Chapter 103 Hiring a Killer

Following Edogawa Ranpo to the commissioned location, Ace was shocked to find that this was a place he had been to once but never again.

"Laibo Street? What kind of commission did you accept? Why are you here?"

Even though he was misled at first, Ace, who later became friends with Chuuya Nakahara, naturally knew what kind of place Ray Street was. At least in Yokohama City, a serious commission should not be related to a place like Ray Street.

It's no wonder that President Fukuzawa asked Ranpo to wait for him to come back before doing this commission. Given the fighting power of Ranpo Edogawa and Akiko Yono, they might not be able to return after walking around Ray Street. Whether they can even finish the walk is another matter.

Edogawa Ranpo chuckled twice, "What kind of request? You will get the answer soon."

Ace raised his eyebrows and stopped asking further questions.

"Come to think of it, the last time I came to Raymond Street was two years ago." Ace said after counting, "It feels like this place is still the same as the last time I came here. It hasn't changed much."

People outside are using smartphones, but this place is still as shabby as before.

Edogawa Ranpo turned to look at Yosano Akiko who was comparing the route with the map next to him: "Yosano, how long will it take to get there?"

"Let me see... we need to go a little further inside."

Ace scanned the people who were secretly looking at them as they passed by, as well as the figures hiding in the shadows around them, and smiled casually, "Well, I always feel like we are being treated as fat sheep."

When he first went out to sea, he was always stared at like this. After seeing this many times, he knew exactly what they were planning.

Yoseno Akiko also glanced around obscurely, and then frowned. There were so many people with bad intentions here, and she alone was enough to deal with them. Fortunately, she was protecting Mr. Ranpo. She didn't know how strong Ace was, and whether he could fight.

"Don't worry, Yoseno, nothing will happen." Seeing her worry, Ranpo Edogawa comforted her in a half-hearted way.

She and Akiko Yono glanced at the two careless boys who didn't take it seriously at all, sighed, and tried hard to look like they were not to be messed with.

Forget it, she should just pay more attention.

After walking for a while, he, Akiko Yosano, and Ace looked at each other in bewilderment at the alley in front of them that was blocked by debris.

"Mr. Ranbu, there is no way."

Before I could finish my conversation with Yosano Akiko, I heard some chaotic footsteps behind me.

When they turned around, they saw several men in black suits blocking their entrance, each holding a gun.

Edogawa Ranpo was the first to speak: "This is the place you chose, how shameless!"

The men looked at each other, raised their guns at the three men, and started shooting without saying a word.

"Mr. Ranpo!" He and Akiko Yoshino nervously took a defensive posture, but the next moment they were grabbed by the waist and lifted up.

Ace grabbed one with each arm, and at the moment of firing, he jumped back several times and landed on top of the debris blocking the alley. He placed Edogawa Ranpo and Yosano Akiko behind the pile of debris, bent down and said to the two people who had just stood below: "You two take cover first, I'll go and deal with those guys."

He did a neat backflip to avoid the bullets, flew over several men in black suits, and landed behind them.

"Hey, your enemy is here."

Ace held down his hat, half bent his waist, and rushed into their midst the moment they turned their heads. With a series of smooth movements, he knocked them all down in a short while.

He squatted among the people who were howling because they had lost their fighting power, poked one of them in the face with his finger, and said sarcastically, "You guys are causing trouble for us with just this little strength? You're too weak, right? You can't satisfy me at all."

Men in black suits: “…”

Someone cursed on the spot: "Didn't that guy say that the only person the detective agency needs to pay attention to is their president!? Who is this guy!?"

Another person added: "That bastard ripped us off! The price was too low! Too low!!"

Ace almost immediately understood the hidden meaning in the conversation and asked, "Are you hired as hired laborers?"

"Yeah!" the person who answered cursed, "That bastard actually lied to us and said that the Armed Detective Agency had only its president who was good at fighting, and the rest of them were not very good at fighting. The only trouble was how to trick the detective out when their president was not around..."

"Hmm...it seems that the only one in the Armed Detective Agency who can fight is their president." Ace thought about it and felt that this seemed to be correct.

When the people lying on the ground heard this, they stopped wailing one after another, and all tilted their heads to look at him, with resentment on their faces, as if to say "How can you lie with your eyes open like that?"

Maybe because their expressions were too obvious, even Ace understood what they meant this time. He said, "Ah, I'm not from the Armed Detective Agency."

Several people looked unconvinced, and one of them said, "Why are you helping them if you are not from the Armed Detective Agency?!"

"Ah? But we are friends. There's nothing wrong with helping a friend, right?" Ace asked in confusion.

Several men looked distorted after hearing this.

It's normal to help with ordinary things, but this is a life-threatening matter! Who among ordinary friends would help with such a thing? Wouldn't they all stay away from it! ?

"I don't believe it! If you're not from the Armed Detective Agency, where else could you be from!?"

"The Port Mafia."

“…”

"???"

"!!"

After hearing this unexpected answer, the men in black suits were confused at first, then their heads were full of question marks. When they finally realized what Ace said, their pupils trembled and their faces were filled with shock!

"Are you kidding me? How could you be a member of the Port Mafia?!"

"That's right! You don't look like a Mafia guy at all!"

"If you are from the Port Mafia, which district are you from? Why haven't I seen you before?"

The Port Mafia is currently in a stage of rapid development, and as the leading boss of Yokohama, some people occasionally act under someone else's name. Although many people deal with them because they are afraid of being discovered by the Port Mafia, there are also some courageous or not-so-smart guys who would do such a thing.

Of course, what that person said at the end completely exposed their organization.

Ace scratched his head and asked curiously, "Are you also from the Port Mafia?"

After some hesitation, they finally gave an affirmative answer.

The work done by the lower echelons of the port mafia involves many industries and has a variety of advancements, but the essence is to convert violence into money. Of course, they also accept commissions to buy killers, after all, many of their members are originally killers.

"Then you are our own people." Ace looked at them in annoyance. He had thought they were enemies before, and he kicked them too hard. Two of them seemed to have their legs broken. "Well, I'll ask the people from the Port Hospital to come pick you up. You can just reject this commission. Ranpo and Akiko are my friends. I can't let you hurt them."

The men lying on the ground looked at each other, not knowing whether they should believe him.

The upper and middle levels may know that the Port Hospital belongs to the Port Mafia, but most of the lower levels know that the two are related. Ace Neng asked someone from the Port Hospital to pick them up, and they actually believed it a little.

The leader exchanged glances with the others and asked again, "Which district are you from? Why haven't we seen you before?"

The Port Mafia swallowed up a lot of organizations and territories during the Dragon War and for a period of time afterwards. Of course, the regional management had to be redistributed. Because a large number of people joined after the war, the personnel allocation in each area naturally had new adjustments. It was normal to have colleagues you had never seen before.

In order to prevent someone from deceiving them by claiming to be part of the Port Mafia, they decided to ask and investigate to see if there was such a person.

But how could Ace understand this? Once it came to do with regular management, he would try to escape and leave it all to Moriowa to handle. When asked which district it was, he didn't even know how many districts the Port Mafia was divided into.

Ace thought for a moment and chose an answer that theoretically wouldn't go wrong: "I live in the middle of the five tallest buildings in the city."

Men in black suits: “…”

Isn't that the headquarters?

But, but... "How come you are friends with that guy from the Armed Detective Agency?"

The Armed Detective Agency is a rising star in the past two years, but even so, Yokohama's large organizations do not take it seriously. After all, there are only three people in the organization. The ones worth noting are the former assassin Ginlang, who has a high military power and seems to have some connection with the government, and the recently famous detective Edogawa Ranpo.

But Ranpo Edogawa himself has little fighting power and is unable to protect himself from the mafia's weapons.

No organization would deliberately target this small organization of only three people. Doing so would be cheap.

Although the Armed Detective Agency and the Port Mafia are not enemies, the nature of the Detective Agency shows that the two will obviously not have a good relationship. After all, if the Detective Agency accepts a commission, it may find someone from the Port Mafia and send him to eat pork chop rice.

It doesn't seem right that a man who claims to be a member of the Port Mafia would be on good terms with someone from the Armed Detective Agency, right?

"Is this weird?"

Although Ace didn't know about the Three-Step Plan, the president of the Armed Detective Agency and Mr. Ougai were obviously old acquaintances, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with being on good terms with someone from the Detective Agency.

Several people immediately glared at him: "Isn't this weird!?"

"Haha, that's it anyway!" He stood up and picked up the guns he had just knocked down one by one, and placed them on the bodies of several men, "Then I'll leave first."

The place of Raibo Street is not safe, but the number of strong people is limited. Those who are worthy of attention are placed on the table outside Morio. The last strong person who was exceptional was Nakahara Chuuya. If there are particularly dangerous characters, Ace cannot be unaware of it, so he is not too worried about these members with guns in their hands.

As for Ranpo and Akiko, both of them have low fighting power, so he has to go back to find them quickly.

Ace nimbly jumped onto the pile of debris again, but found that the two people who were supposed to be behind the pile of debris were nowhere to be seen.

"...?? Ranpo? Akiko!?"