Ranpo picked up the page.
There are only three left.
He silently traced his brother's features.
Edogawa Satoru came to the Edogawa family when he was five years old and lived carefree for eight years. Without the operation of the spell, there was no stimulation of growth. When he was thirteen years old, he was more than 1.4 meters tall.
After being away from Yokohama for so long, she is actually taller than him.
Really. The black-haired boy smiled bitterly. Xiao Wu obviously promised not to grow taller than his brother, but Xiao Wu is really a little liar.
There are only three left.
He said again: "You must always believe in me."
"Of course." The other person replied immediately.
"I never had the slightest doubt."
——
As usual, Edogawa Ranpo wrote many pages of the book and revised several pages before finding the correct and appropriate story content.
Requirement 1: Ranpo cannot appear in his own time. Edogawa Ranpo is 15 years old in 2018, that is, Ranpo must travel to before May 8, 2003.
Requirement 2: Do not kill people who should be alive to avoid causing time refutation.
Crossing the world seems impossible, but it is actually extremely simple despite the falseness.
Just one book page.
The pen fell on the page and drew the last stroke.
Edogawa Ranpo felt dizzy.
Success? Or failed?
Colorful neon lights circled around him, and there was the sound of drink bottles falling behind him.
He reluctantly turned around and saw the plush man.
His collaborator in previous worlds, the Hidden God.
"Hidden God." He only had time to call out a name before he fainted.
It doesn't matter. The hidden god is friendly enough. Even if he doesn't know Edogawa Ranpo, he will take him in just because he calls out his name.
Ranpo closed his eyes in relief.
Using book pages is simple, but not without cost.
Edogawa Ranpo himself could not live until October 31st when he was fifteen years old. If he reaches this age limit after traveling through time, he will also die.
Speaking of which...
Has he gradually become less concerned about himself?
He has become accustomed to giving up several pages of books and several lives in exchange for the possibility of success.
"What you write is the life of a world."
"Can you afford it?"
Edogawa Ranpo felt light piercing his eyes, and it turned out that he was awake. Waking up is a nightmare from falling asleep.
Ranbu slowly sat up. This was an ordinary bachelor's apartment. Many of the furniture were covered with animal hair. It seemed that Yin Shen had been losing hair recently, so the current time point was probably March 2003.
How much time does he have left to live?
Complex memories were fighting in my mind, and random things flashed through my mind, such as the wind lifting the flying birds, the weeping sky, the bubble machine that broke in half, and so on.
Is it an illusion caused by traveling through time and space?
He shook his head to get rid of these inexplicable things.
Ranpo quickly established a relationship with the police fan Yaozi through the hidden god, and came into contact with the demon world. "Police Officer" is one of the Japanese police titles, above "Police Department" and below "Police Officer".
Iishu Yaoko chose this position not only to not block the way of some high-ranking officials, but also to allow the demon world to have a place among human rights.
He wants to pave the way for Edogawa Ranpo in this world, so that future Ranpo can integrate into the demon world, the magic world and the political world as quickly as possible, and take the situation into his own hands.
The most essential cause of the tragedy in the astral matter incident is "Tian Yuan" in the magic world, but Tian Yuan cannot die yet.
He posted a hidden commission on the dark web, and the content would not be released until the early stages of the astral matter incident. The commission required Fushikiji to cut off the left half of Gojo Satoru's brain when he assassinated Astral Plasma in 2006 and take him to a specific location.
He began to use the limited time to search for special spells in various places, and recorded the ones he found useful, put them in envelopes and sent them to his future self, hoping that he could adapt accordingly.
He was too busy and had no time to think. Only occasionally before falling asleep, "Does what I do really make sense?" This kind of heretical thought will pop up.
Edogawa Ranpo's goal has always been clear: to save his parents and gain a future after October 31st.
But now he seems to have lost the passion when he took action in the busyness. He was just finishing a job, tired and bored.
Haiyuan Ye was unknowingly afraid of him. He was even on the same level as a conjurer. He thought he was a little crazy and suggested that he go see a doctor.
"I'm fine." Edogawa Ranpo was really puzzled, "Why don't you understand?"
"Who doesn't understand?" Haiyuan Ye covered his face and sighed, "I'm worried about you!"
Haiyuan Ye has stopped touching books since the content he wrote became useless pages. He was vaguely afraid of Ranbu and the pages of the book, but Ranbu was still advancing his plan in an orderly manner.
Such calmness was described by Haiyuan as "cold-blooded".
"..."
Hearing this comment, Edogawa Ranpo suddenly lost his patience to explain.
Ranbu lost the only person who could understand him.
He was terribly lonely.
Just like there are no friends under the bright sun who can step on each other's shadows, and someone suddenly kicks you when you are moving forward alone.
Ranpo kicked himself into another world, and was sentenced to loneliness and exile.
"How could it be meaningless?" He asked back the lonely mood.
Edogawa wandered around searching for memories.
Then he found what he thought was a hallucination.
He and his brother played with the bubble machine together.
His brother looked up at the sky and was hit by falling rain all over his face. The mother took a camera to record the father holding the two brothers flying in the sky.
Edogawa Ranpo laughed while flipping through his memories. Laughter disturbed the quiet and lonely atmosphere. He suppressed his smile.
It turns out that memories are like snakes crawling on the ground, they are non-venomous until bitten.
Using book pages is simple, but not without cost.
This is a one-way ticket.
A stranger dies in a foreign land.
This time I finally died before the world. Edogawa Ranpo comforted himself. is a good sign.
The voice rang in my ears again: "Can you afford it?"
It's almost over. he said.
——
This world Gojo Satoru and Edogawa Satoru successfully split. Xiao Wu was adopted by the Edogawa family.
The superimposed use of book pages has a greater impact on the world.
Parents noticed something was wrong earlier than before.
Mom hugged Ranpo: "You must take good care of yourself and your brother from now on. You must help each other."
Dad smiled and interjected: "Support each other~"
His loving and gentle eyes fell on the brothers.
At that time, I didn’t know what Ranbu meant. The twelve-year-old understood when he got the pages.
In this world, Ranpo, who had gained his memory, confessed to Edogawa Satoru for the first time.
He couldn't tell about the book. He just wanted an outlet for his stress.
So he looked at Edogawa Satoru.
What he was expecting, he couldn't tell clearly.
Xiaowu always blinked his inorganic eyes with clear eyes.
"I always..." Ranbu covered Xiaowu's eyes.
Tears dripped down.
Don't look at him like that. Are you holding him accountable? Blame him for not saving him yet, huh?
"I still can't accept it. No matter it's you or mom and dad, neither one of them can survive."
"But, but I..."
The sound of wind blew through his ears, and he was pulled into another person's arms. He was hugged tightly and a pair of hands ruffled his hair.
He sank into the warm embrace and briefly stopped thinking.
"Brother, let's do it again."
"If this was a reasoning game, you would have won long ago. If you want to blame, blame me. If I can't cooperate with my brother's actions, I will always be a step too late."
Don't blame you.
This time, he can definitely get Edogawa Satoru out of the "book".
Damn the world.
Next time you want to save the world, please choose a high school student, okay?
——
Edogawa Ranpo was killed.
Not long after he left Yokohama, he was killed by the curse master Kensuo with a curse spirit.
Between the second page and the third page there is another waste page.
Edogawa Ranpo said: "I took out a certain scrap page from the Special Agent Department, and died before I could return it. The last two pages were refreshed in the last place where the scrap page existed - the time between the two of us. Capsule.”
So he didn't get to know the pages at age twelve.
——
Edogawa Ranpo liked the little boy who came to his house at first sight. Before his parents even mentioned it, he rushed to say that he wanted this child to be his brother.
But the child was very weak, with pus in his right eye. He neither cried nor spoke. After examination at the hospital, it was found that his brain was still underdeveloped.
Xiao Ranbu patted his chest and said that he would raise his younger brother in the future.
He stared at Xiao Wu with twinkling eyes, narrowing his crescent moon.
As if on a premonition, he reached out his hand and poked Xiao Wu's left eye back into his socket.
"Don't cry."
Maybe he hurt Xiaowu.
"Don't cry~" He coaxed his brother unskilledly, "It's okay to cry - just cry loudly."
The younger brother's health slowly recovered in the hospital, and he returned to Yokohama with the Edogawa family.
They lived together for eight years.
Eight carefree years.
Until March 7th.
37 Ah.
This number is so familiar.
"This case will surprise me."
(End of chapter)
The author said: There is another chapter in the early morning