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Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?
Kawakami Wakana couldn't help but ask herself three philosophical questions.
At this moment, she, her parents, and Fyodor were sitting around the only small table in the room. On the table were four cups of black tea, the high-end chocolates that Ruoyi had just bought, and edamame mochi, a local specialty that her parents had brought from Sendai.
only……
She felt like an outsider at that moment.
Because his parents kept asking Fyodor all sorts of questions.
The father spoke first: "Young man, where are you from? Can you understand Japanese?"
Fyodor: "I'm from St. Petersburg. I'm able to communicate in Japanese without any problems, thanks to Wakai-san."
Mom then asked, "How old are you this year? Are you an international student? Or are you working?"
Fyodor: "Don't worry, I've already found a job in Japan, helping out in a university psychology lab."
"Furthermore, even if she has the idea of returning to China in the future, I will not force Ruoyi to come back to Lucia with me if she is unwilling."
"What a psychology trick!" Kawakami Wakana couldn't help but mutter to herself.
But then again... it doesn't seem wrong. Fyodor's "human nature experiments" and psychology do indeed study the human mind.
However, what happened next was truly astonishing—
Her father, who has recently become obsessed with fitness, observed Fyodor and said, "This young man looks even lighter than Ruoyi, and his complexion isn't very good. Is he alright?"
"He's just naturally anemic, and he's been staying up late doing experiments these past few days!" Noticing the slight change in Fyodor's expression when he heard that she looked "unwell," Ruoyi spoke up this time.
Mom and Dad looked at each other and nodded.
"It's not that I want Ruoyi to find someone strong and capable to protect you," her mother said, stroking her face. "But... it's okay if I don't have a grandson. If the young man isn't in good health, and he does get married in the future, please don't tire him out at night."
"..."
"…………?"
"…………???"
No? Oh my god?
Kawakami Wakai spat out the black tea she had just drunk.
Although she is indeed an adult, is this what a mother would say when she first meets her "daughter's boyfriend"?
But when her parents saw her embarrassed look, they both laughed.
The father picked up his phone with a smug look on his face and opened a webpage titled "How to Communicate with Your Child After They Start Dating".
"Although I didn't expect Ruoyi to have a boyfriend, my daughter is about to graduate from university, so I started preparing for this a long time ago on the advice of my old colleagues."
"It says here that talking about these kinds of topics in front of young people can ease the tension."
"..."
Kawakami Wakana thought that once she got through this, she would definitely find these websites and report them one by one, saying that they "corrupted parents".
But Fyodor remained calm and composed.
"Don't worry, Mom and Dad, we don't really care about people like that."
Kawakami Wakana pinched his thigh hard.
Who are they calling "Mom and Dad"?
Her strength wasn't great, and Fyodor didn't show any outward reaction, but he glanced at her intentionally or unintentionally, his eyes conveying a clear message—
Is it okay if I tell my parents that you actually work at the Armed Detective Agency?
"..." This guy!
So you're playing this game?
Okay, then she'll give them a taste of their own medicine.
Kawakami Wakana suddenly stood up, pecked Fyodor on the cheek, and then smiled at her parents and said, "Dad, Mom, we've actually decided that we'll register our marriage after I get my graduation certificate."
Then, he whispered to Fyodor, "If you do this, don't blame me for letting all the ability users in Yokohama know that the leader of the House of the Dead and I are secretly married."
Fyodor's pupils dilated suddenly.
Is the kitten retaliating against him?
However, for some reason, the kiss Ruoyi gave him on the cheek reminded him of "his mother's kiss" during his delirium when he had a fever that day.
…………
Kawakami Wakana discovered that Fyodor was indeed very skilled at manipulating people's hearts—or rather, at playing the role of someone who could please others. He actually managed to make her parents very happy.
I chatted with the two elders in the room for a while, and then went for a stroll in Shinjuku. Finally, I managed to coax them back to Sendai on the Shinkansen.
Only after watching her parents swipe their cards to enter the station did Ruoyi say coldly, "You think you can control me by restoring my room? But sorry, I prefer the current room layout."
“Is that so?” Fyodor simply nodded.
"—And also," Ruoyi took a few steps forward, her tone aggressive, "don't think that you can control me by pretending to be a perfect boyfriend in front of my parents."
"If it has to be, I wouldn't mind if they knew what I was doing now."
At this moment, Kawakami Wakai was indeed a little angry.
But her thinking was very clear.
We must never let Feda think that her family is her weakness.
“I’m an agent of the Armed Detective Agency,” she said. “You should know that arranging for two people to hide is not difficult for the agency.”
Fyodor actually wanted to say that finding two people without superpowers wouldn't be difficult for him. But seeing Ruoyi's angry expression, he suddenly wanted to tease her.
“I won’t make a move against them easily.” He turned his back. “Using all your cards too early will make it easy to lose.”
"—However, I do have something on my mind. When you sneaked into the Mafia building to save me last time, and when you rushed over to borrow my place today, were you feeling the same way?"
Kawakami Ruoyi: "...?"
“It doesn’t mean anything special.” Fyodor waved his hand. “However, Neko, I suggest you prepare how to respond if your parents mention me when you talk to them on the phone in the future.”
"—Also, whether I already knew your parents were coming to Tokyo is something you might want to consider."
"..."
"You just want to know who's more important to me, you or my parents?" Kawakami Wakana blinked innocently. "If you're so eager to know the answer—"
Fyodor unconsciously held his breath.
But Ruoyi leaned close to Fyodor's ear and whispered, "Why don't you explore it yourself?"
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" The next day, at the Armed Detective Agency, Ruoyi clenched her fists tightly. "What he meant was to make me suspect Xia-chan, who gave me the information, right? He's playing the trust game with me again!!"
Fortunately, she and Hinata Natsu have been friends for so many years, they trust each other enough, and she is familiar with Fega's ways, otherwise she might have been tricked into doubting her best friend.
Thinking about it this way, she got even angrier and couldn't help but want to curse a few more times, but suddenly Edogawa Ranpo stuffed a chocolate into her mouth.
Ruoyi was a little surprised. You see, Ranpo-san was an absolute miser when it came to snacks, not spending a single penny.
It wasn't until Edogawa Ranpo leaned back in his chair and said to the person playing the game console, "You're too noisy. I can't concentrate on playing games," that things changed.
"..."
“However,” Edogawa Ranpo stared at the game console, his green cat-like eyes slightly widening, “his methods do seem a bit like asserting sovereignty.”
"Whether it's restoring your previous room or meeting your parents under the guise of being your boyfriend, it's actually a form of psychological control."
"He's telling you that you can't escape."
Kawakami Ruoyi: "..."
Why does it feel like Ranpo-san's words...
Fedia now has an even stronger sense of "perversion".
“However—” Edogawa Ranpo pushed up his glasses, “it’s a bit strange.”
"If the 'Demon' only sees you as his nemesis, why doesn't he do the same thing to Dazai?"
"Does he really just want to cultivate an enemy?"
"..."
Hearing Edogawa Ranpo's words, Wakai's expression seemed to freeze.
Of course she knew it! It was all a psychological prison created by the "demon".
But the words Fyodor had said earlier kept echoing in my ears—
"Were your feelings when you came to the Mafia building to rescue me the same as your feelings when you rushed over to borrow my apartment today?"
For some reason, my ears suddenly feel a little hot.
"Never mind!" Kunikida Doppo is out on a field trip, and the president isn't around either. Even if she slacks off, no one will say anything. Wakai slammed her hand on the table, picked up the phone, and said, "I have to find a way to trick my parents into going on a trip. To Kyushu, oh no, let's just go abroad! I absolutely can't give Fei Jia the chance to exploit my weaknesses."
As she spoke, she immediately dialed the phone.
"Hello?" came her mother's gentle voice from the other end of the phone. "It's Ruoyi. Actually, I was just about to call you."
"Yesterday you and... uh, Raskol spent half the day with us and even saw us off on the Shinkansen. You must be tired. I didn't want to bother you, but I have to talk to you about it today."
"Mom thinks the young man is alright, but if he actually suggests that you go back to Lucia with him, you should think it over carefully. After all, girls are always more vulnerable in relationships."
"Also, regardless of when or whether you and Ras get married, you must protect yourself. At the very least, if you don't plan to have children, you must use protection—"
"..."
At that moment, Osamu Dazai, Atsushi Nakajima, and Kyoka Izumi returned to the Armed Detective Agency together. When Wakana Kawakami answered the phone, she accidentally turned on speakerphone, and the topic of "what brand of 'that thing that strangles a child in the cradle' is good" was clearly heard by everyone.
Izumi Kyōka: (Д)
Edogawa Ranpo: (￣￣)
Osamu Dazai：br>
Atsushi Nakajima: (ω)
When Kawakami Wakana realized her phone was on speakerphone, it was already too late. Everyone who was supposed to hear it had already heard it.
Ahhhhhhh—
At this moment, all Kawakami Wakana wanted to do was dig a hole and crawl into it.
Why did the company die again?!
That afternoon, in the president's office.
"Come in." Upon hearing President Fukuzawa's voice from inside the house, Kawakami Wakana immediately went in, bowed, and explained her purpose: "President, I wish to borrow Tanizaki-kun's 'Snowflake' ability."
"Why?" The president's expression didn't change.
“It’s the ‘Demon’,” Kawakami Wakana said. “I’ve discovered that he’s been investigating my parents lately.”
"—President, the Armed Detective Agency should also accept requests from its members, right?"
…………
The end of the year and the beginning of the new year always seem to fly by, especially this year. During this time, Kawakami Wakana asked the Armed Detective Agency to find out that Fyodor's rental date was the day after she moved out. She also contacted her former neighbors to keep an eye on things in Tokyo, citing being harassed by her ex-boyfriend as an excuse. Before she knew it, the new year had arrived.
Originally, Kawakami Wakana planned to go back to Sendai to spend the New Year with her parents. However, remembering Fyodor's intriguing "hentai" behavior last time, she specially transferred some of the money she had saved from working over the years to her family, and still managed to trick her parents into going on a New Year's trip.
And so she naturally stayed in Yokohama.
Every year on January 1st, she gets up very early to visit the shrine, and Kawakami Wakana was a little tired. Originally, she planned to sleep in until she naturally woke up. After all, she and Tanizaki Naomi had agreed to go to the shopping mall on the 2nd or 3rd when it was less crowded to pick out some nice clothes for Izumi Kyoka.
Ruoyi was awakened by a phone ringing.
"Hello?" she answered the phone, still half asleep.
"We just arrived in Hainan Island!" came the mother's excited voice on the other end of the phone. "But Ruoyi said she couldn't come with us because of school, and I'm a little worried about leaving you here alone for the New Year. So I asked Ras-kun to come with you."
"—Let's go play now, we'll bring you coconuts when we get back!"
……Varied?
Almost simultaneously, Ruoyi felt her collar being grabbed and she found herself in front of a restaurant not far away.
“Happy New Year!” she heard Gogol say with a laugh. And standing beside him was the familiar figure in the white hat.
[Author's Note]
Ah, the elderly person in my family can finally have their stitches removed.
It's almost over qwq
Small Theater
Kawakami Wakai: If you want to know so much, why don't you go and investigate it yourself?
Then she noticed the blush on Fyodor's cheeks.
So he pulled him closer and gave a deep, undisguised smile.
Why are you blushing!
So you really like me!
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