Ranpo picked up the page.

Only three left.

He silently traced his brother’s eyebrows.

Edogawa Satoru came to the Edogawa family when he was five years old, and lived a carefree life for eight years. He did not use his cursed power and his growth was not stimulated. When he was thirteen years old, he was more than one meter four hundred feet tall.

I’ve been away from Yokohama for so long, but I’m taller than him.

Really. The black-haired boy smiled bitterly. Xiaowu is such a liar, even though he promised not to be taller than his brother.

Only three left.

He once again said, “You must always trust me.”

“Of course.” The other side answered immediately.

“I never had the slightest doubt.”

–

As usual, Edogawa Ranpo wrote multiple copies of the book and revised several pages before finding the right story content.

要求一，乱步不能出现在自己生活的同时代，2018年江户川乱步15岁, 即乱步得穿越到2003年5月8日之前。

The second requirement is that people who should be alive should not be killed to avoid time paradox.

Crossing the world seems impossible, but it is extremely simple in the illusion.

Just one page of a book.

The pen touched the page, making the final stroke.

Edogawa Ranpo felt dizzy.

Success? Or failure?

Colorful neon lights swirled around him, and behind him there was the sound of a drink bottle falling to the ground.

He turned around reluctantly and saw the fuzzy 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. Kakushin is friendly enough. Even if he doesn’t know Edogawa Ranpo, he will take him in because he called out Kakushin’s name.

Ranpo closed his eyes in relief.

Using book pages is simple, but not without cost.

Edogawa Ranpo himself could only live until October 10st of the year when he turned fifteen. If he reached this age limit after traveling through time, he would also die.

Speaking of which…

Is he gradually becoming less concerned about himself?
He has become accustomed to giving up a few pages of books and sacrificing several lives in exchange for the possibility of success.

“You write about the life of a world.”
“Can you afford it?”

Edogawa Ranpo felt a light piercing his eyes, and it turned out that he had woken up. Waking up was a nightmare of falling asleep.

Ranpo sat up slowly. This was an ordinary bachelor apartment. Many pieces of furniture were covered with animal hair. It seemed that Yinshen was in the stage of shedding 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 a lot of random things flashed by, like the wind lifting birds to fly, the tearful sky, and a bubble machine broken in half.

Is it an illusion caused by traveling through time and space?
He shook his head to get rid of these inexplicable things.

Ranpo quickly used the Hidden God to establish a relationship with Superintendent Ibu Yoko and came into contact with the demon world. “Superintendent” is one of the Japanese police ranks, above “Inspector” and below “Superintendent General”.

Fan Sheng Yaozi chose this position so that she would not block the way of certain high-ranking officials, and at the same time allow the demon world to have a place in human rights.

He wants to pave the way for this world’s Edogawa Ranpo, so that the future Ranpo can integrate into the demon world, the sorcery world, and the political world as quickly as possible and take control of the situation into his own hands.

In the Astral Plasma Incident, the most fundamental cause of the tragedy was “Tengen” in the world of sorcery, but Tengen cannot die now.

He posted a hidden commission on the dark web, which would not be released until the early stage of the Star Plasma incident. The commission required Fushiguro Shier to cut off the left half of Gojo Satoru’s brain and bring it to a specific location when he assassinated Star Plasma in 2006.

He began to use the limited time to search for special-grade spells everywhere, and wrote down the ones he thought were useful, put them in an envelope and sent them to his future self, hoping that he could respond quickly.

He was too busy to have time to think about anything else. Only occasionally before going to sleep would he think, “Is there really any meaning in what I am doing?”

Edogawa Ranpo’s goal has always been clear: to save his parents and have a future after October 10st.

But now he seemed to have lost the passion for action in the busyness. He was just completing a job, tired and bored.

Huihara Ye was unconsciously a little afraid of him, and even put him on the same level as a sorcerer. He thought he was a little crazy and suggested that he go see a doctor.

“I’m fine.” Edogawa Ranpo was really confused, “Why don’t you understand?”

“Who doesn’t understand?” Huiyuan Ye covered his face and sighed, “I’m worried about you!”

After Huiyuan Ye’s writing became a waste page, he stopped touching the book. He was secretly afraid of Ranpo and the pages, but Ranpo was still advancing his plan in an orderly manner.

Such calmness was described by Huihara as “cold-blooded”.

“…”

When Edogawa Ranpo heard such an evaluation, he suddenly lost his patience to explain.

Ranpo lost the only person who could understand him.

He was terribly lonely.
It’s like having no friends to step on each other’s shadows under the bright sunshine, and being suddenly kicked by someone when you are walking alone.

Ranpo kicked himself into another world, declaring his lonely mood to be exiled.

“How can it be meaningless?” he asked back about that lonely feeling.

Edogawa Ranpo searched his memories.

Then he found what he thought was an illusion.

The thing about him and his brother playing with the bubble machine.

His brother looked up at the sky and got hit in the face by the falling rain. His mother took a camera and filmed his father holding them up and flying in the sky.

Edogawa Ranpo laughed as he flipped through his memories. His laughter disturbed the quiet and lonely atmosphere. He restrained his smile.

It turns out that memories are like snakes crawling on the ground, and they are non-venomous until they bite you.

Using book pages is simple, but not without cost.

This is a one-way ticket.

Strangers die in a strange land.

This time I finally died before the world did. Edogawa Ranpo consoled himself. This is a good sign.

I heard that voice again: “Can you afford it?”

It’s almost over, he said.

–

In this world, Gojo Satoru and Edogawa Satoru successfully split up, and Satoru was adopted by the Edogawa family.

The overlapping use of pages has a greater impact on the world.

Parents notice something is wrong sooner than before.

The mother hugged Ranpo and said, “You must take good care of yourself and your brother in the future. You must help each other.”

Dad smiled and interrupted: “Support each other~”

His loving and gentle gaze fell on the two brothers.

At that time, Ranpo didn’t know what it meant. But when he got the page at the age of twelve, he understood.

In this world, Ranpo, who has regained his memories, confesses to Edogawa Satoru for the first time.

He couldn’t talk about the book. He just wanted an outlet for his stress.

So he looked at Edogawa Satoru.

He himself couldn’t explain what he was expecting.

Xiao Wu always blinks his inorganic eyes with clear gaze.

“I always…” Ranpo covered Xiaowu’s eyes.

Tears dripped down.

Don’t look at him like that. Are you blaming him? Blaming him for not saving him, right?

“I still can’t accept it. Whether it’s you or mom and dad, it won’t work without either of you.”

“But, but I…”

The sound of the wind whistled past 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. You can blame me if you want to. I can’t cooperate with my good brother’s actions, and I’m always a step late.”

Do not blame you.

This time, he will definitely be able to free Edogawa Satoru from the “book”.

Damn 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 Nozomi with a curse spirit.

The pages between the second and third from the bottom are waste pages.

Edogawa Ranpo said: “I took a certain waste page out of the Special Powers Department, but died before I could return it. The second-to-last page was refreshed in the place where the waste page last existed – our time capsule.”

So he didn’t learn about the pages at the age of twelve.

–

Edogawa Ranpo fell in love with the little boy who came to his house at first sight. Before his parents even asked, he rushed to say that he wanted the child to be his younger brother.

But the child was very weak, with festering in his right eye, and he neither cried nor spoke. After examination at the hospital, it was found that his brain was not well developed.

Xiao Ranpo patted his chest and said that he would raise his younger brother in the future.

He stared at Xiao Wu with sparkling eyes, narrowing his crescent.

As if on premonition, he reached out and poked Xiao Wu’s left eye back into its socket.

“Don’t cry.”

Maybe he hurt Xiao Wu.

“Don’t cry~” He coaxed his brother in an unskilled manner, “It’s okay to cry – just cry loudly.”

My brother’s health gradually recovered in the hospital, and he returned to Yokohama with the Edogawa family.

They lived together for eight years.

Eight carefree years.

Until February 3th.

37 ah.

This number looks so familiar.

“This case will give me a surprise.”

(End of this chapter)