If I don't quit, I will be forced to usurp the throne.

After the brown-haired girl rushed out the door crying, the scene was silent for a moment.

"...Do you know her?" Oda Sakunosuke, who was inexplicably accused, looked at a loss.

The rest of the Armed Detective Agency shook their heads slowly in unison, and after reacting a little too late, they became angry: "Are you asking us about this?! You should be asking!"

"I don't know you." Oda Sakunosuke touched his chin, tilted his head, with a puzzled expression on his face, "Probably."

"...Is there even a possibility?!" Kunikida Doppo adjusted his glasses, and according to his usual experience, he gave up questioning his colleagues and looked at another boy whose eyes had not completely dissipated the hatred. , "Akutagawa... you seem to know her?"

"...Ah, before the man in black who took my sister away was just the woman who came to pick him up...she spoke very respectfully to the man in black..."

"It's like this..." Kunikida Doppo was thoughtful.

Tanizaki, another member of the detective agency, also spoke with some surprise: "Four years have passed, you still remember..."

"That face! I know it even when it turned into ashes!" Akutagawa Ryunosuke gritted his teeth, and his voice became full of chills, "It's her... who said to the man in black... [there is a little girl on the other side]... ..."

"It's like this." Tanizaki's expression also became serious, "It is indeed necessary to pay attention..."

"So now we have a clue! Everyone has already found out! We will find Akutagawa's sister soon!"

"It's not that easy." Kunikida Doppo couldn't help pouring cold water on people, "Before he left, the man said that Akutagawa would never find his sister in his life, and he also mentioned Akutagawa's name, which shows that Akutagawa's sister does have a great relationship with her. relationship...but why did she come here..."

After he finished speaking, the audience fell silent.

Everyone silently looked at the other person whom the girl scolded before leaving - Oda Sakunosuke.

"Hmm..." Against everyone's gaze, the red-haired young man asked in confusion, "Why fish board?"

Others: "..." Are you thinking about this for so long? !

Akutagawa Ryunosuke also frowned: "I don't eat fish boards."

Others: "..." Who asked you this? !

Kunikida raised his forehead: "Forget it... At this time, I can only ask one person."

The only true detective of the Armed Detective Agency - Ranpo Edogawa.

……

This life is as sad as dehydrated vegetables stuck to the lid of instant noodles.

I sat on the grass by the river, with a look of lovelessness on my face, holding my knees with my hands.

——Akutagawa!It's Akutagawa!The Akutagawa I never expected!

——This day is really impossible!

"Miss Chisaki!"

"... Oh, it's Dun Dun." I turned my head and glanced at him with a sad face, and patted the seat next to me, "Come and sit."

"Yes..." Atsushi Nakajima came over and obediently sat down where I took the picture, with a straight posture, "Miss Chisaki, are you here thinking about life again?"

……again?

Ah, speaking of which, when I first came to this world, I was indeed right by the river.

It seems that I in this world often fall into some philosophical torture... such as the meaning of existence, why an undercover agent became a cadre, how should I go on in my future life, why did my father blink It becomes someone else's.

"Dun Dun." I said naturally, "Leaving aside the current facts, what kind of life do you want to live?"

"...Huh?" Nakajima Atsushi blinked, as if he was a little puzzled by such a topic, but he still answered obediently, "In my case... it should be enough to eat tea and rice every day, right?"

"..." I couldn't help covering my face—why is the dream of the dignified captain of the Hong Kong black guerrillas so shabby that it makes people cry?Is it the distortion of human nature or the loss of morality behind this?No!This is social injustice!And it's all Akutagawa's fault!

"Miss Chisaki, how about you?"

"Ah?" I was stunned for a moment, and when I realized it, I sniffed sadly, "I don't know, I probably went to catch the sea."

After all, looking at my diary in this world, I planned to kill the leader and go to Vengley to have a look.

"Catch the sea...? What are you going to do?"

"Ah... picking clams?"

"Hey? Is that..." Atsushi Nakajima began to think deeply, "Can you make money?"

I also fell into deep thought: "I don't know, but at least there are fresh clams to eat? My master is there, so I shouldn't be too bad."

Although my master is the second and fifth son, he is still a tsundere.

"Ah, is Chisaki-sister's master? I know!" Nakajima Atsushi's tone suddenly became brighter, but then slowly turned into confusion, "But didn't Chisaki-sister say that your master is the biggest in the world?" A pineapple seller?"

"...Ah." At this moment, my mood was a bit complicated, and I felt a feeling of "I am still me", "He changed his career and became a member of the seafood seller."

After talking nonsense with Atsushi Nakajima, I feel much better.Atsushi Nakajima came to me because people from the government sneaked in from the Black Lizard and were caught out.

He probably also learned that I was bitten out as an undercover agent, and he was carefully expressing his position in his own way: "How could Miss Qiansaki be a lackey of the government... It is impossible for the leader to let an undercover agent become a cadre." .”

"..." No, Furry, you don't know anything.I patted him on the shoulder and said with emotion, "Forget it, don't talk about it, what if I am."

I just said it casually, but the other party seemed to take it seriously. After being stunned for a moment, his face became embarrassed, as if he was in a violent struggle, and his body trembled a little: "If... If so... I... I also I will... stand by Chisaki-san..."

I was taken aback, and looked at him with somewhat surprised eyes: "Hey, Dun Dun, you..."

The other party said with some difficulty: "Sister Chisaki gave me the meaning of continuing to live... People who cannot protect others have no value in existence... and I will only destroy... But Sister Chisaki gave me new value... "

I patted the back of the other person's head hard with no expression on my face.

"...Huh?" The white-haired boy came back to his senses and looked at me blankly.

I stood up and said, "Stop talking nonsense, I have something to report to the leader, let's go back to Hong Kong together."

I thought of the news that Mr. Nakaya had brought over before I left, and finally shifted my attention a bit, and began to think about the serious question—who on earth leaked [my] information.And... what should I do to protect myself in this world from being exposed without too much interference in the process of this world.

Ah... I'm afraid I have a lot of diaries to write today, and I have to explain things in another world... Otherwise, the detective agency can't justify it.

In case the me in this world goes ashore in vain later, wouldn’t it be particularly embarrassing to face off against the detective agency.

Of course, the words now are still...

"Sixteen! There are sixteen! No. 16 is not me, forget it, but why is it that guy! Is this the so-called retribution! I don't believe it! The whole world is bullying me! They It's all fish boards glued to the lid of the instant noodles!"

"Fish board...?"

"Yes, it's edible but it sticks to the lid and hasn't been soaked in hot water, so you can't eat it directly. It's useful but it becomes useless. The extended meaning is useless and an eyesore!"

"Calm down, Xiaoqian." Mr. Dazai calmly instructed the document, while letting me kneel and howl next to his seat, with a somewhat helpless tone, "Didn't you say that you would separate the different worlds?"

"No, it's different." I calmed down and explained to him seriously, "Look, even in a different world, my brother is still my brother, right? So my father should still be my father, Right? Is there something wrong with my request?"

"..." Mr. Dazai put down the document and looked down at me. He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to refute something but gave up in the end. He patted my head to comfort me and nodded seriously, "What did you say?" We are all."

"...Your tone is a little too perfunctory, Mr. Dazai." I put my arm on the seat and looked around, "But this office is too gloomy... Although there are so many valuable things, but It looks completely out of place."

There is a reason for what I said. The chief's office is randomly placed, and it looks like a valuable antique. It is estimated that the price adds up to an astonishing figure, but these things seem abrupt.

"Yeah, the only thing that is not obtrusive is probably the comics and snacks that you piled up here, Xiaoqian."

"..." I was silent for a while, then nodded generously, "Well, yes!"

"But...Mr. Dazai, you asked me to go to the detective agency for a reason, right?" I stood up, frowned, and my tone sank, "Akutagawa knows [me], you let me know this Did you go? What does the [leader] of this world want to do? And... [my] information leaked, what happened?"

……

the other side------

"That person is a cadre of the Port Mafia!" Edogawa Ranpo asserted, "Is there nothing else? Give me my snack!"

While Edogawa Ranpo was happily eating snacks, Kunikida Doppo and a group of people were working overtime.

"Hong Kong gangster cadre... If it's a woman, it's her... the one called [Puppet Manipulator] by the enemy..."

"Ah... But didn't that one say that the gender is also unknown..."

"Because I'm an illusionist, it's easy to create illusions, right? Judging by today's appearance, it should be a girl..."

"But unexpectedly young... I thought [Puppet Manipulators] were all old..."

"So...does she have anything to do with Oda...?"

"Hmm... that look of abandonment seems to be genuine..."

"But isn't she an illusionist? And isn't it said that puppeteers are best at making up lies? Are they also good at acting?"

"That's also... and just like Oda, he can't do anything to abandon people, right?"

"Yeah, it's better to say that I can't imagine that he still has the chance to abandon people..."

"...Could it be that he abandoned it but didn't know it?"

"...somewhat possible."

"...This is quite convincing."

The Armed Detective Agency, except for Edogawa Ranpo, all members went astray in reasoning.