Drowning in a sea of ​​moonlight

On the endless blue sea, several white seagulls fly by.

Holding a glass of wine, I stood on the deck and looked into the distance.

--holiday!

What a beautiful vocabulary!

It has been two years since my last long vacation.During this period, there are basically only one or two days off, which is only enough to sit in the sun on the deck chairs in front of the big lawn in the manor of the headquarters.

—and now!My little friends and I have a whole week of vacation!

I couldn't help showing a demented smile, raised my head and took a sip of the botrytized sweet white wine of Cheval Blanc on the cruise ship, feeling endless happiness in my heart.

Chat room "brain is empty" (3 people)

Offerings to nothingness: Kaka, Donna, afternoon tea seems to be about to start, and there are limited desserts, come here?

When Breath Becomes Air: Coming Soon!

Secret History: You two are delicious, I will go find you after I finish watching this movie.

I walked briskly to the room, and followed the map in my mind to the restaurant.

As I was walking through a guest room area without looking sideways, I was suddenly stopped by a voice.

"Hey, over there! Master Ranpo is lost, you should go to the restaurant and take Master Ranpo with you!"

I turned my head in surprise, and met a pair of eyes as clear as green lake water.

It was a young man with baby cheeks, wearing a long brown plaid cape and a peaked cap of the same color, with his hands on his hips, looking at me confidently.

...It's eight feet away from the restaurant, how do you know I'm going to the restaurant?

However, it is true that only the afternoon tea desserts in the restaurant on this floor were served just a few minutes ago.

Moreover, although he looks a bit childish in appearance, he is at least 20 years old.

The cruise ship should have eaten a few meals by now, an adult, why doesn't he go to the restaurant?You also need to take away the strangers you meet casually on the road. How about vigilance?

Are you really kidding me?

I looked at him and was about to speak when I saw his eyes suddenly sharp for a moment, then took out a pair of glasses from his pocket and put them on the bridge of his nose, staring at me intently.

Then he put down his glasses and said: "...you're very interesting. It's decided! Mr. Ranpo's post-dessert exercise today, the first option: solve the puzzle about you! As for whether it will become an official plan, Everything depends on your performance!"

......All right.It's up to you.

I put my hand on my forehead helplessly, lowered my head and said to him: "...It's okay to take you to the restaurant, but what about your guardian? Don't you need me to contact them for you?"

If you still get lost at this age, it is probably impossible to come out by yourself.

The young man who called himself Ranpo puffed his cheeks and said: "...No, they are not Lord Ranpo's guardians, they are the juniors in the club. And they will prevent Lord Ranpo from eating delicious food! You take me there!"

I sighed, pressed my palm on the top of his head, and rubbed his hair in his disbelieving eyes: "Okay, but I won't look at you again when I get there."

He covered his head with his hands and backed away a few steps, looked up at me like a vigilant cat: "Master Luanbu is no longer a child, so I don't need you to watch!"

After he finished speaking, he put down his hand again, and said reluctantly with a puffy face: "...But seeing that you are barely considered a good person, I don't care about you. What's your name?"

I smiled: "Ludwig, your name is Ranpo?"

He proudly raised his chest: "Remember, my name is Edogawa Ranpo, and I am the world's number one detective!"

After arriving, Edogawa waved happily and said, "Goodbye, Mr. Ludwig." He plunged into the pile of desserts.

I waved to him resignedly, walked to the side of Alisha who was leaning against the wall and smiled, and took the plate from him.

"Louis, what kind of physique do you have? You always like to invite strangers to approach you." He teased me, calling out the aliases we would change every time we went out to play very smoothly.

"Who knows." I ate the cake and said vaguely. "He is really a bit amazing, so he just followed here. What if I am a bad guy?"

"Oh, maybe it's because we can see that our Louis is upright and kind~ That Edogawa sounds like a funny person." Alysha said, with a troublesome gleam in his eyes.

My eyes were dead: "...If you are so interested, you can find him, but if something really happens, I don't guarantee that I will stop Camilla if she wants to hit you." Camilla is Donna's pseudonym.

Afternoon tea time is only one hour, we are sitting in a corner of the hall, chatting with each other while eating, it will be over soon.

"Speaking of it, I'm still a little worried. If he's not joking, but is really a road idiot, he won't be able to find his way back after eating, right? But if he is left alone, I feel that there will be a lot of trouble." I said with a smile Said with a spoon.

"Yeah." Alisha took a sip of black tea, "So, unless he comes to you again, don't worry about it."

"Ah--have you brought too many children? It feels like I'm talking more than before." I lamented.

"It's not a bad thing. Others were talking about you before, but now, congratulations on finally growing into a qualified adult!" Alisha smiled and patted me on the shoulder.

"...Heh, that means I haven't grown up yet, right?" I grinned grinningly.

Then he stretched out his hand like a hungry eagle pouncing on his food, held him down and scratched him.

He couldn't hide even if he wanted to, he laughed out of breath, and said, "Come on, you're so violent, I'll ignore you! You can eat here, I'll go back and find Donna!"

Then it flew away like the wind.

I knew he wasn't really angry, so I continued to eat slowly.

After eating, I was about to get up and leave, when I saw a pair of green eyes in front of me, staring at me without blinking.

"Ludwig-san! You have to go back to your room, so, come and send Ranpo-sama back! In return, I invite you to come to my room to watch cartoons!"

...really an adult.

I began to doubt my own judgment.

But he is so incapable of taking care of himself, I can rest assured that I will deliver it myself, and it happens to be going back to the guest room, so I agreed.

But he declined the invitation to watch cartoons, and then watched him bouncing back all the way, with the cloak flicking and flicking behind his back, like a fluffy and round sparrow.

After walking to the room number he reported, I told him, "Try not to act alone if you are crazy." I was about to leave, but he stopped me again.

He wrinkled his face and said with a troubled look: "...Mr. Ludwig, you are a weirdo. Your clothes are very new, and there are hardly any traces of your living habits, but you The hand holding the knife and fork is very steady, and the knife is also very precise. I guess there must be a lot of knife calluses on the hand under your glove?"

My heart moved slightly, but on the surface I was indifferent, and instead made a dumbfounding expression and said: "I am a medical student, so it is natural for me to be steady? I don't have a cocoon, but you tell me this because you think I Is it a bad guy?"

"No." He raised his head and stared at me with sharp eyes, "I tell you this because I think you are a good person."

"You reveal too little information in your words and deeds, which is abnormal anyway. But because I don't think you are malicious, and I don't want me to find out what you want to do. So, I just need you to tell me one sentence: Would you do any harm to the common people on this ship?"

"On this ship, the surveillance here is broken and can't record the sound, so you can tell the truth. You can also lie to me, but don't expect me not to find out."

I suddenly remembered that when I went to Japan two years ago, such a name appeared in the information given to me by the intelligence team leader.

——Armed Detective Agency, Edogawa Ranpo, 22 years old.People without supernatural powers have extremely quick thinking and amazing reasoning ability, so they should pay special attention.

So I also looked solemn, and said: "You can rest assured, Mr. Edogawa from the Armed Detective Agency. I will never do such a thing."

"At the same time, I really don't want you to explore me."

——Of course, even if he discovers something, he can ask others to change his cognition.

He still looked at me with that kind of eyes that seemed to be able to see everything, narrowed his eyes again after a while, and said with a nonchalant smile: "Then I believe you. Just call me Mr. Ranpo like the juniors of my detective agency, I like you quite a bit, and you babble like them."

...Is this a compliment to me?

I felt a little speechless again: "...Then, thank you."

Then, for the sake of reciprocity, I added, "I like you quite a bit too, you are very... straightforward?"

"Hmph, of course." He triumphantly put one hand on his hip, waved the other hand at me, and said, "That's it, Lord Ranbu is going to rest, see you later!"

After speaking, he closed the door of his room.

I stood where I was, and couldn't help but want to look up to the sky and sigh.

Originally, when we came out to play, we would definitely choose a route where there were basically no supernatural beings infested, so as to avoid encountering disputes.

When booking the ticket, the intelligence team did check it out, but it wasn't there.

But now, the Armed Detective Agency, an organization in Yokohama, Japan, which is entrusted to protect and gathers supernatural beings, has appeared on this cruise ship.

What does this mean?

——This shows that we are lucky——

I lay in my room with myself, drinking wine without love.

Chat room "brain is empty" (3 people)

When breath becomes air: If I had known this, I should have let Zweig protect us for a while.

When breath turns into air: It’s still the captain’s special guest, so it’s mistakenly recorded as the staff?What kind of earth-shattering oolong is this?

An offering to nothingness:...... After we go back, we must let the society compensate for the damage to our hearts, we must.

Secret History: Alas.

When breath turns into air: ...go to ask the intelligence team leader, saying that they are investigating why they are here, let's take it easy.

Secret History: Oh, we also really

Secret History: I go

Seeing Donna's words without punctuation, my heart tightened.

When Breath Becomes Air: What's Wrong?

Offerings to Nothingness: What's Wrong?

Secret History: ...the ballroom on the sixth floor, whoever is closest to you, come quickly

Secret History: I'm afraid I can't control myself and I'm going to hit someone

An offering to nothingness: Hey, I'm on the other side, where's Kaka?

When breath becomes air: ...I'm upstairs, go now, wait!

After speaking, he stood up in his clothes and strode downstairs.

Turning the corner of the stairs, you can see the resplendent ballroom. It is estimated that Donna might just want to go for a ride and go here.But I don't have the mood to appreciate it anymore, so I can only keep walking one step at a time.

She actually needs us to rescue her, which shows that she no longer trusts what she can say, that is, she is extremely angry.If I were later, she might really start beating someone violently under the watchful eyes of everyone.

From a distance, I saw Donna in a pure white evening dress, and her slightly twitching hands with bruised veins hanging by her side, and a pair of obviously male hands approaching her in front of her, making gestures to hold her. her right hand.

I know that she has a cleanliness habit, and she especially hates physical contact with strangers of the opposite sex, so I felt a little anxious, and walked towards her quickly, and then heard——

"He is as warm and cold as a red rose, which makes me dazzled! May I ask Miss to give me the honor to die in love with you—"

That affectionate voice was like a nail piercing through my head, piercing my brain with pain.

I didn't expect that.

I haven't seen you for a few years, you have become like this.

Not only committing suicide by himself, but also dragging other girls whom he met for the first time together?

However, there is no need to be surprised.

After all, you already knew that what I did back then was useless, didn't you?

... Now, what happens to him has nothing to do with me.

I slowed down, walked quietly behind Donna, and held her hand that was about to be punched.

She squeezed reassuringly, and said to the person in front of her, "I'm sorry, sir. She may not be able to agree to your request."

The moment I spoke, he froze there.

After a long, long time, I raised my head and met my eyes.

The author has something to say:

Hahaha

I haven't seen her for two years, and not only did she not give up suicide, but she even hooked up with girls behind her back, and she hooked up with her good friends.

Danger, Dazai.Critically endangered.

(good to hear)