After inviting the young man named Edward to stay home for dinner, the gloomy man turned to look at the driver behind him: "If it's convenient, can you come too?"
The driver smiled regretfully and said: "Sorry, I still have my own job, so I can't leave... By the way, Mr. Takar."
The gloomy man named Taka turned around and looked at the driver suspiciously.
"The lieutenant colonel asked me to tell you: 'The day of appraisal is coming soon, and I look forward to your results.'" the driver said.
After a pause or two, Taka nodded politely: "Yes, I understand."
[In the world of Armored Warriors, Kaio Karen narrows his eyes.
He could see that this person named Taka was by no means a great and upright person, but was the same kind of unscrupulous person like him.】
[JoJo World, Dio was drinking the blood created by Giorno's Golden Experience, while he found books on alchemy on the bookshelf with great interest, and started reading them in a dark room. 】
When the scene turned, Edward, the armored man, and Taka and his daughter were already seated.
"The so-called appraisal is the appraisal of the state alchemist?" The steak on Edward's knife and fork dripped with delicious juices.
Taka nodded and replied with narrowed eyes: "Once a year, you must report your research results for evaluation by the agency. If you fail to pass or there is no evaluation, your qualification as a national alchemist will be revoked."
"Last year's evaluation was not very good," Taka sighed: "So we must work hard this year."
The little girl sitting next to Taka said lively: "Dad, come on!"
Although he couldn't make any expressions, the armored man looked at the lively little girl and his tone was full of encouragement: "Yes, keep working hard! This year's topic is still a synthetic beast that understands human language, right?"
[Detective Conan World, Conan's eyes suddenly became alert.
Years of detective experience made him intuitively believe that this Taka was the murderer of the case that the driver had mentioned!
However, at present, only a motive has been explored, and there is no substantial evidence.
Not long ago, Conan was still complaining that after gaining mystical powers, case judgment had become too simple, as if there was nothing that mysticism couldn't solve.
But later, Conan also looked away and discovered the existence of mysterious side forces, making various cases more elusive.
Although I feel sorry for the victim, Conan really likes the feeling that this kind of case becomes more complicated and confusing. He only wishes that he could not travel to the mysterious side of the world and challenge the limits in such a world!]
"If we really make a synthetic beast that understands human language," Edward bared his teeth and said with a smile, "you must show it to me first!"
Taka showed an inexplicable smile: "Okay, it's a deal! I will definitely show it to you!"
Although the dinner was sumptuous, it was not a tedious feast after all. Edward and the others quickly packed up and returned to their rooms.
In front of the desk, Edward was writing listlessly on the letter paper with his left hand. There were already several paper balls in front of him, and it was obvious that he had not organized what he wanted to write at this time.
"Are you writing a letter?" Taka's little daughter suddenly appeared without realizing it. She startled Edward: "Who are you writing to?"
Lying on the desk, holding the contents of the letter under his body, Edward blushed: "You can write to anyone!"
"Brother, you wrote this to Wen Li, right?" said the tall armored man sitting on the bed.
His appearance is completely out of touch with normal life, which makes people speculate about his relationship with Edward.
"It's just writing a report!" The name Wenli seemed to offend Edward, who panicked and said, "I have become a national alchemist, I just want to see how hard she can talk!"
Seeing the proud look on Edward's face after he said that he had become the national alchemist, the little girl asked curiously: "Is Wenli her brother's lover?"
[In the video, Edward transformed into a humanoid steam engine on the spot. Edward himself in the Fullmetal Alchemist world, and Winry Rockbell, who happened to be standing by and had just trained Edward and destroyed the machine, also blushed. After looking at each other,
He snorted coldly and turned his head away, not looking at the other person.
The armored man, Alphonse Elric, looked at the pair of childhood sweethearts and laughed like a good show.]
Looking at the shy Edward who was revealed, the little girl held up her picture book and said, "I also want to write a letter to my mother!"
The little girl lay on the floor nonchalantly, opened the pencil box, picked her favorite color and started drawing on the blank picture book.
Looking at the little girl who sketched a smiling face in the drawing book, the armored man asked: "Hey, is mom far away?"
"Yeah!" The little girl's smile hung directly on her face: "My mother said that my father was too useless, so she couldn't bear it and returned to her parents' house!"
Unaware that her father had been embarrassed in all the worlds, the little girl was disappointed and said: "I don't know if my mother will reply to the letter..."
When the armored man heard this, the heavy armor made a clanging sound of metal.
It was obviously a burly man in heavy armor, but he gently touched the little girl's head.
As the night got darker and darker, the little girl had already used various colored brushes to roughly draw a portrait of a family of three and a big dog in her drawing book.
Taka came to the room of Edward and the armored man with narrowed eyes, and picked up his daughter who was already asleep.
"Here you go." The armored man handed the little girl's drawing book to Taka in a gentle voice.
Taka finished the drawing book and looked at the children's drawing of a family of three and the big dog. His eyes did not waver, and he explained to the armored man and Edward: "My wife couldn't stand the poor life, so she left home...
Not long before I became a state alchemist... If my qualification is revoked this time, I'm afraid I will be back to the situation back then..."
"In order to live now, I have to pass this qualification test no matter what..." Taka said helplessly.
The little girl who originally thought she had fallen asleep leaned on Taka's shoulder and said: "Dad, come on~"
[New Batman World, Bruce Wayne rubbed his temples.
Although I really want to think that this round of counting is the unknown lotus murderer.
But judging from Taka's reaction in the video, he is really suspicious.
What's more, if he was an unrelated person, he wouldn't have appeared in the inventory for so long.
Edward, who passed the alchemist's test at the age of twelve, might be the world's protagonist as a genius.
Although there is no direct evidence, the person who appears next to the protagonist is already the most suspicious person from the perspective of bystanders.
What chilled Bruce Wayne the most was the look in Taka's eyes when he saw his daughter's paintings.
There was no fluctuation in his eyes...as if what he held in his arms was not his daughter, but a consumable experimental object.
Bruce Wayne has limited knowledge of alchemy, but judging from the keywords "synthesis" and "understanding people" in the topics studied by Taka, combined with the rumors of alchemy in history, Bruce Wayne
Wayne speculated whether his daughter might be the experimental subject of this neurotic alchemist.
Even his wife may not have returned to her parents' home... but has become the first victim of his experiment!】
The next day, Edward yawned and passed by the dining room door.
I originally planned to take the big dog out for a walk, but out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a ball of burned paper in the ashtray on the dining table.
Curious as to why there was such a big ball of paper in the ashtray, Edward stepped forward and took it out and unfolded it.
And on this piece of paper, it turned out to be a family portrait drawn by the little girl last night!
Realizing something, Edward hurriedly took the curious-looking big dog to the courtyard, tied it up, and hurried outside.
"It's not such a rough thing!" In a serious and deserted building, Edward anxiously asked the black woman behind the counter in front of the counter: "I want to know about the synthetic beast made by a person named Taka two years ago!
"
Looking at the serious Edward, the black woman sighed helplessly and shouted behind her: "Hey, Siska, did you hear what he asked? Do you know this?"
Holding a large pile of books with difficulty, Siska replied: "There are restrictions on access to Mr. Shaw Taka's papers~"
"Be serious!" Edward took out his pocket watch and learned how to use his identity without any teacher: "I am not an ordinary person! I have passed the national alchemist appraisal!"
Siska shed a drop of sweat: "That's not what I meant... Without Brigadier General Basque Gran's permission, you wouldn't have... ah ah..."
All the books Siska was holding fell apart, and she started to pack them up with a headache.
But Edward had already obtained the information he wanted: "Glen... Brigadier General?"
"Don't you know that he is called the 'Iron-Blooded Alchemist'?" the black woman explained: "He is an authority on the tactical application of alchemy... In this case, the information that requires his permission should be classified as military secrets
Alright?"
In the end, Edward walked out of this huge data room in despair.
As soon as he went out, Edward saw the guard arguing with a strong and fierce man: "No! This first branch is for the exclusive use of state alchemists! People without military permission..."
"But, it is said that you can only figure it out here!" The strong man pushed away the even thin guards in front of him.
Edward silently looked at the man walking up to him, and when he passed by, he grabbed his arm: "I'm sorry, this seems like a rule..."
He tried to discuss things in a calm tone, but the burly man didn't give Edward the child face at all and moved forward before he could finish speaking.
But he didn't know whether it was because the quality of the clothes was too poor or because Edward's hands were too strong. The strong man forced himself forward, but Edward stumbled and pulled off his sleeves.
Edward looked at the lines on the hands of the strong man in surprise. However, the strong man who said he wanted to go in before avoided the sleeves, blocked the lines on his hands, and ran into an alley within a few steps.
.
Not finding any useful information from the place where the information was stored, Edward thought for a while and walked towards another place.
The scene turned, Edward was sitting in front of a man holding a baby, and the man was showing off his daughter arrogantly: "Look, little Alicia, this brother Edward~"
After grabbing her daughter from the man who spoke in a foul tone, the woman, who was obviously a married woman, said angrily: "Husband, listen carefully to what Edward has to say!"
Seeing his daughter being taken away by his wife, the man lost all color. After sighing decadently, he cheered up again and looked at Edward: "What you want to ask is about Taka's synthetic beast?
"
Edward nodded and said, "You are from the Major's investigation department, I think you might know something."
The man looked weird and said, "Wouldn't it be better if you just ask him about this kind of thing?"
"No," Edward still didn't say what made him uneasy about the painting: "Because he seemed to be quite busy during the period before the qualification appraisal, so I didn't have the nerve to disturb him."
"I don't know much," the man said, "It is said that for the first time in history, Taka created a synthetic beast that understood and used human language."
Edward frowned: "Did you really do it?"
Nodding, the man continued: "I heard that the synthetic beast did speak, but what he said was...'I want to die.'"
Edward's heart sank, and he had a very bad suspicion.
Sitting on the sofa, the man said regretfully: "It is said that he died after not eating any food."
"Mr. Tarka...why do you want to make such a thing..." Edward asked puzzled.
The man said indifferently: "Who knows? But at least someone in the military thinks this is of great use."
Trying to find a glimmer of possibility, Edward asked: "Where is Mr. Tarka's wife?"
"It is said that he died before he came to us." Seeing Edward's shocked look, the man wondered, "Isn't it right?"