cat blues

In addition to the wonderful night view, Hakodate in Hokkaido is most famous for its hot springs.

Yunokawa Onsen near the beach is the most representative hot spring town in Hokkaido, with a history of more than 350 years. There are more than 20 hot spring hotels and open-air hot spring facilities on both sides of the main road here. When you get out of the tram station, a group of people will walk Into this town with a retro atmosphere.

"Ah, footbath!" Edogawa Ranpo saw the open-air footbath not far away, and immediately ran over with him.

"Mr. Ranpo, why don't you go to the hot spring hotel first?" Osamu Dazai asked curiously.

"I want to try this, why don't you come too." Edogawa Ranpo didn't care so much, he pulled Fukuzawa Yukichi and ran to the open-air foot bath, took off his shoes and socks and soaked his feet in the hot spring, Surrounded by a world of ice and snow, his feet felt the coldness of the water surface and the comfort of the hot spring at the same time. Edogawa Rampo's whole body seemed to be a round ball, sitting softly on the bench in the open-air footbath There was an old man's voice on the bed, "It's so comfortable."

"Then I'll try it too." Osamu Dazai was curious and wanted to take off his shoes and step in.

"Stop it!" Seeing that they were about to break their schedule again, Kunikida walked up angrily and stopped him, "Go to the hot spring hotel to check in first!"

"But but—" Osamu Dazai waved his arms ripplingly, as if he was swinging two pieces of kelp, "Mr. Ranpo has already soaked his feet over there."

"It's okay, Mr. Yukichi is there to help take care of him." Kunikida Doppo was not used to him, he grabbed the other party's collar decisively and dragged him to the hot spring hotel.

"Kunikida-kun is so strict." Dazai Osamu followed Kunikida Doppo obediently and walked away with two lasagna tears, leaving Yukichi and Maomao alone to look after Edo who was soaking his feet in the foot bath Chuan Luanbu.

Big cat Yuji doesn’t like water, but for the sake of cleaning, it still takes a bath every two months or so. This time it’s almost two months since it came out this time, but it’s too rude to take a bath in the hot spring. After all, it is a long-haired cat. Although it is not easy to shed hair, there will definitely be cat hair left in the water after taking a bath.

"Mr. Yukichi, don't you want to have a bath?" Edogawa asked softly.

Big Cat Yuji shook his head vigorously. Even if he is not afraid of water, he still doesn’t like things he doesn’t like. He shook his head resolutely, then took out a red bean dumpling from his pocket and handed it over.

Edogawa Ranpo immediately stopped talking about the footbath, and began to concentrate on eating snacks.

Yuji Maomao was always considerate in his work. Seeing his joy in eating, he took a thermos from the side of his backpack, poured out a glass of warm orange juice, and handed it to the choking detective who was eating glutinous rice snacks.

After eating snacks and drinks, Edogawa Ranpo was also satisfied, he shook his feet and stretched out from the foot soup.The big cat Yuji stretched out his paws decisively, wrapped his feet with a clean towel, and put his socks and shoes on after wiping them clean.

"Hey hey..." Edogawa Ranbu didn't have the slightest sense of guilt at his age that he needs to be waited on by others. He waited for the big cat Yuji to help him put on his shoes, and then pulled the big cat outside, "Mr. Yuji, Let's go to the hot spring hotel—"

Yukichi Maomao nodded, took the initiative to hold Edogawa Ranpo's hand, and led him forward.

The hot spring hotel is only more than 200 meters away from here, but compared to the whole street, it is already very internal. This Japanese-style mansion-style hot spring hotel is surrounded by similar retro-style buildings, so it is not It looks abrupt.

Yukichi big cat pulled Edogawa Ranpo as soon as he entered the door, he felt the oncoming heat. After the female general led them into the house, he saw Fukuzawa Yukichi wearing a green yukata sitting on the bench at the door waiting for them.

Now is the best season for soaking in hot springs. Apart from them, there are many other guests in the hot spring hotel. In the sports room, which is almost a must for old-fashioned hot spring hotels, you can hear the movements of young people playing table tennis together. The coin-operated massage chairs at the entrance of the lounge are now full of people.

"Go and change clothes. The open-air hot spring pool is relatively free now, so let's go take a dip together." Fukuzawa Yukichi knew clearly that Edogawa Ranpo had absolutely no interest in playing table tennis and sweating, so he simply skipped those outings Steps, directly into the bathing link, "Now Dazai and the others should have gone to the bathing."

Edogawa Ranpo nodded vigorously, "President, I want to take the little yellow duck in to play!"

"Public bathrooms, no." Fukuzawa Yukichi "cruelly" rejected Edogawa Ranpo's idea, and after leading him to the door of the room, the paper sliding door was suddenly opened by someone, and he saw that the room was somewhat large. There are laid bedding in the room, and everyone is still in the room.

"President, Ranpo-san, Yukichi-san." It was Oda Sakunosuke who opened the door, "Let's go take a bath together."

"Thank you, Oda." Edogawa waved at him with a smile, then swooped onto the futon.

"Mr. Ranpo, please don't do this." Kunikida Doppo was helpless, stretched out his hand and pulled him up, "Now I have to change into the yukata first, and then go to the hot spring."

"Hey hey..." Edogawa Ranpo sat up from the futon, and began to undress boldly, "Let's go to the hot spring, let's go to the hot spring—"

"Don't throw your clothes away." Zhongyuan Zhong also resigned to his fate and came over to help him put away the winter clothes he had taken off one by one.

"Mr. Yukichi, aren't you coming?" Edogawa, who was wearing a traditional yukata, ran around and pulled Dazai Osamu who was lying on the futon, "Dazai, get up and go to the hot spring!"

"Hey, if Mr. Yukichi doesn't go, I'm not interested." Dazai Osamu made a decadent voice, making it clear that he didn't want to move.

Edogawa Ranbu hit the nail on the head, "After playing in the snow for so long in the morning, you have already sweated all over your body. If you don't take a bath now, you will stink!"

Osamu Dazai couldn't help shivering, he is a beautiful boy in his prime, and the smell of a beautiful boy is a horror story.

Thinking of this, he immediately jumped up from the spot, "Let's go, let's take a bath together, Odasaku, wipe my back!"

"Okay..." Oda Sakunosuke nodded very kindly, "Then you can wipe it for me too."

"Okay, okay." Osamu Dazai immediately regained his energy, and then looked at Yukichi the big cat beside him with some curiosity, "Is Mr. Yukichi really not going to the hot spring? It's almost time for you to take a bath oh."

Yujimao still shook his head, so that he wouldn't scatter his cat hair everywhere. He would rather take a shower before going to bed tonight than soak in a hot spring.

Taking a bath or something is an unbearable burden in life for a cat.

A group of people took the washbasin to the hot spring area. The hot spring area is divided into several open-air hot springs and indoor hot springs. There is even a legendary mixed-bath hot spring, but not to mention that no one has the guts to take a bath with Yosano Akiko Hot springs, even if someone suddenly went to the wrong place due to brain cramps, because it is too close to the mountains, as a hot spring area, it has already been occupied by monkeys in the mountains.That small hot spring is not so much a mixed bathing area as it is an open water play area, and even the door has a big sign "There is a monkey inside, please pay attention to your belongings".

A group of people wore bathrobes and came to the open-air hot spring area with the washbasin in their arms. They put their clothes in the washbasin and took a shower first.

After all, it is freezing outside now, and there are two bends between the bathing area and the open-air hot spring, but the good environment of the open-air hot spring can be seen from the bathing area.

It was already afternoon when the group arrived, and there was really no one in the bath at this time. They were the only people in the whole big bathhouse. Edogawa Ranpo immediately ran over happily, and quickly turned on the faucet.

"Wow, it's so hot." Edogawa Ranpo accidentally turned the hot water faucet too far, and the hot water coming out of the shower head scalded the detective screaming.

Fukuzawa Yukichi stepped forward quickly, turned the water down, and after testing the water temperature, he signaled Edogawa Ranpo to sit on the small stool obediently and don't move around like a big Yukichi cat, and put on a child's waterproof cap for him Then I started to wash his hair.

Others don't need to be taken care of like Edogawa Ranpo, but after the hair is washed, rubbing their backs becomes a problem.

Osamu Dazai shook his hair first, and unceremoniously threw his towel to Oda Sakunosuke, "Oda Saku, help me rub my back."

"Okay..." It was originally an appointment, Oda Sakunosuke squeezed shower gel into the towel, and then rubbed it with his hands.

"Hey... it hurts, it hurts, it hurts!" Osamu Dazai, who had never expected that the other party would use so much strength, uttered a scream, and quickly jumped out of the stool, which also made Nakahara Nakaya help him rub his back Kunikida Doppo paused.

When Kunikida Doppo handed over the towel, he couldn't help telling him repeatedly, "Please be sure to use less force."

"Oh, oh." Zhong Yuanzhong was also a little uncertain and pressed down, "Is this okay?"

"Well, it's good, a little more force is fine." Kunikida Doppo heaved a sigh of relief, and Nakahara Chuka also heaved a sigh of relief. He put in a little more effort, and soon the two of them reached a friendly consensus.

On the other side, Osamu Dazai felt that the skin on his back was about to be worn out, "Odasaku, do you want to murder me?"

"No, there is no such thing, but Dazai, your body is really weak." Oda Sakunosuke is very clear that he didn't use a lot of strength just now, but just used a little massage while rubbing his back. Memorized the little trick, scratched his big ribs, and Dazai immediately screamed unbearably.

"It's just an ordinary bath, don't use massage techniques for me at this time." Osamu Dazai also reacted, he looked at his friend with tears in his eyes, "I will go to Mr. Yukichi for a massage of."

"But Mr. Yukichi can't help but pop out his nails when he's massaging, right?" Seeing Osamu Dazai's resistance, Oda Sakunosuke had no choice but to massage him honestly, "It's because of this that I thought of I'm going to learn how to massage."

Osamu Dazai, who was nearly jumped three feet high by the back-opening action just now, sighed helplessly, "At least don't do this while taking a shower, and I remember that you usually go for a massage after taking a shower, It is not recommended to take a bath after the massage."

"Is that so?" Oda Sakunosuke said uncertainly.

"It's just like this." After Osamu Dazai finished speaking, he turned his head and saw that Kunikida had already started rubbing Nakahara Nakaya's back, and he couldn't help but said loudly to Kunikida Doppo, "Kunikida, what strength did you use? It's too small, that little dwarf probably didn't even notice where your hand was?"

"Shut up, Dazai!" The two people over there said in unison.

Nakahara Nakaya simply said to Oda Sakunosuke: "Oda, you should wipe harder, this kid has a thick skin!"

"But in fact, it is said that rubbing your back is not as hard as possible." Oda Sakunosuke suddenly said in a healthy tone, "Mr. Yukichi told me after rubbing my back too hard that it would be easy to lose weight." Destroys the stratum corneum of the skin."

"No, what I'm more curious about is that Mr. Yuji will rub your back for you?" Zhong Yuanzhong said in disbelief.

"Yes, and helped me and the president rub it too." Over there, Edogawa Ranpo also raised his hand like a child and said, "But Mr. Yukichi came to help us scrub our backs and change the waterproof clothes, which is very troublesome. , so there is very little help.”

"Walk around, don't move around, close your eyes." After Fukuzawa Yukichi finished speaking, he began to wash the foam off his head, even if there was this shower cap, the poured water would flow out along the shower cap Instead of rushing directly to the face, Fukuzawa Yukichi still warned with some uneasiness.

Edogawa Ranpo immediately sat down obediently and did not move.

"Actually rubbed it for me too." Osamu Dazai also added, "Hehehe, envious?"

"Whispering!" Zhong Yuan Zhong also picked up a piece of soap and threw it towards him.

After rubbing their backs, the four young men who cleaned their bodies first walked out together.

"Wow, it's so cold!" Walking into the open-air hot spring, the warmth in the bathroom just now was blown by the cold wind, and disappeared without a trace in an instant. Osamu Dazai rushed out first and jumped into the hot spring.

"Hey Dazai, that's too rude!" Nakahara couldn't help complaining loudly at him.

"But it's cold, Oda Saku, come down quickly, it feels very comfortable to soak in the water." Dazai Osamu said, waving to Oda Sakunosuke.

Oda Sakunosuke walked over calmly, instead of strolling into the hot spring pool eagerly like him, folded the towel on his head, and then heaved a sigh of relief, "Phew, it's really comfortable."

"Oda, you look like an old man now." Nakahara Nakaya also walked into the hot spring pool with a smile, "Ha, it's really comfortable."

"Nakaya, you're not much better than Odasaku, you're just like an old man." After Osamu Dazai finished speaking, he went to take off the glasses of Kunikida Doppo who had just entered the water beside him.

"Hey Dazai, what are you doing?" Kunikida Doppo retreated decisively, out of Dazai's reach.

"Isn't it curious to see that Kunikida-kun wears glasses even in hot springs?" Dazai Osamu said with a smile, "Or, Kunikida-kun, your body is actually glasses?"

"Shut up, isn't your body a bandage?" Kunikida Doppo sneered, "If you don't have to take a bath first, I doubt you would go into the hot spring with a bandage!"

"That's right, that's it." Osamu Dazai admitted shamelessly, "If I hadn't had to take a shower before going into the water, I would never have taken off my bandage."

To such a shameless person, Kunikida Doppo also didn't know what to say.

"Wow, hot spring." Just as the few of them complained to each other, Edogawa Ranpo rushed out like a gust of wind, and then jumped directly from the bank just like Dazai Osamu , splashed quite a huge water splash.

"Mr. Ranpo..." Kunikida Doppo helplessly wiped away the water splashed on his face, Mr. Ranpo was a little too excited.

"Hey hey..." Edogawa Ranpo took out two little yellow ducks from under his towel, and pinched them on the water twice, "Because there is no one else but us, President I was specially allowed to bring them in. He also told me not to be discovered, how could I be discovered, I am the No.1 detective in the world."

"No, I don't think this has anything to do with detectives." Kunikida Doppo pushed his glasses again, deciding to ignore the topic, "Mr. Ranpo, is the president still washing?"

"Well, I rubbed the president's back." Edogawa Ranpo puffed up his chest proudly, "The president even praised me for being sensible."

"So that's it. It seems that the president is going to wash his back again." No one in the room expected the famous detective to do anything to help scrub his back, so after reaching a conclusion tacitly, they began to chat with each other again. stand up.

"Speaking of which, there must be alcohol in hot springs, right?" Dazai Osamu said suddenly, "Didn't you say that you must have sake in hot springs?"

"Shut up, we're only 19, and we're not old enough to legally drink." Nakahara Chuya decisively pushed back his topic, "Or do you want to watch Oda and the president drink?"

"That's not bad, isn't this kind of development fixed?" Osamu Dazai said with a smile.

"The president will never allow you to drink alcohol." Even Doppo Kunikida knows that Dazai Osamu will drink from time to time, and he has even heard of more than one version of the Yukichi big cat angrily beating drunk Dazai Osamu rumor.

Regarding the topic of alcohol, famous detectives have never been included in it, and Edogawa Ranpo has no interest in alcohol. He played with the little yellow duck in his hand, listening to their topic, not only did he not want to intervene The meaning of the mouth, on the contrary, there is still some eagerness to try swimming in the hot spring.

"What's wrong with me?" Fukuzawa Yukichi asked with some doubts when he heard someone talking about the president when he came over.

"They're talking about drinking while soaking in the hot springs. It's no big deal. President and President, come and see me swimming!" Edogawa Ranpo greeted with a smile.

Hearing Edogawa Ranpo's words, Fukuzawa Yukichi frowned resolutely, and after carefully confirming that there was nothing connected with the word liquor, he said with a sigh of relief, "You are not yet old enough, do not drink alcohol."

After a pause, he said to Nakahara Chuya, "If you drink alcohol, you won't grow tall."

After finishing speaking, he stepped forward to grab Edogawa Ranpo who wanted to swim in the hot spring water, "Ranpo, you can't do this."

After speaking, he also sat down and soaked almost his entire body in the hot water, with only his head exposed on the water.

"Hey, did you hear that, Chuya, you can't drink alcohol from now on." Osamu Dazai showed a gloating expression at Chuya Nakahara.

"I've known about this kind of thing for a long time." Nakahara said in a bad mood. He is almost 170 this year, and his height is about the same as that of Edogawa Ranpo. Envious, he sat down by the hot spring pool with his arms folded and muttered, "Damn it, why did I experience nothing like growing pains..."

"It's really lively over there." Just as they were still talking about drinking, a voice came from the other side of the bamboo railing, which shocked everyone here.

"Oh, Miss Xie Ye, don't scare us suddenly."

"Well, what does it matter, anyway, there are only a few of us in the open-air hot spring now." On the other side of the bamboo railing, Yosano Akiko leaned her hands back on the huge stone, and there was a tray floating in front of her. On the other side was the sake that the members of the male soup were discussing, and Yosano Akiko had another drink with some pride before saying, "I really hope to have the opportunity to travel every year in the future."

What she said was right. Several people became quiet for a while, Edogawa Ranpo said in a slightly childish tone: "Of course such a thing is held every year, isn't it a matter of course?"

His words revived the surrounding atmosphere immediately.

Yosano Akiko next door was no exception, she laughed first, and then said with a smile: "I'm almost healed, I'll go back first." She said, and walked out of the female hot spring, "You too, don't soak for too long, your body won't be able to bear it."

"I'm already a little dizzy." After Edogawa Ranpo said such handsome words, his eyes began to turn around the mosquito coils.

Fukuzawa Yukichi picked up the famous detective who had collapsed, "I'll send Luanbu back first, if you still want to continue soaking for a while, just soak for a while, be careful."

"President, let me help too." Kunikida Doppo hurriedly got up and planned to help Fukuzawa Yukichi, but was rejected by the other party, "It's okay, it's just a random step, I can take him back."

After finishing speaking, Fukuzawa Yukichi quickly led the people out of the hot spring pool, checked a little, and after confirming that Edogawa Ranpo was really dizzy from soaking in the hot spring, he also breathed a sigh of relief.

He helped the young man change into a bathrobe, and then returned to their big room with a horizontal hug.

Big cat Yuji saw them come back in such a shape, after a moment of stunned, he quickly took a bottle of coffee milk from the window that he had bought and placed there, and handed it to Edogawa Luanbu, Jiang with red cheeks after soaking in the hot spring Togawa Ranpo drank the coffee and milk in one gulp, and then cheered up as if he had been revived.