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

The video is only three seconds long. A man is pressing on a child who is screaming in pain. In the last second, the camera is suddenly hit and falls to the ground, capturing the man's face clearly. The child is covered by the man, with only a head of white hair visible.

The police only found the video from the camera and a note in the office. The note read, "I am a person with special powers. This man is hurting this child. Should a flower bud like this be harmed? I really can't bear to watch it. I'm taking the child away. The man is tied up. You can handle what happens to him."

But the man had been starving for three or four days. He had multiple electric shock wounds and marks from being tied up, and it looked like he had been electrocuted and then starved to death. The nurse found out that he was dead because she had no money to ask the director for money.

There were no extra traces at the crime scene, and the police estimated that the scene must have been cleaned up by supernatural powers, so they handed the case over to the Supernatural Agents Division.

It would be better if such scumbag died.

Edogawa Satoru goes to the police academy, only to learn that Edogawa Ranpo is missing.

If Ranpo hadn't been controlled, how could he not come looking for him?

Therefore, Ranpo must be in a state where he cannot move. In this situation, it is useless to realize it.

Wu is not worried about Ranpo. Ranpo has talent and can definitely survive under any circumstances. He is worried about himself.

Will I still be accepted by Ranpo if we have no blood relationship?
How can I survive out there by myself?
Can't figure it out.

After returning to the Edogawa family to leave a message that he was still alive, Edogawa Satoru prepared to go to Tokyo.

The files show that he was adopted in Tokyo, maybe there are some clues there.

After leaving Yokohama, a barrier emerged from my body, the world changed, and many small monsters appeared on the road.

[It seems that Yokohama is the weird one.]
It would definitely not work to put him in an orphanage. Yokohama would probably find out that a child was missing, and then lock the files and find him. But he didn't have much money left. When his parents died, they were divided among relatives, and most of it was kept by Ranpo. A small part belonged to him, but he had to keep eating high-sugar foods, so only a little bit could be used for daily life.

I don’t have enough money to rent a house right now, and sleeping in a public place is too dangerous. It would be best if I could have some short-term income and live in a hotel that doesn’t require identification.

[Well, let’s take it one step at a time.]
[Lie down.]
By the way, is there any money to be made from killing those monsters?

Is your life experience related to killing monsters?
The street was bathed in sunlight, and the shadows of the buildings were more comfortable than the warm sunlight. Edogawa Satoru walked slowly. His hair color was very eye-catching, and he stood out among the crowd.

From time to time, girls would point at him and whisper to him, and even take pictures.

Alas. He sighed.

[Even if I have some physical defects and look like an albino, it's too much to point fingers like this.]
The young man frowned slightly in distress.

There is a restaurant on the roadside, which looks like a place for middle-class people to spend money. There is a beautiful piano in the lobby.

He pushed the door open and asked, "Are you hiring a piano player here?"

The waitress was stunned for a moment, and a faint light shone in from behind the boy, rolling on his hair. The boy smiled at her, gentle and distant.

"Yes, yes, I'll go get the manager." She shook her head violently, broke free from the beauty attack, and went to find the restaurant manager.

He successfully got the part-time job by claiming that he was a high school student but hadn't told his family that he wanted to give gifts to his friends, so he had no identification.

Edogawa Satoru can indeed play the piano, and in order to find a talent that matches the reasoning ability of his brother Ranpo, he learned a lot of things and wanted to explore himself in all aspects.

But a loser like him didn't have that kind of talent. He naturally gave up piano after learning it to grade nine. He had already seen the end of his talent in piano in the competition.

However, he was confident that he could do it if it was just a performance.

The salary was 5,000 yen for three hours. He worked hard all afternoon and decided to find a part-time job as he was too tired. He couldn't hold on physically, and he suspected that the manager paid him too little because he was young.

[It’s really hard to make money.]
Edogawa Satoru traveled around several districts and finally found a hotel that suited his taste in a suburb of Tokyo. It was cheap and close to a subway station. Moreover, the density of monsters was abnormally low.

He needs to be connected with the killing of monsters, whether they are good or bad. If his brother leaves Yokohama and is hurt by such a monster, he will blame himself and go crazy.

Humans are creatures of experience. They respect those with more experience and higher status, and look down on those with less experience and lower status. Wu is only thirteen years old, and there is no reason for anyone to be wary of a thirteen-year-old.

Thanks again for the quick information gathering.

If only my brother were here.

[No motivation.]
Two weeks later, there was still no news of Ranpo in Yokohama. Ranpo seemed to have disappeared the moment he left school. Whether it was surveillance or anything else, it seemed as if Ranpo had never appeared in this world.

This is not normal. But Edogawa Satoru really can’t find it no matter how hard he tries.

Since Yokohama has blocked the monsters, the direction of investigation points to "superpowers".
Superpowers... Edogawa Satoru pointed at the words "Port Black" written on the paper with a pen.

Or maybe Ranpo was trying to cover his tracks and didn't want to meet Edogawa Satoru. But this was impossible. As long as Edogawa Ranpo knew about the orphanage incident, he would definitely make sure of his safety at the first opportunity, even if Ranpo could tell at a glance that the video was fake.

but.

[Why do you let a brainless person like me think about this kind of thing! If everyone is so smart, the purpose will be discovered as long as we take action! ]
Wu ruffled his hair. He took a deep breath, imitated the way his family patted his head, and tapped himself gently: "Come on, Wu-chan, come on, come on, at least live to see your brother. Your brother will definitely praise you!"

After taking a deep breath, Edogawa Satoru felt much more energetic.

"Well, good morning."

"Roar! Roar, roar, roar!" The monster in the barrier cage flapped its wings hard to fly in the air without falling.

So far, he has captured some monsters and trapped them with barriers. Monsters generally will not crash into the barriers, so he can observe and study these monsters up close.

ugly.
This is the only way Wu can describe these monsters.

The strength of a monster is not determined by its size or intelligence, some are big and weak, some are small and smart.

He kept some of the smart ones and kept them as pets. It's like raising a dog, or even more interesting, because each monster has its own abilities. There are all kinds of monsters, and raising monsters feels like opening a blind box. I heard that it takes 21 days to develop a habit. This is Schrödinger's theory. If you are determined enough, you can develop any habit, regardless of time. People without perseverance will slowly lose their "habits" even if they persist for three weeks.

I mention this only to prove that he has a firm human character, as he developed the collecting habit in less than two weeks.

He has collected more than a dozen monsters, mainly because his pets are really well-behaved, so well-behaved that they will trick other companions into coming to him.

However, he changed his address very frequently.

The monster killers seemed to have a special way of distinguishing barriers from monsters. Once monsters gathered, they would come to kill them. He was now playing a game with a red name, and his face was red and his heart was beating fast.

The smartest thing about his pet is that it runs fast, but it is weak and small, so even monsters that see it are too lazy to kill it.

But they are very useful. Since he realized that part-time work was too tiring, he would let his pets get close to people with some money, and then pretend to meet them by chance to retrieve the pets and collect some "exorcism fees". Starting from the middle class, he would move up little by little, maintaining a speed that would attract attention but not alert, and being exposed in killing monsters.

Simply put, it's a scam.

And they are scammers pretending to be "No, no, I'm just helping you and I can't charge you for it." Those rich people will then be very cooperative and say "Please accept it. It really helps a lot. I'll trouble you again next time."

Soon he had enough money to buy a mobile phone, and his business improved after he had the phone.

In less than two weeks, the name of the exorcist "Satoru" spread throughout the suburbs of Tokyo, and Edogawa Satoru began to make more money and no longer relied on fraud to make money.

It took him two weeks to barely live a stable life. He is such a loser.

Edogawa Satoru bought a small house in the suburbs that he had initially chosen, ready to wait for the fish to take the bait.

Someone would find him soon.

The person who came was a brown-haired, tired-looking man in a suit, like a salesman.

In the surveillance video, the man first tidied his appearance, politely pressed the doorbell, and left a message on the intercom at the door: "Hello, I am Ichiro Watanabe from the Jujutsu Supervision Department. Is anyone home?"

The Supervisory Department suspected that there was an ordinary sorcerer named "Wu" who had not yet entered the world of sorcery living here, so they sent him to visit.

"Ah, wait a moment." The voice that came out was electromagnetic, pleasant and familiar.

Before Watanabe could make a careful distinction, the door opened.

He ran into a pair of eyes.

Six eyes?!
No, the color of the six eyes will be darker. Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, Watanabe saw the face of the person who opened the door, and he couldn't help but exclaimed: "Gojo Satoru!"

The boy smiled and said, "Come in first. Why are you here?" He turned and went into the house, leaving Watanabe standing at the door in a daze.
Gojo Satoru knows me?
Hey, wait, Gojo has gotten smaller?!
"Come in quickly." The boy's voice came, with a hint of impatience.

The next second, the cursed power like a cage enveloped Watanabe Ichiro, pulled him into the room, and closed the door.

Juli skillfully took out the communication tool from Watanabe and placed it next to "Gojo Satoru".

"You know me, hehe." There were countless sweets on the boy's table, and he ate while talking to Watanabe.

[Something unexpected happened. Is this the world without the protection of family? Can I really solve it? I am such a loser QAQ]
Watanabe was shaking, and hearing Gojo Satoru's "hehe" was like hearing the God of Hell urging him to die.

"Yes, how could anyone not know you? I am a colleague you supervise."
He asked tentatively, wanting to see if this man was pretending to be Gojo Satoru or if he was Gojo Satoru who had become smaller.

Judging from the performance of this "supervisor", "Gojo Satoru" is a person with a bad temper.

"Stop talking nonsense, or I'll get angry." The boy used his magical power to move Watanabe aside. This man was affecting his appetite.

He can see even from behind, as his field of vision is 360°.

——Why are you here?

What did Gojo Satoru mean when he said this when he saw him?
Watanabe was sweating profusely.
Did he accidentally step into the struggle between the top brass and Gojo Satoru? Would Gojo Satoru want to silence him?

"Don't be nervous, I'm just asking what happened recently." Wu tried to comfort Watanabe Ichiro, but found that the supervisor was shaking even more violently.

Cheap suit, wedding ring, shirt of inconsistent style, heavy dark circles under the eyes, milk stains on the shoes, green marker marks on the inside of the left hand, and so on and so forth. All sorts of messy and extremely boring information ran into my mind.
Middle-class family, married, having an affair, stable but dangerous job, life insurance, two children, the younger one is less than one year old.

[It seems that the monsters I encountered were not strong enough.]
Eating and chatting at the same time seemed to make the man trust him more.
He analyzed the information he got from Watanabe bit by bit.

In the world of sorcery, there are conservatives similar to those in feudal society, and reformists led by Gojo Satoru.

It is speculated that there may be a hidden third faction, which we will temporarily call "other factions", which seems to contain cursed spirits and are intelligent.

Is this “Gojo Satoru” the “strongest”?
The magic world has its own laws and law enforcement agencies, as well as schools.

[The structure is not reasonable. According to what this person said, there is no reason why the world of magic will not collapse.]
Is he lying to me?

A chill suddenly ran up Watanabe Ichiro's spine. He turned around and looked at the little "Gojo Satoru". There was nothing but murderous intent in his blue eyes.

[No way, he is telling the truth.]
Edogawa Satoru tapped his stupid head.

[Ah, I see, I brought in countries... cities, communities, companies... none of them work.]
[It’s a rural area.]
It is a rural area that has been locked into small clans by the feudal traditions that have been handed down to this day.

He thought it was funny and laughed out loud. Supervisor Watanabe was tied to the spot, and he was so scared that he wanted to run away with his legs wide open, but he jumped up and down on the floor like a salted fish.

Help, can't Gojo Satoru's young body withstand the madness of middle age?

(End of this chapter)