Living in Yokohama

What appeared before Shirasaki's eyes was a vast expanse of white.

The middle-aged man sitting at the table sighed and scratched his head madly: "Hey... what is this? A few minutes passed by one second... Could it be that my exam questions are so easy? Do I need to make it more difficult? ?”

This is the examiner?Shirasaki tilted her head, shifted her gaze to Dazai Osamu on the other side, and said casually, "This test is really not difficult for you at all."

After all, this is an exam question composed entirely of the ability to read. For Osamu Dazai, who can eliminate the ability to read, it is equivalent to passing the test.

But Shirasaki is also a little curious, this power of thought can make people see the scariest scene... Will Osamu Dazai have the scariest scene?I always feel that the word fear does not match Osamu Dazai.

To Shirasaki's surprise, Osamu Dazai didn't answer her, he didn't even look at her, he just stared at the computer screen in front of the middle-aged man in a daze.

"... Dazai?"

"Ah," Osamu Dazai woke up like a dream. He turned his head to look at her with a smile, but he still didn't talk to her, but asked the examiner, "Speaking of which, how many exams are there next?"

The middle-aged man was so busy that he lost his head and replied casually: "I don't know. Generally speaking, there are five or six hunter exams."

"Five or six times...then there are still a few more days to take the exam?"

"What's a few days? It's common to take the exam for half a month. This time, it's fast enough to get to the third round of the exam." The examiner wanted to say something, but stopped, "It's so dangerous, I almost revealed it." It's the next test."

"Hey..." Dazai Osamu looked very interested in what the next test would be.

...?Did Osamu Dazai deliberately avoid talking to her just now?

Shirasaki followed Dazai Osamu's line of sight to the computer screen in front of the middle-aged examiner, and saw images flashing across the screen, and Shirasaki keenly captured some of them.

There is Xiaojie half lying on the ground looking up at the fox and bear opposite, Kurapika staring at the scene of a murder in a village with red eyes and crying, Leori staring at the dilapidated houses, streets and people going away... and Qi Ya stretched out his hand in front of the Yier fan whose pupils were like an abyss!

Grass!Il fans actually threatened Qi Ya!Sure enough, taking advantage of the fact that her own son has not yet grown up and she is already full-fledged, she wants to exclude her own son, tame her and inherit the family property intact!

Hey, what a rich family, Qi Ya is such a poor kid.

But if she could see this... wouldn't it be possible that Osamu Dazai, who has been here all this time, saw the scene of her confrontation with Dazai?

Shirasaki asked directly: "Dazai, did you see me—"

Osamu Dazai quickly interrupted her, and pointed his ear with his index finger while smiling, drawing Shirasaki's attention to his ear: "Aren't you going to take off that earphone?"

"...! Those who have been listening to it all this time almost took this as the background sound," Bai Qi simply took off the earphones and threw them to Osamu Dazai, while rubbing his ears and complaining, "What are you recording! I can't sleep well."

Osamu Dazai's tone was exaggerated, he waved his hands: "Hey, but it's very useful, isn't it! If you can't get up tomorrow, Xiaobai, then use this as an alarm clock."

Having said that, he leaned closer to Shirasaki, rubbing her fluffy soft hair against her forehead, his voice and the numbness of touch were transmitted to the brain: "Of course, if Xiaobai wants my Dazai's voice wake-up service, I will There's no—"

Bai Qi slowly took out the hat from his pocket, covered his face and pushed it back, then shook the hat and put it back on again, her smile was very gentle: "Do you want me to collect your body tomorrow? I don't either. Question."

"...Hmm." Osamu Dazai stretched his waist with a bored face, and shouted at the examiner loudly, "Mr. Examiner—Mr. Examiner—don't you have a stool! This is so tiring."

The examiner yelled: "What the hell are you taking the hunter exam for!...Really, no, the exit is over there, go out and ask that guy where to wait next! Don't stay here and bother me!...Really, why? At work, I still have to watch young couples..."

Shirasaki is used to people here calling young lovers when they see men and women walking together, looked at the ceiling above his head, raised his hand and dragged Osamu Dazai's back collar and walked out: "That guy? The one who slept on the roof before That person? I always feel that he is not awake now."

"Xiaobai, please be gentle." Dazai Osamu grumbled, "Really..."

Walking out of the door, the sun was shining brightly, Shirasaki pressed the hat, and looked at Osamu Dazai who looked up at her, Osamu Dazai narrowed his eyes slightly because of the sunlight, which covered the redundant information in the pupils.Looking at the clear iris-colored eyes, Shirasaki inexplicably pressed the curiosity to ask again "Did you see the scene where I confronted you".

She just looked outside and sighed in a very flat tone: "It's okay for you to scare the kindergarten children to tears when you laugh."

Osamu Dazai retorted unconvinced: "Obviously I was very popular with children at that time, and the children in my friend's house liked me very much."

"...Are you sure you like it?" Shirasaki couldn't help feeling sympathetic to the child she had never met.

The caterpillars on the roof... Bah, another examiner has grown butterfly wings, which are blue and glowing subtly in the sun, but the examiner is still buried in the sleeping bag, Shirasaki can even faintly hear it The sound of "snoring".

Under Osamu Dazai's persistent roar, Examiner Butterfly turned around: "Hey...why so fast...go to the airship over there and wait."

Then the sound of "snoring and snoring" came again from the sleeping bag.

"It's such a hot day that he can still fall asleep in the sleeping bag." Bai Qi went to the shadow of the airship, and fanned the air with his hand, "It's really hot, it was quite cool before."

Osamu Dazai lightly tapped the bow tie beside his collarbone, his whole body was as refreshed as if he was in an air-conditioned room, he stared at Shirasaki who was sweating slightly due to the weather, his pupils shone slightly, but in the end he just turned his head away, his tone Just like before the exam, he didn't see Shirasaki's illusion: "I really want to eat shaved ice, do you have crab meat shaved ice here? There must be some, right? This kind of thing must be very popular! I want to order ten copies now !"

"... Besides you, who else would like to eat it? And can this kind of thing really be eaten?" Shirasaki doubted, "Don't just invent things just because of your own preferences, the suicide tofu is also... I feel a little sorry Where's the examiner?" After them, the examiner was forcibly fed suicide tofu by Hisoka... It's pitiful to think about it.

Dazai Osamu looked determined: "Of course! I have personally tried this! Drizzle ice-cold persimmon wine on top of the crushed ice, and then spread the crab meat completely... Ah, no matter how many times I think about it, I still feel that It’s a rare delicacy~ If not, I’ll make one myself later!”

Persimmon and crab, as expected of you Dazai Osamu, Shirasaki shook his head: "Your life is too tenacious, there is no way to eat these two things together."

"Oh, that's true." Osamu Dazai tilted his head, "After eating five servings of shaved ice with crabmeat last time, my stomach hurts for a long time. Although I like to commit suicide, I hate pain."

Bai Qi propped his head, his expression was extremely complicated: "I wanted to ask before, why did you want to commit suicide?... There is no way in this world to die easily without feeling pain, you should know this, right? "

"Then why do you have to try again and again, obviously you hate pain?" She was very puzzled and asked so deeply for the first time.

"Ah... this," the shadow covered Osamu Dazai's face, making his expression blurred in his vision, "Then what does Xiaobai think? It's something that you must pursue even if you prolong your painful life. do they exist in this world?"

"Who knows about this kind of thing?" Bai Qi leaned back lazily, under the sunlight, the temperature of the outer wall of the airship made Bai Qi gritted his teeth, "But as long as I live long enough, this kind of thing won't Can you get the answer naturally?...And, since there is no way to die without pain, why do you keep torturing yourself, the meaning of life is not torturing yourself, right? "

"No." Dazai Osamu denied this statement, and he replied firmly, "Yes, there is a way to die without pain."

Bai Qi looked at him in bewilderment, his eyes slowly filled with incomprehension: "...Huh? Do you really think so?" There is no way to die without pain, even if you take sleeping pills, you still have to experience pain for a long time To die!

But Osamu Dazai just showed gentle, lingering and lingering eyes, he stretched out his hand, took a broken petal from the edge of the hat, and sighed softly: "It's really a beautiful flower."

... Osamu Dazai is really weird today.

Shirasaki stopped the topic and didn't ask any more questions. At this moment, Xiaojie jumped out from the exit: "I'm number one—huh? Sister Xiaobai, Mr. Dazai."

He walked over in a daze, unconvinced: "Damn it, I thought I must be number one."

Osamu Dazai has returned to his previous appearance, he put his hands on his hips triumphantly: "Hmph, that's so naive, Xiaojie, I can only be the first one, Dazai Osamu, right Xiaobai?"

"Although in fact Dazai is indeed the first," Shirasaki comforted Xiaojie, "but he doesn't need to be counted in the ranking, so you are the second, Xiaojie."

Xiaojie's face was puffy: "Is this a consolation? ... Anyway, thank you, little white sister, but Kiya and Kurapika haven't come out yet."

He looked back at the dark world inside the door, his eyes full of worry: "Kurapica..."

But he quickly cheered up: "As long as you can overcome it, you can come out of here, Kurapika will definitely be fine!"

Bai Qi: "Ah, by the way, I saw Xiaojie on that computer just now, you are facing a fox and bear. Have you really met him in the forest before?"

Xiaojie nodded vigorously: "Because I accidentally broke into Mother Fox and Bear's territory, Mother Fox and Bear is very angry!"

"...Speaking of which, Xiaojie, you come to take the hunter exam, does your family really agree?" Bai Qi narrowed her eyes, "Xiaojie is only 12 years old, right?"

"Agreed!" Xiaojie proudly puffed out his chest, "Aunt Mitt said that I can take the hunter test as long as I catch the kingfish!"

"? Kingfish?"

Xiaojie gestured: "It's a big fish with a total length of five meters!"

Shirasaki: ...

...Xiaojie is really a 12-year-old kid, right?