【Taizhong】Forbidden Love

BGM: The Rose

"He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

Mynoon, mymidnight, mytalk, mysong;

I thought that love would last forever: I was swrong."

- Funeral Blues

At the end of the month, the cherry blossoms melt into the soil and new leaves grow on the branches.

At this time, Yokohama was still considered peaceful. Although the Mafia did not dare to relax their vigilance, they could at least relax a little.What is more worrying is that the rebellion in the western region is unguarded, and I am afraid that it will require manpower transfer from the headquarters.

In the office of the head of the port mafia, Nakahara Nakaya was stared at by Osamu Dazai until his scalp became numb.

He had just finished reporting on this mission, but the leader never ordered him to leave, so he had no choice but to stand where he was.He slightly raised his eyelids, and saw that the leader sitting on the leather sofa was looking at him carefully.

"Chuya, I really can't see it at all..."

ha? !Nakahara was also puzzled by Osamu Dazai's endless words.

"I can't see anything at all..."

Before he finished speaking, he followed the man's gaze and looked at his lower abdomen.

"..."

"You said... this?"

Nakahara pointed to his abdomen with his fingers in black suede gloves.

"I remember, usually it will be more obvious after four months." Osamu Dazai tilted his head slightly and asked with raised eyebrows.

Counting the days, it was indeed almost four months, but the Omega in front of him was still slender and showed no sign of pregnancy.

"Ah, I used a belt." Zhong Yuan said nonchalantly, "You can rest assured, I won't let others see."

"Really?" The leader's eyes were so dark that people couldn't see his emotions clearly. He paused for a few seconds, then looked away again, "That's good."

After experiencing a certain episode, their recent life seems to have returned to the previous way of getting along, but when it comes to details, it seems to be different.Silence squeezed between the two more and more frequently, and there were many moments when they were relatively silent, like now.

"If nothing else..."

However, whenever this moment comes, it will always be Zhongyuan who breaks the silence first.

"It's okay." Dazai replied, "You can go down now."

"Don't forget to go to the casino in the afternoon. We hold the right to manage it anyway, so we can't just leave it there." At the end, he added this sentence.

In fact, Osamu Dazai knows it all too well, and Chuka will never forget it.That person was meticulous about his work, and it was absolutely impossible for him to remember the wrong time.Why he did so much, the reason even he himself didn't know.

Maybe it's just looking for something to say.

"I understand." Zhong Yuanzhong also nodded.

He strode towards the door, and stopped when he was about to leave.

"By the way," he turned his head casually, his blue eyes looking directly at the leader were incomparably beautiful, as always.

"The corset I use is modified, and the doctor said it won't have much effect on the child."

"Although I know you don't care, but... let's talk to you."

After speaking, he walked out of the chief's office, closed the heavy door, and ended their staring at each other just now.

When Osamu Dazai looked up again, he could only see a door that cut off everything, without any gaps.

He walked to his desk and turned on the surveillance video.The pitch-black figure on the screen gradually faded away in the long, endless corridor. For the first time, he felt that the lights in the corridor were too dim, so dark that falling on Zhongye blurred his slender back.

He has looked at this figure several times, but he doesn't know when, as long as that person leaves him, he will feel an indescribable irritability.

More precisely, intolerable.

When Nakahara Chuya came out of the Ganghei Building after get off work, it was just in time for the majestic dusk before twilight.He passed by a supermarket on his way home, thought for a while and decided to buy some fresh fruits and vegetables.It's just that he just locked the car on the side of the road, turned around and bumped into an acquaintance.Not very familiar acquaintances.

"It's Brother Hat!" A little girl took a man's hand and ran towards the Central Plains with small steps, greeting him excitedly.

The little girl was named Sakura, and the tall man she led was named Oda Sakunosuke.Central Plains was also impressed.

"Mr. Zhongyuan." The man greeted politely. He held the shopping in one hand and the little girl in the other. He seemed to have just come out of that supermarket.

"Beautiful brother, look!"

It was only then that Nakahara Chuya noticed that Saki Sakura's fleshy hand was holding a bag made of transparent special material, which contained more than half of the water. In the clear water, there were seven or eight of them with beautiful shapes. ornamental fish.

The fish's scientific name is Medaka Guppy, commonly known as guppies, and its body lives up to its name, with gorgeous colors, especially the tail and caudal fin, which are fluffy like shimmering yarn, spreading out and floating in the water.

"Very nice." His fingertips tapped the little girl's forehead.

"She saw that her kindergarten friend had adopted one, so she herself clamored for it." Oda shook his head helplessly, "Is Mr. Zhongyuan going to the supermarket? We just came out of there."

"Well, go buy some fruits and vegetables and go home." Zhong Yuan pressed the brim of his hat, "By the way, see if there is anything missing and buy it together."

The man chuckled, but Zhong Yuan could tell that it was a kind smile.

"There are two people now, and we really need a good balance of nutrition."

Zhong Yuanzhong also raised his eyelids abruptly.

He has all the information of Oda Sakunosuke, male Beta, works in an armed detective agency, his hobby is writing novels, adopted a group of orphans, he is a very kind person.Therefore, he was unprepared against him before.

But now it seems that this man is not simple, he is very sharp, sharp beyond imagination.

"Sorry, old professional habits. I don't mean any malice, it's just... I've seen someone like you before. Although it's covered up with some things, I can still tell from the difference."

"Mr. Nakahara's job is not easy, is it?"

The man's eyes were very gentle, which made Zhong Yuan let go of some tense nerves.

"Well, I saw it from you. It is indeed a dangerous job." He said, "It seems that your previous occupation was similar."

"Don't worry, most people won't be able to see it." Oda may have sensed the vigilance of the other party, so he said.

Nakahara didn't take it too seriously, he squatted down, faced the little girl who just listened to the conversation between the two adults but didn't understand, and let his expression soften as much as possible, "I still remember your name, Sakura, Is it right?"

"Yes! Brother Oda helped me to choose this name!"

"It sounds good."

The facial features of the little girl in front of her are very delicate, her skin is as smooth as snow, like a white jade dumpling, and her voice is soft and waxy, which is pleasing to the eye.Children are like this, small, cute, harmless, and need to be cared for.This made him have to think of the life in his belly.

He asked the little girl, "Do you know what the names of these fish are?"

"I know!" She thought for a while, her cheeks puffed out like little white steamed buns, "It's called a guppy!"

"Then did you ask your brother Oda to buy them heating rods? They need to live in warm water."

"...Warm water?" The girl looked at the man who was leading her with a half-knowledgeable look, but the man also knew nothing about it.

"I didn't seem to pay much attention when I bought it..." Oda stroked his hair.

"Touch it, is the water in the bag warm?"

Sakuzak pulled out the held hand, and obediently touched the bottom of the bag with her fingers, and then exclaimed, "Hey, it's really hot."

"Guppies usually inhabit warm springs or ditches overgrown with weeds. If they stay below a certain temperature for too long, they will die," Zhong Yuan explained patiently.

"Dead...?" Sakura looked at him suspiciously.

"Death is..."

They became unable to breathe, felt cold to the touch, and could no longer...cannot move freely in the water, floating on the surface of the water with the current.

Death is the irreversible end of life.But this is far-reaching and cruel to a four or five-year-old child.

"It doesn't matter, as long as you understand their living habits, you can raise them well." Zhong Yuan smiled and reached out to touch her soft hair.

He will know that guppies need to live in warm water because of a mistake he made when he was 15 years old.Zhong Yuanzhong also once raised several beautiful guppies in a glass fish tank, especially in the crystal glass under the light, those sparkling creatures swimming around caught his attention.He thought he would take good care of them so they would live a long time.Unexpectedly, after a night, he went to look again in the morning, and what was still alive last night had become a collection of corpses floating on the transparent water this morning.

At that time Dazai said to him: "These are tropical fish. Without constant temperature water, they will die."

"However... stuck in this small square world, it would be a relief for them to die as expected."

Death is not something that happens overnight. Death is a process. From birth, everything is going towards death.When the warm water becomes colder by minute, the guppy will die little by little, and it will be very painful when it dies.Although they are not human beings, they also feel scared, cold, and painful.

Zhongyuan also buried their bones in the soil under a tree behind the apartment. After so many years, they might have been turned into substances smaller than dust, and they would never be found again.

Since then, he has never kept any living creatures that are breathing and beating, including plants that have taken root, sprouted leaves, and bloomed.He can accept his own death calmly, but he always has an inexplicable fear of the disappearance of things around him.That kind of fear was like black vines wrapped around his chest, growing continuously in his blood vessels, devouring his cells.So when he found Dazai with his wrists cut in the bloody water in the bathroom, he panicked.No matter how much he hated this man, he never wanted him to die.

He couldn't help but want to prevent that person's death, to pull him back, to save him, this kind of thought was just out of his heart.

What should he do?

"Shouldn't you buy it in a supermarket?" He went to that supermarket before, and he had never seen a place selling ornamental fish.

"No, it's at the fish market on the other side. It takes about 10 minutes to walk there." Oda replied.

"Let's go, I'll drive you there." Zhong Yuan stood up.

"Thank you for your kindness, but is this—" The man hesitated.

"It's okay, she hasn't had dinner yet, right? I'm going to be exhausted from walking again and again, let's get in the car."

"That's troublesome." Hearing what Nakahara said, Oda no longer shirked.

Now, with the last rays of the setting sun remaining, the sky is going to be completely dark.