Canary of the gods

"However... the description of 'what you want' is too abstract and broad. May I ask, what is the limit of what you can do?" Kunikida Doppo asked curiously.

A temple monk asked back: "What do you think is the limit? Is it the limit that ordinary people can do according to common sense?"

Kunikida Doppo thought about it carefully, and then said, "Of course not. It's not in the common sense that ordinary people can do it if you modify our memory on a large scale like you did before."

A temple repair said: "Then what do you mean? Is the range that the supernatural ability can affect?"

Kunikida Doppo held his chin in thought, "Of course breadth is also an important consideration..."

Osamu Dazai said helplessly, "Actually, I just want to know your upper and lower limits."

A priest frowned: "But if you don't give me a standard, I don't know how to describe it to you."

Osamu Dazai nodded his chin, "Let's put it this way, if you were to kill all the people in the world, how much time would you need?"

hiss--

Tanizaki Junichiro gasped.

Can this kind of thing be brought up casually?

"Um……"

A temple repair thought for a while.

"Probably less than a day?"

Tanizaki brothers and sisters: "?!"

Kunikida Doppo didn't quite believe it, and asked, "What's the method?"

A temple cultivator said without hesitation: "Mars hit the earth?"

"..." Is that directly destroying the world? !

Everyone in the detective agency fell into a strange silence.

The Tanizaki brothers and sisters hugged each other again and shivered.

Kunikida Doppo felt a little ridiculous, he rubbed his throbbing temples, and said in disbelief, "You can still affect the celestial bodies?"

Osamu Dazai wondered what a celestial body is, and he can go back in time and break the barriers of time and space.

Jiyi said nonchalantly: "What's the matter, I used to fight with Kusuo, and the moon was broken several times."

Everyone: "...???"

Tanizaki Naomi raised her hand tremblingly: "Who is... Kusuo?"

Ichijoji was about to answer, but Osamu Dazai kept winking at him.He didn't understand what it meant, and asked strangely, "Your eyes are cramping?"

"..." This idiot.

Osamu Dazai covered his forehead.

After hearing this, everyone in the detective agency saluted Osamu Dazai in unison.

Kunikida Doppo narrowed his eyes, and said in a bad tone, "What's the matter, Dazai?" What kind of monster is this guy planning to do again?

Osamu Dazai sighed, "Xiu-kun, don't reveal things about different time and space, okay? Although everyone in the detective agency will not spread this kind of thing around, but the supernatural abilities in this world are so strange, maybe one day Someone read everyone's memory through physical contact, and then followed the clues to find you?"

Shuichi Ichijoji originally wanted to say "Then let them come", but Dazai Osamu got his mind right and said first: "You don't care, but what if everyone in the detective agency is in trouble?"

"……"Fine.

"Different time and space?" Kunikida Doppo glanced back and forth between Dazai Osamu and Ichijiu, his expression not very good.I didn't expect these two guys to have something to hide from them.

"Hey, Dazai, what's going on here?"

Osamu Dazai didn't answer his question, and Kunikida Doppo didn't bother him any more, because Shuichi Ichiichi had silently corrected everyone's memories—except for the "Kusuo" he said casually, it naturally included What Osamu Dazai said just now.

Therefore, the topic of exploring the upper limit of a temple cultivator's ability was skipped. Everyone only needed to know that he could do many things, and the scope of influence could be large or small.

In addition to this is the limitation brought by this powerful supernatural ability. If someone wants him to do something, or a temple cultivator offers to help, even if it is to hand a glass of water, then this person will be very unlucky.

Therefore, for people other than a temple cultivator, his supernatural ability is poison wrapped in honey. If you want him to help you realize any wish, you have to be prepared to be scraped off a layer of skin, or even die directly.

After gaining a preliminary understanding of the supernatural ability of a temple cultivator, Kunikida Doppo raised a new question: "It has nothing to do with goodwill, it is purely out of interest exchange, for example, I use 20 as a reward to ask you to help me investigate something , so that I will be affected by your supernatural power?"

A priest said: "Theoretically speaking, the exchange of interests is fine. But in fact, the 20 yuan is just your unilateral price. You think this price can be exchanged for me to help you investigate a matter, but the real reason for investigating this matter The value, even I myself don’t know.”

Osamu Dazai let out a "huh" and joined the discussion on this issue, "That is to say, Kunikida Junman thought that 20 would allow you to solve an incident, but in fact it might only be enough for you to help pass a glass of water?"

A temple repair nodded: "That's what it means."

Kunikida Dobubu: "..."

Afraid that they would not believe it, Yi Yiji added another sentence, "This is true. There was once a rich man who asked me to deliver a letter for him for 500 million, and the range was within the 23 wards of Tokyo. To me, It was as easy as blinking an eye, and it took no effort at all, but the rich man went bankrupt the next day."

"..."

Kunikida Doppo's expression was tangled, and he struggled a little: "The bankruptcy may also be caused by other reasons..."

A temple cultivator: "Huh? The reason... At the same time, meteorites fell from all over the world, and it just happened to destroy all his businesses. If such a bankruptcy reason is normal in your eyes, then treat it as if I didn't say it." Bar."

Everyone in the detective agency: "..."

The Tanizaki brothers and sisters couldn't help wiping their sweat while listening.

What an arrogant and domineering ability is this... The key is that its effect is still so terrifying.

But in this way, if it's just a wish, it's fine if you get backlash, don't give birth to extra thoughts and you'll be fine.But if they were in an emergency, would a monk help or not?Help, those who are helped will be unlucky, if you don't help, just watch your companions and innocent people fall into crisis?So what's the point of him being an investigator for the Armed Detective Agency?

One temple repair said: "If it's just a simple job and doesn't mix other thoughts, then it's okay."

Kunikida Doppo: "But the work of our detective agency is essentially to help clients do things, so how do we define simple work and 'paying a reward to make a wish to you'?"

yes...

A priest frowned and thought for a while, he had never considered such a question before, so in the end he could only honestly say: "I don't know."

"Um……"

So, who can offer help to him without being affected...

Everyone fell silent at the same time, and then at a certain moment, they all looked at Osamu Dazai, who once asked a priest to help "airdrop" the evidence, and is still alive and kicking.

"Huh? What's the matter?" Osamu Dazai blinked innocently, as if he didn't understand why everyone looked at him suddenly—although it was mostly pretend.

"……nothing."

Dazai Osamu's supernatural ability is nullified. If he is the one who made the wish, theoretically speaking, it can indeed avoid the negative impact of a temple's supernatural ability.This point has been confirmed in the last drug hiding incident in the haunted house, so...

"Isn't it possible to make a wish to Mr. Ichijoji through Mr. Dazai?" Naomi Tanizaki said the question that everyone cares about.

"Hmph~" Osamu Dazai proudly made a horoscope in front of his chin, "As expected, I can't do without it~"

"Ah!" He frowned slightly, with a melancholy face, opened his arms exaggeratedly like a drama actor, walked out from behind the sofa, even turned around, and sighed loudly: "I am really a sinful man..."

Ichijo Terashu and Kunikida Doppo kicked one left and one right at the same time, directly kicking the showman Osamu Dazai to the ground.The latter hit the floor face-to-face with a "bang", his hands and feet twitching non-stop, like a cockroach with tenacious vitality whose soles are still moving after being slapped hard.

Tanizaki brothers and sisters: "..."

Fukuzawa Yukichi: "Cough."

At this point, Kunikida Doppo basically understood why Dazai Osamu recommended Ichijo Tera to the detective agency.

A temple cultivator's ability is a very sharp double-edged sword.

Rather than letting it go, it's better to keep this double-edged sword under their noses and minimize the risks he may bring.

Thinking this way is purely out of a mentality of being prepared for a rainy day, not to say that a priest himself has a dangerous sense of crime and how much harm his behavior will cause.Just considering that the city of Yokohama is mixed with fish and dragons, and there are so many unstable factors, maybe he will be unconsciously involved in various accidents in the future, causing even greater disasters without knowing it?

And for such a double-edged sword, their detective agency happens to have two scabbards that can put away his sharpness - Dazai Osamu's supernatural ability "Disqualification in the World", and their president's supernatural ability "Superhuman beings are different from others". make".

The former's ability effect is nullification, while the latter's ability effect can help members adjust their abilities and keep them within a controllable range.In this way, wouldn't the negative impact brought about by a temple cultivator's ability be easily resolved?

Of course, the premise is that a temple cultivator can pass the entrance examination and officially become a member of the detective agency.

But since Osamu Dazai and him solved the case of hiding drugs in a haunted house last time, it shouldn't be difficult for him to come to the company for the assessment...

After figuring this out, Kunikida Doppo looked at Fukuzawa Yukichi, "President, what do you think?"

Fukuzawa Yukichi got up from the sofa, put his hands in his sleeves, and said, "Leave it to Dazai." He turned and left.

Osamu Dazai got up from the ground, held his injured nose again, and said in a low voice, "Understood..."

A priest blinked his eyes, and said inexplicably, "Are you leaving now?"

"Huh? What?" Kunikida Doppo looked at him, "Do you have anything else to do?"

A temple cultivator: "The result of my application..."

Before Kunikida Doppo gave the answer, Osamu Dazai said first, "Of course it is..."

"dong dong dong"

At the critical point, the door of the Armed Detective Agency was knocked again.

Everyone looked over in unison, and this time it was Junichiro Tanizaki, who was a little closer to the door, who opened the door.

Standing outside the door was a woman dressed in white collar, with shoulder-length black hair, holding the shoulder strap of her bag with both hands nervously. The moment she opened the door, she seemed to have been greatly frightened, and shrank visibly to the naked eye. He raised his head suddenly, panic was visible on his face.

Seeing this, Junichiro Tanizaki lowered his voice subconsciously, and greeted cautiously: "Hello, how are you?"

"Excuse me... is this an armed detective agency?"

Tanizaki Junichiro: "Yes, I'm Tanizaki, an investigator from the Armed Detective Agency. Do you need any help?"

Hearing this answer, the white-collar woman breathed a sigh of relief, and her frown relaxed a little.

Looking at her reaction, Tanizaki Junichiro almost guessed that she must be in some trouble.So he turned sideways, and just about to invite her to come in for a detailed talk, the woman suddenly opened her mouth and said urgently: "Please help me, please!"

These words seemed to turn on a switch, the woman's eyes turned red, her lips trembled, and her mood seemed very unstable.

"Someone has been following me recently, and...and that person wants to kill me!"

"what?!"