cat blues

After a busy day, a few people finally found a suitable place to stay. Thankfully, this was in 1994. Hotels did not need real-name authentication at all, but even in 2021, except for large high-end hotels, other hotels did not need real-name authentication. Real-name authentication is required.

After Fukuzawa Yukichi found a suitable homestay to live in, the two of them and one cat began to sort out today's harvest.

Even in such a state, these two people still maintain a complete calmness. People on both sides are working to make money while quickly collecting information about this world.

After only one day of exploration, the two of them noticed that the situation in Fuyuki City was different, and there was a faint sense of tension in the city.

When Edogawa Ranpo was helping the president of a small company "caught" on the road to solve the problem, he found that the religious atmosphere in this city was a bit too strong.

Although there are churches in Kobe City in their world, unlike here, the power of the church has even penetrated into the administrative agencies. Edogawa Ranpo can see clearly that the number of municipal staff here has a cross hanging around their necks. Almost a sixth.

Although this ratio sounds small, it is actually quite an extraordinary situation. You must know that even if the staff of the city hall have religious beliefs, they generally don't show it, let alone let people see it.

Because in Japan, the mainstream beliefs are still Shintoism and Buddhism. Although there are many Christian churches, their scale and influence are not as good as those of local sects.But here, in the reception structure of the administrative hall, there are actually more than one people who obviously only carry crosses to express their beliefs. This situation is very wrong.

"I also talked with the boss in the shop. The shop boss said that there is a church of the Holy Church Church in Miyama Town. The priest in charge of the church is named Kotomine Risei, and he is a well-respected old man." Fukuzawa Yukichi He also talked about the news he inquired, "The store owner even suggested to me that if we die temporarily as foreign tourists, we can ask the church for help."

"Super suspicious..." Edogawa Ranpo drew conclusions about the Holy Church Church and Kotomine Risei with a single word, and then he said to his own president: "Except for this thing that doesn't sound right Outside of the Holy Church, I noticed another thing."

"A serial murderer just came to this city recently." Ranpo Edogawa said proudly, "Not many people in the city know about this, so I took someone to the police today to check it out." Make a face, and you can run over to the case as a detective tomorrow in a fair manner!"

As he said that, when he looked at Fukuzawa Yukichi, words like "Quickly compliment me" were written in his eyes.

Fukuzawa Yukichi laughed inwardly, but said lightly on his face: "Good job, chaotic steps."

This child is indeed doing well, no, it is better to say that he is very good. He suddenly came to another world. After the initial panic, he immediately took action against the current situation. Not only did he earn money, he also made his own reputation. If you put it in the past, it is really completely unimaginable.

After receiving such a compliment, Edogawa Ranpo laughed very satisfied, "Tomorrow we will find the murderer and deal with it, and then go to see that church!"

"Ah, it's up to you, detective." Fukuzawa Yukichi said softly, his lips curled up slightly.

"Yahoo!" Edogawa Ranpo jumped up happily, "Leave everything to the famous detective!"

Big cat Yuji stepped forward helplessly, and gently covered the detective's mouth with his cat's paw, signaling him not to make such a loud noise. This is a hotel anyway, and if the noise is too loud, it will disturb the people around.

Edogawa was not angry at Luanbu, he turned around and threw himself on Yukichi the big cat, hugging the cat and rubbing it back and forth.

Before going to bed, Edogawa Ranpo suddenly remembered something, he sat up straight and looked at Fukuzawa Yukichi, "President, your face is printed on the [-] yuan bill here, so the one who introduced your real name At that time, you couldn't call yourself Fukuzawa Yukichi."

Fukuzawa Yukichi was dumbfounded and blushed a little at the same time, but with a serious face, he said inconspicuously: "I heard Dazai mention it before, so call me tomorrow, um, Fukuzawa Genichiro. "

"President..." Hearing that Fukuzawa Yukichi used this pseudonym, Edogawa Ranpo suddenly became a little worried. Did Fukuzawa Yukichi's incident have such a big impact on Fukuzawa Yukichi?

Fukuzawa Yukichi shook his head lightly, "Genichiro is my old friend, and what happened later is also a warning to me. He reminds me not to relax at any time, and not to make mistakes."

"President, what happened to that uncle is not your fault, you must keep this in mind!" Edogawa Ranbu let go of the big cat and came to Fukuzawa Yukichi, and opened those emerald green eyes. Mou stared closely at the person in front of him, the two were so close that they could even feel each other's breath.

"I know." Fukuzawa Yukichi stretched out his hand and patted Edogawa Ranpo's head lightly, "Don't worry, I have never taken other people's mistakes as my own responsibility."

"It really should be like this." Edogawa Ranpo buried his head directly into the chest of the person in front of him helplessly, and said sullenly.

Fukuzawa Yukichi didn't speak, just hugged him and patted him on the back twice, then pulled him out of his arms, "Rest, I have to go to the police station tomorrow."

Edogawa Ranpo hummed twice like a child, and just lay down on the futon.

The big cat Yuji who was on the side came over and pulled the detective to change the direction to lie down, and then he also walked over and lay down between the two of them.

Fukuzawa Yukichi's sleeping posture has always been very good, while Edogawa Ranpo on the side always likes to hug something when he falls asleep. As a result, the Yukichi big cat sleeping between the two became the pillow of a famous detective. Hugged and shaggy, it looked like a giant stuffed toy that had been twisted.

However, the big Yuji cat is used to being hugged like this. Anyway, cats are liquid creatures, even if they are enlarged to the extent of Yuji cats, they are still liquid creatures.After the big cat Yuji got up by himself, he went to find a comb and dipped in water to comb his hair. It didn't take long for the messy fur to become smooth again.

The big cat Yukichi looked around in the mirror with satisfaction, and confirmed that there were no frizzy hairs on his body. Then he turned and went back to wake up Edogawa Ranpo. Get up first to take a shower, and then wait a while to give Fukuzawa Yukichi time to take a shower.

One of the reasons why this small B&B was selected by Fukuzawa is that this B&B has its own hot spring. Although it is a small spring, but with a large wooden bathroom, it always gives people a very comfortable feeling. a feeling of.

This place is different from Kobe in their world. There are many springs of hot springs in this city called Fuyuki, especially in Miyama Town, where a large number of hot spring guest houses can even form a street. It is precisely because of this, Fukuzawa Only Yuji and the others can rent a suitable homestay here at a relatively low price.

When Fukuzawa Yukichi came out of the morning bath, he happened to see the cat Yukichi at the door who was helplessly watching Edogawa scurrying around. The famous detective seemed to want to help the cat Yukichi, but he could tell from the current state , definitely failed.The dry bath towel that I had prepared for myself had fallen all over the floor, but fortunately, there was still a dry towel and the inside of my kimono that were held high above my head by Yuji the big cat.

Fukuzawa Yukichi exclaimed helplessly, "Ranbu..."

Edogawa Ranpo, who was still rambunctious, immediately silenced, and walked aside obediently to stop messing around.

Fukuzawa Yukichi reluctantly took the dry towel from the big cat Yukichi, and asked while wiping his hair, "Have you washed all of it?"

"Well, it's all good." Edogawa Ranpo couldn't help but stretched out his hand, and helped Fukuzawa Yukichi wipe his wet silver hair, "President, we will have breakfast together and then set off Go to the police station."

Fukuzawa Yukichi quickly changed his clothes, and after confirming that Yukichi the big cat planned to stay around here for a while, he took his famous detective and went straight to the police headquarters in Fuyuki City.

Regarding the murderer of the serial murderer who came in recently, the police in Fuyuki City are also very troubled. The damned murderer has already murdered two young women in succession after fleeing into Fuyuki City, but no one knows about that person until now. exact appearance.They have launched all the forces they can to search and defend, but this morning someone still called the police and found the third body that unfortunately died.

Just at this moment when the police were feeling overwhelmed, a silver-haired man ran out suddenly, and said that he would bring a detective who could help them find the murderer. At the beginning, the police at the front desk of the reception hall completely refused. His stubbornness only lasted until Ranpo Edogawa easily pointed out his various little secrets, but he didn't dig too much into his.

Edogawa Ranpo also pointed out by the way that a certain theft criminal who had just been brought back by them had murder experience, and even directly pointed out the evidence and process of the other party's murder, as if he had seen it with his own eyes. Both the prisoner and the police were taken aback.

Now not only the police at the front desk, but even the police in another group confirmed that this is a really capable detective, and the already busy police decided to use the power of this famous detective, otherwise would it really be necessary? Can I go to Father Kotomine Risei for help?

Here, Edogawa Ranpo and Fukuzawa Yukichi are helping the police solve the case, and on the other hand, Yukichi Tomomi is strolling around the hot spring street here.

Apart from the various folk products and local ornamental props that can be seen everywhere on the hot spring street, there are not many interesting shops. Yuji Damao walked halfway and was planning to go back, but saw an old grocery store here. shop.

More than half of the counters in the grocery store were full of all kinds of rough snacks. The big cat who often helped the famous detective buy snacks even found some of them that he had never seen before.The curious big cat Yuji immediately opened the door and walked in, and began to pick out various rough snacks.

Put long-line soft candy, four-corner candy, orange soda candy, sour plum tea fruit, flower dipped biscuits... Many ancient snacks have been discontinued or hard to buy after entering the 21st century, or have completely changed their taste. It can be seen everywhere here, Yuji big cat feels as if he can already see the shocked and joyful expression of his famous detective.

The big cat walked over with a bag of snacks and was about to check out, only to find that there were many sundries full of nostalgia on the other side of the grocery store. old book.The owner of the grocery store is obviously a book lover. Although they are old books and most of them are not valuable books, there are many small bags that absorb water and moisture at the bottom.

Yuji the big cat put the basket in his hand in front of the counter. When the shop owner was calculating the price, he went over curiously to have a look, and found that among the pile of old books over there, he found a book that had been written for many years. Big Mao Yuji couldn't understand the old Go game records from before, so he simply picked up the old book, but he didn't want the old book to fall apart as soon as it was pulled out.

"Haha, the customer is all right." The store owner didn't mean to blame him at all, but came over with a smile to help pick up all the yellowed paper pages scattered on the floor, "This book is like this when I got it. If you want to buy it, I can only bundle the books for you."

Big Cat Yuji looked at him strangely, and the shop owner seemed to understand the doubt in Big Cat's eyes, and said with a smile, "My hands are not that dexterous, I can't stick them, and I don't know how to stick them together."

Big Mao Yuji nodded knowingly, and after hesitating for a while, he still bought the book.

Dim sum and old books that fell apart were not expensive. Even if Yukichi the big cat bought a lot of dainty, less than half of the pocket money that Fukuzawa Yukichi left for him before going out would be used.

So Big Cat Yuji went to another store to buy some needles, thread and glue, and also bought some stronger kraft paper, planning to go back and try to repair the worn-out ancient book by himself.

Before returning to the B&B, Big Cat Yuji found a suitable angle to overlook the city from a high place, and found that although he could not see everything in a glance, he could see most of Fuyuki City. Divided into two, Shenshan Town on this side and Xindu on the other side, and the whole city actually only relies on a Weiyuanchuan Bridge to connect the two parts.

Big Cat Yuji always felt that something was subtly wrong, but it was not an urban designer, so he sighed and went back to the B&B to repair his books.

Seeing him coming back, the proprietress of the homestay kindly asked him if he wanted to have lunch together later, Yuji the big cat shook his head embarrassedly, it was a cat and couldn't eat the food they prepared.

After the big cat Yuji returned to the room with the bag, he put the thick snacks aside, and pulled the small round table in the room by himself, took out all the tools at hand, and began to plan to repair the books by himself.

This ancient chess book is indeed very old, and many words are even a little unclear. The big cat Yuji had to find out the signature pen in his backpack again in sweat, and carefully traced it out.The scattered and fallen pages must be sewn up with a needle and thread, and finally glued to the spine made of thick paper.

However, pasting is the last job. When Yuji Big Cat managed to repair the book in half, it was a little helpless to find that the back part of the book was missing a lot of pages, and it was brought back together. For some pages of several books, Yuji the big cat picked out all the pages that did not belong to this book and put them aside. He barely finished repairing the book, and then looked back at the redundant pages that he picked out by himself. number of pages.

The big cat was a little surprised to find that a very unbelievable circular pattern was drawn on some of the pages, and there was even a spell next to it.Although I don't know what is going on with this seemingly secondary pattern and spell, and why it appears in such an ancient book, but this does not prevent Yuji big cat from being curious about these things.

After all, don't look at the Yuji big cat who is usually very stable, but the big cat is still young, and he is a big cat who only likes to try all kinds of incredible things.

Yuji Maomao copied the pattern on the kraft paper he bought with some curiosity. As for the spell...

The Yuji big cat looked at the cat language translator that had been properly placed over there, and began to hum proudly. The big cat felt that anyway, it was just snorting twice by himself, and there was nothing wrong with it, and it was not true. Read it out, and you can't read it out, after all, there's nothing you can do if you don't know how to speak human words...

Just when the big cat was making excuses for his behavior in the second grade, Yuji big cat suddenly found that the kraft paper in front of him suddenly floated up, and the paper even emitted an incredible light.

"Meow!" The big cat Yuji was frightened and panicked, and quickly backed away, away from the inexplicable kraft paper.

The kraft paper instantly shone brightly, and then a somewhat unbelievable person appeared on top of the kraft paper.

"Call me if you need me! Your trustworthy fox maiden, the caster has come—" With such a lovely voice, a fox-eared woman with pink hair and wearing a short blue kimono appeared In front of the big cat Yuji, "Come on, let me see who is the aster this time... a... one..."

The fox-eared woman who claimed to be a caster was stunned when she saw the big Yuji cat, and then she rushed up immediately, raised her hand and hugged the big Yuji cat vigorously and rubbed it back and forth, "Ah, this cat, it feels so good. It’s great, and it’s so big! It’s such a wonderful feeling!”

At this time, the sliding door on the side was swung open. Fukuzawa Yukichi looked at this scene with a face of astonishment, and the fox-eared witch who was holding the cat and refused to let go was also stunned. The two stared blankly. After staring at each other for a while, Edogawa Ranpo poked his head out from behind Fukuzawa Yukichi, and said calmly: "If you don't let go, Mr. Yukichi will be strangled by you."

"Wow!" The witch quickly let go, and at this moment she also noticed that the flow of magic power came from the cat in front of her, "Aster, are you okay, aster!?"

Yuji the big cat slowly spit out a white cat soul from its widened cat mouth. It was about to fly into the sky, but the fox-eared witch swiftly grabbed it and stuffed it back into the big cat's mouth.

"What the hell is... what's going on?" After some fuss, the three of them sat down again, and Fukuzawa Yukichi took a deep breath before asking.

However, Edogawa Ranpo, after carefully checking the scattered book pages and the kraft paper over there, probably guessed the truth, but the truth seems a little too unbelievable.

"Hmm, it looks like you were all involved by accident. It's incredible, especially the aster who summoned me this time." The fox-eared witch looked at her side with a smile. Fei Tianwai, the big black cat who has not been able to wake up until now, stood up and raised his hand to summon a somewhat strange mirror. When the mirror swirled and danced around him, he introduced himself again: "I was summoned by the aster. Servant, it's the caster of this Holy Grail War—"

"Holy Grail War?" Both people in the room were shocked.Fukuzawa Yukichi looked at her seriously, "Please tell us what the so-called "Holy Grail War" is. "

Edogawa Ranpo on the side took out his glasses from his arms, and looked carefully at the fox-eared priestess in front of him.

At the same time, in the Fuyuki Church on the other side of Miyama Town, Kotomine Rizheng announced the arrival of the last servant, "At this point, I declare that the Holy Grail War has officially begun!"

Around the empty church except him, several familiars quietly disappeared from here.

After spending a considerable amount of time understanding what this so-called "Holy Grail War" is, Fukuzawa Yukichi's face was quite ugly. He never expected that he was just going out with random steps to catch a serial murder case It's just a murderer, and my cat actually did such a serious thing.

But if he was asked to blame the cat, he couldn't do it. After all, no matter how you look at it, the big cat Yuji was involved innocently.

"That's not the case." The fox-eared witch who called herself caster raised her fingers and shook, "The master should have held the command spell earlier than summoning me, so even if there is no accident this time, there will be other situations Happened, but—”

The fox-eared maiden laughed, her face was already extremely beautiful, and her sweet smile at this moment was even more breathtakingly beautiful, "The command spell on the aster's paw was covered by the ater's fur, plus The last aster is still a cat, so generally speaking, it is impossible for anyone to think of it, but the black cat is actually my aster."

"Besides, Aster also has quite brilliant illusions. This ancient illusion was passed down from the opposite country, right? It's really..." The fox-eared witch swallowed the following words, and then revealed a look that seemed to be He looked at the two people in front of him with a very bright smile, "So, which of you two will pretend to be Xiaoyu's master?"

At this time, Edogawa Ranpo, who had been watching her carefully for a long time, spoke before Fukuzawa Yukichi: "Your real name is Tamamomae, right?"

The witch with fox ears suddenly paused, she looked at Edogawa Ranpo who looked similar to a young man in front of her in disbelief, "Why do you..."

"Of course you can tell just by looking at it." Edogawa Ranbu opened his sharp green eyes and looked at the woman in front of him, and then he sighed and looked at his black cat who was still wandering in the sky, "Mr. Yuji Why do you always attract so many weird people, really."