#but yeah welcome to the beginning of my fankid series

[somnus-in-law]

Ranpo meets the man everyone thinks of as his father when he is fourteen. He bears that same man's child when he is fifteen.

Yukichi takes him to a back alley clinic. There he is introduced to a doctor named Mori Ougai.

"It's better for all of us if we just get rid of It," the doctor hisses, hand gripped on Yukichi's bicep. Even without Ultra Deduction, Ranpo can tell it will bruise.

"Ranpo-kun will decide what should be done with It."

It. Like it's some disease that Ranpo contracted. With the risks involved and the high probability of death, It might as well be.

"You'll let him decide. Yes, because that clearly turned out so well the first time."

There is a pregnant teenager in my clinic, you fool! He should have never had this choice in the first place!!!, Mori wants to shake and scream at the older man.

The other things he wants to do cannot be written here.

Yukichi stays silent like the coward he is.

"And what will you do when people ask. Someone always asks."

Yukichi's gaze lingers on Ranpo's hunched form, "..I had a short affair, nothing more."

"No one will believe you. The Lone Wolf who can't even have dinner with a client engaged in a casual fling? Please."

"You'll need something better."

His gaze turns from the teen to the doctor, eyes glazed over, pleading with him.

"..no. I won't do it, it's hard enough to run my clinic as I am. I can't let my secret get out."

Not when I'm so close.

"You, boy," Mori addresses Ranpo now, fed up with Yukichi's useless answers.

"You have two options: Get rid of the thing that is growing in your stomach, or carry it and hope neither of you die."

The doctor jabs his thumb at the bodyguard, "He is effectively useless when it comes to human needs. I'm sure his mind is equal parts silent and frantic."

"But I at least know he is not as stupid as I or others like to insinuate, so before you decide what your next step is: tell us what you did."