Living in Yokohama

"Wow~ It's really as beautiful as the boss said!" Dazai Osamu was like a child on a spring outing, pointing at the sunset on the horizon and exclaiming, "Aren't you right, Xiaobai!"

"..." Bai Saki tried to calm himself down, "I remember we booked a ticket to NGL, right?"

"Yeah, that's right, Xiaobai made it himself!"

"Then explain," Bai Saki seemed to have a blazing flame behind her, and said with a half-smile, "Why are we on Sunset Island?"

Sunset Island, the hometown of the store manager's wife that Bai Saki met in a second-hand bookstore, the local language is very similar to Japanese.

But they definitely did not come to Sunset Island in their itinerary! !Is it the trust I gave you that made you free? Osamu Dazai!

Osamu Dazai unhurriedly flipped through his bag and took out a folded map: "Look."

On the map is the outline of Sunset Island, and Osamu Dazai gestured: "If you flip the mirror of Sunset Island...is it the same as Japan? Maybe there is a city like Yokohama here, do you want to go and see it?"

"...What's the point?" Bai Saki immediately relaxed.

But she just misses the people in Yokohama, what's the point of going to Yokohama here?

But Shirasaki finally walked with Osamu Dazai on the road to the Sunset Island version of Yokohama.

"Ahh—that building!" Osamu Dazai cheered up, and turned Shirasaki's head to that side, "It's the Armed Detective Agency!"

"...Ah, it's really a bit similar." The layout and architectural style are very similar to the old apartment where the Armed Detective Agency is located, and even the coffee shop downstairs is familiar, she sighed, "This is also fate what..."

Osamu Dazai seemed to be leading her away aimlessly, but how could Shirasaki know less about Yokohama than Osamu Dazai?

She stopped in her tracks: "This is the direction to... Radium Bowl Street, where are you going?"

"There's no Radium Bowl Street here." Osamu Dazai asked irrelevantly, "Come, let's go to the beach and have a look."

Shirasaki didn't look at him, the figure that just appeared on the corner of the street attracted her full attention: "His name is Masumi...?"

Shouldn't the first name Masumi be in the last world! ? ...Ah, she also participated in the game. As someone from the game organizer, it is not surprising that she entered this world.

...But the moment she saw the figure of Hatsune Masumi, Shirasaki had a very bad premonition, and this premonition of imminent danger almost made her want to run away.

Osamu Dazai grabbed her, and pulled her to the other side forcefully and gently: "Okay, Xiaobai, follow me quietly from now on, it will be over soon."

"You knew she would appear here!" Shirasaki immediately figured out the key point, why she was groggy before boarding the airship, why Osamu Dazai quietly changed her destination, and why she was led here all the way, "Dazai Zhi! Let me go!"

Osamu Dazai stopped, turned around calmly, covered Shirasaki's eyes with his slender fingers: "Trust me."

He slowly moved his hand away, and smiled softly: "I came here just for this, trust me one last time, Xiaobai."

Shirasaki: "...what do you want to do?"

Dazai Osamu did not answer, he shouted excitedly, attracting the passers-by to watch in amazement: "Come on! The destination is ahead!"

Shirasaki was staggered by him, looking down at Osamu Dazai's hand holding him, anxiety spread in her heart.

...What on earth is Osamu Dazai trying to do?

Button cobalt tower.

The geographical location is the same as that of Yokohama’s Kosai, but unlike the dilapidated and almost abandoned Kosai, Niu Gulu Pagoda is very luxuriously built, surrounded by iron fences by the locals, and a few bald men like Hanzo stand vigilantly Watching over the fence.

Osamu Dazai was humming, and used a small iron hairpin to pry open the lock. Shirasaki used his previous experience to sneak into the tower with Osamu Dazai quietly.

Bai Qi asked vigilantly: "Why do you insist on coming in? Where are you going now?"

Osamu Dazai pointed to the top: "Go to the roof."

——Different from the relatively tight defense outside, there was almost no one walking around in the tower, and the silence made people wonder if there were only the two of them here.

Pushing open the door on the top floor, the figure under the afterglow almost made Shirasaki's blood freeze.

"...His first name Masumi...?"

But she was a little uncertain, because the girl in front of her looked a little different from the first name Masumi in Shirasaki's impression, although she couldn't tell what was the difference.For example, Masumi, the first name in the past, seemed to have been blurred with a filter, and she had a subtle sense of unreality, but now she is like all ordinary girls on the roadside.

...To be precise, there is an inexplicable similarity to Shirasaki before his death in the previous life.

Hatsune Masumi smiled at Shirasaki, and then looked at Shirasaki's wrist held by Osamu Dazai in embarrassment: "Mr. Dazai, you can't stop anything like this, it just adds extra workload to me."

Osamu Dazai apologized without apology: "Ah, that's right, I'm so sorry."

Shirasaki pursed her lips: "Why did you appear here? Aren't you from Yokohama?"

"Me? I'm not." Hatsue Masumi paused, as if feeling ambiguous, she further explained, "Ah, I mean, I'm a 'thing' from Yokohama, but I'm not a human being."

Hatsune Masumi spoke very frankly.

"There is a book in Yokohama," Osamu Dazai said with a smile, "it's a 'book' that can change reality, Ms. Hatsina, you attacked the Armed Detective Agency that day, and everyone's memory almost disappeared afterwards." He pointed to himself brain.

"Is it using the power of a book?"

Hatsue Masumi said vaguely, "It's some kind of ability of my own—ah, but it's still important right now? Dazai, as I said, you can't stop me."

Osamu Dazai subconsciously squeezed his hands tightly, but he did not show any timidity on his face, and calmly smiled and said, "Hey, is that so?"

"Don't look at me like this, I'm also a member of the Armed Detective Agency." He raised his wrist, clasped Shirasaki's hand, and touched her head with the other hand to comfort her, "It's better to deal with a thief who wants to steal from others." No problem, huh?"

The first name Masumi was not very happy: "I didn't steal it."

She emphasized emphatically: "I didn't steal it! This is the reward that group of guys gave me! Is it wrong to take back my own reward?"

"—that reward," Osamu Dazai continued calmly, "it's not what Xiaobai promised to pay you."

Hatsune Masumi asked blankly: "Is there a difference? It's a game she voluntarily participated in."

"...I see." Shirasaki interrupted her.

Since just now, her mind has been in a mess, but she still can't analyze this thing.

After learning the ultimate purpose of the game, Shirasaki had a sense of reality of "it really is like this".

If a person continues to receive the same stimulus, he will gradually become dissatisfied with it.Just like cat abuse, some people just vent at the beginning and get pleasure from it.After feeling, it becomes a means to satisfy spiritual needs.

Slowly, one cat can't satisfy him, two can't, three can't... dozens of cats can't... At that time, he will swing the knife at the same kind dissatisfied.

The same is true for "crowding" chasing and killing. A kind of intensity chasing and killing will make people visually tired, so they increased the intensity, but what should I do if the enhanced intensity is not good-looking?

—stop the game and find another stimulus that satisfies them.

Bai Qi tried to calm down, but there was a trembling sound at the end: "Are you going to stop this game?"

Hatsune Masumi fell silent, she nodded slowly: "Did you guess it?"

"Stop as soon as one party says, isn't that violating the spirit of the contract?" Osamu Dazai's voice suddenly increased, he half turned around and hugged Shirasaki, with a faint light in his eyes, "It's too much, this is it."

Hatsune Masumi sighed, approached them from the window, and persuaded: "Didn't you see it? I'm almost getting my reward... I can understand your feelings, but Yokohama also has someone you want to see." people?"

Hatsune Masumi snapped his fingers: "I'll take you back, so you don't have to struggle anymore, okay?"

Shirasaki closed her eyes.It wasn't out of desperation or sadness that he closed his eyes... just because of some kind of weakness coming from inside his body.

As if something had been lost, an uncontrollable coldness spread all over his body, and he couldn't get even a trace of warmth from Osamu Dazai's hand.

Being held by hands like ice cubes, Osamu Dazai still had time to rub it to see if he could get hot. In the almost stagnant air, Osamu Dazai looked extremely relaxed: "Ms. Hatsina, do you know the singularity?"

"A special phenomenon that occurs when supernatural powers intersect with supernatural powers?" Hatsune Masumi tentatively replied, before the words fell, Osamu Dazai grabbed his wrist and pulled him over. Under the pressure of both faces, Osamu Dazai let out a cheerful laugh laughter.

"The players, the staff in the game, and my disqualification—"

The wind blowing from the window messed up his hair, and under the afterglow, Osamu Dazai's expression was indifferent and mocking.

"What kind of singularity will be produced, Miss Famous, do you want to guess?"

The yellow, shimmering light gradually gathered around the three of them, and then the darkness engulfed them. At the moment before the darkness came, Dazai Osamu let go of Hatsina Masumi, and pulled Shirasaki into his arms.

The inexplicable warmth was gradually transmitted into the body from the outside world, Shirasaki stretched his fingers that were no longer stiff, and then touched Osamu Dazai's collar.

The sleepiness swept over her, but Shirasaki tried her best to resist it. Under the darkness, Shirasaki could hardly see Dazai Osamu right in front of her: "Dazai?"

"Well, I'm here." Osamu Dazai's voice sounded a little vain, "It's okay, you can go back to Yokohama in a while."

"...What are you going to do, Dazai?" Shirasaki grabbed his collar, "What the hell are you—"

Osamu Dazai said softly, "Can you promise me one thing?"

"What, what...?"

"After returning to Yokohama, can the previous things be erased?" Dazai Osamu's warm and dry palm covered Shirasaki's eyes.

Shirasaki heard Osamu Dazai chuckle very lightly: "Even if it's me, I won't be held grudges by the girl I like after death."

"……Hey?"

Before Bai Qi fully absorbed the information of this sentence, the collar she was holding tightly in her hand suddenly disappeared. In this dark space, the sound of another person's breathing could no longer be heard, and the body temperature belonging to another person gradually faded away. .

In the huge space, the girl maintained the posture just now alone, she looked at her hands blankly: "Dazai...?"