[Comprehensive] How to develop a villain heroine

Edogawa Ranpo is dreaming.

Ordinary people may not realize that they are dreaming, but Edogawa Ranpo is obviously not that ordinary person.

He remembered that he was still watching various events that happened recently, and because he was a little sleepy from the sun, he took a nap very casually.

Then I stood here, dreamland.

The state of people in dreams is very strange.

Even if a small number of people realize that this is a dream, they also understand that they are unconscious and unable to feel pain in the dream, but when Edogawa Ranpo was knocked down by others, his brain still gave him the command of "pain". , and the body responds accordingly.

But he knew that he shouldn't feel the pain.

This is a dream.

He repeated in his mind again.

If you ask why he is so sure, the answer is that he found that his body has shrunk.

——Let’s be direct.

Edogawa Ranpo finds himself dreaming about the past.

Not long after losing his parents, he fled from a well-behaved school and spent his time as a little messenger.

Like most dreams.

Even if he realized that he was dreaming, Edogawa Ranpo could not control the actions of "himself as a child".

At first, Edogawa Ranpo simply felt that he was nostalgic or satisfied with the experience of meeting the president, so he dreamed about that time.

But when he "watched" himself from the perspective of No.1 and stood up again, and turned the corner according to the expected route, Edogawa Ranpo had a serious expression (if he could), thinking that this might not be a simple dream.

——Because when the little boy turned the corner, the "black hole" that suddenly appeared swallowed him up.

The next moment, the scenery in sight was completely different.

Call it hell.

Countless corpses piled up, and blood flowed all over the ground.

Obviously, you can't smell it in a dream, but Edogawa Ranpo has the illusion of being suffocated by the smell of blood.

He saw his childhood self startled by this scene.

In a daze, the snow-white envelope that slipped from the opening of the backpack was stained red with blood.

If it were him now, he would definitely not panic.

But the self in the dream was still a young child, and it was only natural that he would feel astonished when he suddenly came to the murder scene from a peaceful age and so many people died.

As for fear?

Edogawa Ranpo is confident that no matter who he is, he will not think so.

What's more, at that time, he didn't have much feeling for other people's lives and emotions.

However, the biggest reason for keeping calm was that he told himself rationally - he was not dealt with immediately when he broke into the scene, and the possibility of being killed directly later was too low.

So Edogawa Ranpo saw that he quickly looked directly at the last living person on the scene.

"Child?" The blue-eyed young man dressed most casually and with pigtails seemed puzzled by his presence here.

However, the young man didn't care about this matter, and he wasn't the one in charge, so he immediately turned his head to look at the girl on the other side, "Linyin, there's something wrong with this child—he has a wave of wish power on him, and the breath he's infected with is also It's kind of weird."

"Because it's a 'traveler' from another world."

The girl didn't even look at the child, she had already come to a positive conclusion.

Then she continued the previous topic without changing her face, "Soyousuke, there is no one who has slipped through the net. Genji (the one in power) side, they decided to kill them because they were caught by us, but they were countered. Killing caused the plan to fail', just deal with it casually."

"Yes, my lord."

The brown-haired boy named Soyousuke nodded gently.

Ironically, the knife in his hand was still dripping blood, and among the corpses was where he stood.

Edogawa thought wildly, how would he react if it was at that time.

——Ah, there is only one case.

"You guys, didn't you ask me why I'm here?" Edogawa Ranpo heard his own voice.

"Obvious problem." The girl said concisely, unwilling to say more.

"I got here by accident." The blue-eyed youth discussed nonchalantly, "Although the gods no longer exist, their authority has been integrated into the world. It is not uncommon for humans to trigger their power by mistake."

Even the brown-haired boy was not surprised, he even explained his adoptive mother's attitude to the boy in a good-tempered manner, "You yourself don't fully understand this matter, so why bother to ask you what she already knows? "

These three people—

One is a god who is inherently sensitive to air, and the other is a witch who is favored by the world and often encounters or encounters strange things on her own initiative. Even the only ordinary people are extremely good at observing words and expressions because of their birth, and are naturally clever and good at using strategies.

No one was curious or puzzled by the children who broke into the "crime scene", and even their attitude was too calm.

This made the boy's eyes widen slightly.

He didn't wear glasses, his emerald green eyes clearly showed the figures of the three of them.

"I thought the adults outside would like to 'pretend not to understand', because they clearly saw the truth of the matter at a glance, but strangely pretended not to know, and blamed me for telling the truth."

Probably the girl's attitude was too gentle, and she could see that the corpses on the ground were all boys who resembled the "Rebel Army". She continued in a calm tone that had no feeling for the passing of life, "But—there are still normal adults!"

His words made the witch a little interested.

"Why do you think adults are 'pretending not to understand'?"

Because of the wisdom of his parents, Edogawa Ranpo never doubted his parents' white lies when he was a child.

He felt that adults were smarter than him, but he just pretended not to understand and maintained the strange world in his eyes—until he met Fukuzawa Yukichi, until he was told that he had the ability of "super reasoning".

Therefore, it was no surprise that Edogawa Ranpo heard another self who knew nothing about the future, and answered her in a natural tone.

"That's what mother said."

This time, the witch completely saw him in her eyes.

"You really believe what your mother says?"

"Although my mother is just an ordinary person, my mother is the most powerful! My father is not as smart as my mother!"

"That's a pity." The girl-like witch expressed her apology without distraction, "They are lying to you."

"No!"

The child, who was not afraid of corpses and could maintain absolute sanity, showed his furious attitude in front of them for the first time.

He has always believed in his parents' words, and this is the first time he has heard others deny his parents, so it is not surprising that he has a rebellious mentality.

but--

The repulsion that has not been completely constructed is immediately broken by the other party himself.

"Why deny it?" Miss Witch looked puzzled, "Where is the 'adults know but pretend not to understand', it is clear that you have observed all the truth, they are ignorant and angry."

"You are a veritable 'genius' with unparalleled talents."

"You're obviously the special one."

"Why put yourself in their shoes?"

"You can't understand each other—it's not that you don't understand them, but ordinary people who are afraid of your talents can't try to understand you."

"But I understand you, and we can understand you."

Probably Miss Witch's innate talent.

She can always poke at the hardest and softest part of people's hearts in a few words, and easily change other people's thoughts and lives.

Even Ranpo Edogawa, who saw all of this and was no longer the ignorant child at the time, lost his mind for a moment because of what Miss Witch said.

He felt a frightening palpitation.

I don't know whether it was his own emotions or another self that affected him.

He was so suspicious, of course, not because he saw the expression on his other face, but because he heard Miss Witch's sudden soft comfort.

"Don't be afraid," she said.

"At least I, we see the same world as you."

At that moment, Edogawa Ranpo felt the same emotion as his other self.

Even if only for an instant.

With such an episode, it is not surprising that Edogawa Ranpo's trio took away their childhood selves, and their childhood selves were obviously not in a hurry to go back to the unfolding of their own world.

Whether it's the corpse he saw just now, or the costumes of the trio, Edogawa Rampo can see that he came to the past (history) when he was a child in another world.

In addition, all three of them carried swords on their bodies, and "Genji" was mentioned. He further judged that the self in another world fell through the black hole to the beginning of the shogunate era.

The girl who picked up another girl called herself Izumi Rinne, and the blue-eyed young man who followed her, who was half a guard and half a friend, called herself Yato, a jobless god—although it was unbelievable, but Edogawa Ranpo judged that he was indeed No lie.

After seeing his saber and the "big transformation" that Yato God called the artifact, Edogawa Ranpo was as curious about their existence as he was when he was a child.

As for the young man who is full of bad taste at first glance, but always makes people can't make mistakes in his work, it is Izumi Rinne's adopted son Aizen Soyousuke.

He was lucky as a child.

Because the one who picked him up was the famous "Wu Ji" among the nobles, and the "Izumi Hime" respected by the emperor.Although he didn't become her adopted son like Aizen, it was no different in the eyes of other nobles.

Edogawa Ranpo used another perspective of his own, and had heard other nobles secretly muttering "why Wu Ji likes to pick up children" more than once.

—Maybe it's not that she likes to pick up children.

Ranpo Edogawa analyzed Izumi Rinne from the perspective of an outsider.

And got the final conclusion.

——She just "loves" someone with a distinctive personality, or someone with a strong desire.

To sum it up more directly, what she likes is being different.

Just like Aizen Soyousuke, who is far beyond the minds of other children, like the last god and artifact in this world, like him when he was a child with super reasoning.

The "heterogeneous" in the eyes of ordinary people is the most beautiful flower in the eyes of Miss Witch.

Edogawa Ranpo felt more than once that his "dream" was too long.

Following his own perspective in another world, he observes a different life of himself.

From another self's curiosity about the strange world, to his integration into the group of three (four); She can face Izumi Linyin who indulged their petty actions with an innocent face.

Unsurprisingly, Edogawa Ranpo discovered that his self in another world cared more and more about Izumi Rinne.

That was two years and three months since he came to this world.

With Quan Linyin's acquiescence, Aizen took the initiative to extend the minions he cultivated to those in power.

This is where the turmoil begins.

Overthrowing a regime is no easy task.

Even with the support of Izumi Linyin's aristocratic family background, it is unlikely that Aizen will win in a head-on confrontation with those in power.

But Aizen has Ranpo Edogawa from the future.

Although he is still young, he still knows a lot of "history", and for this reason he has perfected the deficiencies in the blue dye plan.

The second year of fighting.

That was the most tense moment of the battle, and it was also the most difficult period to ensure safety.

"It was your mistake that you failed to kill him (the person in power) directly during the battle."

The person who analyzed the last battle was Edogawa Ranpo who had been in this world for three years. "Now that he has fled back to the mansion, it will be difficult to touch him."

"Because of this, he can no longer spare his hands to rescue the two cities we captured."

There was still a smile on Aizen's face, and he didn't look disappointed.

Numerous battles have made him better at hiding his thoughts, but facing Edogawa Ranpo, whose reasoning ability is at its peak, he knows that this is not enough.

"However...he has been avoiding the battle will indeed lengthen the battle line, we need to find a way to lure him out."

Aizen stared at the boy who was younger than him and looked childish, and added in a vague way, "Mother has not been in a good mood recently, and it's time to end it."

No matter which random step it is, it can be seen that this is Aizen's conspiracy.

"I'll be the 'bait'." But Ranpo, who grew from a child to a teenager, still jumped in. "The life of the 'military division' is the best bargaining chip for him to take risks."

"Isn't that too dangerous for you?"

"Even if I don't mention it, you will implement this plan." The young man had a good insight into the other party's intentions, but continued indifferently, "Omit those unnecessary processes, and improve the details-let's say it first, I am for Sister Lin .”

The young man who hadn't put on his glasses yet, his emerald green eyes were filled with unnecessary coldness, "She's tired, we have to fight quickly."

This kind of him caused Aizen to chuckle knowingly.

The plan was certainly a success.

Except that he was tricked by Lan Ran in the end and almost died by the enemy's knife.

Protecting him from under the knife was Quan Linyin who rushed back from outside after hearing the news.

"Random steps."

She beheaded the enemy with a single blow, and turned to look at the wide-eyed young man who obviously didn't expect her to come back at this time, "Since you called me 'Sister Lin', I should also fulfill my corresponding obligation and teach you the best Basic truth."

"……what?"

"Don't play with your own life."

Her words made both Edogawa Ranpo's hearts beat faster at the same time.

One was because she had heard similar advice, and the other was because she was the one who cared.

"I..." Edogawa Ranpo heard his other self being silent for a while, so he said with little hesitation, "Even, even if Miss Rin doesn't come, I won't die—I mean nothing will happen! "

"Random steps."

The two people with the same name heard Miss Witch's sigh.

Like pity, but also like some kind of temptation.

"You should learn to cherish yourself more."

"No matter how you arrange it, only by living to the end can you experience the happiness brought by your 'talent' at the moment when you pick the fruits of victory with your own hands."

She taught him to love himself and how to please himself.

Of course they knew that the purpose of her saying this was not the elder's concern or love for the younger generation, nor was it because of how kind she was, preaching the weight and meaning of life to him.

...but ah.

"it is good."

The boy was not afraid of the long knife she was holding, and stepped forward to hug her.

He lowered his head into her arms in a gesture of showing weakness, and held her outstretched hand without hesitation.

"I'll learn to do that."

Just like a wandering lost person, he met Charon who led him forward[1].

The author has something to say:

Genji is mentioned because historically, it was Genji's people who were in power at the time.And it was his brother who killed him to enter the new era.

[1] Charon (Charon): God of crossing the Styx, son of Erebos and Nix.

In Greek mythology, Charon (also known as Charon) was the boatman of Pluto, usually depicted as a bearded man or an old man.He is not only a ferryman on the River Styx, but also shoulders the task of distinguishing whether it is the spirit of the dead or the living who come to the bank of the River Styx, so he is also the god of discrimination.

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The ferryman of the road of life and the talent of distinguishing random steps, the appearance is actually very suitable for Miss Witch...why not Prometheus who brought fire to mankind?

Because Miss Witch never gives selflessly!

The wish power in Hei Luanbu came from the idea of ​​"It would be great if someone understood him at the beginning". It can be seen as his own different assumptions about the direction of the past, and it can also be seen as the consciousness of many people—they At the same time, it triggered the power of a god in a parallel world, and sent the childhood chaos to "the person who can understand him (that is, Miss Witch)", which led to the generation of the if line, that is, the black chaos.

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As for why it is Miss Witch, in addition to the decision of the author Sang, it is also because Miss Witch is the existence that "best understands/knows the desires of others".

Why did Miss Witch say those words to Hei Ranpo:

Because she appreciates "dedicated life to do something", but Hei Luanbu's desperation is not because of belief but "optimal solution".She is teaching him, letting him learn what she admires and likes - to put it bluntly, she is an old pleasure, and she wants Hei Luanbu to learn this too.

Finally, I would like to mention why Hei Luanbu called Miss Witch "Sister Lin".

One is that Miss Witch's appearance is very young, and the other is to get rid of Aizen who is her adopted son (yes, Aizen and Hei Ranbu are in a hostile state of fighting each other to kill each other throughout the whole process).