Another World Bookstore in Yokohama

Chapter 77

High School Attached to Highly Nurturing University.

One year class D.

Ayanokōji Kiyotaka sat upright in his seat, looked at the messy classrooms around him with his face propped up, and then turned around before someone noticed his gaze.

Take out your phone from your pocket, click on the screen, and slide the interface to a light cyan web page.

This is the URL of the 'Book Club' sent by the owner of the bookstore they visited before.

There are web pages, pc terminals, and app terminals.

Different ports have different forms, but the main content is still similar.

There are groups that users can form by themselves to share various books, as well as quotations they have extracted and short or long book reviews written by them.Then there are also special groups for various books, but if it is a very, very unpopular book, there will be no one.

......

This is mainly a community function.

There are some basic functions such as making friends, posting private messages and reading together, and there is also a specially customized short-term discussion room.

Many things can be set for the personal interface, website interface layout, user name information, etc., and what else.In short, there are everything that should be there, and some unexpected ones.

But in the end, the book club is just a function of exchanging books, and the functions on the website are quite sufficient.

.....

"Ayanokōji!" A girl's voice suddenly came from the side.

Ayanokōji Kiyotaka was a little frightened, blinked his eyes when he lowered his head, and then turned his head to look.

"What's the matter? Miss Horikita."

He actually wrote the book review of the book he bought before, but he was stopped when he wrote about 400 words.

"Oh, what is your expression?" Horibei Suzune frowned, squinting at the boy in front of her.

"It's as if someone owes you 500 million. Obviously, I called you several times but didn't answer."

The subtext is that she should be the one who should be upset.

And Ayanokōji Kiyotaka's expression was really ugly, he squinted at the girl from his lower hair with lowered eyes, his lips were tightly pursed, and his head was slightly tilted at an angle.From the perspective of Horibei Suzune, it is indeed quite subtle.

But it's pointless to dwell on it here.

The boy sat up straight, put his phone off the screen, and then looked at Horibei Suzune, "So, what's the matter?"

Let's change the subject.

Horibei Suzune didn't want to dwell too much on the topic just now, so she walked down the steps given by the boy.

"It's nothing..." The woman scratched her nose, "I just wanted to ask you what you were doing. But I told you not to answer once, yes twice, and then I got a little annoyed. I'm sorry for the sudden loudness. "

Ayanokōji Kiyotaka didn't pay much attention to her explanation, but he didn't act so boring. He simply agreed, and then talked about what he did just now.

...

"Write a book review?" Horibei Suzune opened her eyes wide, surprised at this, "I knew that you read so many books before, it was amazing enough, but I didn't expect you, a member of Class D, to have a preference for writing book reviews. "

"I usually don't write."

"Then you mean, that book is very interesting to you?"

"Almost the same meaning, probably."

Just out of interest.

"The "Gone with the Wind"?"

"Well, it is an absolute first-class existence in female love, and it can even be read countless times as a classic. From this book, we can see a love story that is not too beautiful, and we can also see that a country is in the midst of a civil war. The gradual prosperity of a country that was not very stable in the period. It can be said to be rare.”

“And while the country in the book has the same name as one of our superpowers here, that’s not the case with American history here.”

"Fiction...overhead history, is this a fantasy story?" Horikita Suzune frowned and thought.

"I don't know." Ayanokōji Kiyotaka replied with such simple words, and then turned to a previous topic.

He raised his cell phone.

"Book club, so fast?" The girl took the phone and flipped through it casually.

"It's online now. Hey, there are other countries? Huh."

"Well, this one was released simultaneously around the world." If he read the company's certification report correctly. "Here is the translation."

Seeing Horikita Suzune frowning and looking at the large paragraphs of Western language on the webpage, Ayanokōji Kiyotaka pointed to a small dot in the upper right corner of the post of the poster.

***

At noon at the detective agency, Izumi Kyoka and Atsushi Nakajima left together, walked around the street and chose the orange house that Izumi Kyoka likes to go to for dinner.

After eating several plates of tofu soup with the girl, both of them lay lazily on the table.

"So full~"

"I feel like I can't eat anymore—"

Kunikida Doppo far away:  …

These two people are full of words, huh.

After lying on the ground for a while, Quan Jinghua blinked, "Where are you going next?"

"Don't you just go back to the detective agency?" Atsushi Nakajima said lazily.

"..." The girl was silent for a while, "Dun Jun."

"what happened?"

Quan Jinghua pursed her lips: "I want to read what you wrote."

Unknowingly, the two sat up straight.

"But I haven't finished my current article." Atsushi Nakajima scratched his head.

"I'll hold."

"Then I'll show you after I finish writing."

"Hmm." The corner of the girl's mouth slightly curled up.

...

After paying the money, the two talked and laughed at Yan Yan, who was about to walk out the door.

Then unexpectedly, a woman in a red-haired kimono came in just at this time.

The woman was also a little surprised to see them.

"Oh, oh, what a surprise, to be able to meet here, "

The voice of the voice gradually disappeared after seeing Quan Jinghua's state of full alert on the opposite side.

The original arc of Ozaki Koye's lips flattened slightly.

"Don't have such a picture, demeanor, Jinghua."

Awakened by the voice, Quan Jinghua was stunned, lowered her head and put down the hand holding the knife handle.

I don't know why I suddenly feel sad.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

The girl heard her own voice saying that.

Hearing this, Koye Ozaki opened her eyes wide, and the comforting words she was about to say were retracted into her stomach.

"Well, long time no see."

The breeze was brought into the room by opening the door, blowing the long red bangs in front of the woman's eyes, and as they fluttered, Ozaki Momiji's eyes slightly lowered, looking softly at the top of Izumi Kyoka's drooping hair.

There was a unique quiet atmosphere between the two.

Atsushi Nakajima on the side:? ? ?

What the hell, is he being ignored? ?And what does 'long time no see' mean?

Didn't they just deal with each other last month? ? ?

Is there any special meaning?

----

"Hey, Jinghuajiang, what did you mean just now?" After leaving the original space, Atsushi Nakajima hesitated for a long time and asked.

Quan Jinghua didn't seem to hear it, and looked at the front with empty eyes.

"Mirror Flower, Mirror Flower Sauce? Mirror Flower?"

"...!" As if awakened suddenly, the girl blinked, "Sorry, what did you just say?"

Atsushi Nakajima sighed helplessly, and repeated his question, "It's what you said to...that port mafia guy there just now, what do you mean?"

After listening to the boy's explanation, Quan Jinghua ticked off the slender hair that fell in front of her eyes, and said two words after a long time:

"secret."

Atsushi Nakajima:  …

***

I need to go out for the commission in the afternoon.

The only member sent this time was Atsushi Nakajima.

It is said that it is to exercise its ability to do things alone.

Here, he followed the client to a large Japanese-style house.

"Is there anything I can do?" Atsushi Nakajima asked.

The client is a middle-aged man, and like the president, he usually wears a plain kimono, but this person is wearing a pure gray haori.

It is said that an unknown thief came to the house, and sometimes he would take people's lives, which made people in the house panic and everyone felt uneasy.

Then, after listening to Edogawa Ranpo, he threw the words to him to do it alone.

but!He really has no clue now.No, in fact, it seems to be a little bit.

For example, the first thing he needs now is to investigate the various situations in this adult's house during the day, and then ambush the appearance of that villain based on the information he has obtained.

Why?It seems that after thinking about it, I figured out a way.

But it's not bad, is it like this at first?

However, although there is a corresponding plan from the beginning, it is better to ask tactfully first.

The client didn't think much of it.

"Do what you want, as long as you don't break things in the house," said the man.

Then Atsushi Nakajima began his investigation in full swing.

—It will soon be evening.

The boy ran all over the house and found relatively detailed clues, but basically they were written in general terms or had nothing to do with today's arrest.How can he connect together?

That's what Atsushi Nakajima thought about while eating at night.

"Yo."

Such a voice suddenly came from behind.

Atsushi Nakajima's body tensed up immediately.

The footsteps gradually approached, and finally moved across from him.

The man sat down, kneeling on the cushion with neat legs together.

It's Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

Why is he here! ?

Is it—

It seemed that Atsushi Nakajima's strange eyes were not quite right, Ryunosuke Akutagawa frowned.

"you think too much."

"This house is owned by the Harbor Mafia."

Thinking of something, Atsushi Nakajima's eyes lit up, "That!"

"Ok?"

The boy who was teased by Akutagawa Ryunosuke shrank suddenly, and Atsushi Nakajima slumped his shoulders, "It's nothing."

On the other side, Ryunosuke Akutagawa saw the boy's attitude, and couldn't help covering his mouth with his hands and letting out a muffled laugh.

Atsushi Nakajima: "..."

"Hello!"

Akutagawa Ryunosuke coughed twice in a concealed manner, "Next time, I came here for the murder of a middle-level member of the port mafia. It must have overlapped with your commission."

Then, without waiting for Atsushi Nakajima to reply, he continued, "I have already set up corresponding agencies in various parts of this house, and after that, I just need to stun that person into the urn."

"That,"

"Then just wait here."

"Oh..." Nakajima Atsushi blinked in confusion.

...

After being quiet for a while, Atsushi Nakajima sat blankly opposite Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

"Hey, Akutagawa."

Atsushi Nakajima couldn't bear the weird atmosphere and spoke.

"what?"

"Today are you... so weird?" Finally, he could only choke out such a word.

"?"

Akutagawa Ryunosuke tilted his head incomprehensibly, blinking his eyes.

"It's what you do to me. It's weird today. Why are you so friendly?"

"Of course it's because there is no excuse for hostility, or the reason. Speaking of which, we haven't seen each other very much these days." Akutagawa replied flatly, "And."

"and?"

"I heard from my husband that you are still writing recently."

"I'm writing..." As if realizing something, Nakajima Atsushi opened his eyes wide and looked at the boy opposite, "Could it be?!"

Akutagawa Ryunosuke smiled lightly.

The author has something to say: The one at the book club really can't hold it back (covers face) and has a bald head.

But here, although Akutagawa's attitude towards Atsushi is much calmer, it's not very good.

In fact, the Akutagawa here is very restrained.