[Comprehensive] Let me go and let me die

Although the wind blowing in the spring season bids farewell to the bitterness of winter, it will still be cold, let alone a city like Yokohama that is close to the sea, sometimes even people suspect that even the wind blowing casually It smells like sea water.

Although the sun is very bright today, the surrounding temperature is not as warm as the sun. At this time, Ayou is wearing a coat and sitting on a seat in the dessert shop, leaning on her face with one hand, with a warm cloth in front of her. Hot milk tea.

The recruitment notice has been posted for half a month, why no one came to ask?

Ayou, who was so thoughtful, took another sip of milk tea, then changed one hand and leaned on his face, looking boredly at the scenery on the street through the transparent glass window of the dessert shop.

"jingle--"

The bell hanging on the door of the store rang, and a young man walked into the house.

"Hello everyone--"

The energetic voice came into Ayou's ears, making Ayou's eyes focus on the young man involuntarily.

The boy looked about fourteen or five years old. He was wearing a cold-proof coat and a student cap on his head. The hair under the cap was uneven, as if it had been randomly cut by a layman. The smile on his face was quite innocent.

"I just walked here casually and I didn't expect to see the note at the door of the store. Although it looked very conspicuous, no one came to ask me for half a month. Fortunately, it was like this."

The young man said something confusing, he cast his eyes on Ayou, and then walked a few steps to Ayou and sat down directly opposite her, with a bright smile on his face.

"In fact, I was just fired from my last job. You should know that those grown-ups always do inexplicable things. Even angry is inexplicable, so I am now penniless. Wen is on the street, but you don't mind, do you?"

The boy didn't stop, and said a lot of words in one breath. At the end, it should be a doubtful question, but the boy said it with absolute certainty, as if he would be admitted as a final conclusion.

Ayou looked at the boy in front of him and tilted his head, then nodded slowly.

"Um……"

After two seconds, Ayou seemed to have reacted from the boy's long series of words, so she added another sentence.

"I don't mind."

The smile of the boy on the opposite side deepened, and his eyes narrowed.

"I knew you wouldn't mind, ah~ If the boss is a kid like me, there won't be those difficult adult things."

The boy muttered again.

"Really, I just threw away those spam emails that people don't need to read at all, why are you unhappy? Really, I am not happy about throwing away those time-wasting emails with good intentions! My lord The world is really hard to understand."

"So……"

Ayou stretched out his hand and poked the arm of the boy who was trapped in his own world, successfully calling his attention back.

"Is it okay to order? Meals are included, and there are four days off in a month, including holidays. The salary can be calculated by the hour if you want, which is 1500 yen an hour."

"Of course no problem. In fact, even if I don't have much salary, I will choose this place!"

The boy's voice was full of joy.

"This place is different from those places full of complicated adults, and you are also the kind of small shop owner who is afraid of trouble, so it must be very easy! I don't mind child labor or anything, and you won't mind. And ..."

The smile on the boy's face was innocent, and his voice was light and joyful.

"My name is Edogawa Ranpo, you have to remember it."

"Oh……"

Ayou, who didn't know what was going on, responded in a daze, and then began to introduce herself to the other side.

"My name is Quyou. You can call me Ayou."

Ayu rolled his eyes and smiled.

"So Luanbu, welcome to come here!"

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Edogawa Ranpo is really smart.

Not only did he memorize all the desserts and prices at a glance, but he could even see if there were any miscalculations in the accounts that he came across at a glance.

only……

Sitting in the corner now, Ayou was holding his chin, looking at the scene in the store that he didn't know what to say.

Putting on the work clothes provided, the young man looked very energetic, coupled with his already cute face and innocent temperament, it was really easy to impress people.

It's just that it hasn't been open for a long time and there is no meaning of doing activities to attract customers, so for this dessert shop, there are relatively few creatures like customers.

Now there happened to be a customer in the store. They were a young couple. The boy in the couple was ordering. This should have been a very normal thing.

However, Ranpo Edogawa, this clever and outrageous boy, said something casually after the boy finished ordering, which directly caused a couple to break up.

"Strawberry milkshake, chocolate cake, mango pancake, a latte, I remember that you like vanilla ice cream the most, so let's have another serving of this."

Edogawa Ranpo, who could remember clearly without pen and paper, looked at the young man's head, then tilted his head, with a pure smile on his face, but the words he said made the young man want to tear his mouth open.

"Although you swore that this lady likes vanilla ice cream, it's actually not true. Strawberry ice cream is what this lady wants to eat most now. The one who likes vanilla ice cream is your ex-girlfriend. You have always missed her, but Miss Yuxiang's appearance happens to be very similar to your ex-girlfriend, so you took the initiative to chase Miss Yuxiang. In fact, you don't even know that your current girlfriend, Miss Yuxiang's favorite is strawberry ice cream. How strange... "

Edogawa Ranpo's eyes flashed with puzzlement.

"Why do you take it for granted that your current girlfriend must not know? In fact, she came to break up with you today."

"enough!"

The young boy slapped his hands heavily on the table and stood up immediately. He kicked down the chair he was sitting on, and looked at Edogawa Ranbu angrily.

However, Edogawa Ranpo was not frightened by the young boy who seemed to give him a punch at any time, he jumped back two steps, curled his lips, and muttered softly.

"Isn't this something that everyone knows? Since everyone knows that I said it, why should I be angry..."

Afterwards, he uttered the most frequently uttered sentence since he left his hometown for the city.

"The world of adults is really difficult to understand."

Seeing that the young man was really about to start beating Luanbu, Ayou hurried up to persuade him to fight.

However, since Ayou himself is not good at persuading fights, Ayou uses a method similar to the "physical persuasion method" - illusion.

Edogawa Ranpo looked in surprise at the young man who quickly extinguished the fire without saying a few words, and then focused his eyes on Ayou.

After Ayou successfully solved the accident provoked by Edogawa Ranpo, Edogawa Ranpo followed Ayou all the way to the corner where Ayou was sitting.

"Nah~"

Edogawa Ranpo still couldn't help looking at Ayou in amazement, which didn't match what he saw. In his opinion, after the man became angry for no reason, the image of that man's anger suddenly appeared in his mind. The consequences are definitely not so easily calmed down with a few words.

However, Luanbu couldn't see what Ayou had done at all.

"Small shopkeeper, what did you do? It must not be hypnosis. What is it? What is it?"

It's just that the fledgling Edogawa Ranpo still doesn't know the ability of supernatural powers, which is only known in certain circles to a certain extent.

Ordinary people have no way of knowing, even the clever Edogawa Ranpo.

"This..."

Ayou blinked, then frankly rejected him.

"Although it's not something too hidden, since you don't know about Luanpo, I'd better not tell you."

Now talking about where you got your glasses, now that Ranpo Edogawa is out to work, Ayu doesn’t know how Fukuzawa Yukichi tricked him, but that must be true for Ranpo Edogawa It is an extremely important experience.

She doesn't want to mess with it.

Seeing at a glance Ayou's determination that he would never tell him, Edogawa straightened up in random steps, and circled around Ayou a few times with probing eyes, but he still didn't see anything.

Of course, if the supernatural ability was so easy to see, it might have caused panic, not to mention the more unscientific ability of illusion.

Obviously you don't care about these things at all, but I don't believe that a person who commits suicide every day still cares about these things!

In the end, Edogawa Ranbu puffed up his cheeks, muttered and then sat down angrily on the chair farthest from Ayu.

"I'll definitely know!"

Without looking at Ayu, Edogawa Ranpo just kept his back to Ayu, and uttered his declaration loudly.

In the blink of an eye, it was already evening, and it was time to close the shop. Ayou simply lives on the second floor of the dessert shop, basically the process of packing up and going upstairs.

Under Ayou's call, the chef and the waitress left uneasy. The reason is that Edogawa Ranbo, who is still lying on the chair until now.

"So, Luanbu, why don't you go?"

Ayou pulled away the chair next to him, then sat on it, and looked at Edogawa Ranpo who seemed to have lost his vitality with a bit of a smile.

"I said so..."

Edogawa Ranpo buried his face in his arms, so his voice was muffled.

"I was kicked out of my last job and I was almost penniless and sleeping on the street."

He turned his head to reveal half of his face, and his emerald eyes stared straight at Ayou.

"Although I found a job here, I have no place to live. I will die because of this."

Ayou was silent for a while, and then looked seriously at the boy who only showed half of his face.

"How about I advance your salary first..."

"What if I live in a black shop?"

Ayou couldn't help looking at Edogawa Ranpo with hesitant eyes.

You are such a smart little brain, you tell me that you can't tell if it's a black shop?

Seemingly seeing Ayou's doubts, Edogawa, who was lying on the chair, moved the position of the chair randomly, and then the whole person turned into a state of facing Ayou, and the half side face that was originally exposed also became Only the part above the eyes is exposed.

As cautious as a small animal that has just left a shelter, his long and narrow eyes are rounded by his efforts, and the blue eyes are full of innocence, ignorance and innocence, just like a child.

—He was just a child.

"I'm going to die!"

He emphasized again.

In this city full of incomprehensible bad adults, if no one helps me, I will really die...