[Bungo Stray Dog Kunita] Industry

Chapter three a pebble

According to Dazai's information last night, Kunikida privately asked some colleagues about the Director Sugi of the Academic Affairs Office today, and the result of the inquiry was not much different from Dazai's information.Many teachers also have a lot of opinions on him, but due to his collusion with the local government, if he doesn't like it, he will make things difficult for the teachers, and even Principal Sasaki will give him three points.

These facts made Kunikida determined not to let Director Sugi go, but he did not tell these teachers the details of what happened in Tsushima behind the scenes.Openly cooperating with Sugi before he really got the handle on him would not do him any good in the whole incident, so although Kunikida was indignant, he was still very calm and did not let anyone notice his anger.

Dazai will take care of it if he collects evidence. It might be better to say that Dazai is better at these aspects than himself, and what he has to do now...

"School is over, why don't you go home?" Kunikida found the lonely boy on the grass by the river. Kunikida thought about how to speak for a long time, but the first sentence he said seemed to follow his instinct. A didactic atmosphere.

Kunikida slapped himself on the forehead inwardly.There are obviously more and better ways to speak, so why do you still say this?

"...Why are you here?" The young man tilted his eyes to look at the person walking towards him, and muttered in a low voice.

The slowly setting sun stretched the boy's alone shadow very long, as if he was struggling to chase something and stretched towards the clear river.The teenager sat on the grass and hugged his knees tightly.

"Do you like coffee?" Kunikida walked up to the young man, looked at the sparse grass, then looked at his newly made suit, sighed, sat down neatly beside the young man, and took out the He took out a can of drink and put it in front of the boy.

"No need." The boy named Shuji Tsushima replied in a lifeless tone.

"Is that so, I'm sorry." Kunikida said naturally, pulled off the lid of the coffee and took a sip, "I have a friend, although the cooking is terrible, but the skill of making coffee is amazing."

"Teacher's... friend?" The topic seemed to finally pique Tsushima's interest, and he lifted his chin from his knees and turned to look at his teacher, somewhat surprised.

Although the person next to him became his homeroom teacher for a day, Tsushima inexplicably felt that he was not annoying.

"That's right." Kunikida held the coffee can with his hands on his knees, looked at the calmly flowing river, and said in a light, flat but joyful tone, "Although he is usually very noisy, he also said just now that the cooking is terrible. , always have a hippie smile on his face, which makes people feel that he has no serious time, yes, from time to time, he also resorts to tricks of suicide such as jumping into rivers, jumping off buildings, hanging himself and drowning."

"Suicide...?" Hearing the teacher's description of that friend, Tsushima was a little surprised at the strangeness of this person.

"That's right, I don't know how many times I've saved him since I met him." Kunikida said, smiling helplessly, but Tsushima felt that the teacher's smile seemed to contain other deeper feelings emotion.

"However, he is very trustworthy." In the end, Kunikida raised his head and drank the coffee in his hand, and said in a firm voice.

"Is that so... What a strange person..." Tsushima looked at the firm and trusting expression on Kunikida's face, and unconsciously felt a layer of sadness in his heart.He looked away, and said in despair, "But, that's great. For a person like me, it's definitely impossible..."

"So what if it's you?" Kunikida knocked on Tsushima's head with the coffee can, and then stood the coffee can on his head. Tsushima moved his neck unnaturally, and the coffee can fell off , Tsushima instinctively caught it.

"Ka-ka-ka-" The metal can began to distort and deform in Jin Dao's hands, making a crackling sound. A trace of panic flashed across Jin Dao's face, and then he let go of his hand calmly, letting the twisted can fell on the grass.

"... Such an ominous ability." Tsushima said, burying his face in his palms, "Why is it aging, why not the ability to become younger and brand new? Why is it just me?" Tsushima's voice began to change Getting excited, he scratched his face fiercely with both hands, his expression became ferocious, and his tone became weird, "If it can make me age like this, right, then I can say sorry to Teacher Uejima gone?"

"Don't do this." Kunikida looked at Tsushima's collapsed state, shook his head distressedly, and then grabbed his wrist.

"!! Please let me go!! It will change—" Tsushima struggled to get rid of Kunikida, but the other party was too strong, and he was interrupted before half of what he said in panic.

"It won't change." Kunikida said calmly without hesitation. After hearing this, Tsushima calmed down a little. He opened his lips slightly and tried his best to breathe. Then he looked at Kunikida, who was still pulling him hand, but his appearance did not change at all.

"You don't want to hurt me in your heart, so this ability won't work on me." Kunikida said confidently, looking at Tsushima's shocked appearance.

When the other party was finally able to breathe steadily, Kunikida let go of his hand, "Calm down?"

"Well... I'm sorry." Tsushima clasped his hands tightly, his body shrank a little, "but why..."

Kunikida thought for a while, stood up, walked to the clear river, picked up a palm-sized pebble from the cold water, and returned to Tsushima.

"Hold it." Kunikida put the pebble in Tsushima's hand.

"Teacher?" Tsushima looked up at him suspiciously.

"Try with your ability." Kunikida adjusted his glasses, the lenses reflected a faint light in the setting sun.

"En..." Tsushima replied half-knowingly, and then stared at the stone in his hand, thinking silently in his heart to let it age, but after a long time, the stone has quietly Lying in Tsushima's hands, it seemed to be mocking him.

"Why?" Tsushima opened his eyes slightly, and his tone was full of surprise, "There is no... change."

"Actually, there is a change." Kunikida took the pebble from Tsushima's hand, "It's just that the change is so slight that it's not easy to notice. As for why, what do you think?"

"I don't know..." Tsushima lowered his head, looking dazed.

"Because the age of this pebble is much, much longer than the combined ages of you and me." Kunikida walked to the river, put the pebble flat on the palm of his hand, and threw it into the river.

one two three four.

Damn, it's still not as good as Dazai...

"Although it itself is very ordinary, it has accumulated an admirable disposition not to be moved by foreign objects through years of precipitation." Kunikida clapped his hands, and looked sideways at Tsushima, "So your ability, yes It's just painless."

"Don't be moved by foreign objects..." Tsushima murmured and repeated a few words, his eyes on the sparkling water, thoughtful.

"It's the same with us. If we can have a firm heart like a rock, then nothing can shake us. Including your ability.

"Kunikida walked to Tsushima's side, and picked up the briefcase he had put on the ground, "Speaking of which, it's not early today, so it's okay if I don't need to take you back. After finishing speaking, he patted his wrinkled suit pants, frowned slightly and sighed, and prepared to walk upstream along the river.

"Teacher, please wait a moment!" Tsushima hurriedly stood up and asked loudly the question that has been bothering him since just now, "Aren't you... not afraid? Why?"

"Afraid of what?" Kunikida stopped walking and turned his head when he heard the sound, the expression on his face was genuine without any false doubts.

"Afraid... of my ability...?" Seeing Kunikida's serious and simple doubts, Tsushima suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

"I believe you." It turned out that he was talking about being afraid, Kunikida suddenly realized, and then he answered the boy very solemnly, and then took out a notebook and a pen from his briefcase, "And——"

"And?" Tsushima blinked, watching the teacher's puzzling behavior - including the huge word "ideal" on the notebook.

Alone Yinke with different abilities

coffee can

"We are the same." Tsushima stared wide-eyed as the teacher tore off a piece of paper from the notebook, and in an instant, a can of coffee was created, but the paper disappeared.The facts in front of him caused huge waves in his heart. He blinked several times in a row but didn't react until Kunikida threw the coffee in his hand, and Tsushima caught it in a daze. When he recovered, he wanted to say When something happened, Kunikida was already gone.

Tsushima looked at the intact and unopened coffee can in his hand, feeling a little different from usual, so he tried to shake it——

"empty."

And Kunikida on the other side.

"...Wait, what did I just write?" After walking for a long time, he suddenly realized something was wrong, Kunikida frowned and pondered, "The coffee can...why does it feel a bit strange..."

"Didi——" The constant ringtone rang in the briefcase, and Kunikida turned on the phone.

"Hey, how about the investigation—"

"Kunikida-kun, help me!"

"Huh...?" Dazai's exclamation on the other end of the phone reached Kunikida's eardrums, and he carefully discerned that behind Dazai's voice were words like "Found it!", "Here!", "Stop!", "Don't run!" and other shouts, but there was no nervousness in Dazai's call for help just now, Kunikida felt that he must have had a good time.

"Kunikida-kun, I'm being hunted down right now! Hurry up and help me!" Kunikida wanted to reply, "You sound like you're being hunted down?", but he still sighed habitually , and asked in a helpless voice: "Where are you?"

"That... I'm not familiar with Hakodate, wait until I see something similar to a landmark..." Judging from the tone of his voice, Dazai must be looking around leisurely, "Well... several intersections are connected together, and there is a 711, There is a bungalow next to it, and in front of the bookstore opposite the bungalow is a... young man with long silver hair. Oh no! They are chasing after him! Anyway, Kunikida-kun, hurry over here, that's it!"

"Beep—beep—" a busy tone came from the handset.

"Hi!" Kunikida snapped the phone cover angrily.

Crossroads, 711, bungalows, bookstores, youth...

What the hell is this?

Even so, Kunikida opened the map of Hakodate that he carried with him.

Seeing Dazai having a great time, I guess I haven't got anything for dinner today, so let's stop by later to see what to buy.

Kunikida was thinking to himself while looking for the place Dazai mentioned on the map.

Dazai here.

"Wow~~ What an amazing formation!" Dazai glanced out of the corner of his eye while running, and glanced at a large group of heavily armed people chasing after him, talking freely.

He ran closer to the bookstore that Kunikida had talked about on the phone just now, and finally saw the person standing in front of the bookstore clearly.

He didn't run around aimlessly. There are many big families in this area. If one or two families can be dragged into the water, this matter will get more attention.

However, judging from the current situation, even if some big families cannot be dragged into trouble, it would be good to get help from the people in front of them, so Dazai decided——

"Yo~ Mr. Tsuji, long time no see~"

While running, Dazai waved and shouted at the people standing in front of the bookstore.

"?" The silver-haired young man heard the noise behind him and thought it was just a routine struggle between local gangs, so he still kept his head down and read the book, but he couldn't help but be surprised by such a voice at this moment. , So he raised his head from the book and looked in the direction of the sound.

"What a coincidence~" Dazai ran towards Rencheng, and behind his smile was a group of murderous people.

"Brothers! Go!"

Such an order came from the crowd, and immediately everyone rushed towards Dazai and Nisei.

"I have nothing to do with him."

Rencheng knew that it would be useless to say such things now, not to mention that he couldn't say that it had nothing to do with this matter.So he just sighed helplessly, then put a hand to his lips and cleared his throat.

"~"

A melodious singing voice flowed from the young man's well-shaped lips.

Ability PIANISSIMO

The melodious melody rang in his ears, but Dazai felt the drowsiness enveloping his whole body in an instant, and he hurriedly tried his best to stabilize his mind.

Disqualification

"Hmph, I've known your kid's ability for a long time, I've already plugged my ears, don't underestimate me!" The leader raised the bat in his hand and threw it at Rencheng viciously.

"Really." Rencheng stopped singing when he saw that the other punks had lost their ability to move under the influence of his supernatural power, and replied indifferently to the leading sentence with arrogance, and then maintained the posture of putting his hands in his trouser pockets. Remember to sweep and kick and kick the leader of the punks

Fly crashed into the electric pole on the side of the road.

"Wow~~ Mr. Tsuji is very skilled!" Dazai praised while clapping his hands.

"It seems to be the same as my intelligence." Rencheng didn't even look at the little gangster who hit the electric pole, he turned his gaze to Dazai, raised his eyebrows indistinctly, "Your supernatural ability can make other superhuman Ability is invalid."

"As expected of Mr. Tsuji." Dazai spread his hands.

"I'm an intelligence agent, that's all." Rencheng looked at Dazai without any emotion on his face, and his tone was calm.

Hakodate's informant-san is really good too.

Dazai affirmed it in his heart, and before he said anything, Rencheng had already seen through his intentions.

"Now that I know Mr. Tsuji's position, I feel relieved." So Dazai also skillfully put on his workplace smile mask to respond.

"Dazai!!" At this time, a familiar voice came from across the street. Dazai and Nissei followed the voice and saw that Kunikida was running towards him.

"What the hell is going on here... who is this?" Kunikida glanced at the crowd not far away who were staggered and bumped into a pole, and then at Dazai and the young man standing beside him, Puzzled.

"Let me introduce you." Dazai walked between the two, and first said to Rencheng, "Mr. Tsuji, he belongs to the same armed detective agency, my colleague and roommate, Kunikida Doppo." Then he faced Kunikida again, " Kunikida-kun, this is Hakodate's informant, Mr. Tsuji Jinsei, your creditor~"

"Tsuji Jincheng, please advise me." Rencheng stretched out his hand to Kunikida, and Kunikida also looked at him. For some reason, he felt that he saw sympathy for himself in the other person's eyes.

"Hi, I'm Kunikida Doppo, I'm sorry my idiot has caused you trouble again." Kunikida felt that if he felt right about the sympathy, it must be aimed at Dazai, and, looking at the distance Dazai and Mr. Tsuji Rencheng were unharmed by the group of people who fell on the ground, and they can guess what happened. In short, it is right to apologize for Dazai first.

"Then, I guess I will bother Mr. Tsuji in the future, I hope we can cooperate happily~" Makoto Dazai said Kunikida's apology was his own apology and the other party readily accepted it, "I'm bothering Mr. Tsuji today, There will be a period later~"

Saying that, he pulled Kunikida to leave.

"Hey, Dazai." Kunikida still wanted to say something worried.

"It's not convenient to talk about a lot of things here, Mr. Tsuji thinks so too." Dazai turned his head to look at Rencheng, and smiled meaningfully.

"Whatever you want." Rencheng's attitude did not change, he said something naturally, and then he was going to continue reading the unfinished magazine on the shelf outside the bookstore.

"Then let's go home, Kunikida-kun~" Dazai then happily pulled Kunikida towards the direction of the return journey, but before he left, he suddenly remembered something, stopped a little, turned his face sideways, and looked at the bookshelf The person in front said, "By the way, I almost forgot, Mr. Tsuji's singing voice is great."

Afterwards, Kunikida and the bewildered-looking Kunikida gradually drifted away on the hillside where the setting sun was shining.

It's a bit delicate to describe a scene like this, Ren Cheng watched the back of the two leaving.Finally, he smiled lightly.

Even if it is insincere.He was very happy to hear someone praise his singing again.

He once formed a band himself and acted as the lead singer.At the beginning, everything went smoothly and I accumulated a lot of fans, but I don’t know when it started, every time the band’s concert started, not only the audience, but also other members of the band began to sleep, in desperation , the band changed the lead singer, but after such a toss, the popularity of the band gradually declined and eventually disbanded.

It was not until later that Rencheng realized that it was the influence of his own supernatural ability. Later, he stopped singing easily, and almost no one heard his singing anymore.

However, Dazai is immune to his ability, if it is him, if he can control this power one day.

Inseong picked up the newly released "J-box" magazine on the bookshelf, and read it seriously.

Give it a try if you get a chance.

Inseong thought about it seriously.

in the mall.

"What did you do so that a large group of people followed you?" Kunikida asked the excited person beside him in a resigned tone while carefully selecting fresher vegetables from the leftover vegetables.

"It was a very simple provocation. I didn't expect that director Shanmu to be so impatient, but I also understood his confidence." Dazai juggled the three potatoes in his hand, his tone was very relaxed, "If you give me a comment, it is unprofessional." Then he caught two potatoes that fell with his right hand, and one with his left hand, leaning gently on the shelf, and said to Kunikida in a very dazzling pose, "compared to It was far behind in Yokohama."

"Even so, it's too dangerous to rashly test without knowing the details of the other party, at least tell me." Kunikida stared at a cauliflower in his hand, observing carefully.

"That's why I called you later." Dazai put the potatoes back into Kunikida's cart, with a little grievance in his voice.

"You cut it first and played it later, it's completely different from the advance notice, okay?" Kunikida held his glasses, and the light reflected from the lens glared fiercely at Dazai.

"Understood, I won't do it again in the future." Dazai nodded solemnly, although Kunikida knew that there was no difference between whether he was solemn or not.

"Kunikida-kun is tired of pushing so many things, I'll help you." Dazai's eyes lit up suddenly, and he pushed Kunikida aside to push the cart by himself.

"Aren't you sick?"

If it was the former Kunikida, maybe he would still ask this question, but the current Kunikida——

"What do you want to eat?" He sighed and asked naturally.

"Kunikida-kun is amazing! You'll know it right away!" Dazai pretended to be fussy and said, but in fact he was happy as expected, "Then I want to eat omelet rice!"

"No, too much fried rice is not nutritious." Kunikida dismissed Dazai's proposal without hesitation.

"Eh... But I really want to eat it, and I haven't eaten it for a long time..." Dazai's mood suddenly became depressed.

"If you say no, eat something else."

"I really want to eat..."

"No."

"Kunikida-kun..."

"No."

"Country, wood, field, king~~"

"..."

——The sound effect of Gulu Gulu rolls over, and the screen changes——

"I knew Kunikida-kun was the best!" Dazai said while watching Kunikida standing patiently in front of the kitchen counter with an apron on, waiting for the oil to be cooked, and squeezed happily to his side.

"This is the kitchen, don't move around." Even though he was present, he still couldn't rest assured that Dazai was in the kitchen, so he looked at him seriously and said.

"I promise not to move anything!" Dazai said, stretched out his hand and patted Kunikida's shoulder, faced him directly, and solemnly swore, "I'll just watch Kunikida-kun's cooking process right here."

"You don't want to learn, do you?" Kunikida's heart skipped a beat, God, please take back Dazai's idea of ​​wanting to learn cooking.

"Let me take a look first. If it's interesting, it's okay to learn. If it's boring, forget it~" Dazai raised his eyebrows, and replied naturally.

"Ha...then just watch, I'll make fried rice first, first..." Kunikida explained the process in a lifeless tone, hoping to dispel Dazai's interest as soon as possible.

"Uh-huh."

"Then……"

"Oh……"

Dazai watched Kunikida explain the cooking process seriously, and nodded in response from time to time. The hand on Kunikida's shoulder never let go, and then it got entangled in Kunikida's braid whether it was intentional or unintentional.

Kunikida's hair was wrapped around the third knuckle of Dazai's middle finger, and the slightly dim orange light shone on it, reflecting soft light and shining golden promises.

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