Chapter 151



After hearing what Edogawa Ranpo said, Kiyohara Jun seemed to be thinking about something.

Even with Edogawa Ranpo's observation and reasoning abilities, can't he see the existence of the bullet screen?

Edogawa Ranpo's face was full of curiosity. He stared at Kiyohara Jun with his emerald green eyes for a while, but still couldn't see anything.

He could clearly see that there were many clues on Jun Kiyohara, but it seemed as if there was something on Jun Kiyohara that blocked the specific appearance of those clues.

It was as if something like a mosaic surrounded Jun Kiyohara, covering Jun's entire body and making it impossible for him to see through Jun Kiyohara.

"You have something on you, right?" Ignoring Fukuzawa Yukichi who frowned and called out his name to stop him from continuing, Edogawa Ranpo narrowed his eyes again, but this time he did not take off his glasses after finishing his reasoning like he did in the past. He said with some certainty, "I can't see through you. Although I can see that there are many clues on you, I can't tell what those clues are."

Edogawa Ranpo recalled one day some time ago when the president came back from an outing and said solemnly, "The book is in the hands of the leader of the port mafia." At that time, he looked at the information provided by the president and finally deduced that the book was not with Kiyohara Jun, and Kiyohara Jun did this just to protect someone.

However, the strange things he saw about Kiyohara Jun today made Edogawa Ranpo start to wonder if there was something wrong with his reasoning at that time.

No, that's not right, there shouldn't be anything wrong with his reasoning. Edogawa Ranpo frowned, what exactly is the problem?

After thinking for a long time, he overturned one conclusion after another, even the most likely conclusion that "the book is now handed over to Kiyohara Jun" was overturned. Edogawa Ranpo felt a rare competitive spirit in his heart.

"Yes, Ranpo-sama has made up his mind." Edogawa Ranpo nodded to himself. Under Fukuzawa Yukichi's scolding, he put one hand on his waist and raised the other hand to point at Kiyohara Jun and said, "Ranpo-sama must see through your secret!"

Seeing Edogawa Ranpo's confident look, Kiyohara Jun, who didn't care whether Edogawa Ranpo could discover the existence of the barrage, just nodded expressionlessly, as a response to Edogawa Ranpo's words, but he didn't feel much in his heart, he just thought that this little detective looked a little cute.

However, what Kiyohara Jun didn't know was that the boy in front of him, Ranpo Edogawa, who looked very young, was actually four years older than him and was already 22 years old this year.

According to Edogawa Ranpo's observation ability, even if Kiyohara Jun was paralyzed, as long as he was not a person without any emotional fluctuations, he would be able to see Kiyohara Jun's true emotions. However, because of the existence of the bullet screen, Edogawa Ranpo could only vaguely see some things from Kiyohara Jun's expression, and the rest were all blocked by the bullet screen.

But compared to others, Edogawa Ranpo was able to better see the true emotions hidden behind Kiyohara Jun's paralyzed face.

"What? You don't care about this at all?" Edogawa Ranpo puffed up his cheeks and said with some dissatisfaction. He wanted to say something else but was interrupted by Fukuzawa Yukichi.

"Ranpo, don't be rude." Fukuzawa Yukichi, who had been given special permission to enter the port mafia's reception room with a knife in order to protect government officials, looked serious. He first nodded to Kiyohara Jun with an apologetic look, and then turned around and sternly stopped Edogawa Ranpo from continuing, "Chief Kiyohara has important matters to discuss with Ariyama and Section Chief Taneda, so don't make trouble."

I thought that Edogawa Ranpo, who seemed very willful, would refute Fukuzawa Yukichi, but Kiyohara Jun was somewhat surprised to find that after hearing what Fukuzawa Yukichi said, Edogawa Ranpo just puffed up his cheeks and obediently returned to the sofa in the reception room.

Kiyohara Jun looked at Edogawa Ranpo in surprise, then retracted his gaze and looked up at Fukuzawa Yukichi.

"I am Fukuzawa Yukichi, the president of the Armed Detective Agency, who is responsible for protecting Arisaengun. The one who just behaved somewhat rudely was Edogawa Ranpo, a member of the Armed Detective Agency." Fukuzawa Yukichi, wearing a kimono, looked serious. He said to Kiyohara Jun, "I apologize to Kiyohara for Ranpo's rudeness, and I also apologize to Kiyohara for not being able to stop Ranpo just now."

"No need." Kiyohara Jun shook his head slightly. He did not take Ranbu's impoliteness to heart. After a slight pause, he extended his hand to Fukuzawa Yukichi, "Kiyohara Jun."

Fukuzawa Yukichi looked solemn. He also reached out and shook Kiyohara Jun's hand, and reintroduced himself again: "The president of the Armed Detective Agency, Fukuzawa Yukichi."

Although their hands were only clasped for a brief moment, Kiyohara Jun felt the rope in Fukuzawa Yukichi's hand. When combined with the sword on Fukuzawa Yukichi's body, he quickly realized that Fukuzawa Yukichi's close combat ability should be very strong.

After introducing himself to Fukuzawa Yukichi, Kiyohara Jun turned his attention to the visitors from Tokyo.

"Captain Kiyohara is indeed a young talent." Even though he had been left aside for a while because of Edogawa Ranpo, Ariyama Musashi still had a gentle smile on his face. He took a step forward and looked very eager, and extended his hand to Kiyohara Jun. "I am Ariyama Musashi. It's our first meeting. Please give me your guidance."

Seeing that there was not a trace of dissatisfaction on Ariyama Musashi's face, Kiyohara Jun quickly realized that the officials sent from Tokyo this time were completely different from the previous officials and were obviously not ordinary people.

Raising his eyebrows imperceptibly, Kiyohara Jun reached out and shook Ueyama Musashi's hand: "Kiyohara Jun, nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you." Shaking Kiyohara Jun's hand twice, Ariyama Musashi's smile looked very sincere, as if he really thought that this meeting between him and Kiyohara Jun was a good thing.

After introducing himself to Musashi Ariyama, before Kiyohara Jun's eyes moved, Taneda Santouki took a step forward and walked in front of Kiyohara Jun.

"I have known Chief Kiyohara for a long time, and this time we finally meet." Taneda Santouko had a friendly smile on his face. He didn't seem to have argued with Kiyohara Jun about Yokohama Port and the meteorite the last time he spoke to him. It was as if the attack on Yokohama Port had never happened. "I'm Taneda Santouko, the chief of the Special Powers Division."

"Kiyori Jun." Kiyori Jun shook the hand that Taneda Santoka extended and nodded slightly, "It is true that we have known each other for a long time, and Chief Taneda has many of his subordinates visiting me."

Qingyuan Jun, who already knew the purpose of Taneda Santouko's visit, said this lightly. He stared into Taneda Santouko's eyes. His meaning was already very clear.

If Taneda Santouko wants to take his subordinates with him, then he should not make plans for the government officials during the negotiations between him and the government officials later.

Although it was expected, the fire on the farmland still broke out slightly.

"I'm afraid my subordinates are a little reluctant to leave. However, no matter how much they are reluctant to leave, the Special Ability Agent Department still has a lot of work for them to do when they return." Taneda Santouko kept a smile on his face, "The purpose of my coming this time is to take those useless subordinates of mine back."

Kiyohara Jun quickly understood the implication of Taneda Santouko's words, which was that he came to replace people and would not get involved in this matter.

However...

Qingyuan Jun was distracted for a moment. Relying on that paralyzed face that no one could tell he was distracted, Qingyuan Jun was distracted and thought, since when did he start to understand the implicit meaning of other people's words?

He was once known as the most socially awkward member of the Port Mafia because he could only understand the surface meaning of words. Now he can hear the implicit meaning of other people's words and then attack them?

Takuto Kogu, who was watching the conversation between Jun Kiyohara and Santoka Taneda in the monitoring room, was slightly distracted when he saw the fight between Jun Kiyohara and Santoka Taneda.

Chun, you have really grown up.

When he was fourteen, he was just a kid who was almost fired by the old leader because he was too direct and didn't know how to read the atmosphere, but now he has grown to this level.

In fact, Takuto Ogumi has never understood how Jun Kiyohara grew into a man of both wisdom and intelligence overnight, but he has never delved into the matter deeply, and has been cleaning up some of Jun Kiyohara's past before he met him. Anyone who knows about those events will wonder how Jun Kiyohara has become what he is now.

Even the script crew including Dazai Osamu, Fyodor and Mori Ogai did not notice anything wrong because Takuto Kogumi's movements were too fast and too covert.

Before he knew it, a smile filled with relief appeared on Takuto Koguchi's face.

It's great that you've grown into who you are now, Jun.

After everyone introduced themselves, they all sat on the sofas in the reception room.

The first person to speak was Ariyama Musashi. He spoke first not because he couldn't keep his cool, but because his matter should indeed be dealt with first.

"Here is the document we prepared." Ariyama Musashi had a friendly smile on his face, his eyes narrowed into two slits. "I hope this gift will allow me to take my useless colleagues back."

After opening the document and casually glancing at it, Qingyuan Jun's gaze froze for a moment.

The price the government needs to pay in this document is exactly the same as what was written in the document that Shusako Ryota had previously taken out in exchange for Kiyohara Jun's loyalty.

It seems that those people in Tokyo haven't given up yet.

Kiyohara Jun raised his right hand. Akutagawa Gin, who was standing behind the sofa where Kiyohara Jun was sitting, quickly understood what Kiyohara Jun meant and placed a pen on that hand.

The pen fell and crossed out a few lines on the paper.


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