Canary of the gods

The same is mind reading, there is still a difference in the abilities of Saiki Kusuo and Ichijijiu.

Saiki Kusuo has a wide range of abilities, even if he is wearing a suppressor, he can hear the inner voice within a radius of 200 meters.And if he didn't wear a suppressor, his telepathic reception range could even cover the entire earth.Of course, if he didn't do it deliberately, what he heard was mainly what people were thinking at the moment.

Unlike him, the range of a temple cultivator's ability does not exceed 50 meters at most.However, what he hears is not simply the inner voice that floats on the surface, he can also hear things hidden in the deepest corners and darkest places in people's hearts.

To use an analogy, the inner voice that Saiki Kusuo hears on weekdays is equivalent to the surface of a lake, which is the outermost layer—of course, this is when he has not probed deeply.

But the heartfelt voice that a temple cultivator can hear is the entire lake.That is to say, in addition to the most surface layer of water, there is also the bottom of the lake where countless sandstones and even silt have been deposited.

No matter how clean and clear the lake looks, it is absolutely impossible for the bottom to be free of sand, dirt, and even thick sludge.

It was because of this that the spirit of a temple cultivator would be polluted.

Bai Lan was the only target of his mind reading this time, so he thought it would not be affected too much.

Unexpectedly, apart from her own memories of countless parallel worlds, Bai Lan also possesses their thoughts—that is, the layer at the bottom of the lake.

Even if these ideas are not complicated, but the basics are there, quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, which directly doubled the "workload" of a temple cultivator countless times, completely exceeding his expectations, and caught him off guard.

At first, this ability was normal.He carefully controlled it, and while pressing Bai Lan to tell the information related to the "book", he used his ability to push aside the surrounding water, sand and stones, searching for the part he wanted.

However, he never expected that when he bent down to look for a certain stone in the lake, he fell into the mud at the bottom of the lake unknowingly.

【Come on, make a wish to me, I can fulfill all your wishes. 】

【Kill him, kill him, kill him...】

【Everyone who gets close to... will die...】

"Xiu, stop!"

A stop drinking was like striking a bell, and there was a "dong" sound, and the lingering sound echoed in my mind, which lasted for a long time.

A temple cultivator with blurred eyes suddenly woke up from the muddy black swamp, his breath was stagnant, and he subconsciously took a step back covering his face.

"?"

Bai Lan, who was in shock because of what he said just now, suddenly came to her senses because of his actions.

For some reason, the temple cultivator in front of him seemed to have changed.

It was as if an invisible, strange realm had formed around him, capable of absorbing everything around him, the changes in light and shadow disappeared, the air was stagnant, even the sound was no exception.

The entire space he was in seemed to be cut off from the world, and even his existence became incompatible.

For a moment, Bai Lan, who was standing opposite him, seemed to see a cold, fierce monster with claws and claws behind him, which could break free at any time, tear and devour the enemy in front of him.

Bai Lan's eyes flickered, and his expression was obscure.

This guy……

"Xiujun..."

"To shut up!"

A temple cultivator interrupted him with a fierce and blunt tone, and without waiting for the other party's reaction, he threw him back to the detective agency from the uninhabited island.

"Huh...huh..."

With no eye-obstructing person, Ichijijiu adjusted his breathing again and again, and what Saiki Kusuo said to him kept echoing in his mind.

"Xiu, restrain yourself, don't treat yourself as a real beast."

"Don't let it 'live'."

"Don't lose to it, Xiu."

"Who do you think I am?!"

"boom--"

The mountains shook for a while, the seabirds scrambling to flap their wings and fly away, the rocks rolled down, the tall trees fell one by one, and dust three to four meters high was stirred up.

Soon afterwards, there was a "rumbling" sound on the island, one sound of destruction over the other, one after another, and it lasted for a long time.

the other side.

The bewildered Bai Lan only felt a blur in front of her eyes, and the scene in front of her eyes changed again.

Before he had time to look around, he heard a young boy's hesitant voice next to him: "Huh? You are..."

Bai Lan followed the prestige, and found that it was a blond boy with a little baby fat on his face, and he didn't look very old.

When the other party saw Bai Lan's face, he was taken aback for a moment, blinked, and stared at the mark of the inverted crown on his face.Immediately, as if he suddenly thought of something, he said with a dazed face, "Ah! Are you Teacher Cotton Candy?"

"Eh? Hmm..." Bai Lan scratched her cheeks, thinking to herself, did she return to Yokohama...

"Excuse me, is this..."

"Armed Detective Agency."

"Detective agency?"

Bai Lan realized something, "Is it the detective agency that Xiu Jun is in?"

Kenji Miyazawa responded brightly: "Yes! But having said that... I heard from Mr. Kunikida that Mr. Xiu is responsible for finding Mr. Cotton Candy. Now you have been sent back by him. Where is Mr. Xiu?"

Bai Lan rubbed her hair and said with a troubled face, "Well..."

After omitting the conversations between him and a monk about different worlds and "books", Bai Lan actually had very little to say.

In fact, I was a little confused about the situation, let alone Miyazawa Kenji who was confused.

Putting aside the matter of temple repairs, Bai Lan diverted the topic away, and while there was no one else in the detective agency at the moment, she quietly probed Miyazawa Kenji about the "book".

However, he found that the other party was not sensitive to this, so he judged that he should not know the existence of this thing.

In other words, "book" is not an open secret for the detective agency.

Then, he was going to ask Miyazawa Kenji for a piece of information about the ability of temple repairs, but before he got to the point, the door of the office was opened from the outside.

The ones who walked in were Edogawa Ranpo and Yosano Akiko who had returned from a case.

Edogawa Ranbu was holding a bag of thick snacks and a lollipop in his mouth, and walked ahead.When he saw Bai Lan, he looked him up and down, took out the lollipop in his mouth, and said, "Oh, the second volume must be serialized again soon?"

"Hahaha, it should be~" Bai Lan smiled heartily, just like an ordinary college student who is full of vigor.

She and Yosano Akiko looked at the two of them, not knowing what they were talking about.

Bai Lan glanced at the clock hanging on the wall, "Oh, it's getting late, I'd better go back and tell the editor that I'm safe~"

Edogawa nodded in disorder, Miyazawa Kenji waved goodbye to him.

Yosano Akiko looked at Bai Lan who closed the door and left with a smile, and asked, "Who is he?"

Edogawa ranbu gnawed the remaining lollipop in two or three bites, and said inarticulately, "It's Mr. Cotton Candy, who is very popular recently, the one who wrote "The Shell Family."

"It was him."

"Kenji, what did he tell you just now?" Edogawa propped his hands up in disorder, and sat on the mahogany desk, his legs dangling back and forth in mid-air, like a naughty child who was not grown up.

Miyazawa Kenji repeated what Bai Lan said just now.

"Xiu is in charge of this mission? No wonder. But, this guy is a little suspicious..." Edogawa rubbed his chin in disorder, then dug out potato chips and soda from the snack bag.

"Suspicious?" Miyazawa Kenji and Yosano Akiko looked at him puzzled.

Edogawa Ranpo "Gulu Gulu" took two sips of soda before explaining, "That guy just came back from the sea."

Miyazawa Kenji: "Beach vacation?"

Edogawa Ranpo asked in surprise, "Who did you see wearing leather shoes on vacation at the beach?"

"..." Yosano Akiko and Miyazawa Kenji looked at each other.

The former was about to ask questions, but Edogawa Ranpo had already turned his back, threw a piece of potato chips into his mouth, and said vaguely: "We'll talk about it when Xiu comes back."

Then he took another sip of soda.

He held the transparent blue soda bottle in his hand at an angle, and the fine and dense small bubbles rose from the bottom of the bottle one after another. It was really beautiful to observe through the sunlight outside the window.

But until evening, when Kunikida Doppo returned to the detective agency with the note from Dazai Osamu to Fukuzawa Yukichi, Ichijiji still did not come back.

Kunikida Doppo glanced at it, but he didn't see anyone in the office, so he asked, "Where's Xiu?"

Everyone shook their heads, and Kenji Miyazawa also said: "Mr. Xiu sent Mr. Cotton Candy back, but he hasn't returned to the detective agency yet."

"...This guy, he must have been led off by that bastard Dazai, thinking that he would be able to skip work after completing the commission, right?" Kunikida Doppo frowned.

But there are more important things to deal with right now, so he put aside a matter that he did not return from the temple, and knocked on the door of the president's office with a note.

This night, everyone in the detective agency successfully caught the "man-eating tiger" who was labeled as a "disastrous beast" by the military and police—in fact, it was a young man with supernatural powers who could transform into a white tiger named Atsushi Nakajima.

Atsushi Nakajima himself didn't know that he could transform into a white tiger. He even thought that the white tiger was chasing him - because wherever he went, the white tiger would follow him.

Who knew that the so-called white tiger was actually him?For a while, he had difficulty accepting this fact, so that in the end he fainted from fright.

Osamu Dazai looked at Atsushi Nakajima who had fainted on the ground, and sighed helplessly.Then when he remembered something, he turned his head and asked Kunikida Doppo who had written something on the handbook: "Where are you going to repair it?"

Kunikida Doppo said without raising his head, "I don't know. He hasn't returned to the detective agency since he sent Marshmallow-sensei back."

Huh?did not return?It shouldn't be...

"When he comes back, he has to have a good talk. I don't want to learn from the good ones. I just learn from you, a guy who likes to skip work and cause trouble for others."

Kunikida Doppo's nagging complaints lingered in his ears, Dazai Osamu let the wind pass by as usual, and sank into deep thought with his chin resting on his hands.

He had just shown signs of being tamed, why did he suddenly start losing his temper again?Or...wasn't it a temper tantrum?What could be the reason?

Nine eighteen in the evening.

A drenched monk appeared in his living room.

The drops of water dripping from his body were like broken bracelets, hitting the wooden floor one by one, and soon formed a dark stain at the feet.

At this moment, with a "snap", the warm light in the living room was suddenly turned on.

The dim light drove away the darkness in the room, and a temple cultivator subconsciously narrowed his eyes, his voice hoarse and vigilant: "Who?"

Then he heard a familiar yet slightly surprised voice: "Xiu? Did you just come back from swimming in the Pacific Ocean?"

Young birthday!Their house loves cleanliness very much. A cat with white fur and paws that would be blown up by dust and dirty water, how could it become a pitiful drowned cat!