Ranpo-sama never thought of himself as a genius. If there is a genius, in Ranpo's heart, only his mother can be called a genius. And his father, who is always defeated at home and cannot beat his mother in solving puzzles and reasoning, is just like him. He is at the bottom of the family and can never hide his smiling mother when he secretly hides snacks.
After his parents passed away unexpectedly, Ranpo Edogawa came to Yokohama and entered a local police academy. His father's acquaintances gradually became perfunctory from their initial enthusiasm. After Ranpo pointed out several times that "your wife has discovered your lover and they have already contacted each other", "You have been found out about money laundering, and if you don't do something, you will be arrested soon", "You are obviously happy in your heart, why do you put on such an expression?" After such words, his father's acquaintances always changed their faces and said with horror: "Ranpo-kun, why did you make up a lie?"
Suspicion is addictive, and once it surfaces, it tends to spread at an alarming rate, like a cumulonimbus cloud.*
"Ranpo Edogawa is a lying liar!"
"Ranpo Edogawa is a disaster! He caused the death of his parents!"
"Ranpo Edogawa likes to tell lies to get attention! What a little idiot!"
People at the police academy said so.
"Ranpo Edogawa is a liar!"
Ranbu didn't understand why everyone was so angry after he said something that everyone knew and could see at a glance.
Ranpo-sama is just telling the truth! Ranpo-sama is not a liar!
Isn't this something everyone knows?
He gradually began to observe. Although he still did his own thing, he was also observing everything around him.
Luanbu doesn't understand why people can deceive each other and yet remain unscathed, and it's as if neither side even realizes they've deceived each other? *
Is this the real world?
Finally, after uncovering the dorm supervisor's love history, Luanbu was kicked out of the school.
That night, Luanbu spent the night sitting at the entrance of a snack shop.
He smelled the aroma of food around him, heard the laughter of parents and children, and couldn't help but think a little aggrievedly, "It's getting dark, Mom and Dad, when can you come to pick up Master Ranbu?"
What Edogawa Ranpo finally received was not an embrace from his parents, but a hand from Mori Ogai.
After being kicked out of the police academy, Ranbu found many jobs to support himself, but he could never keep them for long. After being kicked out again, Ranbu sat on the railing near the sea to watch the scenery.
He shuffled his legs up and down, wondering what his next job would be. He had little money left, and he hadn't had his favorite snacks for a long time. His stomach was aching from time to time because of his irregular diet, but it wasn't serious, and he could ignore it by thinking about other things.
"Well, where should we go next?" Luanbu swung his legs childishly, his head slightly lowered as he looked at the sea, his clothes wrinkled.
"If you have nowhere to go, do you want to come with me?"
Ranbu suddenly heard someone ask this question, and he turned his head in surprise to look at the person who asked the question.
"I'm Mori Ogai, Ranpo-kun, do you want to come with me?" The devil with red eyes invited Edogawa Ranpo.
Ranbu jumped down from the railing and patted his clothes, "Lord Ranbu refuses!"
Mori Ogai smiled and asked, "Why do you reject me, Ranpo-kun? I believe you can see my origin and purpose at first sight, right? In that case, why don't you accept it?"
Luan Bu turned his head away, "Master Luan Bu doesn't want to join the Mafia!"
"But," Mori Gugai said, "Ranbu-kun, you have nowhere to go. Are you willing to let your talent not be understood, doubted, and driven away? All around you are useless people with no talent. They will not believe what you say but will think that you are humiliating their pitiful self-esteem. They use anger to cover up their guilt and use violence to drive away the truth. You are alone, not accepted by the world, and you don't understand the world.
"It's hard for you to live alone, right? How many jobs have you had? Ranpo-kun, you know you have nowhere else to go."
He covered his ears and ran away without looking back.
The same thing happened with subsequent work. The hours became shorter and shorter, and the indifference I received became more and more frequent.
"That kid is always like that. He's always lying."
"Ranpo-kun..., sigh."
"Ranpo Edogawa, he..."
People always shake their heads and comment on the chaos with a hypocritical look on their faces.
Did I do something wrong?
Is it my fault?
Is this all my fault?
No, it's not, Lord Ranpo is not wrong!
Edogawa Ranpo said to himself, Ranpo-sama will never make mistakes!
Ranpo began to observe the world with a whole new perspective.
Just when Luanbu was sitting on the railing by the sea with an empty stomach again, Sen Ouwai came again.
At the junction of day and night, in the twilight, red eyes and emerald green eyes looked at each other, and Mori Ogai extended his hand to the world's number one detective, "Come with me."
This time Luanbu did not refuse.
He took him home.
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Within a few years, the leader of the Port Mafia was replaced by a new person, and at the same time, the "military advisor" of the Port Mafia also became famous.
The Port Mafia has a new member who wears a black detective uniform and always cries for snacks in a childish way. He always appears quietly on a certain road, watching the head of the Armed Detective Agency feeding a cat but being rejected by the cat, and then hides and laughs and makes faces.
Fukuzawa Yukichi of the Armed Detective Agency always takes a fixed route after get off work. He always carries dried fish with him. He feeds cats with his back to one direction, even though the cats despise him. However, there is a gentle smile in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth, which are always pursed, relax quietly.
It was a nice evening, and the most common scene I saw was a calico cat transformed by Natsume-sensei squatting on a wooden block not far away.
This may be one of the truths that Luanbu cannot see through.
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*1 That sentence comes from Ranpo-san’s “The Human Chair”
*2Adapted from Mr. Dazai
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