How many character cards do you have?

Then, Meguro and Eluo woke up.

In front of him was an unfamiliar ceiling, he was in a daze for a moment, the dream just now... Sure enough, it was the past of this character card.

"Mr. Meguro, you're finally awake." A juvenile's joyful voice came from beside him, and Meguro Era turned his head slightly to the side, and as expected, he saw Nakajima Atsushi's surprised expression.

"...I always feel that this scene seems familiar." Meguro Eluo smiled wryly.

Atsushi Nakajima smiled awkwardly: "Yes, yes."

After speaking, he fell silent again, and said slowly: "Sorry, Mr. Meguro, we already know all about it."

"Huh? You all know what?" Meguro Eluo looked puzzled, "So you saved me? Is this..."

At this moment, the door of the Detective Agency's infirmary opened from the outside, and Dazai and Ranpo led the members of the Detective Agency to enter in a file: "It means that we already know everything."

Kunikida put a bug that he found in Meguro Era's pocket in front of him, and pressed Dazai up to apologize: "I'm really sorry, because our members' willfulness violated your privacy."

Meguro was taken aback for a moment, but when he saw the bug, he thought about their conversation just now, and there was a wry smile on his face: "I see, but it seems that I was saved because of this bug, but I should have saved it." Thank you all."

Kunikida still wanted to evade, but Meguro, who saw his intention, changed the subject first.

"But how did you do it?" He lowered his head and touched his chest in doubt. The place was intact. Although he knew what was going on, he still pretended to be puzzled, "My The injury is completely healed."

Kunikida was still hesitating whether to explain, but Dr. Yosano said calmly: "This is the power called supernatural power. My supernatural power [Please Do Not Die] can save me as long as I am not dead."

Facing the eyes of other people, Yu Xie Ye explained with a smile: "In this way, the mutual intelligence will be fair."

"Is it really okay to tell me such important information directly?"

"It's okay, we believe in your character." Speaking of this, Kunikida's eyes softened a little.

Dazai asked curiously: "Does your organization not have similar power? I mean people with supernatural powers."

"I haven't heard of anyone who has it," Meguro scratched his hair in embarrassment, "Our investigators are mostly ordinary people, and at most have some other specialties, but some of us can do magic."

"Magic?" Kunikida was slightly surprised, "I mean...is there really magic?"

"Yes, but it's not as gorgeous as in the movies and TV dramas," Meguro knew at a glance that Kunikida had misunderstood something, and said with a wry smile, "It's a power that cannot be mastered by humans, and there is usually a price to pay for using magic... used The higher the magic, the further the sanity slides into the abyss of madness."

"Just like your partner?" Dazai Osamu thought.

A trace of pain flashed across Meguro Eluo's face, and he nodded bitterly: "That's right, so there is also a saying that magic is the forbidden fruit used by evil gods to lure humans, and those knowledge are originally taboo and should not be mastered by humans. "

When everyone heard the words, their expressions were a little dignified. Up to now, they no longer doubted the authenticity of the so-called "descent of the evil god". At least that person named Acton really planned to do something terrible in Yokohama.

"I see..." Kunikida took a deep breath when he heard this, "Actually, we have a request, can we also participate in this incident?"

"Um, why did you ask me?" Meguro Eluo smiled bitterly, "You know so much, you are no longer outsiders, and this is Yokohama, even if you want to act without authorization, I can't stop it."

"Then please let us join without authorization."

"But I can't convince those mafias, okay?"

"No problem, please leave this to us." Although Kunikida is reluctant to cooperate with Hong Kong and black, it is obviously not the time to care about this.

Presumably they would not disagree. Since the plan failed this time, it means that this is no longer a problem that can be solved by a single force. For the stability of Yokohama, their armed detective agency is bound to join this time.

After the cooperation was roughly finalized, some of the other members were responsible for going to the president and negotiating a temporary truce with Hong Kong gangsters, but Dazai and Kunikida stayed and continued to inquire about Acton with Meguro Ero.

Kunikida hesitated for a while, then asked: "Can I ask some impolite questions, I want to ask about the 'sister' mentioned in your conversation?"

Meguro was silent for a moment, then sighed slightly: "Let me start from the beginning."

This is actually a very simple story. In order to participate in a special secret group, Karasawa Taki spent 5 minutes slapping his head to come up with it (crossed out), Dan Acton's unspeakable secret.

Heck, the last paragraph doesn't count.

This is the story of a brother and sister. Because their parents are busy with work, 10-year-old Angelina and 12-year-old Dan are always left alone at home. Before their parents go out, Dan is told to stay and take care of his younger sister. Not for the first time, but that night was his friend's birthday, and Dan sneaked out of the house to attend his friend's birthday party.

He didn't know that there was a wanted warrant posted at the gate of the community, and the recent serial murderers were seen appearing around the area where they lived.

When he came back, he found the door was open and his sister had disappeared.

The girl's body was found in the warehouse in the suburbs the next day. When Dan followed his parents to confirm, he saw that his sister's rosy cheeks were only a stiff fiasco, and those emerald green eyes stared straight at him.

As if asking why she was left here alone.

This scene has since become Acton's demon.

"Is this incident the trigger, but why is it so many years..." Kunikida mused.

"Because they won't disappear," Meguro Eluo looked tired, "the pain of the past will not disappear, they are just hidden, when the sanity drops to a limit, the phantom of the past will catch up with the present, and the long-suppressed Grief will keep magnifying, and magnifying, until it becomes the only reason for him to live."

"I've seen too many examples."

"Is there any sign of his change?" Dazai asked with interest.

Meguro hesitated for a while, seemed to be thinking about something, and finally shook his head: "I am also surprised by this. There was no sign of his disappearance. Before the business trip, he told me to investigate an incident on the cruise ship. I was still there. There were other cases that didn't go with him, and he hasn't been seen since then."

"Cruise?" Kunikida frowned.

"Well, I also investigated this cruise ship... but there was no result."

"No result? What do you mean?" Kunikida asked.

"There is nothing, it is said to be a cruise ship, but I investigated Acton's whereabouts along the way, and there is only one port in the area he went to, but no one at this port witnessed a cruise ship moving that day, as if there was no ghost ship Usually, all the invited people disappear. The only clue is that they all received a similar invitation letter. I have been investigating this matter for the past two years, and I can basically confirm that it is related to the evil god, but I have been unable to find the hiding place. The mastermind behind this incident."

Meguro Eluo said with a wry smile: "Sudden disappearance... This is too common for us investigators. In the past two years, I even thought he was dead, until someone from our organization came here on a business trip and saw him. .”

"You all know what happened after that. No accident, he has already stood on the side of the evil god."

That is to say, there are basically no clues.

Dazai pondered: "I've been missing for two years...why did you suddenly reappear now?"

"The appointed day!" Luanbu suddenly poked his head through the crack of the door, still holding the phone in his hand.

"What?" Kunikida was at a loss.

"I just contacted the gangsters and asked them to share the clues, no matter how detailed the clues are, and then the mafia over there talked about what Acton had said that the agreed date had not yet come."

"Appointed date?" Meguro fell into deep thought, "Many ritual magics have special restrictions, usually the location or date. I once heard from my predecessors that when a certain evil god wakes up, some summon evil gods The magic circle must be a special celestial phenomenon."

Hearing that Dazai's expression moved slightly, he flipped through something on the phone, and showed the screen for a while: "Did you mean this?"

Kunikida and Meguro leaned over and saw that the news host above was predicting that there would be a special total solar eclipse in the next day.

... There really are.

Meguro, who made up things casually, thought to himself.

On the surface, he nodded: "It's possible, but I'm not very good at this, I have to call an 'expert'."

After finishing the phone call alone, about half a day later, Meguro, who got out of the hospital bed, met the others again.

"I asked those who are more familiar with magic among the keepers and the answer is...no."

Meguro Eluo looked solemn: "Our organization investigated this magic circle from various ancient books, but there is almost no similar ritual magic."

"Is the clue broken again..." Kunikida was a little frustrated.

"What does it mean that there are almost no similarities?" Dazai was keenly aware of something.

"Well, what about this magic circle? It's a bit abnormal," Meguro Eluo took out the photo of the magic circle on his phone and showed them, "Generally speaking, summoning rituals must have a clear direction. For example, if you want to summon a certain The words of a god must have his symbol or special imprint to attract his attention. The symbols of each god are different, but this magic circle..."

He hesitated for a while, and said: "It has too many symbols, the mage I contacted said..."

"It's either a joke, or it's going to turn the planet into a joke."