Tomie Tsuji

Of course Fu Jiang was just joking.But to be honest, such a handsome strange guy offered to die in love with her...

Of course she couldn't accept it either.

How precious life is! (righteous words)

Fu Jiang hates death more than other people who have never died. Perhaps for others, death means leaving this world forever, stopping thinking forever and losing oneself, or going to heaven or hell to start a new life.

But death is different for Fu Jiang.

For her, death has never been so easy, but pain, struggle, the sourness of crying loudly but not being listened to and respected by others, it is the ultimate love.

She has never died easily, even if she died peacefully by taking medicine, the severe pain from the internal organs in her body made her feel worse than death, but she felt all this clearly because of her strong vitality.

Pass out from the pain, wake up from the pain again.

Death has never brought her fond memories, nor has it seemed like a 'sanctuary' for the others.

She loves life, the feeling of being alive, breathing, doing the things she loves while she can still move.

"Let me refuse." Fu Jiang replied with extra caution.

Maybe this was just a joke made by the dark-brown-haired youth, but she thought of so much at once, and felt faintly sour and resentful because of it.

When her survival was so difficult, others wanted to give up their lives on their own initiative.

Osamu Dazai froze for a moment, he would not look sad or embarrassed after being rejected so earnestly—disappointment is inevitable.

"Why?" he asked.

Usually he would not ask such a question after someone rejected him—unless he deliberately wanted to strike up a conversation, or pester a beautiful woman, but this time it was an accident. He didn't smile anymore, but he didn't It looks so serious.

He didn't even look at Fu Jiang when he asked the question, but looked at the river again - the river water was indeed very clear, and he could still find his own reflection in it.

The only thing that can prove his change of attitude is probably the expressionless, somewhat empty face.Much was reflected in his eyes, but nothing entered his heart.

Maybe he was just asking casually.

"Because..." Fu Jiang squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, his eyes became very long, but his tone did not look like a 16-year-old girl. She said: "Although life is a very painful thing, I can't find it." to the death I wanted."

This sentence sounds a bit obscure, no one can understand the meaning of her words, but Osamu Dazai understands it.

Fu Jiang said all the truth.

It may sound ridiculous, but she is... living for death.

Live to death.

The conversation between the two of them made any ordinary person wonder if he came to the wrong set, but considering the characteristics of the two of them—even though they don’t know each other well, it’s already enough for two strange creatures to meet here. It's a great miracle - it will feel like it's really no big deal.

"Is that so, what a pity." Dazai Osamu spread his hands, and it could be heard in his tone that he was really not pretending, but really regretted it.

He suddenly asked another question that seemed irrelevant but actually sounded caring: "A girl of your age feels that life is painful. Is it because your parents or siblings didn't treat you well?"

Fu Jiang felt a little baffled, knowing that he might have misunderstood something, shook his head and didn't want to say more: "My parents are long gone, and I am an only daughter."

Fu Jiang asked again: "The Taoyuan Township you mentioned earlier...?"

This is also one of the reasons why she answered Dazai Osamu's question instead of turning around and walking away.

…Don’t ask me another reason, it’s because I’m handsome.

Osamu Dazai answered very straightforwardly: "Eh? So there really is a place named Taoyuan Township, I'm not sure."

Well, it seems he is useless.

Fu Jiang nodded a little sluggishly, and didn't bother to be polite.Out of emotion and reason, even though the other party didn't help her, she should still thank her, but Fu Jiang is really not in the mood now.

I really didn't expect that a ticket I picked up randomly on the road would be so hard to find...

But anyway, she has nowhere to go now and nothing to do, so she might as well continue to trace the clues to find that 'Taoyuan Township'.

...I just hope it's not a fake toy ticket similar to a child's wish ticket.

After Fu Jiang turned and left, Osamu Dazai, who had been staring at the river, suddenly turned his head and stared at her back.

——Of course not because he fell in love with this beautiful and peculiar 'girl'.

Maybe Fu Jiang saw him for the first time, but it was not the first time he saw Fu Jiang.

This does not mean that his initial strike-up was for other purposes. In fact, Osamu Dazai just saw a woman with a slender figure and superior appearance in the process of daily preparations to throw himself into the river, so he habitually invited The other party died in love together.

It was only when Fu Jiang made those remarks about death that he remembered the last time he saw Fu Jiang.

He couldn't even confirm if it was Fu Jiang... Even if they did look exactly the same, it would be difficult for people to connect the two.

Just now he asked about Fu Jiang's parents, brothers and sisters for the same reason - since it is confirmed that she is just an orphan, her identity is very doubtful.

...After all, how can there be a living person who looks exactly like a human head?

Osamu Dazai first saw Tomie's face when he was still the youngest cadre of the port mafia. He went to Ikebukuro on a business trip, but found that in Ikebukuro's underground world, also known as the black market, there were people vying for it. But it wasn't jewelry, calligraphy and painting, but... two human heads.

At first there was only one beauty's head, and then they got another one from nowhere.

Maybe it's because other black market merchants think that the people of Ikebukuro are perverted, and the beautiful women's heads are only sold here, right?

If it's just an ordinary human head, it's impossible to be sought after, but it's obviously not.

The rumored head has two.

The first one is said to be from Ireland, but it has been lost as early as the beginning, and its fame is basically passed on by word of mouth - as long as anyone who has seen that head will feel dizzy and intoxicated by the beauty that cannot be described in words .

The second head came from the mainland of Japan. It seemed to be a private collection of a certain family, but it somehow got out, and even appeared in an underground auction.

It is said to be a head, of course it is just a head, it is lifeless, but there are still differences in this head.

How long she has been around is already unverifiable—yes, even archaeologists have nothing to do about it.

Although she just looks like an extremely beautiful human head, she can keep her skin in the most delicate state. In the era when there was no formalin, and never had corpse spots, everything was as beautiful as if she was just fell into a deep sleep.

—if you don't look down on her empty neck.

The incision at the neck was very smooth, and Osamu Dazai knew at the first sight that she was beheaded by some sharp blade—but it is not certain whether this is the result of deliberate handling by the seller behind the scenes of the auction.

After all, the bottom of the severed head will not look good, it lacks the sense of sacredness like a sculpture, and has a feeling of blood and horror.

Osamu Dazai had no chance to see the head from Ireland, but he had an impression of this head, perhaps because of its demonic charm.

At the first sight of the head, everyone seemed to be crazily obsessed with her as if they had been given some psychological hint. After a brief silence, only the sound of bidding could be heard in the hall.

Heads, too, were bought at a staggeringly high price.

The buyer held the head triumphantly, regardless of his identity, just kept muttering 'What a beautiful handicraft!It's a pity that I didn't build it by myself...'.

Osamu Dazai immediately made a detour—how else would he build it?Go and chop off the head of a beautiful girl in person?

Farewell, the people of Ikebukuro are so perverted. (Victimized by wind reviews)

Or he was kinder.Osamu Dazai thought.Beautiful girls should be invited to die in love, this is romance!

(…although it’s not romantic at all!)

After Osamu Dazai withdrew from his memory, Tomie had long since disappeared.

He didn't pay too much attention to it, but murmured softly in surprise: "A body that can match that head, and the figure is really slim enough."

After the alluring face came to life, it gave people a more special feeling-to be honest, it was not as good as the "beauty of death" after it closed its eyes, but it showed another tiny but tenacious look 'vitality'.

This feeling of struggle and confrontation endowed her with a brand new beauty.

But it has nothing to do with him.

No matter how many secrets there are in her, it has nothing to do with him... Suicide is more important now!Moreover, what does Hong Kong black cadre Dazai-kun see have anything to do with his peerless boy from the Armed Detective Agency?He thought confidently.

Osamu Dazai opened his arms while humming his own song, closed his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth.

Others thought he was embracing the wind, but in fact he was embracing death.

In the next second, his body fell forward and fell into the river, splashing high water.

***

Although on the way he met a handsome strange guy whose hobby was to die for love, Fu Jiang's mood was not too affected.

She still didn't have any particular place she wanted to go, and she didn't want to find a local rich man to hang out with as she did before.

——This is not to say that she is no longer interested in this matter, she just simply thinks... At least not now.

She should have more important things to do.

Moreover, sugar daddy, buying, buying, being killed, being resurrected again, and finding a new rich man have all formed an endless cycle. No matter what era she is in, she strictly follows this cycle. Now it is rare to return to modern times. She still wants to feel and experience more.

...Maybe it's because she also has a premonition in her heart... All these seemingly ordinary things are treasures that are about to pass away to her.

Every time the world is reset, it will not last long when it reaches the modern age. After Fu Jiang works hard to prevent and eliminate those weird things that may cause the world to stagnate, the world can barely last for a while, but it is not too long.

She actually knew the reason... She just didn't want to give up so easily.

At least for the time being, let her follow her own will and do something different than before.

If it was Fu Jiang in the past, I'm afraid she would keep crying for leg pain after walking for a short while, but now her physical fitness has also improved, and she also relies on her ability to relieve the pressure on her steps when walking, making walking easier .

She was still walking aimlessly.

All the people who saw Fu Jiang on the way couldn't help turning their heads and wanting to look at her more, it would be best to get her to look back... But she didn't stop herself for anyone.

She obviously hates being bored so much, but she doesn't feel irritable after spending hours on the extremely boring thing of walking.

It wasn't because there was something interesting that distracted her mind... In fact, she didn't think about anything, she wasn't even listening to music, let alone paying attention to the passers-by.

I don't know where I came from, where I'm going, I just walk aimlessly.

——No, she can’t say that she has no destination, at least she picked up the ticket to Taoyuan Township, but no one can tell her where the station is, which is obviously not an ordinary human station. place.

In the legend, Taoyuan Township...is the 'Avalon' of heaven.

... Can someone like her really go to heaven?

The result of going on like this is that the sunset is gradually stained with the sky, and the salaried people who are off work, the students after school, and the housewives who have returned from shopping all set foot on the road home.

She doesn't hate dusk.

The original azure sky also became a little dark because of the setting sun, but it was not enough to make people lose sight of their fingers. On the contrary, even if the sun's light had been weakened, the afterglow was enough to illuminate it.Therefore, several street lamps on both sides of the street were not lit.

She didn't choose to walk in the shadows, but walked in the direction where the light can be seen outside the sidewalk, feeling the remaining warmth of the setting sun. The afterglow coated her with a light orange layer, which further accentuated her face flawless.

The number of people who passed by Fu Jiang became less and less, and in the end she was the only one walking alone on the whole street.

She doesn't feel lonely either.

But even if she doesn't need to rest and can keep walking until she finally finds the station leading to the Taoyuan Township of Heaven, other species will not allow it.

This...but at dusk.

All the creatures that exist in the other world—whether they are monsters, ghosts, or weirdnesses—all leave their dark corners at this moment, and go to the human world to do evil.

Although Fu Jiang is also a weird one, at least she looks like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old high school girl—this means that she can easily become a sacrifice chosen for herself by the creatures in the other world.

To say that the sacrifices are just flattering them is actually nothing more than ordinary 'ingredients'.

Fu Jiang didn't take them seriously at all.

When she was just a weird creature with no strength to restrain a chicken and a relatively strong ability to survive, she was never afraid of these guys, at most she was just bored.

And now that Fu Jiang has the ability to read, it is even less likely that he will be afraid of them-to put it bluntly, they are just a bunch of low-level scum.

Everyone knows that irrational creatures are not enough to be feared, that is, human beings who have no power to fight back, or even be aware of their existence, will be afraid of them.

Although Fu Jiang looks like a human being, acts and talks like a human being, and sees herself completely as a human being...she is not really human.

——But others don't know all this.

Fu Jiang is surrounded by a bunch of weird-looking guys, just like those monsters in horror picture books, either they have a small body with a huge eye that occupies the entire face, or they have a huge body with long hair. There are several rows of eyes, and there are strange parts like tentacles all over the body, which looks extremely terrifying.

To put it more clearly, it is to look at the restrained creatures that will make people lose San.

They surrounded Fu Jiang, whispering in low voices, chanting some evil and vicious thoughts in their mouths, or the idea of ​​wanting her to give up the light and dedicate herself to the darkness, trying to confuse her.

Fu Jiang didn't take it seriously, and even pretended that he had never seen them, and stepped on the little monster occasionally without mercy.

Ha, just wanting to confuse Fu Jiang is enough to describe them as 'overbearing'.To say that it confuses people, Fu Jiang is the originator.

It's a pity that these mindless wandering souls can't think, let alone recognize Fu Jiang's real species. They just habitually attack all creatures within their attack range.

The monster seemed to be in a hurry. Seeing that Fu Jiang was unmoved and he couldn't seduce him successfully, he wanted to swallow Fu Jiang directly-Fu Jiang was waiting for this time. When the monster attacked him, she could immediately fight back. In turn, devour this invisible monster.

If it weren't for the fact that monsters couldn't be killed by ordinary things or swords when they didn't really touch her, Fu Jiang might have thought they were annoying enough to keep nagging in his ears, so he killed them directly.

Since monsters and human beings were forcibly divided into the inner world and the outer world, such a gap appeared. Human beings with spiritual power, fetters, etc., and monsters that are not completely classified as the inner world in the gap can still rely on The increase in supernatural power at dusk breaks through this limit.

After she took a good look at the timing, the monster changed its shape like plasticine, and its mouth was bigger than its original size. When Fu Jiang stepped into the shadow, it was like a signal to attack. In the past, he wanted to devour Fu Jiang. Before he had time to touch Fu Jiang, Fu Jiang just raised his hand and was about to use his black mud as a weapon of resistance, but someone grabbed his wrist, pulled him back, and forcibly avoided it. attacked by monsters.

Maybe the person who grabbed her was out of kindness, but Fu Jiang felt extremely annoying.

She almost killed the monster.

She turned her head angrily, and saw that the person grabbing her wrist was a strange young man in cheap sportswear and a white scarf around his neck.

And sweaty hands!

...isn't the season to wear scarves yet?What's the matter with this person?

"What are you doing?!" Fu Jiang pouted and asked dissatisfied.

The young man also seemed to feel a little embarrassed. He kept glancing at the monster that was approaching, thinking about how to explain it—he thought Fu Jiang was just an ordinary person who couldn't see the monster. It is true that you will feel angry if you are rudely pulled and dragged by the people behind you.

He scratched his head in embarrassment, and said far-fetchedly: "It's getting late, go home early."

Fu Jiang rolled his eyes, thinking he was talking nonsense.

If she had a family, would she be in such a state of desperation?

If anyone can be fooled by such a sentence, she will lose.

"Leave me alone." Fu Jiang pulled her hand out of the other's sweaty hand, and shook it vigorously, but the sticky and wet touch still existed on her wrist, and she gave him a hard look .

At this moment, the monster seemed to be very dissatisfied with his missed shot and then being ignored. He suddenly showed ferocious and sharp fangs, and opened his bloody mouth again to Fu Jiang.

The youth in sportswear—that is, Yato, felt extremely flustered at this moment. Of course he wanted to save this human being—even though the other party did not make a wish to him, he could never see the other party die tragically in front of him. .But now he just lacks a handy artifact in his hand, no matter how superb his skills are, he still has no way to compete with monsters.

This is the limitation of being a new generation god.

How to do?It seems that there is no other way but to escape, but she still doesn't seem to understand the situation. If she can't see the monster, she definitely won't want to run away with him... Ahhh, if she can't see the monster, if she is not someone in between, then How can you be attacked by monsters?Shouldn't this kind of monster only lure ordinary humans?

He couldn't bear to let him watch this girl being eaten.

"Do you have five yen?" He gritted his teeth and asked.If I establish a relationship with him, I should be able to see these monsters... At least I can run away first!

Fu Jiang didn't understand his good intentions. He gave him a contemptuous look and said, "I never bring money with such a small face value."

Yato: ...?

Just when he was about to take direct coercive measures to take Fu Jiang away, the monster finally attacked.

Fu Jiang stood here to prevent Yato from approaching, and Yato could only watch helplessly as the monster gradually approached...

——Then it was wrapped and swallowed by the black mud, and finally turned into a small puddle of black mud, flowing on the ground.

Yato: (Stunned.jpg)

Fu Jiang glanced at him, raised the corners of his mouth and snorted coldly: "What a fuss." The tone was a little smug, and people could imagine that this man's tail was upturned even with his eyes closed.