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1. Hunting Dogs Arc:
Fourteen years ago, near the end of the Great War, the 11-year-old Yosano Akiko served as a military hospital scholar alongside Mori Ougai, erstwhile a military physician for the National Defense Force, and utilized her ability to heal soldiersIn the past. After the "Tripatite Tactic" plan failed, Yosano was being kept under arrest in the ship’s bottom which has lined with explosives in oder to sink the base. After the War, she was kept isolated in a facitity.
Didn't give up, Mori found the 14-year-old Yosano and got her out. Ranpo and Yosano first met, when the Detective Agency had only one member - Ranpo himself. Fukuzawa and Mori were fighting with each other, because of how Ougai treated Akiko and Edogawa was spending his time with Yosano escaping with her. Akiko was in a really deep depression back then.
She thought it was her fault, her ability's fault that someone important to her died. She didn't want to escape. She thought her ability was horrible and she didn't want to continue living with it. She told Ranpo that she can't go on living like this. Edogawa after that, with his usual cheerful attitude, told her it's stupid and she should just stop using that ability if she hates it so much.
Ranpo told her his ability is the world’s greatest ability, so at the ADA she wouldn’t be called upon. He proof it by give her the gold butterfly hairclip which the soldier gave Yosano as a gift. That is the first time after these years Yosano’s numbness face were broken.
"...! This is? How? I never told anyone about that..!"
She asked Ranpo how could he know when she never told anyone about that. He happily said that he could see through everything and she could pose any kind of question.So Yosano asked him what should she do from now on and asked if there's a place where it's okay for her to go on living
"What should I do now...? Precious people died because of me...and I know that's not going to end."
Ranpo said he has already said it. He told Akiko that there's only one place that doesn't require her at all - The Detective Agency.
"Join the Armed Detective Agency. We don't want your ability. We want that kindness of yours"
After heard it, she couldn't hold back the tears and at that moment, she was freed from suffering and despair. He was the first person who told her that it's her feelings that matter, not her ability.
"You didn't want anyone to die right? That's why you're hurting so bad. It's that kindness that makes us wanna invite you"
At the present, while walking beside Tanizaki and Kenji, she remember that conversation with a smile.