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Kudo Shin stared at the crossword puzzles in the newspaper with an unusually serious expression.

He usually doesn't pay much attention to this so-called small puzzle game, and he would rather read a few more reasoning books when he has the time.

The difficulty of these crossword puzzles has long since turned him off.

This time is the same, the difficulty of the game has not changed, but the opponents are different from those in the past.

Edogawa Ranpo slowly opened the newspaper 5 minutes after Kudo Shinichi started to fill in the words. His eyes stayed on the topic for about two or three seconds. He picked up a ballpoint pen and wrote a few words on it, and then wrote He tossed the pen and yawned.

"It's finished."

There was neither joy nor excitement in the detective's tone. Although there was no meaning of ridicule, this flat tone was more frustrating for others.

Kudo Shinichi's expression froze, he gritted his teeth and said, "Come again."

In the first ten years of his life, he never imagined that one day he would be so good at crossword puzzles.

"No," Edogawa Ranpo didn't care about Kudo Shinichi's thoughts, "I'm tired of playing."

Although he himself dragged Kudo Shinichi over to play the game because he was bored at first, but he didn't expect that Kudo Shinichi would get better after losing a few rounds, and he had found all the crossword puzzles in the newspapers in the past few months to play. all over.

Edogawa Ranpo played this game by himself just to pass the time, which doesn't mean how much he likes it.

Besides, "how many rounds you play again, the result will be the same."

Edogawa Ranpo spoke very bluntly, "I don't want to waste time with you."

Kudo Shinichi had nothing to say.The answer is actually very easy for him to come up with, but if he wants to get the answer just by looking at it like Edogawa Ranpo, as if he didn't even need to think, he probably needs to add an engine to his head to do it.

What's more, the surprise of the other party is not just in crossword puzzles.

Aside from his talent as a detective is——

Edogawa Ranpo pointed at him, "As a punishment, you have to help me buy Strawberry Daifuku from the cake shop at the corner of the street." Then he spread his five fingers, "I want five."

Kudo Shinichi nodded subtly, "Understood."

The famous detective was surprisingly childish.

Kudo Shinichi thought many times about what kind of person Edogawa Ranpo was before meeting the real person.

His first choice for comparison is Sherlock Holmes, and Ranpo Edogawa indeed has the same weird performance as this one.But what Kudo Shinichi didn't expect was that apart from that face that seemed to be underage, the famous detective didn't behave like an adult either.

Edogawa Ranpo's attitude towards him was not gentle, and the way he spoke was also very rude, never hiding his emotions.Kudo Shinichi has no doubts at all. If it wasn't for Kurosawa Ao's request, the other party would probably say goodbye to him after taking him out of that place, and let him find his way back on his own.

But it's strange that Kudo Shinichi's respect for Edogawa Ranpo has dropped a lot, but he has also gained a lot of intimacy.

Edogawa Ranpo's reasoning ability is many times higher than his. Kudo Shinichi knew this even if he didn't pass the crossword competition, but when the other party took it for granted that he, the loser, asked him for the spoils, he had a An illusion that he is treated equally by a famous detective.

Kudo Shinichi suddenly understood why he didn't like Kurosawa Ao's attitude towards him all the time.

Kurosawa Ao didn't treat him badly either, they met by chance, Kudo Shinichi said in all fairness, Kurosawa Ao himself didn't mention it for the time being, but he really didn't do anything to him.

Even Kurosawa Ao is calm most of the time and never loses his temper. It is also difficult for Kudo Shinichi to imagine the other party really getting angry. He even thinks that Kurosawa Ao may only frown when he is angry.

They also talk freely between them, but the sense of distance never disappears.The more Kudo Shinichi probes him, the less he understands him, but at the same time, the more he wants to know, like an endless loop, the worst and most fascinating puzzle in the world.And the culprit stood outside the circle, most likely just treating him as a pastime.

No, not right.This bastard Kurosawa absolutely only treats him for entertainment.

Kudo Shinichi thought, if he asked the other party's real opinion, Kurosawa Ao would most likely reply innocently: "Otherwise."

——It's over, there is a picture.

Edogawa looked at him in disorder for a while, then suddenly poked Kudo Shinichi's arm with a ballpoint pen, "That store will be closing soon."

Kudo Shinichi was interrupted from thinking, shook his head and said that he really saw a ghost before thinking about Kurosawa Ao, and then he took his things and prepared to go out.He is willing to bet and admit defeat, and he doesn't have much resentment about running errands.

Seeing the figure of Kudo Shinichi disappearing at the door, Edogawa Ranpo's eyes paused on the door for two seconds, and then lowered his head as if nothing had happened.

The previous turmoil had just passed, and other members of the detective agency had other things to do, and now he was the only one returning to the detective agency, and he had nothing else to do until his afternoon tea was delivered.

But soon.

A cream cake was placed on a white porcelain plate, and was slowly pushed in front of a detective by a pair of knuckle-knuckle hands.

"Mr. Ranpo, cake and strawberry Daifuku, won't you get tired of it?"

"No." Edogawa Ranpo didn't show the slightest surprise at the sudden voice, "You won't get bored with soda."

Kurosawa's right hand waved slightly in the air, and a bottle of soda appeared in his hand as if by magic, "How did Mr. Ranpo know that I bought this? At least let me perform the magic trick before you expose me."

"Your magic level is too bad, it doesn't matter if it doesn't change."

"No way?" Kurosawa argued for himself, "I still deceived a lot of people with my big change of 'dead'."

Edogawa Rampo didn't worry about why it was: "Great change to the dead" instead of: "Great change to the living", and said in a statement of facts, "It's because they are too stupid to see it."

"Really. It seems that I really shouldn't perform magic tricks in front of you, Ranpo-san."

Edogawa ranpo bit his fork and thought for a while, "It's okay, a famous detective can barely be your audience."

If Ao Kurosawa changed to orange soda and cream cake every time.

"That's really great." Kurosawa smiled.

Kurosawa looked down at his watch, "It's almost time, if Kudo-kun comes over, please tell him that I'm leaving first."

Sure enough, he didn't intend to see him anymore, Edogawa Ranpo was not surprised at all, he nodded casually as he heard.

Kurosawa Ao didn't stay long, he timed his departure just right, almost just after his front foot left, Kudo Shinichi came in with his back foot.

Probably hit the right one, Edogawa Ranpo thought as he looked at Kudo Shinichi's expression as if he had overturned the palette.

It seems that there is no need to send a message.

Kudo Shin placed the bag heavily on the table, just pressing it on a certain newspaper, half blocking a headline.

Edogawa Ranbu glanced at it, remembering that it reported that a criminal who had committed many crimes had finally been arrested, but he didn't remember exactly what he had committed.However, the unobstructed content behind the title is very conspicuous.

——Harmful.

He looked up at Shinichi Kudo, and then returned to the newspaper.

Quite fitting.

The phone's screen flickered for a final moment, then went completely dark.

Osamu Dazai stood in front of the locked roof gate and was lost in thought.

So, can someone come and save him? !