I finally became a bottle of fake wine

Irene's final thoughts were reported to her superiors after she pondered for a long time after Gin sobered up the next day.

Not to mention anything else, even when he was woken up, he was very clear-headed, just a little more cheerful, so after waking up, he covered his face and smoked two cigarettes, and he still pretended that he hadn't I was harassed, but I only received the news this morning.

As expected, the two above quickly approved Irene's idea.

After all, the other party didn't have much to do while staying in Nihong at the moment, and it was impossible for the organization to let her do nothing.

As for Bourbon...

I can only ask him to work harder...

"There are still too few people..."

Gin received Rum's order and sighed softly as he looked at the empty base.

The work of recruiting people has been done all the time, but the recruited people are good and bad. Those who are good and have potential are not ready for use, such as Irene, such as Miyano Shiho who is studying, as for those who can be used directly ...

Before they have been tested, they dare not use it with confidence.

"In this case, can I just hang up the signboard at that time?"

After getting Gin's answer, Irene jumped off the bed, excited like a child who was allowed to go out to play.

"I'll go back to Neon next week, you can figure it out."

Gin didn't answer such a naive question, he just sneered a couple of times, and stopped talking.

After hanging up the phone, Irene couldn't help sticking out her tongue, thinking that Gin probably planned to settle accounts with her.

"So it seems... Do you need to change the furnishings in the store?"

Anyway, the report she typed was approved, and Irene walked back and forth in the store twice with great interest, before realizing that she had no reference object.

Speaking of it, although she helped Zhongyuan Zhongye handle a lot of paperwork and consulted a lot of information in the intelligence team, she still had no idea what the investigator's office should look like.

"...Ask Scotland?"

Irene, who had been thinking hard for a long time and was about to look for references in TV dramas, suddenly remembered that Scotland, who had successfully sneaked into Yokohama, seemed to have joined a detective agency, and he himself became an investigator.

So Irene found Scotland's number from the phone's address book and dialed it.

"Hello?" Scotland was quite surprised to receive a call from Irene. After all, he has always contacted Irene on his own initiative, and it is rare for the other party to contact him.

"Why did you suddenly remember looking for me?"

Listening to Irene's words on the other end of the phone, Scotland's expression changed several times before it settled on a slightly headache mixed with helplessness. "You mean you want to know what the investigator's office looks like?" He looked at the plain desk in front of him, and quickly took a photo of the desk.

"It's just like that."

After the filming, he picked up his phone again and continued to communicate with Irene.

"So I don't know what you're struggling with..."

"If you're so curious, it's better to invite her over directly." Sitting in the office on the left of Scotland, sipping juice with his habit, the boy in the beret took his legs back from the table, and then put his legs Yipan sat on his office chair.

"Eh?"

Scotch, who was explaining to Irene that the so-called investigators are just ordinary investigators without any SAN value or any wonderful indescribable horror experience, was stunned when he heard the boy's words. He has actually experienced the other party's one-sidedness and domineering self-willed young man, and confirmed whether the other party is talking to him.

"what?"

Although he has confirmed most of what the other party wants to say, Scotland would rather not hear it.

"So I said, just invite her over as a guest. Anyway, I don't have any clients recently, and maybe she can introduce us to some jobs." The boy said this, and after throwing the finished juice into the trash can, he fumbled for it from the drawer. A lollipop came out, tore off the wrapper and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Anyway, she has a deep relationship with Yokohama."

Hearing Edogawa Ranpo's last words, Scotland's eyes changed.

Although he has not yet experienced Edogawa Ranpo, a boy with a peculiar personality, who has the supernatural ability "super reasoning", he has learned a lot about it from the surroundings and even the military police who invited the boy to assist in handling the case. Boy's Tale.

That young man possessed the ability to "see through the truth in an instant", that's why he became a famous detective in a short period of time, even surpassing many famous detectives who made their way in this industry in the early years.

He wasn't sure if the boy saw anything, and he wasn't sure if the other party knew about his original mission.

Originally, he planned to decline the other party's invitation with a smile, but after meeting the cold eyes of the young man, he suddenly changed his mind.

"Are you interested in coming to the Armed Detective Agency?" He heard his voice dryly extending an invitation to the other end of the phone, and Irene quickly agreed.

"Okay, I'll come."

After looking in the mirror again and again to confirm that her current costume is perfect and does not require any adjustments, Irene agreed to Scotland's invitation with a relaxed mood.

Based on her understanding of Scotland, the other party would not invite her to return to Yokohama without a reason.

Maybe there is something I need to ask her for help.

If she is not compatible with Bourbon, she may not be compatible with Scotland.

Moreover, after the last meeting in Kyoto, she found that she no longer had any psychological fluctuations about the meeting with Nakahara Chuya, and she was even vaguely happy to see it happen.

She began to look forward to meeting Zhongya with the new vest.

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When Irene was happily preparing to go back to Yokohama, Felicia suddenly called.

The other party came to inquire about the recent situation of the client that was handed over to her.

"The child promised to be the God of Wisdom for certain monsters, so he signed a contract with them at the price of one leg and one eye." Irene met with Kotoko Iwanaga twice after finishing prosthetic limbs for her. Her puppet made her open up and tell herself why she was kidnapped.

"Yes, it is exactly as I thought..."

Felicia's voice didn't sound surprising to hear Irene's answer. Presumably, she would be so eager to inquire about Iwanaga Kotoko's situation because she had already expected what happened to the child.

"You seem to be well aware that something like this is going to happen to her."

"...It's not a monster, there will be other creatures approaching... In the family of the Iwanaga family, there are so few people who will have a connection with the weird and mysterious side, as if it is a nature hidden in the blood."

"However, at first I thought that this child had made a deal with some god, using her own body as a sacrifice in exchange for some terrible power... It turned out that she herself became a god..."

Felicia suddenly laughed. "A very interesting kid, I would like to meet her in person if I could."

"Is it okay for her to hand it over to you after that year?" Irene immediately hit her with the stick when she heard what the other party said.

She has more important things to do now, and she has no interest in teaching and educating people at all.

What's more, her own knowledge of the mysterious side is also half-baked.

"Let's talk about it in a year." Felicia didn't agree or refuse, but just gave such an ambiguous answer, which was so clear and thorough.

"what the hell……"

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The day Irene returned to Yokohama was fine. She held a light-colored parasol, wore sunglasses on her face, and her long black hair was combed into double ponytails hanging on her sides. She looked cute and playful.

"Hmm... the small red building at the end of the road...is this here?"

Instead of letting Scotland come to pick her up, Irene relied on living in Yokohama for a whole year and directly followed the address all the way to find her, and then successfully found her target.

"Let me see...the cafe on the first floor is called 'Vortex'...it's here!"

Irene, who didn't look in the wrong direction, jumped around happily, then put away her umbrella and walked into the coffee shop.

"welcome."

The bell at the door of the store rang softly, and the white-haired old man standing behind the bar in a suit and wearing a bib showed a warm and gentle smile at Irene.

"Hello." Irene nodded and greeted the other party, and then quickly walked to the window seat and sat down under the guidance of the cute-looking waitress, and then took out her mobile phone to send a message to Scotland.

"I'm already here~ It's downstairs."

She ordered a glass of iced drink and waited for Scotland to arrive.

A few minutes later, the store door was gently opened again, and then the man with short brown hair walked up to Irene, looking at her with a puzzled expression.

"Ai...?"

"Lily. Lily Edwin." Erin bit her habit and tilted her head towards Scotland, showing a playful and cute smile.

"Qingchuan Jingguang, just call me Jingguang."

After the two checked their names in the coffee shop, Scotland sat next to each other and looked at Irene repeatedly with a surprised look.

He remembered that when Irene returned to China, she still had long light brown hair and gray-blue eyes that he suggested, why did it change now?

"Ah, you don't know about the fact that I went to help Bourbon before..." Irene sighed seeing the surprise in Scotland's eyes, with a very tired expression.

"Appreciate further details."

Seeing Irene's expression of "it's a long story", Scotland, who suddenly felt very interesting for some reason, showed his kind smile.

"Well, all in all, I and Bourbon are incompatible, so the previous vest needs to be discarded, so I changed my identity again." Irene, who didn't intend to say too much, just used her habit to stir the ice cubes in the glass , "Speaking of which, don't you have to work?"

"It's rest time now." Scotland pointed to the clock hanging in the store, saying that his current job is a very serious job with strict commuting time and lunch break.

"Hey, it feels pretty good..." Hearing what Scotland said, and remembering how she worked overtime from morning to night in port mafia, wishing she could grow eight hands by herself, and was so busy that she forgot to eat and fainted, Irene showed a pair of dead fish Yan, praised dryly in a stick-reading tone.

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Irene: With multiple vests, I am fearless!

There should be a double update today, but because of the liver explosion two days ago, I couldn’t hold back and wanted to rest. The second update will probably be in the afternoon~

Chapter 47 She intuited that her sister did not simply want to introduce a "friend".

After enjoying a delicious lunch in the cafe downstairs, Irene followed Scotland, who had finished her lunch break, to the Armed Detective Agency upstairs.

Although it is only a small detective agency that has just opened in the data, looking at the huge number of offices scattered with several employees, Irene found that this detective agency did not look as simple as she thought before. A small organization, although the development time is not long, but this detective agency has undoubtedly formed a certain scale.

"Oh, are you back?" A blond young man sitting at the desk on the left side of the gate saw Scotland leading Irene into the detective agency, raised his head from the computer and greeted him. .

"Mr. Qingchuan, this is..."

Looking at the girl standing behind Scotland who obviously looked like a minor, the young man pushed the glasses that had slid down the bridge of his nose, and frowned in disapproval.

"Although the detective agency is indeed recruiting people from outside, such a young child..."

"No, she's not here to apply for the job, Mr. Kunikida." Hearing the young man's preaching tone, even the Scottish character of the other party hastily interrupted his thoughts, "This child is my acquaintance. As I said, she intends to become an investigator, so she thought of our detective agency to observe for a while."

"Such a young child, intending to become an investigator?" Hearing Scotland's words, the blond youth named Kunikida's face became even more ugly, "How old is she now, she should be a student, right?"

"I'm not a student. Becoming an investigator is just a matter of interest. I'm the owner of a doll shop." Hearing what the blond young man said, Scotland was about to speak, but Irene walked around him and walked in front of him, looking at the young man sitting on the chair with a smile. of Kunikida.

"Although I don't plan to say too much about myself, but you seem like the kind of old pedant who likes to ask questions, so I'll explain things clearly first." Irene's blue eyes stared at The young man sitting on the chair behaved very aggressively.

"So, are there any other questions?"

"...No, I don't intend to get to the bottom of other people's affairs." I don't know if it's because Irene is staring at me so aggressively that I shrink back or because I'm not used to being in such close contact with women, Kunikida quickly moved away. Opened the line of sight.

"Since you were brought by Mr. Qingchuan, he is naturally in charge."

As if to divert his discomfort, Kunikida quickly turned his eyes to Scotland who was standing there smiling silently, "Don't bring trouble to the detective agency."

He said something in a half-warning sense, and the other party nodded in understanding, and then he buried his head and ignored the girl standing beside him.

"Hey, I didn't expect Kunikida to be so hard on such a woman..."

The one who said this was a certain teenager standing behind Scotland, who was standing at the gate with a donut in his hand at the moment, munching on the donut while sighing indistinctly.

"Mr. Ranpo—where have you been? It's working time..."

Kunikida and Scotch who heard the voice turned their heads in unison, and looked at the boy standing at the door of the Armed Detective Agency who looked more self-willed and at ease than Irene.

The boy was wearing a brown trench coat and cropped pants of the same color, and he was chewing the donut in his hand with a relaxed expression.

"Well, since Jingguang was going to pick up someone, I went to buy afternoon tea by myself..." Hearing Kunikida's complaint, the boy's expression didn't change at all, he pointed at Scotland standing in front of him, Then he turned his attention to Irene who was standing next to Kunikida.

"Oh, it's you." He looked at Irene, opened his green eyes that were slightly narrowed, and then strode to her side, looking at her openly.

"The cookie maker."

"Eh?"

Irene, who didn't know the cookie stalk, looked at the boy standing in front of her from head to toe in a daze, and cast doubtful eyes on Scotland, who was standing opposite the two of them with a wry smile.

"Mr. Ranpo, there is a case in Kyushu asking you for help—" Before Edogawa Ranpo could say anything, a shout came from the clerk's office not far away, and the boy quickly withdrew his scrutiny. Enthusiastically stuffed the donut box in Irene's hand, "What, don't those idiot policemen in Kyushu have a long memory?"

"..." Irene looked at her and rushed towards the clerk's office as if she was a boy, holding the donut box that he had stuffed in her hand, and looked at the other two men in the office.

"what's going on?"

"Probably Mr. Ranpo's favor?" Kunikida rubbed his frowning brows and didn't plan to participate in the conversation between the few people. He buried his head in front of the computer screen and didn't plan to join the conversation between the few people at all. , and Scotland has a little understanding of his behavior because of his relationship with Edogawa Ranpo since he joined the detective agency.

"...Ha..." Irene looked at the donut in her hand, and then at Scotland, reluctantly affirming this conjecture.

"So, why did you want to become an investigator on a whim?" Scotland asked Irene after she took Irene to the reception room and sat down.

He was a little overwhelmed by a series of news on the phone before, coupled with Edogawa Ranpo's unexpected interruption, he couldn't help asking until now. "Could it be..."

"It's not their idea, it's my own plan."

Irene put the donut in her hand on the table, and then picked up the tea brought by the clerk.

"Because it's not interesting to stay in Tokyo all the time, so I just wanted to take this opportunity to do something that interests me." She said this, and she knew what he wanted to say when she saw Scotland's expression of disapproval.

"It's okay, as long as you don't bump into their territory on purpose, you won't meet those people, and after several accidents, I have confirmed that those people don't recognize me."

"The reason why I agreed to your invitation this time is mainly to see what's wrong with you." Irene agreed to Scotland's invitation on the one hand because she was really bored, and on the other hand, she thought that something happened to Scotland. The problem wants her to help.

"actually……"

Hearing Irene's words, Scotland blinked, acting very surprised.

"Actually, it's because I told him to invite you~" Before the Scottish words could be finished, a young boy's voice broke in carelessly.

Edogawa Luanpo pulled his hand at the door and poked his head inside. Seeing the two people noticing him, he simply walked in, and then sat on the side of Scotland.

"I'm quite curious about you."

As he said so, he took another piece from the donut box on the table and stuffed it into his mouth.

"... Curious about me?" Irene was surprised when she heard the boy's words.

This was the first time she encountered such an unreasonable person, and she felt a little headache.

The boy's behavior made her seem to see someone she didn't want to see.

"Well... your cookies are delicious, so I agreed to let him join the club." The boy said and looked at the girl for a while, watching the surprised expression on her face after hearing this sentence.

"……Eh?"

"Well, of course it's not such a casual reason." The boy opened his eyes and looked at the girl with a very serious expression.

"Because Jing Guang is a good man."

After saying this, he narrowed his eyes, took another donut from the box, and then bounced away.

"..." The confused Irene stared at Scotland, who was sitting opposite.

After the other party sighed and showed a helpless smile, he finally understood that joining the Armed Detective Agency not only involves a simple interview, but there will also be a test such as an assessment for joining the agency.

"Hey, there is still this kind of assessment... Should I say that it is Scotland fortunately? If it were me, I would definitely not be able to do it." After listening to Scotland talking about her entrance assessment test, Irene looked at the person sitting opposite her with great emotion. man.

"Because Scotland is a nice fellow."

After sending Irene to the station, when Scotland returned to the detective agency, he met Edogawa Ranpo standing in front of him.

The boy looked at him with a dignified and deep expression.

"You can't do this, Jing Guang."

It was the first time he had called out Scotland's name with such seriousness.

"That kid can't do it."

"She's too dangerous."

"You can do it yourself."

"Don't worry about me." Thinking of Irene's bouncing back, Scotland sighed softly, "I've already made up my mind, Mr. Ranbu."

"...Scotland...to be determined..."

On the way back, Irene took out a small book from the backpack she was carrying, and then found Scotland's name on the catalog page, and quickly wrote her own judgment after the other party's code name.

"Scotland, don't let me down too much..." As she said so, she turned the book to the first two pages, and drew a horizontal line after Bourbon's code name.

"It's fine if you're not a traitor..."

She murmured, thinking that it would be really difficult for the organization to find two more members who are capable and loyal to the organization.

The last time I uprooted the entire neon network, did it really hurt my vitality because I moved too fast...

"Uncle Jie Cheng's identity was not revealed until the end...It's a pity." She sighed deeply, and then circled several names that were yet to be investigated in the small notebook.

"There should be a few people on Nehong's side. After all the investigations are completed, there should be no problem..." She put the small notebook she was carrying into her backpack again, and then quietly waited for the return vehicle to arrive at the station.

When Erin returned to the doll shop, she accidentally received a call from Miyano Shiho.

"Hello? Shiho?"

"Well, it's me."

Miyano Shiho on the other end of the phone planned to go back to Nihong to meet his sister whom he hadn't seen for many years because of the end of the semester, and then remembered that Irene should happen to be in Tokyo right now, so he wanted to ask her out to meet.

"Okay, you and your sister can also come to my shop directly~ You will definitely like it!"

"If you don't bother..."

Miyano Shiho heard that after Irene returned to Neon, because she didn't have any tasks for the time being, she planned to hide and opened a doll house.

"Speaking of which, my sister also said that a friend wanted to introduce me..."

It was this so-called "friend" that Miyano Shiho was discussing with Irene at the moment.

She intuited that her sister didn't simply want to introduce a "friend".

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By the way, small theater:

Ranpo: The president adopted me when I was a teenager!

Erin: Papa adopted me when I was a few years old!

Ranpo: The president will even treat me to snacks!

Erin: papa will buy me pudding too!

Ranpo: Although the president is fierce, he is actually very gentle!

Erin: Although papa can kill people, he is super nice to me!

So it should be random steps lost hhh