Disqualification

Butterfly Shinobu has been looking for Twig, from the Kyogoku house to the dilapidated moss-covered house where the syphilis-stricken girl lives, and to the place where she works, as she found out from other people.

A scene that she ignored was excavated from the long river of memory. On the first night in Yoshiwara, they saw scattered corpses. At first glance, they looked like they were half eaten by ghosts and then thrown away.

"Do you think this is made by a ghost?" Dazai squatted down and stared at the corpse. He saw very finely, the gnawing marks on the edge of the flesh, the fractures in the bones, and the white brains popping out of the hemispherical skull. Butterfly couldn't help doubting him. Having mastered more proficient post-mortem calculations, perhaps he has seen more corpses than himself.

"Okay, okay." Butterfly Shinobu gave an affirmative answer, and Dazai shrugged noncommittally.

[There is something wrong. ] She closes her eyes and thinks back.

[Be careful, be more careful. ]

She zoomed in on the fragments of memories of the corpses, and at the same time pulled out other poor people who died of ghosts in her mind. Medical students should not be afraid of corpses, and even have a heart of gratitude to them.

As her gaze scanned inch by inch, her heart was always shrouded in suspicion.

[Where is it, where is it different. ]

She "saw" another picture. Dazai slowly pulled out a handkerchief from the handkerchief. The handkerchief was lightly covered over the broken bone. Mr. Dazai, a clean freak, stroked the broken bone, and then smiled.

[Broken bones! ]

In an instant, all of Butterfly Ninja's doubts were easily solved.

[The bite marks of flesh and blood are easy to disguise, even if the force of human teeth is strong enough, it will leave tear marks, but the bones are different. It is uneven.The deceased on the first day was different. His bone fracture was too flat and was cut with a sharp weapon. ]

[It's a person disguised as a ghost attacking. ]

Thinking of this, she quickened her pace. As time went by, there were more and more people on the streets of Yoshiwara. There were men in kimonos and Western clothes. Among these men, she looked so petite that she looked like a dwarf sneaking into the kingdom of adults.

[If it was done by someone, this matter has nothing to do with us, but there are still a few doubts in it...] She tried hard to convince herself, persuaded herself to follow up on this matter, and persuaded herself to go to Xiaozhi.

"Butterfly?" Tomioka Yoshiyuki collided with Butterfly Ninja face-to-face as soon as he came out of the fork.

"Mr. Tomioka?" Butterfly Shinobu was a little surprised. He didn't see Tomioka Yoshiyuki or Dazai Osamu all afternoon and night. He didn't know where they were going even after asking Younv, so Butterfly Shinobu automatically thought that the two of them were acting together.

"where did you go?"

"Help the teacher get things home."

Butterfly couldn't bear to ask any more questions, and quickly told Tomioka Giyong what he had discovered.

"Oh."

No more, no more responses!

Butterfly Ninja: "..."

Different from Tomioka Yoshiyuki's concise answer, he turned around neatly.

"Where are you going?" Butterfly asked.

"Look for Ishijiro."

"I think the same as you on this point." Butterfly Ren said, "I just got the news today that Xiaozhi was also one of the victims of Tokugawa and others. How did you determine that it was Ishijiro and the others?"

Yoshiyuki Tomioka: "Intuition."

Butterfly Ninja: "..."

She suppressed her increasingly irritable emotions and said: "If this matter is only limited to human revenge, then the next matter is not our responsibility and should be handed over to the police, but there is still room for mediation in this matter. "

She is not only telling Tomioka Giyuu, but also convincing herself.

"Assuming that the culprits are Ishijiro and the others, then we must have seen the scene of ghosts eating people before conducting a live simulation. We can ask them where they witnessed it, and maybe the ghost he has seen is still in the flower street. .”

[In short, the most important thing right now is to find them. ]

Butterfly Ren's heartbeat was very irregular, and he also felt inexplicable palpitations.

It's like foreseeing the tragedy that is about to happen.

……

"Huh?" The prostitute Taro stared at Ishijiro kneeling in front of him, and was stunned. He knew Xiaozhi, and he had seen it several times when he woke up in Kyogokuya. That face, which was uglier than a ghost, was so eye-catching. So much so that he remembered it deeply, and asked Luo Ji specifically: "What's the matter with the new little girl?"

Luo Ji was doing her makeup in the mirror at that time, looking at her perfect side face, she heard the words of the prostitute Taro and sneered: "What's new here, haven't you seen her before?"

"what?"

"The unlucky girl who came down from You Girl, you still said that she has outstanding looks."

"It's her." The prostitute Taro remembered, Xiaozhi was really beautiful, so beautiful that men and women would look at her a few more times, thinking of her current appearance, his heart trembled for some reason, "How did she become Such?"

"I've been entangled." Picking up a pen, I drew on the eyebrows, outlining the arch of the eyebrows, and the long tails of the eyebrows that are hidden in the skin. "I heard that the person who entangled her was a pervert, and I think all women in the world look down on her." He especially hates good-looking women," she said, "that stupid girl is also unlucky, she got shot in the muzzle."

"You damn guys." Tokugawa looked at Xiaozhi's calm face, "Why, why do you look down on me, what right do you have to look down on me, you are just a grain of sand and dust, I can crush you to death with my little finger you."

"Ah, that fellow Tokugawa is sick again."

"Hey, Tokugawa, hurry up, it's our turn."

Xiaozhi was tied up, and she tried her best to escape, but a petite woman could not resist six grown men, so she decided to give up after weighing the pros and cons.

Fear, fear, these negative emotions did not exist. She looked at Tokugawa calmly, even feeling uninterested, not even interested in pretending to be a normal person.

[It's boring...] For some reason, all she had in mind was, [It's really boring. ]

Except for Ishijiro, there is no one in the world who is not boring.

She can't empathize with people other than blood relatives, and even in the face of Ishijiro, there are few emotional ups and downs.

The twig is separated from the world by a membrane.

In fact, she didn't speak to Tokugawa, nor did she scream, but just stared at him quietly, but to Tokugawa, her gaze was like a cup of sulfuric acid poured on his face with a bang, corroding the flesh and blood at the same time. There was a sizzling sound.

He felt the weakness and filth in his heart, felt that he was smaller than an ant in the hearts of other people, and the inferiority point that had been lurking in his body for a long time was punctured, and his hatred of women, compared with the fragility of high position and weight Arrogance mixed with an unacknowledged inferiority complex creates a powerful chemistry.

"Bastard bastard bastard bastard, what right does a woman like you have to look down on me—"

"If you don't have this face, what else do you think you can do?"

He ruined Twig's face.

……

"Please save my sister." Ishijiro pressed his head tightly to the ground, "It doesn't matter what I do, you can kill me or eat me, if possible, please save my sister Is it?" He had no other choice, he had nowhere to go, Ishijiro realized that no matter what, he couldn't get rid of the menacing servants, they were numerous and powerful, and they were sure that it was their brothers and sisters who would kill them .

[Xiaozhi's face is too conspicuous, even if I can avoid tracking, she can't. ]

[Are we going to die here?No, no. ]

He regretted it, regretted the impulsive revenge at the beginning, if he hadn't done it, he might have lived with his sister for a while longer...

"!" Grabbing his clothes with both hands, pulling Ishijiro out of the abyss of infinite regret, Xiao Zhi looked at him, her eyes were beautiful, like clear and transparent glass beads.

"Please don't be joking." Up to this point, Twig was still very polite. This might be the only good skill Xinzao taught her, "We are going to die together."

Her tone didn't fluctuate, but her words were serious. The prostitute Taro was ignored, and Xiaozhi's eyes were only chasing Ishijiro.

"We are going to die together, brother."

Ishijiro opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.

The prostitute Taro looked at them, but couldn't help but recall how he knelt on the ground begging Tong Mo to save Xiaomei a long time ago.

The images at that time and the images of the present overlap perfectly and harmoniously, and this sense of deja vu touches his human heart.

This is a rare empathy in his long life as a cannibal.

"Little devil." He asked seriously, "Do you want to live?"

"Do you want to take your sister with you forever and live without hiding?"

……

[What happened again? ] As soon as Luo Ji changed the ugly kimono in her mouth, she opened the sliding door leading to the second-floor platform, leaned on the wooden railing and looked down. When she went upstairs, the street was calm and peaceful, but now it is messed up. Haori's servants swaggered, disregarding Yoshihara's rules, from the east tea house to the west tea house, rampaging, those policemen who were supposed to maintain order seemed to be dead, and they didn't care about it. The guests had a lot of opinions, so they clashed with some people, and they fought each other.

The wind blowing from the north whizzed by, blowing the red lanterns hanging on strings under the eaves to sway from side to side, and the candles in several lanterns were extinguished directly.

The girdle that was part of her body sprang out silently from the cellar, the woodpile behind the earthen wall, and the creek that grew around the wall. They squirmed, probed, and stretched in all directions, just like real pythons.

The belt passed the collected information to Luo Ji. She closed her eyes to digest for a while, and finally understood the reason for the farce tonight.

[I'm going to eat them! ] She was furious, at the son and buddy who had made Yoshihara into a quagmire.

She is used to lurking in the quiet flower street. Even if she is making waves, she must be the one who plays the role of the tide. To go deeper, Luo Ji likes the same, all men worship her and women are jealous of her life as an oiran, and the basis of this life It's an orderly street.

"Where my brother went, I don't come out to care." She complained, "The same is true for that bastard Dazai. He is a human being who is obviously powerless, so don't go around to join in the fun."

Fallen Princess puts on a haori and runs out, just to find Dazai.

A black suit jacket and a tall and slender figure are the hallmarks of Dazai. In addition, his temperament is also different from most men. If Xiaomei has a profound knowledge of Hanology, he might be described as "stand out from the crowd".She quickly caught Dazai's back. Looking from the back, his suit was not close to the shirt, and there might be something pinned to his back waist. Not only was the line of the fabric not smooth, but it was also bulging.

Luo Ji held back all her strength, and was about to shout "Dazai" when he disappeared into the crowd.

……

"found it!"

Butterfly Ninja and Tomioka Yoshiyuki chose to take a shortcut from the secret passage behind the tea house, and they ran into Xiaozhi by mistake. To be precise, they met Ishijiro and Xiaozhi. Maybe they just finished their last battle, and they were lying on the deserted street. There are corpses in disorder.

Xiaozhi didn't know what was wrong, she was kneeling on the ground, she was gasping for breath, Butterfly could see her trembling back, the kimono was also on her body, the dull color was covered with dust, she might have rolled in the mud just now .

Ishijiro stood in front of Xiaozhi.

Tomioka Yoshiyuki took a step forward, stretched his right hand to stop Butterfly Shinobu.

The thin clouds were blown away by the wind, and the moon showed its full face. Today is the full moon, and there is only a small hole missing in the light yellow round cake. The bright moonlight is projected downward, and part of it is absorbed by the rammed wall made of loess. There are only three or two beams. fall on people's faces.

No, not a human face...

Half crescent-shaped red lines climbed up Ishijiro's cheeks, four crescent moons on the left and four crescents on the right. The whites of his eyes were filled with blood, and the brown-black pupils were tightened and set.

ghost!

Xiaozhi finally came back to her senses, she turned her head as if feeling something, and met Die Die's astonished face.

The scars and flames were wiped clean, and what came into her eyes was Zhang Xiumei's face, with a raised nose and smiling eyes.The twigs have a vivid beauty.

Tomioka Yoshiyuki and Butterfly Shinobu put their hands on the handle of the knife.

"Pa——" two hands landed heavily on their shoulders respectively, Butterfly Ninja's shoulders shook suddenly, and Tomioka Yoshiyuki's muscles all tensed up.

"It's me." The soft breath passed over people's ears, and Osamu Dazai's magnetic voice made their hearts jump to their throats and fall back to their original places.

"Put the knife away," he said.

……

Both Ishijiro and Xiaozhi have survived the painful time of becoming a ghost. Ishijiro has a strong desire to survive, and Xiaozhi is a monster like Tong Mo.There is a tall cherry tree near Kyogokuya. It is said to be 200 years old.

The prostitute Taro sat on a long crooked branch, his legs stretched out arrogantly, and his back leaned against the uneven rough bark.

The people chasing Ishijiro and Xiaozhi quickly locked on their target. They carefully arranged people in a circle, sealed off every corner where they could escape, and surrounded the two of them.

After confirming that they could not escape with their wings, Sato and others who had been hiding behind the scenes came out. They wrapped their bodies in luxurious clothes, and their skin turned dark yellow due to long-term indulging in wine.

Before the people came, the prostitute Taro hid. He knew that the newly transformed ghost would be tortured by hunger, and there was no need to refuse the takeaway delivered to the door, especially if the takeaway was equated with the enemy.

The prostitute Taro is in a good mood. From his point of view, it is a good thing to turn Ishijiro and the others into ghosts. He sees the shadow of his brother in Ishijiro. Reached empathy with his heart of wanting to protect Xiaomei, this may be one of the most humane moments after he became a ghost.

"Okay," he said, "I agree."

"Let me tell you first, not everyone can survive the process of transforming into a ghost." The prostitute Taro said, "If you succeed, your sister's face will also be restored. If you fail, you will die."

Ishijiro said reverently, "Okay."

After the transformation, Xiaozhi's face returned to normal. Ishijiro hugged his sister who was still immersed in the aftertaste of pain. He felt that the big stone pressing on his chest was easily removed. Even if Sato's servants approached him, it would not affect his wellbeing Feeling.

The new nails are strong and sharp, and can easily cut a big hole in a person's neck. His figure is as nimble as a ghost, and he recklessly harvests people's lives with sharp teeth and claws.After a while, more than half of the people fell down.

In the beginning, in order to catch the turtle in the urn, Sato blocked all the escape intersections, so that after Ishijiro's transformation was successful, a brutal massacre took place here.

When Butterfly endured them and rushed over, they saw only daggers and axes stained with human blood. Most of them were lying on the ground, some were fucking, and some were uttering babbles of unknown meaning.

[Twig also becomes a ghost. ]

[and……"

Ishijiro's appetite was very good, perhaps instigated by the flames of vengeance, he almost ate up his enemy, his pale face was stained with large swathes of blood, and an unprecedented amount of power circulated in his body.He is full of pride and thinks that he can do anything and succeed in anything.

He gnawed on the bones of the human being, and the twig recovered, so he left the most nutritious piece of meat for the twig.

"Kacha Kacha—" Butterfly Shinobu's teeth were chattering up and down, and Dazai's hands held them tightly, preventing them from taking a step forward.

[What does he want to do? ]

Finally, Twigs also recovered, and they still had memories and human sanity for the time being. Ishijiro said to Dazai almost as if negotiating conditions: "Let us go out, let us get out of here, you are not my opponent." He was full of enthusiasm , sighing for his adventure, even imagining the bright future of himself and Xiaozhi.

[We can all survive. ]

[Live long and long. ]

He has no enmity with Dazai, and he has not been eroded by hunger right now, so he is not going to eat Dazai. He seems to have a lot of humanity left.

"Okay, okay." Dazai still supported Die Nin and their shoulders with both hands, and at the same time secretly exerted force, as if to say, "Leave it all to me, don't make any small moves."

Later, he bent down slightly, and said to the two children at a very fast speed: "Run out of the alley immediately, don't look back, remember to behave like a frightened ordinary person."

"Don't expose, don't show the sun wheel knife."

[etc. ]

Butterfly opened his eyes wide: [What does he mean, is it possible that he wants to face the ghost alone?They are obviously not Ghost Slayer swordsmen. ]

Many thoughts swirled in her mind, whether she should listen to Dazai's arrangement, or perform the duties of a ghost swordsman, Xiaozhi and the others were still human just now, and they transformed humans into ghosts, that is to say...

[There are high-ranking ghosts here!It's very likely that it's Ghost Mai Tsuji! ]

This thought made her tremble all over, hatred was the majority, and the remaining rationality reminded herself that none of them were opponents of Oni Wu Tsuji.

"!"

Dazai Osamu lightly patted Yoshiyuki Tomioka on the shoulder, and the latter pulled Butterfly Ninja and ran away when prompted.

"!!!"

……

Backtracking to the first day in Kyoto, Dazai sat on the wooden veranda facing the courtyard. There were three pines and cypresses ten meters in front of him. Dazai’s sitting posture had nothing to do with being upright. .

Yoshiyuki Tomioka sat beside him, meditating deeply.

"I need you to promise me one thing." He said suddenly.

"?"

Dazai stared into the distance, he might not be admiring the scenery in the courtyard, his sight focused on one point, and it continued to extend with the gradual change of light and shadow, extending to the distant future.

"I hope things don't get to that point, but if it happens, you have to follow my instructions." The understated tone couldn't hide the toughness of the content, "When I need you to escape, please don't act alone. Yong, thinking that your weak strength can bring me help, it will only give me a headache on how to take you out intact."

[Unclear meaning, absolutely no idea what he's talking about. ]

Yoshiyuki Tomioka said, "Why?"

The man said casually: "In order to cut off fate."

……

The prostitute Taro narrowed his eyes, and in just a few seconds, the scene had a new change. The two small oil bottles Dazai brought were like common, bold ordinary people who, under the gesture of their elders, walked away. Running, this made the prostitute Taro feel a little relieved, and dispelled the last doubt that they were ghost swordsmen.

They showed calmness that didn't match their age, and they carried guns at the moment the ban on knives was issued. The above two points made him very vigilant.

But now, the prostitute Taro reluctantly let go of his heart, and he devoted all his attention to Dazai.

[What is he going to do?Pretending not to see? ]

The prostitute Taro doesn't quite believe that Dazai's appearance here is just to revisit his old place. Of course, with Dazai's attitude towards him and Xiaomei, he can also be believed that he is definitely not the group of swordsmen who want to kill ghosts when they see them.

Even at this point, the prostitute Taro subconsciously believed that it was absolutely impossible for Dazai to hurt him and Xiaomei.

[We can barely be considered a family. ]

[How can a family kill each other? ]

"!"

Ishijiro's pupils shrank suddenly, and so did the prostitute Taro.

A [-]cm Wakizashi pierced Ishijiro's chest, and the imprint of killing the evil spirits disappeared in a long time. Gracefully, as if watching an Imperial Theater performance, he drew the blade from Ishijiro's chest.

[No way... moved...] Ishijiro was stunned by the sudden change. He remembered that the prostitute Taitong said to himself that as long as he was not beheaded, the ghost would not be fatally injured, but the short and sharp Wakizawa , I don't know whether it was poisoning or other treatment methods, from the moment the knife tip pierced his chest, Ishijiro became weak, and the sense of powerlessness dissipated from his chest to the surrounding area.

Blood splashed everywhere.

Dazai raised his head and smiled at the prostitute Taro.

It seems to be saying: [Look, I killed the reincarnation of fate that is incomparably similar to yours. ]

[Use a sun wheel knife. ]