Be Dazai's mother

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From somewhere came the sound of water dripping.

I opened my eyes in a haze of consciousness, wondering where I am now.

"You're finally awake." A familiar voice came from beside me, and I stared blankly at the source of the voice like a stiff wooden man—it was Akiko.

The dark-haired girl sat on the chair next to my bed, with a coat draped over her thin body.She looked extremely tired, and her eyes were black and blue.

After noticing that I was awake, Akiko twitched the corners of her stiff mouth and gave me a reassuring smile.

My lifeless eyes rolled, and I asked softly in an unbelievably calm voice: "...Where's Ah Zhi?"

Akiko was silent, she opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she couldn't say anything, so she could only lower her head and say nothing.

I lowered my eyes, forced my tired body to get up from the bed, but was paralyzed and panting because of the surging pain.

Akiko hurriedly supported me to lie down again, and said anxiously: "Don't get up first. Although I used supernatural powers to heal the wound for you..."

Akiko showed a very serious expression, and said: "But as you said to me before, physical wounds can be easily healed, but mental wounds cannot be repaired so easily. .”

I ignored her and continued to struggle to get up from the hospital bed. Akiko kept calling my name to make me stop, but she still couldn't stop me from moving.

"Sachiko!" Akiko yelled loudly as if she couldn't bear it.

I finally reacted to her roar, and stared blankly at Akiko with a pair of empty eyes.

"..." Akiko looked at me, gritted her teeth, took a deep breath after shaking, and said in a trembling voice: "Don't you know what happened to you at that time? It slipped out of your belly, if it wasn't for me using the supernatural power before you took your last breath, if it wasn't for my possessing such supernatural power, you would have died long ago."

"And even if I restore your body with supernatural powers at the last moment, the residual pain in your body will not disappear immediately. When you were unconscious, you were shaking all over your body, shaking until you kept convulsing and vomiting, you..." With tears in her eyes, Jingzi looked at me fiercely and shouted: "Do you know how cruel things you have just experienced? Don't continue to be brave, you have to take care of your body!"

Before Akiko could continue speaking, she froze - because I grabbed her wrist.

"You mean..." Letting the messy wine-red hair hang down, I looked at Akiko with a terrifying expression, and said in a bone-chilling voice: "Are you telling me to leave Azhi alone?"

I know I shouldn't say such hurtful words to Akiko who saved me, but I can't control my words.As she said, physical wounds can be healed, but mental wounds cannot be healed so easily.

In particular, my body twitched non-stop because of the memory pain, which made my breathing fast.

My consciousness was struggling in pain and confusion, but only the fact that Azhi was taken away was so real that my heart seemed to be pierced.

At the end, when I struggled to reach out to him, Aji subconsciously wanted to hold my hand.

But Aji couldn't grab my hand in the end, because before that, the black-haired man opened a big hole in my stomach from behind.

The moment I fell down and still tried to reach out to Azhi, and Azhi's hand still stayed at that action, he showed an unprecedented, bewildered expression.

Azhi, Azhi, Azhi—his expression about to cry is deeply engraved in my mind, making me unable to stop crying.

"You mean—" I stared at Akiko blankly, letting hot tears fall from my eyes, "Are you asking me to let go of my child?"

"..." Akiko was silent, looking away as if she didn't dare to look at me.

Because Akiko is very gentle, she couldn't continue to say more cruel things to me.But I am very clear that with my current tattered appearance, I am indeed useless and like garbage, the best choice is to leave Azhi alone.

But how could I leave him alone?If Aji could really be left alone, I wouldn't have grabbed that hand and led him out of Tsushima's house from the very beginning.

I supported my exhausted body, resisted the pain of body memory, panted and tried to get up from the hospital bed, but a pair of hands in front of me stopped me.

"Jingzi has already told me about your affairs, so you can stay here and rest for now." The owner of those hands said so.

I looked up those hands blankly. It was a silver-haired man, wearing a kimono, who looked about ten years older than me, with a serious face and a sense of sharpness like a blade. I'm afraid my whole body will be stiff when I look at it with my eyes.

On weekdays, I would also be more afraid of this type of person, thinking that this is a difficult person to get along with.But in the current situation, even if a ghost crawled out of hell stood in front of me, it wouldn't make me feel the slightest fluctuation in my heart.

I rolled my stiff eyeballs, didn't speak, just watched him quietly.

The silver-haired man paused, breaking the somewhat stiff atmosphere, and said, "I'm Fukuzawa Yukichi, and I'm here—that is, the president of the Armed Detective Agency."

Akiko nodded and said, "This person is the president of the place where I am staying."

From waking up to now, all my attention is on how to save Azhi. I really didn't notice the environment I am in now, nor did I notice that there are actually two people watching me all the time.

I subconsciously glanced around—the place where I am now is probably the medical room, and there are only some medical equipment around me except for the hospital bed, and I lay on a hospital bed and glanced at the person who called himself Fukuzawa Yukichi. The man glanced at a teenager behind him again.

He looked about the same age as Akiko, and his face was immature, with a carefree childlike look on his face.The boy was wearing a beret and a pair of black-rimmed glasses. His attention didn't seem to be on me and Fukuzawa Yukichi, but on the outside of the window, and he didn't know what he was looking at through the window.

Akiko followed my gaze to look at the boy, and introduced: "That person is Mr. Ranpo, Edogawa Ranpo."

Ranpo... sir?Is it an honorific?It looks like it's just a little immature in appearance, and I don't know its actual age.

Anyway, these things are not important to me, I only care about one person, I looked at Fukuzawa Yukichi and said: "Hello, I am Sachiko, Dazai Sachiko. Thank you very much for your care and help, But I can't stay here any longer."

Fukuzawa Yukichi frowned and asked, "Is it about your son?"

I nodded.

Fukuzawa Yukichi frowned even tighter. He didn't seem to be very good at words. After hearing my response, he didn't have much worries, but told me bluntly: "According to Ranpo's judgment, your son Dazai Osamu Now at the Port Mafia."

"Port Mafia?" I blurted out the name, having never been near Yokohama.

"It's the Mafia here in Yokohama." Akiko said in a disgusted voice, "It's the Mafia that dominates Yokohama with terror and violence."

I understood everything in Akiko's explanation.Yokohama is a place completely different from other cities. For some reason, this city has gathered many people with supernatural powers like a source of attraction, and it has unknowingly become a place where the outside world cannot easily reach in.

At the same time, Yokohama is also an extremely chaotic city. The ruler of the city, the port mafia, dominates the city with terror and violence. The horror of this is beyond the imagination of an ordinary person like me.

And the two people who captured Azhi at that time were not members of the port mafia, but people who smuggled in from foreign countries in an attempt to join the port mafia.The reason why Akiko and others went to my side was to pursue these two people.The blond man is named Andrew, and he is Italian.The black-haired man is called Koichiro Uehara, who was originally a bounty hunter.

The two had gone too far abroad and were hunted down so much that they had to flee to Japan and wanted to join the port mafia to seek asylum.And the riot that happened when Aji and I went to enjoy the cherry blossoms was also caused by the fight between those two people and the people who chased them down.

What happened to Azhi was also an accident among accidents. No one thought that there would be an anti-differential ability that would invalidate the supernatural ability to appear there.In particular, Aji has never used his own abilities before.

After killing the people who were chasing them, they ran over and captured Azhi, and wanted to obtain the leader's asylum by sending Azhi to the leader of the port mafia.

"If there is no accident, Azhi has been sent to the port mafia leader now." Akiko explained all this to me with her index finger upright, then looked at me hesitantly, and shouted: "And Sachiko, you... .”

"And I alone couldn't save Ji from the Port Mafia...you want to say that, right?" I said calmly.

When Akiko told me everything, I also woke up from the dazed state just now. It can be said that I am very calm now, or rather calm too much.

Akiko paused, his face darkened, and said: "Yes...especially in recent years, the health of the leader of the port mafia has become worse and worse, which has also caused his temper to become more irritable and capricious. The port mafia is completely Drenched in sheer terror and violence."

"The reason why the president and the others went back to chase Andrew was also because they judged that if these two people joined the port mafia, they might lead the port mafia in a worse direction. Because Andrew and Uehara Koichiro lived together Men in violence and terror, but now those two are probably already in the port mafia, and they also dedicated Azhi to the leader of the port mafia, and that leader is under many protections."

"Only by your words, Sachiko..."

tick.tick.tick.

Not far away, the only drops of water left in the faucet were hanging down, dripping on the ground, making a slight sound, and disappearing easily.

The room fell into silence.

"If that's the case—" I put my eyes on Fukuzawa Yukichi who was at the side, and asked calmly, "Can I entrust you to rescue Aji with me?"

I lowered my eyes and said, "Your goal is the port mafia, right? From this alone, our goals should be the same now."

Before Fukuzawa Yukichi could speak, Edogawa Ranpo, who hadn't inserted into the topic, bit the lollipop in his mouth and said, "With our current capabilities, we can't directly confront the Shanghai Port Mafia."

"Mr. Ranpo." Akiko glanced at him, then at me hesitantly, and sighed.

This reaction...probably not okay.

I clenched my fists—

"We accept this commission." Fukuzawa Yukichi's calm voice interrupted me.

I opened my eyes wide and looked at Fukuzawa Yukichi in disbelief, while Edogawa Ranpo frowned.

"I don't agree." The boy wearing the hat looked at Fukuzawa Yukichi incomprehensibly, and said, "With our current situation, do you know what you are doing to deal with the Shanghai Port Mafia?"

"The Armed Detective Agency has just started, why is it necessary to confront the Shanghai Port Mafia now? If we insist on confronting the Shanghai Port Mafia now, it will only lead to annihilation. Do you want the Armed Detective Agency, which has finally started, to be destroyed? ?” Edogawa Ranpo stood up and said.

"But even so, innocent children cannot be allowed to be snatched from their mothers by the port mafia." Fukuzawa Yukichi said with a frown.

"Then, have you ever thought about being with Yosano?" Edogawa Ranpo opened those green eyes, looked at Fukuzawa Yukichi with a calmness and reason that did not match the childishness of his face, and said, "Originally, you are with Yosano." Xie Ye's information was eliminated with great difficulty by you and Mori Ogai, the president, and now only a small number of high-level officials know about it and keep it secret. Because once her supernatural power is exposed to the outside world, everyone will be crazy , causing new chaos. At the same time, Yosano and Yosano will fall into hell again."

"If we confront the Shanghai Port Mafia now, Xie Ye's existence will definitely be exposed. Her supernatural power will make everyone focus on her."

"Are you going to sacrifice Yosano to save a stranger?" Edogawa Ranpo said seriously.

Fukuzawa Yukichi was silent.

Looking at the extreme atmosphere between them, I lowered my eyes.

Between Akiko and Aji, they chose Akiko.This is a matter of course, and I won't blame them for it. It's a matter of course which one to choose, your member, your partner, or a child you've never met, right?What's more, this unknown child was sent to the port mafia leader. Whether he can be rescued or not is still one thing. Rescuing it rashly will only lead to complete annihilation.

At the same time, just like Akiko and Aji were in danger at the same time and asked me to make a choice, I would always choose Aji.It might sound like I'm being cold in saying this, but that's the way it is.In life, there will always be some unavoidable choices that have to be made.

After all, we are not gods, but ordinary and powerless ordinary people who have to struggle in a world full of cruelty and pain. There is only so much temperature we can hold and protect in our palms. If we firmly choose One person, then may lead others to hell.

And even if I sacrifice everyone, I just want Azhi to survive and grow up well.I don't need to be a very good person who can make me "face", as long as I can be happy.

My wish is only one, even if all this includes myself.

I supported my body and stood up.

"If you can't go, then I'll go by myself, please tell me, where is the port mafia?" I asked seriously.

"If you go, you will die." Edogawa Ranpo looked at me seriously and said, "With such a rare ability to resist aliens, the leader of the port mafia would not be able to kill him directly, but would kill him instead. Protect it well. But you will die if you go."

I looked at Edogawa Ranpo expressionlessly, he seemed to see something from my face, showing a dazed and surprised expression.

"No mother can let a child cry for help?" I said in an extremely cold voice.

"..." Edogawa Ranpo fell silent.

"...Rationally, I also feel that this is not a good time to deal with the Shanghai Port Mafia." Jingzi said, and then she looked at me again and said, "But emotionally, I think it is necessary to save Ah Zhi. "

"Even if this might put me in danger, I still want to save him." Akiko looked at me, smiled, and said, "Just like Xingzi once saved me."

I opened my mouth, feeling a little ashamed because of Akiko's smile, and murmured: "I just said a few words to you, and that was just an insignificant act."

"It was those few words that changed my life." Akiko shook her head and said.

An imperceptible smile appeared on Fukuzawa Yukichi's face. He looked at Edogawa Ranpo and shouted, "Ranpo?"

"..." The calm and rational expression on Edogawa Ranpo's face suddenly disappeared, leaving only a kind of angry childishness. He scratched his hair and muttered in his mouth : "I know, I know."

Fukuzawa Yukichi looked at me and said, "Our Armed Detective Agency has accepted your commission. If you give up because of fear of the port mafia, it will also violate the belief of the Armed Detective Agency."

Akiko smiled helplessly, and then showed an indescribable expression as if remembering something, and said, "Although I don't want to find that person, but in this situation, I can only see if I can cooperate with that guy."

"Who?" I asked suspiciously.

Akiko gave a "tsk" in disgust, and said, "It's Mr. Mori who works as a doctor next to the leader of the gangsters in Hong Kong."