When Kunikida Doppo came to his senses, he found that he was in a very lively street, full of people, and there were various shops on both sides of the road.Students walking home from school together, parents walking with their children, and office workers hurrying with briefcases.People's laughter is everywhere, and the warm sunshine casts radiance, making all the scenes extremely tender.

Kunikida Doppo looked around in surprise.

He clearly remembered that he was still in a chaotic darkness just now, and suddenly appeared on this street in the blink of an eye.And no one seemed to be puzzled by his sudden appearance.

All this made Kunikida Doppo a little confused, but no matter what, all he could do now was to take a step forward.He needed to figure out what was going on as soon as possible.

"Brother! Hey——! Brother!"

Suddenly, someone next to him was calling him.

Kunikida Doppo, who was in a state of vigilance, was taken aback, subconsciously turned his head to look, and found that it was an uncle who seemed to be selling fruit.

The uncle is very strong, wears gloves, has a little stubble, but has a bright smile on his face, and seems to be a very easy-going person.

He smiled and waved to Kunikida Doppo, and said, "Would you like an apple? I just got it here, it's very fresh and sweet!"

Hearing the uncle's words, Kunikida Doppo's eyes could not help but shift to the apple in his hand.

That is indeed a very delicious looking apple, the bright red color and the layers of water droplets on the apple, just looking at it makes people very appetizing.I want to bite down greedily and let the sweet juice burst in my mouth.

But Kunikida Doppo frowned, thinking that it would be better not to eat in such an unknown place.

"No, thank you." So he waved his hand and refused.

"Haha, that's really a pity." The uncle said with a smile, put down the apple in his hand, and seemed to have no intention of continuing to sell.

Kunikida Doppo paused, and said, "No, why don't you give me an apple? How much is it?"

"Huh?" The uncle, who was going to greet other people, was stunned for a moment, but he quickly reacted and said the price with a smile.

Kunikida Doppo took out his wallet and gave him the money. After taking the apple handed over by the other party, he asked, "Boss, do you know where this is?"

"Here? Is this the 'Paradise of the Happy'?" the uncle asked suspiciously, as if he was asking a very natural question like "there is a sun in the world".

The uncle thought for a while, and then said: "Ah, I understand, brother, you are from outside, you can tell at a glance that you are not from here."

The uncle said casually.

"What do you mean?" Kunikida Doppo frowned and said.

"Oh..." The uncle laughed a few times, then leaned over and said in a low voice, "Didn't you notice?"

——"Only you didn't smile."

Kunikida Doppo was taken aback, and subconsciously glanced around.Sure enough, no matter who it is or what they are doing, everyone around here is smiling.

"This is the 'Paradise of the Happy', so no one is unhappy, isn't that a matter of course?" The uncle showed a bright smile, but at this moment, this smile made Kunikida Doppo's back start to sweat.

He could feel that people around him seemed to cast their gazes over, and they all had smiles on their faces, as if imprinted on them.

Kunikida Doppo suppressed those feelings in his heart and asked, "...what if someone is 'unhappy'?"

"That's impossible." The uncle said with a smile. He opened his eyes, nodded, and said, "I didn't really want to talk so much to outsiders, after all, they all seem very rude. But since you just Patronized me..."

Understanding the meaning of his words, Kunikida Doppo took out the money again and said, "Give me some more apples."

The uncle smiled even more happily. After taking the money and bringing him a few more apples, he lowered his voice and said, "At this time, just wait."

"A paradise for the happy, where everyone will be happy. Sure."

By this time, the corners of the middle-aged man's mouth had risen to an exaggerated and even terrifying level, Kunikida Doppo even suspected that his mouth was about to split open.He felt like he could hear the sound of skin cracking.

The strange feeling around him made Kunikida Doppo take the apple handed by the uncle, nodded indiscriminately, and left.

Kunikida Doppo's eyes on the crowd of people coming and going around him no longer had the warm feeling just now, especially when he noticed that everyone had a perfect smile on their faces.

He began to feel confused, and just in case, he hid in a side alley first.

The alley was a bit dark, but fortunately there was no one else, so Kunikida hid in alone and began to sort out the current situation.

First, he answered a phone call when he was at the Armed Detective Agency, and a woman's sobbing sound came from the phone, and when Osamu Dazai called his name, he passed out.

After passing out of a coma and waking up, Kunikida Doppo found himself in the darkness. After hearing a lot of laughter from the darkness, he followed the laughter to a place with light. When he opened his eyes, he came to this " The Paradise of the Joyful.”

No matter how you look at it, this doesn't look like a normal place.Could it be an illusion created by the enemy?Is it the opponent's ability?

Although rare, the ability of the spiritual system is also available.

Kunikida Doppo was thinking, while checking the things on his body.

Fortunately, "Ideal" and the pen are still on me, as are my wallet and mobile phone.

When Kunikida turned on the phone, he found that the phone was out of signal, but he was not too surprised.If there was a signal in such a place, he would wonder if something was wrong.

Compared to this, out of a certain intuition, when Kunikida Doppo put down his phone, he picked up his notebook and tore a page out.

"'Lone Step Yin Ke'."

He wrote a few words in his notebook, but as expected, nothing appeared—that is to say, his supernatural ability could no longer be used.

Inexplicably, I came to a place I don't know what it is, and neither the ability nor the mobile phone can be used.

Kunikida Doppo thought of this and couldn't help sighing.

What should I do next?I still feel confused.And I don't know if he is the only one in the Armed Detective Agency who came to this place. If there are others, he has to help them as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Kunikida Doppo remembered the rare flustered voice he heard from Osamu Dazai before he passed out.

At that time, did he notice something?

While Kunikida Doppo was still thinking, a group of people passed by outside the alley, and Kunikida Doppo heard them say in an excited tone that there was going to be a dance party.

"Prom?" Thinking so, Kunikida Doppo subconsciously looked at the high hanging building in the distance.

"No way..."

Why are there castles suspended in the sky? !

···

When he woke up, he found himself next to what seemed to be a garbage dump.

"Wow!" The white-haired boy jumped up in a daze, and then realized that he was no longer in the orphanage.After all, if he was in an orphanage, what he saw at this time should be a gray wall.

But he's clearly out there now.

"Could it be that I was thrown out by others while I was sleeping?" the boy named Atsushi Nakajima said subconsciously.At the same time, his expression darkened and he clenched his hands tightly.

"...Well, I have long thought that this day will come——No!!!"

Atsushi Nakajima's eyes widened in shock. He was wondering if he was thrown out by the orphanage in the middle of the night just now, but now he wondered if he was kidnapped!

Because the garbage dump he just thought was actually a pile of people!

Atsushi Nakajima turned pale with fright, and subconsciously took a few steps back, until he slammed into a tree, and the pain from his back awakened his reason.

What Atsushi Nakajima had just thought of as a garbage dump—that is, a group of people stacked on top of each other, there were men and women in it, and they all seemed to be asleep.

After observing and confirming that there is no danger around, Atsushi Nakajima carefully stretched out his hand and pushed one of them.

"Hello? Are you all right? Hello?" he called in a low voice.

No one responded to Atsushi Nakajima, and they all seemed to be in a comatose state.

"What's going on here?" Nakajima Atsushi looked around in a panic, he was still wearing some worn clothes.

But strangely, the pain and hunger sensations disappeared without a trace.

"Could it be that this is the legendary "world after death"?" Nakajima Atsushi remembered what others said, after death there will be no more pain.Never go hungry again.

"How is that possible?" Atsushi Nakajima sighed.

The current situation made him very confused, but Atsushi Nakajima felt that it would be better to leave here as soon as possible anyway.

At this moment, he suddenly saw the river beside him.

"W-why is the river pink!!!" Atsushi Nakajima screamed.Fortunately, there seemed to be no one around, so his scream did not attract others.

Ha, hahahaha, maybe some factories discharge pollutants, which makes the river pink.

Atsushi Nakajima felt his teeth shaking constantly, but he could only comfort himself in this way.

"Let's get out of here quickly—shall we?" Atsushi Nakajima stared at a person floating on the pink river with a stiff face.

"Huh huh?!!"

He opened his eyes wide in disbelief.

real or fake?Did someone drift past just now?

Why is it so like a scene from some horror stories, a person floats on the strangely colored river, that person is actually a water ghost, and everyone who approaches must be dragged down to replace him.

But what if someone accidentally falls in it...

Sure enough, I still pretended not to see it.

"..."

Before taking a step forward, Nakajima Atsushi turned and ran over.

Let's save the person first! !

So, about 10 minutes later, Nakajima Atsushi, who finally rescued the man, looked at the drenched black-haired man, and remembered from a very long memory that this man seemed to be someone he had seen before!

"Cough, cough cough!" The man who choked out water from his throat opened his eyes. He was very good-looking, which made Atsushi Nakajima, who was staring at him, subconsciously soften his voice.

"Are you OK?"

The black-haired man—that is, Osamu Dazai glanced at Atsushi Nakajima, and then showed a disgusted expression.

Atsushi Nakajima: "???"

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