[Wen Ye] Do caged birds dream of butterflies?

Walk slowly along the deserted road.

The gunfire stopped.

"It's Akutagawa, it looks like it's over." You said, took another look at the sunset-stained sky, smiled slightly, turned around and walked towards the black car parked a few meters away from the roadside.

"Miss!" Oda's voice came from behind, "Aren't you waiting for Dazai?"

"No more." You didn't look back, just waved your hand, "Say goodbye to him for me."

***

Then Sakunosuke Oda finally left.

You breathed a sigh of relief, and after waiting for a while, Akutagawa opened the car door and sat in.

The boy looked paler, but nothing else happened.

"How?" you ask.

"Fortunately." He replied in a low voice, "The subordinates assisted Master Zhongyuan to clear the MIMIC base, and confirmed that 21 members of MIMIC and their leader Gide were wiped out. Three of Master Zhongyuan's subordinates died, and we have to wait for the finishers , the subordinate will come back first."

"Very good." You smiled, "You didn't tell him I was there, did you?"

"No, according to your order. When the subordinate met with Lord Zhongyuan, he only said that he was passing information according to the order of Lord Dazai."

"Good job, you know, Mr. Dazai doesn't like my contact with Chuya."

"My subordinate understands."

"Then let's go back first. Akutagawa, please escort me back to the Ganghei Building first."

"Yes." The boy nodded.The two bundles of hair on both sides of the cheeks are dangling, really like a lop-eared rabbit.

What a good boy, you think.He's the easiest part of everything today.Because of the dramatic first meeting, he is also one of the rare people who knows your identity.And his character is so simple, as long as you show the boss sign and say "it's Mr. Dazai's arrangement", he will follow you so stupidly.

If only everyone were so easy to cheat.

You thought about it, and signaled the driver to start the car.In the sound of the roaring engine, you suddenly remembered something, smiled, took out the monitoring headphones that you had worn for more than 20 hours from your ears, rolled down the window, and threw it out of the window.

***

Oda Sakunosuke did not wait for Osamu Dazai.

He went back and forth, stood in the dark and watched the car carrying the girl in white skirt and the boy in black go away, and then stepped on the sunset, embarking on the road to find his own soul.

The location displayed on the terminal is not close to here.But when the sun was setting and night was rising and the sky was dotted with stars, he understood what it meant to be "a place you know."

It was a three-story villa with a garden, located in a corner of a high-end residential area, some distance from the surrounding neighbors.It looks like it hasn't been lived in for a long time, the railings are rusted, the garden is overgrown with weeds, and the porch is full of old newspapers and magazines. The rain and wind make them look like ordinary garbage, piled there miserable .

This was the place where the lady lived before she came to PortMafia, and the first time he received an order from her, it was to remove the books here and clean up a corpse.

Oda Sakunosuke felt like laughing, but for some reason, the sound in his throat seemed to be choked.

He found brand new traces on the iron fence at the door, the latch was broken, and now it was just hanging there obliquely.So he was able to push open the door easily, and there were fresh footprints on the heavy dust on the porch, 1,2,3,4,5, 6, [-], [-], [-], [-], six different shoe sizes, belonging to one adult and five children.

He turned the handle, but the lock was unlocked, and the door swung open.

Oda Sakunosuke stepped over the old newspapers and magazines and walked in.

There was a strong smell of dust in the air.Drawn curtains cut out the light.There was only darkness in sight.He reached out and found the light switch on the wall.I pressed it, but the light didn't come on.It was probably unoccupied for a long time, and the power supply was cut off.

But that didn't pose much of a problem for the former killer.What's more, the living room had already been emptied, and all the furniture was covered with white cloth and piled aside.This is what he did back then.Oda Sakunosuke thought so, walked steadily through the living room, then turned left, and opened the small door next to the kitchen.Holding on to the wall with one hand, he walked down the dark stairs.

The stairs are wide and much deeper than a typical basement.But Oda had expected it.He calculated the numbers in his mind, and after stepping on the last flight of stairs, he took two or three steps forward, and sure enough, he touched the same iron door as he remembered.

The iron door in the basement of Miss's house is the structure commonly used in private bank vaults more than 20 years ago.Stainless steel over 15 centimeters can be opened by password-operated electric shafts located at two places inside and outside the door.Once the power is cut off, the mechanical structure will completely lock the door.There is only a combination dial on the outside and no lock hole. Only people in the vault can open the door by turning the mechanical bolt.This design maximizes the safety of bank funds, and in the event of a robbery, bank staff can hide in the vault and then cut off the power supply.In the absence of corresponding supernatural power users, ordinary light weapons will not be able to penetrate this gate in a short period of time.

Indeed, quite a safe place.

Oda Sakunosuke fumbled for the code disk, but like upstairs, the power here was also cut off.He couldn't help calling the children's names, first murmuring, then shouting, and finally, almost growling.

It wasn't until he hammered the door with all his strength and called out the names hoarsely that he finally heard a voice.

The door was unscrewed from the inside.The light of a candle shone out.Afterwards, there was a cheerful cry, chirping, like a group of noisy sparrows.

"Odasaku!" This is Shinsuke.

"It's Odasaku!" It was Katsumi.

"Odasaku, is there something dangerous?" This is Yuu.

"Odasaku! Why did it take you so long to come to us?" This was Shinji.

"Odasaku? What's wrong with you?" The youngest little girl was holding a white bunny doll... There was a pink hairpin in the shape of a peach blossom in the bunny's ear.The little girl stared at him blankly, and asked cautiously, "Are you crying?"

This is Saku.

"No," Oda Sakunosuke looked at everything in front of him and shook his head, "No."

The red-haired man made a hoarse voice. At this moment, his soul, which was about to be twisted, crushed and buried, returned to this body.

"I'm just happy," he said.

***

He remembered that a few hours ago, that girl in a brand new white dress and white shoes, dressed as if she was going on a date, stopped in front of him.

Standing not far from her was a rabid boy called No Bark.He tried to ignore it, but was stopped by the boy's attack.And when he was about to draw his gun, he heard her call his name.

"Oda."

He turned his head and saw that she was holding a pistol in her right hand—that posture was full of flaws at first sight—and pressing it against his temple.

"I know there are many ways for you to knock the gun out of my hand before I pull the trigger," she said, "but I think you don't want to hurt me. So, listen to me now."

He stopped.Akutagawa also withdrew his attack.

So she bent her mouth in satisfaction: "Very well, it looks like we can communicate now."

"What are you going to say? You and I have nothing to say." For him, no matter what he said now, it was useless.

"No, yes." However, the girl just smiled, "Oda Sakunosuke, MIMIC will be handled by someone, you don't need to kill anyone - because the children are still alive."

***

It was just dark outside the window.The sky is dotted with stars, like a handful of diamonds sprinkled on soft dark blue velvet.

In the bright study room, a man wearing a white shirt, black suit and long black coat stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looked at his own shadow reflected on the glass, and smiled.

The long red scarf was pressed under the collar of his coat, and his eyes were as dark as blood.

"A complete loss."

"What are you talking about? Mr. Mingmingsen is the biggest winner, right?" The girl in white who was standing not far behind him smiled and said, her smile was very similar to the man at first glance, but it was completely different upon closer inspection.

"The ability to open the license has been obtained, and MIMIC has been successfully eliminated. After this time, Mr. Dazai will not return to PortMafia. Even if all the losses of property and personnel are included, the benefits of PortMafia far exceed The cost of input. Plus the part of hidden benefits... The script ended with the best result."

"But it's not the ending I wanted."

"What's the relationship? Chuya and Akutagawa don't know what happened under the water. They are still your loyal subordinates."

"However, the little lady made me pay extra losses."

"So," the girl pointed to the envelope in the man's hand, "I made up for it."

"I don't think it's enough."

"Then there is no other way." The girl smiled playfully, "After all, this is the only thing I can give. Although I know that Mr. Mori can do it himself, it is better to save trouble. After all, you are Energy conservationist."

"...In the end, the one who knows me best is you, Miss?" Mori Ogai turned around, as if meeting for the first time, and looked at the girl in front of him.His gaze was like a cold surgical instrument, as if he wanted to dissect the girl's entire body and penetrate into every corner of her soul.But the girl calmly let him look at her, the curvature of her lips remained unchanged