Canary of the gods

Before Dazai Osamu came out of the kitchen, Saiki Kusuo first interpreted the remaining memory fragments on the messenger bag with "spiritual divination" according to his previous plan.

But what he saw was not much, nor was it related to the whereabouts of a temple cultivator, but just fragments of life.

For example, encountering thieves on the bus, encountering strange superpowers, the bus spontaneously igniting and so on; another example, dressing up as a woman... eh?The one who carried his bag at that time seemed to be the man who appeared in front of him.Although in the memory fragments, the man's face was a little swollen and he couldn't see the original face clearly, but the hair color, pupil color, body shape, and speaking voice all matched. From this point of view, the other party did know a temple cultivator. .

The remaining memories on the satchel are fragmented, but the amount of information that Saiki Kusuo deciphered from it is quite large.

To sum it up, it is almost like that a temple has now become a member of a detective agency, and the president of the detective agency can help the members adjust their abilities, so he can now help some people within the limits of the rules.

Saiki Kusuo was very pleased.

And it was this man named Osamu Dazai who recommended Ichijo Temple to join the detective agency.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Saiki Kusuo looked back, and just met Osamu Dazai who came out with tea and snacks.

The other party had a smile on his face, and he looked like a gentle and good-tempered person.

but……

Saiki Kusuo will not be fooled by his appearance.

Just from the memory fragments, he could see that Osamu Dazai was a man full of wickedness and love to play with people.His straight-minded bamboo horse can be said to be eaten to death by the opponent, and even a temple cultivator can't find out the opponent's tricks in many cases, and jumps into the trap set by the opponent without warning.

The only consolation is that the opponent is no match for a temple cultivator.But... the advantage in this point naturally disappeared after a monk said, "It's fine not to beat you in the future."

Alas, it is still the same, you idiot.

Osamu Dazai accepted Saiki Kusuo's scrutiny calmly, and put the tea and snacks in front of him, "Please use."

Saiki Kusuo nodded.

The two sat on the sofa, and neither of them planned to be the first to speak.

Unlike his impatient bamboo horse, Saiki Kusuo is quite calm.Osamu Dazai watched the other party finish his portion of dessert in a leisurely manner, and drank half a cup of tea, still not intending to speak.

It seems that it will be a bit difficult to deal with, this bamboo horse "Kusuo" who is often talked about by a monk.

Difficult bamboo horse "Kusuo": Ah... It's been a long time since I had a comfortable meal of dessert.

Recently, he has been busy finding a temple cultivator, beating up Bailan, and saving the world, constantly traveling between the different time and space and the original world - he still has to go to school on weekdays, and find people in different time and space , mostly after school and on rest days.Every day is full of time, so naturally there is not much time to relax.

Now, after savoring this dessert carefully, he suddenly felt that his exhaustion had been smoothed away, and his mental outlook was refreshed, as if he had been revived again.

He thought, since the side effect of a temple cultivator's ability has been controlled with the help of the president of the detective agency, if he doesn't take the opportunity to slaughter this guy for a dessert feast, wouldn't it be a pity that he has traveled around several worlds these days? To find his own?

The more he thought about it, the more Kusuo Saiki felt that this idea was feasible.

His thoughts were already wandering in the ocean of sweets, and when he was drifting off, Osamu Dazai, who was sitting on the single sofa, coughed suddenly.

Saiki Kusuo: Well, let’s get to the point first.

"I haven't introduced myself yet." Dazai Osamu stretched out his hand to Saiki Kusuo, "I'm Dazai, Dazai Osamu."

Saiki Kusuo glanced at his outstretched hand, and shook him politely.

[Saiki Kusuo. 】

Saiki Kusuo, who habitually uses telepathy to communicate, saw the other party's confused face, and reacted belatedly. Osamu Dazai's ability is invalidated. It stands to reason that he should not be able to hear him using superpowers voice of the past.

So, he opened his mouth after a long absence, and introduced himself again: "Saiki Kusuo."

Osamu Dazai laughed again, "Hello, Kusuo-kun."

Saiki Kusuo said lightly, "Hello."

After the other party opened his mouth, Osamu Dazai said with emotion: "Kusuo-kun and Xiuzhen are indeed good friends who grew up together, and they even have the same indifferent appearance when they don't like to talk."

Saiki Kusuo calmly retorted: "It's not a friend, it's just an acquaintance who happened to grow up together."

"Pfft!" Osamu Dazai couldn't help laughing out loud, "That's right, 'not friends but acquaintances', when Xiu mentioned Kusuo-kun at the beginning, he said the same thing."

Qimu Nanxiong: "..."

"But it shouldn't be a coincidence, right?" Osamu Dazai smiled meaningfully, "I heard that it was Kusuo-kun who brought Xiu back to the human world from the African prairie."

Saiki Kusuo: "..." Hey, how much information did this little bastard reveal?The old bottom has been overturned, is there nothing left? ? ?

Osamu Dazai seems to have the ability to read minds. Even if Saiki Kusuo has a face that doesn't change at all, he can accurately grasp the other party's psychology and guess what the latter is thinking now , and respond to it.

"Xiu talked to me a lot about his past." Osamu Dazai put his chin in one hand and said with a smile, "For example, he had a bad temper when he was a child; for example, he liked to talk to cats on the African savannah. Wrestling; for example, his curse-like ability; for example, his three lovers; for example, Kusuo-kun who has been leading him and not letting him go astray..."

Every time Dazai Osamu said a word, Saiki Kusuo decided to hit him on the head more when he saw a temple in the future, to find out whether it was filled with water or tofu.

So it seems that they will inevitably fight on the moon.

The naughty brat needs to keep his skin tight so that he doesn't talk to anyone he sees like a big brother who knows everything.

Thinking of this in his heart, Saiki Kusuo still didn't show any abnormality on his face, and even took a sip of tea leisurely, and said calmly: "I still have pictures of him wearing diapers when he was a child, do you want to see it?"

Hehe, but we have only known each other for a few months, do you know as much as him?Is it possible to say this?What, want to show off that you two have a good relationship now?

He even has a photo of the temple repairer holding a plastic yellow duck and eating it when he was a child. What are you?

God's Scorn from Saiki Kusuo.

Osamu Dazai gave two "tsk tsk" in his heart, saying that he really deserves to be the guy who can be often talked about by a priest.If it wasn't for the fact that the ages and identities of the two parties were not right, he even felt that there would be no problem in directly replacing every "Kusuo" mentioned in a temple saying with "my father".

Isn't this just an old father who raises a son without knowing it?

It's a pity that the raised Chinese cabbage was pushed into the vegetable basket by him~

Saiki Kusuo couldn't help but shuddered, staring vigilantly at Osamu Dazai with a moved face.

... What disgusting thing is this guy thinking about? Why did the look in his eyes suddenly become so strange?

But then again.

"Isn't this Xiu's home?" This is the information he got from the memory fragments in his satchel. This house is indeed a Sixiu's home, but...

"Why are you here?" You still received him with the attitude of a master? ? ?

The corner of Dazai Osamu's mouth deepened, and instead of answering the question directly, he said vaguely, "Because I have the key here."

"..."

"???"

Saiki Kusuo frowned, realizing that the matter was not simple.

Could it be that……

"Are you his new boyfriend?"

Unexpectedly, Osamu Dazai choked on a straight ball.

"That's not..."

Oh, that is to say, did you say this on purpose just now to mislead him?

This naughty guy.

Saiki Kusuo snorted coldly, raised his chin, and said bluntly, "Where is Xiu?"

Osamu Dazai did not hide it from him: "He is not in this world."

Qimu Nanxiong: "???"

"If you had come a few days earlier, you might have seen him."

"..." Qi Mu Kusuo suddenly felt helpless.

Could it be that he is going to embark on a hide-and-seek journey with that guy in another world?Can't this little bastard make him feel at ease? ? ?

Dazai Osamu explained for a temple: "He didn't leave voluntarily. You can tell from the satchel he left here? He was taken away."

"He was taken away?" Saiki Kusuo narrowed his eyes, "Who?"

"Bryn."

Although, he also guessed the existence of another guy, but... Out of some ulterior motives, he temporarily covered the other party's identity, so that it would be better for Saiki Kusuo to focus his anger on one person.

Hearing this familiar name, Saiki Kusuo crushed the teacup in his hand expressionlessly.

With the sound of "click", the remaining tea water slipped down his palm, and before it dripped onto the floor, it disappeared in front of the two of them together with the fragments of the teacup.

Sure enough, Saiki Kusuo also knew about Bai Lan.

Dazai Osamu did not change his face, and before the other party opened his mouth, he briefly summarized the whole incident into a few sentences and told him: "Fixed the other party's trap. Through investigation and monitoring, we found that an illusionist disguised as Bai Lan's appearance angered Xiu by saying something. Xiu lost control of his emotions and killed what he thought Bai Lan was. He was also arrested by the military and police. took him from the cell."

"Wait a minute." Saiki Kusuo frowned, "You said...Xiu killed someone?"

its not right……

How could that guy kill someone?

Although when he is irritable, he will put cruel words such as "cut you into pieces" and "do you want to die for you", but at most that guy will beat people up and finish the job, and he will never be serious Under the killer.

Why is Saiki Kusuo so sure?Just kidding, a temple cultivator can be said to be raised by him... Ah bah, looking at the guy who grew up, how can I not understand him?

In the past few years, he had put a lot of effort into instilling in him the notion that violence should not be used to break the rules, and that human life should not be underestimated, just to prevent him from killing people.

Because once this matter has a beginning, he will not take human life seriously in the future.

This is a lesson drawn from the mountain of corpses and blood in another future.

Dazai's eyes flashed.

really……

No wonder the temple cultivator reacted that way after killing the fake Bailan.

Just like what Edogawa Ranpo said, Ichijo Jishu is a very restrained and good boy, and this should also be due to the person in front of him—— Saiki Kusuo.

Dazai Osamu observed Saiki Kusuo's expression without any trace, and said, "Yes, he was very emotional at the time, and it took me a while to wake him up from that crazy state."

"crazy?"

Saiki Kusuo rested his chin and fell into deep thought. After a while, he mentioned something: "Has he ever told you about 'that thing'?"

"That thing?" Dazai Osamu let out a "huh" and quickly realized, "You mean...his supernatural power is a 'living creature', and he wants to come back to life?"

Saiki Kusuo: "..." Very good, although the time for his commentary has been reduced, this little bastard must be beaten up.Can you really talk about anything? ? ?

Since Saiki Kusuo mentioned "that thing", Osamu Dazai couldn't help but start guessing, "Then you think that the cult's agitated murder has something to do with 'that thing'? The ability to read minds has a problem with mental pollution. But when he returned home, he had calmed down, so I thought it would be fine..."

Saiki Kusuo shook his head and said, "That thing doesn't only appear when Xiu's spirit is polluted. It has always been lurking in his heart, waiting for an opportunity."

Osamu Dazai tapped the table with his fingers, and said while thinking: "So, 'that thing', is it really the 'evil' that represents the ability to cultivate supernatural powers?"

His eyes drooped slightly, and he spoke out his guess: "The only way for 'it' to come alive is to make Xiu make a wish. So 'it' killed all the existences close to Xiu, isolated him, and made him always have only one People. If one day, a lonely Xiusheng has the idea of ​​'wanting to be accompanied by someone', 'it' will be born in accordance with his wish, and thus truly 'live'."

Saiki Kusuo nodded: "So, I don't want him to know the truth."

"He is very obedient. Once he knows the truth, he will have thoughts of 'absolutely no need for company' and 'it doesn't matter if I'm alone'."

Osamu Dazai then added the following words: "'It' will not be happy to see such a result, and maybe it will do some extreme things—for example, induce Xiu to attack others. Then, in order to avoid such things, Xiu, They will choose to stay away from the world completely, and they will be alone until their death.”

As he said that, he chuckled suddenly, "Now that 'it' is impatient to do it, is it because we are not reconciled to seeing Xiu by our company?"

Saiki Kusuo looked at him silently, suddenly feeling upset.

He suddenly had a premonition, that is, these days of hiding and hiding in different time and space are probably in vain.Because, this trip, he might not be able to bring back the idiot who turned his elbow outward.

Tsk, what's the matter with this feeling that a Chinese cabbage that has been raised for many years is suddenly pouted by someone?