Wenhao is my vest

Aoki Araya knew that [Edogawa Ranpo] was not affected by Poe's ability because he was not human.

However, "he is not a human" here does not mean "[Edogawa Ranpo] is a heroic spirit", but "this [Edogawa Ranpo] is a clone".

The same is true for Edogawa Ranpo of the Armed Detective Agency.

For example, Mori Ogai, the leader of the port mafia, and his supernatural human form "Alice" will not be sucked into it just because he read Edgar Allan Poe's books.

——In other words, Edogawa Ranpo suspects that "Yoshio Kobayashi" is a humanoid supernatural body similar to "Alice".

In a way, this is infinitely close to the correct answer.

After all, Edogawa Ranpo is essentially just an ordinary person. Without enough clues, he can deduce so much, which is enough to prove that this person's mind is like a ghost.

And, add the "Miss Agatha" he mentioned just now.

Is it "The Bell Tower Attendant" or "The Association of Writers"?

Edogawa Rampo is more inclined to "British Association".Because Agatha Christie's status among the attendants of the clock tower is very detached, few people will treat her with a title like "Miss", which is closer to an equal relationship.

And the "Bungo Association"... Although it is incredible, Edogawa Ranpo has already discovered it.

Just like what they say, "We are just an ordinary interest association", what unites the members of the "British Association" is not interests, but emotional relationships.

Even if it is "following orders", it is not because "the other party is my boss", but "the other party is someone I respect".

It looks very precarious, but in fact it is a stable enough relationship.

——Just like an armed detective agency, it is closer to the survival form of partners.

Although Edgar Allan Poe did not have the same intelligence as Edogawa Ranpo, he still deduced to the step of ""Clock Tower Attendant" or "British Association"".

However, unlike Edogawa Ranpo, the reason why he prefers the answer of "British Association" is "Ellen Poe".

Because the other party also inquired about his own information because of his own interest, and even published absurd articles in newspapers using his real name.

So, the two of them said at the same time: "'Writer Association'?"

[Edogawa Ranpo] Tilted his head, blinked his eyes and replied, "It's neither the 'Clock Tower Attendant' nor the 'British Association'."

——Extremely obvious that he understands the reasoning process of the other party.

Edogawa Ranpo narrowed his eyes: "Your actions and appearance are very inconsistent, but the clothing habits and various small details when we first met are indeed what people in the UK will have..."

Edgar Allan Poe let out an "ah": "Is someone manipulating him behind his back?"

He quickly recalled the many suspicious points since the meeting, and quickly focused on the slightly naive and impolite behavior of the other party: "Could it be that the person who really talked to us is not very old...?"

[Edogawa Ranpo] Showed love to them: "Bingo!"

He hugged himself: "I'm so touched! I never thought that Edogawa Ranpo or Edgar Allan Poe in this world would choose detective as their career!"

His smiling expression belongs to an adult, but his movements are more inclined to the age of a child: "And it's still such a pure and flawless posture..."

【Edogawa Ranpo】Finally restored to the attitude that this age should have.He took off his deerstalker hat, and gave a very gentlemanly salute to the two people in front of him: "This really fits 'this me' perfectly."

Edogawa Ranpo didn't seem to listen to what he said, and still focused on the organization the other party belonged to: "So you are a member of the "Bungo Society"."

"That's not true!" The man puffed up his cheeks very childishly, "I said yes or no! 'Detective me' doesn't like to lie so much."

Poe couldn't help but took two steps back, grabbed the hem of Edogawa Ranpo's cloak, and whispered: "Typical symptoms of schizophrenia..."

He seriously suspected that schizophrenia was a sequela of the man's abilities.

[Edogawa Ranpo] Laughed happily, compared his hand to a pistol, aimed at Poe, and said loudly, "Boom!"

After seeing the mental patient's expression on Allan Poe's face became more and more obvious, [Edogawa Ranpo] answered: "It's really rude to speak, you gloomy and unpopular loser in life."

——Who is the rude one? !

Edgar Allan Poe was stunned by this man.

Edogawa Ranpo's slender eyes finally opened, and he looked at the man in front of him who had been acting inexplicably.

He asked: "You said that you are not a member of the "Writers Association", is it because you are not up to the physical age or mental age?"

Edgar Allan Poe burst into tears: Mr. Ranpo...!He even quarreled with others because of himself!

"Wow," [Edogawa Ranpo] covered his mouth with disgust, "It's really disgusting that you two love each other."

Edogawa Ranpo: "It seems that the mental age is not up to standard."

[Edogawa Ranpo] Eyes wide open, "Huh?" After a cry, he tilted his head at the two of them: "It's obviously because I didn't meet the two standards, right? I'm very sorry, but my mental age is indeed Only single digits!"

Compared with the pistol posture, he fired several times at Edgar Allan Poe with "bang bang bang": "So you were actually scared into a snail by a schoolboy! Hahaha!"

Poe... Poe shed tears of humiliation.

Edogawa Ranbu jumped his feet angrily: "You are not allowed to bully Mr. Po!"

Poe felt well again.

No matter what, there is always a friend who stands up for him.

Thinking of this, he moved to look at Edogawa Ranpo.

[Edogawa Ranpo] Tilting his head, he said "Hey" in doubt: "Why?"

Edogawa Ranpo is confident: "Mr. Po is my friend, so I am the only one who can bully him!"

Poe: "..."

He despaired of a world filled with people whose mental age was only elementary school.

"So that's how it is." [Edogawa Ranpo] put up his index finger and pressed it against his cheek, and suddenly realized, "So Dazai is my friend!"

Edgar Allan Poe couldn't bear it anymore: "It's not...!"

[Edogawa Ranpo] Look at him.

Edgar Allan Poe plucked up his courage and said to strangers: "A friend should not be bullied, and bullying others does not mean that you are his friend!"

[Edogawa Ranpo] Jumped a few times on the spot, his face full of excitement: "Your words are also the type that Dazai would say!"

Poe had a very foreboding feeling.

[Edogawa Ranpo] shook hands, and waved vigorously in front of him twice: "Obviously possesses a writing talent close to that of Mr., but his character is so cynical and cries... Isn't this the combination of Mr. and Dazai? Body?"

He came with a wink and stuck out his tongue: "This feeling is so novel, so I couldn't help being bullied a little~ I know I was wrong, forgive me, another me!"

Edgar Allan Poe: "...are you talking to us?"

【Edogawa Ranpo】Laughed loudly: "Of course not! Thinking about it, you know it can't be you! Haha, you really don't know yourself very well!"

Edgar Allan Poe's face turned red all of a sudden.He grabbed Carl on his shoulders and lifted it up, perfectly covering his face.

Edogawa Ranpo frowned: "Is it your joke to maliciously laugh at the low self-esteem of a person? If you are like this, I will not admit that you are 'Edogawa Ranpo'."

Edgar Allan Poe's mind was in a mess.He thought for a while that this person in front of him is [Edogawa Ranpo] from the "British Association"; for a while he wanted to complain in a daze, although Ranpo-kun was very happy to be my successor, but he emphasized his inferiority complex This point is actually not particularly intimate.

[Edogawa Ranpo] also turned serious, "I'm very sorry, but my 'setting' is just a piece of mud with only 'maliciousness'."

"Because my growth has stagnated, so I can only live as an annoying child for the rest of my life."

"Well, but!" He put up a finger and added with a smile on his face, "Maybe you can try to give your opinion to Mr.? If Mr. said to me 'You did not do it right', maybe I will still be angry." Listen with mercy!"

As a Heroic Spirit whose job rank is Alterego, [Edogawa Ranpo]'s spiritual base is of course a mixture of the historical writer and other elements.

However, it is different from extracting a part of oneself and then mixing it with the gods, and it is also different from the amplification of a certain personality trait. The existence form of [Edogawa Ranpo] is closer to the combination of the two.

[Edogawa Ranpo] used one sentence as his final response to the criticism of another self: "Because we—I, are sins. So it is impossible to truly repent, only to pretend!"

Because [Edogawa Ranpo] has publicly stated that his desire for crime is vented through writing.

Therefore, young children who "have not yet had the outlet of writing" can also be regarded as the pursuit of crime itself?

Rather than saying that Alterego·[Edogawa Ranpo] is his side with "criminal desires", it is better to say that he is closer to the stage of "only possessing criminal desires".

However, at this level, [Edogawa Ranpo] would probably only be a magician (Caster) with a rather special personality.

That's exactly what happened.

[Ellen Poe] mentioned before that he and [Edogawa Ranpo] once cooperated in a Holy Grail War.

"At that time" [Edogawa Ranpo] was just a magician (Caster) who looked only seven or eight years old.

However, after winning the Holy Grail War, [Ellen Poe] said, "I have no desire to pursue the Holy Grail, only the most basic curiosity."

So, "It's up to you to make a wish, Luanpo".

That's what the man said.

The wish made by [Edogawa Ranpo] is to let him see "the purest evil".

This concept is too abstract, so the way for the Holy Grail to fulfill his wish is to "make [Edogawa Ranpo] the purest evil".

——Instead of staring into the abyss, it is better to be the abyss itself.

The Holy Grail, a "tool" that doesn't understand people's hearts, can only use this twisted method to realize the wish of [Edogawa Ranpo].

As a result, countless aspects of the personality symbolizing "evil" were filled into [Edogawa Ranpo]'s spiritual base, completely transforming him into a special class personality (Alterego).

After that, everything owned by [Edogawa Ranpo] turned into "maliciousness".

The admiration for [Ellen Poe] brought provocation, the interest in [Dazai Osamu] brought teasing, and the hostility to [Akutagawa Ryunosuke] brought jealousy.

Good intentions turn into malice, and malice can only become a deeper and stickier darkness.

Even his Noble Phantasm "Phantom Thief Twenty Faces" has become more like showing different "evil" sides to the world.

And all of this, the two people standing opposite [Edogawa Ranpo] didn't know about it.

Even Edogawa Ranpo, whose IQ is at the peak of human beings, just thinks that he is born with such a distorted anti-social personality.

However, since this is the case, "then there is no way."

Edogawa Ranpo shook his head helplessly: "I hope you can control your mouth!" Leaning his upper body forward, he said in a commanding tone, "I don't care about what you think of a famous detective, but I don't want to I heard the slander against Mr. Po from your mouth!"

"Ah." [Edogawa Ranpo] expressed that he understood, "I see. Are you Po-kun's guardian?"

Edgar Allan Poe: "..." No!He's clearly an adult now! !

Moreover, rather than saying that Ranbu-kun is his guardian, it is better to say that he is the guardian of Ranpo-kun.

Edgar Allan Poe couldn't help sighing deeply when he recalled the various excessive demands that Ranpo Edogawa had made of himself before.

Then, he heard Edogawa Ranpo's loud reply: "Yes! Mr. Po is too worrying, so there is nothing wrong with saying that I am actually his guardian!"

Poe: "..."

He already understood that among these three people, he was the creature at the bottom of the food chain.

Edgar Allan Poe stretched out his hand sadly, and hugged the raccoon tightly in his arms: "Woo, Carl, I only have you...".

After Karl screamed angrily, he bit his finger hard.

Poe: "It hurts...!"

All right.It turned out that I was not only the bottom one among the three, but also a raccoon without any threatening power.

Edgar Allan Poe wept.

Carl bites him again.

After discussing the topic of "Guardian", Edogawa Ranpo's attitude became less targeted.

To say why: "Your guardian is that Poe, isn't he?"

[Edogawa Ranpo] made a phone call gesture: "That's right! So if you have any questions about me, please contact Mr.! I am only eight years old and I can't clean up what I left behind What a mess!"

Edogawa made a fuss, "I can't understand why you have such an attitude towards the person you admire."

Afterwards, he spread his hands: "Since you are a member of the "Writer Association"... No, to be precise, it can be classified as a target of the "Writer Association" forces, so that detective has no reason to continue to be wary of you."

[Edogawa Ranpo] Stretched out his hand, poked Edogawa Ranpo's cheek, and asked curiously, "Eh? Why?"

Edogawa raised his head in disorder, and took a few steps back suddenly: "What are you doing?!"

【Edogawa Ranpo】Hold up your finger, stick it over, and answer seriously: "It feels very soft."

It was the first time for Edogawa Ranpo to meet someone younger than himself: "What are you doing, you are a primary school student... okay," he remembered the "eight-year-old ", "You are really still at the age of elementary school students."

"But! No way!" Edogawa Ranbu raised his hand, blocking another attack from the opponent, "Don't randomly poke at the detective, you are a schoolboy with a height of 1.9 meters!"

[Edogawa Ranpo] Withdrawing his hand, he said disappointedly: "Okay...Although I feel very uncomfortable being called short, but the evaluation of '1.9 meters' is still not very happy."

"However," he smiled, "If 1.9 meters is not enough, does it mean that the problem lies in the height? Actually, you really like children?"

Edogawa Ranpo thought of Izumi Kyoka: "I did have a good time with a kid from the detective agency."

"But!" He emphasized emphatically, while waving his hands "go, go, go", "The famous detective and you are definitely just out of breath! There is no other reason, and the problem of height doesn't count!"

[Edogawa Ranpo] "Hey": "This me, why don't you just come to such a conclusion without trying it? My husband once said that after getting to know a person deeply, then use the words that poke the painful spot Come and break his spirit?"

Edgar Allan Poe: . . . what a strange and over-the-top educational theory.

Even he knew that there was definitely something wrong with this education method.

——I don't want to admit that the person who raises children in this way is his own peer.

Edogawa stared at Luanbu: "No need! It's better to say that your appearance has delayed us for a long time, and there are still several venues that we haven't seen. Now the zoo will be closed!"

"Ah," he stomped his feet vigorously, "The detective is really going to be pissed off by you!"

【Edogawa Ranpo】Innocence on the face: "Who told you to be so wary of me in the first place."

Poe: "...?"

Your way of appearing on the stage is so suspicious, it's no wonder we were not vigilant.

[Edogawa Ranpo] added: "So one of you couldn't hold back, so he teased the two of you a little bit."

Edogawa waved his hand in random steps and ordered loudly: "Carl, bite him!"

Carl yelled, and rushed towards [Edogawa Ranpo] aggressively from Poe's shoulder.

Poe: "Wait... Carl!"

Who is your master? Why do you listen to Ranbu-kun so much? !

[Edogawa Ranpo] stretched out his hand, and accurately pressed down on the raccoon's stomach.

While Carl was still struggling, he took two steps forward and put the raccoon back into Poe's arms.

Afterwards, he bowed to the two people and said, "It is one of the basic rules of the strange thief to ensure rituality when leaving the arena."

"So," [Edogawa Ranpo] smiled brightly, "Looking forward to our next meeting!"

He raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

With a bang like popping a balloon, just blinking, Edogawa Ranpo and Edgar Allan Poe saw only rose petals flying in the sky.

Edogawa Ranpo: "..."

He was silent for a moment, and commented: "It's so fancy."

Edgar Allan Poe hastily nodded in agreement.

Edogawa Ranpo: "Instead of using roses, it's better to leave some candy for us."

Edgar Allan Poe: "...Leave it to you."

Edogawa Ranpo was confident: "After all, Mr. Po doesn't like sweet food that much."

Edgar Allan Poe felt that something was wrong, but he could not refute because of his clumsy speech: "...The zoo is about to close, let's go back and talk about it first."

So, on the next trip to the Armed Detective Agency, Poe was forced to listen to [Edogawa Ranpo] who complained for 10 minutes.

When he came to the gate of the detective agency, he was still complaining endlessly: "What are you talking about about the monster...! If the monster is the same age as him, let's finish the compulsory education well! What an annoying kid!"

Poe helped Edogawa Luanbu push the door open, then quickly took a few steps back and hid behind the other party.

Then, he heard his friend's angry voice suddenly raised: "What's going on?! My snack—?!!"

Since Edogawa Ranpo was a full fourteen centimeters shorter than him, Poe just looked forward and understood why the other party was so angry.

A gray-haired, pink-eyed teenager sat on a chair next to Edogawa Ranpo's desk, holding a bag of familiar potato chips with a curious expression on his face—Poe knew that this was Ranpo's best Favorite brand.

After weighing the potato chips in his hand, he firmly squeezed the bag under the terrified eyes of all members of the detective agency.

There was a snap, the sound of Edogawa Ranpo's heartbreaking.

At this time, after hearing a familiar voice, Osamu Dazai, who was sitting in his seat, raised his head and saw Ranpo Edogawa and Poe standing at the door.

He stretched out his hand: "Ah." It's over.

Immediately after he turned his eyes away, everyone's expressions on their faces became even more frightened.

Kunikida Doppo pushed his glasses hard: "Mr. Ranpo..."

There is no record in his handbook, what if Mr. Ranpo kills someone!

Just when people on both sides were caught in a delicate atmosphere, [Edogawa Ranpo] squeezed the bag again.

... it's over.

Kunikida Doppo Pain Mask.

The gray-haired boy also raised his head, and looked at Ranpo Edogawa at the door.

He raised his hand and greeted people cheerfully: "Yo!"

Edgar Allan Poe: "..." "Yo!".

Can he turn around and run now, get out of here immediately?