Detective's trouble| R. Edogawa

Chapter. 4 : bitter past event

It was an appreciation

She just watched, though she wasn't too afar from them; she felt like she's getting away from them. It wasn't like she was being jealous, but the thought that it was her who deserved the appreciation never left her mind. Her grasps around the papers, aka her evidences tightened as the edges of papers clutched. She pressed the papers to her chest. She didn't want to talk, she didn't even want her eyes to be met with someone, especially the two in front of her, 'they are disgusting' she thought

She stood there, not noticing the presented detective walked passed her, giving her a mocking, ugly grin "later, loser" her (e/c) orbs shut widen as she sharply turned around, but her rival was gone out the office. She bit her down lip

What she could have said as respond?

"(L/n)-San, as your teacher and officer, i give you an advice" she was fighting the urge not to curse the man right on his face. Whatever the hell was that advice, she didn't want to hear. Shadow covering her upper face along with her bangs. Her sight seemed to get dark, blurry then normal and then repeat, she found herself in her most pathetic situation.

"Thank you, officer-San, but i'm not looking forward to hear that" she stepped forward the door she opened earlier and rushed in the door excitedly. How the tables turned, she thought. She wanted to leave and bear with her losing on her own. She was inches apart from the door, only to be stopped by the officer.

"You want to hear it or not, it's your choice, but i give my advice anyway"

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Walking down the hallway of the academy, she couldn't help but feel a bit sick after the event she had. Some would say that wasn't a big deal, but when someone tries their best for something and don't receive it, it is very big deal. That was why she was hurt "what an easy case was that right?" And that was all she needed to be explored.

But she held in

"Oh sorry i forgot you couldn't solve it" he mocked at her, she bit her down lip 'I did solve it, you son of--' she didn't know how her thoughts didn't appear on her tongue "I hope to see you solve your case one day as detective, that's if you can be a detective" at this point, her nails were ripping her palms apart, teeth hurting her lip, but she couldn't find any words to slap him with, he was the one who got the appreciation.

"I doubt if you can even be a police" with that, he left. (Y/n) stood still, wanting nothing but to get out and never come back to that academy, and that's when she remembered that advice.

"Mystery gets easy once it's solved, never forget that"

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"I didn't" she's sat behind her desk in the office, finding herself going back to that event again. Leaving her lunch in front of herself. She remembers that sentence, she thinks about it. Every case she witnessed being solved, she recalled that sentence, and slowly realized what that officer said was true, every cases, mystery gets easy once they are solved as she noticed many times.

However, she knew what that officer meant by that sentence, telling that advice right after he insisted someone else has already solved the case. She couldn't help but catch this meaning behind that sentence :

"The case is solved and now that it became easy, you used the opportunity to collect evidences and say you solved the case"

"I hope to see you solve your first case as a detective, that's as if you become a detective, i doubt if you can even become a police"

She gritted her teeth, those were the words she hated, they never left her mind, trying to pull her down each time she succeeded in something, she remembers that time she even thought of quitting becoming a detective or police and start a new job.

But now here she was, already solved her first case successfully, she smirked, wanted that officer and her former rival to be there and watch her solving her first case faster than a police officer, then see them dumbfounded. She imagined their faces, that made her laugh.

She then leant on her chair and mumbled "I wonder what Ranpo is doing"

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A/n : i'm sorry for late update and short chapter ; thank you so much for being patient and 1k+ reads tho this book isn't even ten chapters. I appreciate it ^^ so this chapter revealed a part of (Y/n)'s past and the reason why she was so excited about solving her first case. Also, this book may or may not contain spoilers of "the founding of ADA" which is the third novel. hope you enjoyed this chapter ^^