"My book.. Ranpo.. how was it?"
Poe didn't look like himself anymore
Everything disappeared. He was no longer hugging Poe. He was hugging himself the whole time. Nobody was there.
The whole time Ranpo was alone. He had nobody to hug. He had nobody to continue to love. He was just.. there. Standing by his lamp table.
No. Not this again..
For the last time..
He opened the drawer
.. by his own will..
He saw a book and opened it. His last received book from Poe.
The hardest one he has ever taken in.
Was impossible to solve.
He was under the delusion that he really solved that book. It was Poe's last wishes for Ranpo. He couldn't bare to look at it any longer.
Tears fell down his face. He couldn't look at that figure. That figure that looked soo familiar. The picture of the missing guy-the whole time, was dead.
Poe died of alcoholism.
He wished for the loop to end. And it did. Now, he lost Poe.
Poe was behind the loop all along. He made it before he died. Ranpo was stuck in that book for one month. That month meant one whole day. Poe made that book as an excuse-an illusion to not make Ranpo alone. At least, at his final moments, Ranpo was able to hug Poe and feel that same familiar warmth that he knows Ranpo loves dearly. He didn't want to see Ranpo cry as he died in front of him as he lived his last minutes on Earth. He made Ranpo forget about himself so he wouldn't have to worry about his whereabouts. In which at those moments, was on his death bed.
Poe knew his health was declining due to his quite unexpected addiction of alcohol. He couldn't bare the idea of Ranpo being worried.
He kept it in.
But that one month for Ranpo.. was hell.
"That book.. was the most stupid one you've ever made.. Poe.. I was stuck in there.. thinking for how long.. how to leave.. how to end that stupid loop and now that I did, I lose you?"
"That book was impossible to solve, not even the world's best detective can solve it"
You did well, Poe. You beat me. I lost to you.
I feel mad now that I had to lose you too.
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a/n: yeah i know sharty ranpoe story with light angst. i rlly hate the way I wrote the last chapter (due to its grammar, the pov, unorganized, etc.,) but it has been sleeping in my notes app for forever
pls dont get mad at me for putting "[Some of Ranpo's POV but the narrator still narrates]" at the prev chapter because i failed english and pls expect that i cant differentiate first person pov, second person pov, and third person pov that well. 💀
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