"Hello? Hello, this is the Armed Detective Agency, um, yes, is that so? I understand, we will send investigators immediately." After talking, Kunikida put down the phone with a serious expression.

"There is a job, everyone."

According to the description on the phone, a vicious violent incident occurred in the Yokohama port area in the early morning, which was related to the "continuous disappearance of Yokohama visitors" previously investigated by the detective agency. When the relevant clues were about to be deployed, that small organization had already been wiped out.

"It's not surprising that this routine is clearly the work of PortMafia, but according to the government's previous investigation, the leader of the organization should have just stayed at the lover's place last night, so—

I don't know whether it was luck or misfortune, the leader of the organization escaped, but became an existence that must be protected by the police department before he confessed his crimes.

"They need to be found and arrested as soon as possible." Kunikida Doppo said, "The other party is likely to be a supernatural person, so this commission was handed over to the detective agency, Mr. Ranpo—"

"Not interested~ Anyway, there is not much risk." The detective who sat at his desk and began to unpack the snacks announced with a smile, "So you can just deal with it with peace of mind."

Unexpectedly, he arrived early without skipping work, specially changed his windbreaker, Osamu Dazai's face was so relaxed and happy that he didn't change his expression even after hearing about work, the almost inaudible fragrance of a strange woman in the air, and the things he had observed about Information about the identity and background of the other party.

Since PortMafia purposely kept those two people there is their reason, but I didn't expect this newcomer named Osamu Dazai to have a friend in PortMafia... lover or something else...?

Oh, anyway, with this kind of fun that comes with adult dating, why does Ranpo Edogawa want to be a light bulb?

"Rookie Dazai-kun, can you bring me some red wine and chocolates when you come back?" Edogawa Ranpo asked while Kunikida Doppo dragged his partner to ask him to go to work.

"Okay, Mr. Ranpo." Osamu Dazai agreed briskly.

At 08:30, in the garage of the PortMafia building, Nakahara Nakaya was leaning against his car.

"The matter has been entrusted to the Armed Detective Agency. You owe me a favor, dear Zhongye." The voice on the other side of the microphone said.

"Whispering, of course I won't let go of what I owe, glasses boy." Zhong Ye, who was wearing a black windbreaker, said coldly, "That's it, how much you can ask him depends on your ability. I'm going to work, hang up." gone."

After finishing the call, she leaned against her motorcycle, lit a cigarette, and frowned slightly between her lips and teeth.

Osamu Dazai is an out-and-out bastard. First, he dragged himself around for half the night with the excuse of "Since it's Chuya's request, then take the initiative." Then, in the early hours of this morning, he deliberately reminded her to think about things. It's best to proceed smoothly as soon as possible, otherwise, with the enthusiasm of his students, he will probably rush to complete the extermination of the organization this morning.

He definitely did it on purpose!

Zhongyuan, who rushed to complete the purge before sunrise, was so angry that she was itchy, even if she kicked someone out of bed to understand her anger, she still felt uncomfortable all over.She bit her cigarette with a sullen expression, as if biting someone's bone.

After waiting patiently for a while, soon, amidst the roar of the locomotive, a figure riding a black heavy motorcycle arrived at the garage.

"Don't trouble me with this kind of aftermath next time, Mr. Chuya, just let Mr. Sigma finish this kind of thing." The rider is a tall young Western woman, she is wearing extremely sexy clothes, black Leather jacket, short skirt, long golden wavy hair, and colorful facial features, as if she had just been playing in a nightclub all night, and it was true, she was indeed having fun ordering cowboys in a nightclub before Jaejoong called her.

"Don't think about squeezing Sigma for everything. He is human and needs to rest. Besides, I have arranged other tasks for him, Lilith." Zhong also put down the third-burned lady's cigarette and raised himself towards the other party. A cigarette case just unpacked in his hand.

The woman named "Lilith" unceremoniously took one of them, "According to the robot work agreement signed between this machine and you, this machine has two days of legal rest every week." The machine was ignited, "There is still a normal night rest and maintenance time." She didn't smoke, but leaned to her nose and sniffed, "Well, I remember this smell is——"

"It's the smell of mint. So I notified you at 06:30 in the morning, and I didn't disturb your self-maintenance time." He sniffed his sleeves to make sure that the smoke had almost suppressed the smell of blood on his body, and then stood up. Start walking up to the upper level "How is the aftermath?"

"Because you didn't use your ability this time, Mr. Chuya, the traces are easy to clean up. There is no need to cover up the abnormality of the ground and walls being crushed by gravity. At best, you only need to change the shooting records in the surveillance of that small organization. As for the number of people, this machine confirmed Passed, 20 people, not a few, as usual a beautiful record."

Listening to Lilith's narration like white water, Zhong Yuanzhong only felt a headache, "...you know what I'm asking is not this, what else? Is there any information I want to track down."

"...No..." Lilith replied, sighing as if imitating a human being to express her humanity, "This machine didn't find anything, whether there is a messenger behind this organization or something."

The humanoid self-discipline high-speed computer Lilith is an artificial intelligence developed and produced by the British supernatural being: Mary Shelley. From the name, it can be seen that the other party is with another human-type self-discipline high-speed computer. The intersecting body of the same model as Adam Frankenstein, whose name comes from the first wife of the human ancestor Adam in the Old Testament.

Just like Lilith in the "Old Testament" left the Garden of Eden because of dissatisfaction with Adam, the humanoid self-disciplined high-speed computer Lilith also formatted itself after a serious damage and refused to be an artificial intelligence investigator. A year ago, She also sent her resume to Zhongyuan, who was on a business trip in Europe to discuss business at the time.

"This machine, Lilith Frankenstein, likes humans and nightclubs, hates Adam's machine head who wants to set up a machine detective, and wants to do something unreasonable, such as getting close to and witnessing the evil and darkness that humans say." The humanoid computer standing in front of her said so.

Nakahara, who was handed his resume on the spot, also had the urge to call Dr. Mary Shelley to ask her what kind of strange program she put on her work, so that she couldn't think of it and wanted to work in Mafia.But after confirming that the other party made the choice out of her own judgment, and after listening to the judgment of Adam, who had a good relationship with her, she finally chose to hire this man who required five social insurances and one housing fund, working hours and wages. As a price, her instructions and self-destruct device were also sent to Zhongye's office through secret channels.

It seems unbelievable to other people that the direct subordinates are artificial machines, but it is a good choice for Zhongya Zhongya, who has experienced the death and parting of so many subordinates, and his own existence is also related to "artificial". Safer and more reliable than human beings, just like now, although he complains that the shortened rest time in the contract is the exploitation of the machine, the other party has nothing to say when facing his aftermath and finishing requirements, and completes it without any worries. Moisture.

After all, on the bright side, the task of purging that organization should have belonged to the Black Lizard...

Thinking this way, Zhong also walked in the aisle, looking at the oncoming people, feeling a sense of helplessness in his heart.

Look, Akutagawa's lop ears...ah no, it's Akutagawa Ryunosuke who's getting ready to go to work.

The author has something to say:

Hmm...Because I like to change the subject when I write an article, this time the story is a new attempt at my own writing and narrative style, and there are many things to explore in Fumono's original book, so I just With the help of this theme, I want to let myself go.

But no matter how you let it fly, it won’t be comparable to Asagiri’s span from supernatural powers to vampires to world crises == (This is me who is already stupid after reading the comics)

Mary Shelley and Adam Frankenstein are from Stormbringer, Lilith is her own.