Bandage fine tricks

The detective agency is as busy as ever, especially the workaholic Doppo Kunikida, a serious young man who handles various things quickly in his seat until he can no longer ignore the noise from the next door:

"Dazai! Be quiet! Are you done with your work?"

The young man in the sand-colored windbreaker rested his chin on the edge of the table, with a painful expression on his face: "No, Kunikida-kun, you don't understand my pain...I'm so sad that I can't do anything..."

Kunikida Dobubu: "..."

Kunikida Doppo also wants to kill his partner today.

"Um... Kunikida-senpai, what happened to Dazai-san?" Tanizaki Junichiro, a young man who just passed the examination and joined the detective agency in the past few days, asked cautiously, "I think Dazai-san has been sad since this morning... ...Could it be!" He secretly raised a little finger and mouthed, "Broken love?"

Kunikida Dobubu: "..."

Kunikida Doppo turned his head to look at the virtue of his partner, and felt that it was not surprising that the younger generation of the detective agency, who had only been here for a few days, would have such a misunderstanding: "No, it doesn't take even a minute for that guy to break up and walk out to face the next one." A lady passing by initiated a confession, this must have eaten some kind of poisonous mushroom, don’t worry about it, you won’t die.”

This is also the opinion of Kunikida Doppo:

——What did this girl eat badly today? Since the morning, she has been lying on the table and sighing, changing her position every few minutes to sigh, and then changing her position every few minutes to make all kinds of noises... This poisonous mushroom The power actually lasted all the way until the afternoon, hasn't it ended yet!

Because Osamu Dazai had the strange behavior of eating poisonous mushrooms before, and the suicidalists never forgot to use all kinds of tools around them to create a suicide situation, Kunikida Doppo had to guess that this was caused by his partner's failed suicide attempt again sequelae.

"Kunikida-kun guessed wrong this time! I'm not broken in love!" The young man in the sand-colored windbreaker heard the conversation here, and finally let go of his plan to continue to be a noise speaker, and justified himself, "My relationship is very stable. , please don’t have any undue doubts in this regard! It’s just…” He said with a sad look on his face, “It’s too much… I haven’t received a gift yet, how can I give it to the slug first? Send a Gift!"

Xiaoba is really too much! ! !

"Oh, is that... what!?" Kunikida Doppo suddenly realized something in the middle of speaking, "The relationship is stable? When did you get a girlfriend?"

It would be better to say that there is finally a lady who has followed in the footsteps of the blind lady back then—recalling what Osamu Dazai mentioned at the Akashi family banquet before, Kunikida Doppo couldn't help but push his glasses.

Although I shouldn't think so, but...

As expected, he really hoped that Bourbon-kun, who didn't know where he was, could pry Dazai's corner again.

The kind of prying corner in the real sense.

Or cut off everything.

"You can't succeed in chasing your girlfriend steadily!" the famous detective Edogawa Ranpo, who quickly resolved the incident and finally returned to the detective agency, said without hesitation.

Osamu Dazai: "...Mr. Ranpo, some things should be seen through but not revealed."

That's what he said, but he didn't care: Mr. Ranpo's mind is powerful, but he needs enough clues to deduce the truth. If he has no information but deduces the truth out of thin air, that is "super reasoning" Impossible.

What's more, his current behavior is not so much a pursuit, but more accurately a "favorite" - no matter what, he still remembers his current identity, anyway, at least wait for someone to go to high school.

As for the real progress, it probably needs to wait after high school graduation.

... Tsk, I have to wait for a long time.

Thinking that once exposed, he would definitely become the enemy of the detective agency, Osamu Dazai stood up: "Ah, since Kunikida-kun knows, I will ask for leave in the afternoon! Kunikida-kun, you can't disturb other people's dating, you will be punished." Oh, the horse kicked!"

After finishing speaking, the young man wandered out of the detective agency.

"Ah, is that right, then I have to write it down..."

The serious young man took out the "ideal" notebook, and just wrote the first sentence, he heard Mr. Edogawa Ranpo next to him biting a thick snack and saying: "No, Dazai is lying, he just skipped work. It's not about chasing other people."

If you really left to pursue women, why are you wearing the same clothes as usual? The famous detective can see it very clearly!

——Edogawa thought in a flurry of complacency.

Click.

Kunikida Doppo broke the pen in his hand.

Osamu Dazai, who left the detective agency, planned to go to the coffee shop downstairs to have a cup of coffee and relax, and then wait for Hachi to come back: If he did his calculations correctly, Hachi is almost on his way back after giving Chuya a present. .

If you drink coffee at the window seat of the cafe on the first floor, you can see her for the first time.

Pushing open the door of the coffee shop as planned, ordering and chatting skillfully with the waitress in the coffee shop, the same scene as in the past, but Osamu Dazai became quiet while talking.

His eyes fell on the crowd coming and going outside the window.

So slow.

Xiaoba is so slow...why didn't you come back?

It's time to come back, isn't it?

Could it be that you went shopping after buying gifts?By the way, she asked the kid from Akashi's family to buy gifts for her staff. After buying the gifts, the two of them probably went to some dessert shop to rest. The commercial street they visited seemed to be quite close to the dessert shop where Akane Kubomomo was. Yes, I remember the president mentioned that the tampered dessert at the Akashi family banquet came from Akakubomomo... I see, is it for thanks?

But even so... is it too long?

That kid from Akashi's family, wouldn't he take Hachi to play in some messy place again?

Osamu Dazai stretched out his fingers and flicked the coffee cup in front of him lightly.

The coffee cup made of fine porcelain makes a very soft sound.

It sounded like the faint yet clamoring voice in his heart.

That brat in Akashi's family is the same age as Hachi, so it's only natural that they play well.

Same age... Osamu Dazai's eyes dimmed.

Time is such a malicious god.

Obviously...

"Mr. Dazai?"

Qingyue's girl's voice sounded behind him, Dazai Osamu didn't want to turn his head, so he simply raised his head, leaned back, and saw the girl's face wearing light brown half-rimmed glasses: "...Ah, Hachi."

He seemed a little slow to call her name.

The reaction is much slower than usual... Xiaoba felt a little strange, but he didn't take it to heart: "Are you sleepy, Mr. Dazai? If you are tired, go to the detective agency to rest. Drinking coffee to suppress sleepiness is not a good idea. Woolen cloth!"

She glanced at the coffee cup in front of Osamu Dazai. Recently, the coffee shop launched an afternoon tea unlimited refill event. Xiao Ba looked at the liquid on the coffee cup and suspected that Mr. Dazai might have drunk more than one cup.

She looked at the waitress, who secretly compared a number to her.

Xiaoba was silent: Mr. Dazai who can't cheer up after drinking so much coffee... seems to be insensitive to coffee!

"You're back, Xiaoba..." Osamu Dazai seemed to have not recovered much, and he even said these words a little slowly.

"Well, I'm back!" Xiaoba decided to put aside the thinking about coffee and Mr. Dazai, and instead sat on the seat in front of Mr. Dazai, and happily began to share her experience with Mr. Dazai, "Just now The prepared gift is given to Mr. Zhongyuan, Mr. Zhongyuan likes it very much, I hope it is not just pretending to comfort me..."

"Chuya, he will be very happy no matter what he receives, you don't have to worry about it." Osamu Dazai said slowly, fingering the coffee cup again and again, "So, what did you send in the end? Do you listen to my opinion?"

"...Although Mr. Dazai is usually worthy of my respect, I will not compromise on this point!" Xiao Ba crossed his hands and made a big "X", "It's too impolite to send only a towel!"

"That's how others sent it!"

"It's a gift from a door-to-door visit! It's not the same thing as I want to thank Mr. Chuya!"

"Not all of them..." Osamu Dazai was about to continue, when he suddenly realized something, "...Mr. Nakaya?"

It belonged to Mr. Nakahara just now!

Why is it called by name all of a sudden! ?

Xiao Ba was stunned: "Because he said it sounds too respectful, you can call him by name directly..."

Think about how many sounds Zhongyuan has to pronounce, and how many sounds have to be pronounced in Zhongyuan. Although Xiaoba himself warned himself not to be rude, just now he subconsciously obeyed his lazy nature and called him the one with a shorter pronunciation...

This time, Osamu Dazai lay down directly on the table and buried his face in his arms: "It's so sad! Hachi never even called me by my name, so he just called Chuya's name, it's too much..."

... No, she still called.

Thinking about being called "Mr. Zhi" when they met for the second time, Xiao Ba silently wiped off his sweat.

The person on the opposite side has already started making a sound like a broken horn.

Speaking of which, since we met today, Mr. Dazai has been very unhappy, why?Could it be... Xiao Ba thought for a while, and then called out: "Mr. Dazai?"

The person opposite was unmoved.

She called out again: "Mr. Dazai?"

Don't want to hear... He really wants to close his ears.

Mr. Dazai, Mr. Dazai, I don't want to hear such an unfamiliar title at all.

He wanted to be like before, no matter what the situation was, the girl's bright and clear voice, whether she was happy or angry, shouted two extremely simple sounds: Dazai.

But this is not possible.

Osamu Dazai calmly told himself in his heart, put out his delusions, and raised his head: "What..."

His voice died in his throat.

A gift package, about the size of a palm, appeared in front of him.

The young man in the sand-colored windbreaker had a rare blank expression, and he took the gift box and opened it almost entirely by instinct.

It was a pair of cufflinks, dark in color, matching his usual shirt, just right.

"It's a gift for Mr. Dazai. Thanks to Mr. Dazai's guidance these days, I have already thought about giving a gift to Mr. Dazai who takes care of me!" The girl sitting opposite said with a smile, "Although I have thought I wanted to give Mr. Dazai the sake that Mr. Dazai likes very much, but I am not old enough to buy alcohol... I hope Mr. Dazai will like this gift!"

What... Is it because you are picking out gifts for him that you came back so late?

Ten minutes later, Osamu Dazai, who returned to the detective agency with Hachi, watched helplessly as Hachi took out a lot of gifts from his pocket and distributed them to everyone in the detective agency: "This is Mr. Kunikida's. I went to buy Master Carlyle's works—Ms. Kunikida usually only uses his works! Miss Akiko, this is for you..."

One per person, the whole detective agency, whether it was Tanizaki Junichiro and his younger sister Tanizaki Naomi who just joined the agency for a few days, or Edogawa Ranpo who just came back not long ago, all received gifts that were very suitable for each.

"But why did Xiao Hachi suddenly want to buy gifts?" Kunikida Doppo was very happy to receive Master Carlyle's work, but this still did not hide his doubts.

"Because I'm going back!" Edogawa Ranpo, who got a large bag of thick snacks that he likes next to him, opened them and started to eat them. "Weizhong Academy will start soon, isn't it?"

Kunikida Doppo: "...Oh, yes."

Xiao Hachi got along so well in the detective agency, and usually even helped to share the work of the clerk and investigator, so that even if Kunikida Doppo assigned her homework every day, he would still subconsciously forget the fact that she was still in school.

"But let me say it, Xiaoba can be late..." Edogawa looked at Xiaoba in disorder, and the words he wanted to say just now choked in his throat.

After a second of silence, he swallowed the thick snacks in his mouth: "Xiao Ba!"

Xiao Ba, who was suddenly named: "Is there anything I can do, Mr. Ranpo?"

"Now, immediately, immediately, pack your luggage and return to Tokyo!" Edogawa Ranpo said without hesitation, "President, I will help you!"

The famous detective has a great reputation, especially when he speaks in such a serious tone, Xiao Ba's heart skipped a beat, thinking that something happened to Kudo Shinichi, so Mr. Ranpo told her to go back quickly?

Could it be that the story of the pupil of the Reaper has begun?

All kinds of possibilities collided in his mind, Xiao Ba didn't ask any more questions, and left after talking with others.

Kunikida Doppo left behind and asked Mr. Ranpo respectfully: "Could it be that something happened in Tokyo?"

"No." The childish adult detective rarely showed a serious expression, "Someone is trying to abduct the cat of the president's house!"

——If you don’t rush back to Tokyo, you will be kidnapped!

Thinking of the flower ring on Xiao Ba's index finger that he saw just now, the detective's expression became more solemn: Damn it, don't let him find out who it is!