Edogawa Satoru was still waiting for his brother to continue, but Ranpo waved his hand and said, “The first one is over.”

“what?”

“After Gojo Satoru died, the world of curses underwent a huge change, affecting ordinary people. Their panic generated powerful curse spirits. At the same time, a game called Death Migration appeared in Japan. Except for Yokohama, all of Japan fell into the hands of Nozomi. I was killed and I don’t know what happened afterwards.”

The above is what happened on the first page of the book that Edogawa Ranpo saw.

“Do you want to see the third one first or listen to me talk about the second one?”

Xiao Wu didn’t really want to watch it, but he believed in something. He pointed at the second picture, his Adam’s apple moving slightly: “Please continue with the second picture.”

–

It was the Special Powers Division who came to look for Edogawa’s father.

It was Edogawa Ranpo who opened the door.

Three nights later, there was a loud bang on the door.

Edogawa Ranpo frowned, opened the door and found that it was the same secret service personnel who had been looking for his father. They anxiously grabbed Ranpo and pulled him into the car.

“Where are your parents?”

“Go meet a friend.”

The panic of these strangers seemed to infect Ranpo, making his calm mind a little chaotic.

The leading man handed two pages to Edogawa: “Do you know what this represents?”

“do not know.”

Is there any urgent case happening?
Ranpo grabbed the page and began to read. His eyes, which were originally smiling, slowly opened and became bigger and bigger.

“I don’t know why I gave you the page at that time,” Huiyuan Ye said, “This page appeared suddenly, and it appeared exactly the same way as the first one. I gave it a different page number, but it shows ‘Page 37’ here.”

“This page appeared three days ago, but we don’t check the ‘book’ every day, so we just discovered it.”

The car sped along the road, heading quickly to the destination of the Edogawa couple.

“boom–“

The car braked suddenly and there was chaos inside. People wearing seat belts were thrown off their seats in an instant, not to mention the people in the back who were not wearing seat belts.

Edogawa Ranpo got out of the car to check. Not far away, two cars had collided and a strange smell filled the air.

“It’s going to explode.” Ranpo made his judgment based on what he learned from watching his father drive. Huihara Ye beside him frowned and immediately arranged for people to evacuate.

If this process continues, there won’t be many casualties.

“Go—go—”

Edogawa Ranpo turned around and saw his father standing between the two collided cars. His back was to Ranpo, directing the crowd to evacuate.

“Dad! Dad!” Edogawa Ranpo couldn’t help but shout excitedly.

——In the previous world, he successfully saved his parents from death in this world.

But Dad didn’t hear his voice, so he opened the car door and asked the people in the car to get out.

“father!”

Edogawa’s father finally turned around. He was surprised at first that Ranpo, who was supposed to stay at home, appeared here, and then he responded with a smile.

A gust of wind passed by Edogawa Ranpo, and the air current knocked him to the ground.

It was a car out of control, rushing towards a place where it was about to explode.

Then a fire suddenly broke out.

Ranpo was stunned.

Red burned in his green eyes, and among the countless wails, there was nothing he wanted to hear.

Huiyuan Ye was also covered in dust. He pulled Ranpo up and shouted in his ear: “Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?”

“Hasn’t it changed?” he asked blankly.

Tears dripped onto the pages of the book in my hands.

Huibara didn’t let him get close to the scene of the incident, as the possibility of a second explosion was very high.

He sat on the curb, just like in the first world. This time he knew what to prepare for the funeral, so he wasn’t in a rush.

When collecting the remains for cremation, the medical examiner asked him, “Who is this baby?”

“It’s the baby my parents wanted to adopt.”

“What’s his name?”

“…I haven’t thought about it yet, and the formalities haven’t been completed yet.”

The medical examiner sighed, “How pitiful. Please give him a name.”

me?

Ranpo pointed at himself and shook his head. He was not worthy. He didn’t want his family to adopt the baby. How could he give a name to a child who was not his own? If there was no such child, maybe his parents wouldn’t have had the car accident.

The anger accumulated in my heart.

Then don’t meet.

Huiyuan Ye listened to his idea and said: “Okay, in the new pages of the book, we will make sure that the supernatural spy department in the next world will not go to your father to investigate.”

This time, Huihara Ye refused to give Edogawa Ranpo a new page in the book.

The Special Powers Department began to contact the government to intervene in the world of sorcery.

Because of Gojo Satoru’s death, Nozomi, who was hiding in the shadow side of Japan, had no taboos and placed the chessboard on the table. The course of the world did not change much.

“The only difference is that I survived on the memories I gained from the pages of the book.”

“Until October 10st.”

September 10th?
Isn’t that today?

Edogawa Satoru pursed his lips and looked at his brother worriedly: “What happened that day?”

Nothing happened.

Edogawa Ranpo said calmly.

He pulled out the third and fourth pages.

“Keep watching.”

–

The third picture that Edogawa Satoru saw seemed to be different from the first two.

I was not picked up by my parents and I almost froze to death while staying in the bushes.

The curse master with sutures on his head, who blew himself up in the late first world and called himself “Noose”, came to him covered in blood and picked him up.

Then hide him in a place where the sorcerer will never notice him and start raising him.

Xiao Wu:?
Do you really need to be so cowardly?

Xiao Wu frowned, feeling that something was wrong.

Gojo Satoru, who did not die at the age of 25 and even defected, joined the Bankei Cult. The original three-polarized forces in the world of curse arts were reshuffled, and the curse master Nozomi had to choose to remain dormant.

The curse master sighed: “If only my previous body was still there, the son I gave birth to would be so adorable and he could keep you company.”

“If you die, will Gojo Satoru die too? I really don’t dare to bet.” He looked at Edogawa Satoru with broken arms and legs tenderly, and stroked his finger over the top of Gojo’s head. “It would be so beautiful if there was a line here.”

They settled in Yokohama, where the cursed energy was blocked and suppressed Xiaowu. Xiaowu’s hands and feet were cut off, and he could not commit suicide or escape. His vocal cords were not fully developed, so he could not communicate.

[This is not the death I want. This place is even more boring than the world of sorcery.]
In the dark prison, he gradually lost the ability to think, and his only expectation every day was to look at the dazzling blue sky outside the window.

One day, a black-haired boy was thrown next to him. It was the first time that Xiao Wu saw the curse master Nozomi so angry and frustrated. He muttered things like “If it weren’t for you, I would have succeeded”, “It’s a good thing I caught him”, “Despicable human”, etc., then he closed the door and left.

Why is there a child here?
The black-haired boy, Edogawa Ranpo, was a little worried that something might happen.

The boy, about thirteen or fourteen years old, was wearing a detective outfit. He sat up from the ground and asked with a smile, “Kid, what’s your name and why are you here?” The white-haired child looked no more than three years old. He had no hands or feet, and there were countless amulets stuck on his body. His right eye was cloudy, but his left eye was clear blue.

The child ignored him and stared blankly at the sky.

Edogawa Ranpo felt a little uncomfortable, and a feeling similar to “pity” was stirring in his heart.

The curse master took the knife and turned back.

Edogawa Ranpo said provocatively: “I have told Geto Suguru and Gojo Satoru all your plans, and they are destroying your designs bit by bit. How do you feel about coming up empty-handed? How do you feel about being surrounded?”

[Gojo Satoru cannot die; if he doesn’t die, Japan won’t be in chaos, so my brother can find out Nose’s plan safely?]
You really are not afraid of death, said Xusuo coldly.

Edogawa Ranpo was even more arrogant than him: “You just relied on your long lifespan to live for hundreds of years to become like this. It’s really despicable.”

“How can we trust the words of the fish on the chopping board?” Nosuo pulled out his knife. Xiao Wu recognized that it was the knife he often used to chop people. “Tell me, what are their plans next?”

Edogawa Ranpo slowly moved back, wondering how to delay time and why his detective assistant had not arrived yet.

A great detective would never fall to such a petty villain.

But Nozomi didn’t listen to Edogawa Ranpo’s nonsense and just chopped with his sword. In Yokohama, he couldn’t use his cursed power.

Edogawa Satoru reluctantly bumped into Noose’s feet, causing Noose’s first attack to miss.

“You are useless anyway.” Luosuo lowered his head and picked up Xiao Wu. “If you want to blame someone, blame the person behind you. He is the one who caused your death. Curse him with all your heart, forever, and with all your power!”

He stabbed the child with a knife, threw him on the ground, and walked towards Ranpo.

“you!”

Anger burned in Ranpo’s heart.

The next second, Fukuzawa Yukichi appeared and killed Nose.

Ranpo didn’t dare to touch the bleeding child, and pulled Fukuzawa Yukichi’s sleeve: “Quick, take him to the hospital.”

Xiao Wu shook his head.

He spoke:
Thank you.

Only Ranpo understood his lip reading.

“What are you thanking me for? You don’t have to thank me! Let’s go to the hospital. You will be fine, little brother.” Edogawa Ranpo would not allow anyone to die in front of him!
Fukuzawa Yukichi picked up the two children and rushed to the hospital.

Xiao Wu tugged at the unknown black-haired boy and said, “I don’t curse you. I bless you. I thank you.”

Who made him live in such a painful world?
He closed his eyes.

The original plan was to use Edogawa Ranpo as bait, spread the news that Ranpo was Gojo Satoru’s military advisor and was planning the next plan, lure out the Curse Master who had no one else to use and had to do it himself, and then let Fukuzawa Yukichi kill the Curse Master.

“I’m sorry, I’m late.” Fukuzawa Yukichi put down the child who had lost his voice, and stared at Ranpo, a young man whose genius was unacceptable to the world. He took out a stack of papers from his arms, “This is what the Special Ability Agent Department asked me to give you.”

Ranpo took it in silence.

“A member of the secret service department named Huiyuan Ye asked me to tell you that he tried to persuade Gojo Satoru not to commit suicide, but the pages of these worlds have become waste pages and cannot form a world.”

Edogawa Ranpo flipped through the pages of the book frantically. He had been able to calmly accept the pain brought by the memories.

“The most important thing now is how to clean up the mess left by Nozomi.” Fukuzawa encouraged Ranpo.

Waste page?

Indeed, there were a few sheets of paper that had no “memory” seen when in contact.

Is Gojo Satoru’s suicide the key?
Is Gojo Satoru’s life and death also the key?

Why is Gojo Satoru so special?

Even sorcerers don’t want to get close to Yokohama, so what’s so special about Yokohama?
“Could it be that… Gojo Satoru’s suicide is the prerequisite for opening a new chapter?”

It turned out to be the case.

That’s it!

He understood. Ranpo picked up the first page of the book: “I was almost fooled by you! You are the beginning, and we are all branches. Branches cannot bypass the beginning.”

Fukuzawa Yukichi next to him:?

“Gojo Satoru is the beginning, Gojo Satoru is the end. We can modify the time from his birth to his death, so there is no time after October 10st in all worlds, because there is no time starting from November 31st for Gojo Satoru!”

All new worlds begin with Gojo Satoru’s suicide and end on October 10st.

So next.

1. Gojo Satoru cannot die.
Second, the plan of making noose cannot be implemented.
3. Save your parents.

Up to now, the special feature of the book is that “the content cannot be known by more than three people”. Huihara Ye, Ranpo, and Ranpo’s father, already have three people.

Among the discarded pages, in addition to the ones that prevented Gojo Satoru from committing suicide, there are several pages that were discarded because the contents of the book were known by a fourth person.

4. The contents of the book cannot be disclosed to a third person.

That child should be Gojo Satoru’s split body. If that child falls into Nozomi’s hands, it seems that he will not have a good life.

The only people who can find the child without being caught by the noose and who are likely to be the first to find him when the pages of the book begin to take effect are his parents.

Five, protect that child.

He will always remember the child whispering in his arms: Thank you.

The child said he would bless him and thank him.

why?

Edogawa Ranpo didn’t understand.

“Although I understand that you want to save this baby,” Huiyuan Ye handed Edogawa Ranpo a new page of the book, “but in the previous world you always refused to adopt him, didn’t you? How are you going to solve this problem?”

Ranpo took the page.

“Well, the routine before October 10st is doomed to cease – you write about the life and death of a world, can you afford it?”

“Yes, sir.”

“I swear on this.”

–

Edogawa Satoru put down the third one.

How many discarded pages of books and how much human blood are between the second and third pages?

His eyes fell on the fourth picture, and the sentence “Edogawa Ranpo fell in love with his younger brother Edogawa Satoru at first sight” suddenly caught his eye.

He was stunned and looked up at his brother, but his brother turned his head away and he could only see the red earlobe.

The fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth…

Xiao Wu kept flipping through the pages, and “like” gradually turned into “love”.

Yes.

Edogawa Ranpo loves Xiaowu. This is why Edogawa Satoru always believes in his brother and waits for him no matter what he has been through. He knows and feels the love that Ranpo gives him.

He saw that every one of them was written in his brother’s handwriting, and it said “Ranpo loves Xiaowu” but did not say “Xiaowu also loves Ranpo”.

——I protect you and change my nature.

——I restrained myself and never changed you.

“Don’t endure the pain, don’t be wary of me, just cry as much as you want, I will protect you.”
Ranpo said this to him when they first met.

Memories and reality are consistent. Edogawa Satoru knows that he has obtained the most precious thing in the world – the defined yet blurred family love.

Tears slowly fill the tear ducts.

At this moment, he could die with a clear conscience.

(End of this chapter)