Canary of the gods

"Why are you here?"

Osamu Dazai lay on the back of the sofa, tilted his head and said, "A newcomer has come to the agency. Everyone has prepared a special entrance examination for him, and it will be tomorrow. Because we need a little cooperation from everyone in the detective agency, we will I called Xiujun, but you didn't answer, so I came to your house directly~"

"... Oh." A temple cultivator responded indifferently, and walked to the bathroom without looking back.

At the same time, the lights in the kitchen were turned on, and the kitchen utensils were clanging into operation, obviously ready to cook something to eat.

Dazai Zhi, who never regarded himself as an outsider, dragged his voice and said softly: "Xiu, I want to eat supper too~"

"Go away after eating."

"Thank you for the hospitality!"

After taking a shower, a steaming Jishu put on a towel and walked to the sofa. At this time, Osamu Dazai had already picked up his supper, and was watching TV while eating.

He also sat cross-legged on the sofa, picked up his supper, and asked the other party: "The newcomer you just mentioned?"

"Huh?" Osamu Dazai turned his head and danced with him, "Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"

"...Swallow it down and talk."

But when Dazai swallowed the food, he was accidentally choked up, raised his head and patted his chest, his face turned red.

"..."

A priest handed him a glass of water, Dazai Osamu took it, gulped it down a few gulps, and then sighed, "Ah! I'm saved! Choking to death on food or something sounds too embarrassing. Death The method is not refreshing at all!"

"..." A temple cultivator silently ate his supper, he didn't eat lunch or dinner, he was so hungry right now.

Osamu Dazai talked to Atsushi Ichijo about Atsushi Nakajima who just joined the club.

"Really... the tiger is actually his supernatural power?" A priest was a little disappointed, he thought it was really a big cat.

"Yes." Then, he told Ichijoji that tomorrow they planned to have Tanizaki Junichiro pretend to be a kidnapper and take hostages, and test Nakajima Atsushi.So it's good to let Shuichi Ichijo not reveal his secrets, and don't show that the detective agency and Tanizaki Junichiro know each other.

"If you don't know how to act, you can go to the coffee shop downstairs and wait~"

A temple repair said decisively: "Then I'll sleep a little longer and come back to work."

"Well... that's fine too."

After Osamu Dazai finished his supper, he put the bowls and chopsticks on the table in front of him.

At this moment, a temple monk hadn't finished eating yet, Dazai Osamu turned sideways, propping his head on one hand to watch him eat.

"..."

After being stared at for a long time, a priest raised his head and glared at him, and said with disgust, "Didn't I let you go back after eating?"

"I'm curious." Osamu Dazai grinned, "Should Xiu meet Mr. Cotton Candy today? It's a pity that I've been busy with Atsu-kun's affairs, so I haven't talked to Mr. Cotton Candy."

The movement of a temple monk to eat suddenly stopped.

Osamu Dazai thought: Sure enough, it is the same as what Mr. Ranpo said, the wrong cultivation is definitely related to that cotton candy teacher.

"that person……"

A temple cultivator frowned, and said with a look of fear: "It's not a good thing, don't touch him, I will solve any problems."

When he said "solve", he had a fierce look in his eyes, and the meaning was very obvious. Once the other party had any problems, he would kill them directly.

Huh?

Osamu Dazai felt a little strange when he heard this.

He had heard so many cruel words from a temple cultivator, but he had never been able to truly feel the other party's deep and cold killing intent like now.This shows that he really has the idea of ​​killing that guy.

Dazai couldn't help but frowned.

Although their cats are a bit cruel, in fact, they hold back every time they fight with people.Otherwise, with his strength that can smash through the uninhabited island, it is estimated that none of the people who have been punched by him will survive.

"Is there something wrong with Mr. Cotton Candy?" Osamu Dazai's brain was spinning rapidly, "Mr. Ranpo said that before the guy was sent to the detective agency, he was on the beach by the sea, because the edges of the soles of his shoes and the footprints left There are fine sands, and some are stained with water, and the color is darker. But the question is, why did he wear leather shoes to the beach by the sea?"

"Because he didn't expect that he would appear on the beach, so the answer is, you got him there." Osamu Dazai rubbed his chin and guessed the truth without much effort.

"Next is the reason why you did this." He frowned slightly, looking very serious.

"When you first saw that postcard, you actually lied, right? You met him or something when you were traveling before. It should be true that you met him, but it's not necessarily true if you didn't travel... Will hide the choice, the novel he wrote, and the sentence he left on the postcard..."

He pondered for a moment, and came up with the final answer: "So that's the case, is that guy also related to different time and space? You are so hostile to him, shouldn't it be..."

Osamu Dazai stopped suddenly when he said this, blinked his eyes, and said tentatively: "Could it be, he is the guy who destroyed the world in other time and space, right?"

He hasn't said anything yet.

A temple cultivator sighed silently in his heart.

But he didn't mean to hide from Osamu Dazai, he directly confessed: "That's right."

"Tsk tsk." Osamu Dazai smacked his lips, "So you just threw him on an uninhabited island?"

A temple repair nodded.

"In the end you put him back, which means he's fine for the time being?"

"Actually..." A temple cultivator put down the bowl and chopsticks, and said with some hesitation, "His problem is still serious, but at that time I was worried that I would accidentally kill him, so I..."

"Huh? In other words, aren't you angry because of him?" Dazai Osamu was puzzled, if the abnormality of Ichijo Temple was not caused by the novelist...

"Then why?"

A priest pursed his lips, glanced at Dazai Zhi twice, hesitant to speak.

Seeing this, Osamu Dazai's tone slowed down, as if he was worried that the probing cat would shrink back again, "What's wrong? Is it convenient to say?"

"No, it's just... I don't know how to say it." A temple cultivator had a tangled expression, and even took the pillow on the sofa and ravaged it, showing his irritability without a doubt.

"Actually, I don't really understand either. Kusuo told me."

"Huh? So what the hell?"

Osamu Dazai waited for a while, and then one of the priests who organized the language said, "Kusuo said that my supernatural power... is actually 'alive'."

"?!" Osamu Dazai opened his eyes slightly in surprise, "'alive' means... is it actually an unknown life energy residing in your body?"

At this moment, he thought of his old partner Chuya Nakahara in the port mafia.There is an unknown and powerful life energy in the other party's body, which they call "Huang Ba Tu".

"That's why I said, I don't know too well myself." A temple cultivator hugged his knees, put the pillow on his knees, and rested his face on the pillow, "After Kusuo said this, he warned me, never Can't make it 'live'...but when I asked him what 'it' is, that guy changed the subject, as if he didn't want me to know."

"..." As far as Osamu Dazai learned from Ichijiji, his powerful bamboo horse "Kusuo", besides being his only friend, has actually been acting as a "beast trainer" and a "safety device" all along. "The role.

So why is Kusuo avoiding the question of "what is it"?

If you really don't want a monk to know, then you shouldn't mention "it is alive" in the first place; if you have to say it to make a temple vigilant about its existence, why not just tell him the truth?

Or, in fact, Kusuo doesn't know what kind of existence this "living superpower" is?Or... the key to this thing's "living" lies in the change in the consciousness of Ji Yijiu himself, so Kusuo can't explain the matter clearly?

There is too little information, and this question is temporarily unknown, so Osamu Dazai put it aside, and asked again: "When and how did you notice the existence of 'it'?"

"When I use my mind reading ability."

One temple monk told all the things that happened when he was a child and after using the mind reading ability today.

"After using that ability, I didn't recover for a long time, so Kusuo fought with me a few times. After that, he told me that my ability is 'alive'."

Osamu Dazai nodded, "And today you used the mind-reading ability on Bai Lan, and your mind was polluted. You felt that 'it' came out again, so did you make yourself so embarrassed?"

A temple cultivator buried his face in the pillow, and let out a muffled "hmm".

"Sometimes I think, is it because of the existence of 'it' that I have such supernatural powers?"

At this point, Osamu Dazai suddenly remembered what a priest had said to him after the case of hiding drugs in the haunted house was solved.

"From this point of view, my ability is not the so-called 'whatever you want' at all. It's just that within the limits of 'it', I can do everything smoothly."

At that time, Osamu Dazai also asked who "it" was.

A temple priest replied: "Maybe it's a god or something."

At that time, Osamu Dazai thought that this "it" referred to the barrier formed by a temple's supernatural power restrictions, rather than a specific thing.However, it was unexpected that this thing actually existed.

Tapping his fingers rhythmically on the back of the sofa, Osamu Dazai thought over and over again what Ji Xiu said just now.

"Make a wish to me, I can fulfill all your wishes..."

"kill him……"

"Everyone who gets close to... will die..."

Desire, killing, jealousy... From this point of view, even if "it" is a god, it is definitely not a good thing.

……Wait a moment.

Osamu Dazai's fingers stopped suddenly, a dark light flashed in his eyes, the speed was too fast for people to catch it.

It turned out to be the case.

He probably knew what Kusuo was thinking.

He turned his head to look at a Sixiu who was playing with his mobile phone with his chin resting on the pillow, and suddenly stretched out his hand to rub his fluffy hair that had been blown by the wind.

"?"

Osamu Dazai smiled and said, "Oh, Xiu is really cute~"

"..." A vein popped out of the temple's forehead, "Don't think I can't deal with you if I don't beat you."

Osamu Dazai rolled his eyes and quickly got up from the sofa, "Speaking of which, I've been bothering Xiu Jun's house for long enough, so I'll..."

Just as he was about to slip away, his coat was grabbed by a temple monk with quick eyesight and quick hands.

"Why are you running? Come to my house to eat and drink, and want to leave without doing anything?"

"What do you say……"

A priest raised his chin, gestured for the bowls and chopsticks on the table, and ordered: "Go wash the dishes!"

"Yes--I know."

"No dishwasher!"

"...why should we abandon such a quick and easy human technology as the dishwasher?"

"Medical nutrient solution can also meet people's nutritional needs, so why do you still have to eat?"

"...This is not a concept at all, is it?"

"Ok?"

"Well, I'll go."

"Humph."

Early the next day.

A monk slept a little longer than usual.

It's just that he fell asleep, and suddenly a call hit his mobile phone.

He fumbled on the bedside table in a daze for a while, picked up the phone, and asked hoarsely, "Hello? Who..."

"The big thing is bad, Xiu!"

"?!"

A priest suddenly opened his eyes, sat up from the bed, frowned, and asked, "Dazai? What's wrong?"

Osamu Dazai on the other side of the phone changed his heavy tone just now, and shouted energetically: "I put myself in an iron bucket, and I'm about to die now!"

"..."

A priest with a blank face hangs up the phone neatly.