The morning sun shines through the curtains, bringing light into the room, and the light from the small table lamp is not as conspicuous as in the dark night. The alarm clock next to the bed rings "Dingling--", Ayou can only start from He reached out his hand from under the quilt and quickly pressed it away.

Wash and dress, it's another new day.

Of course, this is not what Ayou wants to get up early, but if she doesn't get up to open the door, no one will be able to enter the store, so she can only give up Xiuxian and be a normal person who tries to go to bed early and get up early.

Of course, this is normal...

"Boom boom boom——"

Ayou knocked on the door of the next room.

Because the location is on the commercial street, there are many restaurants around. If you want to eat something else, you can also order takeaway, so breakfast is very easy to prepare. Ayu is going to ask Edogawa Ranpo what he wants to eat first.

"Ranbo, are you up? It's time to eat."

……

There was no sound from inside the door.

Ayou thought for a while, and then knocked hard on the door again.

"Boom boom boom——"

"Ranbu, if you don't get up again, I'll just order whatever I want for breakfast!"

As soon as Ayou's words fell, Edogawa's anxious voice came from inside the door.

"You can't be casual! I'll come out right away!"

Ayou only waited outside for a short while, and the door was suddenly opened by Edogawa Ranbu, and he appeared in front of Ayou.

Ayou looked at Edogawa Ranpo who finally came out, and then looked at him helplessly.

"Ranbu you... don't be so anxious..."

Probably because of being too anxious, Edogawa Ranpo in front of him still had light red marks on his face that he didn't know how to make, the buttons on the shirt he was wearing were crookedly buttoned, and his uneven hair was now It becomes a messy feeling.

Young man, you are working too hard just to eat, right?

"It's all because clothes are always too difficult to wear."

The disheveled boy put all the blame on the clothes in an extremely righteous tone, but his puffed cheeks and eyes staring hard at the buttons of his shirt revealed that he was actually a useless person in life.

Can I say it's lucky you didn't wear your pants backwards...

Ayou looked at the angry boy and sighed, beckoning him to lower his body.

Edogawa Ranpo bent down very cooperatively.

Ayou first re-buttoned all the buttons of his shirt, and asked in a warm voice like coaxing a child.

"Ranbu, have you washed?"

Edogawa Ranpo glanced at Ayou with a strange look, and then answered very obediently.

"not yet……"

"So……"

Ayou pulled him into the house again, and dragged the boy to the bathroom.

"It's all new. No one has lived in this room yet, so don't worry."

Speaking of this, Ayou couldn't help but laughed a little, she turned around, stood on tiptoe and patted Edogawa Ranpo's shoulder.

"You can order breakfast, so don't worry, I'll wait for you outside."

After finishing speaking, Ayou walked out of the door and closed the door of the bathroom.

Ranpo Edogawa, who was left alone in the bathroom, looked at the half-closed door for a few seconds, then blinked, and moved his gaze to the mirror.

"Shall I decide what to eat..."

He muttered something in a low voice, then seemed to think of something, suddenly became happy, even his eyes lit up.

Going downstairs with Edogawa Ranpo who had packed up, Ayou took out several leaflets from the bar and handed them to him.

"This is the menu of nearby stores and those that can deliver food. Ranbu, let's see what you want to eat."

Edogawa took the list randomly and blinked, then stared at Ayou with his green eyes motionless.

"Hey, shopkeeper, you mean I can order whatever I want, which means that I can eat whatever I want, right?"

"of course."

Ayou nodded to him with incomparable certainty, and then the young man in front of him jumped up in an instant. He put the flyer aside, and then took out a crumpled flyer from his pocket, and handed it to Ah. pomelo.

"This! I wanted to eat it a few days ago!"

Ayou took the leaflet that Edogawa Ranpo handed to her, first tugged it to make it less wrinkled, and then carefully looked at the contents.

The listing advertised a Japanese teahouse, and the bamboo walls and green plants in the photo gave off an elegant feeling.

"It doesn't seem far away..."

Ayou looked at the address, and then seriously thought about her current coordinates.

Hmm, it seems like the street next door is called that?

Although I don't know the way, but...

Ayou looked up at the boy with shining eyes in front of him, and nodded in her heart.

Ranbu is such a clever little brain, he will definitely know the way!

Sure enough, with Edogawa Luanbu leading the way, the two of them successfully walked to the teahouse on the leaflet.

Ayu had never been to this kind of Japanese-style teahouse, so when faced with the choice of tea, she directly chose the red bean mochi strongly recommended by Edogawa Ranpo.

"Well...it feels pretty good, it would be nice if it was a little sweeter."

After eating a red bean mochi, Ayou felt the sweetness in his mouth while talking about his feelings.

"No... just double the sweetness!"

"Huh? But I think it's just right."

Edogawa Ranpo, who was sitting across from Ayu, was talking vaguely with red bean mochi stuffed in his mouth.

Ayu stared expressionlessly at the mountain of red bean mochi in front of Edogawa Ranpo.

That's because you're only eating red beans...

And Edogawa Ranpo, if you eat red beans and mochi and only eat red beans without the skin, will you really not be beaten by the boss?

Well not _(:з」∠)_

"It's obviously red bean mochi, but the mochi skin is not sweet at all."

Edogawa swallowed the red beans in his mouth in disorder, said something as if complaining, and then looked at Ayou Anli with shining eyes.

"So you can just eat red beans like me~"

Ayou looked at the swearing Edogawa Ranbu opposite, tilted his head and blinked his eyes, then moved his gaze to the red bean mochi on the plate.

After thinking for ten seconds, Ayou decided to eat the Amway of Edogawa Ranpo. She picked up the chopsticks and began to peel off the skin of the red bean mochi.

"Really! The sweetness is just right!"

"You see!"

Edogawa raised his chin triumphantly, poking the red bean and mochi with the chopsticks in his hand, looking very proud.

"I knew it, your sweetness is the same as mine!"

"Awesome Chaos!"

Ayou applauded softly and praised.

Although I don't know where he saw it, but it is really amazing!

Ayou sighed sincerely.

"Of course, you are not old enough, little shopkeeper."

As if knowing that Ayu didn't know how he knew, Edogawa Ranpo took another bite of the red bean in the red bean mochi, and then opened his mouth as if to explain.

"Although I already knew a lot of things when I was your age, there are also stupid children."

Ayou: Why do I feel that you are mocking me? ? ?

Edogawa Ranpo said this, and then swallowed the red beans in his mouth.

"But I believe the shopkeeper will know when you grow up to my age."

After speaking, Edogawa Ranpo frowned again, showing a distressed expression.

"I really don't understand why those adults who know everything are still pretending not to know..."

"Don't worry about it!"

Ayou looked at the distressed Edogawa Ranbu on the opposite side, stood up, then leaned over and touched his head, with a strangely mature tone.

"Ranpo, you are not yet the age of adults, so you don't need to understand the world of adults."

Since ancient times, wisdom will always be hurt. If a person who is too smart does not have the correct guidance, it will always be very hard to live a 'normal' life...

After stroking Edogawa Ranpo's hair again, Ayou sat back, then bent his eyes, smiled and met his somewhat dazed green eyes.

"My dessert shop is estimated to be open for several years. It doesn't matter if you can stay here as long as you want."

Edogawa Ranpo's eyes gradually widened.

"So if you don't understand it, don't force yourself to understand it. After all, you are still young, and..."

Ayou looked sideways at the busy street outside the window.

"The world of adults is really complicated..."

Ranpo Edogawa, who was stunned by Ayou's sudden pat on the head, didn't react until Ayou's words ended for a while, and his innocent emerald eyes looked at Ayou for a long time, and finally He muttered in a very soft voice, as if he was a little annoyed.

"Obviously you are not as old as me."

This feeling of being comforted by someone younger than me...

what the hell!Even if he is the one who is taken in now!But I will always grow up!

Moreover, the shopkeeper is not a smart kid, so he will definitely be deceived by others. You must know that adults are very annoying, and they will always pretend to be ignorant to deceive others.

Although I really hate those adults, I don't have time. My mother said that if I have to take care of children younger than me, I can't always be taken care of by a shopkeeper who is five years younger than me!

'What your parents say is right. 'Edogawa Ranpo has always believed in this sentence.

Edogawa Ranpo's reasoning ability that can see through the truth at a glance is rare in the world, and it was unintentionally revealed when he was young, which made his parents very worried that he would not be able to have a normal childhood.

So his parents moved to the countryside with few people and spared no effort in educating him.

It is precisely because of the protective walls built by his parents since he was a child that Edogawa Ranpo grew up like an ordinary child in his childhood. However, they did not expect that they would not be able to wait for the child to mature naturally, so Shang The young Luanbu was alone, trapped inside the wall alone.

—He couldn't comprehend the world beyond the walls.

He has been trapped in the white lies of his parents.

'Everyone knows what you know. '

'My lord knows more than you do. '

'You can't say that others are stupid, they just didn't say it. '

It seems to be a strange circle, until now, in the eyes of Edogawa Ranpo, he is just an ordinary boy, the "truth" he can see is known to all adults, and they even see more than themselves.

It's just that adults always like to hide themselves.

but……

Edogawa Ranbu's eyes lit up, as if he had thought of some brilliant idea, he became refreshed, he stood up, put down the chopsticks in his hand, looked at Ayou impatiently, and his voice was slightly soft uplift.

"Small shopkeeper?"

"Ok?"

Ayou was caught off guard by his raised voice, and looked at Edogawa Ranpo who stood up suddenly in a daze.

"Don't worry, shopkeeper!"

Edogawa Ranpo's eyes shone with dazzling brilliance, he put his hands on the table, quickly bent down towards Ayou, and stared straight into Ayou's eyes.

"Although I'm not smart enough, we can study the world of those adults together, so that we can live well in a city full of adults without waiting until we grow up!"

I am older than the shopkeeper, so I will definitely learn it first. In this way, I am taking care of the shopkeeper myself instead of the shopkeeper taking care of myself!

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