Chapter 12 The famous detective who is loved by his whole family
"I'm back."
After returning home in a daze, Hayana Takanashi was still in shock of the saying "a favor of a meal should be repaid with one's own body", and she even forgot that Edogawa Ranpo asked her to bring back a cake.
"Xiao Nai is back." Grandpa Xiao Niaoyou pulled down the magazine, revealing his eyes.
"Grandpa." Hayato Yato greeted and changed his shoes.
She noticed that the cover of the magazine her sports-enthusiast grandfather was holding featured a boy with amber eyes and cat eyes wearing a baseball cap and holding a tennis racket.
It’s Echizen who beat Yukimura in junior high school. I heard that he is becoming more and more famous in the tennis world.
Immediate tennis, shadow clone tennis, disguise tennis... these tennis players full of deadly moves have attracted the secret attention of the Special Ability Agent Department.
"You're back." Xiao Niaoyou's mother, wearing delicate makeup and cooking, glanced back while holding a wooden spatula and asked her daughter, "How was the meeting today?"
"He's a handsome guy!"
"Yeah." Takanashi Hayato said listlessly, "Super handsome."
Before she could finish her sleep, a gust of wind rushed down from upstairs!
Just as he was about to hit the girl standing at the door, the young man slammed on the brakes ten centimeters away from her.
He braked quickly, steadily, and at just the right distance, clearly very familiar with the route.
The young man leaned closer to her, his slender body leaning down, as if he had smelled something. His lovely face like jade wrinkled. "You didn't bring back the orange mousse?"
Forgetting the other party's request to bring something back, Hayana Kotori put her hands on her hips and smiled maliciously: "Of course - I ate all of it on the way back~"
Edogawa Ranpo's narrowed eyes suddenly opened, as if he had heard the most evil speech of this century, his cold green pupils were full of astonishment and shock!
"Mom! Look at her!"
Unable to defeat his opponent, Edogawa Ranpo angrily chose to file a complaint.
Hayana Takanashi: "..."
Hayana Kotori suddenly grabbed the other person's cheek, which was as soft as Daifuku's and chewy, and said angrily, "You did it on purpose! You clearly don't smell any orange mousse on me."
"Okay, okay, don't quarrel." Grandpa Kotori smiled and comforted gently, "Ranpo wants orange mousse, right? I'll go to the cake shop in town to see if they have it."
"Is there anything Lingmei wants to bring back?"
"Yes, Dad, please buy me a bottle of pepper." The voice of Xiao Niaoyou's mother came from the busy kitchen.
Making way for her grandfather and watching him go out, Hayana Kotori hung the backpack on her shoulder on the rack.
Edogawa Ranpo placed the medicine that his grandfather was going to take after dinner on the coffee table one by one.
My grandfather has a bad stomach and he often acts like a child when he is old and doesn’t like to take medicine. Every time he walks around with his hands on his hips, it works better than anyone else.
As written before, Ranpo's surname is Edogawa. He is not a member of the Kotori Yu family. Whether it is the family relationship on the household registration certificate or blood relationship or surname, he has nothing to do with the Kotori Yu family.
Ranpo was brought back by my grandfather when he visited Yokohama 8 years ago.
I heard that both his parents were dead and he was kicked out of the police academy (Ranpo: I was retaliated against because I exposed the warden's love history! I wasn't kicked out for no reason!). He was living on the streets of Yokohama without any relatives and friends, looking for a job and having no food to eat.
The grandfather's original intention in bringing Ranpo back was just to have an extra helper and to give this 14-year-old child something to eat.
Unexpectedly——
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The 14-year-old Edogawa Ranpo, with tender cheeks, baby fat and a slim figure, sat on the sofa, being watched by the three members of the Takanashi family like a monkey.
"This child is so young, it's illegal to employ child labor, Dad." Xiao Niaoyou's mother has a very strict sense of law.
Ten-year-old Hayana Kotori, with twin ponytails and drooping eyes, said: "With such a skinny little body, if a flower bud (a cow with a flower pattern on its back) kicks me while I'm milking, I'm dead, right?"
"Xiao Nai, you can't say that about Ranpo." Grandpa Kotori smiled.
"I said, you..."
Edogawa Ranpo spoke, attracting the attention of the Kotori family.
Then, with a look of innocence, he first revealed that Kotori's mother won money playing mahjong with the neighbors the day before yesterday, but told Kotori Hayana that she didn't win. He also simply pointed out that Kotori Hayana went to help her friends vent their anger in a group fight after school yesterday, and beat up the other group alone.
Takanashi's mother and Takanashi Hayana looked at each other in shock.
"Are you in a group fight again?!"
"You said you'd buy me snacks with the winnings!"
Realizing that something bad was going to happen, Kotori Hayato ran away, and Kotori's mother, who was beautiful and had a strong personality, chased her with a feather duster.
"I told you! If you start a fight again, I'll beat your ass and transfer you to another school!!"
"I was just being brave... Ouch, that hurts!"
"Just wait for me, squinting eyes! I will never forgive you! Mom, stop hitting me, stop hitting me..."
Sitting on the sofa, Edogawa Ranpo watched the chaotic scene of a big and a small chicken chasing around him. The cow Huaguduo who was looking in from the window mooed and shook her head.
In the end, he even didn't let Grandpa Xiao Niaoyou go, and revealed that Grandpa didn't take the stomach medicine this morning and fell under the potted plants that he often trimmed.
There is no sense of currying favor with his grandfather because he brought him back.
Xiao Niaoyou's grandfather's expression froze, and he smiled and said, "I said this child is different, he's incredibly smart."
"Mom! Grandpa is playing tricks on me again!"
"Dad! How many times have I told you! You have to take medicine when it's time to take it! Don't bully the potted plants because they can't talk!"
"Hahaha... Let's keep Ranpo here."
Just like that, in the midst of all the chaos, a chicken on the Kotori Yu family's farm laid an egg, and Edogawa Ranpo also stayed at the Kotori Yu family's farm.
"It's a shame for such a smart child not to go to school."
Following the gentle words of Takanashi's grandfather, the next day, Edogawa Ranpo and Takanashi Hayana, carrying their new schoolbags, boarded the Enoshima train and headed to Kanagawa Prefectural Kamakura School.
Hayana Takanashi is in elementary school, and Ranpo Edogawa is in junior high school.
The next day, Hayana Kotori transferred to Namimori Elementary School because her mother heard that the discipline there was good and her daughter would be able to study well there.
Edogawa Ranpo had only been in junior high school for two days when the principal called him home for a talk. The principal said that he spoke without thinking, offended all the teachers in the school, and made the school a mess. Now no one was willing to teach him, and hoped that Kotori's mother would help him transfer to another school.
"Every teacher who meets him gets irritated by his blunt words. Who can stand that?"
"Huh? You guys are clearly the ones doing the wrong thing, and you're blaming my kid for being smart? And you're trying to isolate him?! What a bullshit logic!!"
"Mom, don't waste your time talking to him! Look at me! I'm going to hit him with all my might!!!"
"Ugh~" The principal vomited his lunch as his stomach was hit.
"... Hayana! You hit someone again!?"
"Ah? ...I didn't hit anyone..."
For this reason, Edogawa Ranpo returned to Yokohama to go to school. After a few days, he felt that learning these knowledge that he already knew was boring. Despite the opposition of Kotori's mother, he went to look for a job with the support of Kotori's grandfather...
Finally, he met Fukuzawa Yukichi in Yokohama.
He was a silver-haired man with a very serious look, who looked like a principal and was very particular about etiquette.
In order to leave a good impression on Edogawa Ranpo's boss, the Kotori family studied etiquette hard during that period, and even Kotori's mother became a Yamato Nadeshiko.
"It seems that it's a good thing that your boss looks like a principal." At least her mother didn't use a feather duster to color her.
On the day when Ranpo's boss came to visit their home, the whole family was on high alert, fearing that it would cause obstacles to Ranpo's career path.
Then... Hayana Takanashi saw the horrifying scene of the silver-haired lone wolf who came to her house with a visiting gift, and the man who was as serious as the head teacher squatting in the corridor, holding a small dried fish, trying to seduce her little mustache (black cat).
What the hell? He looks so serious, but he's actually a cat lover who's hated by cats?
No, maybe there's another cat who likes him.
Hayana Takanashi looked at the cat Edogawa Ranpo who was eating Japanese confectionery with a happy face.
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