Ranpo-sama has never thought that he is a genius. To say that he is a genius, only his mother can be called a genius in Ranpo's heart. However, he cannot beat his mother in solving puzzles and reasoning, and his father and father are always defeated at home.

Like him, he lives at the bottom of the house, and when he secretly hides snacks, he can never hide them from his smiling mother.

After his parents died unexpectedly, Edogawa Ranpo came to Yokohama and entered a local police academy. His father's acquaintances gradually became perfunctory from the initial enthusiasm, and Ranpo directly pointed out to Ranpo several times, "Your wife has found out."

"I have found your lover and the two of them have been in contact", "You have been discovered for laundering money, and you will be arrested soon if you don't do something", "You are obviously very happy, why do you have such a look on your face?"

Where's your expression?" After saying this, the faces of my father's acquaintances always changed, and they said with horrifying expressions: "Ranpo-kun, why are you making up lies?"

Suspicion is easily addictive. Once it pops up, it often spreads at an alarming rate like a cloud of chaos.*

"Edogawa Ranpo is a big liar who loves to lie!"

"Edogawa Ranpo is a disaster! He caused his parents to die!"

"Edogawa Ranpo likes to lie to get attention! What a clown!"

Everyone in the police academy said this,

"Edogawa Ranpo is a liar!"

Ranpo didn't understand why everyone was so angry after telling him something that everyone knew and knew at a glance.

Ranpo-sama is obviously just telling the truth! Ranpo-sama is not a liar!

Isn’t this something everyone knows?

Ranpo gradually began to observe. Although he still went his own way, he was also observing everything around him.

Ranpo doesn't understand why people can deceive each other but remain incredibly unscathed, and it's as if neither party even notices that they've deceived each other?*

Could it be that this is the real world?

Finally, after uncovering the dormitory's love history, Ranpo was kicked out of the school.

Ranpo spent that night sitting in front of a snack shop.

He smelled the aroma of the food around him and listened to the laughter of his parents and children. He couldn't help but think a little aggrievedly, "It's getting dark, Mom and Dad, when can you pick up Master Ranpo?"

What Edogawa Ranpo received in the end was not the hugs from his parents, but the hands of Mori Ogai.

After being kicked out of the police academy, Ranbu found a lot of jobs to support himself, but it never lasted long. After being kicked out again, Ranbu sat on the railing close to the seaside and watched the scenery.

He was swinging his legs up and down wildly, thinking about what to look for in his next job. He didn't have much money left, and he hadn't eaten his favorite snacks for a long time. His body and stomach were also suffering from irregular eating habits during this period.

There were bouts of pain, but it wasn't serious and I could ignore it if I thought about other things.

"Well, where should we go next?" Ranbu shook his legs childishly, his head slightly lowered and looking at the sea, his clothes rumpled.

"If you have nowhere to go, do you want to come with me?"

Ranbu suddenly heard someone asking this question. He turned his head in surprise and looked at the person who asked the question.

"I am Mori Ogai, Ranpo-kun, do you want to come with me?" The devil with red eyes invited Edogawa Ranpo.

Ranpo jumped down from the railing and patted his clothes, "Master Ranpo refuses!"

Mori Ogai asked with a smile: "Why do you reject me, Ranpo-kun? I believe you can see where I come from and my purpose at the first sight, right? In that case, why don't you accept it?"

Ranpo tilted his head, "Ranpo-sama doesn't want to join the mafia!"

"But," Mori Ogai said, "Ranpo-kun, you have nowhere to go. Are you willing to let your talents not be understood, doubted, and driven away? Around you, there are people without talents.

They are useless people who will not believe your words but will think that you are humiliating their poor self-esteem. They use anger to cover up their guilty conscience and use violence to drive away the truth. You are lonely, not accepted by the world, and you do not understand the world.

"It's hard for you to live alone, isn't it? How many jobs is this already? Ranpo-kun, you know you have nowhere to go."

Ranbu covered his ears and ran away without looking back.

The same goes for subsequent jobs, the time is getting shorter and shorter, and Ranpo is getting more and more indifference.

"That kid is always like this, always lying."

"Ranpo-kun..., ugh."

"Edogawa Rampan, he..."

People always shake their heads and make condescending comments about Ranpo with hypocritical expressions on their faces.

Did I do something wrong?

Is it my fault?

Did I cause all this?

No, no, Ranpo-sama is not wrong!

Edogawa Ranpo said to himself, only Ranpo-sama can never make mistakes!

Ranpo began to observe the world with new eyes.

Just when Ranpo was once again sitting hungry on the railing by the beach, Mori Ogai came again.

At the junction of day and night, in the twilight, red eyes and emerald green eyes looked at each other, Mori Ogai stretched out his hand to the world's best detective, "Come with me."

This time Luanbu didn't refuse again.

He took him home.

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Within a few years, the leader of the Port Mafia changed to another person, and at the same time, the reputation of the Port Mafia's "strategist" also spread.

The Port Mafia has a new cadre who wears a black detective uniform and is always clamoring for snacks. He always quietly appears on a certain road, watching the president of the armed detective agency feeding the cat but being disliked by the cat.

Then he hid and laughed quietly, making faces.

Fukuzawa Yukichi of the Armed Detective Agency always walks a fixed path after get off work, always carries small dried fish with him, feeds cats with his back to one direction and is rejected by the cats, but he always has a gentle smile in his eyes. Even the corners of his pursed lips slowly softened.

This is the most common scene in my eyes when the calico cat transformed by Teacher Natsume is squatting on a wooden pier not far away at dusk when the weather is nice.

This may be one of the truths that Ranpo cannot see through.

The author has something to say: *1 That sentence comes from "The Human Chair" by Mr. Ranpo

*2 Modified from Mr. Dazai

After calculating the number of words, I have to code 4,000 words tomorrow. My pupils are shaking.

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