Edogawa Satoru who wanted to be a detective is not a good sorcerer

Edogawa Ranpo's remarks could be considered a murder threat, and given his reputation as a genius in reasoning, the police chief classified the two missing cases as Level 2 cases, below homicide cases (Level 3 or 4).

Veteran detective Hanamiyasuke stressed the point: "Thank you, Technical Department, for continuing to analyze the surveillance. This is definitely not the only area that has been covered. Bring someone with me to the Special Ability Department. They are really investigating the case in vain. There has been no news about Edogawa Satoru for so many days."

"Um," a young policeman raised his hand, "what is a sorcerer?"

Everyone looked at each other, except the old detective, who all shook their heads to indicate that they didn't know.

"Don't worry about that for now." Detective Hanamiya brushed off the question vaguely, "Check Edogawa Ranpo's schedule before the 24th. He can't just disappear for no reason. See if you can find out what he's going to do."

Another male police officer smiled and said: "That's not necessarily true. Sometimes my girlfriend just doesn't want to talk to me and disappears for no reason."
The colleague next to him kicked him and said, "What are you showing off?"

Huiyuan Qi stood up: "Wait a minute, Senior, I will go with you."

They walked together in the long corridor of the superintendent's office, their shadows reflected off the white tiles.

"Senior, actually, I went to the same police academy as Edogawa and graduated a few years ago. Although I didn't understand what the hint Edogawa Ranpo was giving was, he deliberately burned his school uniform for us to see. There must be some deep meaning behind this, right?" asked Qi Haibara.

"Do you have any reasoning or are you just guessing? Don't be led astray." Hua Gong scolded, "You are a police officer, get ahead of the criminal. If you can only think about the clues given by the criminal, how can you possibly defeat the criminal?"

"We have to confront him. Didn't he say not to implicate Edogawa Satoru?" The senior kept criticizing Haibara, as if he was hiding something.

Huihara Qi lowered her eyes and responded casually, but her expression was gloomy.

"Hello, it's our first meeting. Just call me Qi Huihara. This is the case that Uncle Huihara asked me to give to you." She handed the file to the boy, Edogawa Ranpo, who was playing with a bubble machine.

This famous reasoning genius was dressed in shabby clothes, with a wrinkled school uniform as the lining, a half-dry jacket, and three holes in his pants, covered with dark brown dirt. The only clean part of his body was his face, with a detective hat on his head and his eyes narrowed into slits. He angrily pressed the bubble machine, popping each bubble he blew, and childishly cursed: "A bunch of childish, stingy people."

Who is he scolding? she wondered curiously.

Ranpo, who had had enough fun, finally seemed to notice her and opened the file to take a look.

This was a closed-room murder case. A high-ranking official was assassinated in the basement of his own villa. There was only one door for entering and exiting the scene. Before the high-ranking official's blood flowed out of the door crack, the door was locked tightly and only the victim had the key.

The file was accompanied by a photo: the dead man's head was separated from his body, his neck was torn, and he fell towards the door, with blood flowing out of the door.

Edogawa originally thought the case was uninteresting, but after seeing the photos he changed his mind.

Compared to previous cases where the information was so detailed that the criminal could be analyzed at a glance, today's case was so simple that it caught his attention.

"What's the date today?" Qi Haihara heard the first words Edogawa Ranpo said to her.

Not sure if it was because of his reputation or because of the excitement of finally getting a response after waiting so long, she immediately replied, "March 3!"

"Oh, yes, March 3th... March 7th. I just met Wu yesterday, Sunday." He squinted his eyes at her. "The remuneration is the same as before. You lead the way."

He threw the bubble machine away, but it didn't go into the trash can, so he slowly moved over to pick it up and threw it into the trash can. He had been having so much fun playing with the bubbles, but it seemed that he had no interest in the bubbles anymore, and he didn't even think about keeping them for later use.

"I think," Edogawa Ranpo said to her for the third time, "this case will surprise me."

……surprise?
Qi Huihara's hands and feet are cold.

She saw the bleeding boy on the floor, she saw the twisted monster. She lost her voice and couldn't even scream, watching Edogawa Ranpo being swallowed by the monster.

The surveillance is not real.

Qi Huiyuan began to tremble all over.

Edogawa Ranpo - he died as early as April 1st!
The senior looked at her in confusion. She opened her mouth and her lips trembled up and down. She knew the surveillance was fake, but she couldn't say it.

A man-eating monster.
Conjurer.
Secret assignment.

She gave Detective Hanamiya a respectful smile.

Gojo Satoru's brilliant idea was to let Edogawa Satoru and Itadori Yuji study together so that he wouldn't have to teach twice.

As soon as he entered the infirmary, he saw Edogawa Satoru laughing, while Yuji Itadori and Director Ijichi looked pale.

He just joins in on his classmates' little pranks - how could he not participate?

Gojo Satoru took five steps at a time and teleported to the student's side: "What are you laughing at?" He showed his big white teeth.

Wu was about to speak.

“No——” Yuji Itadori covered Edogawa Satoru’s mouth with his hand.

Gojo Satoru shrugged, led the two of them to the school's detention room, and introduced them to the movie-based method of controlling cursed energy. Gojo Satoru was whispering to Itadori, while Edogawa Satoru hid aside and didn't listen, holding a cursed skeleton doll in his hand. This doll needed to be continuously and steadily supplied with cursed energy, otherwise it would be beaten.

Edogawa Satoru covered his cheek, feeling depressed.

Gojo Satoru was very busy and left after a while, saying that he would come back to check the results later.

"The big devil is a very busy man," he sighed.

Yuji picked up the new film and said, "Big Devil, are you referring to Gojo Sensei?"

Satoru complained, "He's so strong, like a big devil. I can't beat him if I try to fight him."

"Your perspective seems to be different. Why do you want to fight against Gojo Sensei?" asked Yuji with a smile.

Edogawa Satoru was stunned.

[Yuji Itadori is very sensitive. Intuitive?]
"Don't worry. Edogawa Satoru probably won't have time to contact the outside world in the next two days." Green shadows flew past the car window. Gojo Satoru leaned against the door and looked at the man sitting on the other side.

"So, Director Watanabe, what do you want to say to me?"

The man was terrified and kept turning his head to look behind him. He spoke only after confirming that it was safe. "Seven weeks ago, I was sent by the Supervisory Department to contact a newcomer. I heard that he developed a technique himself and had never been exposed to the world of curses before. He quickly became famous among the wealthy people in Tokyo. His name is 'Edogawa Satoru'. I was misled by him and thought that he was you who was accidentally reduced in size by some technique."

"But I soon realized that I had been deceived, and I wanted to report the incident. But he came to my house to threaten me. I saw with my own eyes that he controlled the cursed spirits to do things for him, and he could even command special-grade cursed spirits."

Gojo Satoru raised his head: "Special grade cursed spirit?"

The man nodded, looking haggard and fragile. "And it's a special-grade cursed spirit that has never been registered. I...so I was scared, because I was too embarrassed to ask the Supervisory Department for help after resigning. I had no choice but to come to you! I learned that you met him, and he looks so much like you, there must be some conspiracy against you."

Know?
Was the supervisor watching our meal last night?
Then there would be no need for Edogawa Satoru to wear a mask.
Gojo Satoru was thinking in his mind.

The man wanted to grab Gojo Satoru’s sleeve: “Please, I really can’t stand his threats anymore!”

"Do you have evidence?"

“Yes, yes, yes—”

Gojo Satoru waved his hand to stop him: "Stop the car, park here. We can talk later, you go first."

He looked back, his blue eyes reflecting the cold light.

Something is coming here to die.

Six minutes later.

Just as Gojo Satoru reached the door of the confinement room, Edogawa Satoru had already spotted him. Edogawa Satoru hushed and quietly stood up and walked towards Gojo Satoru, without disturbing Itadori Yuji who was watching the movie attentively. The Cursed Corpse in his arms was very stable.

Gojo Satoru raised an eyebrow, wondering what Edogawa Satoru would say to him.

Edogawa Satoru looked back at Yuji cautiously and chanted a small spell. He learned it from Fushiguro Megumi in the morning.

Inside the tent, he said, "Didn't you ask earlier what Yuji and I were laughing at?"

Gojo Satoru suppressed his laughter and nodded.

"It's like this, doesn't Yuji have a Ryomen Sukuna inside his body? Will it appear in his hand?" Edogawa Satoru raised his right hand, facing his face, "I asked Yuji if he could French kiss me."

Edogawa Satoru looked serious, as if he was doing academic research.

Gojo Satoru opened his mouth, looked at Edogawa Satoru for about ten seconds, and then started laughing wildly.

He removed the curtain and clapped his hands suddenly, which startled Yuji Itadori, and then said, "Ryoumen Sukuna, did you and Itadori kiss?"

Yuji lost control of his cursed power and was punched by the cursed corpse doll. A pair of half-hearted eyes fixed on Gojo Satoru.

"No more kidding, let's go practice teaching."

Yuji Itadori holds Edogawa Satoru, while Gojo Satoru carries Itadori, and they set off for the teaching location.

(End of this chapter)