Canary of the gods

Osamu Dazai thought about the scene, hmm... for a child, it is indeed a little scary.

"Since then, when I see her smile again, I can only think of her charred corpse and her cold teeth."

"Wait." Osamu Dazai quickly grasped the key point of this sentence, "You said to see her again?"

Jijiji nodded, and said in a normal tone as if discussing the weather: "She was a good teacher, and it was a pity that she died on the day of the engagement, so Kusuo decided to save her, so he went back to the previous day."

Who is Kusuo?Is there any easy-to-obtain special ability like time regression?How can it be piled up?

Osamu Dazai was full of question marks.

Seeing Dazai Osamu's doubts, Ichijoji explained a little more incidentally, "I grew up with Kusuo, he is mine...uh..."

Speaking of this, he suddenly got stuck, as if he was a little distressed about how to define this person.

Growing up together, isn't that the bamboo horse of childhood sweethearts.

Osamu Dazai naturally thought so.

"Acquaintance."

Huh?

Just an acquaintance?

Osamu Dazai expressed doubts about this, but now is not the time to dwell on this issue, so let's put it aside for now.

After explaining the relationship between "Kusuo" and himself, Ichijiji went on to say in the tone of reading texts when he was a student: "In order to save that kindergarten teacher, Kusuo used time retrospective ten times in total. Died in all sorts of accidents."

"At that time, none of us thought that she would die because of my influence, and thought it was just a simple accident. Therefore, Kusuo speculated that the nine deaths that he experienced later should be affected by a certain 'rule' that we couldn't see,' She will die on the day of engagement" is an established fact under the "rules". Although Kusuo prevented the previous deaths, the "rules" will automatically correct things that deviate from the right track, so there will be the next nine deaths .”

"You know what it's like to be left out of time and the world?"

"Every day repeats itself, like a video tape on loop. Sometimes I feel like an audience surrounded by stage actors performing 'An ordinary day'. Sometimes I feel like a projected Players in the stand-alone game, because the key NPC of the main quest is dead and cannot pass the level, so I need to keep going back and forth.”

"For ordinary people, they only experienced an ordinary day, but for me and Kusuo, ten days have passed, and the extra nine days have been lost by the whole world outside of us."

Dazai was speechless.

"When I was a child, I had a bad temper and poor patience. I would rather go to the African savannah to wrestle with lions than play with human cubs who cry at every turn. I don't have much compassion and empathy."

"So after repeating this nine times, I gave birth to 'I'm so annoying', 'Let's just leave her alone', 'I can't save her anyway, she has nothing to do with me', 'Why should I waste money on such a person? After thinking about time', Kusuo went back in time for the tenth time."

"We went back to the day before her engagement again. This time I also picked flowers for her, but they were wild flowers that had been wilted by the sun on the side of the road, and then threw them in her face in public."

"And guess what?"

Osamu Dazai: "..." He didn't want to guess at all, because it was really simple, and it wasn't a pleasant result.

"The day I graduated from elementary school, I saw her by chance on the street. She still likes to smile, wearing a spring cherry print dress, holding a four or five-year-old child in her hand. The child was wearing the school uniform of our kindergarten, Call her 'Mom' loudly."

"I'm not smart, and I didn't realize what the reason was that led to such a different result. Kusuo was just a child at that time. Although he was smart, he didn't think of this matter to me. It's just Then something happened and he told me to stop helping people and stop being kind to anyone."

"I remembered his words."

"After growing up, in three different stages, I met three lovers with different personalities. Because I always remembered Kusuo's warning to me, so I never paid for them."

"When my first lover confessed to me, I was in my adolescence when I was curious about love, so I agreed to date without much hesitation. But the next day she was hit by a high-level falling object and died on the spot. Previously I don't know her well, and it's only a day's work to agree to date, so don't mention what I have done to her."

"So at the time, Kusuo and I thought her death was just an accident and didn't take it seriously."

"The same with the second lover, and then with the third."

Speaking of this, a temple repair suddenly paused.

"The third lover, to be honest, I really like him. So after he died in a car accident, I asked Kusuo to help him go back in time."

"Then what happened in Kindergarten happened again. No matter how many times we go back in time, he will die for various reasons. I can't stop it, because once I make a move-even if I just take him away from the accident Where it happened — there must have been more casualties."

When Osamu Dazai heard this, he immediately thought of the bus that was wiped out in all sorts of strange ways.

"It's impossible for Kusuo to protect him personally anytime and anywhere, so I can only watch him die again and again, and have seen his various death states, fragmented, bloody, and twisted..."

What a beautiful lover he once was, in the end, what he presented in front of him was just an ugly and terrifying corpse.

No matter how many times he went back in time, how many times he witnessed the death of his lover. In the end, all that was left in his heart was the helpless numbness and tiredness, and maybe even boredom.

"The last time was a fire. I stood in the sea of ​​fire with him, watching him struggle, howl, and cry, and finally turned into a black, dry, scorched corpse and fell in my arms. At that time, I looked at him again, no Without sympathy, without pity, without guilt, I pushed him away like throwing dirty things, and then said to Kusuo, 'That's it, don't waste time on him'."

"And then I left that place."

"But Kusuo is more patient and caring than me. He went back in time again, and this time the man finally survived."

When his love was completely wiped out, and even produced unstoppable malice, he and his lover were freed from this hopeless cycle of reincarnation.

"After that, I started to hate socializing, and it became more and more common to tamper with other people's cognition and memory of me. If this problem is fundamentally solved, then no matter who or what happens, it will not happen because of me Surprised."

"You are the only guy who broke into my house, ate my food, and asked me to help you without any accidents in all these years."

Ji Yijiu smiled inexplicably, although under the cover of the mask, Osamu Dazai couldn't see it at all.

"Know that even Kusuo will be unlucky for a long time."

Osamu Dazai thought carefully, "Then you prepared breakfast for me when I broke into your house..."

A temple repairman said naturally: "Whether you are really immune to my ability or not, you will know if you try it. If not, then you will probably be hit to death by a car when you go out."

"hiss--"

Osamu Dazai gasped, his pupils trembled, his lips trembled, and he couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.

"how come……"

That unbelievable and slightly hurt look almost made Ji Yiji think that Osamu Dazai would accuse him in the next second: How could you do this to me!

Osamu Dazai did speak, but what he said was——

"It's really a pity!"

A temple cultivator: "... Huh?"

Osamu Dazai beat his chest and stamped his feet, "Oh! What a pity! What a pity! He didn't succeed in dying!"

A temple cultivator: "..." I forgot what kind of person this guy is.

"Do you want to die? I will fulfill you now!"

A temple priest grabbed Dazai Osamu's neck and shook vigorously, and the latter shook like water plants floating in the sea.

Osamu Dazai was shaken dizzily, raised his hand with difficulty and said, "By the way...Xiu-kun, I have one more question before I die..."

A temple repairer stopped shaking, snorted, "Say."

"What is the range affected by time retrospective?"

"Of course the whole world."

"Hiss...that's weird."

Osamu Dazai nodded his chin, his face full of confusion.

"Listen to you, 'Kusuo' has performed time regression many times in the past, but time regression should not work for me. If you use this ability, it stands to reason that I should also be excluded from the time regression Outside of time, why..."

"Ah, you mean this." Sixiu Yiyi blinked his eyes, and only noticed the problem after being reminded.

"Did I ever say I'm from this world?"

His tone was still very calm, but inexplicably gave off a very subtle feeling.It was as if he casually dropped a bomb into the fish pond, causing all the fish in the pond to turn upside down and float to the surface, but he waved his sleeves and turned away without taking away a single cloud.

Unlike him, Osamu Dazai was really shocked this time.

This... this is breaking the barrier of time and space, right? !

One Jijiu didn't care whether Osamu Dazai could digest this absurd truth, and said to himself: "Something happened in the world I live in. One day in the second year of high school and the third year of high school, a very terrible event will happen in Japan. , A disaster that affects a wide range. In order to prevent this disaster, Kusuo has gone back in time many times. I was impatient to stay in one stage, so I just left that world.”

As he spoke, he unconsciously gloated a little, "So he is still a sophomore in high school, and I have graduated from college for more than a year."

Dazai Osamu: "..."