Video | un: ultra_deduction

[sweetsleuth]

So I get that there's a lot of wacky things going on with everyone this month, but I don't think this one's related.

Has anyone had a kizuna side effect just... not go away?

[From the sepia-toned video feed, Ranpo can be seen lounging on his side on a futon, a cat tail wagging behind him, despite no matching cat ears on top of his head.]

I've had this for a few days now, and it usually doesn't last more than an hour.




And before any of you say anything, it has nothing to do with the party yesterday night! It was like this before that!!

[Maybe he should have waited a few more days until after the orgy, but he's getting worried he'll be a catboy forever??]

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[notgrande]

What a rude thing to happen permanently.

[sweetsleuth]

You didn't seem to be complaining last time?

But now I have to get all my clothes altered for the tail. It kinda hurts keeping it tied under there.

[notgrande]

Of course not, that was fun.

But I'm allergic to cats and if humans start getting things like this permanently, it's going to be pretty miserable.

[sweetsleuth]

[He starts to type "how is an immortal being allergic to cats" and then stops because that's a stupid question.]

Take an antihistamine?
Have those been invented yet?

[notgrande]

I don't know what those are.

I usually have to ask people to not allow cats near me. Or people with cat ears.

[sweetsleuth]

Allergies are caused by your immune system thinking the thing you're allergic to is bad, so it overreacts.
Antihistamines are drugs that stop that effect from happening.
So in my world, for mild allergies, you could just pop a pill and bury your face in a cat's fur and only have to worry about scratches.

Considering they can bring people from other worlds here, I bet they have something similar here if you ask around.

[notgrande]

I'm going to have to ask around. I had fun, but it's just barely worth it.

I mean who wants to chose being having fun or spending the next day or two miserable?

[sweetsleuth]

Eh, that's been about every other experience I've had in this place so far, so it can't be that bad?

[Ranpo that just sounds depressing???]

[notgrande]

You really shouldn't always be miserable.

[sweetsleuth]

I said it was only every other time!

Besides, it's not like this stuff comes with a manual.

[notgrande]

You shouldn't be miserable at all.

You should feel good, though maybe a bit sore, hungover, or both.

So if that's what you want, and once I get these antihistamines.

You know where to find me.

[sweetsleuth]

Wait

You're telling me I might have to wait for a scientific breakthrough before you'll sleep with me again?

That's not fair!

[notgrande]

Well - if they can't do anything --

I'll make an exception.

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[sweetsleuth]

[H e h]

[sweetsleuth]

Well, like I said before, they probably have some version of it here in this world that just uses magic.
You just need to find it!

But gee, if only you knew someone with the supernatural ability to solve any mystery in an instant.
Surely that'd make your life so much easier!






(It's me, I'm that someone. We should really try holding a conversation sober sometime.)

[notgrande]

Oh, so you're going to be my hero, then?

I promise to reward you properly.*


*Reward will not be money.

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[sweetsleuth]

A reward, huh?
Well, then I guess I'd better take this case!
I am a master detective, after all! Solving problems is what I do!

[And then... nothing, for about fifteen minutes.]

[sweetsleuth]

[Until he replies with a photo of a map of Kyoto, and about two dozen spots marked on the map. Should he check any of them, they vary between small clinics, drug stores, and pharmacies.]

Go to any of these places and tell them you have a Bakeneko sensitivity.
If you're allergic to me, and I have cat parts because refugees are part Yokai now, then you'd be allergic to Bakeneko yokai too.
And no culture with cat people is just going to ignore that parts of their population can be actually allergic to each other!
At least, not one as successfully integrated as this one, since you can be allergic to dogs and foxes too!
They'll have something there you can take for it.
Some kind of potion with a spell attached to make your immune system not react when you get too close to a cat.

But you'll have to go to a pharmacy in an actual hospital in Tokyo to get anything similar, since they don't need to mass-produce it in the East.

[How does he know all this?? He's Ranpo, it's a very very educated guess, which will prove to be correct.]

[...the only version offered in Tokyo is probably a shot in the ass, tho.]

[notgrande]

Sounds like it will be worth it. And I will definitely make your effort worthwhile as soon as I get it.

After all, I must test to make sure it works.

[ Yeah - that's why. ]

[sweetsleuth]

Oh, we'll need to test it, all right!

Thoroughly. Just to be sure.

[notgrande]

Well, yes. It's no good if it's not thoroughly tested.