I still found the wrong target for the strategy today [Comprehensive]

Dazai visited the detective agency the next day.

At that time, Hanase gave Ranpo the candy she bought specially, and was about to spell out the hidden pattern.

"That's it."

Ranpo instructed Hanase to correct the misspelled part, while grabbing the candy casually and handing it to the handyman next to him, "Do you want candy?"

Kunikida coughed twice: "Mr. Ranpo, a guest is here."

Luanbu raised his eyes and glanced casually, then pushed the things in his hand towards Hanase: "I'll be back in five minutes, don't finish it by yourself."

Dazai rolled his eyes and smiled very innocently.

He waved slightly to Hanase, mouthing "Good morning".

He and Xie Ye sorted out a document and handed it to Hanase: "This is where Ranpo will go on a business trip, Hanase, you go with him."

"Yes." Hanase took the document, "Is there anything special that needs attention?"

"There is nothing special to pay attention to, but don't let Luanbu get too far away from you." Yu Xie Ye said with a smile, "He will get lost."

How can a person with such a superb mind get lost?

At the same time the reception room.

Ranpo glanced at the box Dazai brought, and then quickly wrote a few numbers on the draft paper.

"681523"

"The password revealed from this box is these six numbers." Ranbu only completed the entrusted part. After saying this, before opening his eyes, he pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "There are other matter?"

"Mr. Edogawa, a famous detective, really lives up to his reputation." Dazai picked up the box and looked at it carefully, and muttered to himself, "I can't see those hidden messages at all."

"After all, I'm a detective!" Luanbu proudly put one hand on his hip, obviously enjoying this kind of praise, "I have nothing else to do and I'm leaving."

"Thanks for your help." Dazai waved goodbye to him with a smile, and moved his eyes to the box in his hand, showing a look of spring breeze, "Oh, then this must not be the correct number."

If it was him, he would never set a password like this.

—But this code is not completely useless.

After paying off the entrustment money, when Dazai came out from the president's office, Hanase and Ranpo were about to leave.

"Oh, Xiao Hua, are you going on a trip?"

Dazai checked his pocket and asked casually.

"It's a business trip." Hanase bowed to him, "I'm sorry for the trouble last time, I will be the first to treat you to dinner after I get my salary."

"Okay."

Luanpo threw all his things to Hanase, and walked out first, but he didn't go far at all, so he turned back and called her: "Hanase—lead me the way!"

What he wanted to go to was a rural location, where a murder case that the police could not solve occurred, and when the murderer could not be found for a long time, he could only come here to ask for help.

"I'm so hungry, Hanase."

"It's not here yet, Hanase."

"Where is my candy, Hanase?"

"I don't feel comfortable in this car, Hanase."

"I want to sleep but I can't. I'm a little angry now, Hanase."

No matter how unreasonable or even unreasonable words Ranpo would say, Hanase would patiently respond to them one by one, but the only thing she didn't understand was——

"Why does Ranbu basically call me by my name every time he says a word?"

It's nothing if it's just a few times, but Hanase is sitting next to Ranpo after all, and her name will be added in some unnecessary places, which always sounds very interesting.

Luanbu said with a matter of course: "Because you also called me by my name?"

Hanase: "Huh?"

"And I feel that you seem to be happier when your name is called." Ranbu turned his head, carelessly folded one hand behind his head, and stared at Hanase's eyes without any deviation, "Look, Just like now, every time I call your name, you will look at me very intently."

It was as if something extremely precious was within sight, and that unadulterated stare could make Ranpo feel happy.

So he also took it for granted that Hanase, who was called by name, would look at him like this, and of course it was because Hanase was happy.

Hanase blinked, and then suddenly smiled: "The angle of random steps is so special."

Luanbu raised his jaw, and hummed an untuned beat: "Of course, I'm a detective."

After arriving at the location, Ranpo did not rush to the scene immediately, but pulled Hanase into a barbecue restaurant first.

"I don't know why, but today I really want to eat barbecue!" Ranbu didn't feel that there was anything wrong with it. After sitting down, he started to order carelessly. Judging from the quantity alone, Hanase felt that the two of them really liked it. Not finished, but she did not stop.

Luanbu picked up the teacup and twirled it around, pouted.

Hanase was about to pour tea for him when a cup was pushed in front of him.

Her movements were followed by a pause: "Thank you."

After all, Ranbu is in Hanase's heart, and his behavior pattern other than the case is really a bit like a child. It really surprises Hanase to be able to make such caring behaviors, but it is far more than that.

During the barbecue, Hanase was basically operating, and he was not idle when he walked around. Unlike in the past, he was carefree as a hands-off shopkeeper, but he put almost all the grilled meat on the plate, and finally pushed it to Hanase.

"No, here it is."

"……Um?"

Hanase's seasoning hand was hanging in the air, "Is it all for me?"

"Yes, it's all for you."

Ranpo spoke very frankly. If you look carefully, you can find that he blinks a little too fast. It doesn't seem like he's really okay, as if he's expecting Hanase's reaction.

Hanase put the plate in front of her eyes, it wasn't perfectly baked, and it was a little burnt. To be precise, it was a relative failure, but she still laughed and looked at Ranpo happily: "Thank you very much, I am very happy pleasure."

Ranpo's gaze was still firmly locked on Hanase, and he didn't wait for the next words for a long time, his cheeks puffed up slightly: "Are you finished?"

"...Is there anything else I need to say?" Hanase asked carefully as if asking for advice, "Because I don't really understand these things, if there is anything I haven't done carefully, please guide me."

Luanbu blinked quickly a few times, and the crescent-shaped pupils were finally fully opened at this moment, looking a bit clear and sharp: "Don't you want to express your emotion? After saying 'I will always be my assistant' Such words?"

Hanase: "..."

She understood: "The things you did just now are all for me to say these words, right?"

"Yeah!" Luanbu didn't know why, his temper was a little bit out, and there was a sense of grievance in his anger. He didn't seem to be threatening at all, but he looked a little pitiful, "I have worked so hard, but you I haven't felt it yet! It seems that what Xie Ye said is wrong!"

After these few words, Hanase probably figured it out: it should be that Ranpo wanted to keep her as an assistant all the time, but Ranpo himself really didn't know anything about human relationships, so he went to ask Yuyue and Yosano, who are also women, and then The author probably said that he was "more gentlemanly and considerate" towards women, so the various behaviors of Luanbu just now have an answer.

"You don't need to do this." Hanase couldn't help laughing, she always felt better when she was with Ranpo, she sprinkled the roasted meat with seasoning, and pushed it to Ranbu, "I'm your assistant now, the rest There is no need to do anything extra, I will take care of you."

The corners of the mouth raised chaotically for less than a second, and then they were suppressed angrily: "Why are you using honorifics again!"

"Sorry, I'll pay attention."

Hanase still couldn't feel the crisis, she saw a bunch of hair on the side of Ranbu's head raised restlessly, action preceded thinking, Hanase stretched out her hand, stroked that place, trying to smooth the curled hair.

Ranbu: "Eh?"

He bit the barbecue and looked sideways at Hanase, without moving or speaking.

Hanase withdrew her hand: "Hair is up."

Luanbu looked at the ceiling, thought for a while, and said, "Put your hands back."

Hanase did as she said, and was surprised to find that Ranbu's brows and eyes became softer.

"It's been a long time since anyone touched me like this." Luanbu continued to eat meat, as if nothing had happened, but he still obediently remembered not to be too big, and he looked very supple, "But some people care about height Some people would do that to me, and I would hate it."

His smile didn't have any superfluous ingredients, it was too pure: "But I don't hate you."

"……That's good."

Hanase frowned.

After eating the barbecue, they headed towards their destination, Luanbu acted very leisurely, Hanase guessed that he should already know who the murderer was, and this trip was probably because of Yosano's suggestion.

Passing by a house, there was a loud noise from inside, and then a teenager was pushed and fell out, Hanase quickly supported him, otherwise he would fall to the ground.

"Are you okay?"

"...Ah?? Thank you, thank you!" The young man hadn't fully recovered his consciousness for a moment, and he was in a hurry to stand up. Hanase was afraid that he would fall again, so he held his arm steadily.

But the young man immediately rushed to the closed door: "Boss! Boss! Please give me another chance? I will definitely not throw the plate again next time! Boss! Please, Boss!!"

He howled so terribly that the closed door finally opened a small crack, but the boss behind the door didn't let go at all: "I won't hire you anymore, you can go! If you make noise again, I will go to your dean's place." Reported!"

The boy's back shook violently.

The door closed again.

The boy squatted on the ground in despair and sneezed twice.

Hanase noticed that he was wearing very thin clothes, so she untied her scarf and bent over to wrap it around his neck.

"...Eh? This..." The boy looked at her blankly, "You... are you a fairy who came to rescue me?"

In fairy tales, a down-and-out boy always meets a fairy who rescues him.

So did he meet it too?

"I'm not." The boy saw the fairy smiling at him, she was more beautiful than the most vibrant flower he had ever seen in summer, "Stop squatting on the ground, you will catch a cold."

The young man stood up quickly, with a hopeful look on his face that he didn't even realize: "Fairy, you, are you here to take me away?"

Hanase was startled: "..."

She felt that this person might not have a cold, but might have a fever and hallucinations.

But the young man was holding the scarf carefully, his nose was red, but his eyes were shining brightly looking at him, which made Hanase unable to refute for a while.

"I, my name is Atsushi Nakajima." The boy sniffed, and with uncontrollable fingertips, he grabbed Hanase's sleeve with longing.