Chapter 104 Kidnapping

"Ranpo - Akiko - where are you? Hey, have you seen two people? A man and a woman, the man is this tall, the woman is this tall..." Ace asked while looking and gesturing to passers-by.

"Bang——"

He put down his arms, "If you don't know, then why did you do that?"

Along the way, Ace asked a lot of people, but most of the people in Raybo Street would not answer his questions properly. Some of the hot-tempered people would directly attack him, and some of the smooth-talking people would ask him for money.

Of course, the final result of those who asked Ace for money was usually the same as the former, being beaten. Because Ace never brought money with him when he went out, every time he went out, Moriou would take out his secondary card and put it in his pocket. In other words, Ace had no cash on him.

——The main reason for only giving him the card was that Moriou was afraid that he would be cheated outside. If he swiped the card, if the amount was large, he could easily check where the money was spent to see if he was cheated. If he was cheated, it would be easier to find the source.

Regardless of whether Ace had cash on him, he never used money to obtain information, otherwise Buggy wouldn't have given him a free ride and provided him with good food and drink.

The person who asked Ace for money didn't get the money, so his attitude changed immediately, and the characteristics of the people in the Red Street were immediately revealed - if you don't give me money, why are you asking for money! He immediately started to fight, and then was beaten by Ace.

After being beaten, some of those who have seen it will speak up honestly.

Ace made a lot of noise when he was looking for someone, and before long, everyone on the street knew that there was a young man who was very good at fighting looking for someone on Leibo Street. His targets were a man and a woman.

In an abandoned warehouse on the corner of the street, a group of minors gathered together. One of the teenagers said nervously, "What should we do? That guy seems to be coming this way!"

Raibo Street is basically equivalent to the slums of Yokohama. Ever since people started to seek survival here, there have always been people coming here to survive. The population influx to Raibo Street reached a peak during the period when the previous leader went crazy. The second peak was in the middle and late stages of the Dragon War and after the war.

A large number of people who have lost everything or orphans who have lost their families have come here. There is no shortage of adults here, and there is no shortage of minors. The earliest group of minors in Raybo Street was the Sheep Organization, which is a self-defense organization for minors. There is also the card of Chuuya Nakahara, which is strong enough to protect the entire organization. The situation of minors in Raybo Street was much better than that of minors in the slums under normal circumstances.

After Chuuya Nakahara left the Sheep Organization and the Sheep Organization fell apart, the other members of the Sheep Organization were spared by the Port Mafia at Chuuya Nakahara's request. However, in return, in order to prevent them from influencing Chuuya Nakahara again, Moriogai assigned separate jobs to all of them who were still alive, and arranged people to monitor them at all times.

After this group of minors left Leibo Street, the situation of the minors who came to Leibo Street took a sharp turn for the worse. Moreover, because Yang had acted arrogantly in the past by relying on the power of Nakahara Chuuya, after Yang fell, the adults also fought back. The situation of the minors in Leibo Street was even worse than that of ordinary minors in the slums.

Without a strong enough leader, the minors in Leibo Street had to gather into small groups in order to survive. This was far inferior to the Sheep Organization that brought together almost all the minors in Leibo Street.

The shabby warehouses where these teenagers live are actually abandoned. The gaps in the roofs are covered with rotten cardboard and broken wooden boards, and the walls are leaking air everywhere. The supplies they use for survival inside are all unwanted by others, or even leftovers that were thrown into the street as garbage and have been picked through by the adults on the street.

After the young man finished speaking anxiously, the other boy frowned and said, "Who told you to bring these two guys back? I told you a long time ago that they seem to have provoked some tough forces, so we'd better not get involved with them!"

The young man blushed and said angrily, "I thought they were from outside because they looked clean and unbeatable. I wanted to make some money from them! Besides, you were there and agreed to it, didn't you?"

"I, I was just thinking that Sakyou's wound was inflamed. Does he need money to buy medicine? We don't have that kind of money!"

"Okay, Kumi, it was a decision we all made to bring them back. It's useless to blame him. Now that things have come to this, we can only think of ways to remedy the situation." The boy who spoke turned his head and looked at another boy who had been silent. "Akutagawa, why don't you say something?"

Among them, only Ryunosuke Akutagawa is a user with special abilities. Although he is not a very powerful one, he does have a fairly strong attacking ability. Compared with other underage groups, they are obviously in a better situation with Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

Ordinary people in the outside world are repulsive to people with special abilities, but this is not the case in a place like Leibo Street where the law of the jungle is more obvious. Having a powerful person with special abilities means that they can get better living conditions in Leibo Street. People with special abilities are a popular group in Leibo Street.

Although Akutagawa Ryunosuke, whom he asked about, was an attack-type psychic, his living conditions were not much better than those of others, and he had obvious symptoms of malnutrition.

In this small group, he also has a younger sister. His sister Akutagawa Gin is not a superpower. She has the same strength and ability as an ordinary child. And because she is a girl, her role in the group is very limited. In order to take care of his sister, Akutagawa Ryunosuke will give many of his resources to his sister first, which allows Akutagawa Gin, who is also weak, to survive in this harsh environment.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke's eyes were dark. When he was about to say something, Edogawa Ranpo, who was caught by the minors, said, "I suggest you don't do that. He won't be threatened by you."

When he and Yosano Akiko were thrown behind a pile of debris by Ace, these kids happened to be rummaging through garbage in a nearby building. After hearing the noise from them, they quietly approached them. When they saw that they were well-dressed and didn't look like they were very good fighters, they immediately had evil thoughts.

Compared to the Sheep Organization members who had never read people's faces, these minors who had lived in the Rape Street for a long time were more cautious and prudent. However, these few glances were not enough for them to get more information. What really prompted them to take this risk and bring the person back was the fact that the wound of the child named Zuo Jing was inflamed and festering.

They urgently need money to buy medicine.

But it was obvious that there was no place for them to make money in the Leibo Street. There were even adults who wanted to steal their money and resources. What’s more, even the people selling medicine in the Leibo Street were all gangsters who took advantage of them because they were minors and had no power to resist. There were many cases of them maliciously quoting high prices and not giving them medicine after they had paid.

They had encountered this kind of thing before, and since then they never bought medicine in Rabo Street again.

There were five or six children surrounding the two people at the time, all holding weapons in their hands. Although they were just some razor blades, bent daggers, rusty water pipes and rusted wire mesh segments, it did make it difficult for Xie Ye Akiko to take action.

Although she knew that they were going to the Raibo Street and therefore brought a knife with her for self-defense, she did not want to clash with these teenagers and get Edogawa Ranpo injured, nor did she want to hurt these children, so she was inevitably a little restrained.

In the end, it was Ranpo Edogawa who said that they could just go with them without doing anything, and he and Akiko Yosano were brought back with him by these boys.

When Akutagawa Ryunosuke heard what he said, he just raised his eyelids and ignored him completely. He just said to his companions with a sullen face: "If he dares to come, kill him!"

"But you can't beat him." Ranpo Edogawa said bluntly without caring about their feelings.

"Shut up."

At the same time, his supernatural power responded to his words. Under the tattered and wrinkled clothes on his body, a gray beast head turned into a puff and pounced towards Edogawa Ranpo, and finally plunged into the floor next to Edogawa Ranpo.

The wind caused by the attack blew up the detective's fluffy black hair, and even his brown hat fell to the ground, but the detective himself did not show any panic.

"Whatever you want!" He wrinkled his nose. "Not only did you not listen to the detective, you actually attacked him. You deserve to be beaten!"

The boy who spoke first glanced at him in dissatisfaction. "What nonsense are you talking about! We won't be defeated! Right Akutagawa?"

"One team of people, get your weapons ready, we'll go find that guy and ask for the ransom, and the rest of you stay here to guard them." Akutagawa Ryunosuke said, "Rather than letting him find us here and then making us feel constrained, it's better for us to take the initiative and attack."

The half-long-haired girl tugged at his sleeve nervously, "Brother..."

Seeing his sister's worried look, Akutagawa Ryunosuke paused for a moment, then said, "Gin, wait here. I won't lose."

Having said that, he pulled out his sleeves and led the way out, "Let's go."

…

Ace asked people all the way, and of course he also called on passers-by. In the end, everyone saw him from a distance and walked around him. However, Ace, who ran fast, still caught him and continued to question him.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke almost came over by groping at the sound of Ace calling his name. He gestured to the others to hide in the dark, and walked out alone and came in front of Ace.

When everyone else was hiding from him, a boy who was more than a head shorter than him and looked very thin suddenly appeared in front of him. Ace was a little surprised, but did not chase him away.

"What do you want?" he asked.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke raised his head and stared at him with dark eyes: "I know where the person you are looking for is."

"Hey?" Ace's eyes lit up, and just as he was about to speak, he heard the boy opposite him continue, "The two people you are looking for are in my hands. If you want to save them, just use the money to redeem them."