Canary of the gods

On the other side, Dazai Osamu and Kunikida Doppo also arrived at the bus stop near the gallery.

A bus had just left when they arrived.

"Not this one."

Kunikida Doppo glanced at the route table on the platform, and quickly calculated the arrival time of the next bus.

"Well...there are 5 minutes before the next bus arrives..."

After counting the time, as soon as he turned around, he saw Dazai Osamu who was rarely frowning.

"what happened?"

"Well... I can't say it, I just have a bad feeling..."

Holding his chin, Osamu Dazai repeatedly simulated the scene in his mind, trying to find out what was the source of his uneasiness.

"What..." Kunikida Doppo squinted at him, and casually guessed: "Could it be another thing like forgetting to turn off the faucet before going out?"

Osamu Dazai let out a "huh" and quickly retorted: "No, it's probably a gas stove this time?"

"?!!"

Kunikida Doppo was startled suddenly, he grabbed Dazai Osamu by the neck and shook vigorously, his expression was horrified and ferocious: "You said you forgot to turn off the gas stove when you went out?!" Not turning off the gas stove and not turning off the faucet are not the same concept!

Osamu Dazai relaxed his body and let Kunikida toss it alone, just like the handmade noodles being stretched and shaken by the pastry chef.

He stuck out his tongue and acted like a bad boy, "I'm lying to you."

"..." Kunikida Dupo's veins twitched near his temples, his teeth were grinding, and he looked very angry.

"Kunikida-kun is really easy to be fooled~"

Kunikida Doppo shook Dazai Osamu even more, and roared angrily: "You give me enough time, you bastard!!!"

When the two were arguing, a young man waiting for the bus next to him said to his partner: "Hey, have you seen the news? A bus just one stop away from us has spontaneously ignited!"

"I just saw it too. It's XX Road, right? It's too scary. That car will stop here at the next stop!"

what? !

Dazai Osamu and Kunikida Doppo looked at each other, and they both saw the shock that could not be concealed in each other's eyes.

When the two armed detective agencies drove to the scene, a cordon had been pulled up around the bus and firefighters were putting out the fire.

A lot of onlookers gathered nearby, gathered in twos and threes, talking about this matter in a low voice.While chewing gum, a few well-dressed young people took pictures and videos with their mobile phones, busy uploading them on social networking sites.

The fire is really too big.

The blazing flames enveloped the entire bus airtight, and the high temperature caused the air density to change, so that people had the illusion of space distortion.

"Crackling"

The window glass was blasted, and the tongue of flame rushed out of the window, licked up, and smoked black marks on the car body.

"This is really... bad."

At this level... there should be no survivors, right?

Just as Osamu Dazai finished saying this, Doppo Kunikida rushed out.

The firefighters standing outside the cordon to maintain order stopped him, "Sir, this place is dangerous, please don't come any closer!"

"I'm Kunikida, an investigator from the Armed Detective Agency." Kunikida took out his investigation certificate, and proved to the firefighters that he was not an unrelated person who intentionally caused trouble.

After the firefighters confirmed it, they looked serious and said respectfully: "It turned out to be a member of the Armed Detective Agency."

Kunikida Doppo nodded briefly as a response, and asked, "How is the situation now? Are there any survivors that have not been rescued?"

Although he knew very well in his heart that the possibility of survivors in such a big fire was very small, he still couldn't help asking.

Sure enough, when this question was mentioned, the fireman's face became bitter, and his lips murmured, "This..."

Seeing him frowning and hesitating, Kunikida Doppo already understood what he meant.

but……

"What did you say? No one escaped?" Kunikida Doppo glanced in astonishment at the closed bus.

The fireman nodded.

"According to eyewitnesses who were waiting on the platform at the time, the bus burst into flames as soon as it stopped, without any warning at all. The flames instantly engulfed the entire vehicle, and the screams did not even last for two seconds... ..."

Thinking about this kind of weird scene makes people feel creepy.

The witnesses who described the whole process to them at that time were quite frightened, talking incongruously, and did not know whether it would leave a psychological shadow.

"And as you can see, the fire seems to be inextinguishable, and there is no sign of it weakening at all."

Speaking of this, Kunikida Doppo immediately reacted: "It's a different ability."

The fireman nodded, "Our captain said the same thing. Not long after he reported the incident to his superiors, you came here."

Kunikida Doppo: Actually, the content of the commission they received was not... Forget it, now is not the time to worry about these things.

Since it was the person with supernatural powers who caused the trouble, it was Osamu Dazai's turn to act.

But the problem is, before he got close to the bus, a very strange thing happened.

The scene in front of me is like a video with the rewind button pressed, and it goes backwards quickly in an unimaginable way.

Kunikida Doppo who drove here, the firefighters who put out the fire, the gathered crowd, and the bus that suddenly ignited, everything went back to before the spontaneous combustion incident!

Osamu Dazai felt as if he had watched a movie played backwards, and it had a particularly unreal feeling.

When the scene reversed, Osamu Dazai found himself still standing in the middle of the road, but everything around him was normal. There was no Kunikida alone, no firefighters, no spectators, and no bus that spontaneously ignited.

"This is..." He opened his eyes wide in surprise, and said with a sense of novelty, "Extraordinary power?"

"Bah-ah-"

"Hey! What are you doing in the middle of the road all of a sudden? Do you want to kill yourself?!" A truck driver honked his horn in dissatisfaction, "If you want to die, don't choose this way that will cause trouble to others. !"

Dazai Osamu came back to his senses and didn't feel offended. Instead, he followed the truck driver's words and apologized, "Ah, I'm sorry, I'll find a river and jump into it myself~"

After speaking, he jumped and walked briskly back to the sidewalk.

"...Crazy!" The truck driver started the car cursing and left.

Osamu Dazai took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and found that the time on it hadn't gone backwards, it was still normal.However, this may also be because the mobile phone was carried by him with him and was affected by the "disqualification in the world", so he did not go backward in time.

Osamu Dazai put his mobile phone away, relying on his face that was invincible in front of women, he asked the current time from several passers-by.

As a result, without exception, everyone's time was rewound to 5 minutes before the incident.

As soon as he got this result, Osamu Dazai received a call from Kunikida Doppo.

"Dazai, you bastard! You said you wanted to go to the bathroom, so you got out of the car halfway, and where are you now?! Don't tell me that you saw a clear river on the way, so you were going to jump! I entrust you to ignore it ?!!"

Huh?

This ability can not only go back in time, but also repair the memory of unreasonable places?

"interesting."

Osamu Dazai touched his chin, and the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously.

"what?!"

Kunikida Doppo on the other side of the phone became more and more annoyed when he heard Osamu Dazai talking to himself, "You bastard——"

"Alright, listen, Kunikida-kun." His words were interrupted by Dazai Osamu.

"I'm here now..." Dazai Osamu looked back at the platform, and then quickly reported the name of the station to him, "Our target will appear in 5 minutes, so come here quickly."

Kunikida Doppo was stunned for a moment, "...what are you talking about?"

Osamu Dazai said firmly, "Trust me."

"... Tsk! Got it!" Kunikida Doppo smacked his lips impatiently, "If you dare to lie..."

"Du-du-" Before he could finish his harsh words, Osamu Dazai hung up the phone neatly.

Kunikida Doppo: "..." You bastard! ! !

Although the 5-minute time limit was a bit tight, Kunikida Doppo still stepped on the line and arrived.

He had just stopped the car, and before he could say hello to Osamu Dazai, a bus that was very familiar to Osamu Dazai drove over.

Osamu Dazai was ready to put his hands on the car body, but he was caught off guard by the next development.

The bus didn't stop at all, and the tires slipped, rubbing against the ground and making a screeching sound.Osamu Dazai watched helplessly as the car body brushed against his fingertips. The whole bus seemed to be pushed by a pair of invisible hands, rolled out like a wheel, hit several cars in front in succession, and finally even rushed into the car. In a shopping mall that just opened!

Dazai was shocked.

He quickly reacted, ran towards the direction of the bus, and said loudly to passers-by who were still dazed: "Run!"

The shopping mall is full of chaos, sparks are crackling and flickering at the broken wires, and one flower has just landed on the gurgling gasoline, and then——

"boom!"

Accompanied by an astonishing explosion, countless shattered floor tiles, glass, and stones shot out, leaving deep or shallow wounds on the surrounding buildings, trees, and passers-by who had no time to escape, even Osamu Dazai was no exception. .

Because the explosion happened relatively close, he was directly thrown away by the huge impact force, and finally rolled into the green bushes on one side.

At this moment, inside the bus.

Being in the center of the explosion but unscathed, a monk looked down at the blood on his white sneakers, and smacked his lips a little annoyed, "It's so dirty."

He stretched out his finger, tapped lightly against the void, and said coldly, "Go back."

"Dazai!"

"I'm fine!"

Osamu Dazai just got up, and was shocked to find that Kunikida Doppo who was running towards him was going backwards!

No, it should be said that everything - except him - is going backwards!

Back in time again!