cat blues

"Happy New Year." Just as a group of people in the living room were still discussing something leisurely, the doorbell rang. As soon as Fukuzawa Yukichi went to open the door, he saw a somewhat unbelievable man standing at the door. Following Fukuzawa Yukichi, he said the first sentence in a tone that did not fluctuate.

"Mr. Ghost Lantern?" Fukuzawa Yukichi was stunned for a moment, and quickly brought him in, "Happy New Year."

After the ghost lamp entered the living room, everyone who was still a bit lazy instantly straightened their backs, even Rimbaud was no exception. Looking at the face of the ghost lamp, he remembered the mace flying from the sky, and The originally powerful Verlaine was knocked to the ground.

"Happy New Year." Ghost Lantern looked at them and said again.

"Happy New Year!"

"Meow..."

Several people in the room, together with the big cat Yuji, spoke to the ghost lamp.

Osamu Dazai moved his butt quickly, sat next to Edogawa Ranpo, and then patted his original position vigorously, "Mr. Ghost Lamp, please sit down."

"Hmm..." Ghost Lantern said, and first handed a bag in his hand to Big Cat Yuji, "This is a New Year's gift."

"Ghost lamp... is that you, sir?" Rimbaud saw that the other party had delivered the gift, and he got into the kotatsu without any politeness at all, and the atmosphere was as relaxed as if he had returned to his own home.

"Yes, you are a foreigner? I haven't seen it before." Ghost Lantern glanced at Rimbaud and confirmed that it was a man he didn't know.

Rimbaud didn't feel any embarrassment at all, after all, what happened at that time only lasted a few minutes, and this person paid more attention to Verlaine over there, and almost didn't look at him a few times, so he didn't recognize him. It's a matter of course, he nodded and said politely: "I'm Rimbaud, the one you took away from Verlaine who fought with him before."

Ghost Lamp's mind was stuck for a moment after being busy for a long time, but he still quickly reacted, "Oh, it's you, the guy who caused us to work overtime until now."

"Huh?" Rimbaud's mouth twitched for a moment.

"Huangba vomited the pit, that pit." Gui Deng casually picked up an orange that was placed in the fruit basket on the table and peeled and ate it. Ordinary people, but because of that, the trial took quite a long time."

The so-called scientists, especially those who have no moral character like that, should be thrown directly into hell to be punished for thousands of years, but because they have indeed obtained a lot of useful results from human experiments. During the war, these achievements saved many soldiers. After the war, some scientists downgraded these technologies into civilian technologies and put them into use.

These results have indeed brought commutation to those people. Of course, if the commutation amount is compared with the time they need to continue to serve, the commutation part can only be described as negligible, but every time there is a commutation The situation cannot be turned a blind eye, which means that a report must be issued every time there is a ghost lamp for commutation of sentence.

The end result is that everyone gets dizzy when they mention those guys.

Zhong Yuanzhong also heard this, and immediately gave Rimbaud a "be careful" look. Rimbaud also felt an unstoppable chill on his body, so he quickly shrank his body back into the kotatsu.

"Don't worry, I don't mean to pursue your responsibility." Ghost Lantern waved his hand, "Anyway, without you, they will have the same process after they die. It's just sooner or later. After all, human beings will eventually It's going to die."

When the words of the ghost lamp came out, everyone couldn't help but burrowed into the kotatsu.

The big cat Yukichi came over with freshly brewed green tea and freshly baked puffs. The green tea was for ghost lights, and the puffs were for Edogawa Ranpo.

The big cat Yuji looked at the big cat curiously, and purred twice subconsciously. The ghost lamp didn't pretend to be aggressive this time, and took out a small translator from his pocket and looked at it, "You asked me why I came to this world. Because of the New Year holidays? No..."

"The real Chinese New Year in hell refers to the Obon Festival, and that day is when we have a holiday." Ghost Lantern nodded with satisfaction after eating the oranges, "Although it will be very busy after the Obon Festival, no matter what After all, that's our new year."

Okay, everyone understands, this big guy came out to play again in the name of inspecting the present world, but considering that they came to visit Fukuzawa Yukichi with souvenirs on the first day of the new year, they have nothing to say of.

Ghost Lantern picked up another orange, peeled the orange into a dog shape, and then said casually, "Actually, it's mainly because of the two wonderful time travels you have had before."

"Traveling?" Rimbaud caught a somewhat unbelievable word, and he looked at Chuya in surprise.

"Ah, um, it means literally." Nakahara, who had traveled to the Taisho era and another parallel world, also coughed, indicating that he heard correctly.

"It's true, Master Ranpo has also experienced it." Edogawa Ranpo raised his hand and said.

Osamu Dazai on the side also nodded.

Ghost Lantern looked with satisfaction at the orange peel in his hand which was cut off at the upper and lower ends, and a dog-shaped piece was missing in the middle. He put the hollowed-out orange peel in the center of the coffee table, and then he seemed to remember something. Looking over there, Rimbaud, who was still a little confused, said, "I remember you are a space-type superhuman, right?"

"Yes, yes." Rimbaud nodded subconsciously.

"Very good, come and help us with the experiment!" Ghost Lantern clapped his hands decisively and said.

"No, that, I'm French!" Rimbaud was taken aback by his attitude, and subconsciously said.

"France, if I remember correctly, it should also be under the jurisdiction of the European Hell. It just so happens that I have a good relationship with Lord Satan, the ruler of the European Hell. I can ask him to come here directly." Ghost Lamp said very naturally.

Rimbaud heard the chills on his back, "Well, I'm still alive, and I don't have any intention of dying for a short time..."

"Well, it's true that you don't look like a short-lived person." Gui Deng said regretfully, but still took out a mobile phone from his pocket.

"Then, Lord Ghost Lantern, haven't you considered the possibility of Rimbaud going to heaven in the future?" Don't just say that if someone dies, he must go to hell, Lord Ghost Lantern!Zhong Yuan couldn't help but make a sound like a screaming chicken.

"Huh? What nonsense are you talking about?" Ghost Lantern looked at him and couldn't help but make such a sound.

Zhong Yuanzhong couldn't help but choked, and suddenly remembered that brother Rimbaud seemed to be in PortMafia before, and even if he didn't mention this kind of thing, according to the strict referee rules in hell, I'm afraid Rimbaud did it before. When he was a spy, the things he did were enough to keep him in hell, right?

Seeing that Zhongyuan finally reacted, Gui Deng nodded in satisfaction, "That's the case, but it doesn't matter if you can't die in a short time."

"I think it's very relevant!" Rimbaud solemnly expressed his refusal. When he was in PortMafia before, he knew how hard work Japanese social animals are, and this person called Ghost Lantern looked like that He is the kind of person who can torment his subordinates. He doesn't want to work under such a person. His intuition tells him that it will be miserable.He is a Frenchman whose talent is all about strikes!French!

More importantly, he is still young!He didn't want to die inexplicably at a young age.

"It's okay, I've already contacted you." Ghost Lantern said to himself, "Because Ms. Lilith is often active in the human world and has developed a considerable network of contacts in Europe, so I just asked a little Ms. Lilith sent a message to ask if she could keep you in Japan, and she sent me a no problem answer."

As Ghost Lamp said, he lifted up the phone interface in his hand and showed them, "By the way, Ms. Lilith is the wife of Hell in Europe, the wife of Mr. Beelzebub, Lord Satan's deputy, and the wife of Adam who is still in the Garden of Eden in the Bible." first wife."

Rimbaud looked at the account whose profile picture was a very glamorous blond woman. After the Ghost Lantern sent a string of Japanese, there were two expressions in reply, one was "no problem" and the other was "relaxed".

Rimbaud couldn't help but gasped, "That..."

"Mr. Rimbaud, you are no longer in the previous intelligence organization. Besides, you have been missing for so many years. Even if your teachers and colleagues are willing to trust you to protect you, it is impossible for you to join some key organizations in France again." Jiang Togawa Ranpo said the truth, "You said you were fine earlier, but it was just to comfort us. Otherwise, you wouldn't have left France again for so long. If that's the case, why don't you just stay in Japan? ? If you work and live here, you should be used to it, right?"

"I..." Rimbaud sighed, and when he was about to speak, his cell phone rang.

Rimbaud opened it with some bad premonition, and saw his text message reminding him that he had a work email. He couldn't help opening the email with some anxiety, and when he looked up, he saw the title, "Special Agent Rimbaud is now dispatched to Japan. The French Consulate in Yokohama works, and all information materials will be transferred to the French Consulate in Yokohama from now on."

Rimbaud's momentarily frozen expression was a good illustration of what he had read in the email.

"Wow..." Edogawa Ranbu couldn't help but let out a small exclamation, Mr. Ghost Lantern's movement is too fast, isn't it?And isn't the attitude a bit too tough? Doesn't it mean that people in the other world are not very good at interfering with the affairs of living people in this world?

"It also depends on what kind of living person he is." After the ghost lamp peeled the dog-shaped orange, he began to peel the bird-shaped orange. "In fact, after he and that guy named Verlaine After getting so close, he has already stepped into the other world with half of his foot."

Ghost Lantern held the hollowed out part of the orange peel with one finger, looked at Rimbaud through one eye as if holding a telescope, and could clearly see the black mist billowing from the opponent's body.

He put down the orange peel in his hand, and put the second orange with only a piece of bird-shaped orange peel on the table, "Actually, you have discovered it yourself, your fear of cold is not purely psychological, and your People around are avoiding you intentionally or unintentionally."

Rimbaud smiled wryly, and after putting down the phone, he suddenly said something completely irrelevant to him, "It seems that Verlaine is indeed working hard."

"Then you're thinking wrong. I can't feel this in my own words." Ghost Lamp quickly denied his words.

Rimbaud was dumbfounded.

"And you are so easily contaminated with that guy's breath. Of course, I pulled that guy out of the container because of it, but more of the reason is from yourself." Ghost Lamp shook his head, "You gave the container name."

Rimbaud clenched his hands tightly.

"Master Ghost Lantern, is it important to give a name?" Dazai Osamu asked suddenly, and the stagnant atmosphere was instantly resolved.

"It's very important." Ghost Lantern took out a pair of old black-rimmed glasses from somewhere and put them on, ignoring Edogawa Ranpo's anxious words, "That's Ranpo-sama's important detective tool", He said in a tone like a teacher, "From the theory of Yin Yang, the name is the shortest mantra, and it is the simplest and most direct way to identify people and things."

"Yes, teacher!" Osamu Dazai raised his hand suddenly, as if he was really in class and asked, "Then what about changing the same name and surname?"

"Very good, Mr. Osamu Dazai." Gui Deng expressed his satisfaction at the fact that someone was willing to listen to him, and he nodded, "In fact, the same name and surname will indeed cause some troubles for Onmyoji, but this trouble is very limited, because There is a relationship between people. Generally speaking, unless this person knows many people with the same name and surname, when people say a name that is related to him, the target is generally very clear. .”

"Does anyone know many people with the same name and surname?" Oda Sakunosuke, who heard this sentence when he walked in from the outside, had a look of surprise in his eyes.

"Yes..." Ghost Lantern didn't care about his doubts, but said with certainty, "I knew there was an onmyoji in the past. Because he was a waste of names, he named all his shikigami uniformly. Xiaobai and Xiaohei, although this successfully made the foreign monsters not know what kind of distraction he would come out every time he called out Xiaoheixiaobai, it also made him himself I made a mistake about the lost mind I wanted to summon, and was killed by the monster in the end."

"There is still such a guy, how did he survive before?" Hearing such a strange story, several other people were a little speechless.

"Hurry up and return the glasses to Ranpo-sama!" Edogawa Ranpo didn't care to eat the fresh puffs on the table, walked around Dazai Osamu, and shouted loudly, grabbing the sleeve of the ghost lantern.

"Tsk..." Ghost Lantern pursed his lips, but still took off his glasses and returned them.

After quickly putting on the lost and recovered glasses, Edogawa Ranpo felt that the whole world was brightened up, and he glanced at Oda Sakunosuke over there, "Oda, the orphanage is going to organize a New Year's visit, you When you go there tomorrow, remember to bring a box of rice cakes made by Mr. Yukichi."

"Okay..." It wasn't surprising that the other party could tell at a glance where he had been and what he had done this morning, but he just nodded clearly.

"Is the orphanage in Yokohama able to afford such an activity?" Ghost Lantern asked curiously.

"Yes, because Oda Saku donated most of his income, he is now the veritable head teacher of that orphanage!" Osamu Dazai said with a smile.

"No, I just go to see them on a regular basis. I'm not a teacher, let alone the dean." Oda Sakunosuke denied it very straightforwardly.

Yuji Maomao took another plate of freshly baked custard biscuits and put it on the table for everyone to use, while he ran back to the kitchen, as if he was gearing up for another big fight.

Edogawa Ranpo immediately took off his glasses, put them back in his pocket, and reappeared limply retracting into the kotatsu, while not forgetting to reach for the biscuits to eat.

"I'm back." Yosano Akiko sent Kunikida Doppo off early in the morning. He officially joined the Armed Detective Agency last year, so this year's New Year is with everyone, but after the New Year, he still has to rush back as soon as possible. House's.

It was too early when I went to Hatsune, Kunikida Doppo hadn't woken up yet, but later it was normal work and rest time, even though the night before was a bit chaotic, he was forced to wake up under the influence of the increasingly fixed biological clock .

What he didn't expect was that other people in the detective agency were similar to him. When they got together in the morning, they found that besides President Fukuzawa and Yukichi Neko, there was another Oda Sakunosuke missing.

Judging from Oda Sakunosuke's past style, everyone probably went to the orphanage to visit and celebrate by the way, so Yosano Akiko volunteered to send Kunikida Doppo to the Shinkansen station, and the remaining three people were all nestled. I went into the kotatsu lazily and continued to catch up on sleep until Fukuzawa Yukichi and the others came back.

"Ah, Master Ghost Lantern, Happy New Year." Seeing two extra people in the living room, Yosano Akiko greeted one of them first, and then looked at the other curiously, "Hey, you are not that who ?”

"Rimbaud, Arthur Rimbaud." Rimbaud introduced himself.

Osamu Dazai added casually, "Mr. Rimbaud will be based in Yokohama in the future."

"Huh? There is such a thing? Naka must be very happy." Yosano Akiko hung her coat on the coat rack, ignored Nakahara Chuya, whose face turned red in an instant, and looked sideways into the kitchen Eyes, "Mr. Yuji, you are... wow, are you going to make fresh fruit now?"

Yukichi the big cat nodded to her, then brought up all the materials and tools for making the freshest and most expensive raw confectionery among wagashi, and nodded to several people to indicate that they can choose what kind of shape they want .

"Mr. Yukichi, I want one in the shape of Pikachu!" Edogawa Ranpo who was on the side immediately ordered without any hesitation.

The big cat Yuji didn't look at the slightest bit in trouble, he dug out a small ball of dough and pinched it quickly with his paws a few times, a Pikachu's head and body parts were pinched out, and the big cat pressed it out with a small ball pusher. After the very beautiful long ears began to be carefully sculpted, and after a while, the lifelike Pikachu was born in the hands of the big cat Yuji.

"It looks good." Ranpo Edogawa took the yellow electric mouse specially made for himself, carefully held it in his hands and played with it several times, and then held it up to show to his president, " Hehehe..."

Just when everyone thought that the famous detective would say something like keeping such a yellow rat, Ranpo Edogawa suddenly opened his bloody mouth and gnawed off Pikachu's head in one bite.

"Wow, Mr. Ranpo, you are too..." Yosano Akiko couldn't help complaining at him.

"What's the matter? Originally wagashi were made for eating." Edogawa Ranpo said confidently. If you don't look at his mouth that is still chewing and the remains of Pikachu, which is only half of his body in the palm of his hand, it is simply Like a child.

"Edogawa Ranpo is right." Ghost Lantern had already run to Yukichi the cat's side at some point, and he ordered wagashi in several patterns and shapes very bluntly, "I want chrysanthemum pattern and peony pattern of."

Yukichi Tomo nodded, indicating that the second one would be ready for Yosano Akiko and then start making him the wagashi he wanted.

The big cat's movements are too skillful, and the wagashi it makes are not so much desserts as high-grade decorations. Even Yosano Akiko, a female doctor who worked in her own wagashi shop when she was a child All felt wonderful.

Seeing more and more people crowding around the open cabinet in the kitchen, Rimbaud also looked over curiously, and then saw the big cat's flowing movements, indeed, it was very beautiful.

Soon the wagashi for the ghost lamp was also ready. Dazai Osamu and Nakahara Nakahara called for their own styles in no particular order. As a result, they both spoke at the same time because of their high tacit understanding, so they began to accuse each other of trying to jump in line Bad behavior, and finally even started the daily slapstick session.

When the two of them were fighting, Oda Sakunosuke walked forward without changing his face, and asked Yukichi Toneko to make wagashi with the shape and taste he wanted.

"Well, can it really not be spicy? Sorry, I know, just this chrysanthemum." Listening to their "conversation" and watching the two young children rolling into a ball, Rimbaud finally showed a sense of relief With a smile, he looked sideways at Yukichi Fukuzawa beside him, "President Fukuzawa, you are really an excellent teacher."

Fukuzawa Yukichi, who understood what he meant, just nodded and shook his head, "I didn't do anything, the one who is really taking care of them is the big cat Yukichi."

"That's inseparable from your precepts and deeds." Rimbaud stood in the lively living room holding his mobile phone, and suddenly felt that it might be good to just stay in Japan like this.

But he still doesn't want to work for Ghost Lamp, especially if it's a job where he can't see the future at a glance.