Chapter 3 – The Arrival of The Detective
*ding dong~*
The sound of the intercom broke my concentration.
I spent my free time this saturday afternoon by reading a book.
I wanted to read a light novel, but I don’t have the money for that kind of luxury right now. To make up for that, I went to the library near the shopping center to borrow one yesterday after school.
The book that I borrowed from the library was the renowned “Sherlock Holmes” series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Right now, I am fully concentrated in reading this book.
By the way, the ghost who became the de-facto ruler of this room, Ryuugajou Nanana-sama, is currently occupied with a video game. Apparently, she is raiding a castle with her online friends. “Follow me!” she yells, while moving her mouse and pressing the keyboard.
Glancing towards the ghost, I memorized my page number and got up.
I walked towards the front door and looked through the peephole(its actual name is ‘door scope’ though)and was startled by the presence standing on the other side.
“I-i-impossible, there’s no way something like that can happen…”
I saw a girl in a super cute maid outfit.
That cute foreigner with the maid outfit is in front of my room, with her short black hair that makes her look slightly tomboyish, and her tan brown skin that makes her look enchanting…
That girl with the maid outfit is standing in front of my room while looking around with a worried look.
That maid-ou it clad girl(TL note: no, this is not a mistake, he literally says it twice)(ED note: A nightmare for me.) seems embarrassed because she keeps looking down while blushing, occasionally glancing towards the door of this room, with a pleading look, as if she wants somebody to open the door soon.
It seems like that girl with the maid outfit(ED note: AGAIN, HERE IT IS AGAIN.) is now feeling so embarrassed that she’s about to cry!
“…. Juugo, what are you doing? Why are you sticking to the door with that kind of excited breathing?”
I got goosebumps when I heard the sound that came from right behind me. When I turned around, I saw Nanana-chan staring at me with a disgusted look.
“I-I-I’m not doing anything.”
I answered while laughing nervously, then turned around and opened the door.
“Oh thank god, you’re home.”
The girl immediately smiled happily when she saw me. The edges of her eyes seemed damp due to tears.
When I was imagining what it would feel like if this girl called me “my master”, someone stepped between us.
“From your reaction… hmm, I think my guess is correct.”
The person who stepped between us was another cute girl. But sadly, this petite and blonde haired girl has a big problem.
“… smelly!”
“Is that so? Actually I’m mimicking the main character from the detective drama movie i rented yesterday. The hot-headed girl who was the main character in that drama was somebody who can go days without showering, that’s why…”
“This is not the smell of not showering, this smells like trash.”
“Look genius, that’s what you get for sleeping in alleyways.”
The words of that maid girl made the blonde haired girl sniff her uniform. Not long after, she furrowed her eyebrows.
“Hmm, you’re right, I stink. Not only that, my head is starting to feel itchy. That’s why, convicted scavenger Yama Juugo, lend me your bathroom.”
That trash-scented girl suddenly started pointing fingers at me.
“Eh? Scavenger?”
Of course, I can already guess what she meant by that.
The girl seemed pleased by my reaction and grinned widely.
“First of all, I want to shower. The answer can wait.”
After saying all that, she shoved me aside and entered my room.
………………..And started stripping.
“Ho-hold on! Who are you guys?”
I covered my face with a hand and pretended to close my eyes. Even though I can clearly see from inbetween my fingers. The girl who was already done unbuttoning her shirt turned around to face me and smiled widely.
“We’re nobody, really. Just a famous detective and her assistant.”
“D-detective?”
Then the blonde girl that stripped off her skirt on to the floor pointed a finger at her puffed out her chest.
“The Master Detective Ikkyuu Tensai. Everybody calls me that.
When starting my new life alone, I, Yama Juugo, gained more knowledge about girls.
I learned of the softness of a girl’s breasts (even if it belonged to a ghost). Various information about the maid I saw with my own eyes, which I wrote down for my own records.
But being able to meet a real maid for the first time was the best thing ever. The real thing is different from my imagination.
“Ah, I just noticed but, Nanana-chan doesn’t smell like anything.”
I was slapped hard. Really hard. It hurt so much I wondered if my cheek would cave in and become a dent on my face, but my cheek was just was swollen and red and my neck was clearly strange. So it was like that. Speaking of, the smell from this girl must warn us this viciously.
But it let me be smarter in another way. Even though I learned it from this trick.
“Okay. I’ll tell you my name again. I’m the Master Detective Ikkyuu Tensai.”
This previously garbage-smelling girl, was kind of like someone I know. A curl of her golden hair was wrapped with a towel. Since she just finished taking a bath, her light skin looked good and had a healthy complexion and her cheeks were a rosy apple color. Her eyes reflected her strength which made me guess that she was a stubborn person. However, the clothes the Master Detective was wearing was a guy’s shirt she borrowed from me. Why? Because the uniform she was wearing smelled like garbage of course. And it was this tough cookie’s uniform, which currently was stuffed into a trash bag sitting outside the door to the room. As her her underwear, her maid went to buy some when during her bath.
Behind this girl that was drinking coffee flavour milk (Her maid bought a pack along with the underwear) with slurping sounds was the maid who bowed to me.
“…her accompaniment, Hoshino D’arc.”
The name was kind of on the strange side. It made me want see the faces of the parents who came up with this.
“Uh, what do you mean by Master Detective?”
It was a universal wonder. The job of a detective exists, but there’s no such thing as a “master detective”. I looked down at the floor a bit and my eyes came across a book that was a non-deteriorating result as if it was borrowed from the library. The letters on the book were also master detective. So this means that master detective was something she made up herself for sure.
When asked that, the one who fully called herself a master detective who just finished taking a bath just inflated her chest with pride and spoke.
“A master detective is a way of life!”
“Wait, that’s just the motto of the boy-girl duo that was chased by the government. It’s not good to fool me!”
“With respect!”
“Wait, don’t tell me you are able to graduate speaking like that.”
“Um, fine then. Master Detective is a pronoun used by me!”
Hmm! This is like an oyster who didn’t know that they tricked someone to come inside again. Okay sure, whatever then.
“As for uh… Ikkyuu right?”
“When you call me you must use my name or call me by my first and last name, my full name. If you just call my last name by itself it’s like some novice monk or something. My selling point is ‘Master Detective’, not ‘problem maker’.”
So if I call her just by her last name it will turn into 193 (ikkyuusan).
“Okay. So Miss Tensai, what has brought you here?”
“I’ve come to pick you up.”
Her finger pointed to the lone opened black box that was on the empty bookshelf. This was the box that I picked up when it fell from the sky. In that box was the palm sized blue jewel which currently was sparkling in the light.
So it was like that. It looks like this Master Detective was after the ‘Light-Up Lie Detector’ (also known as the ‘Eye of Yuguthos’).
“Understood. Then I shall give it to you, but I have a condition.”
“So you have a condition. Okay then, state it Mr. Snatching Thief.”
I pointed my finger to the person next to the Master Detective who was bent over forward to listen to the condition.
“Agreed. Sale negotiations are complete.”
I firmly grasped the Master Detective’s hands and we shook hands.
This was a quick business negotiation contract that didn’t even tak 10 minutes.
“Why did you decide on another person’s life like this! Don’t decide anything without my approval like this!”
Oh, this D’arc-chan is a kid who uses the male pronoun! Awesome! This kid is awesome! Such very high specs!
While I was admiring, D’arc-chan on the other hand was grabbing on to the Master Detective almost in tears.
“I’m your accompaniment! I have to be with you at your service!”
“What is this. Sacrificing yourself for your master is also a responsibility of an accompaniment.”
Oooh, pushing the maid that had regarded herself in ways I never thought of. She’s a pretty cruel Master Detective. D’arc-chan who’s with a person like that has no way of being happy for sure. I myself right here might have to reach out and help now.
“It’s okay D’arc-chan. Don’t be scared, come be with your older brother now.”
“Whoa, this guy is truly a criminal.”
These sarcastic words came from the Nanana-chan who was sitting in another corner and moving her mouse.
Honestly at that moment, I was jealous of the Master Detective that the maid was latched on and was refusing to let go.
“That’s enough. Go.”
The Master Detective heartlessly shoved the maid towards me. I quickly caught the maid but the force caused both to fall. At that moment my right hand touched something soft… around the area around D’arc-chan’s crotch…I wonder why it felt so familiar.
“H-huh?”
I was able to feel something that wasn’t suppose to feel there. ‘It can’t be.” I thought while I felt and stared at D’arc-chan’s face. And what I saw was a girl with a weak aura that made me want to protect her. This was something that there was no way I misunderstood.
Then I squeezed whatever was in my hand with some force.
“Ah!”
D’arc-chan cried out in a strange voice.
There’s no mistaking it. Over there was something that no way is part of the female body.
Flip! ←(I think it’s suppose to be the onomatopoeia when he flips the skirt)
“What are you doing, Juugo!”
Nanana-chan wasn’t able to be not surprised because at that moment I lifted the maid’s skirt up completely.
And what was there was slightly bulging male underwear.
Hoshino D’arc is male…
“What the hell I’ve been fooled!”
I cried. Tears flowed continuously out from the the depths of my heart.
I lift my head up once I hear the ringing sound from the house bell.
During my free time on this Saturday afternoon, I am extremely focused with reading a book in the room.
Actually, I wanted to read a light novel but since I do not have enough money to purchase those kinds of luxurious things, so I have to read the borrowed books from the library near the shopping area that I normally visit during afterschool.
The book that I borrowed from the library is a famous masterpiece composed by Conan Doyle, known as ‘Sherlock Holmes’, which I am still reading quietly and with high concentration.
On the other hand, Nanana Ryuugajou-san, who’s the owner of this room, is currently in the progress of playing online games.
It seems like she’s heading to attack a castle at some place with a game companion. “Follow me!” she yelled, moved the mouse and then pressed the keyboard swiftly.
I glance at Nanana-chan in that condition, and memorize the book page number that’s still left open and then I stood up.
I move to stand in front of the hallway room and look through the door hole (actually, it is a keyhole). Me myself who’s examining anybody is standing outside has totally lost its bravery.
“No, no way… how could this thing possibly exist…”
In front of the door, there’s an extremely cute-looking maid standing.
A foreign girl with a short black hair, looking like a boy with tanned skin and very attractive, is standing there wearing a maid uniform.
She glimpses around everywhere while standing in front of the door and wearing a maid uniform.
It seems like she’s a bit shy too. She looks down the ground together with her reddened cheeks, and then she looks at room 202 where I often stand at back. It looks like as if she wants it to open as soon as possible, while wearing a maid uniform.
She’s considerably shy and right now she seems about to cry in her maid uniform.
“…Hey, why are you leaning against the door and cry out ‘huhha’ since a while ago, what are you doing?”
I feel the chills throughout my spines. Once I turn back, I found that Nanana-chan is glaring in a way that looks unwelcoming.
“No, there’s nothing sir,”
I giggle before gently opening the door.
“Phew, what a relief, there’s somebody residing then,”
Suddenly when I appear, that girl then smiles cheerfully with tears flowing a bit from the eye socket. Whilst I’m imagining that I would like to hear the word ‘mister’ from her mouth, then there’s somebody came in to interfere in between me and the maid unexpectedly.
“This kind of reaction is not wrong for sure,”
The person who just appeared is a little cute girl once again. But this time it is a little blonde girl who looks a bit complicated.
“…You’re smelly sir,”
“Really? Actually I’m an investigation policewoman from the character of drama that was taken from VDO rental shop a day ago. But because that character seems like she doesn’t wash her hair for several days until it gets stinky, so I have to imitate it…”
“No it’s not that, it actually smells like garbage,”
“You see Tensai, it’s actually because you were rolling around in the alleyway instead,”
The maid points out the reason behind. The little blonde girl then frowns and takes off her school uniform.
“Eww, it’s really smelly too, and also my head is itchy as well, alright may I use the bathroom for me to take a shower please, Juugo Yama, you opportunity-seizing thief,”
That smelly-head girl then suddenly says that out loud.
“What an opportunity-seizing thief?”
Certainly, that was the only thing I could think of.
The little blonde girl paints a big smile on her face as if being satisfied with my attitude.
“First of all, may I take a shower first and then I’ll tell you the story later after that,”
Once I’ve said that, the little girl pushes me out of the way and runs into room 202 and then immediately takes off her clothes.
“Wait a minute, who are you guys?”
I turn my head simultaneously with looking through my finger gaps that are pretending to be covering my eyes. The little blonde girl, who’s taking unbuttoning her school uniform, then laughs out loud mysteriously.
“What, I’m just a boring great detective and assistant,”
“A great detective?”
After that, the little blonde girl who’s taking off her skirts then stretches her chest out at the exact size and points her finger towards herself.
“I’m Detective Tensai Ikkyu, everybody calls me this name,”
2
Once I have begun a new isolated journey of life, I, Juugo Yama, have more new knowledge about young girl specially.
I could feel the tenderness of little girl’s breasts (even it is just a spirit). There are a variety of information that I’ve heard from different media, which I have compiled already.
But the fact that I get to see a real maid in person for the first time is something really unbelievable. The truth really has a difference in power like what I’ve thought before.
And right I can sense the pleasant odor that I can no longer hold from the little girl that just finished having shower.
“Ah, just starting to notice right now is nothing, but there’s no smell at all from Nanana-chan’s body,”
I’ve been hit very hard, really hard. It’s really painful until I’m thinking whether my cheeks will sunken or not. But it turns out my cheeks are just swelling red only. But at the neck area is clearly strange. Oh I see, in case of mentioning about the little girl’s smell in this way, do I have to be warned in a cruel way like this much?
But it helps me to become cleverer for some reason, even if I have to sacrifice with neck-ache like this.
“Alright, I will tell you my name one more time, I am the great detective Tensai Ikkyu.”
The little girl, who was smelly like garbage a while ago, right now is in the condition of a totally different person. Her curly blonde hair with towel being knotted around her body and white skin that has just finished taking shower are visible and attractive. Also, her apple-like red-colored cheeks, eye expression which shows her strength and courage makes it possible to guess that she’s a person who never gives up on anyone else.
But the clothes that the great detective is wearing right now is a men’s shirt that I had given it to. Why is it that? It’s because the school uniform that I had been wearing is smelly as garbage already. In addition, that garbage-like smell uniform right now is being squashed into the disposal bag that’s placed outside the room. On the other hand, about the bra, the little maid went to buy it while the little blonde girl was taking a shower.
Behind the little girl, who’s sucking the coffee-flavored milk (the maid had bought it as a pack with a bra), is making some sucking noises turns out to be the maid who I bow to her very often.
“…The stalker’s name is Dark Hoshino,”
This is quite a unique peculiar name, which makes me feel like I want to see her parents who had made up this name for her. After finish introducing each other, I tried to ask something that I wanted to know the most out loud.
“Hey, what does the great detective refer to?”
It is a general curiosity anyway. The detective career does exist, but the vocabulary ‘the great detective’ doesn’t actually exist. I look down to the ground a bit and then my attention is grabbed by a masterpiece book which is no different to the book I previously borrowed from the library. The main character of this book is also a great detective as well. That means the great detective is an imaginary character for sure.
When I got asked this question, the person who called herself clearly and just took a shower then stood up and answered proudly that,
“The great detective is actually a living thing you know,”
“Wait a minute, that’s the person speech of a couple who are being chased by the officials, to copy this isn’t great you know!”
“With respect!”
“Wait, this doesn’t mean that once we’ve finished saying this and everything will be over alright,”
“Alright, then let’s go with that, the great detective is a pronoun using to call me!”
Okay! It seems this joke that I don’t know who did she copied from, I may have to go with it, but that doesn’t matter.
“By the way, oh… you’re Ikkyu-san right?”
“When you call my name, please either say my first name or my full name. If you just say my surname, it sounds like a young monk somehow, my trademark is ‘the great detective’ not ‘the wisdom’,”
But I could say if we just say her surname it will become 193 (Ikkyusan) somehow.
“I’m coming to get that thing back,”
Her finger is pointing towards the opened black box that’s isolated on the bookshelf that’s empty. That’s the box that I picked up when it fell down from the sky.
In that box contains a blue jewellery stone that’s as large as our palm and during that time it was still sparkling with light.
Oh I see, it seems like this great detective is looking for ‘polygraph’ (also known as ‘a single-eyed Yukutos’).
“I understand now, then I shall find it for you, but I have an exchange requirement,”
“Oh you have an exchange requirement too, alright, go ahead, Mr. Opportunity-seizing thief,”
I point my finger to the person standing next to the great detective who’s also listening to our exchange requirement.
“To exchange with the jewellery stone, please hand me that young maid to me sir,”
The great detective smiles widely to me who’s expressing the need with full of courage.
“Deal, the exchange negotiation is done,”
I shake hands with the great detective tightly.
It is the fastest contract made for business trade negotiation which took no longer than 10 seconds.
“Why are you judging other people’s lives like this! Don’t judge anything related to me based on your decision like this!”
Oh you Dark-chan, you’re a child who calls yourself me in a masculine way am I right! Awesome! You’re such an awesome kid! You really have a high specification!
While I am praising in the one perspective, in another aspect Dark-chan who’s grabbing onto the great detective looks like as if she’s about to cry.
“I’m a follower of Tenzai you know! I have to stay with Tenzai forever!”
“What is this, to sacrifice yourself for your boss is also a duty of the follower you know,”
Oh, to relegate this dear maid who truly respects her boss like this, I don’t even dare to think about it. It’s a great detective who’s seems to be really cruel. The fact that Dark-chan have to stay with that kind of person won’t have any happiness at all for sure. I, who’s standing right here, may have to reach out my hand to rescue her right now.
“It’s okay, Dark-chan, don’t be afraid, come and stay with senpai,”
“Whoa, this person is really cruel too,”
This speech comes out from Nanana-chan who’s moving her mouse in the corner.
At that time, I’m actually jealous of when the great detective got hanged onto her body by the maid without letting go.
“That’s enough, please go away,”
The emotionless great detective pushes the young maid towards me forcefully. I immediately grab the young maid but due to force, it makes us both fall onto the ground. At that time, my right hand has touched something very soft… from the area between abdomen and leg of Dark-chan… why is it a touch that seems very familiar.
“Eh, what?”
I’m touching something that shouldn’t be touched over there. ‘No way’, I thought in my mind while looking into Dark-chan’s face and from what I’ve seen is the aura of naïve young girl telling me to protect her. There’s no misunderstanding in this case for sure.
Hence, I try squeezing something that my hand is grabbing forcefully.
“Argh!” Dark-chan yelled out loud awkwardly.
Nothing wrong definitely, over there is something that shouldn’t come with a female’s body for sure.
Flap!
“What are you doing, Juugo!”
It’s not possible if Nanana-chan isn’t shocked, because right now I’ve completely opened up the young maid’s skirt.
And the thing right there is a men’s underwear that has something a bit inflatable.
Dark Hoshino is a guy…
“For god’s sake, did I get tricked,”
I cry out loud with tears flowing from the bottom of my heart continuously.
“Please give it back, give me back my innocence!”
Anyone is possible, the wrath that there’s nothing that can dealt with like this makes me want to drain my emotions, whoever that will be!
The great detective turns her face back to me who’s in that condition and say out loud that,
“I could say, Dark is not a boy, but he’s actually a child (who was born) from a man instead,”
“I don’t care, how should I know!”
“What, are you homosexual!”
“You also think that too?”
“It’s so alike! It’s like those groups of teenagers that enjoy creating problems as well,”
“Dark, goodo jobbu,”
The great detective lifts up her thumb with a bright smile. It seems like the ending of this story is very satisfactory for the great detective.
“Alright, that’s enough with the jokes, there are still many things that I wanted to ask, Ms. Great Detective,”
“What is it, Mr. Opportunity-seizing Thief?”
Then I, who already stopped crying and calmed myself down, started asking the great detective who’s sipping coffee-flavored milk at the moment.
“How do you know that I’m a bad guy?”
The great detective looks a bit astonished when I’ve asked that question.
“Hold on, I’m sorry but can you please say that again one more time?”
“How do you know that I’m a bad guy…”
Until that point, I could only become stunned, because I don’t know why but the great detective’s tears are dripping continuously.
“Huh, huh (crying), why are you such a person who says something very blissful, it is conversation speech that I was waiting to say for such a long time already,”
And now I understood, this great detective is really annoying. It seems like this great detective has some psychological problems. Therefore, then I better have to chase her away.
“Then please tell me,”
But with some regret, the resolving case sentence is about to start and I’m really curious.
“I’m sorry, but may you please come with me,”
Once the great detective has said that, the artificial maid then brings up the DVD, walks towards the HDD player and later switches it on.
Then the images appear up on the 40-inched monitor instantly.
They are images from some convenience store, they are likely to be images from CCTV.
In the video that is showing, it is a man wearing sweater who doesn’t look friendly. No matter how we look, he doesn’t seem to be a good guy.
“That guy might have been committing a crime, wait, that was me!”
To correct my speech would be it’s a guy who’s in grade 11, aged 16, who creates a motto for them. It cannot be others apart from the word ‘LOVE & PEACE’ definitely.
And now I understood that it’s a video recorded on the night before I entered the convenience store. It can be proven from bottom of the video which indicates the recorded date and time.
“Please look carefully at the suspicious attitude from the guy in this video,”
Once the great detective has said that, then I, who’s in the video, already had stopped at the magazine corner near the glass window.
“Hmm? It seems you guys are staring with full focus towards something,”
Nanana-chan looks towards the TV while her hands are still moving the mouse expertly.
During that time, I could think of what I was doing there in the middle of late night, then my temper rises suddenly.
“Alright, that’s enough with showing the video…”
“Arrest him, Dark,”
The little maid obeys her and comes to lock with up from the back. Hmm! Her strength is much stronger than what I expected. Oh right, this artificial maid is actually a guy! But… rubbing against him is really soft and tender! Also, there are some soft fragrance coming out like milk-flavored candy as well!
I get bullied to be tolerated until it makes me become stunned while standing. I get locked up and the video still resumes.
“Ah, somebody just picked up a magazine and stared at the front cover with full focus,”
Nanana-chan dubs according to what is going in the video which was during when I stared at the magazine until my eyes expanded.
If I was very interested, then why didn’t I bother reading the content inside the book? It was because it was unable to open as there was a plastic covering it.
Yes, because over there was…
“An adult magazine corner that was located at the farthest of magazine corner, in addition, the front cover was an image of the little young maid as well,”
“Don’t you dare, don’t you spread this rumor,”
Once I’ve heard that great detective describing in that manner, then she yells out loud suddenly as if like a woman being threatened violently. But those groups of young girls (spirit, the great detective and artificial maid) still focus on watching television. I have a feeling as if I had been committed crime mentally.
And that great detective widens her eyes before pointing her finger towards me in the monitor.
“There he is, the opportunity-seizing thief who looked like trying to conceal something, but turns out to become passionate into the maid!”
Oh no, my rumor has been spread, keep calm, this is just an environmental evidence only. My real passion hasn’t been revealed yet.
“No, it’s not like that, it was just a coincidence where the boy is a living thing that naturally likes anything like that anyway.
Although, I coincidentally took the sexy magazine cover with the extremely hot maid in my hand, I didn’t have any interest in the maid that much at all!”
I tried to excuse myself at my very best ability.
“But… you were staying still without any movement in that position for three minutes already,”
From what Nanana-chan said, it seems like myself in that video was standing completely still but the numbers on the monitor are still moving.
In other words, myself in the video was staring that sexy magazine cover looking very seriously for over than 5 minutes already which looks awkwardly perverted.
I cannot hold it anymore, there’s nothing I can argue anymore.
But… the tragedy doesn’t end just right here.
“Yes, now’s the time!”
The great detective blurts out loud immediately at the same time as myself in the video stepped back with astonishment and put my hands inside my pocket. The hesitant attitude before putting the magazine back onto the shelf has been shown and then I walked out towards the custard shelf to look like there was nothing happening around the bookshelf at all.
“…Hey, Juugo, what does that even mean?”
Nanana-chan’s penetrating glare puts me into pain.
“Nothing, hold on! It wasn’t like that! Just now! The mobile phone in my pocket was vibrating so I was astonished, that’s all!”
“Dark, may I ask you who’s also a guy, what do you think about the opportunity-seizing thief during that time,”
“Umm… sometimes, maybe… he felt a better, and maybe… even while standing there like that…”
“Hey, artificial maid! I felt something hard was biting my bottom as well! What are you even imagining hesitantly, you perverted! And you’re still breathing very hard too! Moreover, please stop doing that uselessly cute face now! It can make others really misunderstood that you’re a girl!”
“Dark, goodo,”
“It’s ‘good’ damn it! Can you pronounce it more like a native speaker! And it’s not the time to smile delightfully and lifting thumbs up, you great detective! I have enough of it!”
The great detective, who’s staring at me with a big smile and the maid who’s locking me, then responded back and forth. Seeing like this makes my temper starting to rise.
“No matter what, I’m still innocent,”
I declined stubbornly.
“And at that time, your mobile phone didn’t have any incoming stupid messages or whatsoever according to the order of the opportunity-seizing thief at all right,”
“Don’t you dare check other people’s mobile phone based on your willingness alright!”
I immediately reach out my hand to grab my mobile phone back without realizing that it has already been taken by the great detective.
But it’s already too late by that time.
“I see, Juugo is actually a person like this,”
The cold-looking eyes from the spirit can penetrate through me from my head to toes even though we recently seem to become much closer to each other.
“No, it’s not like that, Nanana-chan! That is…”
“I’m not going to talk with you for a while then,”
And together with that last speech, Nanana-chan then turns her face away with saying ‘eww!’ already.
“Don’t ignore each other like this! To ignore is the starting point of bullying you know! Bullying others isn’t good alright!”
I try to plead her desperately but it seems that I’ve been ignored already because Nanana-chan only wants to stare at the computer monitor.
Argh, you’re really cruel, at least let me say something about what I had done alright please.
“Alright, that’s all I wanted to say, so may I leave now, and about the jewellery stone that you’ve stolen, I will be responsible to return to the police, therefore, don’t worry now,”
Once I’ve finished speaking, that great detective then stood up.
“Hey, hold on! How is this an explanation for resolving criminal case! It isn’t resolving the criminal case at all! This is called destroying peace only, isn’t it!”
“What, only this explanation should be enough to understand already, isn’t it?”
“I don’t even understand at all!”
“Umm, but I could say that even if there’s only this brief explanation should be understandable that Juugo is basically very passionate about the maid,”
Nanana-chan answers like that, but it seems that there’s no chance that I would be under their observation at all.
“It was because the criminal who’d stolen the jewellery stone had escaped to the direction of the roof. But after no longer than 2 minutes later, the snatch-and-steal thief appeared out from the convenience store at the same time. The only person who went to the convenience store in the middle of that late night was the snatch-and-steal thief. In addition, in the back alleyway is somewhere that nobody would know. The only people who know would have to be the local inhabitants. To conclude, the person who walked through that alleyway could not be anyone else apart from snatch-and-steal thief for sure. Now shall we let’s see who’s residing there at that time? Who is suitable to enter the convenience store alone in the middle of the night? A guy in a tracksuit and flip flops surveyed the locals around there because in that area mostly consisted of student’s dormitories which would have both opening and closing times. However, from the video it was during late night, indicating that this opportunity-seizing thief wanted to stay in the building without any big gates that have opening and closing times.”
The great detective explains the story very eloquently. But since the content is not flowing continuously enough, it makes it unable to perceive the main idea of the context that much.
“Okay, once you’ve explained in this way, it makes… understand a bit more maybe, but from what you’ve just said is still insufficient, if you don’t explain it in detailed enough then others wouldn’t understand it you know,”
Once I’ve said from my opinion directly, the great detective then seems to look unsatisfied immediately.
“Why don’t you understand! You should’ve understood already until this point isn’t it!”
Then she starts yelling out loud in an irritating way.
“No it’s not that, I told you I don’t understand it!”
“I’m sorry my dear, Tenzai is an extremely clever person, therefore, she’s able to think critically, analyze, distinguish, and comprehend by herself, but she’s still not good enough to explain to others,”
It seems that this lady can understand the genius textbooks that others refer to as individuals who wanted to ensure that others must understood as good as them too. Nevertheless, these are groups of humans that are extremely annoying.
“Alright, but the fact that you know that I was the person who collected it and still found it, is considered to be awesome already,”
“Well, you are such a great person aren’t you, alright, I understood now, you were actually the person who collected it and returned, and then camouflaged to trick me in a very slick fashion, you were absolutely great,”
“Oh, thank you,”
Once I’ve said thank you, the great detective then becomes proud of me and reply to me that “don’t bother thinking about it”.
She’s a person that in no matter what way, we will never be able to understand her.
“By the way, I haven’t asked about your name at all, what is your name, Juugo Yama,”
“Hey, you just said it, didn’t you, it’s Juugo Yama,”
“No it’s not this name, I mean what’s your real name?”
“Hey! My real name is actually Juugo Yama!”
“Oh really, now I understand, I’ll remember it,”
“There’s no need, just forget about it, and don’t come here again for the second time,”
Although I’ve said like that, it seems the other side didn’t even bother to listen.
“And the girl who was eating dinner together with us, what’s her name?”
“What, me? My name is Nanana Ryuugajou, another thing is we’re not in a relationship, I and Juugo are not related at all, we’re just strangers,”
She still ignores me, and uses sharp penetrable words that makes me feel vulnerable.
“How about your real name?”
“Well… it’s Nanana Ryuugajou alright,”
“Oh really, then I shall remember it,”
Why does she have to ask people’s names for the second time? Why does she need to be curious in their fake names?
“Alright that’s enough, I’ve already given you the item, so please quickly leave this place now,”
I walk to pick up the jewellery stone box and hand it to the great detective. And at that moment, the great detective, who received the item from me, then stares at the jewellery stone in the box very still.
“…What are you still doing?”
“I’m looking at the jewellery stone,”
“What, don’t tell me that you’re curious that it’s a fake item again?”
“It’s a shame that I’ve never seen a genuine one, therefore, whether this is fake or not we still don’t know,”
“In that case, do you know what it is actually?”
“I heard that it is an item that was stolen from Ikkaku-san’s mansion. It is a blue jewellery stone that’s as big as our palm. Moreover, it looks like it is a rare-type as well that cannot be seen from anywhere else,”
“Is that all?”
“That’s all, is there anything?”
“No, nothing,”
It seems like the great detective doesn’t acknowledged that stolen jewellery stone is one of the ‘Nanana’s collections’.
After the lengthy investigation has reached its conclusion, the great detective then passes the box to the artificial maid and later stood up.
“Alright, I shall leave now, see you later, Juugo,”
The fact that the great detective said my name bluntly and the maid, it seems like she’s leaving a farewell message as a curse that she’ll bring us to doom again and then she exits the room.
…In the condition of the towel being tied onto the head, leaving only bra, a single T-shirt and student shoes being put on without socks.
Both small towel and a shirt are both mine. It’s equivalent to being stolen but I don’t want to follow her and get them back.
I don’t want to me more screwed than this.
In the next morning, in the main program of Nanae Island, ‘Good Morning Nanae Island’, the news reporter, who’s a younger female student, reads the news saying that,
“The following news, before today’s dawn, the criminal of stealing things from Ikkaku-san’s mansion few days ago has already surrendered to the police. Taken from the police’s investigation, it was an underage girl who tried to express something anonymous by claiming that ‘I am a detective’…”
It seems like she’s unable to communicate with the police about her own detective profile, so it was maybe a misunderstanding that she’s a criminal until she got arrested.
You see, my dear great detective, we shall not see each other for the second time anymore.
3
On the following Monday, there’s coincidentally a new student moving here to study with the same class as mine.
The people standing next to the class tutor are two girls wearing school uniforms of this school…the great detective and the psychosis who likes wearing female dress, but currently they are both wearing school uniforms. Both of them had drove me crazy several days ago if I remember.
I suddenly look in a different direction.
But over there once they notice me, hey, don’t wave at me, you great detective, don’t look at me with a big delightful smile. Even that happens, I neither feel delighted nor shy at all, but I’m just annoyed only. Hey, my classmates’ glares are sharply penetrating already, especially my male classmates.
“Oh, please introduce yourself,”
“I’m Dark Hoshino,”
The boy wearing a girl’s uniform bows very gently. All the male students drive each other crazy. Really idiotic, you guys are getting tricked totally.
After that, they will be printed on them as a bunch of idiots.
“Tensai Ikkyu is a great detective,”
Together with acting awkwardly until the whole class becomes completely stunned and silent for one moment, before everyone is about burst into laughter.
More than half of the classmates laugh maniacally until they have to hold their stomachs. On the other hand, the remaining students are still stunned while looking at the girl calling herself a great detective. The class tutor could only be astonished with the unexpected introduction.
I poke my tongue out without realizing about the situation that is happening in front of me.
That girl who’s yelling out loud seriously and countless numbers of human beings that are bursting into laughter, it is an image that looks terrible no matter how we perceive it. I thought about something terrible without realizing.
After that, I try to stabilize my consciousness.
Among the group of classmates that are still laughing, how many of them will misunderstood that it’s just a funny joke, and I wonder how many of them will think that this girl is not fully normal mentally?
Phew, once I look at Yumeji-san, I notice that she isn’t laughing like others but it turns out she’s looking down feeling hesitant, which I do understand her feelings.
That is a typical response for anyone who gets laughed at for most of the time. That is the correct reaction.
“Ahahahaha,”
Even though she already knew that she’s being laughed at, why does the great detective still laugh out loud like this, louder than anyone else.
With the insane attitude, it makes me like being irritated and annoyed so I start to smolder. But the only thing I could do is to wait until the whole class quietens down after they stop laughing which so far the only I could do is to stay calm without any reactions.
After that I don’t know why, but the great detective comes to sit on the table beside me even if it seems impossible. Am I being cursed or punished by the god or what? Hey, the great detective, what kind of magic are you casting?
“Well, such a coincidence, Juugo,”
“Don’t you come and start the conversation, I don’t want to be seen as a friend with you,”
“Haha, don’t worry at all, I never thought that you were my friend at all,”
What kinds of that sarcastic laugh and the chilled-looking face are that?
Am I the person who started to annoy her? Irritating the great detective?
I thought confusingly together with whispering about something curious.
“Hey, you were just being laughed at, and how come you suddenly just laughed back at them? You were supposed to be fooled weren’t you?”
“Isn’t it great to be laughed at?”
“You cannot, you… to be a great detective, it’s your goal isn’t it?”
If it was me standing here, I would not be able to stay still.
Tenzai Ikkyu has found the answer that’s completely opposite to my opinion with looking very seriously.
“Juugo, what did you just say? Right now I’m a great detective already,”
“Oh yes, I see,”
My body becomes weakened instantly, after finding out that I myself is too hot-tempered instead of her.
The great detective then turns to me and continues talking.
“But, I am not the real great detective, that’s why I got laughed at like that, to make Juugo feel concerned,”
“…What, I’m not even concerned at all,”
For god’s sake, what is this penetrating glare from this detective? Hey, you great detective, don’t you smirk at me like that, I am actually furious and the follower in a female dress, don’t you look jealous at me from distance like that, it feels really uncomfortable.
The great detective laughs at me who’s still feeling annoyed.
“Think about it, Juugo, imagine the friends, who were laughing, were thinking like this, for instance ‘the cute-looking new student, why is she talking distortedly?’”
“Ah um, the word cute-looking new student, apart from the appearance, everything is negative. Moreover, if you think about it, once the words come out from the mouth, it is clearly a praising speech,”
“Huh, I also have the confidence in my own analysis you know,”
There’s nothing like that for sure, then I talk about my opinion.
“Back to the topic, all the classmates think that it is something impossible, beyond the ability, but what if I actually become a great detective with reputation, what would happen? All of them would become astonished and embarrassed in their own faults you know, and if that’s the case, I would be the winner.”
Once I glimpse at the great detective, her eye expressions are sparkling with full of confidence.
Oh I get it now, there seem to be this kind of thought, both positive-thinking and jealousy, but it seems like the great detective has suddenly forgotten that she got laughed by her classmates. She couldn’t remember that she got irritated by others and did not even realize that she had threatened back to them that much.
She, who yelled out loud echoing about her own dreams, in other ways would be seen as an idiotic person until death.
And certainly, I would never think about telling this to the great detective for sure.
To be threatened mentally, let the person who did it be the one who understands would be better.
But to threaten her mentally, who doesn’t even care about anybody like this, I also had done it before and I still felt guilty too.
*End of Chapter 3*
Chapter 3 – The Arrival of The Detective
*ding dong~*
The sound of the intercom broke my concentration.
I spent my free time this saturday afternoon by reading a book.
I wanted to read a light novel, but I don’t have the money for that kind of luxury right now. To make up for that, I went to the library near the shopping center to borrow one yesterday after school.
The book that I borrowed from the library was the renowned “Sherlock Holmes” series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Right now, I am fully concentrated in reading this book.
By the way, the ghost who became the de-facto ruler of this room, Ryuugajou Nanana-sama, is currently occupied with a video game. Apparently, she is raiding a castle with her online friends. “Follow me!” she yells, while moving her mouse and pressing the keyboard.
Glancing towards the ghost, I memorized my page number and got up.
I walked towards the front door and looked through the peephole(its actual name is ‘door scope’ though)and was startled by the presence standing on the other side.
“I-i-impossible, there’s no way something like that can happen…”
I saw a girl in a super cute maid outfit.
That cute foreigner with the maid outfit is in front of my room, with her short black hair that makes her look slightly tomboyish, and her tan brown skin that makes her look enchanting…
That girl with the maid outfit is standing in front of my room while looking around with a worried look.
That maid-ou it clad girl(TL note: no, this is not a mistake, he literally says it twice)(ED note: A nightmare for me.) seems embarrassed because she keeps looking down while blushing, occasionally glancing towards the door of this room, with a pleading look, as if she wants somebody to open the door soon.
It seems like that girl with the maid outfit(ED note: AGAIN, HERE IT IS AGAIN.) is now feeling so embarrassed that she’s about to cry!
“…. Juugo, what are you doing? Why are you sticking to the door with that kind of excited breathing?”
I got goosebumps when I heard the sound that came from right behind me. When I turned around, I saw Nanana-chan staring at me with a disgusted look.
“I-I-I’m not doing anything.”
I answered while laughing nervously, then turned around and opened the door.
“Oh thank god, you’re home.”
The girl immediately smiled happily when she saw me. The edges of her eyes seemed damp due to tears.
When I was imagining what it would feel like if this girl called me “my master”, someone stepped between us.
“From your reaction… hmm, I think my guess is correct.”
The person who stepped between us was another cute girl. But sadly, this petite and blonde haired girl has a big problem.
“… smelly!”
“Is that so? Actually I’m mimicking the main character from the detective drama movie i rented yesterday. The hot-headed girl who was the main character in that drama was somebody who can go days without showering, that’s why…”
“This is not the smell of not showering, this smells like trash.”
“Look genius, that’s what you get for sleeping in alleyways.”
The words of that maid girl made the blonde haired girl sniff her uniform. Not long after, she furrowed her eyebrows.
“Hmm, you’re right, I stink. Not only that, my head is starting to feel itchy. That’s why, convicted scavenger Yama Juugo, lend me your bathroom.”
That trash-scented girl suddenly started pointing fingers at me.
“Eh? Scavenger?”
Of course, I can already guess what she meant by that.
The girl seemed pleased by my reaction and grinned widely.
“First of all, I want to shower. The answer can wait.”
After saying all that, she shoved me aside and entered my room.
………………..And started stripping.
“Ho-hold on! Who are you guys?”
I covered my face with a hand and pretended to close my eyes. Even though I can clearly see from inbetween my fingers. The girl who was already done unbuttoning her shirt turned around to face me and smiled widely.
“We’re nobody, really. Just a famous detective and her assistant.”
“D-detective?”
Then the blonde girl that stripped off her skirt on to the floor pointed a finger at her puffed out her chest.
“The Master Detective Ikkyuu Tensai. Everybody calls me that.
When starting my new life alone, I, Yama Juugo, gained more knowledge about girls.
I learned of the softness of a girl’s breasts (even if it belonged to a ghost). Various information about the maid I saw with my own eyes, which I wrote down for my own records.
But being able to meet a real maid for the first time was the best thing ever. The real thing is different from my imagination.
“Ah, I just noticed but, Nanana-chan doesn’t smell like anything.”
I was slapped hard. Really hard. It hurt so much I wondered if my cheek would cave in and become a dent on my face, but my cheek was just was swollen and red and my neck was clearly strange. So it was like that. Speaking of, the smell from this girl must warn us this viciously.
But it let me be smarter in another way. Even though I learned it from this trick.
“Okay. I’ll tell you my name again. I’m the Master Detective Ikkyuu Tensai.”
This previously garbage-smelling girl, was kind of like someone I know. A curl of her golden hair was wrapped with a towel. Since she just finished taking a bath, her light skin looked good and had a healthy complexion and her cheeks were a rosy apple color. Her eyes reflected her strength which made me guess that she was a stubborn person. However, the clothes the Master Detective was wearing was a guy’s shirt she borrowed from me. Why? Because the uniform she was wearing smelled like garbage of course. And it was this tough cookie’s uniform, which currently was stuffed into a trash bag sitting outside the door to the room. As her her underwear, her maid went to buy some when during her bath.
Behind this girl that was drinking coffee flavour milk (Her maid bought a pack along with the underwear) with slurping sounds was the maid who bowed to me.
“…her accompaniment, Hoshino D’arc.”
The name was kind of on the strange side. It made me want see the faces of the parents who came up with this.
“Uh, what do you mean by Master Detective?”
It was a universal wonder. The job of a detective exists, but there’s no such thing as a “master detective”. I looked down at the floor a bit and my eyes came across a book that was a non-deteriorating result as if it was borrowed from the library. The letters on the book were also master detective. So this means that master detective was something she made up herself for sure.
When asked that, the one who fully called herself a master detective who just finished taking a bath just inflated her chest with pride and spoke.
“A master detective is a way of life!”
“Wait, that’s just the motto of the boy-girl duo that was chased by the government. It’s not good to fool me!”
“With respect!”
“Wait, don’t tell me you are able to graduate speaking like that.”
“Um, fine then. Master Detective is a pronoun used by me!”
Hmm! This is like an oyster who didn’t know that they tricked someone to come inside again. Okay sure, whatever then.
“As for uh… Ikkyuu right?”
“When you call me you must use my name or call me by my first and last name, my full name. If you just call my last name by itself it’s like some novice monk or something. My selling point is ‘Master Detective’, not ‘problem maker’.”
So if I call her just by her last name it will turn into 193 (ikkyuusan).
“Okay. So Miss Tensai, what has brought you here?”
“I’ve come to pick you up.”
Her finger pointed to the lone opened black box that was on the empty bookshelf. This was the box that I picked up when it fell from the sky. In that box was the palm sized blue jewel which currently was sparkling in the light.
So it was like that. It looks like this Master Detective was after the ‘Light-Up Lie Detector’ (also known as the ‘Eye of Yuguthos’).
“Understood. Then I shall give it to you, but I have a condition.”
“So you have a condition. Okay then, state it Mr. Snatching Thief.”
I pointed my finger to the person next to the Master Detective who was bent over forward to listen to the condition.
“Agreed. Sale negotiations are complete.”
I firmly grasped the Master Detective’s hands and we shook hands.
This was a quick business negotiation contract that didn’t even tak 10 minutes.
“Why did you decide on another person’s life like this! Don’t decide anything without my approval like this!”
Oh, this D’arc-chan is a kid who uses the male pronoun! Awesome! This kid is awesome! Such very high specs!
While I was admiring, D’arc-chan on the other hand was grabbing on to the Master Detective almost in tears.
“I’m your accompaniment! I have to be with you at your service!”
“What is this. Sacrificing yourself for your master is also a responsibility of an accompaniment.”
Oooh, pushing the maid that had regarded herself in ways I never thought of. She’s a pretty cruel Master Detective. D’arc-chan who’s with a person like that has no way of being happy for sure. I myself right here might have to reach out and help now.
“It’s okay D’arc-chan. Don’t be scared, come be with your older brother now.”
“Whoa, this guy is truly a criminal.”
These sarcastic words came from the Nanana-chan who was sitting in another corner and moving her mouse.
Honestly at that moment, I was jealous of the Master Detective that the maid was latched on and was refusing to let go.
“That’s enough. Go.”
The Master Detective heartlessly shoved the maid towards me. I quickly caught the maid but the force caused both to fall. At that moment my right hand touched something soft… around the area around D’arc-chan’s crotch…I wonder why it felt so familiar.
“H-huh?”
I was able to feel something that wasn’t suppose to feel there. ‘It can’t be.” I thought while I felt and stared at D’arc-chan’s face. And what I saw was a girl with a weak aura that made me want to protect her. This was something that there was no way I misunderstood.
Then I squeezed whatever was in my hand with some force.
“Ah!”
D’arc-chan cried out in a strange voice.
There’s no mistaking it. Over there was something that no way is part of the female body.
Flip! ←(I think it’s suppose to be the onomatopoeia when he flips the skirt)
“What are you doing, Juugo!”
Nanana-chan wasn’t able to be not surprised because at that moment I lifted the maid’s skirt up completely.
And what was there was slightly bulging male underwear.
Hoshino D’arc is male…
“What the hell I’ve been fooled!”
I cried. Tears flowed continuously out from the the depths of my heart.
I lift my head up once I hear the ringing sound from the house bell.
During my free time on this Saturday afternoon, I am extremely focused with reading a book in the room.
Actually, I wanted to read a light novel but since I do not have enough money to purchase those kinds of luxurious things, so I have to read the borrowed books from the library near the shopping area that I normally visit during afterschool.
The book that I borrowed from the library is a famous masterpiece composed by Conan Doyle, known as ‘Sherlock Holmes’, which I am still reading quietly and with high concentration.
On the other hand, Nanana Ryuugajou-san, who’s the owner of this room, is currently in the progress of playing online games.
It seems like she’s heading to attack a castle at some place with a game companion. “Follow me!” she yelled, moved the mouse and then pressed the keyboard swiftly.
I glance at Nanana-chan in that condition, and memorize the book page number that’s still left open and then I stood up.
I move to stand in front of the hallway room and look through the door hole (actually, it is a keyhole). Me myself who’s examining anybody is standing outside has totally lost its bravery.
“No, no way… how could this thing possibly exist…”
In front of the door, there’s an extremely cute-looking maid standing.
A foreign girl with a short black hair, looking like a boy with tanned skin and very attractive, is standing there wearing a maid uniform.
She glimpses around everywhere while standing in front of the door and wearing a maid uniform.
It seems like she’s a bit shy too. She looks down the ground together with her reddened cheeks, and then she looks at room 202 where I often stand at back. It looks like as if she wants it to open as soon as possible, while wearing a maid uniform.
She’s considerably shy and right now she seems about to cry in her maid uniform.
“…Hey, why are you leaning against the door and cry out ‘huhha’ since a while ago, what are you doing?”
I feel the chills throughout my spines. Once I turn back, I found that Nanana-chan is glaring in a way that looks unwelcoming.
“No, there’s nothing sir,”
I giggle before gently opening the door.
“Phew, what a relief, there’s somebody residing then,”
Suddenly when I appear, that girl then smiles cheerfully with tears flowing a bit from the eye socket. Whilst I’m imagining that I would like to hear the word ‘mister’ from her mouth, then there’s somebody came in to interfere in between me and the maid unexpectedly.
“This kind of reaction is not wrong for sure,”
The person who just appeared is a little cute girl once again. But this time it is a little blonde girl who looks a bit complicated.
“…You’re smelly sir,”
“Really? Actually I’m an investigation policewoman from the character of drama that was taken from VDO rental shop a day ago. But because that character seems like she doesn’t wash her hair for several days until it gets stinky, so I have to imitate it…”
“No it’s not that, it actually smells like garbage,”
“You see Tensai, it’s actually because you were rolling around in the alleyway instead,”
The maid points out the reason behind. The little blonde girl then frowns and takes off her school uniform.
“Eww, it’s really smelly too, and also my head is itchy as well, alright may I use the bathroom for me to take a shower please, Juugo Yama, you opportunity-seizing thief,”
That smelly-head girl then suddenly says that out loud.
“What an opportunity-seizing thief?”
Certainly, that was the only thing I could think of.
The little blonde girl paints a big smile on her face as if being satisfied with my attitude.
“First of all, may I take a shower first and then I’ll tell you the story later after that,”
Once I’ve said that, the little girl pushes me out of the way and runs into room 202 and then immediately takes off her clothes.
“Wait a minute, who are you guys?”
I turn my head simultaneously with looking through my finger gaps that are pretending to be covering my eyes. The little blonde girl, who’s taking unbuttoning her school uniform, then laughs out loud mysteriously.
“What, I’m just a boring great detective and assistant,”
“A great detective?”
After that, the little blonde girl who’s taking off her skirts then stretches her chest out at the exact size and points her finger towards herself.
“I’m Detective Tensai Ikkyu, everybody calls me this name,”
2
Once I have begun a new isolated journey of life, I, Juugo Yama, have more new knowledge about young girl specially.
I could feel the tenderness of little girl’s breasts (even it is just a spirit). There are a variety of information that I’ve heard from different media, which I have compiled already.
But the fact that I get to see a real maid in person for the first time is something really unbelievable. The truth really has a difference in power like what I’ve thought before.
And right I can sense the pleasant odor that I can no longer hold from the little girl that just finished having shower.
“Ah, just starting to notice right now is nothing, but there’s no smell at all from Nanana-chan’s body,”
I’ve been hit very hard, really hard. It’s really painful until I’m thinking whether my cheeks will sunken or not. But it turns out my cheeks are just swelling red only. But at the neck area is clearly strange. Oh I see, in case of mentioning about the little girl’s smell in this way, do I have to be warned in a cruel way like this much?
But it helps me to become cleverer for some reason, even if I have to sacrifice with neck-ache like this.
“Alright, I will tell you my name one more time, I am the great detective Tensai Ikkyu.”
The little girl, who was smelly like garbage a while ago, right now is in the condition of a totally different person. Her curly blonde hair with towel being knotted around her body and white skin that has just finished taking shower are visible and attractive. Also, her apple-like red-colored cheeks, eye expression which shows her strength and courage makes it possible to guess that she’s a person who never gives up on anyone else.
But the clothes that the great detective is wearing right now is a men’s shirt that I had given it to. Why is it that? It’s because the school uniform that I had been wearing is smelly as garbage already. In addition, that garbage-like smell uniform right now is being squashed into the disposal bag that’s placed outside the room. On the other hand, about the bra, the little maid went to buy it while the little blonde girl was taking a shower.
Behind the little girl, who’s sucking the coffee-flavored milk (the maid had bought it as a pack with a bra), is making some sucking noises turns out to be the maid who I bow to her very often.
“…The stalker’s name is Dark Hoshino,”
This is quite a unique peculiar name, which makes me feel like I want to see her parents who had made up this name for her. After finish introducing each other, I tried to ask something that I wanted to know the most out loud.
“Hey, what does the great detective refer to?”
It is a general curiosity anyway. The detective career does exist, but the vocabulary ‘the great detective’ doesn’t actually exist. I look down to the ground a bit and then my attention is grabbed by a masterpiece book which is no different to the book I previously borrowed from the library. The main character of this book is also a great detective as well. That means the great detective is an imaginary character for sure.
When I got asked this question, the person who called herself clearly and just took a shower then stood up and answered proudly that,
“The great detective is actually a living thing you know,”
“Wait a minute, that’s the person speech of a couple who are being chased by the officials, to copy this isn’t great you know!”
“With respect!”
“Wait, this doesn’t mean that once we’ve finished saying this and everything will be over alright,”
“Alright, then let’s go with that, the great detective is a pronoun using to call me!”
Okay! It seems this joke that I don’t know who did she copied from, I may have to go with it, but that doesn’t matter.
“By the way, oh… you’re Ikkyu-san right?”
“When you call my name, please either say my first name or my full name. If you just say my surname, it sounds like a young monk somehow, my trademark is ‘the great detective’ not ‘the wisdom’,”
But I could say if we just say her surname it will become 193 (Ikkyusan) somehow.
“I’m coming to get that thing back,”
Her finger is pointing towards the opened black box that’s isolated on the bookshelf that’s empty. That’s the box that I picked up when it fell down from the sky.
In that box contains a blue jewellery stone that’s as large as our palm and during that time it was still sparkling with light.
Oh I see, it seems like this great detective is looking for ‘polygraph’ (also known as ‘a single-eyed Yukutos’).
“I understand now, then I shall find it for you, but I have an exchange requirement,”
“Oh you have an exchange requirement too, alright, go ahead, Mr. Opportunity-seizing thief,”
I point my finger to the person standing next to the great detective who’s also listening to our exchange requirement.
“To exchange with the jewellery stone, please hand me that young maid to me sir,”
The great detective smiles widely to me who’s expressing the need with full of courage.
“Deal, the exchange negotiation is done,”
I shake hands with the great detective tightly.
It is the fastest contract made for business trade negotiation which took no longer than 10 seconds.
“Why are you judging other people’s lives like this! Don’t judge anything related to me based on your decision like this!”
Oh you Dark-chan, you’re a child who calls yourself me in a masculine way am I right! Awesome! You’re such an awesome kid! You really have a high specification!
While I am praising in the one perspective, in another aspect Dark-chan who’s grabbing onto the great detective looks like as if she’s about to cry.
“I’m a follower of Tenzai you know! I have to stay with Tenzai forever!”
“What is this, to sacrifice yourself for your boss is also a duty of the follower you know,”
Oh, to relegate this dear maid who truly respects her boss like this, I don’t even dare to think about it. It’s a great detective who’s seems to be really cruel. The fact that Dark-chan have to stay with that kind of person won’t have any happiness at all for sure. I, who’s standing right here, may have to reach out my hand to rescue her right now.
“It’s okay, Dark-chan, don’t be afraid, come and stay with senpai,”
“Whoa, this person is really cruel too,”
This speech comes out from Nanana-chan who’s moving her mouse in the corner.
At that time, I’m actually jealous of when the great detective got hanged onto her body by the maid without letting go.
“That’s enough, please go away,”
The emotionless great detective pushes the young maid towards me forcefully. I immediately grab the young maid but due to force, it makes us both fall onto the ground. At that time, my right hand has touched something very soft… from the area between abdomen and leg of Dark-chan… why is it a touch that seems very familiar.
“Eh, what?”
I’m touching something that shouldn’t be touched over there. ‘No way’, I thought in my mind while looking into Dark-chan’s face and from what I’ve seen is the aura of naïve young girl telling me to protect her. There’s no misunderstanding in this case for sure.
Hence, I try squeezing something that my hand is grabbing forcefully.
“Argh!” Dark-chan yelled out loud awkwardly.
Nothing wrong definitely, over there is something that shouldn’t come with a female’s body for sure.
Flap!
“What are you doing, Juugo!”
It’s not possible if Nanana-chan isn’t shocked, because right now I’ve completely opened up the young maid’s skirt.
And the thing right there is a men’s underwear that has something a bit inflatable.
Dark Hoshino is a guy…
“For god’s sake, did I get tricked,”
I cry out loud with tears flowing from the bottom of my heart continuously.
“Please give it back, give me back my innocence!”
Anyone is possible, the wrath that there’s nothing that can dealt with like this makes me want to drain my emotions, whoever that will be!
The great detective turns her face back to me who’s in that condition and say out loud that,
“I could say, Dark is not a boy, but he’s actually a child (who was born) from a man instead,”
“I don’t care, how should I know!”
“What, are you homosexual!”
“You also think that too?”
“It’s so alike! It’s like those groups of teenagers that enjoy creating problems as well,”
“Dark, goodo jobbu,”
The great detective lifts up her thumb with a bright smile. It seems like the ending of this story is very satisfactory for the great detective.
“Alright, that’s enough with the jokes, there are still many things that I wanted to ask, Ms. Great Detective,”
“What is it, Mr. Opportunity-seizing Thief?”
Then I, who already stopped crying and calmed myself down, started asking the great detective who’s sipping coffee-flavored milk at the moment.
“How do you know that I’m a bad guy?”
The great detective looks a bit astonished when I’ve asked that question.
“Hold on, I’m sorry but can you please say that again one more time?”
“How do you know that I’m a bad guy…”
Until that point, I could only become stunned, because I don’t know why but the great detective’s tears are dripping continuously.
“Huh, huh (crying), why are you such a person who says something very blissful, it is conversation speech that I was waiting to say for such a long time already,”
And now I understood, this great detective is really annoying. It seems like this great detective has some psychological problems. Therefore, then I better have to chase her away.
“Then please tell me,”
But with some regret, the resolving case sentence is about to start and I’m really curious.
“I’m sorry, but may you please come with me,”
Once the great detective has said that, the artificial maid then brings up the DVD, walks towards the HDD player and later switches it on.
Then the images appear up on the 40-inched monitor instantly.
They are images from some convenience store, they are likely to be images from CCTV.
In the video that is showing, it is a man wearing sweater who doesn’t look friendly. No matter how we look, he doesn’t seem to be a good guy.
“That guy might have been committing a crime, wait, that was me!”
To correct my speech would be it’s a guy who’s in grade 11, aged 16, who creates a motto for them. It cannot be others apart from the word ‘LOVE & PEACE’ definitely.
And now I understood that it’s a video recorded on the night before I entered the convenience store. It can be proven from bottom of the video which indicates the recorded date and time.
“Please look carefully at the suspicious attitude from the guy in this video,”
Once the great detective has said that, then I, who’s in the video, already had stopped at the magazine corner near the glass window.
“Hmm? It seems you guys are staring with full focus towards something,”
Nanana-chan looks towards the TV while her hands are still moving the mouse expertly.
During that time, I could think of what I was doing there in the middle of late night, then my temper rises suddenly.
“Alright, that’s enough with showing the video…”
“Arrest him, Dark,”
The little maid obeys her and comes to lock with up from the back. Hmm! Her strength is much stronger than what I expected. Oh right, this artificial maid is actually a guy! But… rubbing against him is really soft and tender! Also, there are some soft fragrance coming out like milk-flavored candy as well!
I get bullied to be tolerated until it makes me become stunned while standing. I get locked up and the video still resumes.
“Ah, somebody just picked up a magazine and stared at the front cover with full focus,”
Nanana-chan dubs according to what is going in the video which was during when I stared at the magazine until my eyes expanded.
If I was very interested, then why didn’t I bother reading the content inside the book? It was because it was unable to open as there was a plastic covering it.
Yes, because over there was…
“An adult magazine corner that was located at the farthest of magazine corner, in addition, the front cover was an image of the little young maid as well,”
“Don’t you dare, don’t you spread this rumor,”
Once I’ve heard that great detective describing in that manner, then she yells out loud suddenly as if like a woman being threatened violently. But those groups of young girls (spirit, the great detective and artificial maid) still focus on watching television. I have a feeling as if I had been committed crime mentally.
And that great detective widens her eyes before pointing her finger towards me in the monitor.
“There he is, the opportunity-seizing thief who looked like trying to conceal something, but turns out to become passionate into the maid!”
Oh no, my rumor has been spread, keep calm, this is just an environmental evidence only. My real passion hasn’t been revealed yet.
“No, it’s not like that, it was just a coincidence where the boy is a living thing that naturally likes anything like that anyway.
Although, I coincidentally took the sexy magazine cover with the extremely hot maid in my hand, I didn’t have any interest in the maid that much at all!”
I tried to excuse myself at my very best ability.
“But… you were staying still without any movement in that position for three minutes already,”
From what Nanana-chan said, it seems like myself in that video was standing completely still but the numbers on the monitor are still moving.
In other words, myself in the video was staring that sexy magazine cover looking very seriously for over than 5 minutes already which looks awkwardly perverted.
I cannot hold it anymore, there’s nothing I can argue anymore.
But… the tragedy doesn’t end just right here.
“Yes, now’s the time!”
The great detective blurts out loud immediately at the same time as myself in the video stepped back with astonishment and put my hands inside my pocket. The hesitant attitude before putting the magazine back onto the shelf has been shown and then I walked out towards the custard shelf to look like there was nothing happening around the bookshelf at all.
“…Hey, Juugo, what does that even mean?”
Nanana-chan’s penetrating glare puts me into pain.
“Nothing, hold on! It wasn’t like that! Just now! The mobile phone in my pocket was vibrating so I was astonished, that’s all!”
“Dark, may I ask you who’s also a guy, what do you think about the opportunity-seizing thief during that time,”
“Umm… sometimes, maybe… he felt a better, and maybe… even while standing there like that…”
“Hey, artificial maid! I felt something hard was biting my bottom as well! What are you even imagining hesitantly, you perverted! And you’re still breathing very hard too! Moreover, please stop doing that uselessly cute face now! It can make others really misunderstood that you’re a girl!”
“Dark, goodo,”
“It’s ‘good’ damn it! Can you pronounce it more like a native speaker! And it’s not the time to smile delightfully and lifting thumbs up, you great detective! I have enough of it!”
The great detective, who’s staring at me with a big smile and the maid who’s locking me, then responded back and forth. Seeing like this makes my temper starting to rise.
“No matter what, I’m still innocent,”
I declined stubbornly.
“And at that time, your mobile phone didn’t have any incoming stupid messages or whatsoever according to the order of the opportunity-seizing thief at all right,”
“Don’t you dare check other people’s mobile phone based on your willingness alright!”
I immediately reach out my hand to grab my mobile phone back without realizing that it has already been taken by the great detective.
But it’s already too late by that time.
“I see, Juugo is actually a person like this,”
The cold-looking eyes from the spirit can penetrate through me from my head to toes even though we recently seem to become much closer to each other.
“No, it’s not like that, Nanana-chan! That is…”
“I’m not going to talk with you for a while then,”
And together with that last speech, Nanana-chan then turns her face away with saying ‘eww!’ already.
“Don’t ignore each other like this! To ignore is the starting point of bullying you know! Bullying others isn’t good alright!”
I try to plead her desperately but it seems that I’ve been ignored already because Nanana-chan only wants to stare at the computer monitor.
Argh, you’re really cruel, at least let me say something about what I had done alright please.
“Alright, that’s all I wanted to say, so may I leave now, and about the jewellery stone that you’ve stolen, I will be responsible to return to the police, therefore, don’t worry now,”
Once I’ve finished speaking, that great detective then stood up.
“Hey, hold on! How is this an explanation for resolving criminal case! It isn’t resolving the criminal case at all! This is called destroying peace only, isn’t it!”
“What, only this explanation should be enough to understand already, isn’t it?”
“I don’t even understand at all!”
“Umm, but I could say that even if there’s only this brief explanation should be understandable that Juugo is basically very passionate about the maid,”
Nanana-chan answers like that, but it seems that there’s no chance that I would be under their observation at all.
“It was because the criminal who’d stolen the jewellery stone had escaped to the direction of the roof. But after no longer than 2 minutes later, the snatch-and-steal thief appeared out from the convenience store at the same time. The only person who went to the convenience store in the middle of that late night was the snatch-and-steal thief. In addition, in the back alleyway is somewhere that nobody would know. The only people who know would have to be the local inhabitants. To conclude, the person who walked through that alleyway could not be anyone else apart from snatch-and-steal thief for sure. Now shall we let’s see who’s residing there at that time? Who is suitable to enter the convenience store alone in the middle of the night? A guy in a tracksuit and flip flops surveyed the locals around there because in that area mostly consisted of student’s dormitories which would have both opening and closing times. However, from the video it was during late night, indicating that this opportunity-seizing thief wanted to stay in the building without any big gates that have opening and closing times.”
The great detective explains the story very eloquently. But since the content is not flowing continuously enough, it makes it unable to perceive the main idea of the context that much.
“Okay, once you’ve explained in this way, it makes… understand a bit more maybe, but from what you’ve just said is still insufficient, if you don’t explain it in detailed enough then others wouldn’t understand it you know,”
Once I’ve said from my opinion directly, the great detective then seems to look unsatisfied immediately.
“Why don’t you understand! You should’ve understood already until this point isn’t it!”
Then she starts yelling out loud in an irritating way.
“No it’s not that, I told you I don’t understand it!”
“I’m sorry my dear, Tenzai is an extremely clever person, therefore, she’s able to think critically, analyze, distinguish, and comprehend by herself, but she’s still not good enough to explain to others,”
It seems that this lady can understand the genius textbooks that others refer to as individuals who wanted to ensure that others must understood as good as them too. Nevertheless, these are groups of humans that are extremely annoying.
“Alright, but the fact that you know that I was the person who collected it and still found it, is considered to be awesome already,”
“Well, you are such a great person aren’t you, alright, I understood now, you were actually the person who collected it and returned, and then camouflaged to trick me in a very slick fashion, you were absolutely great,”
“Oh, thank you,”
Once I’ve said thank you, the great detective then becomes proud of me and reply to me that “don’t bother thinking about it”.
She’s a person that in no matter what way, we will never be able to understand her.
“By the way, I haven’t asked about your name at all, what is your name, Juugo Yama,”
“Hey, you just said it, didn’t you, it’s Juugo Yama,”
“No it’s not this name, I mean what’s your real name?”
“Hey! My real name is actually Juugo Yama!”
“Oh really, now I understand, I’ll remember it,”
“There’s no need, just forget about it, and don’t come here again for the second time,”
Although I’ve said like that, it seems the other side didn’t even bother to listen.
“And the girl who was eating dinner together with us, what’s her name?”
“What, me? My name is Nanana Ryuugajou, another thing is we’re not in a relationship, I and Juugo are not related at all, we’re just strangers,”
She still ignores me, and uses sharp penetrable words that makes me feel vulnerable.
“How about your real name?”
“Well… it’s Nanana Ryuugajou alright,”
“Oh really, then I shall remember it,”
Why does she have to ask people’s names for the second time? Why does she need to be curious in their fake names?
“Alright that’s enough, I’ve already given you the item, so please quickly leave this place now,”
I walk to pick up the jewellery stone box and hand it to the great detective. And at that moment, the great detective, who received the item from me, then stares at the jewellery stone in the box very still.
“…What are you still doing?”
“I’m looking at the jewellery stone,”
“What, don’t tell me that you’re curious that it’s a fake item again?”
“It’s a shame that I’ve never seen a genuine one, therefore, whether this is fake or not we still don’t know,”
“In that case, do you know what it is actually?”
“I heard that it is an item that was stolen from Ikkaku-san’s mansion. It is a blue jewellery stone that’s as big as our palm. Moreover, it looks like it is a rare-type as well that cannot be seen from anywhere else,”
“Is that all?”
“That’s all, is there anything?”
“No, nothing,”
It seems like the great detective doesn’t acknowledged that stolen jewellery stone is one of the ‘Nanana’s collections’.
After the lengthy investigation has reached its conclusion, the great detective then passes the box to the artificial maid and later stood up.
“Alright, I shall leave now, see you later, Juugo,”
The fact that the great detective said my name bluntly and the maid, it seems like she’s leaving a farewell message as a curse that she’ll bring us to doom again and then she exits the room.
…In the condition of the towel being tied onto the head, leaving only bra, a single T-shirt and student shoes being put on without socks.
Both small towel and a shirt are both mine. It’s equivalent to being stolen but I don’t want to follow her and get them back.
I don’t want to me more screwed than this.
In the next morning, in the main program of Nanae Island, ‘Good Morning Nanae Island’, the news reporter, who’s a younger female student, reads the news saying that,
“The following news, before today’s dawn, the criminal of stealing things from Ikkaku-san’s mansion few days ago has already surrendered to the police. Taken from the police’s investigation, it was an underage girl who tried to express something anonymous by claiming that ‘I am a detective’…”
It seems like she’s unable to communicate with the police about her own detective profile, so it was maybe a misunderstanding that she’s a criminal until she got arrested.
You see, my dear great detective, we shall not see each other for the second time anymore.
3
On the following Monday, there’s coincidentally a new student moving here to study with the same class as mine.
The people standing next to the class tutor are two girls wearing school uniforms of this school…the great detective and the psychosis who likes wearing female dress, but currently they are both wearing school uniforms. Both of them had drove me crazy several days ago if I remember.
I suddenly look in a different direction.
But over there once they notice me, hey, don’t wave at me, you great detective, don’t look at me with a big delightful smile. Even that happens, I neither feel delighted nor shy at all, but I’m just annoyed only. Hey, my classmates’ glares are sharply penetrating already, especially my male classmates.
“Oh, please introduce yourself,”
“I’m Dark Hoshino,”
The boy wearing a girl’s uniform bows very gently. All the male students drive each other crazy. Really idiotic, you guys are getting tricked totally.
After that, they will be printed on them as a bunch of idiots.
“Tensai Ikkyu is a great detective,”
Together with acting awkwardly until the whole class becomes completely stunned and silent for one moment, before everyone is about burst into laughter.
More than half of the classmates laugh maniacally until they have to hold their stomachs. On the other hand, the remaining students are still stunned while looking at the girl calling herself a great detective. The class tutor could only be astonished with the unexpected introduction.
I poke my tongue out without realizing about the situation that is happening in front of me.
That girl who’s yelling out loud seriously and countless numbers of human beings that are bursting into laughter, it is an image that looks terrible no matter how we perceive it. I thought about something terrible without realizing.
After that, I try to stabilize my consciousness.
Among the group of classmates that are still laughing, how many of them will misunderstood that it’s just a funny joke, and I wonder how many of them will think that this girl is not fully normal mentally?
Phew, once I look at Yumeji-san, I notice that she isn’t laughing like others but it turns out she’s looking down feeling hesitant, which I do understand her feelings.
That is a typical response for anyone who gets laughed at for most of the time. That is the correct reaction.
“Ahahahaha,”
Even though she already knew that she’s being laughed at, why does the great detective still laugh out loud like this, louder than anyone else.
With the insane attitude, it makes me like being irritated and annoyed so I start to smolder. But the only thing I could do is to wait until the whole class quietens down after they stop laughing which so far the only I could do is to stay calm without any reactions.
After that I don’t know why, but the great detective comes to sit on the table beside me even if it seems impossible. Am I being cursed or punished by the god or what? Hey, the great detective, what kind of magic are you casting?
“Well, such a coincidence, Juugo,”
“Don’t you come and start the conversation, I don’t want to be seen as a friend with you,”
“Haha, don’t worry at all, I never thought that you were my friend at all,”
What kinds of that sarcastic laugh and the chilled-looking face are that?
Am I the person who started to annoy her? Irritating the great detective?
I thought confusingly together with whispering about something curious.
“Hey, you were just being laughed at, and how come you suddenly just laughed back at them? You were supposed to be fooled weren’t you?”
“Isn’t it great to be laughed at?”
“You cannot, you… to be a great detective, it’s your goal isn’t it?”
If it was me standing here, I would not be able to stay still.
Tenzai Ikkyu has found the answer that’s completely opposite to my opinion with looking very seriously.
“Juugo, what did you just say? Right now I’m a great detective already,”
“Oh yes, I see,”
My body becomes weakened instantly, after finding out that I myself is too hot-tempered instead of her.
The great detective then turns to me and continues talking.
“But, I am not the real great detective, that’s why I got laughed at like that, to make Juugo feel concerned,”
“…What, I’m not even concerned at all,”
For god’s sake, what is this penetrating glare from this detective? Hey, you great detective, don’t you smirk at me like that, I am actually furious and the follower in a female dress, don’t you look jealous at me from distance like that, it feels really uncomfortable.
The great detective laughs at me who’s still feeling annoyed.
“Think about it, Juugo, imagine the friends, who were laughing, were thinking like this, for instance ‘the cute-looking new student, why is she talking distortedly?’”
“Ah um, the word cute-looking new student, apart from the appearance, everything is negative. Moreover, if you think about it, once the words come out from the mouth, it is clearly a praising speech,”
“Huh, I also have the confidence in my own analysis you know,”
There’s nothing like that for sure, then I talk about my opinion.
“Back to the topic, all the classmates think that it is something impossible, beyond the ability, but what if I actually become a great detective with reputation, what would happen? All of them would become astonished and embarrassed in their own faults you know, and if that’s the case, I would be the winner.”
Once I glimpse at the great detective, her eye expressions are sparkling with full of confidence.
Oh I get it now, there seem to be this kind of thought, both positive-thinking and jealousy, but it seems like the great detective has suddenly forgotten that she got laughed by her classmates. She couldn’t remember that she got irritated by others and did not even realize that she had threatened back to them that much.
She, who yelled out loud echoing about her own dreams, in other ways would be seen as an idiotic person until death.
And certainly, I would never think about telling this to the great detective for sure.
To be threatened mentally, let the person who did it be the one who understands would be better.
But to threaten her mentally, who doesn’t even care about anybody like this, I also had done it before and I still felt guilty too.
*End of Chapter 3*
