Tokiwa was happily playing the game of stepping on shadows.

He liked this simple and childish game.

Of course, only "Ranpo Edogawa" would feel this simple.

To say he was stepping on shadows was just that he was following behind Ranpo Edogawa and stepping on the places Ranpo had stepped on, just like the last time he followed Nakajima Atsushi. It was just that

the direction of the light just happened to stretch the shadow and fall behind him, making Tokiwa look like he was stepping on shadows.

Moreover, Ranpo Edogawa knew that he couldn't see, so he didn't need to hide Nakajima Atsushi like he did last time, so the place he stepped on was not as accurate as last time. It was just that the range of the shadow was large enough.

Similarly, Edogawa Ranpo would not deliberately walk to places with slopes or steps. He would follow the straight road without any obstructions and patiently lead Tokiwa to play this almost boring thing. He

is really like a child, just like taking care of his younger brother. Edogawa Ranpo thought in his heart, but did not say it out loud.

Most people would use adjectives such as childish to describe Edogawa Ranpo. In addition, his appearance and personality have not changed much in the past ten years. He is 26 years old, but looks only 16 years old, and his mental age is only 6 years old - it is easier for people to ignore his actual experience.

You know, in the more than ten years since he met Fukuzawa Yukichi, Ranpo Edogawa has solved tens of thousands of cases that no one else could handle. Even if he maintains his own character, it does not mean that the experience of the past ten years does not exist.

He is willing to let himself be as pure as a child, but he cannot deny the fact that he is already an adult.

The current Ranpo is not like when he first met Fukuzawa Yukichi in his youth, saying that adults are too weird, and he is still a child and can't understand this strange world at all.

Age is something that can indeed be disguised. Just like Ranpo Edogawa's youthfulness has remained the same for ten years, it is completely impossible to tell that he is actually several years older than Dazai.

For example, when Dazai Osamu was a teenager, he showed wisdom and maturity that was more terrifying than adults-making people almost forget that he was only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child.

But age is the most difficult thing to disguise.

At least, no one can disguise himself perfectly in front of the world's number one detective, not even another self.

He is the same age as me, but he feels much younger than me. This is what Ranpo Edogawa slowly realized after getting to know him.

There are many children who have become mature because of disasters in their childhood, and there are also adults who have been protected and still look childish even when they are adults - but Ranpo Edogawa does not think that his other self is the latter, and the eyes alone can deny this.

Is it related to amnesia, or is it a supernatural power?

Tokiwa did not deliberately grasp the distinction between himself and his vest, and Ranpo Edogawa inadvertently saw through part of the truth.

But even if he knew this, he wouldn't care. He just bent his eyes, stretched his waist, held out his hand and said, "I'm tired, take me back."

Edogawa Ranpo raised his lips and responded, "Okay!"

Then he turned to Nakajima Atsushi, who only used GPS and carried the packing box, and said, "Let's go back to the detective agency!" Nakajima

Atsushi looked helpless, but nodded gently, "I know." Shi Wu

integrated into the detective agency like a drop of water into a river. It seemed like an inevitable thing. He remembered the name of everyone in the detective agency and could recognize everyone by their footsteps.

The members here are all very kind, and because of the scope of the detective agency's work, they are very quick to accept supernatural powers.

For ordinary members, they don't explain too much, and they don't even mention it deliberately. The ordinary members naturally thought that it was the effect of supernatural powers that caused their detective to split.

Kunikida Doppo and others did not deliberately hide it, but they did not specifically mention it.

As a result, Toki has been here for a week. Except for the members with supernatural powers and Tanizaki Naomi, an ordinary person who is bound to Tanizaki Junichiro, because Toki behaved too naturally, the others were just like Nakajima Atsushi and Kunikida Doppo at the beginning, and did not notice the fact that Toki was blind.

It was said that they were commissioned to restore his memory, but neither Toki himself nor Edogawa Ranpo, who accepted the commission, showed any eagerness.

If we must talk about the way to complete the mission, it can only be shown that Edogawa Ranpo did not stay in the detective agency for much this week. He turned down other commissions that required the world's best detective and happily accompanied Tokiwa to visit Yokohama.

He said, "Seeing familiar places may help me recover my memory!"

Of course, it is impossible to recover memories. Tokiwa has no memory, but he has a very deep memory of the taste of various delicacies in Yokohama! Of course, he doesn't know the way either.

Looking at the two detectives who stick together like twins and happily return to the detective agency every day, and then looking at Nakajima Atsushi who always looks particularly tired when they go out together, Kunikida Doppo can only show a slightly heavy expression and pat Nakajima Atsushi's shoulder as if to comfort him. Nakajima

Atsushi: "..." No, you don't have to do that, Mr. Kunikida.

"Hey, President, are you going out?" Edogawa Ranpo was lying on the sofa, looking at Fukuzawa Yukichi who was walking out, and asked almost obediently.

"Yeah." Fukuzawa Yukichi's answer was very brief. However, in the process, it had almost become a habit. He glanced at the other Ranpo who became silent because of his appearance, and felt a little sad in his heart that he couldn't say it out loud.

Although he knew that the other party was not the child he had raised for more than ten years, he would still feel a little sad to be so guarded against.

Fukuzawa Yukichi, with a sadness that no one could understand and a temperament that became even more terrifying, Nakajima Atsushi couldn't help but shrunk his shoulders and muttered: "Is the president going to do something important? He looks so scary..."

Edogawa Ranpo was kind enough not to reveal the fact that his president was not going out to work at all. There's nothing you can do. After all, whether the president is happy or unhappy, his facial expression won't change - oh, it still does, and it looks even more ferocious!

"But you're really afraid of the president." Edogawa Ranpo tilted his head and fed Tokiwa a piece of sweet white chocolate - the sweetness would make most people feel sick when they put it in their mouths, but it just suits the detective's taste.

"I'm not afraid, and it's not him." Tokiwa answered naturally with the chocolate in his mouth. He had never seen Fukuzawa Yukichi before, so how could he be defensive against a person for no reason? What

he couldn't adapt to was the traditional samurai-like temperament of Fukuzawa Yukichi.

Obviously, he doesn't dislike swordsmen at all, Tokiwa thought casually in his heart.

However, Edogawa Ranpo seemed to be able to read his mind and said, "You obviously don't dislike the president at all. The president can't control his aura, so no cats are willing to approach him."

"Cats will take the initiative to approach me!" Shi Wu was easily diverted to the topic.

He only discovered this recently when he went out. If he stayed in one place for a long time, several stray cats would take the initiative to approach him. This is a treatment that Edogawa Ranpo didn't have!

"The president must be jealous of you!" Edogawa Ranpo said with a smile, and then continued to try to speak well of his own president.

"Let me tell you, although you can't see it, the president is actually quite sad because you have been ignoring him." Ranpo Edogawa would not say anything nonsense in front of other people, but there is nothing he can't say to his other self.

"Do you want to give it a try? Take the initiative to say hello to the president or something - of course, if it makes you uncomfortable, don't mind what I say!"

Ranpo Edogawa's motto is "If it suits my wishes, everything is fine."

He is a complete egoist.

But even such a Ranpo Edogawa has an important existence - for the sake of the president, he can make himself do things he doesn't want to do. Ranpo Edogawa's standard is to follow the president in everything.

However, this only represents himself. Ranpo Edogawa will not force another self to do things he doesn't want to do.

The most he has done is to try so hard, to say a few nice words in front of Tokichi, and then to ask for a favor casually. If he really disagrees, that's fine.

He knows himself too well. With the exception of the president, he will never touch anything he doesn't like, even if someone begs him or forces him, if he doesn't want to do it.

Edogawa Ranpo's benchmark is Fukuzawa Yukichi, and Tokichi's benchmark - does not exist at present, and now in this world, the most special person to him is probably his own alias.

Edogawa Ranpo said so, and Tokichi, who actually had no ill feelings towards Fukuzawa Yukichi, nodded without hesitation: "I'll give it a try."

After all, Tokichi really doesn't hate Fukuzawa Yukichi, and if he were still in his own body now, he might even want to spar with Fukuzawa Yukichi.

So on the second day, I don't know whether Edogawa Ranpo deliberately calculated the time, or because I promised Edogawa Ranpo, I couldn't help but notice the situation that I didn't pay much attention to before.

When Tokichi walked out of the office, he suddenly ran into Fukuzawa Yukichi who was about to enter the door.

Fukuzawa Yukichi was stunned, and remembered the reaction of this child when he saw him. He didn't say hello specially, fearing that it would cause discomfort to the other party, so he nodded by himself, and then pulled the handle.

But he didn't expect that after his back was turned, this child who had never spoken a word to him, spoke to him for the first time.

Tokichi restrained the instinctive defense of his body, lowered his head, and his voice was so soft that it didn't sound like "Edogawa Ranpo" at all, and it was also with an indelible stiffness. He is not a member of the detective agency, so it is not appropriate to call him the president, so he changed his title.

So he said: "...Fukuzawa, uncle."

This was almost a surprise to Fukuzawa Yukichi.

The silver-haired middle-aged man's eyes widened slightly, and the next second he calmly retracted them. Fukuzawa Yukichi raised the corners of his mouth and responded: "Yeah."

A stray cat that had never met him because it was injured finally stretched out its claws to him.

Even if it was just a test, it was enough for Fukuzawa Yukichi to feel satisfied.

The author has something to say:

Shi Wu: I work very hard.

ps: The direction of the later seasons is... well, quite strange, such as the vampire army, human soldiers and so on, and most people only watched the TV and did not read the comics, so this article will mention some of the later stories due to the setting, but not too much, and it mainly follows the general direction of the first three seasons, so don't worry about not understanding it! (If you don't understand, please tell me, I will try my best to explain it clearly!)