After drawing Zhongye SSR

He said his name was Osamu Dazai.

When Maki woke up, he found himself lying on a somewhat damp ground.

Her eyes were smeared with the wet fluid.

She stretched out her hand, wiped the liquid on her face, and then raised her delicate childish hand to her face.

Dark red, rust-like in color, with a slightly unpleasant fishy smell.

She knows that this thing is called "blood", which is like fuel in human beings. If too much is missing, human beings will become unusable machines, and unlike machines, human beings in this case have not been repaired great opportunity.

Maki stood up and looked around.

She saw human bodies stacked together, most intact, but a few with only parts left.

She saw a hand that was pressed between two relatively large bodies, and there was only one hand left. There was a ring on one of the fingers of the hand, and the not-so-large diamond on it was stained with blood. Lost its luster.

Maki stared at that hand for a long time.

Then he moved his gaze aside, and picked up a tool called a "knife" by humans from the side.

Her current body is a human body.

And human beings are weak creatures that need to eat and drink to survive, and will die if they lose too much blood.

Maki is not human.

She is "the book", or rather, was a book.

Maki is not sure whether he can be regarded as a purebred book now that he has a human body. To be precise, there is no purebred or mixed blood for books—because books are not a group of people, or even a kind of creature.

When that person asked her "what is a book", Maki, who originally claimed to be omniscient, was stumped.

In the end she gave an answer that didn't count as an answer.

"Books are books."

The man froze for a moment, then smiled.

Maki liked that smile very much—it was like sunlight shining into the mud, because she saw a satisfying smile, so Maki didn't blame him for embarrassing herself.

Maki's world is pure white, she stays there, watching everything outside silently.

She doesn't have the same emotions as humans, so she doesn't know what "loneliness" is, nor what "happiness" and "pain" are.

However, she understood the human expression of these feelings.

Humans "laugh" when they are happy, which is a magical muscle cramp.

In times of pain, humans "cry," with salty saline dripping from the corners of their eyes.

Maki occasionally sees human beings in pain.

At this time, she usually uses her abilities to solve the things that make that human feel painful, such as serious illness, such as hunger and thirst.

As a book, Maki has two abilities.

One is omniscient and omnipotent. She knows what is happening in every corner of the world and understands all cultures and knowledge.

The second is Yan Ling, what she wants to make it come true will definitely happen.

But there are things she can't do.

Like bringing the war to an end—although she can change the tide of battle in a split second, humans are such creatures that they will continue to wage wars.

What Maki occasionally did was regarded as a miracle by human beings, because they couldn't explain why their seriously ill family members suddenly got better, and they couldn't explain why when they were walking in the desert and were about to starve to death, an oasis suddenly appeared in front of them.

So they imagined the existence of "gods".

However, no one understands better than Maki that gods do not exist.

She is not a god.

And the real gods would not come to this place where there is nothing special.

That person broke into Maki's world suddenly.

"……Hey?"

That was the first sound Maki had ever heard made towards her.

That person seemed to be talking on the phone, confirmed it several times, and then said, "Can you hear me?"

Maki sat up and asked, "Who are you?"

The man didn't answer right away.

But Maki heard that his breathing became a little heavier. Judging by human emotions, Maki guessed that he was probably very excited now.

"It's actually true..."

He said as if talking to himself, and then remembered that Maki could hear, "Are you a book?"

Why does he know that he is a book?

This idea flashed in Maki's mind, but in the next second, she admitted: "I am."

She has no hidden thoughts because she knows that person can't hurt her.

Although Maki is an all-knowing book, she can't understand human emotions.

Human beings were too complicated for her.So she didn't know at that point in time that the guy didn't want to hurt her.

The man coughed softly, and then said jerkyly: "My name is Dazai Osamu—hiragana is——"

"I can't write."

Maki said: "But your name is Osamu Dazai, I remember."

Dazai was stunned for a moment.

He didn't dispute the fact that books couldn't write.

He asked, "What about you, what's your name?"

Maki said, "A-166."

Osamu Dazai smiled and said, "It's not a name, it's just a code name."

Maki said, "Yes. All books are named like this."

Osamu Dazai was silent for a few seconds, he realized something.

This number-like "name" represents that things like books should be like parts in a huge machine.

Parts should not have self-awareness, so he was surprised when he learned from a certain source that the book in their world had self-awareness.

He thought for a while and said, "Have you thought about taking a human name?"

Maki wondered: "Why should I?"

Osamu Dazai said, "Do you want to come out and take a look?"

Just as Maki wanted to say "I don't want to", she hesitated.

Although she had never had such an idea before, when Osamu Dazai proposed it, she suddenly realized how tempting this proposal was.

outside world.

...a world of men.

Osamu Dazai realized something from her silence.

"I can provide you with legal status if you want to come out - we're at war right now anyway," he said.

And war has always been the biggest producer of orphans, and Maki knows it too.

But she didn't want to be an orphan.

Maki had never thought of such a thing before.Because as a book, all she needs to do is to live, nothing more.

But now, she thought, perhaps it would be a good thing to live as a "human being".

So she asked, "Osamu Dazai, do you want a daughter?"

Dazai was stunned for a moment.

Then he said: "I never thought about this kind of thing. But maybe, it would be nice to have one."

Maki said, "Okay."

Then she severed the connection between them.

Maki doesn't know the exact location of Osamu Dazai, but she knows where he is.

Yokohama, Japan, a port city.

She created a body for herself.

The body of a five-year-old child whose appearance was largely inspired by Osamu Dazai.

But when she actually used this body, she realized how troublesome the human body is.

In her world, her sight moves with her thoughts, hundreds of times faster than any human transportation.

But now that she can only walk on two legs, her movements can be called slow.

Besides, humans are troublesome creatures.

After moving for about half the time of sunrise and sunset, Maki realized that his feet were starting to feel weak.

This state is probably the so-called "starvation".

When you are hungry, you need to eat.

However, Maki looked around in confusion.

In Yokohama during the war, there are only ruins and corpses on the streets, as well as messy creations made by people with supernatural powers.

Her eyes fell on a stray cat on the side of the road.

.....the creature is called a cat.

Maki frowned.

In human civilization, living things seem to be used for food.

Can this creature be eaten?

Sensing Maki's eyes, the stray cat's fur stood on end.It probably realized that it was a dangerous creature in front of it, so it let out a shrill cry, and then ran away with its tail between its legs.

Maki was still standing there.

She felt a little dizzy from the hunger of her troublesome human body.

At this moment, she heard a voice from beside her.

It was a rough male voice, with some unbelievable surprise: "...Where did the child come from?"

The man put a hand on Maki's shoulder and turned her around.

Because Maki's face was covered with blood, he couldn't see her face clearly, but his intuition told him that the child would not be ugly.

And a child who is not ugly can easily be sold for a good price,

The child didn't look scared, and the man suspected that she had been frightened by the days of war.

She raised her head and asked him, "Do you know Osamu Dazai?"

"Dazai Osamu?"

The man froze for a moment, "You said the cadre of Mafia at the port—do you know him?"

He withdrew his hand warily.

The man is only a member of a small or medium-sized organization, and he has always been able to avoid giants like Mafia at the port.

But, he thought again, he had never heard of that person having a child or siblings, maybe this child was just the child of a low-level cadre in the port Mafia.

Besides, the world is so chaotic now, if a child is lost, who would know who did it.

So he stretched out his hand to Maki again——

However, before touching her, the world suddenly spun in front of him.

Maki stared expressionlessly at the man lying on the ground in front of him.

Although she didn't know what he was going to do, her intuition told her that he was not a good person.

——Probably because she has a human body, she actually has something like a sixth sense in a book.

I don't know if this is a good thing or not.

Maki grasped the place name of the port Mafia.

Then find the right direction and walk in the direction of the port Mafia.

The feeling of hunger is getting stronger and stronger.

It wasn't until it was getting dark that Maki saw those black buildings.

She approached the tallest building among them.

In front of the building stood a man, tall and thin.

He has brown hair and iris eyes.

There was a mess of bandages all over his face.

Maki walked over slowly.

Osamu Dazai didn't recognize her at first glance, but at the second glance, he confirmed that this was not a child—or rather, it was not a human being: "A—166?"

Maki shook her head.

Then he said, "Maki."

Her tone was a bit strange, like an old machine.

"Maki, my human name."

The author has something to say:

In fact, at the beginning, Maki was a very standard outsider... How should I put it, the leader Zai brought the gods to the world, and there must be a price to pay

As for why the leader wants to go to play with God when he is idle and bored, I have to ask him, I don’t know (spread hands)