What should I do if I am disqualified in the adult room?

It is said that time is the best medicine to heal everything. Osamu Dazai didn't believe it before, but now seeing the increasingly humane Satomi in his body, he has to sigh in his heart that pain is indeed the best catalyst for growth.

"Miss, after entering, just follow our original plan."

Osamu Dazai raised his hand and pinched the center of his brow, while commanding Satomi at the other end of the earphone calmly.

Another three months passed after that.Maybe it was motivated by Yamazaki's life, or maybe it was figured out by himself. In short, after that day, Satoshi Satomi never locked himself in the room anymore, but took the initiative to get out of his protective shell.

He began to imitate Osamu Dazai in wrapping bandages on his hands and neck.However, unlike Dazai Osamu who wanted to cover up the scars left by his suicide, Satomi wrapped bandages on his hands and neck to reduce the chances of others coming into contact with his "strangeness".

Every word Yamazaki said to Satomi was firmly remembered by Satomi, and he put it into action.

No one knows what Satomi thought about that night... no, it should be said that he locked himself in the room for a month.It's just that when he reappeared in front of everyone, he had already undergone earth-shaking changes from the past.

If the former Satomi was a sponge that passively absorbed everything around him, then now—this sponge he has learned to actively absorb everything around him.No more Osamu Dazai's cramming education, Satomi himself is frantically absorbing all kinds of knowledge to fill in what is lacking and blank in him.

He began to think and try constantly, making himself more and more like a person.

In this regard, Osamu Dazai didn't know whether he should feel relieved or worried.What is gratifying is that Satomi is constantly growing in the direction he expects, but what is also worrying is...whether the final direction of this growth is a good thing for Satomi.

However, it is still too early to talk about these things.Whether it is good or bad, time will tell.

"Go and rest, Dazai."

Satomi's concerned words came from the other end of the headset.

Osamu Dazai put down the hand pinched between his eyebrows, looked at the red dot missing in the monitor, and said, "It's okay, I'm not very sleepy yet."

"But you've been with me for three days."

Satomi's voice came to Osamu Dazai's ears again through the earphone, together with the sound of falling to the ground from the enemies he swiftly eliminated.

"Then get rid of these enemies early and come back."

Osamu Dazai turned down the volume of the headphones a little bit, and after such a stimulation, his drowsiness almost disappeared immediately.

"It's getting dark."

Osamu Dazai glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the screen, and said to Satomi jokingly: "If you can come back earlier, I can hold you to sleep today~"

"I didn't lose the quilt to warm my bed, it's really cold..."

"But it's summer, Dazai."

Satomi couldn't help but interrupt Dazai Osamu.

He really couldn't understand why Osamu Dazai insisted on resting on the same bed with him.In winter, it’s fine to say that it’s cold when two people huddled together are warmer, but why did Osamu Dazai still say that it was cold and huddled in the same bed with him in July, the hottest time of the year?

Isn't it the hottest summer now?

"That's different~ Lost."

Dazai laughed lightly.Having spent four years together intimately, they no longer need too much words to understand what the other is thinking.Especially Satomi's simple and straightforward thoughts, there is simply nothing better to guess than it.

"You are my little heater~ Without you by my side...in this cold underground world, I would live like winter every day."

"So hurry up and come back, I'm really freezing to death."

After finishing speaking, Osamu Dazai couldn't help stretching, stood up and moved his body that was a little stiff from sitting all afternoon.

Since three months ago he threatened the Special Agents Section with changing the intelligence information in the file to obtain information about Yamazaki from Ango Sakaguchi, he was half-actively and half-passively transferred from the clerical team to the field service team and the Special Agent of the Special Agents Section. Together with the staff, they made suggestions for the field team in the underground office that went out to perform tasks.

In fact, even if Taneda Shantouhuo didn't come to him, Osamu Dazai would find an opportunity to find the senior management of the underground office to change his position to the field team.Because the current Satomi really cannot withstand a second blow like Yamazaki.He is so vulnerable.If he experiences such a thing again, Osamu Dazai is very afraid that his body and mind will collapse from now on.

Osamu Dazai dare not gamble.

A broken person is like a shattered mirror, easy to break but difficult to stick together again.Therefore, before leaving the underground, he was not going to hand over Satomi to anyone.Just like what he said to Li Jianshi that night - "Before you are willing to face the world alone, put everything on me."

He will be the decision maker, and even if the Supernatural Secret Service wants to do something for Satomi in the future, if something goes wrong, it can only be blamed on him.

"what happened?"

Suddenly, there was a chaotic explosion-like sound from the earphones.

Osamu Dazai quickly sat back in his seat, and looked at the stagnant red dot on the monitor.

"What happened, Miss."

Satoshi Satomi on the other side didn't answer Dazai Osamu immediately, but took off the earphones and pointed it at the place where the sound came from, so that Dazai Osamu who was underground could hear the outside sound more clearly.

The bang bang bang made Osamu Dazai feel very familiar.However, before he could react, he heard Satomi put on the earphones again, saying, "Fireworks are going off today, Dazai."

Hearing this, Osamu Dazai was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the calendar in the lower right corner of the screen.

July……

"So it's the summer festival again..."

Before they knew it, half of the time for them to come to the basement office to wash their hands had passed.

As if he suddenly remembered something, Osamu Dazai asked, "Are the fireworks beautiful?"

"Ah."

"Then come back when you're done."

Osamu Dazai leaned back and rested his head on the back of the chair.

His skills are not good, and the Supernatural Secret Service Division is not at ease to let him out, so even if he was transferred to the field team and Satomi's team, he stayed in the underground office to take command, and he was both a partner and a supervisor. identity.

But Osamu Dazai thinks this is good, because it saves Satomi from being distracted to protect him when he is on a mission.

On the other side, after hearing Dazai Osamu's words telling him to fish in troubled waters, Satoshi pulled up his hood and jumped off the roof of the building.

The windbreaker on his body was blown by the damp and cool night wind.Satomi missed a few jumps and landed steadily in a remote alley.He tidied up his clothes before saying to Osamu Dazai on the other end of the headset, "Wait until next time."

"Let's go together next time."

Saying that, Satoshi avoided the monitoring on the side of the road and walked quickly towards the secret passage back to the underground office.

No matter how beautiful the fireworks are to him, they are not as important as the person waiting for him to go back.Osamu Dazai has been with him for almost three days without a break for this task. It is impossible for him to delay the time for Osamu Dazai to rest just because of a firework.

"Then wait out and let's go together."

Osamu Dazai in the underground office smiled, and said: "At that time, I will call Odasaku, and we will go fishing for goldfish together. It is just a matter of time to find a few to be companions with the two you are raising now."

"Ah."

After Satomi answered Osamu Dazai in a low voice, he stopped talking.

The fireworks above the head were still blooming brightly, but it didn't affect Li Jianshi's pace of returning to the underground office at all.

After half an hour—

"Why did you bring this thing back?"

Osamu Dazai, who was waiting for Satomi at the elevator entrance, looked at the apple candy sealed in a plastic bag in Satomi's hand, and said with a helpless smile, "Do you just like sweet things so much?"

Satomi shook his head lightly, and handed the candy apples he bought along the way back to Osamu Dazai.

"For you."

Today is the summer festival, although it can't be seen as fireworks, Satomi still wants Osamu Dazai to feel the festive atmosphere.

In the month after Yamazaki's death, he shut himself in his room and thought a lot.

He didn't understand why Yamazaki turned back.Obviously at that time, he had already lured all the monsters away... Yamazaki could have left him and escaped.I also don't understand the reason why Yamazaki dragged his seriously injured body to save him, let alone the meaning of Yamazaki's last sentence "Of course it's your friend".

Because friends are too unfamiliar to Satomi.He never thought that a 'person' like himself who can be abandoned at will is actually qualified to have such a precious bond as a friend.But the reality is——by the time Satomi finally understood and realized this, he had already lost the precious friend he had so hard to have.

Heartbroken, yet helpless.

After Yamazaki passed away, Satomi thought about it countless times. If he could find out about this earlier... would he not have said "who are you" to Yamazaki in the end?

Yamazaki regarded him as a friend, but when Yamazaki died, he did not recognize his friend from the blood-red world...

Satomi doesn't want to go on like this.He didn't want to miss anyone around him because of his own reasons—so, he had to change!

For Yamazaki who died, and for Osamu Dazai who never gave up on him.

"I'm not a child."

The familiar words were the same as when they went to the summer festival to watch the fireworks for the first time.Only this time, Dazai Osamu did not wave away Satomi's hand like before, but decisively took the apple candy that Satomi handed him.

"Well……"

Osamu Dazai tore open the package, took a small bite and commented: "The taste is much better than last time."

Although it was still too sweet to be cloying, perhaps it was a change of mood that made Osamu Dazai feel that childish and unpalatable things like apple candy were actually not unpalatable.

The corner of Satomi's mouth raised a gentle arc unconsciously.He moved his fingers, but finally couldn't hold back, and raised his hand to touch Osamu Dazai's soft and fluffy black hair.

Before he knew it, Osamu Dazai was almost as tall as him.Satomi lost his mind, maybe in half a year, he will surpass himself.Of course, it is also possible to stop at the same height as him.After all, his body is exactly the grown-up version of Osamu Dazai.

"Go back and rest, I'll report on this mission." Satomi retracted his hand, and said to Osamu Dazai who suddenly froze in place for some reason.

Osamu Dazai slightly tightened his fingers holding the candy apple stick, and then stuffed the candy apple that he had just bitten into Satomi's mouth with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"I don't want this kind of food that children only eat."

"Here you go, eat it yourself."

Saying that, Osamu Dazai turned around and waved his hand at Misato Satoshi.

"I'm going back to sleep first... You can report slowly by yourself."

Satomi bit the candy apple, and stared at Osamu Dazai's back in puzzlement as he disappeared at the end of the corridor.

Even though he took it so readily just now, why did he become a disgusting thing that only children eat in the blink of an eye?

Satomi held the candy apple stick and licked the place Osamu Dazai had just bitten with the tip of his tongue.

The fragrance of sweet syrup and apple fills the whole mouth instantly.

It's delicious...

Satomi lost his mind, as expected, no matter how much time passed, he still couldn't figure out what was going on in Dazai Osamu's mind.

But then again... Osamu Dazai seems to be turning 20 next year?

As if suddenly remembering something, Satomi turned around and walked in the opposite direction to Osamu Dazai.

They are underground offices that come in autumn, which means they can't leave until next autumn.If they are lucky, they will still be able to catch up with the last fireworks festival at the end of summer...but that is not the point, the point is—according to the Japanese custom that he has been making up for some time ago, Osamu Dazai will be an adult next year!

grown up...

Satoshi Satomi stopped, and stood at the door of the office with the half-eaten apple candy, lost in thought.

Adulthood is a very important part of a person's life.In Japan, there are even festivals dedicated to coming-of-age ceremonies for young men and women who have turned 20.

He didn't know there was such a thing as a birthday before, and he had never seen Osamu Dazai celebrate his own birthday, so he completely ignored it.

But now it's different!Coming of age is a big event in life...

Satomi turned around and decided not to report on the task, but to check about the Japanese coming-of-age ceremony.

But at this moment, the door of the office was pulled open from the inside.

The high-level executive of the special affairs department in charge of the field team looked at Satomi who was standing at the door holding a half-eaten apple candy, and said in surprise: "Mr. Shi, so you have come back?"

Satoshi Satomi nodded, then seemed to suddenly remember something, and politely asked the high-level supernatural agent in front of him: "Mr. Tsukauchi, do you know what to give to the other party on his birthday?"

Birthday?

The man whom Satomi referred to as Tsukachi Chief was slightly taken aback, not understanding why Satomi suddenly asked him what he was doing, but he still answered Satomi's question with some uncertainty.

"cake?"

"cake?"

Satomi repeated these two words in a low voice, then thanked the man whom he called Tsukauchi Chief in gratitude, and then turned around and left with the unfinished apple candy, leaving behind what he called The man who was the chief officer of the mound stood there in a daze.