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[Ranpo has a package! Sadly, it's not candy. It's a book instead: The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro, a collection of short stories by one Edogawa Ranpo.
Atsushi also has tucked in a note:]
Edogawa,
I thought you might want to read some of the detective fiction the Ranpo I know wrote. Let me know what you think of it, whenever you get around to it?
-Atsushi
Atsushi also has tucked in a note:]
Edogawa,
I thought you might want to read some of the detective fiction the Ranpo I know wrote. Let me know what you think of it, whenever you get around to it?
-Atsushi
[Well, now! This is a nice surprise! Free books! Ranpo's certainly not going to turn it down, even if detective fiction could be a little boring for him -- he had a tendency to solve the case before the story was over, more or less spoiling himself and getting frustrated that no one else saw it sooner.]
[But he's curious to see how his other self lives up to their shared name, and so he wastes no time getting into it!]
[Which means it's only a few hours later that he gets Atsushi's contact info from Yosano and sends him a message.]
Hey there, Atsushi-san!
Thanks for the book! It was a very interesting read.
Quick question, though!
Why did you give me a biography about my own father?
Or maybe "how" is the better question to be asking here...
[DID ANOTHER VERSION OF HIMSELF INVENT HIS OWN DAD that's a level of weird he should have been given a bit of a warning for.]
[But he's curious to see how his other self lives up to their shared name, and so he wastes no time getting into it!]
[Which means it's only a few hours later that he gets Atsushi's contact info from Yosano and sends him a message.]
Hey there, Atsushi-san!
Thanks for the book! It was a very interesting read.
Quick question, though!
Why did you give me a biography about my own father?
Or maybe "how" is the better question to be asking here...
[DID ANOTHER VERSION OF HIMSELF INVENT HIS OWN DAD that's a level of weird he should have been given a bit of a warning for.]
[That's... a response, certainly. Not one Atsushi expected - he'd have predicted 'the mysteries were no match for me' first, or maybe something about the author thing being weird still, but...]
In my world, at least, this is fiction. Ranpo is one of the most celebrated writers of detective fiction, and Kogoro Akechi is his most famous character.
I didn't know this would remind you of any real person.
In my world, at least, this is fiction. Ranpo is one of the most celebrated writers of detective fiction, and Kogoro Akechi is his most famous character.
I didn't know this would remind you of any real person.
It goes a little further than just reminding me.
Kogoro was my father's name. He was a police officer prided as being one of their greatest detectives. He still took consultations for cases even after he retired.
I may not know everything there is to know about him, but I know a few of these cases are similar to or identical to the ones that made him famous when he was still a rookie.
Kogoro was my father's name. He was a police officer prided as being one of their greatest detectives. He still took consultations for cases even after he retired.
I may not know everything there is to know about him, but I know a few of these cases are similar to or identical to the ones that made him famous when he was still a rookie.
How do you think I feel about this? Another version of me invented my own father!
[HE'S HIS OWN DAD NOW]
[HE'S HIS OWN DAD NOW]
But you don't have to apologize.
It was nice getting to hear all those stories again.
I already knew how most of them went. But it's been a long time since I've seen them written as anything other than a police report.
It was nice getting to hear all those stories again.
I already knew how most of them went. But it's been a long time since I've seen them written as anything other than a police report.
If you find any other books about him, you should send them my way.
It's weird, but also kind of fun to think there's entire collections of stories about my father somewhere.
[And then his brain can explode when the similarities just keep stacking up.]
It's weird, but also kind of fun to think there's entire collections of stories about my father somewhere.
[And then his brain can explode when the similarities just keep stacking up.]
I take it there's some complicated system for getting things from our own world like that here, then?
[Typical regain mechanics]
[But that also means Atsushi went out of his way to get this for Ranpo, and honestly, he's a little touched. Would be more touched without the creepiness factor of the whole invented-his-own-dad thing, but what can ya do.]
[Typical regain mechanics]
[But that also means Atsushi went out of his way to get this for Ranpo, and honestly, he's a little touched. Would be more touched without the creepiness factor of the whole invented-his-own-dad thing, but what can ya do.]
Huh, now that's something.
A shame they can't make it work in the opposite direction, huh? Then they might be able to just poof us back home.
A shame they can't make it work in the opposite direction, huh? Then they might be able to just poof us back home.
Then they just have to make it work on a bigger scale first!
Like seeing if they can bring a car over here.
And then maybe make sure living things can survive the trip.
[THAT PART SEEMS IMPORTANT]
Like seeing if they can bring a car over here.
And then maybe make sure living things can survive the trip.
[THAT PART SEEMS IMPORTANT]
I think you may have skipped over the whole "not a living thing" when you introduced yourself.
[Bruh]
And you called this situation weird as hell?
Even for our world, that would be pretty high on the weird-scale.
And you called this situation weird as hell?
Even for our world, that would be pretty high on the weird-scale.
No, but ghosts summoned to fight book monsters sounds like the plot of a really cheesy manga.
Or one of those gacha mobile games that turns otaku into gambling addicts.
[Fourth wall what's that]
Or one of those gacha mobile games that turns otaku into gambling addicts.
[Fourth wall what's that]
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