Salvation equals death

Dazai committed suicide again.

The two cats, Willa and Soba, squatted under the tree and looked at the 1.8-meter-tall man who could touch the ground on his toes even if he was hung up, but he couldn't get himself up, down, or die. They were speechless for a moment.

"Ho ho ho... so painful..." Dazai's face turned purple, like a ballet dancer, only his toes fell to the ground a little bit, struggling to reach out and scratch desperately in the air, "Save..."

As soon as Dazai uttered the word "Save", Vera jumped up without hesitation, cut the rope, landed lightly while looking back, and saw Dazai who fell limply to the ground with a bang like noodles.

Dazai lay down on the ground and didn't move. Wei Lameow tilted her head, and was about to poke Dazai with a branch to see if he was still alive, when the soba noodles on the side suddenly trotted over and gave her a big meal. lick.

Vera Mew was dazed by the licking, she was too small to resist, and after barely holding down the sticky buckwheat noodles, the two cats looked at each other, and Vera Meow realized that she might be so handsome after all. .

Willa, who was lying on the buckwheat noodles, licked its hairy head, thinking, how did you really become a cat?

"Meow meow?" Dazai Dazai, are you still alive?Wei Lameow yelled at Dazai for a while, and in the next second saw Dazai sitting up in shock with his eyes open, seriously ill, dying, and uttered Xiaozai's voice towards the innocent cat with a wooden face, "Xiao Ai, I'm hungry."

Vera: "..."

Taking the salary card given by Fukuzawa Yukichi, she bought a paper bag of yakisoba bread at the canteen. Vera looked at Dazai who was sitting by the river chewing the bread, and couldn't help but began to doubt life.

Chuya, Dazai, Ranpo, soba noodles... Could it be that I came to this world to raise a baby?

Having said that, knowing that the war is imminent, which is often a near-death situation, Vera has a faint, almost nostalgic reluctance for the people and things around her.

Now, even Dazai's behavior of jumping back and forth on the verge of death, in Vera's view, has a somewhat warm illusion.

So she also followed and lay down on the lawn by the river, letting the evening wind blow her hair, the astringent smell of the grass coming from her nostrils, the sound of the river filling her ears, and even the setting sun that splashed on her body made her feel warm. Heals body and mind.

—curing a... disease called loneliness.

Vera Meow couldn't help looking at Dazai. Dazai had a face as quiet and beautiful as moonlight when he was quiet, and when he was not smiling, he was pure and serene like a child, but when he smiled, he was as bright as the sun.

She thought, in fact, coming to this world is not without good things happening.

At least with Oda Saku, Dazai's incomprehensible loneliness can be relieved a lot -- the fear and hesitation of not being loved, can heal little by little as time goes by?

Wei Lameow was sunburned into a warm and soft ball. She opened her mouth and yawned, her face was buried in the fluffy fluff and she was drowsy. After a while, she actually fell asleep.

While half dreaming and half awake, Vera's eyes opened a small slit, and she said something to her with a cold expression, his gentle appearance was somewhat similar to him in Hong Kong and Hei.

What is he saying?Vera tried her best to gather her energy to hear Dazai's words clearly, but sleepiness easily swallowed up that insignificant sense of reason, and at the last second of falling into a dream, Vera heard a deep "meow".

--Huh?Didn't you say it to me?

……

Ace, one of the five cadres of the port mafia who can never get together, is dead.

Very dramatic, it was suicide. Like Dazai's latest attempt at neck-stretching therapy, he hanged himself with a telephone wire.

Not long after Ace's death, Vera knew that the "rat" that Hong Kong gangsters had finally caught had escaped - the leader of the house of dead rats, named "Fyodor Mikhailovich Toss" Toevsky" man.

At the same time, the Armed Detective Agency, which has fallen into a period of burnout after the Moby Dick incident, also received another commission from the Supernatural Secret Service Division. This time, the request was to investigate the "serial suicides by supernatural persons" in Yokohama.

It is said that there have been frequent supernatural events in Yokohama where people with supernatural powers died. Without exception, these people with supernatural powers walked into the thick fog and were killed without any resistance.

Vera tilted her head aside and thought for a long time, but somehow felt that this method of killing was very similar to that of a witch.

Witches—magic girls are monsters hatched from demon seeds because their soul gems are polluted. They will continue to lure others into their own domain and then brutally kill them, but in the eyes of outsiders, they are no different from suicide.

Want to see it?Vera thought to herself, after all, the witch and the evils of this world are disasters from another world. The more people die, the stronger they will be, and it will be a catastrophe for the whole world.

Vera didn't think about it for too long, because soon, Dazai disappeared mysteriously. The reason for his disappearance was the same as that of the dead supernatural beings. He walked into the dense fog under surveillance, and there was no news from then on.

But judging from the surveillance video, Dazai was strolling in the courtyard, not being lured or delirious, he even yawned, looking bored and careless.

Silly Dazai, stupid Dazai, Baga, fool!Vera, who lost Zaizi, stepped on Soba's little paw angrily, but Soba mistakenly thought she was going to play a game of "my claw must be on top", so she pressed her paw instead.There were two cats, one big and one small, and they pressed me and I pressed you. In the end, they gave up the game because they were too mentally retarded. Vera pounced on Atsushi Nakajima with a meow, and kicked his magical white hair with bangs hard. .

It is impossible for Dazai to disappear for no reason. The biggest possibility is that he has been beaten up again and is going to go deep into the enemy camp to do things.

But Dazai didn't know that this disaster might not just be man-made, but might be mixed with inhuman existence, which is a dangerous thing beyond imagination.

"Hey! Miss Ai!" Nakajima Atsushi hurriedly held the fallen little white cat, and looked at the meowing little white cat, but he understood something bitterly, "Yes, I'm sorry , I lost Mr. Dazai."

"...Don't blame yourself for everything, Atsushi, it's obviously the fault of that bandage-wasting device acting without permission." Kunikida, who was in charge of deploying the battle plan, was a little anxious. Although he always disliked Dazai, he He is also the "perfect partner" recognized by Kunikida. When he disappears, Kunikida is naturally a little worried, "Miss Ai is just thinking about her son. After all, Miss Ai saved that suicidal maniac every time he failed to commit suicide."

The entire Armed Detective Agency has maintained a tacit attitude towards the matter of "Dazai is Miss Ai's little boy". After all, Dazai has committed suicide so many times that the Butei people are too lazy to bother with him. The only life is the dung beetle that can live forever, but the only little white cat that is kept alone runs to save people in a hurry every time, and the man looks silent and the woman sheds tears when she sees it.

It is said that goldfish have a seven-second memory, and Miss Love probably does the same.

Vera really wanted to explain the cause and effect of the incident clearly, but she didn't know how to explain the existence of evil and witches in this world. She wanted to say that this time the incident was different from the past, and that even Dazai, who is wise and close to the demon, may overturn.

After wandering around without a clue for a long time, Vera realized after a while that she and Dazai were just laughing at each other. They both used to hide everything and go deep into dangerous situations to solve problems. The problem is that Dazai will take into account the actions and reactions of his companions, but Vera has been fighting alone for a long time.

Vera is not good at asking for help, because no one came to rescue her in the first years, so in the following world, she learned to endure pain, but forgot how to speak to her companions behind her.

The biggest possibility of the previous silence was her death alone, but if she doesn't speak up this time, will it lead to an irreversible ending?

Dazai, who is timid and afraid of pain, has already taken into account how she will react?

——He clearly knows that as long as he wants to live, she will never give up on him. After all, across the flowers and water on the other side, no matter who can be saved in the end, it is enough comfort for the other person.

Vera was silent for a long time, and suddenly jumped off the long table. The moment she landed, she transformed into a cute girl with silver hair and golden eyes in everyone's horrified eyes, and gently knocked on the door of Yukichi Fukuzawa's office.

Looking up at the silver-haired man who was slightly stunned after opening the door, Vera tilted her head, and a pair of straight cat ears popped out of her head.

"Yuji, are you free now? I have something to tell you and Mr. Mori, it is very important."

……

Oda Saku returned smoothly after being missing for many days. When others asked the reason for his disappearance, he only said that Dazai asked him to investigate some things.

And Odasaku, who just stepped into the detective agency, was caught by his colleagues and gave a crazy output. The focus of the topic was nothing more than "Surprise! The super cute character Fukuzawa Ai of the Armed Detective Agency is actually one of the super-popular idol port girl C. star".

Regarding this, the Buddhist man Odasaku expressed his calmness: "Oh, this, Dazai knows about this matter, and Mr. Ranpo is also very clear about it."

Everyone turned their heads in unison to look at Ranpo Edogawa who was eating the thick dim sum bought by Vera. The world's number one detective did not deny this: "This kind of thing is easy to see."

"And I've met Xiaoai before. The great detective helped her, and she even gave me a lot of snacks."

Therefore, there were only three or two insiders in the Armed Detective Agency, one who was evil-hearted and didn't want to say anything, one who was a buddhist who didn't think it was necessary to say anything, and one who was bought by Dim Sum and didn't bother to say anything.

"Then, could it be that someone changed that beautiful short?" Tanizaki Junichiro asked curiously.

"This..." Luanbu looked up at the sky and pondered for three seconds, then muttered, "I don't understand."

"It's a cat, but it seems to be someone Xiao Ai likes."

"But having said that." Ranbu suddenly turned his head to look at Odasaku, and asked without thinking, "Why is Dazai lost?"

"Ah, this..." Thinking of the conscious body that broke up with Dazai and broke away, completely left this world and prepared to make a comeback, Odasaku could somewhat understand Dazai's slight anxiety, "Probably because he ran out of time. "

"He said that if he didn't hurry up, he was going to play a crazy 'TrueEnd'."