Yokohama Cuisine Event Book

After Fukuzawa left, this small and private space was filled with wordless silence for a moment.

Ranpo is very close to Gancha.The intimacy distance was almost enough to touch the knees—the petite girl picked up the not-so-serious broccoli doll, put it under her elbows, propped her face with her hands, leaned forward, and stared intently at Luanbu.

And the black-haired young man with curled-up hair tail, who looked like a teenager, was closing his beautiful green eyes, shaking from side to side for a while as if he was empty, and then slowly uttered a word.

"...what a fool," he said, "to save those people."

"They are at the center of the conspiracy. Since you prevent the president from intervening, you shouldn't get involved. Isn't what happened during the dragon war enough to teach you how to choose?"

Dragon war.

During that time when Yokohama was covered in blood and rain, as long as she used her supernatural power, she could only see devastation.Compared with the lost life, she can do very little.

But the human heart has limits.The pain of powerlessness destroys a person, so eventually the president and Ranpo stop her.

Two years after learning how to use the ability, she learned how not to use the ability until today.

"...I've already made a choice."

Gan Cha rested her chin, lowered her eyes, and said quietly.

"..."

Ranpo showed an incredulous expression.Then he stretched out his hand—and began to slam the girl on the head.

"You actually thought of such a thing?!" He was very angry, "Even Mimic wants to save?! You are really an incorrigible! Fool!"

"It hurts!!"

The girl backed away with tears in her eyes: "That person isn't completely a bad person--and I'm not overwhelmed to that extent! After making the last effort, I gave up!! Don't hit me Uwah ah--"

"Ranpo, Ranpo-sama! The world's number one detective!! I was wrong—"

"You're really going to make trouble for yourself!"

After knocking the girl out of the bag, Luanbu was relieved a little.He squinted at Gan Cha and asked, "So, what are you going to do?"

"The protector is always weaker than the destroyer," he reminded.

"Yes, so I intend to destroy evil with evil."

Gan Cha put down the hand that was covering her head exaggeratedly, her cheeks were still flushed because of the action just now.She asked Ranpo's opinion: "Do you think it's okay?"

The bargaining chip for Mori Ogai to force Oda Sakunosuke is the owner and children of the western restaurant.Rescuing them is a must, and it shouldn't be difficult.

His plans cannot be seen by too many people, so even the mafia leader cannot allocate a large number of people to monitor or control them.And, in order to ensure that the license to open the ability is obtained, their hiding place must be safe before meeting with the Secret Service.

Their addresses will only be leaked to Mimic after receiving assurances from the Secret Service.If Oda Sakunosuke confronts Mimic before then, Mori Ogai will also lose the possibility of negotiating with the Secret Service.

Only during negotiations, Mori Ogai could not communicate with the outside world.Even if the watchers found something unusual, they couldn't get the leader's instructions in time.This is the activity space that Gancha told Fukuzawa.

The subtle timing may not be able to be determined by others, but it is clear to her at a glance-their death time is around three o'clock in the afternoon.Counting the negotiations, reporting the news to Mimic, and their action time, the port mafia's negotiations with the Secret Service must start at least at noon.

Gancha wanted to use this time to hire kidnapping experts in the black market to steal them out of the safe house.She was going to ask them to don Mimic's gray cloaks, try to fool the watchers, and at least switch hands three times along the way.

The information of a good kidnapping expert can be bought, and the money for hiring is not a problem for her.The property left by their parents is very considerable, and they would not have been killed if they had not.She has the pocket money given by the president, and usually only occasionally uses it to buy ingredients, and her expenses are quite limited.

This is an extremely simple method, but in terms of actual operation, only she can do it.

"I see."

The famous detective pondered for a moment: "This method is enough to save his family members. But have you thought about the future?"

"I will contact Mr. Dojima tonight and ask him to come tomorrow and take them out of Yokohama." Gancha said.

Dojima Gin, her mother's senior, and Joichiro-sensei are close friends at the same level.He used to be the first seat of the Ten Elites of Yuanyue Academy, and now serves as the chief chef of Yuanyue Resort and a member of the board of directors.

He is a tough guy who values ​​love and righteousness, and he has taken good care of her so far, and the assets left by his parents are also being managed by him.The supervisor of Gancha's bank account, besides the president, is him.

"In the boundaries of Yuanyue Resort, it is still very easy to hide a few ordinary people. In this case, that person has no reason to fight Mimic."

The girl wriggled her fingers: "You can ask for help from the Supernatural Special Affairs Section later. With that person's outstanding supernatural powers, and we have helped the Secret Service with a lot of things, it shouldn't be too much to change to a witness protection plan, right?"

"...And then you want him to join the detective agency."

Luanbu commented: "You almost seem to be his mother."

"Hey!" Gan Cha pouted and glared at him.Then she remembered what she found today, and smiled mysteriously:

"Guess what I found when I checked the files today?" She said enthusiastically, "That person—nine years ago, was sent to prison by the president and you. That was when you first met, right?"

Ranbu opened his eyes wide.

"He, he is—the killer back then?!"

The acquaintance of Ranpo and the president originated from the murder of a customer of the president when he was a bodyguard - a female president of a trading company.At that time, the sudden intrusion of Ranpo exposed the fact that the female president's secretary was the murderer, and the young assassin hired by the secretary and blamed, Oda Sakunosuke, shot and killed the betrayed employer, and was then arrested. The president was stunned and handed it over to the police who arrived.

This encounter is the beginning of all subsequent stories.The current address of the detective agency was the building where the trading company was located at that time.

Then, when Ranpo went deep into the enemy camp alone in order to find out who was behind a certain incident, the president negotiated with Oda in the prison, agreed to his request to change the prison meal into curry, and obtained the information from the enemy's base camp. intelligence.Thanks to his help, the president was able to get there in time to rescue Ranpo who was at gunpoint.

"In this case--"

Ranbu's green eyes sparkled, "It's not impossible for a Detective to give him a chance to enter the company for a test."

Gancha smiled.

She leaned forward and took down a large-format map from the shelf: "Then I'll ask a detective to help me find out their location!"

"Not yet."

Luanbu raised his chin proudly: "Wait a little longer. They will send the address up by themselves."

The girl showed a puzzled expression.

As if to prove Ranbu's words, not long after, his cell phone rang.

In my heart, I apologized to the passer-by who had suffered an innocent disaster, and Oda Sakunosuke gave the business card to Dazai who volunteered to contact the other party, stood aside and watched him smile and dialed the phone.

The bell rang for a long time.

——Because it's off-duty time, so no one answered, right?Oda Sakunosuke thought so.

Anyway, it's just a try, if you can't get through, forget it.However, just as they were about to give up, someone answered the phone with a beep.

Opposite was a loud teenager's voice: "It's too late!"

The man lectured vigorously: "Response is really slow, you guys. Any later and it's time to go to bed!"

Dazai raised his eyebrows as if he thought it was amused.

He said softly: "I'm so sorry—but you don't seem to be Miss Hai Laoze."

"You're not the one she wants to help." Luanbu said decisively, "But that's okay. I know what you're going to ask."

He glanced at the girl who was yawning while hugging the doll, and said, "It's about those children. If you want to use her ability, you need a photo just taken."

Gan Cha blinked, and then understood what he meant.

No matter how the other person discussed it, about half an hour later, on Luanbu's mobile phone, he received a newly released photo.

Ranpo put on glasses.

The information in the photo, coupled with the surrounding voices on the phone, their previous location, and the distance allowed by time——

Got the address of the safe house.

And Gancha took Luanbu's mobile phone and replied the message "They are safe".

The next morning.

General Fuzawa, who was doing morning exercises in the courtyard, put away his long knife, when he heard slightly unfamiliar footsteps coming from the corridor.

He looked up vigilantly, and saw a brown-haired boy slowly walking down the steps.

From the perspective of stature, he is only fourteen or fifteen years old.Wearing a shirt and overalls, and wearing a somewhat familiar beret on his head.And the direction he came from, at the end of the corridor——

That's Gancha's room.

Fukuzawa Yukichi: Urgently draw the sword!

"It's me, President!!"

The boy-like man took off his hat, fully revealing his entire face in the morning light.That was Gancha, she found the cosmetics that Xie Ye gave her to play with, dyed her hair with a disposable potion, and put on brown contact lenses, and used a dark eyebrow dye on her originally thin eyebrows Modified into quite heroic thick eyebrows.

Although the facial features and outline still retain the softness of a girl, but at first glance, it is not unreasonable to say that he is a young man who is indistinguishable from male and female.

"Clothes and shoes—all out of step?"

After a few more glances, Fukuzawa also recognized it.It was the clothes that Fuze bought for him not long after he met Ranpo.

"Well, if you want to dress up as a boy, you still can't wear my clothes. Even the pants are cut differently. We searched for a long time yesterday and found them. It turned out that when Ranpo was 14 years old, his figure was about the same as I am now. "

Gan Cha happily grabbed the cuffs, "—but even so, I still have to stuff cotton yarn around my waist and inside my shoes."

She was not very skilled, but happily turned around in front of Fukuzawa.

"I'm still a little unaccustomed to the shoes, but it should be fine if I walk for a while. What does the president think?"

"At first glance it does look like a boy."

Fukuzawa replied objectively, "But it won't be long."

"Well, as long as you don't look like me." Gan Cha shrugged, and put his hat on his head, "Then I'm off—!"

She pushed open the small door of the backyard, smiled at Fuze, and disappeared among the vines on the fence.

For some reason, Fukuzawa suddenly felt a little uneasy.