[Comprehensive] Pass me the fire

I accepted this girl named "Silver" and brought her into the archives.After Ango Sakaguchi went on a business trip to Italy, this place was left to me to do whatever I wanted, and the facilities inside were basically replaced by me—a bed for people to rest at ease, a soft sofa, and a short table full of various snacks and tea sets. Desk, small fridge... Well, it has become a livable place for the time being.

Nao Wu was still lying on the ground bitterly gnawing on the children's primer-it finally learned the second volume-after hearing the movement, he immediately stared at Yin next to me warily.

Facing Naowu, Yin flinched in fear at first, and then stood in front of me as if to show his loyalty.

"This is Naowu, you don't have to be afraid." I said in a low voice, and then briefly said to Naowu: "Naowu, she is Yin."

Nao Wu quickly lost interest in her.It generally only responds to my commands, and other than that, it seems to be unresponsive to everything outside.

I raised my hand, gently supported my chin, and glanced up and down at Yin with no expression on my face. The latter was a little uncomfortable by me, so I had to lower my head slightly.I said, "Well... let's take a shower first, I have spare clothes here."

Yin blinked and was taken aback for a moment: "...Huh?"

The archive room has a separate bathroom, which was specially requested by Ango Sakaguchi before, because sometimes he would work overtime all night, so he simply arranged simple living equipment in the working place.This is also convenient for me. Since I can live in this archive room for a long time, I have reduced the number of times I go back to the residence that Mori Ogai prepared for me-who would want to go to a place full of surveillance?

As if trying to save me trouble, Silver came out of the white steaming bathroom after a while, like a wet puppy.

She was pinching the corner of her over-long white blouse, water was dripping from her black hair little by little, and a somewhat embarrassed expression appeared on her beautiful face, as if as long as I didn't speak, she could keep silent Fa, stayed in place in a daze.

I took a clean towel and waved to her.

She blinked, and immediately trotted over, leaving a series of dark watermarks behind her.

I dried her wet hair and trimmed her nails.Because the position next to each other is relatively close, as long as I move a little, my knee can touch hers, so I can clearly feel that the other party is fidgeting.

But after a while, she gradually calmed down, carefully controlled her breathing, and secretly looked at me with a look that tried not to offend me.

At this time, Naowu became inexplicably irritable, and knocked the ground hard with the book in displeasure, and the sound of bang bang bang echoed in the nearly closed file room.

"No brain, be quiet, you are too noisy." I said without looking up.

Sure enough, Naowu didn't make any weird sounds that deliberately attracted my attention. It just lay pitifully on the ground, didn't read the book, and exuded a feeling of "I knew I fell out of favor" all over the body. Autistic breath.

Yin hesitated for a moment, and said hesitantly, "That...Miss Qin, is it really okay to leave it alone?"

I shook my head, focused entirely on her nails, and replied, "It's okay, it's just messing around."

"Awkward...?" Yin looked a little dazed.

I said blankly: "The single father who has been divorced for many years suddenly brought back a young and beautiful woman from outside. No matter what you say, the child will be awkward, afraid of falling out of favor."

silver:"……"

Yin suddenly sat up straight, blushing slightly, and said dryly: "Oh, oh! Yes, I, I understand!"

After trimming her nails neatly, I paused, and began to examine her right hand carefully, and asked her abruptly, "Silver, you killed someone before you came here, right?"

"..." Yin was stunned, and subconsciously wanted to pull his right hand back from my hand, but I grabbed it tightly first.

I turned my head to look at her, and continued to say without changing my face: "Don't be nervous, killing people is the most common thing here. It makes me feel strange to come to this place if you haven't committed anything."

Yin lowered his head and thought for a while, hesitated again and again, then nodded.Seeing that I didn't respond, she whispered after a while: "But, how did Miss Qin find out...?"

"Although it's well concealed, after killing someone, your hands will feel it. You held the knife too hard, and you have not consciously maintained the posture of holding the knife until now... Well, I feel sorry for that person. I'm a little interested in the death, how many times have you stabbed him?"

"...26 knives," Yin pursed his pale lips, and whispered, "but, that person pounced on him first..."

"I didn't say you were wrong."

"……Yes."

"But I still want to remind you." I slowly put away the tools for trimming the nails, and then in front of her, while throwing the cut nails into the trash can, I said, "There's nothing inside your nails. There are blood stains. If you want to deal with it, at least clean your hands... Besides, the blood on your body is too thick."

Having said that, I stopped for a while, and then I lowered my head and leaned close to her neck that seemed to be still steaming, smelled it carefully, and said thoughtfully: "Ah...it's better now. .”

silver:"……"

Yin was sitting stiffly and motionless, with an embarrassed expression on her face, blushing, and falteringly said: "Yes, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

"...I will definitely correct it next time." She clenched her hands and solemnly assured me.

I felt a little strange, and looked at her puzzledly: "Next time? Do you want to continue killing people?"

Hearing my question, Yin seemed a little hard to answer. She opened her mouth and timidly replied, "It has nothing to do with wanting or not... As long as Miss Qin needs something, I will definitely kill anyone for you."

I said "Oh" and continued to ask her: "So, will you kill the leader for me?"

Yin was speechless for a moment, she narrowed her eyes slightly, and looked around vigilantly, as if there were countless evil spirits lurking in the shadows around her.

"Just kidding," I leaned back on the soft sofa, picked up what Odasaku gave me and continued, "I don't need you to kill anyone."

"Uh, then...then, please let me do other things for you! I will try my best to do anything for you." Silver stammered.

"It's not necessary."

Yin didn't speak anymore, she lowered her head and pursed her lips tightly. Although I couldn't see the expression on her face clearly, I could imagine the disappointed expression on her face at this moment.

"...does it satisfy you to be bossed around?" I noticed her reaction and asked, slowly turning the pages of the book.

Silver replied, "There is no value if you are not needed, and you have to be useful if you want to stay here."

I paused as I turned the page, and asked, "Who told you this sentence?"

Yin hesitated for a moment before whispering, "It's Dazai-sama."

I:"……"

I looked at her, inexplicably, suddenly felt a little pitiful for her.

"Only tools are useful," I opened my mouth, the voice was so soft that it seemed only the two of us could hear, "Do you want to be a tool more than a person?"

Yin's hands on her knees were slightly clenched. Although she lowered her head, her back, which looked weak and thin, stood straight.I heard her voice firmly reply: "As long as the tool is useful, it will not be discarded. If this is the case, I want to be a tool that is useful to you and cannot be easily discarded."

Saying so, she buried her head a little more gently, and whispered: "...please use me."

I stared at the little hairpin on her head and said to myself, "It's strange, where does your inexplicable loyalty come from?"

Her clean and fair cheeks blushed silently.

"...from the first time you saw me," Silver said, "from now on, I will be loyal to you alone."

Silver stayed with me smoothly.

She was born in a slum, and she has all the characteristics of that place. She is silent and firm, with a shy personality but unsurprisingly strong. She is the type who grasps at the straw before death and will never let go even if she dies—in her Looks like I guess I was the lifesaver, if I hadn't kept her, she would be assigned to the bottom of the port mafia by now, not a good place for a little girl, worth getting 26 knives from her There are too many people.

Yin quickly took care of my food and daily life conscientiously, and gradually began to develop towards Mori Ogai 2.0, persuading me to play less games and go out more to exercise my body.

...Ah, could it be that I'm really too nerdy?

In other words, my game friend Blast Killer has also A game recently, saying that he is preparing for exams or something... I thought he was a bad boy who hated studying and went around looking for people to fight in order to get to the top of the school. It turned out to be a A good student with excellent academic performance.

...Ah, wait, am I the only one who stays at home with nothing else in mind?

However, few people usually come to such a remote archive room. Speaking of which, I haven't met a stranger for a long time.

Except for a certain face-to-face teenager.

The young boy with a strange face has come to the archives room frequently recently. He seems to be a newcomer to the port mafia. He is full of energy to climb up, so he will come to the archives room from time to time to get the materials needed for the task.

He looked younger than me, underage, and handsome, but his body was not in good shape, his face was abnormally pale, and he coughed a few sporadic coughs when he checked the materials in the archives room.In addition, every time he comes here, he always has injuries on his body. The last time he had bruises on his forehead, the next time the bruises were healed, but the corner of his mouth was damaged. He punched him mercilessly.

He has a taciturn personality, exudes an indifference that rejects people thousands of miles away from him, and I didn't bother him too much. When I knew that his name was Akutagawa Ryunosuke and that he was Dazai Osamu's subordinate, it was already a while later. something happened.

On this day, he still came to the archives room to get the materials needed for the task as usual, but when I registered, he glanced towards the sofa a few times.

I noticed his movements, and while registering, I said without looking up: "For Yin, she went out to help me buy taiyaki. Wait here for another 15 minutes and you can see her."

"It has nothing to do with me." He said in a cold voice, he seemed to realize something, and looked at me with more hostility and guard.

"If you want to hide your relationship, don't make your caring gestures so obvious," I said blankly, "You have come to me so many times, do you really think I can't see it?"

Akutagawa Ryunosuke: "..."

He didn't speak, and turned his head away.

It was precisely this movement that allowed me to clearly see a few more wounds on his face—ah, it looks a bit serious this time, a slight misalignment of the wound at that position would make him blind.

I held my cheek with one hand, pointed to the wound on his face, and said, "There are more wounds. It seems that you really don't like the boss."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke was like a cat whose tail was stepped on, with an expression of annoyance on his face. He reflexively covered the wound, and retorted me recklessly: "It has nothing to do with you, don't act like that." I know Mr. Dazai very well."

"It really doesn't matter..." I tilted my head, "But your wound may infect your eyes if you don't take care of it."

"This kind of thing doesn't matter."

"……what?"

"I will keep the wound that Mr. Dazai personally brought to me." Akutagawa Ryunosuke said seriously.

I:"…………"

I said blankly: "Ah, that's it, I understand, I completely understand."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke: "???"

"That guy wants to use the pain of the wound to remind you to remember better, but seeing you like this, I guess you will make the same mistake next time and make him unhappy." I said.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke frowned, and looked at me with more hostility: "I've already said, don't act like you understand Mr. Dazai very well!"

I put the registration form back in the drawer indifferently, took out the book that Odasaku lent me, and said: "15 minutes is enough for you to treat the wound. The medical kit is on the top of the cabinet. Maybe after it is processed You can still eat taiyaki, don’t worry, I won’t eavesdrop on your conversation.”

"How about it?" I slowly raised my eyes and glanced at him, "Do you want to stay?"

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