Yokohama First Reconstruction Division

Damp water vapor spread in from the open window, and the rainwater slipped from Dazai's dark brown hair, landed on the drenched skirt, and then gently rolled down to the floor.

The room was as dark as night, like a thick layer of mist, silently hatching a crisis.

If Dazai hadn't just watched Shiraki return home with his own eyes, he would have suspected that no one had been here for a long time.It is completely different from the feeling when the light is sufficient during the day, and there is no breath of life in this house now.

Dazai, who came uninvited, rubbed the light switch on the wall. Before he found the switch, the clouds outside rubbed a silent glare again, illuminating the layout of the kitchen between lightning and flint.

When Osamu Dazai looked up, he happened to see a person hanging upside down from the ceiling a few meters away.

The moment the thunder light lit up, Osamu Dazai saw a pale human face, with rows of red moles in a special arrangement on this face, oozing a color like fresh blood.At the moment when the lightning hit his face, Osamu Dazai saw his snake-like red pupils that stood up due to the stimulation of the strong light, which was not like a living person at all.

Dazai was stunned, and after a while, he said in an envious tone: "...that's amazing, can you teach me how to hang myself upside down?"

Ayaki tired: "...?"

The person who broke in was so strange, Tired decided not to talk nonsense, just start fighting.

And at this time, Dazai, who was unexpectedly sensitive, seemed to have noticed a gust of wind blowing towards his face in this stagnant space, so he put his hands in the pockets of his windbreaker leisurely, and jumped a long distance backwards with a light and nimble figure. .

He reacted just in time. The ground where he was originally standing suddenly cracked a few cracks, and the floor tile was instantly ground into fine powder by an invisible force.

In the process of dodging backwards, Dazai turned on the light conveniently, and he could clearly see Ayaki Rei's attack method—strips of slender and almost indistinguishable spider silk spewed out from his fingertips, which obviously looked so soft Things, but possesses destructive power beyond imagination.

As for the child in front of Shiraki's house, Dazai didn't notice it before, he seemed to appear here quietly, without any foreshadowing.

And based on Dazai's understanding of Shiraki, Shiraki would not easily let others freely enter and leave his residence.

So this little kid...was an intruder too?

The white-haired child in front of him had strange pupil and hair colors. He looked very young, but he possessed such deadly attack methods that he could control the direction of the spider's silk at will.

During the two days when Ayaki was left alone at home, he really fulfilled the agreement he had made with Baimu when he left—staying at home obediently and never going out once.

The long-term fasting hunger made his sense of smell extremely sensitive, and he could even smell the flesh and blood of human beings passing by across the street.

But again and again...he didn't go out from that door, this was his agreement with Bai Mu, and it was also his monitoring of himself.

He held back.

It's just that Bai Mu, who hadn't been able to see Bai Mu all this time after a farewell at midnight the day before yesterday, watched him hurried into the utility room before he had time to say a few words to Bai Mu.

So Ayaki knew that Bai Mu would use scientific means to enter the basement that he couldn't find the entrance at home.

Then his responsibilities remained unchanged—during this period of time, he was responsible for keeping an eye on Shiraki's home.All the uninvited guests who dared to break into Bai Mu's house were restrained by himself.

Starting from the kitchen, the nimble Dazai jumped all the way to the living room, and the fight with Ayaki Lei made a huge noise in the room, but the strange thing is that Shiraki never appeared as if he didn't hear it.

So Dazai searched around the house, but couldn't find Shiraki anywhere.

Dazai thought thoughtfully—would Shiraki disappear in his own home?

He just saw Bai Mu walking home with his own eyes, and after only a few minutes, he disappeared?

It seems that the mystery about Baimu, the part that he has already solved, is just the tip of the iceberg, and Xiao Baimu hides more secrets than he imagined.

……Interesting.

With his hands in his pockets, Dazai dodged several attacks in a row, and raised his voice: "Shiraki~~Xiao Shiraki, it's me. Come out, your house is going to be demolished again, this time it has nothing to do with me .”

Upon hearing this, Ayaki was tired and froze.

But his pause made Osamu Dazai judge in an instant that this brat seemed unwilling to destroy Shiraki's home furnishings.In the next attack, Ayaki Lei carefully avoided it, as if he really loved the white wood furniture.

This will not be Shiraki's enemy.The reasoning analysis made by Dazai was completed in almost one second.

Just like Dazai's inference on Shiraki's character before, after he wandered into his house several times, with Xiao Shiraki's scheming and ability, he would never indulge and acquiesce in his behavior like this.

If it was just a premonition before, now Dazai is more and more sure of one thing - Shiraki has far beyond common sense vigilance and care for this house. Insurance measures... For example, the child with astonishing lethality in front of him.

Moreover, Shiraki will disappear in his own home.

It's getting more and more interesting.

Dazai began to avoid direct confrontation with Ayaki Lei. He had already guessed that this was a surprise gift that Shiraki left at his home to deal with himself, a person with nullified abilities.

After drawing this inference, Dazai concluded that Ayaki Rei's attack method is not a possibility of supernatural powers, so he did not easily touch the spider silk to trigger the disqualification in the world, and thus avoided the possibility of his claws being cut off by the spider silk Dire fate.

Dazai's mental attack has worked. Although Ayaki knows that Shiraki has the power of "science" and can rebuild the house that was smashed into a mess at any time, he is not willing to bring trouble to Shiraki because of his mistakes.

After all, he looked so tired when he just came home.

Dazai dodged Ayaki Lei's attack carelessly, his attitude of wandering around Shiraki's house and leisurely like a grocery shopping scene at the entrance of the vegetable market made the ghost very unhappy.

The smell of flesh and blood so close at hand stimulated Ayaki's tired nerves, and he even thought, since he delivered it to the door by himself, then... let's eat this person.

Ayaki tired activated the blood ghost technique.

The blood-red spider silk looked a bit ominous, and Dazai instinctively made a decision to avoid danger.Just as he was thinking about whether he should hide in the utility room with the door closed, or jump out through the back window, walk around the house and come in through the main entrance, the door of the utility room beside him was suddenly pushed open without warning. opened.

Just as Dazai turned his head, blood-stained spider threads fell down everywhere.

"Material reconstruction, break." The last ray of starlight behind Bai Mu, which has not dissipated, gently pounced on and attached to the spider silk that came all over the sky, changing the existence form of the spider web.

A red snow flickered down from mid-air.

When he saw Shiraki clearly, Osamu Dazai was slightly taken aback.

Looking from the door, the utility room was pitch black and bottomless, but Bai Mu leaned against the door to block his sight, even his eyes turned red.

Shiraki, who had just done emergency maintenance for Oda's body and consumed all his abilities, is now too tired to walk.The high-intensity fatigue for several days and the weakness after recovering from a serious illness made every cell in his body clamoring for an immediate rest.

Shiraki's energy was exhausted, he had given up on pursuing Dazai's method of picking the lock and ran in this time, and asked directly: "What else do you need?"

The rain-wet hair was stuck to Dazai's forehead, and the iris-colored eyes peeked out from the messy hair, looking at him with faint confusion.

But he still didn't say anything, took two unexpected steps back, walked into the next bathroom, and took a clean tissue from it.

Dazai approached him unhurriedly, lowered his head gently, and gently wiped the corners of Shiraki's eyes with the paper in his hand.

He even always remembered carefully controlling the contact distance between his fingers and Shiraki's cheek, when the bandaged wrist was raised in front of Baimu's eyes, the rain-drenched fingers were colder than usual.

Dazai's slender fingers rested on the paper, and gently pressed under the elegant and graceful Danfeng eyelids of the person in front of him, as softly as a brush with fine and soft fluff, and smudged a touch of rouge and blood along the arc of the end of the eyes, in the dark desperate situation A three-point vitality is added to the middle.

Shiraki seemed to understand something, his expression softened, and he raised his hand to hold Dazai's hand.Their contact was only for a short moment, enough for Shiraki to snatch the tissue from his hand.

Spreading it open, he saw red blood on the white paper.

"How is your body feeling, do I need to take you to the hospital?"

Bai Mu shook his head, and calmly laughed at himself: "It seems that my case is really a part of everyone now... Don't worry, it's not that I have a heart problem, the blood pressure in the eye is congested, and the heart is in arrest. These are just excessive consumption of abilities. sequelae."

"Then just rest and recuperate. According to the recovery speed in the past... In the next two to three weeks, I will suspend all part-time jobs, stop actively consuming abilities, and spend some time recuperating... it will slowly recover."

Osamu Dazai looked down at him, the iris in his eyes rippled like rain, which was as natural and gentle as the sound of rain outside the house, as if silently conveying his own comfort.

Dazai thought that he was rarely so patient.

The heavy photo in the pocket of the windbreaker is further pointing to a certain possibility, if it is true... He doesn't mind spending more time on Bai Mu.

For a second, Shiraki suddenly remembered that Osamu Dazai is actually a man who can deceive people with his face. Just like now, the stress and vigilance in his heart for fear of revealing his flaws can slowly melt in such a pair of eyes.

Even the heart is at peace together.

After Shiraki relaxed his mind, even his eyes were a little distracted, Dazai subconsciously reached out to help him, but he still stopped within a short distance.

He said softly: "I'll find a chair and push you back to the room."

Ayaki Lei, who had been watching for a long time, suddenly said: "It's too troublesome, let me do it."

Although he is short, he has learned enough experience from the failure of carrying the white wood last time, and he will not hurt the white wood again.

Shiraki was not at home for the past two days, and Ayaki read some books from his bookshelf to pass the time. At this time, he skillfully pulled out a copy of "Design and Application of Automated Manipulator Manufacturing", opened one of the pages, and flattened the illustrations. put it on the floor.

Then he pressed his hands on the wall, and the spider silk spread on the wall like rain and mist. After a few seconds, it formed spider silk mechanical hands, like the metal claws of a claw machine, grabbing the immobile white wood from the ground.

Then Ling Mulei controlled the fluffy robotic hand to catch people in a relay manner, sent Bai Mu all the way back to his bedroom, and put him on his bed before taking back his own spider silk.

Bai Mu didn't even have any more energy to care about what these people outside were going to do. After he touched the pillow, he lost consciousness almost at the same moment.

The sound of the rain outside became more and more urgent, with no intention of stopping.If you go out at this time, you will definitely be drenched in water.

So after sending Shiraki back to his room to rest, Dazai took off his drenched trench coat, and hung it on a hook in the living room with familiarity.Then he smiled and waved to tired who was staring at him behind him, "When did Bai Mu pick up a child? Come and let me play."

From the unclear interaction between Shiraki and Dazai just now, Ayaki already saw that the man in front of him was not an enemy, so naturally he would not kill him again.Hearing this unscrupulous argument at this time, he rolled his eyes, ran back to his guest room, and closed the door.

The room was quiet again, only the sound of the rain outside the window was rushing and non-stop.

After chasing Ayaki Rei away, Dazai sat on Shiraki's sofa, took out the stack of photos from his pocket, and flipped through them one by one under the bright light.

Except for the half-torn photo with a vaguely familiar silhouette on the glass door, he couldn't find a similar figure in other photos.

Most of the photos are single photos of Shiraki. Through the layout of the pictures, it is not difficult to guess that the photographer followed and took candid shots from various angles. The time period focuses on Shiraki's ten years old. The young Shiraki was wearing a school uniform and going to school. They are full of refreshing and lovely tenderness.

Among them is a photo of Shiraki Xiatian wearing shorts in private clothes and walking on the street. His exposed legs are white and straight. This photo focuses on the angle of fear, which made Dazai stop.

After turning over the photo thoughtfully, he saw a line of words written in red paint.

"Are your legs still beautiful when you grow up? I can separate them..."

Don't read the words in the back, you probably know where it's headed.Dazai recalled the last time he pressed Shiraki on the bed, he was silent for a second, and sighed full of novelty: "Little Shiraki has no psychological shadow for intimate contact, it is very rare."

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he immediately thought, if Bai Mu really grew up beside that man when he was a child...how could he let Xiao Bai Mu suffer this kind of harm?

Dazai didn't realize the smile on his lips, he lowered his head and flipped through the photos again, seeing that he couldn't get more information, he picked out the half photo of Shiraki holding the ice cream with the best smile, and accepted it himself up.Then he went into the kitchen and set all the remaining photos on fire.

"Can't use the ability for two to three weeks...?" Dazai thought for a moment, then smiled slightly, "Thank you, Shiraki, you can rest assured."