cat blues

Because the things in Kyoto and Hokkaido ended quickly, there should have been time for Ranpo to go shopping in Hokkaido, and Edogawa Ranpo didn't get any spring features, which made Edogawa Ranpo feel that rather unhappy.

In the end, in order to appease the famous detective who wanted to eat but didn’t get it, Yukichi the big cat showed his [-] cooking skills and made several spring-flavored snacks with milk, which is a representative material of Hokkaido. .

This surprised the two children who were still in high school who knew nothing about it when they came back.

Atsushi Nakajima was the first to ask in surprise: "Mr. Ranpo, have you returned from Hokkaido?"

"I'm back..." Edogawa Ranpo, who was sitting on the seat and looking at the milk snacks on his table, immediately changed his mood. He sat happily on the chair, ordering troops to choose Seeing the dim sum he was looking for, and seeing the two of them coming in one after the other, he decisively reached out and grabbed a cherry blossom milk coconut square shaped like a little tiger's head, and put it in his mouth, "Dazai and the others are back too."

Hearing his words, Nakajima Atsushi and Akutagawa Gin looked over together, and they saw on the desk on the other side, behind a mountain of reports, Dazai Osamu with a disheveled face and Nakahara Chuya with an annoyed expression.

Looking at the expressions of the two seniors, we can tell that Senior Dazai must have wanted to escape the report earlier, but was caught by Senior Chuya, so now Senior Dazai can only write the report honestly under the pressure of Senior Chuya.

But... "Is the number of this report..." Akutagawa Yin walked over curiously, wanting to see what kind of report it was, and it could be piled up so high.You must know that although Osamu Dazai always likes to avoid reports, because of Oda Sakunosuke and Kunikida Doppo, and occasionally Atsushi Nakajima and Akutagawa Ryunosuke to help, the reports on Dazai Osamu's desk are usually quickly dismissed. Dispose of it, even if there is accumulation, it will not be so much.

"Sorry, but this is a confidential matter, Xiaoyin and A-Dun, you can't help." Zhongya said before the girl came over.

Akutagawa Gin was stunned for a moment, she was also a person who could tell the difference between the serious and the serious, so she resolutely gave up the idea of ​​going forward, looked around, and saw beside Chuya, Yosano Akiko was also writing with a headache According to the report, there are also a lot of documents piled up on her desktop, and she even has a few medical records in hand.

The girl backed away resolutely and sensibly, "I'll go see if Mr. Yukichi needs my help."

"Ah, Mr. Yukichi doesn't have anything to do there, and the snacks for me are all ready." Edogawa said proudly, "Xiaoyin, come and help the famous detective, I still have a few I need you to polish a report."

Akutagawa Yin nodded immediately, put down his schoolbag and walked over, "Has Mr. Ranpo's previous report been written? It's amazing..."

"It's not the report from the police agency in Sapporo that I received earlier." Ranpo Edogawa shook his head decisively, "I've already written the one in Sapporo, and Oda is editing it. I'm asking you to polish another one, I Another case I encountered in the lavender fields over there in Sapporo."

"It's really strange that Mr. Ranpo is willing to take the initiative to write a report." Atsushi Nakajima also said curiously.

"I can't help it. After all, I encountered the case by chance." Edogawa Ranpo shook his head, "Although it was a chance encounter, I encountered it anyway, so I can't ignore it."

He swallowed the snack in his mouth with a grunt, "If you leave it alone, it might really make that little girl commit suicide."

"Little girl? Suicide?" Hearing these key words, Osamu Dazai escaped from even Nakahara Chuya's watchful eyes, and quickly slipped to Edogawa Ranpo's side.

"Hey!" Nakahara Chuya immediately ran over at a high speed, grabbed Osamu Dazai by the back collar and wanted to pull him back to work.

However, he had already heard something that interested him, and Osamu Dazai was nimble like a loach, just circling around the chair without letting him catch it.

"It's not as boring as Dazai you think." Edogawa Ranpo picked up a cup of cherry double-skin milk and scooped it into his mouth, "Simply speaking, a lady from a rich family hanged herself, and then Several people knew the truth, but they didn't tell it for various reasons. As a result, the family found a detective who was said to be a well-known local high school student. The high school student pointed out that the maid was the murderer. My little girl, how can she bear such an accusation, if I don't help her, she might commit suicide."

"Hey, it's really boring." Dazai Osamu was dragged back by Chuya Nakahara without interest. This story didn't appeal to him at all.

Akutagawa Yin showed a moved expression, "Mr. Ranpo is very powerful. If Mr. Ranpo hadn't existed, a young girl would have lost her life. Such a thing is really amazing."

"Hmph..." Akutagawa Gin's sincere praise made Edogawa Ranpo proudly puff up his chest, revealing that the adults are so powerful, so don't be stingy with your compliments, and add a few more words of expression .

"Are there a lot of high school students working as detectives now?" Oda Sakunosuke, who listened to the whole process, did not grasp the point as always. He looked at his two high school students with some curiosity. Strictly speaking, they can also be regarded as high school student detectives. Bar?

"Is now the time to talk about this? By the way, when the high school detective identified someone as the murderer, didn't he show any evidence?" Kunikida Doppo couldn't help but said.

"No..." Edogawa took a few sips of the delicious cherry double-skin milk, "That's why I'm so angry. I don't even have evidence to randomly designate others as criminals. It's because of my youth." Do you feel like you’ll be forgiven for anything you do?”

"Because you are a high school student?" Oda Sakunosuke was still curious, "Are there really many high school detectives nowadays?"

"It's still a bit too much?" Atsushi Nakajima thought for a while and said, "I heard from a student in my class who came from Kyushu that he had a very powerful female high school detective."

"Ah, I've heard of it too. It seems to be a bit older than us, and its name is Koshimizu Nanatsuki." Akutagawa Ginhara had just sat down to help Edogawa Ranpo polish those reports that were like heavenly scriptures, when he heard He also nodded and said this.

"Kyushu... is it Fukuoka?" Edogawa Ranpo's face immediately revealed a look of disbelief, "This female student must not be from Fukuoka City, otherwise she would never have lived so long."

"Is the situation in Fukuoka City already this bad?" When there are too many people, the topic of chatting will always change. Just now they were talking about high school detectives, but now they have shifted away immediately.

"At least this is the case in Hakata District. It is said that nearly 3% of the population has been involved in killers." Edogawa ranpo said with his cheeks on his hands, "The detective brother I met in Fukuoka before has also become a murderer." A super-famous killer came, really, does he know that his job is to be a detective?"

Hearing what he said, several people remembered the incident when Edogawa Ranpo and the others went to Kyushu before, and then they remembered the matter of weight loss after that. Except for the two little ones, the sight of others By coincidence, it fell on Edogawa Ranpo, who was eating and drinking happily now.

"You guys, what do you want to do?" Edogawa Ranpo immediately noticed their gaze, and immediately wanted to reach out to grab the snacks in front of him.

Nakahara Zhong also said something fair, "It's okay, I saw that Mr. Yukichi was paying attention to Mr. Ranpo's weight before."

As soon as Nakahara Chuya's words came out, several people breathed a sigh of relief, but Edogawa Luanbu over there quit, "You guys are too much, my weight is fine!"

"Yes, there is no problem with your weight." A group of people spoke to Edogawa Ranpo as if they were comforting children.

When the big cat Yuji came up, I saw the big cat who had been coaxed by it was sitting on the chair with his arms crossed, with an expression of "I'm angry", even on the table. I didn't eat much milk snacks.

"I'm back." Behind Yukichi Tomomi, Akutagawa Ryunosuke also spoke. After returning to Yokohama, he first went to the coffee shop downstairs to find Yukichi Tomomi, and then came up together.

"Brother..." Akutagawa Gin immediately waved to his brother.

"Silver..." Akutagawa Ryunosuke was wearing a white shirt and a light-colored jacket, and his outfit was full of the youthful atmosphere unique to students. He looked around, with a puzzled look on his face, "What's wrong?"

Edogawa Ranpo spoke first, and he said aggressively, "Nothing!"

Big Mao Yuji couldn't help but put a question mark on his head.

The others reacted immediately. It was obvious that Detective Ranpo didn't want to lose face again in front of the younger ones, and didn't want people to know that he was forced to lose weight by the big cats before, so Oda Sakunosuke was very generous. He said calmly, "Actually, we were talking about high school detectives just now."

The topic actually came back again!

When the others looked at him, they all showed surprised expressions.

"A high school student... a detective?" Akutagawa Ryuunosuke looked puzzled, "Isn't Gin and the others? They should be counted before the next one?"

"No, no, no, it's not this kind of detective." Yosano Akiko raised her head and said, tired of fighting her own report, "It's the kind who will appear at the scene of the case and help the police solve the case. Mr. Bu's kind."

Hearing this, Ryunosuke Akutagawa immediately showed disapproval, "I don't think it's right for ordinary high school students to be responsible for solving cases. It is the police's dereliction of duty for ordinary high school students to be exposed to criminal cases."

"Sure enough, it's what Mr. Akutagawa would say." Osamu Dazai said, turning the pen in his hand.

Edogawa Ranpo, who was praised by the alternative, also nodded in satisfaction, picked up a soufflé shaped like a cake, put it in his mouth, and said while eating: "That's right, let the high school students solve the case or something." , The current police are so useless!"

"Although it's not very good to say this, but there are many criminal cases now. If you really have the ability to reason, even high school students, participating in the investigation of the case may not be a bad thing." Zhongya Zhongyuan wrote the report Bian said, "After all, although there are unscrupulous detectives like Mr. Ranpo, there should be honest people whose future goal is to become a detective like Mr. Ranpo, right?"

As he spoke, he couldn't help recalling his university. Although he only attended three years, in these three years, he felt that it was easy to encounter cases in Tokyo.

As soon as this topic was out of the mouth, the atmosphere suddenly became a little bit heavy, Edogawa Ranpo hesitated before saying: "Hey, why are the cases in Japan so frequent, the government still has the face to publicize how safe Japan is. "

"After all, it's propaganda." Dazai Osamu couldn't help complaining, and then Chuya Nakahara pressed his head to write the report.

Yukichi Tomomi walked over to clear the table for Ranpo Edogawa, and at the same time looked at Gin Akutagawa and Atsushi Nakajima over there as if they were aroused by their topic just now.

The boy and girl looked at each other with strange expressions, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa immediately walked over to act as an interpreter for Yukichi Tomomi.

After seeing Yukichi Maomao's gesture, Akutagawa Ryunosuke nodded knowingly, and at the same time he turned his head with a little curiosity and asked, "Silver, Aton, what club activities did you participate in in high school?"

Akutagawa Ryunosuke has always been in the literature and art department at school, and it can't be said that he is fooling around. After all, he is a famous short story writer at Iwanami Shoten.

But Gin Akutagawa and Atsushi Nakajima are different. When they were in junior high school, one was from the Tea Ceremony Club, and the other was also from the Literature and Art Department—Atsushi Nakajima liked reading books very much before. After a world brought back a bunch of books written by "Atsushi Nakajima", it focused more on literature.

What's more, the two of them have learned gymnastics and kendo from Fukuzawa Yukichi since they were young. Going to other clubs is too much to bully others.

"Umicho High School doesn't have a tea ceremony club or an ikebana club, but there is a gardening club, so I went to the gardening club." Akutagawa Gin explained.

"Although I still reported my words to the literature and art club, after the physical education class today, there was a very enthusiastic classmate in the class who insisted on recommending me to the basketball club." Atsushi Nakajima scratched his head helplessly, "I don't know anything about basketball , I don’t even know the basic rules.”

Yuji Maomao leaned over to look at his child curiously. If it was just a recommendation in a general sense, Atsushi Nakajima would not have shown such a strange expression.

Atsushi Nakajima also leaned over to rub against the big cat, and then said a little troubled: "That classmate is too enthusiastic, and he is also a celebrity in the school. It is difficult for me to be invited by him so enthusiastically."

Akutagawa Yin reacted immediately, the celebrity of their Kaichang High School is that one, "Kise-kun?"

"Yes, Kise Ryota-kun." Atsushi Nakajima felt helpless, "He strongly suggested that I go to the basketball club, and even planned to ask Kasamatsu-senpai, who was in the third grade, to come over. I was very troubled."

Kasamatsu Yukio, who is in the third grade, is the head of the basketball club of Kaijo High School. As the head, it is said that he is very responsible and a very good senior.

"What do you think?" Akutagawa Ryunosuke asked, "Nothing else, what are your own thoughts?"

Atsushi Nakajima was stunned. He looked up at the people around him. Everyone looked at him with kind eyes. Kunikida Doppo, who is currently a senior, said very seriously: "When you are young, you should enjoy your youth seriously. Don't leave any regrets."

"Kunikida-kun is right, and you are still just children, so you don't have to worry too much about the work of the detective agency affecting your club activities." Osamu Dazai said with a smile.

"No, that... how should I put it, under the strong recommendation of Kise-san, I did develop some interest in basketball, but..." Atsushi Nakajima felt the concern from the seniors in the club, and suddenly felt a little dissatisfied. Scratching his cheek embarrassingly, "I am a complete beginner in basketball. Is it really okay to call me over? Besides, the basketball club of Haichang High School is very famous, so there are many participants. If I go over, it is probably impossible. It's a regular election, and I'll only be a substitute player in the Second Army, right? In that case..."

"You're really courageous." Chuya Nakahara put down the pen in his hand and glanced at Atsushi Nakajima over there, "But it's true, if you don't go for the main election, there is no point in going to the sports club."

Atsushi Nakajima blushed suddenly, and Nakahara Nakahara explained his true thoughts in one gulp, which made him a little embarrassed.

"What's so embarrassing about that?" Oda Sakunosuke scratched his head, "But basketball is a team sport, right? Cooperation should be very important?"

Speaking of this, Nakajima Atsushi showed some strange expression, "Maybe?"

"What is it probably? Isn't basketball a 5v5 sports game?" Anyway, I realized that everyone is playing tennis now in junior high school. After going to college, I made a name for myself in the tennis world. Zhong Yuanzhong also knew about ball games. Still a lot.

"Actually, Kise-kun told me about playing basketball in middle school." Atsushi Nakajima thought for a while and explained, "It sounds like their basketball doesn't look like a team sport at all. Instead, it’s more like fighting each other.”

"Kise-kun came out of Teiko High School, right?" Akutagawa Gin also showed a puzzled look on his face, "I remember this was highlighted when I recruited students. I remember the basketball club of Teiko High School in the past three years. A three-peat in middle school basketball."

"Well, that's why I'm so weird." Atsushi Nakajima looked puzzled, "Is there any talk of one-on-one in basketball like tennis?"

"No, that's called oneonone, which is the so-called one-on-one, and it's a relatively common situation in basketball games." Also, because a friend entered the tennis professional league all the way, he went to learn about ball sports Kunikida Doppo explained, "But basketball itself is a ball game that pays great attention to teamwork."

Atsushi Nakajima nodded knowingly, "Then I'd better turn them down."

It really is too embarrassing for him, a superhuman with super physical ability and super fast reaction ability, to cooperate with a group of ordinary students, whether it is him or them.

After finishing the discussion about clubs, Atsushi Nakajima took out a notebook from his schoolbag and handed it to Ryunosuke Akutagawa hesitantly, "Well, Akutagawa-kun, I recently wrote a novel, still, still Please advise!"

Several people were stunned. After reading the things written by the same body in another world, Kunikida Doppo and Yosano Akiko took the lead in giving up writing, while Edogawa Ranpo got into a fight with another self, and was about to write There is more exciting content than that of Edogawa Ranpo, but it is still stuck in my mind, and I haven't written yet.

While the other few people lamented the literary version of themselves in another world, they began to find their own paths.

In fact, this is also the case. For example, the content written by Oda Sakunosuke from the beginning is different from that written by Oda Sakunosuke from another world. It is no longer the trivial life of Osaka, but various events in Yokohama and digging deeper into reality. .The Central Plains is even more so. He also writes songs and composes music. The writing content of the two of them is indeed very different. The Central Plains poets in the Taisho period over there used poems to describe the scenery of that period, but here he wrote more. The content that fits the current era is just that they sing love and hate, lament life and death, and sing suffering.

The same is true for Osamu Dazai. Although the things he writes are the same as his own name at first glance, the content he writes is much darker. From the content of the articles alone, it is really difficult to distinguish between him and his peers. Who is older.Of course, he swore that he would never write "Disqualification in the World". Let the feeling of social death be experienced by Osamu Dazai in that world.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, after carefully reading the articles of Mr. Akutagawa from another world, deeply felt his own inadequacy. He has been earnestly enriching himself these days, and the university also took the literature department.Recently, he also started to learn from the great teacher Akutagawa in his published articles, looking for writing opportunities from flower growers and Japanese classical literature. Among other things, it is true that the content of the article is more classical, and the editor is more impressed by his writing skills. .

Since then, Atsushi Nakajima has never said that he wants to write an article. At this time, he showed his work to Ryunosuke Akutagawa. It seems that he took all his courage.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa also took the book solemnly, and carefully read it.

Atsushi Nakajima is no better than Atsushi Nakajima in that world, but he can also be regarded as growing up in the fragrance of books, but he was not accompanied by so many works of literary giants in the world over there, and he saw more purely classical literature. , In the process of writing, he also remembered the words written by his peers in "Shanyue Ji", "I am afraid that I am not a beautiful jade, so I dare not study it hard, but half believe in myself It is a piece of beautiful jade, so I don’t want to be mediocre and live with rubble.”

These words made him afraid to start writing for a while, but he remembered the last words like "it's nothing more than the despicable fear of exposing one's lack of talent and the shameless laziness of refusing to work hard".

He suddenly figured it out, why should he worry?I already have enough "beautiful jade" around my body, and being able to be in it has proved that I am not a stubborn stone. If this is the case, why worry about the so-called exposure?If your talents are not enough, then work harder and study harder.

So he worked hard for more than half a year, and finally finally wrote the short story at hand.