disqualified hero

On the fifth day, there will always be a few days when Juli Hidegoro will be stumbled by chores. It just so happens that he went to Hokkaido recently. According to Dashan’s understanding of him, these days he has absolutely no time or spare time to stare at him, no matter what He said that after being a dog by the other party's side for so many years, he gained the minimum guarantee of trust.

"The snow here is the same as my house." Zhi Qiaozi said suddenly.

"Really." Dashan said.

"Of course." Zhi Qiaozi said, "The winter in Kyushu is much colder than that in Tokyo. I still remember that when I was four years old, it snowed heavily. At that time, my parents were still there and took me to the yard. To build a snowman, the neighbor’s grandpa Fuji brought his grandson, and we lit the fairy sticks.”

"Fairy wand, isn't that what is lit during the summer fireworks festival?"

"It's popular in our place to release them in winter."

"There are customs everywhere."

"Yeah." Zhi Qiaozi said again, "In the summer in Kyushu, I heard that floods are easy to occur, but we don't. Although many ponds have been dug, there are few natural canals and there is not much water. Even if it rains for three consecutive months, the river will not become wide, making it a very suitable place to live.”

"Very good." Dashan said.

After he became an adult, he became taciturn and dull, maybe because Shuli didn't want him to talk too much, or maybe because after getting used to seeing death, he also became numb and didn't even want to talk.

"How is Mr. Dashan's house?" Zhi Qiaozi asked, "Nagoya is a very nice city, right?"

Dashan said: "Maybe that's it." He thought for a while and said, "I have been to Nagoya several times since I was an adult. The scenery is not bad. The cherry blossoms in Odori Park are also very beautiful, and the oden at the entrance of the park is quite delicious."

"However, childhood seems to have nothing to remember." He said flatly, "I was sent to and from various orphanages, kept fleeing and being caught back again and again, no matter how you look at it, it is not worth remembering. experience."

Zhi Qiaozi said: "I have never experienced foster families. After my mother died, my neighbors kept adopting me, but the children in the neighbors hated me." She said lightly, "I ended up living alone at home. , it's pretty quiet."

Dashan Qianxing didn't know what to say. If the past of these children was spread on the table like a comic book, it would be a tragic meeting. From any angle, there would be no happiness at all.

"However." Zhi Qiaozi said again, "Although life is very hard, the lotus flowers in our place are really, very beautiful." She said, "Mom took good care of the flowers, and Dad spent a lot of effort to raise them. Seeds bought with money, if they don’t look good, I’m really sorry for the hard work they put in.”

Dashan: "..." He was silent for a while and said, "Don't you find it annoying, those flowers?"

Zhi Qiaozi thought for a while and said, "In the beginning, yes." She looked at the snow in the courtyard, and through the pure white color, she seemed to see the same pure and pure petals.

"However, if a person spends his whole life in misery, hating and complaining, then the colorless life will become even more miserable." When she said this, there was a strange twinkle in her eyes. "My wish since childhood was to plant more, better and more beautiful lotus ponds in my hometown. Even now I have not given up on this wish." She said, "So, in order to realize my wish, I have to work hard We must live on, we must not disappear in such a place in obscurity."

"If you're a hero, it's impossible to save me, but since Shuli is the deputy director, he must have enemies in the officialdom. Maybe at some point, other policemen will discover his crimes and tie him up with the forces behind him." By uprooting, we can be found by the way, and we can be rescued together."

What she believes is not the truth, goodness and beauty at all, and the law of heroes saving beauty that conforms to universal values, but the rotten social truth, black and fairy tales with bones buried: expecting the struggle of power, expecting the reshuffle of officials, and the death of the loser. Their networks have been uprooted, and victims have been given minimal legal protections in exchange for precious freedoms.

It doesn't matter if it's taken to court, it doesn't matter if it's a tragic experience, it doesn't matter if everyone stares at it with a mixture of sympathy and contempt.

"As long as I can be free." She rested her chin, her movements revealed the cuteness of a little girl, but her eyes were burning with vitality that was not weak at all, like weeds.

Dashan subconsciously thought of the eyes that came into his sight eight years ago, eight years, Zhiqiaozi, no, Xinye Nagae hasn't changed at all.

Dashan asked subconsciously: "Do you think freedom is more important than life?" Everyone who escaped from Shuli died, and everyone who survived knew it.

"No, of course not." Zhi Qiaozi wrinkled her nose cutely, and her answer was reasonable and unexpected, "Living is the most important thing, if you are not alive, even if you are free, it is meaningless, and death is the most important thing." It's a coward's performance, at least there is some hope in life."

She said: "According to my theory, living is the first, freedom is the second, and realizing the ideal is the third." She said, "If these three points can be achieved, my life will be complete. Regretful life."

"I want to live my life as I want, without being manipulated by anyone, like a towering tree growing wantonly." She said, "Since I was a child, there have always been people who want to limit my life. Some people say, 'The child's father is the enemy, she will definitely be the enemy in the future', and when she grows up, it will be 'she is so beautiful, she must be able to charm men'," she squeezed her throat, imitating the tone of people's speech It was so vivid, "Or else it's 'It's so pitiful, I'm sent to that kind of place, I'm sure I'll die soon'.”

Some of those people's words were malicious, some were unintentional, and some were sympathetic, but none of them was what Xinye Nagae wanted to hear.

Dashan finally turned his head. He was looking at Nagae Nagano. Through the gorgeous shell and the simple geisha makeup, he saw the truly shocking inner part of her gorgeous skin.

"What do you want?" he asked softly.

"I want to live the way I want." Changzhi said, "I want to run in the fields in the countryside, shouting to the lotus in the pond, I am Xinye Changzhi."

[Not an enemy, not a geisha, not an imprisoned commodity, break through the brand that society has given me, squeeze out from the edge of the cage, and fly high in the vast and equal sky. ]

[I am Nagae Xinye, and my soul has never been degraded. ]

[The weight of the soul particle is 21 grams, placed on the balance of death, the souls of all people, you and me, good and evil, heroes and enemies, are all equal! ]

Dashan's heart skipped a beat.

Shinano Nagae looked at Dashan like a rock, and took a look at Dashan sitting beside her: "If, I mean, if there is such a day, would Mr. Dashan go with me to my hometown in Kyushu to see the lotus?" Her voice was very soft Light, like worrying that if you speak louder, you will scare people away.

"Me?" Dashan was stunned.

Shino Nagae rubbed his fingers to the side, and the light white fingertips collided with Dashan's rough fingers covered in calluses.

"I hope Mr. Dashan can come with me," she said.

"In summer, let's go to Kyushu to see the lotus."

Dashan was silent.

"it is good."

……

Tokyo, 10:37pm, Hawkes Associates.

Hawks is sitting in his office. Compared with the public office outside the door, the space that belongs to him is undoubtedly much more spacious, but at this moment, the always tidy room is extremely messy. On the desk, there are even more things on the floor, old newspaper clippings borrowed from the library, crumpled missing person notices, and bound lists of enemies who have been caught in prison... …The soft wall is covered with small notes with tacks, some of which record the relationship between the missing child and the enemy and his enemy's parents, and some record the time and place of the child's disappearance.

Surrounded by small pieces of paper in the middle is a map of all of Japan, with black marker pens outlining the outlines of regions, and colored pens for notes.

He found another way to conduct a missing persons investigation, and the results were shocking.Hawkes never knew that every year, so many children in his country go missing and nobody cares about them.

"Ding Ding Dang Dang——" the office's door was pushed open, and the wind chime hanging at the door shook, making a series of crisp sounds.

"Teacher Dazai?" The ground staff girl looked at Osamu Dazai in surprise.

"Where have you been, Mr. Dazai?" Editor Xiaozhuang immediately went up to meet him.

[Dazai is back? ] Hawks, who buried his head in the pile of books, paused for a moment.

[Did he discover anything new? ]

Just when Hawks was about to go out to ask Osamu Dazai, his cell phone rang, and he looked down at the screen, and the caller showed Nighteye.

[Night Eyes? ]

He quickly put Dazai aside and connected the phone: "Hello, this is Hawks."

On the other end of the phone, Nighteyes' overly tall body was curled up in front of the computer screen.His stature is too tall, and no matter how big the screen is, he can't keep his back straight. When he hunched over a chair, he looked like a crumbling scarecrow.

"The matter you asked me to investigate has already taken shape." Ye Yan said, "The situation is urgent, so I will make a long story short."

"Spear of Justice is a cautious person. When donating money to charities, he has gone through at least three whitewashing procedures to ensure that others cannot find the source of the money. However, he is not always cautious. A few years ago, he When the firm was established and started to be active in the charity world, the money laundering methods were not as sophisticated as they are now. According to the investigation, a sum of money was donated to the Charity Foundation on August 8 five years ago.”

"The money was finally transferred to the Spear of Justice by a student he had been sponsoring for a long time through the campus network account. I tried to trace the source of the money and located it at the Tokyo Fourth Police Station."

"Similarly, the money was transferred to Spear of Justice's account on June 6 four years ago, and after tracing, it was found that the money came from Tokyo No. 11 Police Station..."

"On December 12, three years ago, the money came from Tokyo Sixth Police Department..."

Yeyan pushed his own eyes: "Thanks to the access control system of the Tokyo Police Station, the employees in the police station need to clock in every day when they go to work, and I used a little trick to hack into the internal network of the police station."

When other heroes heard this, they would inevitably turn pale with fright, but Hawkes was different. He calmly asked, "How is the result of the comparison?"

"Comparing several times and locations together, there is only one person who meets the conditions of entering and leaving the three places at the precise time." Yeyan paused, "This person is the current deputy chief of the Tokyo No. [-] Police Station——Shu Rieigoro."

Hawkes' breath missed a beat.

"Thank you very much for your help," Hawkes said.

Nighteye said, "Be careful, Hawks." He pushed down his glasses, and the light from the screen was reflected on the lenses, so no one could see Nighteye's expression clearly, "Under normal circumstances, the police are the biggest heroes Backing, now that the top police officers have a lot of suspicions, it becomes very dangerous to ask for their help.”

"If you're looking for help, would you mind looking for Rin Kobayakawa, the chief of the First Police Department, who has a bad relationship with Eigoro Juri, and theoretically he can check and balance Eigoro Juri."

The conversation was over, Hawkes cut off the phone after thanking him, and just when he looked up, he saw Dazai leaning against the back of the door, his expression made Hawks' hair stand on end.

How should I put it, there was no malice in Dazai's gaze, but the scrutiny in his eyes really made Hawks very uncomfortable, as if he had become a theater actor on the stage, and Dazai, he is a spectator in the audience, and a spectator who got the script too early.

Everything about him was seen through.

"It's Mr. Nighteyes' call." He walked towards Hawks without hesitation, "How, did he finally find out the source of funding for the Spear of Justice or Rose on the Bank? I guess it's the Spear of Justice. It's too high-profile, and the source of the money is more than the other people. The money should come from within the police station. Considering the loyal and docile Mr. Dashan, the person who sent the money is the deputy chief. Bar?"

Hawks was even more confused, he was like someone who skipped the middle episodes while watching a drama, completely lost the cause and effect, and had no idea how Dazai came to the correct conclusion: "Wait, Mr. Dashan, who is Mr. Dashan? "

Dazai said lightly: "Who else is Dashan Qianxing who is following the deputy chief. Hawkes-kun's observation ability is really not enough, and he didn't even remember the name of the prisoner."

[Wait, wait, why did he become a criminal again?What exactly happened, can you sort out the cause and effect and tell me again? ] The hairs on his wings stood up subconsciously, just like a cat raises all its hairs when it feels threatened.

Seeing Hawkes' bewildered expression, Dazai exaggeratedly sighed: "Really, in the end Hawks-kun acted like he was out of the situation, and didn't know anything."

"Let me explain from the beginning. This time, the center of the pedigree of the characters is Chikiko-chan." He randomly pulled out a piece of paper from the table. The front was densely packed with words, and the back was clean white paper. With a Parker pen with smooth lines, in the middle of the paper, he wrote the three large characters of Zhiqiaozi.

"Mr. Dashan is the person Zhiqiaozi likes, and he may also like Zhiqiaozi very much." On the left side of "Zhiqiaozi", he wrote Dashan Qianxing, "The reason is that Zhiqiaozi gave to her sweetheart "The Human World" On Mr. Dashan's body, and when I first met him, I smelled a strong fragrance of lotus on him."

The words "Lianhuaxiang" are written in brackets after "Dashan Qianxing".

"The fragrance of the lotus came from Zhiqiaozijiang. She has too many lotus products, such as lotus sachets, essential oils, dried flower bookmarks, etc. It is really normal to accidentally get the smell."

"Then there is the poor Miss Rose on the Bank whose neck was broken from the front." He said, "Mr. Hawkes has also seen the corpse, right? Did you notice the broken marks on the bones of the corpse?" He glanced at Huo Kex, "Well, probably not." He said briskly, "Miss Rose on the Bank is very poor, her neck was broken from the front, please imagine her death posture, hugged in her arms, lover's Putting my hand on her neck, I heard a click, and the neck broke."

Hawkes was puzzled: "So it was her lover who killed Riverbank Rose?"

Dazai said: "I would like to talk about her lover who is called a playful person." He continued, "The waitress at the tavern knows Miss Riverside Rose, and she also has a little understanding of this lady's living habits. Frequently, but there is only one lover at a time, and Riverbank Rose has a perverted habit, she likes to mix and spray perfume that smells similar to her lover's body."

"Unfortunately, on the night of her death, she drank at the waitress, and the perfume on her body happened to smell like lotus."

"That's it?" Hawkes said, "That's how you infer that the murderer was Dashan Qianxing?"

"No, what I'm talking about is just one of the reasons for inferring that he is a prisoner." Dazai shrugged. "There are other reasons, but now the time is a little too late. If you want to hear the whole explanation, please wait until dawn."

[Too late? ]

"Actually, people are already rushing to the police station." Dazai said, "And the beautiful female employee at the front desk of the shop in front of the police station sent me a message just now. Did not go home."

He pretended to be distressed and said, "Oh, I just asked that lovely lady to help me to keep an eye on the deputy director's whereabouts. I didn't expect her to watch so carefully. It would be great if I didn't post some vulgar love song excerpts, but the date Invitation, I should go, who told me that I am not good at rejecting women." His popularity with women is too good, as if he can ask for help casually.

[Deputy Director Shuli, I remember that he seems to have a virtuous wife and two daughters in his family. ] Hawks really couldn't keep up with Dazai Osamu's jumping thinking, so he could only follow what he said.

[By the way, I remembered, it seems that someone mentioned to me that the deputy director is a slave to his daughter. He usually leaves work on time every day and says he wants to accompany his daughter. Now it is almost 11 o'clock in the evening. Doesn't add to that either. ]

And the light words that came out of Dazai's mouth became the last straw that overwhelmed Hawks: "I have already told Goliath-kun about the above inference half an hour ago." His words were like thunder , leaving scorching marks in the bottom of Hawkes' heart.

"He is really too urgent. After clarifying the cause and effect of the matter, he can't wait to rush to the police station. He looks so anxious that even if he wants to stop him, he can't stop him." Dazai said happily, "Forget it." Counting the time, Goliath should have already arrived at the police station."

Hawkes only felt that the storm was hitting his heart and messing up his thoughts. He forced a few words through his teeth: "You did it on purpose."

For a moment, many thoughts flashed through his mind, Goliath's ideals, his extreme protection of the weak, his hatred of criminals, and his belief in Achilles revealed in his words.

[If the law gave heroes the right to punish their enemies, Goliath would have been eager to hang them. ]

Originally, the Hero Act still had a restraining effect on Goliath. The education he had received in the past restrained him. Even though he wanted to cut his enemies to pieces and resort to capital punishment, Goliath still endured it. Just look at them with the eyes of ants and bacteria.

but……

Hawks has a vague feeling that everything has gone out of control after knowing the tragic fate of Keiko, and there is no doubt that there are traces of Dazai's push in the series of events that have occurred so far that have dazzled him.

"What exactly do you want to do?" He looked at Dazai with heroic eyes, which contained scrutiny, fear, and even slight confusion and hostility.

Dazai shrugged, "I'm a famous writer."

"The so-called writer is someone who exaggerates and pretense what happened in reality, rearranges the structure, forms brand-new stories one after another, and appeals to them on paper," he said. "In order to write excellent stories, I need to get close to observe the ups and downs and things that are different from daily life, such as dense and tragic deaths, heroic sacrifices, heroic betrayal, the collision of justice and evil, the collapse of belief..." His tone was very Plain, plain enough to make Hawks feel terrified, "I just want to see, Mr. Hawkes, Mr. Goliath, Mr. Zhiqiaozijiang, Mr. Dashan, what will you do, and how will the incident be directed? That step."

[From this, I can get a little fun. ]

Hosk: "..."

[madman]

Only two words "madman" came to his mind.

He no longer spoke to Dazai, but passed by him at a very high speed, with his wings spread wide, he turned into a meteor and pierced the sky of the night.

Faster, faster.

Must catch up!

……

Tokyo, 10:45pm, Tokyo Police Station.

"Bam—"

Gunshots sounded.

[Body: Osamu Dazai]

[Synchronization rate: 90%]