Physical examination is like a small episode in life, after the novelty it becomes an ordinary daily routine.

The trio sat in the back seat of the car, sleeping in a messy manner, like ordinary teenagers.

Xiao Wu was sitting in the passenger seat, standing upright.

The supervisor at the driver’s seat asked curiously, “I’ve been driving for a whole day, why don’t you sleep?”

“I’m carsick. I feel sick and can’t sleep.” Edogawa Satoru answered. His fingers were writing and drawing on the car window, circles connected by lines. No one except him knew what they meant.

The four of them set out on a new mission together, and the mission location is Fuyuki City. Their partner is the Hidden God Detective Agency, which they have cooperated with before. It is said that Gojo Satoru has entrusted them to find the trace of a person in Fuyuki City, and by the way, promote mutual learning between the demon world and the sorcery world.

Their mission is to investigate the death of a staff member on duty at Fuyuki Hospital. Fuyuki City lacks police, sorcerers, and supervisors, so they are also required to investigate.

The order of issuing tasks is to report suspicious incidents to the window, and the Supervisory Department will verify and then send a suitable sorcerer to eliminate them; but sometimes people from the Supervisory Department will die during the investigation, and the specific level of the cursed spirit cannot be determined, so a sorcerer with certain abilities may be arranged to investigate, and the main task is to investigate rather than eliminate.

The night was dark, but the street lights on the other side of the distant bridge were very bright.

The new supervisor was not Ijichi, but a man he had never seen before. He scratched his head in a naive manner, “Really? That’s too bad! Do you want to take motion sickness medicine?”

Edogawa Satoru shook his head: “No.” The medicine had no effect on him.

He didn’t dare run too fast, because if he accidentally fell, he would get a cut and the bleeding would not stop.

He was looking up information about Gojo Satoru. Twelve years ago, when Gojo Satoru was in his second year of high school, he and his classmates participated in the Astral Plasma Incident, and his strength increased greatly afterwards, becoming the true “strongest” in the world of curses.

He was thirteen, very close to twelve.

Although it was a bit disgusting, when he saw this message, he couldn’t help but think: Am I the split body of Gojo Satoru? Is Gojo Satoru so strong?

And it’s so annoying. Why is this body so weak?
Boom——

The bridge exploded.

Inside the car, the supervisor was still driving with a calm expression, and his three friends were still sleeping while playing Jenga.

“Um, outside the window—”

The supervisor introduced: “You mean the bridge? This is a famous attraction in Fuyuki City…”

They couldn’t see the scenery outside the window at all.

Edogawa Satoru shut up.

Rokugan always surprises him in unexpected places.

They drove into the city and met up with Inshin and his group. When they got off the car, Yuji’s hairstyle looked like a chicken coop, and Fushiguro’s hair looked like a hedgehog with broken spikes.

Only Kugisaki took good care of herself before getting off the bus. She complained in a low voice: “What a terrible weather. After I finish the task, I’m going shopping. Will you guys come with me?” Her tone was not a request.

“Yes, Boss Kugisaki!” But Yuji was very cooperative.

“Mr. Gojo has entrusted you to me. For the next week, please carry out cleaning work in Fuyuki City.” Inshin handed them umbrellas.

Four college students: …What a surprise.

Soaked both mind and body.

“Then where shall we live?”

“The hotel next to my office.”

After dropping off their non-existent luggage at the hotel, everyone came to the office.

Rather than calling it a detective agency, it’s more like a small home.

Yinshen and his employees were laughing and joking, making the scene very lively.

[I’m a little envious.]
Yinshen pointed to the room at the end and said, “Don’t go near there, and don’t open the door.”

The supervisor and the four people nodded in agreement, not knowing what was going on. After receiving their assignment, they set off to investigate the hospital.

This is a newly opened private hospital with high salaries, advanced equipment and abundant medical resources.

Walking into this hospital is just like walking into a hotel. Kugisaki and Yuji kept exclaiming, while Fushiguro covered his face and almost wanted to run away.

The splendor and life and death of the human world are cleverly combined in the hospital.

The supervisor frowned and made a phone call. After a while, the pot-bellied person in charge came down quickly. When he saw the supervisor, he immediately went up to shake his hand and said, “Are you the person in charge of this matter? You are such a handsome man…”

He praised the supervisor again and again, then turned to look at the group of four. He was surprised at first: “There are children? Your apprentices? They are really talented young people!”

The supervisor finally found a chance to interject: “They are the ones who will handle the situation.”

The person in charge frowned, looking down on them, and said, “I’ll take you there.”

They had read the detailed information of the mission on the way here. Security guards always fainted when patrolling the morgue. After fainting several times, they would die. Two people had died. The strange thing was that the fainted security guards always rushed to let themselves be in charge of the morgue. This was not an unusually good job, so there was no need to fight for it.

The morgue is on the second floor underground, and the corridor is designed like a computer figure 8, with four staircases and two elevators. The elevators are monitored, but the stairs are not, and the elevators are commonly used to move the beds up and down.

Edogawa Satoru walked around and found no cursed spirits or filth, not even a single bit.

“Can you open the freezer?” he asked.

The person in charge neither nodded nor shook his head: “Are you okay? I’ve brought you in for such a long time, but I still haven’t found the curse spirit you mentioned?”

Yuji stood in front of Xiaowu, separating the person in charge and Xiaowu: “Please open the freezer.”

It’s not for nothing that Tiger Stick is known as the “Tiger of the West”. When he punched it, his muscles made the person in charge take a few steps back: “I’ll go get someone to open it.”

After the person in charge walked away, Fushiguro Megumi asked, “Why do I feel like it wasn’t done by a cursed spirit? Xiaowu, what did you find?”

“There is not a trace of impurity at all. Either this has nothing to do with the cursed spirit, or it is a cursed spirit that can hide its own impurities. It must be of a very high level, or it must be a curser with a special technique.” Edogawa Satoru confirmed.

But the matter was resolved surprisingly quickly. The person in charge brought the security guards to open the freezer. After checking, they found that the body of a middle-aged or elderly person was missing internal organs. A security guard knelt down immediately.

He cried and said that he and another security guard were trafficking organs. They often bribed a third security guard to guard the morgue, and then they drugged the third security guard at night to make him think he was sleepy, and then secretly removed his organs. However, the security guard was killed by the drugs after the tenth time, and his partner committed suicide out of fear.

“Such innocent remarks, why did he blow himself up like that?” Edogawa Satoru pinched his nose and came to the body to check it out.

The person in charge turned pale and was almost at a loss.

Seeing Edogawa Satoru pick up the phone, he used his physical flexibility to pounce on Satoru: “No! You can’t call the police!”

If we call the police, the news that someone is reselling organs in the hospital will spread, and this new hospital will be ruined.

Itadori picked up Xiaowu and avoided the person in charge, Fushiguro Megumi pressed the person in charge to the ground, and Kugisaki raised the hammer and nails and kicked the security guard to the person in charge.

“What do you want to do?” Kugisaki gave the person in charge a slap on the head, “Just talk, why are you using your hands!”

Edogawa Satoru showed his phone to the person in charge, which showed “Invisible God”: “I didn’t call the police just now.”

The person in charge just breathed a sigh of relief: “This matter will be settled privately——”

Then he heard Edogawa Satoru say, “You jumped out so quickly, there must be something else going on, right?” He saw some transparent plastic fragments remaining in the abdominal cavity of the corpse.

The security guard shook his head: “My conscience has always been uneasy… I have always wanted to say… I, I know I will be sentenced, I just want to delay it…”

“If, as you say, organs are being resold, shouldn’t fresh ones be the best?” Edogawa Satoru pointed at the corpse and said, “This is an elderly person.”

“You are very sure that the man was poisoned and the other committed suicide. You can make up whatever you want when there is no surveillance on the staircase.”

“But if we take this body for testing.”

The security guard’s pupils shrank.

“Oh, I guessed right?” Edogawa Satoru laughed, “You are not reselling organs, but using corpses to transport drugs, right?”

……

“Welcome back, you handled things very well. Would you like some midnight snack?” Yinshen asked them, wearing an apron.

Fushiguro Megumi frowned: “How do you know——”

“Right, right! Xiao Wu is so handsome!” Yuji rushed over, grabbed Yinshen’s hand and shook it up and down.

“My friend told me that he hopes Edogawa Satoru can meet him. He is in the room that I told him not to enter.” Yin Shen squatted down and looked at Edogawa Satoru. “Do you want to meet him? His name is Mihaly, he is a vampire, omnipotent but likes online games. Although he has personality problems, but… the problem is quite big.”

Edogawa Satoru walked into the room. The only light source in the dim room was the computer.

“Hey, hello.” The vampire wore headphones and didn’t even turn around. “The gift you left for us is very interesting, so I threw it back to you.”

Because he had a lot of time, he learned everything and only online games could kill time, so he became a stay-at-home vampire.

Edogawa Satoru thought: No wonder all my bugs are ineffective…

Liuyan told him that Mihaly was very strong.

“But, I still like you for now, so stay and be my slave and servant!”

“Forgive me for refusing.”

Mihaly was still playing games: “Well, boring.” Time paused for a while, and just when Edogawa Satoru wanted to say goodbye and leave, the sound effect of the game victory sounded, and the gaming chair turned. Mihaly supported his hands on both sides, staring at him with red pupils, “You like to throw bugs? This is not polite.”

Edogawa Satoru didn’t know how to respond, so he remained silent. He should have checked himself every day. Where on earth did this vampire put the bug on him?

“But your discussion with that guy was quite interesting.” Mihaly waved his hand like a puppy, “Come here, come closer.”

Xiao Wu slowly approached him, and he reached out and pulled a piece of Wu’s white hair: “Look, my new type of eavesdropping device, soft and fits well.” The hair gradually deformed in his hand and turned into a bug half the size of a fist.

[…So disgusting.]
“gross.”

Mihaly raised his chin proudly: “Anyway, if you can’t find it, it means you are not good enough. I know a lot of things. I know everything you want to know, such as the stones in the demon world, the Holy Grail in Fuyuki City, and the book in Yokohama…”

“I’ll tell you all this if you do me one thing.”

Edogawa Satoru was a little excited: “What is it?” Mihaly smiled and pointed at the computer: “There is a two-player team game. After you pass it, you can get the beta version of the game I want. My other slaves and servants don’t know how to play it. Help me pass it.”

Even if he stays here tonight, he will finish the game without sleeping!
Edogawa Satoru moved a chair and sat next to him.

Three hours later, the two people who had died more than a thousand times in the game slumped on the chairs and said, “Whoever made this game, I’m going to give him a bad review.”

“Let me see, 10 percent. We’ve only gone 10 percent!”

“No way, we have already encountered the big boss.”

In the morning, the Inshin knocked on the door and put food at the door. Three heads popped out, and seeing that the two were getting along well, they breathed a sigh of relief and went on a mission. According to Edogawa Satoru’s physical condition, they still hoped that Xiaowu could stay in a safe place.

In the afternoon, the few people who had completed the mission quietly opened the door and found that the two were still typing on the keyboard.

They stepped out and closed the door.
“Are you really playing games? Why are you hitting the keyboard so hard that it seems like you want to kill someone.”
“It’s very murderous.”

The next night, Xia Yu came to deliver food, and Edogawa Satoru collapsed on the ground to rest. Mihai controlled the keyboard with both hands: “Did you rest well? My own strategy will be 30% slower. Little servant, please bring two bottles of Coke.”

Xia Yu nodded, put down the tray, and went out to get the drinks.

The aroma of food came, tempting the hungry vampire to stop attacking the game. Mihai didn’t look at the ground, and kicked Xiaowu at his feet: “Wake up, get up and continue.”

But the person on the floor never got up. Xia Yu, who came in with a Coke, squatted down and put his finger in front of Edogawa Satoru’s nose: “He doesn’t seem to be breathing.”

Mihaly turned his head: “Huh???”

He squatted down, straightened Edogawa Satoru’s body, unbuttoned his clothes, pressed his fingers on Satoru’s carotid artery, put his ear close to Satoru’s nose, watched his chest rise and fall, and counted silently for seven seconds. “Fuck… there really is no heartbeat or breathing.” He raised his head, “Go find Yin Shen quickly, ask him to call an ambulance, and ask if there is an AED! Quick!”

Xia Yu ran out immediately.

He began CPR.

After four to six minutes, respiratory arrest will lead to irreversible brain damage. After more than six minutes, the patient is generally brain dead, and even if he is rescued, he will become a vegetable. Therefore, the best time for rescue is only four minutes.

Mihaly didn’t know when Edogawa Satoru stopped breathing.

If he’s brain dead, there’s no point in turning Edogawa Satoru into a vampire.

He transfused his blood into Edogawa Satoru’s body.

Yinshen ran in and handed over the AED.

Electromagnetic sound starts——

Edogawa Satoru’s body shook up and down.

……

Four minutes had passed since the rescue.

Yinshen looked at Mihaly pleadingly, and Mihaly patted his shoulder: “I lost blood, it depends on his luck. If he turns into a brainless low-level vampire, I will kill him.”

Yin Shen sighed: “How should I explain this to Gojo Satoru… and his classmates.”

Mihaly turned his head away: “It’s just a game, how could I have thought that he would have a cardiac arrest?”

Ah.

He looked down at the floor.

“Contact established.”

Yinshen immediately squatted down and observed Edogawa Satoru. Satoru slowly opened his eyes, and it seemed that nothing had changed?
“Are you OK?!”

Edogawa Satoru shook his head and looked at everyone in confusion: “Why are you all gathered around me? What happened?”

“I’m glad you’re okay. Your heart and breathing just stopped. Let’s go to the hospital for a checkup later.”

“Oh, okay.” He responded blankly, then turned to Mihaly and shouted, “What I want to know!”

Mihaly had already sat back in his chair and replied lazily, “I’ll tell you when you come back.”

Edogawa Satoru was helped up and sent to a special hospital for examination.

……

The three members of the senior college almost fainted when they heard about this.

Kugisaki shook Edogawa Satoru’s shoulder: “If you’re like Yuji I’ll kill you!!!”

Edogawa Satoru was shaken until he foamed at the mouth: “Sister Qiangwei, I fainted and woke up and found that I was in good health.”

When he looked up at Kugisaki, he noticed tears in her eyes. She wiped them with her sleeve and shouted angrily: “How can someone say that he is in good health while in the hospital!”

“Because I became a vampire.” Xiao Wu opened his mouth and showed his fangs.

The trio of high school students: ???

“So you are immortal now?” the three asked after understanding the situation.

Edogawa Satoru shook his head. “According to Mihaly, I am only temporarily transformed. To officially become a vampire, I need to receive his First Embrace. But once the blood in my body is excreted through the vaginal circulation, I will return to normal.”

“So now you can only drink blood.” Yuji made exaggerated movements, “Suck, suck, suck. So pitiful. We’re having pizza tonight.”

Edogawa Satoru was speechless. How much do you love pizza, Yuji?

“I can eat normal food now. I’m really fine and I’m very healthy now.” He answered with a smile and rolled up his sleeves to show his almost non-existent muscles to his classmates.

They were laughing and playing together.

The heart is beating healthily.

bang bang.

He could hear the vibrant sound.

Edogawa Satoru looked at them and smiled. He did not tell them what he was thinking.

Will a vampire still be alive after his blood is drained?
After all, when the rescue was underway, I had no idea how long I had stopped breathing.

He looked down at his palm. The lines on his palm extended from the base of his thumb, and each tiny branch had an unexpected direction.

Shanlao said: “You shouldn’t exist.”

He seemed to understand what it meant.

From the curse master, he realized that he might be different from normal people.

From Gojo Satoru, he knew that he was a part of Gojo Satoru, that he lacked “uniqueness” and was not a human, and that part of what the Curse Master said was correct.

From the female ghost Shanlao, he learned that he could be transformed, that he should not exist, and that he was created by humans. This confirmed the curse master’s words. The only part that was not confirmed was that “if you touch it, you will be absorbed.”

Is my increasingly weak body proof?
Therefore, “Edogawa Satoru” can be any creature or concept other than humans.
“Edogawa Satoru” should not have existed.

Now, the only things about me that are unknown are the cause of my illness and the cause of my death.

Was the book in Yokohama the cause? Could a wish book create a human being? Why was he created? How was he created? What was he created for?
Was the cause of death due to gradual weakness, or was he killed by a cursed spirit during a mission, or was he sentenced to death by the curse world, or did he die after the vampire blood was drained?

Even if Gojo Satoru was sealed, he couldn’t find a way to survive. But he was already able to face it. He had faced many deaths, some were quiet and peaceful, some were turbulent, some were missing, and some were regretful.

Without his brother, Edogawa Satoru has grown a lot in his life. But he still has a secret expectation, just like the orphanage incident, he wants to show his wounds to someone and get attention.

This expectation was shameful, and he realized it was wrong before his conscience struck him, much faster than the previous two times.

but.

The deadlock laid out the chessboard openly, inviting him to make his move and giving him the best viewing angle.

That day, Haibara showed the surveillance video. When he saw Edogawa Ranpo say “I will have to kill him”, he was so excited that his hands and feet were cold and his heart was beating strongly, which was rare.

[If you want to kill me, can I look forward to it?]
[My grand death.]
Edogawa Satoru knew that this expectation was wrong. He should take the initiative to find a way to survive. He should be more proactive and solve the mystery earlier.

Passivity is holding him back.

[Sorry, I’m trash.]
Even if I say this, I won’t get a hug from my brother.

Someone touched him and pulled him out of his depressed mood.

Yuji held a pizza in his hand and looked at him with bright eyes: “I wanted to say it that day! But I never had the chance. You are so handsome when you reason!”

“Do you even need to tell me that?” Kugisaki Nobara laughed.

Fushiguro Megumi picked up the bowl of food and handed it to Edogawa Satoru.

“No…it’s not as powerful as Yuji said.” Edogawa Satoru’s face turned red.

The corners of his mouth curled up.

Trying to suppress it would only make the smile grow bigger.

There must be other ways than sealing Gojo Satoru.

Edogawa Satoru’s destined death, Gojo Satoru’s sealing, the two sides of Sukuna in Yuji’s body…

Xiao Wu wanted to take the initiative.

He wanted to find the chess piece that would break the deadlock.

–

“Edogawa, your brother has become a vampire. Is this an accident?” Fushiguro Shigeki was outside the window, leaning against a tree trunk, and calling Edogawa Ranpo.

(End of this chapter)