Late night eatery in Yokohama

-Cheese Tamagoyaki (final)-

When people are extremely nervous, they tend to subconsciously ignore some details around them, but such problems have never been a problem for some people.

The moment he stepped into the gate of the castle, Osamu Dazai caught a glimpse of the square door knob hanging on the lintel of the castle. There are four colors on each side of the door knob: blue, red, green and black.As if thinking of something, the young man with black curly hair suddenly smiled softly, with an intoxicating arc on his lips.

"...Have you found something?" Noticing the very unpredictable smile of his ex-partner, Nakahara Zhong, who also secretly raised his vigilance, raised his head and looked at him vigilantly, his voice was low, and his eyes were full of coldness.

From his angle...and his height, he can just see Osamu Dazai showing that emmmmm...indescribably perverted smile.

"Ah... seems to have found the real "owner" of the 'Midnight Cafeteria'~" Osamu Dazai said meaningfully.

"You mean the owner of this castle?" Zhong Yuanzhong, who was beside him, also reacted and frowned, "Isn't she Cage Island?"

"Well, now, before... who knows?" Osamu Dazai paused, and then said, "I'm really looking forward to it more and more."

Nakahara Chuya: "...?"

Time goes back to the present.

"Well, first crack the eggs and pour them into the mortar, grind them evenly with a pestle, then pour in the egg whites and continue to grind and mix well..."

The ingredients in the castle are limited, but fortunately, a basket of eggs is enough to last for several months. Cage Island Green recalled where the necessary kitchen utensils were placed in the house and searched them out one by one. The class was rinsed again with clean water.

She was actually quite curious if Hal had built a chicken farm nearby, otherwise the basket of eggs would be a bit exaggerated... Does he eat poached eggs with bacon every day?

The weight of ingredients in a pot of Tamagoyaki is about 800 grams. Generally speaking, Tamagoyaki has two tastes, salty or sweet.The salty ones come from the Kansai region, while the sweet ones mostly come from the Kanto region.

Unlike the thick egg yaki that is more like fried, the color is rich, the outside is charred and the inside is tender, and it tastes like a thick egg. The taste of tamagoyaki is more dense and delicate, juicy and soft.The two are fundamentally different and can easily be confused.

The afternoon sun flows warmly into a corner of the house through the stained glass windows, like nectar and shimmering broken gold, wrapped in the rich aroma of egg yolk flowing in the air and the smell of burnt butter exuding sweet hazelnuts melts in the nose...

A few steps away from the busy figures, three men with different thoughts sat around a round wooden table and looked at each other silently: Edogawa, who took off his hat, slumped on the table with a sleepy face; Osamu Dazai lowered his eyes. Arranging the bandages on his arms, it took a lot of effort to re-wrap him after being messed up by the wind before, he thought; while Nakahara was shaking his legs irritably, as if he was staring at the floor under his feet. From time to time, I glance to the side...

When Kageshima Green went upstairs to get the gauze, Nakahara Nakaya finally couldn't help kicking Osamu Dazai.

With little strength, the bandaged black-haired young man let out an exaggerated "hiss", then sighed, looked at him weakly and shouted in a drawn-out tone: "Ah, Zhongya is really super-hypocrisy!" !"

"Isn't your frivolous tone more false with a bad face?!" Zhongyuanzhong also pulled the corner of his mouth and snorted, "You explain it quickly!"

Calcifer, who was watching the farce, yawned boredly.

Facing the impatient expression of the orange-haired young man, Osamu Dazai smiled lightly, raised his eyebrows, and paused for a few seconds before replying slowly under the other's bulging veins: "...the explanation is that we Now they are trapped in this world and cannot get out.”

"If you want to go back, I'm afraid you have to trouble the owner of this castle...or wait for an opportunity."

Nakahara Chuya's face quickly darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye: "Huh?!" He couldn't help raising his voice: "Say it again????"

"But Chuya came here early this morning because he really cared about Green Sauce." Osamu Dazai ignored him and asked him, the eyes of the young man with brown eyes were cold. It doesn’t matter if the horrible man kills him with a few knives, or sends a proud cadre to play the family card, it’s really greedy and terrifying as always, isn’t it?”

"You..." The murderous look in Nakahara Chuya's eyes condensed for a moment and then disappeared. He looked at Dazai Osamu with a complicated expression, and he turned his head, "No, I came here on my own...with the leader... ...is irrelevant."

"I knew it." Someone said in a cheerful tone, "I just lied to you~"

"Too!!!! Slaughter!!!"

When the four pieces of juicy and tender cheese tamagoyaki are ready, Kageshima green cut each piece of tamagoyaki, which is thickly rolled up like sushi, into eight oval-shaped pieces with a knife, and put them gently In a wooden plate, it is convenient to pick up and eat with wooden chopsticks.The juicy tamagoyaki is soft and fluffy, and it is full of juice when you bite into it. The tender and smooth "wow" fills your lips and teeth, and the tip of your tongue rolls. The thick cheese mixed with sweet eggs is a five-star praise!

Seeing the girl sitting down with a plate, Osamu Dazai let out an incomprehensible admiration, and his scorching eyes suddenly stopped on the small corner of her forehead, "Ah, I always think that green sauce looks like this... you know, a beautiful thing You did it with your face."

"......?"Huh.Cage Island Green raised his head with question marks on his face.

Maybe the girl's puzzled expression was too obvious, Dazai stopped stirring the coffee, then raised his eyes and showed a very gentle smile, "Is there any problem? Ah, about what I just said."

Cage Island Green said "Oh" and shook his head, "No, I just remembered the past... No one has ever praised my appearance." There are endless good-looking gods and monsters, and everyone is used to seeing each other.

"Don't pay attention to him." Biting the spoon and licking a circle of butter, Luanbu also raised his head to look at the girl, then pouted and picked up a piece of cheese tamagoyaki for her, "Ah——open your mouth, since it's me who worked so hard If you work hard, eat it well for me."

"...Well, thank you." Under the aggressive eyes of Mr. Detective, Ryoshima reluctantly opened her mouth and swallowed the tamagoyaki. She didn't expect the hot cheese to be stretched for a long time, and the golden thread hung on her. At the corner of the mouth, the girl subconsciously stretched out her tongue and licked it. At the end, she used her tongue to wrap the slender and soft cheese into her mouth, chewing...

The three men spoke for a moment: "..."

Zhong Yuan also "accidentally" broke his chopsticks.

The leader Meowzai: "..."

you idiot!Natsume Soseki patted the girl's face with his soft and tender meat pad, and then got an even more confused look from the other party.

Cage Island Green: "...? Udon, what's wrong with you?"

Sanhuamao: "..." I am old.

When Hal returned to the castle, they happened to be full of wine and food.Nakahara Zhong also had to accompany Long DaoLv upstairs to wash the dishes because of a bad guessing game. Originally, the leader, Miao Zai, wanted to sneak there, but he was caught by the tail tightly by Luanbu and couldn't move.

As we all know, the tail is one of the sensitive parts of cats, and as we all know, the leader Miaozai is a former leader of the organization with a very small mind.

Just when one person and one cat were at a stalemate——

"Jingle bells - tinkle bells -"

Hanging on the door, the string of wind chimes of the same type as the late night cafeteria was suddenly pushed open, making a crisp and melodious sound...

Wearing a colorful pink coat, with a tired face, a dusty blond man walked into the house from the battlefield full of gunpowder and smoke.Hal took off his coat without saying a word, raised his head with a cold face, and glanced sharply at the two men in the room, but didn't say anything, as if he didn't care at all why there were so many people in his castle. Out of a stranger or two like.

Finally, his eyes rested on the two cats.The leader, Miao Zai, paused. He felt that this man should be able to see his true soul, so he narrowed his eyes dangerously.

But Sanhuamao immediately jumped onto Hal's shoulder knowingly, and gave a "meow".

Hal smiled, knowing that she was "back".

"You are the owner of the castle? Well, how about making a deal." After a long while, the black-haired young man looked away from the door behind the man, and suddenly showed a kind and hearty smile like a child.

"...deal?" Hal lowered his eyes and asked, not knowing how much time had passed.

The drop-shaped emerald earrings swayed slightly with his movements, shining delicately.The blond man who took off his coat and only wore a white shirt still showed a natural romance and elegance in his gestures and gestures.

"...Then, what makes you think that I will agree to your request?" He smiled interestingly, "I want to hear an interesting answer."

When the two dangerous men were talking, the light in the room seemed to dim a bit at that moment.

Contrary to the oppressive atmosphere downstairs, Midori Cageshima, who was squatting in the storage room looking for cleaning tools, looked frustrated, and Nakahara seemed unable to bear to see her struggle like this, so he comforted her:

"That cage island, first...you don't cry, hey!! I can control it without steel wool and scouring pads...Uh, let me try to control other cloths and other things to remove the food on the plate. Scrub away the residue."

"Hmm..." Ryoshima raised his head and looked at Chuya Nakahara, "Is it really possible?! QAQ"

Hey, wait, wait!He really doesn't like this expression on girls!The young man with orange curly hair lowered the brim of his hat a little uncomfortably, coughed lightly, and his ears were slightly red.

downstairs.

Interesting answer to...?

The iris-colored eyes of the black-haired young man were so deep that they seemed to directly touch the bottom of people's hearts. The corner of his mouth curled up into a smile, but the words he said made Hal's expression cold for a moment, "Ah... I can understand , this feeling of handing over your heart to the devil...Lonely, unable to integrate into the confusion of the world, so you have to use a flashy appearance to cover up your inner weakness..."

Saying that, Osamu Dazai covered his heart, his eyes were dark, and the smile on the corner of his mouth widened.

"Is this answer 'interesting' enough?"

"..." This time, Hal stared at Osamu Dazai for a long time, just when Natsume Soseki thought that "war" was inevitable, the man suddenly smiled, "Enough, deal." Said Finished, lifted his feet and left.

"That man..." Looking at the back of Hal going upstairs, Ranbu only said the first half of the sentence before falling into deep thought.

Ever since she recalled a little bit of Cage Island Green in the castle when she was a child, she has been a little restless, and this anxiety reached its peak when she saw the withering plants by the bed.

Hal in the past was very fond of plants....

It had been several years since I returned to the castle. The castle was in a mess, and the once clean storage room was full of dust. It looked like it hadn't been cleaned for a long time.Obviously it wasn't like that back then...

Hal... what happened to him?

Then a sleepless night.

In the early morning of the next day, Cage Island Green, who was in a low mood, put on the red cloak that Hal had given her, held the dry potted plant on the bedside table, and wanted to go downstairs to find a bowl to water it, and then——

"Huh? You're awake."

A familiar voice suddenly sounded above the head, and the familiar dialogue made Cageshima Lv startled, and the small potted plant in her hand was almost thrown to the ground by her.She raised her eyes in disbelief, opened her mouth to breathe, and the cool air suddenly poured into her heart and lungs, surrounded by hazy and quiet light, and all the appearance of the man fell into her eyes...

The voice in the memory gradually overlapped with the reality. It was the man who had been bandaged for more than 20 years.Those dark black eyes hide a creepy abyss, without a trace of light, and under the collar is the familiar dark red scarf, burning eyes like flames...

"Miss me? Green Sauce~" Still in that slightly sick tone, the man against the light stretched out his hand towards her.