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

While trying to find a way to get to the second floor, Edogawa Satoru meets Inshin and his friends.

Apart from some scratches, they were almost unharmed. The Hidden God provided their discovery: touching certain objects would lead to an illusion, and one could escape by getting hints in the illusion.

"What did you see in the illusion?" asked Edogawa Satoru.

The Inshin and his gang also saw someone they particularly wanted to see or did something they had always wanted to do. However, because they were monsters, it was easier for them to escape.

Yinshen patted the boy beside him, Kusaka Xia Yu. Xia Yu nodded, twisted his neck, and took off his head: "If you can't see it, you won't be affected by the illusion."

Enlightenment:!

That makes sense.

Unfortunately, his vision is 360 degrees, and he doesn't have Gojo Satoru's special eye patch to block his sight.

"Can the haunted house really make wishes come true?" he asked.

The Hidden God shook his head, and the tail behind him moved: "According to my investigation, the Haunted House only makes people immersed in the illusion of fulfilling their wishes, but it will not really fulfill their wishes."

"It's not that good. You don't want to make a wish to her, do you?" The light pink-haired boy named Zhi said arrogantly, "Don't daydream like that. A wish beyond your ability will definitely come at a price beyond your ability."

Edogawa Satoru hesitated for a moment and did not tell Inshin and the others about seeing the female ghost.

[If she doesn't have the power to grant wishes, how did she know about my brother? I have never thought about what she said, and it is impossible for me to get it from my brain.]
"My companion has been out of contact since he went up to the second floor. Do you have any way to get me up there?"

Zhi: "Didn't your teammates say that you are weak? For their sake, you'd better protect yourself first." Edogawa Satoru saw his fingers move slightly, and spider silk invisible to the naked eye connected to the second-floor balcony.

Tsundere?
At Edogawa Satoru's insistence, Ori used spider silk to hang him up to the second floor.

He landed safely, his vision changed, and he entered the illusion again.

There was another row of mirrors in front of him. Edogawa Satoru looked at himself in the mirror with sarcasm: "Yamaba, don't you have any other new ideas?"

Edogawa Satoru in the mirror smiled, turned his head and said, "Yes, yes, you have no new ideas?"

[He] extended his hand out of the frame and greeted Edogawa Satoru who was outside.

The person in the mirror pulled hard, and a [Edogawa Ranpo] appeared. [They] held hands and smiled at the lonely Edogawa Satoru outside the mirror, their smiles blooming like spring flowers.

Kill Wu and destroy his heart.

Two brothers who have a very good relationship are close together. They look handsome and cute. Their black hair is like a reserved cat, and their white hair is like soft and sticky snowballs, which is pleasing to the eye.

It would be better if the person in front of [them] was not the real boss.

Xiao Wu's fist was ready to move.

[Edogawa Satoru]: "Let me see who still can't find his brother?"

Xiao Wu performed a technique.

[Edogawa Ranpo] patted [Satoru] on the head and said to Satoru, "Ignore him. You've tried your best, I know that."

…Xiao Wu put his hand down.

[Satoru] snorted, wrapped his arms around [Ranpo], and stuck out his tongue at Satoru outside the mirror: "My brother, my~"

Xiao Wu raised his hand again!
After raising and lowering his hands several times, Edogawa Satoru shouted in his heart:
[Whether it’s Gojo Satoru or this Edogawa Satoru, why are they both so annoying!!!]
The Edogawa brothers in the mirror turned around, held hands, and ran away skipping.

Although he wanted to conserve his energy, he never performed the spell in his hand.

He... couldn't do it.

He couldn't kill his brother a second time.

By the time Xiao Wu was ready to break the illusion, the illusion had already disappeared. The mirror shattered and turned into clouds, as if it was designed to mock him.

The illusion disappeared, revealing the full view of the second floor. Edogawa Satoru forced himself to run until his cramped legs reached the second floor, where he found the female ghost Yamaba.

This time, he didn't wait for Shanlao to invite him, but slumped down in his seat: "Now, tell me, why..." He was breathing heavily, his head was dizzy.

"Why are you in such a hurry~" The boy glared at her and she laughed, "Okay, okay. Everyone thinks I can make wishes come true, but I just use a little trick to make them fall into a sweet dream. Your brother came to me and wanted to know if I could make his wish come true."

Xiao Wu was shocked: "When?!"

Shanlao was sealed for ten years. How could it be possible that my brother was only five years old ten years ago? Or was it that the haunted house could have appeared when the library was still there, so what was the use of the seal?

But after the fire, the scene was sealed off and there were police patrolling. How did my brother get in?
Yamauba said to himself, "I couldn't do it, so he left. However, I provided him with ideas: the stone in the demon world, the book in Yokohama, the Holy Grail in Fuyuki City, and Lord Tengen in the world of curse."

"But it's just a direction." She made tea and poured water, took out a pipe from the sleeve of her kimono, and smiled at Xiao Wu with a squinting look, "You are really good-looking."

"I wanted to turn you into a being like me, just like I did before." She calmly uttered the terrible words, "You are also very fragile anyway, maybe you can live longer if you are not a human~"

Those who came to her and made a wish and died mysteriously were all turned into ghosts by her.

[If you are not a human, you may live longer...]
A dark light flashed in Edogawa Satoru's eyes.

[Could it be that my brother did this for me? ...I have "hindered" the realization of my brother's wish. What does the word "hinder" mean?]
Yamaba just chuckled. She could hear people's minds, but she didn't respond no matter how Wu mentioned his brother.

"I've already given you three pieces of information, believe it or not." She threw away her cigarette and stretched out her arm to Wu's shoulder, who was two meters away. "Let's talk about something else, little cutie. Are you interested in being my lover?"

Edogawa Satoru quickly refused: "No, thank you, you are not my ideal type."

Wow, you have an ideal type at such a young age.

The female ghost raised her eyebrows gossipingly: "Tell me about it." Seeing that the boy's attention was not here, she added, "If you tell me, I will tell you why you are an obstacle~" Edogawa Satoru frowned, thought for a while and said: "My ideal type is preferably black hair, cute, very smart but confused about small things, likes to eat sweets, can protect me and support me, and it would be even better if she has squinty green eyes."

The ghost girl's expression became stranger and stranger as she listened.

She knocked on the ashtray as if she was knocking on her own head.

She looked complicated and spoke quickly, trying to drive him away:
"You shouldn't exist."
"Someone created you and changed the fate of many people."
"What your brother is about to do is even crazier than creating a person out of thin air."

She waved her hand and a mist enveloped the place.

"Tsk, what? If you like me, just say it directly. You are wasting my feelings..."

These were the last words Wu heard the female ghost say.

The noisy room immediately quieted down. The surrounding scenery changed, and the ghost was in the cherry blossom forest again.

"Mr. Ranpo, your brother is so 'cute'." Yamababe said to the person behind him.

Edogawa Ranpo slowly walked out from behind the tree, opened his eyes for a moment, and his gaze fell on the place where Xiaowu left and was shrouded in clouds and mist. His green eyes revealed a hint of longing.

He quickly smiled again: "Of course, my brother Edogawa Satoru is the cutest brother in the world, he——"

The ghost girl waved her hands: "Stop, stop, stop. I've heard enough!"

Since they met, in addition to business matters, Edogawa Ranpo has been talking to her about his younger brother.

She didn't want to know at all how old Edogawa Satoru was when he learned to do somersaults or when he started practicing writing. She was not interested at all!

The long collar of the kimono fluttered, and four mirrors suddenly appeared, showing Satoru, Fushiguro, Kugisaki and the Kakushin group. Except for Edogawa Satoru, they were all still trapped in the illusion.

"Why make things difficult for them? I thought I had done enough."

Ranpo's hanging hand was dripping with blood, and touching the wound would make him frown fiercely.
He went through the complete haunted house experience.

"I'm a ghost, so what's wrong with teasing them?" She smiled rudely, but she was beautiful. "If you hadn't woken me up, they would have been trapped in my illusion and turned into ghosts by me. Now it's just a little prank."

"Besides, I don't have much time left. When Gojo Satoru comes, I will be destroyed. Now I have to have fun." The female ghost pouted, thinking that she could finally vent the anger she had suffered from Ranpo on her brother. "I'm so scared."

"You deserve this. You killed a lot of people."

“…Well, I didn’t say I was right.” The ghost girl whispered, “Seeking comfort from hopelessness is the most ignorant thing to do. I just want to warn others about my despair. Before I went crazy, I didn’t think I could turn people into ghosts.”

They began to watch the mirror's live broadcast in silence. Ranpo only looked at Satoru, while the female ghost stared at others.

He has grown up, Ranpo said.
The ghost girl didn't see his expression, but his voice was full of regret.

"If only I could be with him."

Shan Lao raised an eyebrow: "You went to the illusion just to see your brother's back? If I hadn't pinched you immediately, it would have been you who was cut across by your brother."

He didn't speak.

Suddenly the female ghost looked up to the west: "A person suddenly appeared above."

"It's Gojo Satoru." said Edogawa Ranpo.

Gojo Satoru kicked down the door and scattered flower petals at the technical high school students gathered inside.

He counted the number of people: "Wu-chan~ Hui-chan~ Ye-chan~ On the other side, you are all here too. Now count again, great, all 29 books are here, you are such a surprise~"

"What the hell is this English?" Fushiguro Megumi complained. Edogawa Satoru found that Fushiguro Megumi's temperament suddenly took on a bit of the elder brother's temperament.

Kugisaki carried a hammer and stood like a skinny compass: "This illusion is so annoying! Hammer it!"

Why did my classmate suddenly become so social? Edogawa Satoru stood obediently at the side, feeling like he didn't fit in.

Gojo Satoru kicked them out and flew up into the sky.

Edogawa Satoru has not yet told anyone about his encounter with Yamauba. The matter about his brother is a secret that he keeps to himself, and he has not told anyone at the technical college a single word. He tightly shuts his mouth and coldly watches Gojo Satoru perform the technique.

Kugisaki's eyes widened: "Wait! Is there someone in there?!"

The female ghost stood behind the ghost house, half of her body was exposed, she smiled and waved goodbye to Xiao Wu. When she turned around, a profile could be vaguely seen behind her.

Edogawa Satoru's pupils contracted rapidly:
It’s my brother, the real Edogawa Ranpo!
He yelled, "Gojo Satoru! Wait!!!"

"Don't rush in!" Fushiguro Megumi and Kugisaki did not catch Edogawa Satoru who was considered weak.

Satoru rushed in like a cannonball, but Gojo Satoru in the sky had already cast his technique.

The demon house in the center was destroyed in an instant, and the aftershock hit Wu, knocking him out. Wu fell to the ground, spitting out blood.

Blood flowed from his eyes. He wanted to see something, but there was only an empty space in the haunted house, so clean that he could not see anything.

-

"It's ok."

“I have paved the way.”

(End of this chapter)