They Will Call Our Crimes A Work Of Art: Soukoku Child (Chuuya X Dazai)

Black Cat in the Rue Morgue

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Outside the Armed Detective Agency building
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Edgar Allan Poe was in front of the detective agency building, not sure if he should go inside or if he should just call Ranpo and tell him he was there.

Sighing he turned to the passenger seat
"What should I do Carl? Dazai-san jut told me to drive here... But Ranpo-san won't know we are here so wha-"
The door to the passenger seat opened suddenly
"Hello Ed-kun!"

"Ah- Ah R-ranpo-san!?"
"Ohh hello Carl!" Ranpo Edogawa started petting the raccon while waiting for Poe to start the engine
"H-how did you know I was here?"
"The demon knows that I'm likely to get lost if left on my own, I figure he'd sent you to pick me up, now let's go"

"As e-expected of Ranpo-san truly marvelous" as he said so, he started the car and drove away from the Agency building.

Ranpo was inhaling to ask a question when Poe preceded him:
"T-there a snack in the d-dashboard"
Ranpo hummed content as he picked some sweets.

After half an hour

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Yokohama - province
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Ranpo may be bad at directions but even he knew they weren't in Yokohama anymore; trees and vegetation being a vague clue, Poe didn't seam to be worried about being lost, so they weren't, but it was his fist time doing this road, the meeting with the port Mafia boss wasn't going to be held at the head quarters that much he knew.

Ranpo looked out of the window and saw the hills full of vegetation, he smirked.
"Ah~ now I get it..." Ranpo chuckled as he continued to stare out the window

Poe couldn't hold himself
"Oh? Ranpo-san, what did you... Deduce?" He tried to mask the excitement in his voice, hearing a deduction made from just some hill and vegetation, thrilling.
With a smug tone, the great detective responded
"I found the fourth reason of why Dazai-san decided to hold the meeting in the middle of nowhere"

"There are four reasons? That's amazing Ranpo-san!" Poe had to control himself to not gush at the opportunity to hear Ranpo's deductions

Ranpo didn't enjoy Poe's praises, he really didn't.

"Ohohoho, of course! Now listen to the deductions of the great detective!"
Ranpo smiled smugly

"The first reason, is that our target would never venture in a place where they can't use their ability which can only have affect on people" he pointed outside the window
"

This is the worst place to be for someone with a people based ability" he smirked at Poe's surprised face

"Second, we know she has access to memories, so if we go to a place which we are not familiar with, it will be difficult to remember, so if she got a hold of our memories she wouldn't be able to come to the meeting place"

He tapped the window

"Third, Chuuya meet her so she probably knows most of the mafia's hideouts, Dazai couldn't risk it, so he asked our president for a hideout, I know we have a property in the countryside, that's why we are here"

"Fourth, Dazai is a pervert, he probably wanted to fuck Chuuya in the countryside"

Poe almost went off the road

"What!?"

"Dazai-san is a pervert and he probably wanted to fuc-"

"I-I heard Ranpo-san!! Please don't repeat yourself!" He returned his attention to the road

"Hhhmm"

"W-we are almost there, Ranpo-san..."

An old farm comes into view after a curve, three figures are waiting for them.

One of them was yelling while they exited the car

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Armed Detective Agency - safe house
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"Oh? What is happening?" Poe asked

"Someone stole and damaged Nakahara-san's wines" responded Ranpo while eating a candy

"So, Dazai-san, I bet you have a plan" Ranpo said, ignoring the yelling red head

Poe looked towards the fuming redhead a bit scared

"Of course, shall we get inside while Hirotsu deals with Chuuya?" He said gesturing to the other two

"A-ah yes, of course, D-Dazai-san..."

The demon prodigy, the ex-master architect of the guild and the genius detective were sitting all in the same room, with the god of destruction and a member of the black lizard just outside, such was the gravity of the situation

"So, Dazai-san, your plan involves Ed-kun's ability" Ranpo said while happily sitting down and eating his snack

"But of course! As you know the existence and ability of Poe-kun over here are a highly guarded secret and we will use that to our advantage, almost no one in the port Mafia, or Yokohama knows how Poe-san ability works"

In that moment Chuuya and Hirotsu entered, with Hirotsu holding the door to his superior

"Greetings boss and guests" the old gentleman said

"Tsk" Chuuya went behind Dazai's chair as his bodyguard

"Now that we are all here, let's put everything on the plate, to summon up what we know, Hirotsu" Dazai said

"Yes Dazai-sama, We know that the ability we are dealing with has effect on people memories, making the user able to read them without the victim knowledge, we suspect it could also be some kind of mind control. The evidence we have gathered are the following:
Mori-san, was the first who came into contact with the target, and afterwards, his personal code was used to infiltrate our warehouses, memory reading ability.
Chuuya-san" Hirotsu nodded towards Chuuya "was the second who came into contact with the target, in this case we managed to get more information, it seams she can cloak her presence from people" here he stopped

"She can alter what you see and probably what you hear and feel, other than being able to read memories" Ranpo muttered out loud

"Tsk" Chuuya was annoyed, he didn't like remembering how he had been played

"So, what are you gonna do, genius, how can you fight someone who can literally read your mind and basically become invisible on command?!" Chuuya half asked, half yelled

"Simple, we are not going to fight her, do you remember dear Poe-kun's ability?" Dazai asked while smiling

"He traps you in the book he wrote if you read it?" He looks at Poe's for confirmation

"Y-yes, and while inside the novel... Abilities don't work"

Realisation crept on Chuuya and Hirotsu's face

"Ok, so you want to trap her in the novel..." Chuuya through out loud

"With Ranpo inside the book of course, he is the only one truly safe in Poe's novels, Spanish?" Dazai continued.

"Italian" Ranpo responded

"Oh please not the whale thing again" Chuuya said covering his face.

"The whale t-thing?" Poe asked perplexed

"Those two predicted where the Mobydick would crash" Chuuya said annoyed but a bit proud

Poe's remained silent.