Complete Survival Manual

Tsushima half-closed his eyes and fell slowly in the silence.

The flowing substance envelops the whole body, and the hair and clothing are lifted upwards.In the boundless fall, there is only darkness in the eyes.Apart from him, there is no other color here.

No need to breathe, no need to think, no need to make any effort to stay alive.

After a long time, maybe not that long—maybe it was a few seconds, or it might be a day, a month, a year... The stagnant thinking "popped" and started to run again at a certain moment.

[who I am? ]

The water-like substance twisted slightly.

["Hey—it's also the first time I've done something like this." The man blinked his eyes, and after a moment of distressed thinking, he smiled, "Just this one, can I call it Tsushima?"]

The person against the light was shattered in the flow of water, Tsushima stretched out his hand, and only caught a cluster of small blisters that passed him while shaking.

The blisters shattered in his hands, and a faint sound reached his ears.

["Shuji Tsushima, this is your name."]

Caton's rusty brain was working, and the white bandages fluttered like seabirds flapping their wings in the port.So he remembered that in the past, he would lean on the railing by the sea, watching the undulations of the sea boredly to kill time.

The whistle of the cargo ship sounded with a long tail, and the cool sea breeze poured into the cuffs of the windbreaker after the sunset, and every breath was alive with fireworks.

[...]

Tsushima loosened his grip.

He remembered something he had forgotten for a long time, and the breathless suffocation invaded every inch of his senses, and the newly recovered perception melted into the void again.

"Dazai..."

In an unknown space, Tsushima fell alone.

It may have been a long time before he fell to the "bottom".It is an endless transparent barrier, invisible to the naked eye, but actually exists in this wonderful space.

Rippled, the barrier accepted him tenderly.

A large swath of blue light surged, and the world opened up for Tsushima.

…………

The blond girl looked at the discount coupon in her hand, and walked out of the bakery with a small bag of bread.

"The conversion of the discount is such a troublesome thing. If I had known earlier, I would not have come."

The girl passed by an alley, and felt something was wrong after walking a few steps, she thought about it and turned back.

The alleys themselves are not very eye-catching in Kyoto. There are so many alleys here that it is difficult for Kyoto residents who have lived for seven or eight generations to tell how many small alleys and alleys there are in Kyoto.

There is only one reason for her to come back.

"A street child... huh?" She walked over quickly and frowned after seeing clearly the state of the child who fell on the ground.

The child covered in a white windbreaker curled up, with a long dirty bandage protruding from under the hem, probably dragged by some cat or dog.

I squatted down and tried the child's breathing, and found that it was relatively stable.So she began to think about what to do.

[Does this still need to be said? ] Stuffing the discount coupon into her pocket, she took out her phone and called up her address book. The contact in the first line was what she was looking for.

"Rintaro," she said, "I picked up a child, hurry up and pick me up!"

Fifteen minutes later, the decadent uncle arrived at the scene with a bitter face.

"The discount coupons from the bakery are all gone. I wanted to take the bread back along the way...Does Alice know where they are?"

The tall girl snorted and turned her head, "The discount coupon is fine, but this kid." Her expression became a little strange, "Rin Taro, come and see him."

Mori Ogai squatted beside the child in a good manner, and lifted up a corner of the windbreaker. The tattered shirt on the child only made Mori Ogai raise his eyebrows.

Adult shirts and coats, and the rest of the clothes are completely invisible.Under the loose bandage was a large bruise, and the overheated body temperature showed that the child was running a fever.

Under what circumstances can these things be present in one child at the same time?

Mori Ogai, who has been a military doctor and an underground black doctor, has only seen more. He calmly checked the arm and other places and roughly inferred the child's current condition.

The real situation is nothing charming, just a simple impact injury from falling from a high altitude.Clothing and the like are not easy to explain, but this is not an important thing for the time being.

Mori Ogai: "It just so happened that I took over the orphanage, does Alice-chan want to take him back?"

"Stupid Rintaro," Alice said, "you'll want to take him back after seeing his face."

Mori Ogai: "For children, I'm only interested in young girls. In this regard, Alice-chan can trust me a little more."

Alice puffed up her cheeks, strode over and half hugged the child buried in the cloth.

"Look carefully, Rintaro!"

The child's face was revealed.

Mori Ogai: "..."

What a familiar scene. Ten years later, when he picked up Osamu Dazai, Osamu Dazai was still a kid.

It's just not so small, and the setting is not so misleading.

He was silent for a moment to accept the reality, and then when he looked at the child, his eyes were filled with relief, "Mr. Dazai has a child, time flies so fast."

Alice rolled her eyes.

"...Take him back first." Mori Ogai put away his relief, "I don't know the specific situation, but this child must not be left here."

After Osamu Dazai led the port mafia to carry out exaggerated expansion, what does it mean for a child who is too similar to him, Mori Ogai can list a list of possibilities without even thinking about it.

Just looking at this child, Mori Ogai seemed to see a bloody future.

Mori Ogai: "Alice-chan, you came back with a big problem."

Alice: "You can put him here."

Mori Ogai choked for a moment, raised his hand in surrender, "Please forgive me."

According to Mori Ogai's style, of course it is impossible to leave it alone.Instead of waiting for the danger to ferment, it is the correct approach to take care of the unstable factors as soon as possible.

[The so-called optimal solution. ]

…………

The child moved.

After quietly opening his eyes, the first thing he saw was sunlight passing through the windows on the ceiling.Looking at the trajectory of the projection, the square sunlight on the floor looks very warm.

The medical equipment was running aside, Tsushima looked at it for a while and then closed his eyes.

He needs time to sort out his state.

After a while, someone opened the door and came in, Tsushima looked over.

"Oh, you're awake?" Alice tried the temperature on Tsushima's forehead, and a smile flashed in her blue eyes, "The situation will get worse if the fever continues, um...the fever has subsided."

Tsushima said nothing.

The interior decoration is obviously a treatment room, with crooked stick figures hanging on the wall, obviously there are many children here.The lively conversations of the children playing outside also suggest that this is not a school or anything like that.

Then there is only one possibility, this is the orphanage.

Judging from his current physical condition, was he picked up and sent here?

"Alice sauce, it's time for the children to have lunch. The bread you brought back is still in the car. It's almost time to take it out and give them a surprise." The second person who opened the door said, "Leave it to me here." .”

"Am I going to coax the child again?" Alice snorted dissatisfiedly, but didn't say anything more.

She closed the door behind her when she left.

Mori Ogai pulled up a chair and sat by the bed, Tsushima looked up at him.

Mori Ogai said calmly: "Hello, I am the dean here." He smiled kindly, "We found you in an alley next to the street, if you don't mind, I can know why you Is the coma there?"

Tsushima looked at him for a while, and found that this Mori Ogai was not fundamentally different from the one he knew, but for some reason, he changed from the boss of the mafia to the director of the orphanage.

——This span is a bit big.

[From being brought back to Mitsui's house by Junpei to the Siren Queen, there is no gap in my experience and memory.Not to mention watching the sea with the sea breeze blowing in Yokohama, I have hardly been out of Kyoto. ] Tsushima was thoughtful, [The memory I remembered...]

[The Mr. Mori who appeared in front of me is different from what I know, the headless horse should have brought me to another world.And this world has a lot to do with the world I live in.In other words, there is a good chance that someone I know has a similar existence in this world.What about me?Will I exist in this world? ]

A large amount of information was intertwined, and he lowered his head, quickly assessing the current situation.

The emptiness and discomfort in his heart remind him all the time that he still has unresolved problems in that world.It would be great if the empathy was lifted by normal means, but no matter how you look at it now, it is not a normal state.

The void was about to swallow him up.

[So I still have to go back. ] He thought, [Then set the goal as going back, first of all, I need to know the information of this world. ]

Tsushima adjusted his expression.

"I don't know the reason for the coma," Tsushima said. "I was on a cruise ship, and then there was fog, and there were horses neighing in the fog. Finally, the headless horse rushed into the corridor where I was. , The corridor was filled with fog for an instant, and everyone was enveloped." He thought for a while, and after finding nothing missing, he added the ending, "I don't remember what happened after being enveloped in the fog."

The limp child calmly described his experience, and Mori Ogai saw the helplessness and uneasiness hidden in this calmness, and he was a little emotional.

[Still a child. ]

"Then..." Mori Ogai paused, then remembered that he hadn't asked the child's name yet.

Tsushima said in a timely manner: "My name is Shuji Tsushima."

Mori Ogai glanced at Tsushima unexpectedly.

"Okay, Mr. Tsushima." He said, "Do you still remember the contact information at home? I can help you."

The author has something to say: Tsushima: Watch me perform.

Everyone should know which world this world is. XD