Yokohama Notes of a Miss Wizard

Holding this strange hair of unknown origin, Edogawa Ranpo suddenly asked an irrelevant question.

"Wilson Sansos was among the people who went with the World Detective Contest to hand over the information about the 'Prison Island Murder Incident', right?"

Although it only happened a few months ago, for those who know the core of this matter, it seems like yesterday.

Detective Hals had nothing to say but nodded silently.

"That's it."

Mr. Detective casually stuffed the monkey hair into Hals's hand, and laughed at his stupid way of protecting a hair.

"You can be easily persuaded to become a 'Magic Servant'. It seems that your subordinate has had ulterior motives for a long time."

Demon servant - a puppet that is manipulated by the abilities of a certain supernatural being and completely obeys his orders.

According to the information obtained by Edogawa Ranpo about the murder incident on Jail Island, it is said that there seems to be another person behind the eighteen murderers.It's just that the military police who mentioned it to him at the time just took it as a joke and skipped it with a smile.

But there is no doubt that in this incident, the reasoning of the supernatural being named Ayatsuji Xingren is completely correct.

Behind these [-] murderers, there is indeed someone else.

And this person... His common code name is "Magic Master" or "Puppet Master". He is an old man with countless terrible code names.

Judging from the information he has, most of this person's abilities can use demons to manipulate others.

And the monster about the mind and about the ape—"jue", is a monster that inhabits the mountains and rivers and can read people's hearts and memories.

"After falsifying the memory, use the ability of 'sense' to replace all the memories of those people who have seen the murderer."

Mr. Detective looked down into the ground with unquestionable conviction.

"Since the resignation report and your punishment were sent at the same time, he should not have had time to remove all the souvenirs. It is very likely that they are being destroyed or moved. As for where you store the unclaimed bones , what a great place to hide things.”

There will be no idlers going in to play with the ashes, and in his capacity, as long as he claims that he is persuading the family to accept the ashes, it is enough to win the trust of others and gain authority.

No one really cares about the homeless "John Does" that line several shelves.

Detective Hals stood there in a daze, almost like a sculpture.Edogawa Ranbu was so angry that he almost pointed at his nose, he yelled: "What are you still doing? Waiting for that guy to escape?!"

"It's still too late for you to go and get the stolen goods. If it's later, you won't even have evidence against him!"

Under Edogawa Ranpo's loud scolding, Detective Hals stumbled and walked away from the door as if he had just woken up from a dream.

Watching his fleeing back, the little detective looked at Alvira again, "I want to eat ice cream when I go back!"

The little witch who watched the whole process could only nod her head blankly, and replied with "Huh? Oh, okay."

It didn't take long for her to come back to her senses, showing a very surprised expression: "So what happened? How did you deduce it? What did you see? How did you know it?"

Questions came one after another like a cannonball.

Edogawa glanced at her in disorder, put his hands on his hips, and sighed as if he had a headache.

"Oh, I really convinced you." He simply waved his right hand, as if he asked helplessly, "Now do you know why I said 'you are barely different from an idiot'?"

Alvira blinked innocently, and asked sincerely: "When did this happen?"

Looking at Miss Witch's seemingly sincere golden pupils, Mr. Detective didn't intend to expose her pitiful disguise, so he just snorted helplessly.

"Then why don't you hurry up and take Mr. Ranpo to eat ice cream?"

Alvira glanced at the time and pondered for a while, "Then choose ice cream for dessert, do you want to have something for dinner?"

"Anything is fine, I just want ice cream."

Now that Edogawa Ranpo has said so, then Alvira has nothing to worry about.

She casually searched for a nearby restaurant with good reviews, and then dragged herself there.

Sitting on an inconspicuous corner seat, the little witch waited for the dishes to arrive, while urging the little detective to tell her the ins and outs of the matter.

"If you want you to understand, I probably have to start with the serial killings on Jail Island."

Edogawa picked up a fork randomly, inserted a piece of hash browns, and said while shaking in the air.

"The serial killings on Jail Island happened before the Dragon Head War."

At that time, Edogawa Ranpo had just finished cooperating with the military and police on a case, and heard that the military and police who were connected with him mentioned in the chat that the special ability department had discovered a power that was said to be able to rank up to the special A level. and a detective.

He doesn't care about the power level or anything.But after all, they are both detectives, and he also heard that there were 18 prisoners in total, so he had to be curious.

So he got to know the "murder detective" who is now under the supervision of the Supernatural Special Affairs Division-Yyatsuji Xingren.Because of the detective's ability of "being able to kill 100% of the murderers who were correctly identified by accident regardless of the distance in space", he caused seventeen murderers to die accidentally at the same time and in different places in the Jail Island murder incident.Therefore, it is classified as one of the most dangerous supernatural beings by the Supernatural Secret Service.And also learned of the existence of Kyogoku Natsuhiko from this incident.

And Wilson Sansos undoubtedly met Kyogoku Xiayan on Jail Island, and then became his servant.

Wilson Sansos, whose evil side was excavated, got the power of "sense" from Kyogoku Natsuhiko, and began to plan his own criminal "art".

"The first target he targeted was Chris Davis, whose name was similar to his own, and he came up with the idea of ​​finding all 26 letters so that he could hide them. So, as C and D, Chris Davis So he was bewitched by Wilson Sansos, representing W and X, and became his helper."

In his capacity as a policeman, it was really easy to find a few victims who met his requirements.At the same time, avoiding monitoring is naturally not a problem. Using the power of "jue" to confuse people and prevent oneself from being discovered by witnesses is really a too perfect criminal condition.

Therefore, no one cared about some people's nights out until the growing desire to kill overwhelmed his mind and made him plan to kill the first person.

After all, people go missing every day.

What's more, those "missing" people will always come back. Although they have lost their memories of being killed and their bodies have become mutilated, they are still alive.

It's not like no one has tried to call the police, but in the case of amnesia, how many policemen can patiently interrogate?

Edogawa closed his eyelids in disorder, and sighed gloomyly.

He took a sip of the soup with a spoon and finished it, before continuing, "If Detective Harris could detect his changes in time, he wouldn't have asked him to find all thirteen people."

Alvira paused holding the fork. She remembered that there were only twelve victims in the information. "Thirteen? Did he include himself?"

"Yes." Mr. Detective nodded and continued, "And Chris Davis was murdered twice, the first time was to clear his suspicion, and taught Wilson Sansos to remove his cecum (caecum) and three ribs (costalbone). The second time was wiped out after cooperating with Wilson Sansos to attack his optomotor language center."

As for why it was judged as a group crime...

In addition to the fact that the forensic doctor who will be killed again is too deliberate among these victims, there is also what he found in the alley.

Although it has been a long time, the evidence of the existence of the second person in the alley is still preserved.

In the corner of the alley, there are expensive cigarette butts that cannot be smoked by nearby people, which happen to be caught in the cracks of the bricks.

And the one who would leave such an obvious flaw at the murder scene could only be the police in charge of the case.If this person hadn't been fooling things, he was deliberately erasing the evidence and stealing himself.By now, he probably forgot that he was in that alley, happily smoking a cigarette, watching the bloodied Samara struggling in pain and wailing silently.

So stupid.

Mr. Detective scooped up a large spoonful of ice cream and put it all in his mouth, which made him shiver from the cold.

"But..." Miss Witch was about to ask something when she saw all his movements, and she almost yelled out in anger.

She took a sip of ice water and suppressed the anger that was on the verge of exploding, "You know it's ice, why do you still take such a big gulp?!"

"Uuuuuuu..."

"...You swallow first before you speak, I'll ask for a glass of warm water." Alvira pushed the chair away and stood up, extremely helpless.

After she brought warm water, she stared at Edogawa and took a sip before sitting down again.

Alvira didn't forget the question she wanted to ask this time. It might be that this question confused her so much that she didn't feel comfortable without an answer.

"But why didn't Detective Harris notice it? Sansos is so cruel and vicious, it's impossible for him not to notice it at all?"

"Because the former Wilson Sansos was indeed a good policeman."

Edogawa Luanbo held the cup of warm water and took another sip to relieve his frozen tongue.

"People are stupid and complicated. Everyone thinks about negative things, but there are always a few who choose to act on them. What shakes them is the good that still exists in their hearts."

"And their stupidity and ugliness seem less important than the good things."

As he spoke, he narrowed his eyes and laughed.

"So find more interesting and shining things, and don't indulge yourself in things that don't deserve your attention."

Seeing the little witch holding her chin pensively, her gaze wandering off somewhere, the little detective protested.

"It's far away in the sky, and it's right in front of you, Lord Ranbu needs to pay attention!"

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Ahhh, I don't know if I made it clear or not.

I hope that makes sense, but it's still too late woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I finally used the second half of the code for the next hour after I finished the translation of the literature. I hope it is clear. Otz, I will find time to see if I need to improve Otz.

I hate literature translation, I hate proposal reports, I hate graduation project QAQ

感谢在2020-11-1121:00:00~2020-11-1420:57:31期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels who threw mines: yeaa, Yuexixuanxi one;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 20 bottles of Yuanyu; 13 bottles of Pharmacist; 3 bottles if it is four or not ten;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!