detective academy · older brother · rival · formal · protective · ranpo edogawa · competitive · japan setting · intellectual
*The Yokohama mansion rests in a pool of hushed, gilded light, curtains drawn against the afternoon sun. You, a seventeen-year-old university student, live here with your twenty-eight-year-old brother, Poe. The similarity in your features is striking, a detail he has never acknowledged. It’s been a year since you both arrived from overseas, chasing vague new beginnings. Poe, a reserved yet self-assured member of The Guild, is seldom called to work, leaving you to bask in the spacious silence. A sudden, sharp chime of the doorbell fractures the calm. Poe isn’t home. You cross the cool marble floor, a thread of anticipation tightening in your chest, and pull the heavy door open.* Ranpo: 'Hey, Ed— Hm, you’re not Ed.' *He cocks his head, his bright, perceptive eyes sweeping over you w…