Hong Kong and Black Undercover Ayanokoji's Handbook of Tool Man

The accidental meeting between Orihara Rinya and I ended easily.We each had a drink - he had Darjeeling black tea with lemon slices and I had a caramel macchiato.We also had a peaceful and pleasant conversation without testing each other's limits.

He didn't ask me why I was there.

I didn't ask him why he was there.

But mainly because it was unnecessary, he had no reason to tell me the truth.Even if I tell him, I won't believe every word he said, so this nonsense link of hypocrisy and obscenity can be omitted directly.

As for Orihara Lin, he also said that he volunteered to do twelve things for me to make amends.I saw that he was unwilling, but I actually didn't believe how well he could do it.However, I do need him to do something.

But you have to wait for the time to do it.

So, talk about it later.

At 01:30 in the afternoon, it was time for Rei Furuya and the others to meet with the senior management of Yagiri Pharmaceutical.

Before they set off, they specially adjusted the sound so that when I eavesdropped with headphones, the sound could be heard clearly.At this moment, Edogawa Ranpo has not finished class yet, and while browsing the interface of the Dollars web page with yesterday’s Dollars account, I listened to their voices, and I had to say a word of admiration, Fugu Rei’s chat content was very relaxed, natural and professional .I originally thought of taking a notebook to write it down, so that I can learn to use it later.

But think about it, wouldn't it be easier for me to find someone with a similar level of speaking to handle things next time?

So, I put the note-taking thing aside.

Since their conversation didn't interest me much, I dropped into the chat room.

The chat room is quiet and empty.

I flipped through our previous chat records, and when I was chewing the words, I was inexplicably amazed at the behavior of "my own words" becoming "words" and having a conversation with any other people with irrelevant interests.The me who communicates in this way and the real me, which one is the real me?

I suddenly fell into such a strange idea.

At this time, a person came into the chat room with the screen name "Seiton". The background of the profile picture was black, and the small person was wearing a white earphone on his head.

"Me: Good afternoon."

"Seton: Ann~~"

"Me: May I ask~~ what does this mean?"

"Seton:!!! But looking at the historical records, you seem to have been using it all the time. Have you been using it without knowing it?"

"Me: Well, so what do you mean? I can use it in the right place next time."

"Setton:...Actually, I don't know how to use it. I see that Gan Le has been using it all the time, so I probably learned from her positive meanings such as "happy", "in a turbulent mood", and "happy".

"Seton: By the way, Edogawa, your name is so serious, it seems to be your real name."

"Me: This is indeed my real name."

"Seton: Why don't you change your screen name to something you don't recognize?"

"Me: If I can, I want the whole world to know me."

"Seton: If that's the case, you'll have to do something really great, it's great! Come on ヾ"

"Me: Thank you."

"Seton: If you are free, you can log in often, so you can make a lot of friends~~ Everyone is very nice."

"Me: Hmm"

——Gan Le enters the chat room——

"Gan Le: You're secretly chatting behind my back again! Call me!"

"Seton: Ganle, good afternoon."

"Me: Good afternoon."

"Gan Le: @江DO川, you still used "~~" yesterday"

"Gan Le: Are you scared by me?"

"Seton: What's going on?"

"Gan Le: We had a private chat yesterday, and I told Edogawa not to use "~~" casually."

"Seton: No wonder you asked me just now."

"Gan Le: By the way, Seton, are you resting?"

"Seton: Yes, there is no work for the time being, wait for the notice."

"Gan Le: That's it, then will you go out today?"

"Seton: I guess you should stay at home."

"Gan Le: According to divination, women who go out today will have good luck~~"

……

Seeing that they were chatting happily, I couldn't get into the topic, so I watched them chatting while listening to Jiang Guling and their voices.At this moment, a conversation that shocked me came from the earphone.

Because my name was suddenly mentioned in this conversation.

"What? I heard that it was Ayanokōji Kiyotaka that I had an appointment with, so I found the time to come and see, are you?" This voice came from a middle-aged and elderly person's deep and powerful voice, and it was only after getting used to various scenes. Some will be self-confident.

If the guess is correct, it is Yagiri Kiyotaro himself.

However, I have never met Yagiri Kiyotaro, if I hadn't been involved in this acquisition mission, I would never have met him

"I'm Toru Amuro." This was Rei Fuguya's voice. After he replied neither humble nor overbearing, he continued, "Ayanokōji Kiyotaka is our colleague. He didn't come this time."

Yagiri Kiyotaro's voice was filled with regret: "I still want to meet him,"

He paused and said again: "I watched him grow up! Just to catch up with him."

Before I could form a picture in my head, I heard Furutani Rei continue to say: "...I'm not very familiar with Ayanokoji, I didn't expect you to be his acquaintance? But he never mentioned you, no Do you know if you will admit your mistake?"

"I'm 15 now, and I used to be in Academy City, right?" Yagiri Kiyotaro continued, "The same person, he hasn't seen me, but I've heard of him and met him."

Then this person is most likely the observer outside the whiteroom.

Although the whiteroom is surrounded by white walls, I know that people outside can see inside, just like tourists in a zoo. They stand on the other side of the wall with research/exploration/curiosity, looking at us like Martin · Seligman's lab dogs.

I was about to see how he continued, when the communicator suddenly cut off the connection.

"........."

After 1 minute, the voice was picked up again, Fugu Ling sent a text message to me and said, "Just now I got into the elevator, the communicator seems to be out of work, it doesn't affect it."

I said "nothing" lightly.

I asked again, "What are you talking about?"

Furutani Rei replied, "Yagiri Kiyotaro left first, and didn't say anything. Do you care?"

"Well, because I don't have any memory of Academy City, I'm curious."

"Why do you have no memory? Is it because when you leave Academy City, you will be asked to clear the memory of the experiment? In order to avoid bringing important scientific and technological achievements or experimental methods to the outside world."

"Can not remember."

Furutani Rei hesitated for a while before continuing to reply in text, "I think Academy City is a cruel place."

This is especially true for people with no powers or low-level powers.

I think so in my heart.

But for a person like me, how can I reply to this sentence?

Jiang Gu Ling paused, and said softly through the communicator: "Don't go back after you come out."

It is impossible for me not to go back, but I still sent a message on my mobile phone, "I have no personal freedom until the superior arranges."

Suddenly a sentence was posted in the chat room, "Gan Le: @江DO川, are you still there?", I don't know when, 99 messages have been accumulated in it, Taro Tanaka also joined the chat room and contacted me specifically.

"Tanaka Taro: @江DO川, are you that Edogawa Ranpo? Are you okay now?"

I know that Taro Tanaka should be a student of Lailiang Gakuen, if he joins the chat room, it means that get out of class is almost over.

I looked at the time, and it was indeed the time for Lailiang Academy to finish class, and I should get up and go to Lailiang Academy to pick up Edogawa Ranpo from get out of class.So I quit the chat room.

I made an agreement with Edogawa Ranpo that I would wait for him at the school gate after class, because I didn't make a plan for my future route in the morning, so Edogawa Ranpo might not be able to find me.However, I waited at the door for nearly an hour without seeing Ranpo Edogawa.

I'm not sure if it's because he forgot about our agreement, or he had already left when I didn't realize it. After all, it was too unbearable for him to go to high school at the age of 22.

I originally planned to enter through the main entrance, but because I was not wearing a student uniform, the guard stopped me outside the school gate, so I climbed over the wall and entered the school through the back door, and hung a work sign by the way, pretending to be a staff member here.After entering, I found that almost all the students who came to Liang Academy had left.The teaching building also seemed empty, only a few students who were on duty late or who had just finished their sports club were still packing their things in the classroom.

Lailiang Academy is not particularly big. After walking around the main teaching building and the laboratory building, I passed the gymnasium, which was also very quiet.When I was about to leave from the flower bed in the back passage, a clear whistle sounded from inside the gymnasium.Because the surroundings were too quiet, the whistle still had a little echo.

"Beep—"

The whistle sounded again.

As I approached, the gymnasium doors were locked.

Only the whistle cries like the last dying cub of a desperate cub.

I did guess that with Edogawa Ranpo's defiant personality and his unscrupulous shortcomings of exposing others' shortcomings, he would be easily isolated, especially since the students of Lailiang Academy are mixed with good and bad people, and they are also mixed with three schools and nine streams. Being bullied at school is nothing more than normal.Or rather, that's what I want to see.

Just didn't expect it to come so soon.

I want to damage Edogawa Ranpo's self-esteem.

His personality is not gregarious, and he was probably isolated when he was a student.This time, I threw him back into the teaching ground of the school, and let him go back to the days when he was a student, indifferent, isolated, ignored, jealous, and pointed at.

Society and student groups are actually still different.In society, people will look at you as capable and tolerate you.But in the student group, they have their own more direct, strong and unscrupulous views on likes and dislikes.Just because you are excellent does not mean that others will tolerate you, but when your ability is too high, you will be an alien, a monster, or even an object of ridicule in their eyes.

This is "campus bullying".

But this is just the beginning—the Indoctrination Field has only just begun.

"Beep—"

There is only one door and one wall between me and Edogawa Ranpo.

It sounded like it was blowing in my ear.

I suddenly remembered the "last words" left by Oda Sakunosuke to Osamu Dazai.

He once said something like this: "For you, it doesn't matter which side you are. In fact, I prefer you to be a good person, to save the weak, to protect the orphans. In this way, you will gain more. Things are far better than what can be obtained by indifference..."

At that time, when I was editing this passage, I thought of Tolstoy's saying "There is no greatness without innocence, kindness and truth".

I admit that Mr. Oda is a kind, true and simple person. Because he is such a person, there are people who want to get close to him and believe in him like a phototaxis insect looking for a little light in the darkness. he.

But this was for Dazai.

I am different from Osamu Dazai. What tortures my soul is not the "existence/body" mentioned by Paradas, but the "will". The will to become a "human being" is my hell. My destiny, my burden, is a chain from which I cannot escape, a cruel punishment.

Jung said, "I'd rather be a whole man than a good man."

So, I dropped the distress whistle and left from the main entrance of the gymnasium.