The boy in black came over, Akutagawa Ryunosuke looked at him vigilantly, and pushed his younger sister Gin and other partners back a little.

The boy stood still in front of him, looking at him as if he found it interesting,

This is some bad behavior, but Akutagawa Ryunosuke doesn't know why he can't afford to hate him.

This teenager seems to be born with a different kind of attractiveness.

"What's your name?" The boy asked him,

Akutagawa Ryunosuke did not answer the boy, he just stared at the boy with fierce eyes like a vicious dog, and raised his hair all over his body to warn him.

This kind of weak deterrence was not taken into consideration by the young man. He looked at Ryunosuke Akutagawa coldly and said, "This is not a multiple-choice question."

He didn't give Akutagawa Ryunosuke a choice, in fact, the other party didn't need it either.

The still young Akutagawa Ryunosuke felt an unimaginable terrifying aura from this boy.

Whether it was when his head was hit against the wall in order to get food for his younger sister Yin, or when the kind big sister who had given them food died, or other times, he never felt the horror like he does now.

Subconsciously, he wanted to use his special ability "Rashomon" to attack the boy, but the moment "Rashomon" touched the boy, it turned into particles of light and disappeared.

"What—?!" Akutagawa Ryunosuke was kicked to the ground by the slender-looking boy before he could figure out what was going on.

The boy sighed and said, "I said, I never gave you a choice."

"But you don't have a choice, I guess." He chuckled and said, "You have a companion who was taken away by someone, right? You were going to rescue him together, at least Get the body back."

"But because I happened to be here, those of you who don't want to run into Hong Kong gangsters are going to avoid us."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who was kicked to the ground, vomited a mouthful of blood, and the younger sister and companions behind him exclaimed, but he stopped his movement.

"Why did you know?" Facing Akutagawa Ryunosuke who was lying on the ground looking up at him, the boy said with a sense of amusement, "It's easy to see, right? You look at me vigilantly. On the premise that everyone remains motionless, they are still preparing to leave. Oh, of course, and your decisive eyes are the same."

In the slums, in order to have someone to avenge themselves after their death and help them get their bodies back, they will form companions.

This is something almost everyone in the slums knows.

After the boy finished speaking calmly, he smiled at him.

The gloomy slums that have not seen light all year round are rarely exposed to a ray of sunshine. The young man whispers to him like a demon with his back to the sun.

"I'm quite interested in you, let me follow along to see."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who was lying on the ground, looked up at him, and the inhuman appearance of the boy was reflected in the empty and dark eyes of the future Wuxin Dog.

Too cruel, too beautiful.

This was the impression the boy in front of him gave him.

Powerful and inhumanly beautiful at the same time, it must be the demon that appeared in the fairy tales he once heard from others by accident.

But at this moment, Akutagawa Ryunosuke suddenly had a feeling.

——Even if you sacrifice your soul to him, you will not hesitate.

···

"Just you and I go together." Osamu Dazai didn't bother to bring so many children, so he said this directly to the boy he just met. (He also left the men where they were.)

The taciturn and paranoid child unexpectedly nodded obediently, ran to the back and told his companions, asking them to take their sister back and wait.

Osamu Dazai also walked directly in the direction the boy pointed. On this road, before he could speak, the boy took the initiative to say, "Akutagawa Ryunosuke."

"Huh?" Osamu Dazai pretended not to understand, and asked back.

"...My name is Akutagawa Ryunosuke." Akutagawa Ryunosuke didn't notice Dazai Osamu's bad taste, so he said it again.

"Is there anything you want to do here?" the boy asked very bluntly.

Osamu Dazai raised his eyebrows. He originally thought that the children in the slums would be more tactful when it comes to dangerous topics?In other words, Akutagawa Ryunosuke is a more special child.

He's sharp, sensitive, and at the same time overly straightforward.

This type is a more troublesome type for Osamu Dazai. It can be said that he does not like to get along with this type that is too straightforward and paranoid.

But Osamu Dazai still became interested in him. Although there are other reasons, it can also be said that it is only because Akutagawa Ryunosuke has similar eyes to him.

Can't find the meaning of existence, just move forward exhaustedly and at a loss.

In a sense, Osamu Dazai found some essence similar to himself in Akutagawa Ryunosuke.

"What's your name?" Akutagawa Ryunosuke raised his head and asked him with an expressionless face.

"I'll tell you later." Osamu Dazai casually skipped the topic, so Ryunosuke Akutagawa didn't ask any more questions, and fell silent without speaking.

Osamu Dazai glanced at him, and said coldly, "The you you are now are not worthy of my trust."

In the ghetto, entrusting each other with names represents trust.

The rest of the road was silent all the way.

When they arrived at the approximate location Akutagawa Ryunosuke knew, the killer was waiting for them with a thin boy in his hands.

"Akutagawa!" The kidnapped boy shouted loudly, he was grabbed by the man, he kept struggling but couldn't break free, but the same dirty little face was full of desperate determination.

He didn't say anything, but Ryunosuke Akutagawa confirmed something in his voice, saying, "I see."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke used his supernatural ability "Rashomon". The young stray dog's indifferent face carried a sternness that adults would fear. Fangs came out.

The man holding the boy was not very strong, with scars on his face, and also wearing shabby clothes, but he was terribly silent in this scene, and his posture was even a little distorted.

Osamu Dazai, who was watching, also confirmed something, raised the corners of his lips, and said, "The other party may have undergone some kind of change, you'd better be more vigilant."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke couldn't understand this meaning, the moment "Rashomon" reached out to the man, the silent man suddenly let out an inhuman howl.

"Ah ah ah ah ah--!!!"

That was almost a cry beyond human limits.

The man's mouth was full of blood, he grabbed "Rashomon" and threw Akutagawa Ryunosuke against the wall.

With a "bump", Akutagawa Ryunosuke was hit hard against the wall and fell down.

"Cough, cough, cough!!" Akutagawa Ryunosuke coughed up a mouthful of blood. The scorching pain made him curl up, but he still endured the pain and wiped the blood from his mouth, glaring at the man viciously.

Osamu Dazai sighed helplessly: "I told you to be more vigilant."

The boy who was held hostage was also thrown aside by the man, unconscious.

"Sure enough, I guessed right." Dazai Osamu chuckled, and said, "Suddenly kidnapped a child but did not intend to abduct, sell or do other things just to attract them, no, to attract Akutagawa."

The man roared and kept scratching the skin around his neck, leaving bloodstains on his neck, but the man kept howling, and Osamu Dazai could still vaguely see his reddened eyes and if there was someone behind him. If there is no black mist.

"The fragment of the Holy Grail. It really is a terrible thing." Dazai Osamu sighed, "It can pollute an ordinary person in a slum into such a virtue."

"And that's not enough, the pieces of the Holy Grail really are instinctively thirsting for magic power?" He was not particularly familiar with the word magic power, and he always felt that it was in the game, but he probably guessed something from Fujimaru Rikka's explanation.

The pieces of the Holy Grail are basically distributed very close to them. Sure enough, it is because they want to restore it?And what sets this group of people apart from others is that...

—Have a special ability.

Osamu Dazai couldn't help but want to laugh out loud when he thought of the terrifying number of Holy Grail fragments in the hero area and the too dark faces of Andawa and Aizawa Xiao.

All in all, maybe those people with special abilities can also be absorbed by the Holy Grail fragments as nutrition?

Akutagawa Ryunosuke over there relentlessly rushed forward again, and was thrown aside by the screaming man again.

"It's really distressing. I'm not like that slug in terms of fighting." He said so, but there was no distressed expression on his face.

He even watched leisurely as the man walked towards Ryunosuke Akutagawa lying on the ground vomiting blood.

"Ahem," Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who was limp on the ground due to excessive blood loss and pain, looked up at the man walking towards him in embarrassment and powerlessness. He couldn't understand Dazai Osamu's words, but the only thing he knew was the current situation Thing - he's too weak.

So weak and powerless, he could only lie on the ground in embarrassment and look up at others.

The weak have no reason to survive, and neither life nor corpses have the right to dispose of them.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke thought of this in his trance.

but--

If so, why was he born?

Not loved, not recognized, not expected, just curled up in a dark corner like a wild dog, lingering on his last breath.

What is the meaning of his existence?

Just as the man was approaching with footsteps, when Ryunosuke Akutagawa decided to inflict damage on him even if he died, the boy who was watching spoke in a cold voice.

""sorry"."

"That's it, right?"

His body was trembling and he kept stomping on the ground vigorously, almost crushing the ground. The roaring man was frozen as if he had pressed the stop button.

"Sure enough, even if it is polluted by the pieces of the Holy Grail, it still retains its own consciousness." Dazai Osamu murmured.

The man who was facing Ryunosuke Akutagawa turned around little by little like a stiff wooden man, and faced Osamu Dazai.

Osamu Dazai looked at him indifferently, his dark left eye reflected the man's ugly figure like a ghost.

"Although the pieces of the Holy Grail control you to hold that boy hostage in order to replenish the magic power, so as to attract Akutagawa to come..."

Osamu Dazai looked at the unconscious boy over there, and said in an emotionless voice, "But you didn't hurt him before we came."

"Evidently in such a violent state, I desperately controlled myself so as not to hurt him."

"Although you really can't control yourself to kill Akutagawa, you are still working hard."

"Otherwise Akutagawa should have been swallowed by the Holy Grail fragments when he first contacted you with his supernatural power."

The man trembled, holding his head, howling with despair and pain.

"You have a son, probably about their age."

"But he died."

"You were mentally shocked and your consciousness collapsed. At this time, your consciousness was completely polluted by the Holy Grail fragments and became such a monster."

"It's because you didn't protect your son well, that's why you keep shouting—"

"sorry."

Osamu Dazai noticed just now that this man has always been in a strange half-bow posture to Akutagawa Ryunosuke, but it is obvious that his body is healthy and there is no hidden danger.But he still faced Ryunosuke Akutagawa with that strange posture.

All this is just because of the guilt and desperate love for the child that this man still hides in his heart even if he loses his mind and loses consciousness.

"Uh, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,!" The man was mourning, and his head kept hitting the ground.

...

...

...

he died.

During this process, Osamu Dazai just watched.

The expression on his face didn't change much, not even the fluctuation in his eyes.

It was probably an emotion he couldn't understand.

Suddenly, he saw something shiny and golden slipping from the man's body.

It's a shard of the Holy Grail.

Osamu Dazai understood immediately, and he was also going to go to pick up the pieces of the Holy Grail.

The moment he was about to bend down, Osamu Dazai suddenly turned his head——! !

A black figure appeared there.

The shadow follower, whose whole body was covered in black mist, kept watching Osamu Dazai.

She stared at him almost sadly.

When Osamu Dazai looked at it, it recited an ancient spell that had been lost long ago.

"Fall into a deep sleep. 』

『Those who are loved by the Holy Grail. 』

——! !

Osamu Dazai fell into darkness uncontrollably.

He could feel himself sinking, sinking...

"Oh, so that means it's time for the big brother to come to Paradise." The man's smiling voice sounded in Dazai Osamu's ear.

In a trance, he seemed to smell the fragrance of flowers.

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