Detective's trouble| R. Edogawa

Chapter. 8 : candy conflict (part1)

"I've got a case to solve, and someone to see"

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The detective carelessly walked in the streets of Yokohama as wind passed his messy black hair, his expression and the way he was walking were screaming confidence. After turning to a bloke, he reached his pocket, pulling out a candy wrapped in green paper.

He held the candy up his head, examining it as if his eyes weren't closed. The paper wrapped around the candy was the same as his emerald orbs, he held the candy up for a few seconds "hmm..." The sunlight focused on the candy as Ranpo could feel it was turning warmer between his fingers.

"Let's see how it tastes!"

At police station

(Y/n) kept walking back and forth outside the investigation room, impatiently waiting as she kept recalling the conversation she just had with officer Minoura.

"That child is innocent!" She yelled

"Then show me the proves!" Minoura aggressively replied

"Tch!" She gritted her teeth 'of course I have no proofs yet, I cannot prove it. But... " Talking to herself, she gazed at the child behind the glassy window, he had looked down all this time, seemed troubled 'but the kid doesn't answer anything' she pitied him, sighing; the (h/c) haired cop turned to her colleagues.

"How is he?" She asked about her colleague who was affected by the candy given by the kid "he is sent to clinic, we don't know of his condition yet" replied her female colleague "I see" getting irritated, she harshly ruffled her hair under her cop hat.

'where is this Ranpo anyways? Ugh, I don't wanna have to call him agai-' she wasn't done processing to herself as she heard a beam, familiar voice

"Greetings!"

"!!!" Upon hearing the voice, (Y/n) turned around harshly to see the spikey haired detective standing there, confidence as always.

"You actually came?" The female cop gave him a mixed grin "I never said I won't come!" He energetically replied "alright what's the case today? Ah I know!" He replied himself before she could repeat

The door of the office opened, revealing officer Minoura "so you know, as always" he added as he walked to Ranpo "fufu! I'm happy you're getting to recognize my ability more!" He complimented himself, making (Y/n) giggle.

"As you can see, we have a suspect" he stated as he looked at the investigation room, followed by Ranpo and (Y/n)'s gaze.

"Apparently he's been giving corrupted candies to random people, causing them to fall ill, including one of my cops" he irritatedly explained. (Y/n) looked back at Ranpo for a brief moment, the bashful expression and energy from earlier was gone "...." She averted her (e/c) eyes back to investigation room

"By corrupted candies, you mean this?" He raised his left hand, holding the candy wrapped in green cover up "this..!" Officer Minoura frowned. Taken aback, (Y/n) hurriedly, pulled out the candy she had received, it was the same as Ranpo's, with different cover.

"I found this in my snack's box." He said as he examined the candy once more "s-so, you're saying that you received this candy too? By this kid?" (Y/n) asked, sweating as she was afraid if the kid is actually the culprit

"The candy being in my snack's box means that I indirectly received the candy. But not by this kid" he paused as both (Y/n) and Minoura raised brows "this kid has been giving these candies to random people and by now around ten people have fallen ill, causing them to have stomachache or feeling nauseous.

"The last news that reached us said there are around seven people, so more people got affected?" He gritted his teeth. "Counting today by now, yeah. This kid is the reason why around ten people have fallen ill. Now..." He paused. When he said 'now' (Y/n) knew what he was about to do, as she tried not to smirk 'he is about to wear his glasses, fufu' she thought to herself

"Go on then, the best detective in the world, tell us if the suspect is the culprit or not" she folded her arms proudly "hmm...fufu" he looked at her with closed eyes, smiling; he pulled out his glasses, unfolding it as he brought it to his eyes

"Ultra deduction" he smirked as he wore the glasses.

His cape dramatically went up by the sudden wind, making (Y/n)'s hair messy a bit as he was waiting for Ranpo's answer.

"The kid over there...." He started as (Y/n) sweated, and officer Minoura couldn't be any more impatient

"Is not the culprit"

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A/n : it's been a year. How are you all?
I don't know what to say because whoa one year is too long, but the update is finally here. How you all have been? Hope you haven't forgotten about this book, it's ongoing! As well as "after the past"

Pardon for the short chapter, I just came back to updating XD