Living in Yokohama

"Hmm... um?" The caterpillar examiner opened his eyes wide and lifeless, but he didn't refute this, and yawned sleepily, "Ah... Anyway, hurry up and go in, really, I'm so sleepy..."

Then, no matter how the examinee asked, there was no more sound from the caterpillar.

In front of him was an open door that was as opaque as a black hole. With the strange building that resembled a circus tent, only Hisoka seemed to fit perfectly here among a bunch of candidates.

Bai Qi pressed the earphones weakly, her face inadvertently showed some irritability, but she quickly covered it up, and walked inside with a blank expression.

With the first person taking the lead, although the people behind were a little worried, they all followed up.

It's very dark inside, not the kind of darkness without the lights on, but like being in an abyss without light, even the air is different from the world outside the door.

"...Mind ability?" Bai Qi stopped and stared at the darkness, "Didn't you say it was a written test...?"

Is it necessary to test how to find the test room before the written test?

...This should not be possible. Shirasaki is more inclined to think that the examiner did not tell the truth. After all, although he said "just like you guessed", the examiner did not confirm that it was a written test.

Bai Saki paused on the spot for a while, trying to combine her mind ability with supernatural powers—she had discovered before that when her mind power filled a certain space, she could detect the appearance of the space, which was equivalent to turning mind into a A 360-degree eye with no dead angle.

But this consumes too much, so she hasn't used it before, and just now she had an idea, thinking of using supernatural powers as a carrier to fill the space with thoughts.

This time it was much easier, but Shirasaki didn't stick out anything, as if there was really nothing in front of her.

"Mind ability in the space department? Have the other candidates been separated?" Shirasaki touched the earphones, narrowed his eyes, and walked in a random direction, "Tsk, Dazai, that guy is really lucky."

After walking a few meters, she finally sensed something.

Walls, trash cans, trees, weeds in corners—

Bai Qi stopped, unable to hide the astonishment on her face anymore, her back was covered with cold sweat.

Here... here is not-

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Osamu Dazai walked into the examination room, which was empty, except for a middle-aged man in sloppy clothes who buried his head in front of the computer: "Ah, why are there so many jobs? How many candidates are there! The two people in front are really serious. Assessment!? No, no, the difficulty is increasing..."

"Hey, good morning." Dazai Osamu sat in front of him with a smile, "You seem to be very busy, don't you ask another person to help?"

"Huh? Why do I ask him to help me with my work—wait a minute!?" The middle-aged man looked up stiffly, looked at Dazai Osamu in disbelief, and kept repeating, "Which examinee are you! Why don't I remember? Setting up the place for you... What's going on! Could it be that I missed it! Impossible... Impossible, hey, did you hide from that guy just now!"

Osamu Dazai burst into tears: "How can you slander someone like this! He just walked in from the door to take the exam?"

Middle-aged man: "...Yes, is that so?"

But is his mind ability so easy to decipher?In such a short period of time, unless someone whose strength is equal to or even surpasses him uses his mind to force a breakthrough... But this person is obviously not a minder!

Osamu Dazai knocked on the table and explained: "I came here directly through the darkness, so do I pass the exam?"

"Through the darkness?" The middle-aged man was stunned, and asked tentatively, "Didn't you see anything else?"

"No."

Middle-aged man: ...

Could it be that this person has never had anything to fear?Is this still human?

The examiner, whose face was full of vicissitudes, took a deep breath, and buried his head in the computer again: "Okay, okay, you pass, and stay here An Fen."

"No problem." Saying so, Osamu Dazai quickly jumped over the table, lying behind him to watch, on the computer, Shirasaki flashed past with his head down, "Oh, are these the exam pictures of other candidates? "

"Eh? It's... what are you doing! Didn't I tell you to stay still!" The middle-aged man stretched out his hand to push Dazai Osamu, but Dazai Osamu stepped back nimbly and missed his hand, and raised his hands high.

"Okay, okay, I won't watch it."

He looked at the screen behind the examiner and smiled quietly: "This time...it's terrible."

This is really the worst possible situation, and maybe the earphones he stuffed into Shirasaki can only work half as expected.

After this exam, the relationship between him and Shirasaki will probably recede a lot. What a pity, the probability of the occurrence of the event with a probability of zero...is even more impossible. Let's just call it an impossible event. .

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Walls, trash cans, trees, weeds in corners.

Wearing a black suit, Osamu Dazai said hello to the 16-year-old. He looked at the 20-year-old Shirasaki through time and space, and smiled like a devil: "Yo, Miss Shirasaki."

"It's so pitiful," Dazai Osamu's tone was full of carelessness, like a cat playing with a mouse, he stretched out his hand to Shirasaki, "Stop struggling, you obviously can't see anything."

……what.

Is this a test? ...Why this memory...?

Even knowing that this was just an illusion brought about by the exam, Shirasaki still couldn't control herself and took a step back, leaning against the wall, her heartbeat was so fast that she almost couldn't breathe.

"...It's been a long time since I saw you like this." Bai Qi closed her eyes and squeezed out the words from her throat, "It's really..."

If Osamu Dazai hadn't suddenly appeared in front of her eyes, she probably wouldn't have noticed it herself. She was no longer as frightened and alert as she was when she saw Osamu Dazai in front of the Armed Detective Agency.

In the two years since Osamu Dazai defected, she imagined countless times what would happen if Osamu Dazai returned to the port mafia, and she felt that she could overcome the psychological shadow brought by this person countless times—

But, no.

No matter how she imagined it, Shirasaki still couldn't help being afraid when Osamu Dazai reappeared in front of her.

Bai Qi wanted to run away almost subconsciously, but Nian's feedback told her that this place is only a dozen square meters in size, as long as the illusion is not broken, she can't run away.

Her eyes fell on a certain corner in vain.

This was the first time she lost the three senses. After staggering to escape, she could only stay here to rest temporarily because she fell too many times, but was blocked by the expected Osamu Dazai.

Did Osamu Dazai have this expression at that time? ... She didn't know, she couldn't see anything without her eyesight, but she probably had the same expression as this demon.

The 16-year-old Shirasaki lifted the trash can next to him, kicked Osamu Dazai and put the bucket on his head, and then took the opportunity to escape from here.

The 20-year-old Shirasaki is limited by space and has no way to escape.

"Oh, is Miss Baisaki crying? Is it cold?" Osamu Dazai sighed, twisting his neck, making a slight sound of bone friction, "Just give up resisting, why are you struggling to live, anyway, this No one in the world wants Miss Shirasaki to live, right?"

He seemed innocent: "This place, but that old grandpa told me about it—ah yes, it's the grandpa of the little boy you saved."

Shirasaki looked at him.

...The 16-year-old Shirasaki almost cried because of this sentence, but the 20-year-old Shirasaki couldn't.

People are profit-seeking animals, not to mention the profits she can bring are enough to drive everyone who hears about her into madness.

Osamu Dazai walked up to her.

He stretched out his hand and caressed Bai Saki's face, his tone was low and treacherous, as if soaked in honey: "Go to sleep now, when you wake up, your unfortunate fate will come to an end."

An uncontrollable drowsiness came to Shirasaki's mind, she looked at Osamu Dazai fixedly, and then closed her eyes.

She seemed to have had a dream, and the content of the dream was not so bad.

I met Chuya Nakahara, I met Sakunosuke Oda, I met everyone from the Armed Detective Agency (the version without Osamu Dazai), and even Ryunosuke Akutagawa briefly appeared in a few scenes.

Shirasaki seems to have returned to Yokohama.

Edogawa huddled on a chair to eat snacks, Kunikida rushed to work anxiously, and wiped her hatchet with Dr. Yosano, and Tanizaki, the brother and sister, were in the corner making love to each other.

"The bag of potato chips is empty, mess around." Bai Qi leaned on the table and watched him, "Do you want another one?"

Edogawa Ranpo childishly pushed the snacks away: "It's all that Ranpo-sama doesn't like!"

Bai Saki smiled connivingly: "Then, I'll bring the leftover snack pack from last time to Ranbu later."

Edogawa Ranpo's eyes lit up: "Do you have any more! Ranpo-sama wants them all!"

She responded softly: "If we can still meet, no matter how much I want, I will try my best."

"...But it's a pity," Bai Qi looked at the detective agency tenderly and reluctantly, "I didn't have time to say goodbye before, let's be together this time, I can't say goodbye to you personally, what a pity."

The next second, Shirasaki opened his eyes, firmly holding the tip of the silver knife in his hand.

"It's obviously just a hunter test, so it's too dangerous." Shirasaki looked at Dazai Osamu, the blood oozing from the wound on the palm of his hand dripped little by little, "However, if you are by my side, I can't sleep of."

Bai Qi gently tapped his ears, and took off the earphones: "Besides, the original version gave me this thing."

The sound in the earphones is not loud, but because it is so quiet here, both of them can hear the sound inside very clearly:

"Oh~ Xiaobai got up, Xiaobai got up—hey, can't you? Do you want me to cast the magic of love...Wait, wait, just kidding!......"

Bai Qi hooked a smile: "Listening to this thing to fall asleep is a very challenging thing."

Osamu Dazai looked disgusted: "Hey, it's really tasteless...In that case, you passed the exam."

He lazily waved his hands twice, but suddenly stopped: "But I'm still curious...Is this person the person you hate the most? Don't you hate him?"

Shirasaki: "Why do you ask that?"

Osamu Dazai tilted his head: "My ability to read... In short, it allows you to relive the most frightening memories and see the people you hate the most. The second stage of sleep can satisfy your deepest desires. Generally speaking, seeing After the person you hate the most, you will always have the mentality of 'ah, I want to get revenge on this person'... But you don't have it at all, don't you hate him?"

Bai Qi turned her head and stared at the darkness in the distance: "...why do you hate him?"

She hated Osamu Dazai because the man's strategic intelligence in chasing her was frightening.

But in the final analysis, she was hunted down because she chose this path herself.

Calculated in this way, Shirasaki hates Osamu Dazai...doesn't she also hate herself for choosing this path?

"I don't regret it." Shirasaki said.

Osamu Dazai nodded half-understanding, and then broke with the darkness.