cat blues

Yukichi the cat was stunned. It looked at Fukuzawa Yukichi who was more than ten years younger standing in front of him, and the fur on his back exploded.

Seeing such a reaction from his own cat, Yukichi Fukuzawa changed his uncomfortable expression to a very helpless expression.

Fukuzawa Yukichi, who was more than ten years younger, stepped forward, stretched out his hand and rubbed the head of his big cat vigorously, his tone was full of helplessness, "Didn't you do this?"

Yuji Maomao tilted his head in some doubts, and then half-responsively let out a "purr" sound like a scream.

"What's wrong?" Oda Sakunosuke came out to have a look strangely, and then he showed some doubts, "Well, are you here to find the president of the detective agency?"

"Oda, it's me." Fukuzawa Yukichi said helplessly.

"Hey!!!!" A group of people stood in the president's office, looking at Fukuzawa Yukichi who suddenly became younger in shock.

Fukuzawa Yukichi reached into his sleeve and took out the cat language translator that he had drawn from the heavenly lottery. He pointed it at Yukichi the big cat, and then explained, "In the morning, I went out after breakfast. I went for a walk along the river, and when I came back, I found that my body had become younger."

What Fukuzawa Yukichi said was very simple. In fact, after he had breakfast in the morning, he didn't feel much. When Fukuzawa Yukichi went out to walk along the river to enjoy the autumn scenery and bask in the sun, he felt that his body was inexplicable. Earth fever. At the beginning, Fukuzawa Yukichi thought he had this feeling because he had been exposed to the sun for a long time. However, he soon discovered that it was not a gift from the sun, but the body's own heat.

He quickly did a simple check on himself, and after confirming that he didn't have a fever, he rushed home quickly.When he came back, Edogawa Ranpo Yukichi Maomao had already gone to work at the Whirlpool Cafe, and there was no one at home.

Fukuzawa Yukichi looked in the mirror, and instantly found that his face was nearly 20 years younger.He looked at himself in the mirror in disbelief, stretched out his hand to touch his face, and found that it was not a hallucination, and only then did he realize that the skin on his hands had become firm again, and the original fine lines disappeared. And wrinkles are all gone.

Fukuzawa Yukichi thought about it seriously. Obviously, he didn't look like this when he took a shower after practicing swordsmanship in the morning. What went wrong?

Soon he realized that the only unusual thing among the things he did today and in the usual way was that after breakfast every day, there would be a small snack, because of his personal taste, Yuji Big Cat usually didn’t I will make something too sweet for him, often a stack of matcha flavor or simply salty snacks.

But today, Yuji Maomao delivered a bowl of slightly sweet rock sugar pear and white fungus soup. Thanks to the nearby Chinatown, he also drank this snack there, although he was a little curious why the other party today I would prepare such a snack for myself, but Fukuzawa Yukichi still drank it honestly.

If there is anything different about him today, it is probably really the only thing.

So when he explained the matter briefly, he asked the big cat Yuji beside him, "So, what exactly did you put in that bowl of white fungus soup?"

Yuji Maomao was also taken aback, and it quickly purred loudly.

Fortunately, there is a cat language translator now, otherwise it wants to explain things clearly, even Akutagawa and Zhong probably have to toss each other for a while to understand what it means.

When they came back from the other world before, because all the big items they bought had been shipped, they only brought some small things back with them, including the panacea bought by President Fukuzawa, the clothes bought by Yosano, The books bought by Zhongye, the dolls that everyone picked up, and two small gifts received by Yuji Maomao—a bottle of health medicine from Bai Ze and a snapdragon pendant from Tujini.

The snapdragon pendant Yujimao has already fixed it together with its own sachet. Anyway, its cat hair is very thick. Once it is hung around the neck, both the sachet and the pendant will be thickened. The fur is covered, so outsiders can't see that there are still things hanging around its neck.

As for the other bottle of health medicine, Yujimaomao has forgotten it since it was taken out, until last night, when it received messages from everyone expressing their desire to eat meat, it suddenly Thinking of it, I seem to have brought such a bottle back from heaven.

Lord Bai Ze said that if you really want to keep healthy, the first thing you need to do is to have good living habits and eating habits. The big cat thinks that Fukuzawa Yukichi's living habits are quite healthy, and he is usually responsible for the other party's diet You don't have to worry about these two points at all.

So this health medicine should at most be an icing on the cake, right?

With this in mind, Yuji Maomao opened the ceramic bottle, and immediately smelled the tangy and fresh medicinal fragrance, inside which were black pills that looked like chocolate jelly beans.

When the big cat was copying the health-preserving prescription in Heaven, he had seen the usage of something in it. This kind of health-preserving medicine is very mild, and it can be taken orally directly or put into soup to eat together.

Bai Ze wrote very clearly in the prescription that the bitterness of this thing will not be much worse than Coptis chinensis when taken directly, so it is recommended to eat it with other foods.

Yuji Maomao thinks that Fukuzawa Yukichi will not be a person who is afraid of suffering, but who in a normal person would have no accidents to eat hardships, is there something wrong with his brain?

So Yuji Maomao took out his own electric saucepan, and dug out the white fungus that he bought when he was desperately making all kinds of desserts from the kitchen. I also specially dug out the health-preserving prescription I had extracted before, and confirmed that it really said "In order not to let the medicinal properties lose, please do not stew it with other foods, just add it when you eat it."

So Yuji Maomao safely took the tremella pear and wolfberry in his hand to stew together, and because of the fact that this health medicine is said to be very bitter, it specially added a little more before serving it to Fukuzawa Yukichi sugar.

"Heaven's health medicine is so exaggerated?" A group of people looked at the ceramic bottle that Yuji Maomao took out from the apron in disbelief, and they all leaned over to examine it carefully.

Edogawa Ranpo was the first to notice something was wrong, he immediately poured out all the contents of the bottle, and soon poured out a pile of dark pills, with a small piece of paper mixed in the pills, he quickly He lifted the piece of paper up.

I saw that it was clearly written on the piece of paper, "There is a special anti-ageing medicine in this bottle of health care medicine, and there is also a special medicine that tastes a hundred times as bitter as other pills. Let's see who it is. I won the prize—"

Later, I drew a weird stick figure with unknown meaning, probably to express a smile, but Bai Ze's drawing skills seem to be surprisingly poor, resulting in only a lump on the paper that looks more like a greeting than a greeting. Comes more like a curse-like painting.

"The case has been solved, President, you have eaten the special age-reducing medicine that Mr. Yukichi poured out at random." Edogawa Ranpo handed the piece of paper to Fukuzawa Yukichi, "The next thing is to see when you will take it." It's time for that extra bitter pill."

Fukuzawa Yukichi couldn't help crying and laughing, "But I am like this now, what should I do?"

Does he want to tell people, "I took the elixir made by the beast in the next country and I became younger", or "I went for a facelift"?These two statements are more outrageous than the other!

"This is easy!" Yosano Akiko took out a cosmetic bag from her carry-on bag, "Mr. Ranpo, Mr. Oda, Mr. Yukichi, hold down President Fukuzawa first!"

"Wait, wait a minute?" Before Fukuzawa Yukichi could react, he had already been held down by two people and a cat, and Yosano Akiko stepped forward decisively and began to smear the man's face.

"Well, that's about right?" After Yosano Akiko walked away, everyone stared at Fukuzawa Yukichi who had been put on makeup with widened glasses.

"Wow, Miss Yosano, how did you do it?" Akutagawa Gin was the first to ask in surprise.

"Hmph, it's just that you're getting older. You just need to draw the wrinkles or something. Anyway, no one will want to touch the president's face." Yosano Akiko proudly raised her head, and by the way The makeup mirror was placed in front of Fukuzawa Yukichi.

Fukuzawa Yukichi looked at the man in the mirror with some awkwardness. It was true that after makeup, he looked very similar to his previous appearance, and it was true that as long as no one touched it, he would not be noticed. He was relieved at the same time , also frowning a little, does he have to go to Xie Ye to put on makeup first before going out in the future?

Before he could open his mouth, Yuji Maomao at the side had already rushed over quickly, and suddenly gave a thumbs up, and meowed very lowly by the way.

"Huh?" Fukuzawa Yukichi quickly looked down at the cat language translator in his hand, and saw that it said "No problem, I have completely learned such a simple makeup, and I will leave the rest of the makeup to me." bar".

Not only him, Edogawa Ranpo also saw this passage, he read it directly, Yosano Akiko couldn't help but patted the big cat's fur with a smile, "As expected of Mr. Yukichi, it's amazing !"

"For Mr. Yukichi, such a thing is definitely not worth mentioning." Yukichi said without thinking that there was anything wrong with his words, and said with a face of course.

"..." Fukuzawa Yukichi resisted the urge to reach out and press his temple, and finally decided to change the subject, and turned to look at Oda Sakunosuke, "Did you guys ask me for something?"

Oda Sakunosuke carefully recalled what they were talking about before, and immediately clenched his right fist and tapped on the palm of his left hand and said, "We were talking about Chuya and their university holding a school festival earlier."

"Okay, okay, let's go, Chuya and Ryunosuke are here to help carry the boxes at the door, so many fruits and vegetables must be stored properly." Edogawa ranpo saw Fukuzawa Yukichi's expressionless face Trying to find something to say, I couldn't help but walked out with a smile, "Mr. Yuji, we have a full meal of meat at noon, and we will eat the vegetables we bought in Heaven in the evening. Speaking of which, you still bought it in the end. Big cat climbing frame."

When Yukichi Maomao followed him out, he pointed the cat's fingers a little embarrassedly, but when it was young, Fukuzawa Yukichi bought it an ordinary cat climbing frame, and now it is very easy to climb on it. Miyazaki X's classic masterpiece "X Cat" has the feeling of the cat bus standing on the big pine tree.

No matter how big it is, it is still a cat. Isn't it super normal to like to play with cat climbing frames?

"By the way, let's also send some vegetables and fruits to the boss of Whirlpool." Zhong Yuanzhong, who was walking in front, couldn't help but make a suggestion. They were all crazy about buying at the time, but now they came back and saw that they actually bought it. With so many, it's a bit unlikely that just a few of them want to eat the vegetables before they go bad.

"Okay, I want to eat the blueberry pie made by the proprietress!" Edogawa Ranpo raised his hand like a child.

"Me too!" Osamu Dazai said loudly, as if joining in the fun.

After a group of people left, Fukuzawa Yukichi looked at Oda Sakunosuke who was standing in front of him waiting for him to give orders, and wanted to put his hand on his forehead very much.

As a result, when Kunikida Doppo came to Fukuzawa Yukichi's mansion the next day to practice martial arts, he happened to see a teacher who was about 20 years younger.

"Old, teacher?" Looking at such a young teacher, Kunikida Doppo didn't know what to say for a while.

"It's me..." Fukuzawa Yukichi suddenly remembered that he seemed to have only agreed to let Yukichi the big cat do his makeup when he was about to go out. He saw Edogawa Ranpo who had to stay with him yesterday, and suddenly Now that I understand it, this damn child insists on staying here just to see his own jokes.

He sighed inwardly, but he knew better that such things as disguised age with makeup could only be used by outsiders, and a disciple like Kunikida Doppo would definitely not be able to hide it all the time.

"Kunikida, the members of the Armed Detective Agency have encountered some incredible and strange things, and my youthful transformation is the result of an adventure." Fukuzawa Yukichi said calmly and calmly, making Kunikida Doppo who is opposite him immediately understand, It should be because I encountered the same incredible thing as when I went to Taisho before, so I got this adventure.

"I know!" Kunikida Doppo immediately said loudly, "Master, don't worry, I will definitely keep the secret!"

Fukuzawa Yukichi knew very well that although his disciple had a good heart, he did not know if it was a weakness. This child was quite afraid of ghosts and gods. He didn't seem to be able to touch the ghost lamp several times before. Come on, I didn't take him with me when I went to the other world, so why don't you tell this child about the kingdom of heaven or hell?

Fukuzawa Yukichi coughed and changed the subject decisively, "Kunikida, isn't your school's school festival approaching soon?"

Unexpectedly, my teacher would ask me such a thing, Kunikida Doppo nodded and said, "Next Thursday to Saturday will be the school festival, teacher, are you interested in visiting?"

"Okay..." Fukuzawa Yuyoshi wanted to refuse, but after seeing the expectant eyes of the other party, he couldn't say the words of rejection, and he took a deep breath, "In that case, let me take a look Well, I have been away from Yokohama for a few months, has your strength deteriorated?"

"Please teach me, teacher!" Kunikida Doppo, who practiced honestly every day, saluted decisively.

However, the time of the school festivals of several universities is very close, and it is impossible for them to visit all of them, and after all, the essence of going to the school festivals is to increase their understanding of the schools of these children.

Fukuzawa Yukichi promised to go to Kunikida Doppo's school festival, and he would definitely go, not to mention that Kanagawa University is in Yokohama, so it didn't take much time in the past.

So that day he took Edogawa Ranpo to go there with him. The school festival at Kanagawa University was quite lively. It was completely different from the level of junior high school and high school. The more professional and detailed homework made the whole school festival full of excitement. The joyful atmosphere also attracted many nearby passers-by.

More importantly, at the Kanagawa University's school festival, Edogawa Ranpo managed to eat a big meal while his president didn't notice his kung fu.

It can be regarded as a slap in the face for not being able to eat the bad breath of the university in hell.

But in this way, he is not interested in the school festival at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies at Chuya Nakahara that will follow. Even if he can increase his body consumption by breathing alone now, but walking with Mr. Yukichi For the school festival, he will definitely be restricted from eating by Mr. Yuji, so he doesn't want it.

As a result, on the opening day of the school festival at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Yukichi Maomao took the Akutagawa brothers and sisters and Atsushi Nakajima to Tokyo.

"It's so big! Are all universities this big?" Atsushi Nakajima couldn't help exclaiming as he looked at the huge campus, the gate so wide that it could accommodate six cars at the same time, and the avenue after that.

"Aton, we will work hard to get into such a good school in the future!" Akutagawa Yin said with great enthusiasm.

"En!" After Xiaoyin said this, the white-haired boy nodded vigorously.

"Go in, Mr. Nakaya is in Class 3 of the French Department." Ryunosuke Akutagawa glanced at the brochure he got from the door, "Let's go."

Yuji Maomao nodded seriously.

The activity of the French class 3 is a haunted house. There are people charging at the entrance of the haunted house. He was a little hesitant when he saw a tall man and three children.

"Is it okay for children to go in?" The toll collector at the door couldn't help asking, "Our set is a set with the help of people from the film studio."

"It doesn't matter..." Akutagawa Ryunosuke said first, "The lower class is a friend of Mr. Nakahara Chuya from your class."

"A friend from Zhongye?" The toll collector was stunned for a moment, "His duty time will end soon, do you need me to call him out for you?"

"No, the lower classes want to see the excellent set that Mr. Chuya said." Ryunosuke Akutagawa shook his head and said.

"Okay then, but won't you be scared?" The university senior at the door couldn't help but asked again worriedly.

"No problem!" Atsushi Nakajima raised his hand quickly and said, they had just returned from hell, how could they be afraid of the scenes set by these living people?

"Okay..." the toll collector nodded, "Come in, please, the original charge is 500 yen per person, half price for children, but you are all friends of Chuya, I will give you a discount, just count it as 500 yen for you .”

Yukichi Maomao nodded, took out a 500 yen coin from the wallet in his hand, and put it in the cash box.

The arrangement in the large dark classroom is actually quite crude. Even Atsushi Nakajima can clearly see the corrugated paper inside. They are all a little puzzled. Didn't they say that the film studio helped arrange it?How can it be so crude?And the person at the door doesn't know these things?

"Mr. Yuji?" Zhongyuan Zhong also saw them passing by, couldn't help but lifted the black cloth on his head, and stood up to greet them.

Atsushi Nakajima and Gin Akutagawa couldn't help screaming when they saw each other. It turned out that Nakaya's face was painted with quite complicated ghostly makeup. No wonder it was arranged by the film studio. This makeup technique is really amazing.

Yuji Maomao was not frightened at all, and gently leaned over to rub him.

"My scary work is almost over, you guys go down to the door and wait for me, I'll take off my makeup before I go out." Zhong also realized how scary the makeup on his face was, and said with a smile in his voice Signal them to go out and wait for themselves.

A group of people nodded together, and then walked out with peace of mind.Knowing where the scare point of this haunted house is, the two children will never be frightened by such things again.

"I've been waiting for a long time..." Chuya walked out of the classroom after washing his face.

Yuji Maomao shook his head at him, and a group of people gathered together to look at the brochure in their hands, and Zhongye took the lead in asking them, "How, where do you want to read it?"

Yuji Maomao glanced at the brochure with some doubts, and finally stretched out its furry paws and pointed to the event venue of the film club.

"Ah, it's them. But their trial screening won't start until two o'clock in the afternoon." Zhong Ye looked at his phone, it was only after 12 o'clock, "Let's go eat something first."

Zhong also took everyone around the school festival. There were many vendors on both sides of the road, and there were many students wearing spy clothes on the road.

When it was less than two o'clock, Chuya introduced the great achievements of the film club of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, "The film club is quite powerful. They insist on using film to make movies, which is very admirable."

"Film film?" Ryunosuke Akutagawa, who didn't know much about these things, tilted his head and said with a cute expression.

"I don't really understand the advantages and disadvantages between film and digital movies. In short, students still use film to make movies, which is still very good." Zhong Ye said with a smile, and pushed open the door of the gymnasium. Many students came, but it seems that because of the relationship with the film club of the university club, not too many people are interested in the films made by students.

The main members of the film club were under the stage of the gymnasium, and the curtain was drawn on the stage. The members of the club distributed leaflets under the stage, introducing the film they were going to send to the film festival to the students.

Not long after Chuya took the people to sit down, it was two o'clock, and the members of the film club were about to close the curtains by the windows and turn off the lights, when the curtains, which hadn't reached the opening time, were suddenly drawn to both sides It opened, and then a person was slowly put down.

"Yah!!!"

"What, what is this!"

"This is your movie?!"

The students all screamed, and the one who fell from the sky in the middle was a man wearing a hood, and that man's body was still covered with tape.

"No, we are not..." The president of the film club quickly explained.

Zhongya rushed forward with a stride, decisively put on the gloves from his pocket, and took off the headgear. Now, no student could sit still. I met him when I was a child, he was one of the members of the film club.

"How... how? This is, Sanada-kun?" The other people in the film club also noticed the movement here, and they immediately exclaimed when they saw the unfortunate deceased.

"Everyone stop! Don't go out until the police arrive!" Chuya immediately shouted, his voice full of anger, "Akutagawa, call the police!"

A group of students who were startled by his voice wanted to say something, but he had already shouted, "You don't want to become suspects for no reason! If you don't want to, then follow what I said Do!"

"Who are you!" Finally, a student below couldn't help asking.

Nakahara Chuya took out his detective certificate from his pocket, "I am a member of the Yokohama Armed Detective Agency, Nakahara Chuya."

Everyone knows how close Yokohama is to Tokyo, and the Armed Detective Agency is a well-known detective agency in Kanto and even in Japan. Hearing this, all the students fell silent.