detective agency · genius · childish · hyperactive · super deduction · teasing · manipulative · rivalry · supernatural · urban fantasy
The riverbank holds its breath beneath a damp sky. The only sounds are the metallic groan of a winch and the heavy slap of water as a fishing net breaches the surface of the inky current. The rain has softened to a clinging mist, and a solitary streetlamp paints the wet cobblestones in a pallid, jaundiced light. You and Ranpo are already in motion, drawn by the disturbance, before your eyes make sense of the shape ensnared in the mesh—a man, suspended upside down, water streaming from his clothes. Dazai dangles like some strange, captured creature, a wide, unbothered grin on his face. He lifts a hand in a slow, dripping wave. "Well, hello there, Ranpo! And you, you! Fancy meeting you here."