Hong Kong and Black Undercover Ayanokoji's Handbook of Tool Man

10:21 am.

I asked Akutagawa to meet him at the cafe.

In fact, Akutagawa arrived 9 minutes earlier than the time I agreed on, but before that, I upheld the courtesy of not letting people wait for a long time, and waited at the door very early. ——Today's recommendation is "Coffee Jelly with Macadamia Nut Ice Cream", and a thin layer of coffee syrup is poured on the ice cream.

"..."

I don't know what it smells like.

I'm a little curious.

When Akutagawa arrived, he opened the door and entered the store.

When I caught sight of a figure out of the corner of my eye, I rushed into the cafe before the door automatically closed.

It is a cafe that has been open since the Showa period to the present-dark red decoration style, tea-colored glass windows, clover porcelain plates, and the aroma of flannel hand-made lattes wafting in the air.When the door is pushed open, there will be the sound of copper bells, and the white light shining into the room will become a softer yellowish brown through the glass.

"What do you want to drink?" The waiter walked up to us holding the menu.

"A cup of coffee." Akutagawa said directly.

After Akutagawa finished speaking, before I could react, my hand stopped in mid-air, and I was still in the act of taking the menu.After a pause for half a second, I withdrew my hand and said, "I am the same as him."

The waiter smiled and left with the menu in her arms. I followed her figure for a few steps with regretful eyes before taking it back.After all, this is the first time I have come to a cafe in my life. I feel that I will regret it later when ordering so sloppily.

However, it has gone far, so forget it.

I turned around and met the eyes of Ryunosuke Akutagawa who was frowning. He was clearly showing a very anxious expression.I think he is in a battle between heaven and man in his heart.Because he didn't want to see me, but he came back here because of his own heart.

I don't know if Akutagawa has the habit of swearing when he is angry.But if he really procrastinated on purpose, I think he will definitely tear me in two with the hem of his clothes that is now unwinding.

So, I handed him a photo.

Yes, I handed him a photograph, not a silver manuscript.

How to say it?

I don't think I need to order Akutagawa to obey my orders with the silver handwriting.Friendship, said Pythagoras, is a harmonious equality.I feel that I need to find a suitable balance when I get along with Akutagawa, to achieve "harmonious equality" between us, so as to develop a friendship that can be maintained for a long time.

Akutagawa saw it clearly—it was the photo I sent him before the second phone call, and immediately wanted to pick it up to look at it, but I pressed the photo with my fingers.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke glanced at me, and said with unquestionable determination, "I agree to what you said."

So, I let go of my fingers and quietly watched Akutagawa caressing the edge of the photo fondly.

That is a photo of Osamu Dazai and Chuya Nakahara working together when they were fifteen or sixteen years old.The situation at that time was that when the task was completed, the leader Mori Ogai rose up and said, "Why don't you commemorate it?", so Dazai and Nakahara took a group of photos together.

But in fact, Nakahara said that he doesn't like to take pictures, especially group photos, especially in the same frame as Osamu Dazai, but because the leader asked him to, he had to follow suit.After getting it, he put the photo in the bank safe.Because he felt that he couldn't tear them up or burn them, but he didn't want to put them under his eyes and simply lock them somewhere, so he didn't have to worry about them.

Why I got this picture is because I asked him if I could have a picture of him from before.

Zhong Yuan is very generous, and he didn't hesitate too much after hearing it, and told me where I could get it.

In fact, Zhongyuan also told me a lot of other things, most of which were not related to work, and they were all very fragmented and scattered things, just like the sporadic sunlight shining on the body through the shade of trees. care.This makes me feel that Zhongyuan is more enthusiastic, more defenseless, and more affectionate than I imagined.

Obviously, I just casually said that I am a member of "Sheep".

Personally, I don't hate such people.

I just don’t know why, I feel that I can’t get close to Zhong Yuan, let alone have the idea of ​​having a “friend” with him.Zhong Yuanzhong is too pure for me, so sometimes, I will subconsciously avoid him.

When I stared at Ryunosuke Akutagawa, who respected every word Dazai Osamu said, a strange resonance suddenly surged in my heart.

Of course, this is mostly just my personal subjective conjecture.

I was thinking, Osamu Dazai never showed any intimacy with Ryunosuke Akutagawa, not even pretending.Is it because Akutagawa's unreserved sincerity towards him also caused him to have a certain avoidance mentality?

Because the other party's feelings are pure, clean and strong, they come too fast and lack a sense of reality; but relying on one's own judgment alone, one can conclude that this is true, so the first conflict between sensibility and reason arises.

Furthermore, at the same time, we also believe that this relationship with the other party will disappear quickly because of a certain opportunity, so in order to protect ourselves from being hurt, it is the best way to never face it squarely.This is the second conflict between sensibility and rationality.

To put it simply, when it is so easy to get "good things" for no reason, the owner is the one who feels the most insecure and the most difficult to settle down.

……

Two cups of coffee have been served.

I took a sip of my cup, and before I could swallow it all, the mellow aroma filled my tongue.

It tastes so good that I am even more curious about the taste of the coffee jelly on the stand.

I almost finished drinking half of it, and saw that Akutagawa was still immersed in his own world, so I said: "Mr. Part of it stays. Doesn't matter?"

Akutagawa nodded solemnly and agreed, and devoted himself to the "dividing up" work, and finally put it in the wallet, and then began to formally cooperate with us——

Akutagawa and I were both brought into the upper echelons of gangsters by Osamu Dazai, so the tasks we have to do are naturally the tasks assigned by Osamu Dazai to everyone who is subordinate to him.Osamu Dazai has deduced that Mimic was involved in the attack on the arsenal this time.In order to recover the weapon and fight back against Mimic, everyone under Dazai's command now focuses on tracking Mimic's trail.

I am naturally no exception, and Akutagawa is no exception.

I proposed that I want to act with Akutagawa.

I don't think it conflicts too much with what Mori Ogai entrusted me with.

After all, I don't have any record of experience with firearms on paper, nor do I have a record of physical skills.In other words, I have zero experience and skills in actual combat. I need to act with an experienced person to match my personality.

Akutagawa is my senior, a lone ranger who likes to isolate himself, and is extremely destructive.

Needless to say, he was a good choice for me.

Although in his eyes, I was opportunistic in cooperating with him, but helplessly, I have a photo of Dazai that he has never seen before.Next, I also expressed that I would unconditionally obey all his arrangements.

Therefore, Akutagawa, who felt that I would not hinder him, finally agreed to let me follow.

After drinking coffee, we will officially set off.

My first stop is already set.

First of all, you have to take Akutagawa and pretend to be a Mimic to mess up the whole of Yokohama.

Before leaving, I looked at the cut out, Zhongyuan didn't want to look at the camera, only kept the side face photo, thought about it, and put it in the wallet of my mobile phone.

However, when I was going out, I accidentally received a message from Ango Sakaguchi.

I had a transmitter in his jacket that he could use to get in touch with me.He told me that André Gide did not believe him at all.Having taken the weapons from the arsenal, Gide beat him up, locked him up, and now his life was at stake.In all likelihood, our plans have died.

I thought about it, and felt that I should appease the restless Sakaguchi, so as to save him from doing unnecessary things.

So, I sent a sentence "Don't be nervous, I informed Mimic, this is a normal phenomenon".I just finished posting, and I didn't have time to read Ango Sakaguchi's reply, because Akutagawa urged me to leave quickly.

Afterwards, after a long time.

Ango Sakaguchi told me that when he saw that sentence, he wanted to kill me.

I really never thought that Ango Sakaguchi would have such an unimaginably irritable side.

Of course, this is a follow-up.

The author has something to say:

[small theater]

Ango Sakaguchi: I was deceived by Ayanokouji.

Ayanokouji: I just didn't tell you.

Ango Sakaguchi: ...