After drawing Zhongye SSR

"A-166?"

"A-166!"

Maki heard a voice calling her constantly.

She opened her eyes, surrounded by pure darkness.It was as pure as her world, which made Maki quickly realize that she was definitely not in the chief's office.

She raised her head and asked with some vigilance, "Who are you?"

The voice paused for a moment, and then turned into a clear male voice: "Although it's a bit strange to say that... But in short, I am the Creator."

"The Creator?" Shinji tilted his head, "You mean, you are a god?"

"Hmm," said God, "you could say the same thing."

It took Maki a few seconds to digest this fact.

"However," she was still a little surprised, "Gods normally don't come to the lower realms."

"There was an accident," God said in the tone of a child who has done something wrong, "like an accident where you shouldn't have self-awareness."

Maki is omniscient.

But before that, she didn't have any definite knowledge of the gods, probably because the rank of the gods was much higher than hers.Even in this situation, she couldn't figure out what God was thinking at all.So she could only ask herself: "Why did you find me?"

God was silent for a while, and said, "I need you to do something for me."

His tone sounded a little cautious, and Maki guessed that that matter should not be easy.

"What is it?"

"In another world, there is also a book that has self-awareness like you." God said, "But she is different from you. She hates this world, so I want you to execute her."

Another world, another book?

Maki wanted to say that it had nothing to do with her, but she didn't say it in the end.

"There are so many worlds," Maki said, "The collapse of one world shouldn't be a big deal, why do you care so much?"

God said, "Because that world is special."

"Where is the special?"

"If it collapses, it will collapse hundreds of worlds, including your world, A-166."

Maki was stunned.

Then she was silent in the dark for a long, long time, so long that God thought she would not agree to this matter, so she spoke with some difficulty: "...I know."

"So when are we leaving?"

*****

When she woke up, Osamu Dazai was taking a nap beside her bed.

Maki stared at his face for a while, the man's long eyelashes cast a faint shadow on his pale face, which made him look a little weak.

Maki was probably watching too intently, Osamu Dazai opened his eyes vigilantly, and when he saw the source of the scorching gaze, his eyes became gentler: "Is it better?"

"Excellent."

Maki opened her mouth. In fact, the source of the illness was not because she was exposed to the rain, but because God needed a place to talk to her, but she hadn't figured out how to tell Osamu Dazai about it.Osamu Dazai took her forehead temperature with the back of his cold hand, and it was already normal, so he heaved a sigh of relief and complained a little: "Chuya always said that I can't take care of children."

Maki laughed and said, "You're really not good at it."

If she was not a book, but a child of this age, someone like Osamu Dazai would absolutely destroy her.

Osamu Dazai didn't deny it, he shrugged and said that he never thought he would have a child one day.He talked a lot today, and Zhenji was not used to it, so when he finished talking, he asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"what?"

"You are not the same as usual today," Maki thought for a while, "you are more lively."

Osamu Dazai froze for a moment, stared into her eyes for a few seconds, and said, "I thought you were going to die."

Maki said: "Fever can't kill people, under normal circumstances."

Osamu Dazai: "But you are not human."

...That's true.

It's just that in this way, the encounter with God is even more unclear, but anyway, there is still a long time to leave, so Maki forgets about it for the time being.

After drinking egg porridge for several days, Osamu Dazai finally allowed her to leave the room.

But going out of the building is still not allowed, so Maki just wanders around in the port Mafia.

On the way, I met Chuya Zhongyuan.

Chuya probably just came back from a mission, and the black windbreaker on his body was full of bloody smell. When he saw Maki, he had a slightly surprised expression on his face: "You recovered from your illness so quickly?"

"A week has passed, sir." Zhenji was speechless, "No matter how bad it is, there is no need for treatment, just send it to the crematorium."

He was taken aback for a moment, then laughed, and said, "It's strange that you are more lively than before in port Mafia."

Maki couldn't tell him that he became human because he stayed with humans for a long time.She thought for a while and asked, "Mr. Chuya, how many years have you known your father?"

"It's almost ten years, what?"

Then he should know Dazai very well.

Maki took a deep breath: "If, I mean, if one of his capable subordinates is terminally ill, should he be told earlier?"

Nakaya was stunned, and then thought about it for a while. He realized that he didn't really know the current Dazai Osamu--the former Dazai Osamu didn't have very close subordinates. Not really friends.

So he said, "It's better to tell him earlier, after all, if he dies suddenly, the follow-up treatment will be very troublesome."

Maki nodded.

*****

When Maki said that he was going to leave this world soon, Osamu Dazai didn't express any opinions at first.

After a long time he asked, "Do you have to?"

Maki couldn't tell him those complicated reasons, human beings can't know so many things, so she just said: "It must."

Osamu Dazai didn't look sad, so Maki thought he was adjusting well, which made her feel relieved.

He walked behind the desk, took out a large stack of documents, and said, "Then I have to find a way for you to leave safely... How about leukemia?"

"Sounds good," Maki commented, "very dramatic."

"That's it."

Afterwards, Maki lived freely, and occasionally went out on missions with Atsushi Nakajima. She didn’t like to kill people, so Atsushi Nakajima taught her the hand knife. Will die, not even get hurt.

Most of the time, she stayed in the chief's office.

Osamu Dazai seems to be busier than before recently, and there are endless things to deal with every day. Maki doesn't understand these things very well, so she just reads silently by the side.

Then, one day, Osamu Dazai asked her about leaving after a long time: "What are you going to do in another world?"

Maki thought for a while and said, "Slaying the dragon, probably."

Osamu Dazai laughed tremblingly: "Do you think you are a brave man?"

Maki put down the comic book in his hand, and said dissatisfiedly: "It's not so great—maybe, I will only be a hero like Spider-Man."

The smile on Dazai Osamu's face suddenly disappeared.

He looked at Maki, seemed to understand something, sighed and said, "You don't like the port Mafia that much."

"I do not have."

"Don't lie to me, little girl," said Osamu Dazai, "it's like you don't like killing people."

Maki didn't answer.

Osamu Dazai thought she was angry, but in the next second, his pupils shrank slightly.

Maki sat there, looking at his hand with interest.

The three fingers on that hand turned translucent.

"Hey."

After a long time, Zhen Ji said: "It seems that leukemia can't be used anymore, what do you think about the damage of the ability?"

Dazai didn't answer.