Late night eatery in Yokohama

-Crab meat (shielded) stick salad (four)-

The pier is located on the other side of the soup house.

There is a tram going to the other end of the sea.

In the evening, the setting sun dyed the sky with a layer of magnificent and ambiguous oil paint, and the jingling yellow tram galloped on the calm and vast water under the layers of lavender clouds.

"Cage Island."

Someone whispered her name in her ear.

Kageshima Midori raised her face in a daze, and saw Oda Sakunosuke watching her quietly, with oleanders spreading all over her feet and behind her.The undulating sea of ​​flowers like waves seems to rush towards the viewing film, and the fireflies embellish this scene in the dark night when the fireworks are blooming——

very beautiful.

Cage Island Green stared at the greedy and blooming flowers silently and ecstatically, as if wanting to see the vast blue sea in the distance through them.After a while, she sat up straight and put the three-flowered cat in her arms back into the man's arms, stroking it again and again.

"Mr. Oda, please help me take care of Udon, I have more important things to do now."

The girl stared at the man's gray-blue pupils. In the moist pupils, the indistinct shadows glowed with a delicate shimmer, dazzlingly bright.

Oda Sakunosuke looked at her for a moment, the expression on his face was still as usual without causing any waves. "Has it been decided?" he asked.

"Well, yes." Cage Island Green took a deep breath, nodded and said, "Please!"

"Look for the most important person in memory in a place where you can see the sea" The words in the task bar seemed to be slowly ringing in my ears, with an inexplicable and unclear charm, these words seemed to open the key opened the last door in her memory shackles...

——It would be great if time could have a pause button.

This was the only thought that came to Dazai's mind as he chased the girl's back through the sea of ​​blooming flowers.

He thought, then, there must be many people who will choose to press that button at the most precious moment in their lives, even if there is no clear blue sky gradually recovering after the downpour, just stop at that moment.Because, without the subsequent haze, there would be no unfulfilled wishes...

The young man felt an inexplicable panic, and this unsettling feeling was like he was about to lose something very precious.And he had a similar premonition a long time ago. On that day, he lost his friend who talked about everything.

Central Plains Zhong who was left on the spot was also taken aback for a moment, then stood up abruptly and rushed up.

"Hey! Kageshima! Dazai!"

The orange-haired youth shouted.

Oda Sakunosuke just held the three-flowered cat in his arms and stood motionless in the sea of ​​pink hedgerow flowers. He watched the three leave as the darkness swallowed up his back, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and the moment they fell down, he covered them. The sweet smell in the air.

"Natsume-sensei..."

After a while, the man squirmed his lips lightly, without any emotion, and spit out colorful words from between his lips and teeth, "The mission just now...was you who posted it."

"why?"

Oda Sakunosuke lowered his head, his face blurred under the wanton dancing fireflies.

As his words fell, the cloudy sky suddenly began to rain.Feeling the raindrops falling on the tips of its ears, the three-flowered cat meowed, and jumped out of the man's arms in an instant, turning into an elegant old man with a cane in a dazzling white light.

Natsume Soseki raised his head, and the moment he met Oda Sakunosuke's eyes, there was a gentle light flowing in his eyes: "Probably because of..." The last few words in the words were like clear raindrops splashing on the quiet On the colorful crape myrtle leaves, the hazy mist floating out also dissipated in the continuous rain.

...Oda Sakunosuke slowly opened his eyes wide.

In the bustling soup house, the hustle and bustle of the crowd is mixed with the buzzing of cicadas, chirping, chirping, and the raindrops wet the gorgeous and blooming rhododendrons, and the fragrant fragrance flows all over the ground.

The gloom that the morning sun can't see, the heavy rain, the girl wearing a red cloak that is flying away, and the girl wearing the same color hood along the road that can't turn back left beautiful, blooming ripples on the muddy road .

"Some things will never be forgotten once you experience them, but you just haven't remembered them for a while."

If a person's life is to be divided into the first half and the second half of life, then Rage Island Green will regard the pre-amnesia as her terrible first half of life, the dull and depressing room, the boring work day after day, year after year, If the soup house is a gorgeous prison, then the employees here are all poor prisoners who are imprisoned in place and cannot even eat three meals a day.

At that time, she was a child swallowed by loneliness, but this loneliness was not unaccompanied.On the contrary, her status in the soup house is not low. It can even be said that except Granny Tang, Bailong, and the boiler room supervisor grandpa of the bathhouse are not afraid of her, the rest of the soup house employees respect, fear and be cautious of her. Attitude, she wants to manipulate people as easily as cutting leeks.She yearns for the feeling of being loved by her real relatives. She has seen the hysterical anger and howling of a human mother when she loses a child with flesh and blood. However, this pure and hot emotion never seems to happen to her. world.

In the words of Granny Tang, she violated the laws of nature and chose to take the initiative to get close to human beings. It is enough to be lucky if she is not sold for a few dollars. As for the ridiculous family affection, you will never deserve it and it is impossible acquired.

until later...

The chirping of insects in the forest became more and more subdued, and the smell of fireworks was gradually overturned by the pouring rain. There was a trickle in the dark red tile trough pouring down from the eaves, and the dull bell came from the distant bell tower. The sound interrupted the girl's thoughts of recalling.

"Anyway, I found it..."

She gasped and murmured.

......

This was probably the most bewildering and most tense and flustering scene Cageshima Green faced.

For the girl, not counting the hasty farewell in her memory, she hadn't spoken to her father Henggou for a long time, and even acting like a baby and rolling around and being cute was all due to the advantage of Lolita's body shape.

What's even more exasperating is that her father's partner is still a very small-minded guy... For some reason, she doesn't want to recall it here for the time being.

The man just stood lazily by the pier, his back was shrouded in a warm yellow halo, instantly dispelling the bone-chilling coolness brought by the vast night.Hearing the sound of footsteps coming from behind, the other party turned slightly sideways, and the moment his calm face touched the girl who was running towards him recklessly, there was a faint smile.

"The bright moon goes with the waves, and the tide brings the stars."

In Henggou's official eyes, this "star" is the girl running towards him.

The faceless man: "...Eeeeeeeeeah."

Seeing the girl in the red cloak make a strange muttering sound from the black monster, Kyogoku Natsuhiko, who noticed that the faceless man was in a bad state of mind, was about to open the box of sprites, but was ruthlessly blocked.

What stopped him was the human girl Qian who stood between him and the faceless man. In the eyes of the man, this weak but surprisingly determined cub was obviously afraid of him, but still mustered up the courage to stand in front of the monster. Yelling at him not to hurt the faceless man...

Kyogoku Natsuhiko: "..."

Qian: "Please!"

Kyogoku Natsuhiko: "...shut up."

Kyogoku Natsuhiko clicked his tongue, and put down the box in his hand with a dark face, but the next second——

"——"

...the faceless man whispered something that only he and the deer god on the opposite side could hear.

......

......

Just like that, the girl with twinkling eyes stopped in her tracks, probably only in the blink of an eye, and Ryoshima felt that there were waves of buzzing noises in her mind, which seemed to be roaring continuously, the girl I just felt that the bones all over my body suddenly seemed to be smashed and could no longer support my body...

"Green sauce!"

The black-haired young man who came after him quickly supported the girl whose body was weakened.Seeing this, Henggou Zhengshi stopped suddenly one meter away. The man turned his head and glanced at his partner, but the other party just shrugged innocently and said that he would not take the blame.

Osamu Dazai is in a very bad mood right now.

The incident happened suddenly, and the state of the person in his arms seemed to be very strange. She covered her head and curled up, trembling constantly, but Dazai knew very well that the girl had not suffered any external attacks.At the same time, he was also keenly aware that the other party's body temperature was gradually dropping...

Thinking of this, Osamu Dazai's eyes darkened involuntarily. After thinking for a moment, he stretched out his hand and unbuttoned the metal button on the girl's cloak. Then, he saw several thin beams of green light winding around the girl's fair neck. Flowing, forming a weird texture...

Zhong Yuanzhong, who came a step behind, also shrank his pupils when he saw the chaotic scene, "You—"

In the next second, relying on inhuman intuition, the orange-haired youth turned his head to look at the faceless man who was babbling aside, and then deliberately picked an angle that could avoid Chihiro Ogino, and kicked him up.

"—what the hell did you do?!"

Why did tm get so angry when he first saw this faceless ghost in front of him? !

Nakahara Nakaya's eyes were glued to the faceless black monster, and his muscles were tense. When he caught a glimpse of the drowsy girl and his ex-partner with hazy eyes, he felt a sense of frustration that he hadn't felt for a long time.

"...Ah, Chuya, he seems to have said something to Green Sauce, but unfortunately, I was too far away to hear it clearly." Dazai's gloomy gaze stayed on the faceless man's face for a moment , and soon hugged the trembling girl in her arms with her eyes closed.

Sure enough, it still didn't work...

Up to now, that bad premonition has completely shrouded Dazai's heart, and this time even the bug-level "Disqualification in the World" is helpless, and it has no effect on eliminating it at all.

"Wait, that's..."

Seeing the strange lines and grooves on Cage Island Green's neck, Zheng Shi's expression froze, but before he could add anything, an invisible wave spewed out from the girl's body and quickly spread around, as if it was a wave in the vast universe. The energy exploded in the air in an instant, shaking everyone around three meters away in just an instant.

But the girl who was supposed to be dying, now let out a sharp roar like a wild beast, and when she opened her eyes again, her cherry-colored pupils had completely turned into illusory colored glaze.

The rain gradually subsided, and Dazai, who was paralyzed on the ruins, wiped away his wet hair with his hands, hissed tremblingly and spread his clenched left hand, only to see two broken antlers laying quietly in the palm of his hand with dazzling colors above.

A drop of water quietly fell on his thick and slender eyelashes, and the shattered stone drew a thin bloodstain under the corner of his eye, but he just quietly stared at the antler in his palm, saying a word Didn't say anything, never cried out.

Masashi Henggou stood up and stared at the sleepy black-haired youth, and quietly looked away for a while.

"This thing is useless..."

However, the black-haired young man carefully put the antlers into the inner pocket of his suit as if he didn't hear it, as if he was touching clear and fragile teardrops.After all this was done, he raised his lifeless kite eyes and looked at the man in front of him who was ecstasy.

Without any verbal communication, the two turned their heads to look at the place just now.

The girl had already stood up, and the viscous liquid slowly dripping down from under her curly hair seemed to flow wantonly like the shade of a verdant tree, and the gurgling slime soon seeped into the soil...

And as the red cloak and white skirt seemed to be peeled off by a transparent hand, the girl's petite figure was gradually elongated, becoming transparent, and finally fully fused into a huge monster with fluorescent green all over.

Kyogoku Xiayan's expression froze for a second: "Master Da Tai? I have only seen this kind of beast in the records of mythology and history. It is called a mountain god, and it will become a god who creates the world and everything in the dark..."

At the same time, the pier collapsed.

The moment the ground fell, Chuya Zhongya, who was covered in a red halo, rushed forward with a dark face and violently pulled the black-haired youth who ran straight towards the fluorescent monster out of the danger zone, regardless of life or death.After landing, he grabbed Dazai by the collar and cursed at the distraught black-haired young man.

"—Are you crazy?! If you want to save Cage Island so much, you have to live well, bastard Qingma!"

Zhongyuan Zhongye's lungs were about to explode.