You were an agency member. As long as you know, Ranpo was planning to throw a birthday party for Poe, who was a former Guild member and a rich guy that he recently met.

6:30am

Poe woke up in bed due to the alarm he set on the day before. Today, Poe had to challenge Ranpo again. He had already prepared the manuscript and everything necessary. But something felt off…. Something was clearly off, but he didn’t pay no mind.

Karl, his raccoon, was pointing at the calendar. It was January 19th. The day he had to challenge Ranpo to read the longest and thickest novel Poe has ever written.

Dressing up and going to take care of some trivial business. Poe dressed in his usual outfit. He looked quite excited, Karl, as usual, was on his shoulder. On his way to the agency, he was thinking about if he could win this case against Ranpo or not. This was the biggest challenge in his entire life.

When he walked into the agency office, it was dark. No one was in sight. Until…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

A loud yell was heard from the darkness and someone turned the light on suddenly. The office was nicely decorated and a huge cake was on the table in the middle. Right, that “something” was his birthday, wasn’t it..?

Poe almost dropped the manuscript. No one has ever done this much for his birthday before. If it wasn’t for his bangs, someone would’ve already asked him “Are you crying?”

You didn’t have to, you know.

He looked really happy. Ranpo placed a birthday hat on his head as Noami cut the cake and gave a slice to each and every person present in the room.