COSER, I became the leader of despair

Life now is incomparably quiet, even a little idle.It has been a long time since Ayatsuji pedestrians have had such a peaceful life.Since his ability [accidental death] was discovered, Ayatsuji has been included in the list of dangerous psychics and has been strictly monitored because of his personal danger.

To be honest, the treatment of adulthood is much better than before, at least he can still see the sun, the moon and the changing sky.And he can easily avoid the ubiquitous surveillance and walk on the street like a normal person.

Much better now than before.

And the present is better than the past, better than the past.

The reason for Ayatsuji's current state of leisure lies in another "Yyatsuji Pedestrian".

The mutation occurred on the day he was reading a book in a bookstore.It wasn't until Ayatsuji pedestrian finished reading the book that he planned to lead the puppy-like Tsujimura back to the office that he realized that he had disappeared.He hailed a taxi and stopped two blocks away from Ayatsuji Detective Agency, and found another him—a man dressed exactly like him.

Even the tone of voice is very similar.

Is it a supernatural person pretending to be him?

still is……

The first thing Ayatsuji pedestrian did was to change his appearance. He took off his peaked cap, took off his conspicuous windbreaker jacket and wide trousers, and changed into a white shirt and black trousers.With loose blond hair lying limply on his head, he looked almost like a student.

He is very young.

Young and quiet.

No one would associate such a young man with the famous murder detective.

Moreover, there is another "Ayatsuji pedestrian" in the office.

No one has noticed this.

With a tentative mood, Ayatsuji pedestrian observed each other for a full four hours in a place where the surveillance personnel could not directly observe.

He was on the second floor of the coffee shop and looked towards the second floor of the opposite office. The blond man with his back turned to him seemed to be flipping through some newspapers and magazines.

——This is what I saw in the morning.

Then, a man walked into the office with a young woman and a young man following him at a slow pace.

They were clients who had come to the detective for help.

Ayatsuji pedestrians didn't hear what the commission was, but when they entered, there were three people, but when they came out, there were five people.His idiot-like assistant was completely unaware that the person he was monitoring had changed, and he foolishly showed his stupid self towards the other party.

What a fool.

Ayatsuji once made an agreement with Tsujimura Fukatsuki's mother that she must take good care of each other.That idiot Tsujimura would have made a fool of himself without his advice.

However, it is also good to let the other person exercise for a while.After all, his office exists to solve "difficulties", not a nursery or the like.

——Ayatsuji pedestrians don't think that what he said is excessive or vicious.

He is such a man shaking S.

Ayatsuji pedestrians watched the five people leave, and also noticed the relaxation and movement of the watchers.In the final analysis, they only exist to supervise the "killer weapon" of Ayatsuji pedestrians. A firm without the other party, even if it is full of treasures, is useless to them.

Even if they took gold, silver and jewelry, their fate was firmly controlled by the government, and they had nowhere to spend it.

After realizing the tiredness of the monitor, Ayatsuji pedestrian went to the department store to buy a black wig and a beret with a good material, and walked into the office swaggeringly after dressing up a bit.Within a few minutes, he walked out slowly at his original pace.

In the eyes of those snipers, "Ayatsuji Xingren" was probably just an ordinary man who wanted to entrust but found that the detective was not at home and left disappointed.

Because they were sure that the real Ayatsuji pedestrian left under the supervision of the inspector Tsujimura Fukatsuki, there was no doubt that the man in front of him was also the Ayatsuji pedestrian.What they didn't even expect was that the Ayatsuji pedestrian they were watching was actually not the Ayatsuji pedestrian at all.

But if their stupid brains find out the truth, I'm afraid it will be in the next life.

Although there is no need to be monitored for a short time, the pedestrians of Ayatsuji are not the kind of people who are used to doing nothing.When he stayed in the bookstore and flipped through the morning newspapers that he hadn't read in time today, his keen senses quickly captured the "secret stories" the size of tofu cubes in the newspapers.

A ghost that haunts the old house.

Ghost House.

A detective is not a detective because he is always entrusted, and a detective is called a detective because he solves a case.

Find doubts, follow the clues, discover answers, and solve mysteries.

Ayatsuji pedestrian dialed the phone number left in the newspaper.

……

The Aso family in the countryside of Yokohama was the one who issued this commission.Aso's house is located more than ten kilometers away from the Yokohama neighborhood, so the traffic is not too far behind.If you take a bus or other means of transportation, even if you can't go back and forth smoothly within an hour, it is enough to complete the one-way trip.

Sitting on a rickety country bus, Ayatsuji's pedestrians came to Aso's house.He was received by a housewife - Sanae Aso.According to her, there have been noises recently in an old uninhabited house near their home.

But... "The mother-in-law and grandfather of that family passed away two years ago."

"He died of the flu."

After thanking Sanae Aso for his report, the pedestrians of Ayatsuji walked a distance of less than 1000 meters at a leisurely pace, and arrived at the "House of Ghosts" that Sanae Aso mentioned.

The style of the house is a popular style in the past, but now it is very rustic.

Ayatsuji pedestrians approached the house, and there was a wooden gate hanging in front of the door.

——[Kasugai]

****

Kasugai, Jiguo and Shiratori, the three children who disappeared suddenly.

"It would be much more convenient to directly attribute the trouble to the supernatural power." Dazai Osamu made a very labor-saving but very bad proposal, which of course would not be adopted.So Dazai poked his neck and thought for a while, then said: "Well, there must be a [disappeared] supernatural being who is causing trouble, and he took everyone away. Maybe the children will become human organs Materials for sale." He shivered exaggeratedly, "That's really pitiful."

Osamu Dazai pretended to shed two false tears like a crocodile.With no companions waiting for him, he became even more arrogant than before.

"But the principal said it was related to ghosts." Tsujimura tried to speak.

She still believed in what the client said, otherwise, if even the content of the commission was false, what would those clients want to get by relying on the wrong direction of investigation?It's not that there is too much money to spend.

"Ms. Assistant is too easy to trust others." Osamu Dazai yelled, "Be careful of being deceived--beautiful men are easy to deceive, this is my personal opinion."

(Are you talking about Dazai?)

Xi Jianzi folded his fingers, "Gen Muyue won't say anything to us for a while, if anything, your colleagues should tell us."

"Kunikida will definitely be staring at her without blinking~"

"So where are we going next?" He counted on his fingers, "To Kasugai's house, Jiguo's house, or Miss Shiratori's house?"

"Don't you have a job of your own?" asked the detective suddenly.

Tsujimura had already been a little wary of this young man who didn't know much about his details before, and after she noticed the abominable indifference of the detective she served, her vigilance increased in the next step.

"What?" Dazai Osamu put on an innocent expression, "This is obviously my job."

"Anyway, the client's final request is to find her missing sister."

(really annoying)

"Then, please."

If there is no way to start from Yuan Muyue, then you have to find someone else.For example, the families of the three missing students.

****

Tsujimura thinks this is extremely reasonable, but it is also very unreasonable.At this time, she left Ayatsuji pedestrians and was standing in front of Kasugai's house.Because there are three missing children, that is, three families, if they want to investigate together, the three of them have to act separately.

Tsujimura has always been closely following the detective's footsteps. Although she has been dismissed a lot, she is always worried that Yayatsuji's pedestrians will sneak away...

——But in the end, she found the other party somewhere out of breath.

The detective didn't really want to escape at all, he just "molested" the enemies and inspectors who were chasing him with his excellent escape ability.

Tsujimura Fukatsuki suffered greatly from it.

It's like treating people like servants.She thought a little angrily.

The door in front of her opened a gap, and she had rang the doorbell of Kasugai's house earlier.

From the crack of the door protruded a face that looked extremely cold and didn't look like a parent at all.

Tsujimura withdrew his complaining expression just now.

****

It is rare for Ji Guoyuan to bring his "classmate" home as a guest.If my mother was here, she might be very happy to entertain this classmate, but Ji Guo Zhu Nai passed away a few years ago.

Yuanyi yelled "I'll come back" to the empty room where even my brother wasn't there, and started to take off his shoes and coat.

Tong Mo said in an exaggerated tone: "Student Jiguo's house is so simple, I thought it would be a courtyard-like house. It's actually... a small room with two bedrooms and one living room." The two bedrooms and one living room are actually Not too small, for a pair of brothers.When I was young, my parents lived in one room, and my brothers lived in one room.With a total of more than 80 square meters, it is not too crowded for a family of four.

"I think it's okay." Yuanyi opened the shoe cabinet, and when he was about to get a pair of slippers for the guests, he saw Kobayata Tongmo holding a pair of black slippers and asked, "Can I wear these?"

Yuan refused without even thinking about it, "No, it belongs to my brother."

Tong Mo pouted and put down the pair of slippers that belonged to Ji Guo Yan Sheng.

Leave the porch and walk into the living room.

There is a small group photo on the desk against the wall.

Severe and strict father, gentle and sick mother.A caring elder brother who is good at taking care of others, and an idiot younger brother who "doesn't accomplish anything".

Tong Mo didn't have the slightest sense of intruding into someone else's home, he acted briskly as if he was in his own home.While waiting for Yuan Yi to bring him tea, Tong Mo casually took out some scraps of paper from the second layer of the coffee table.

Something was written on it in messy handwriting, and the handwriting seemed to be written unconsciously.

Tong Mo tilted his head, and he could get what was written on it without careful identification.

[live]

……

If there's anything I can't let go of, it's...

It must be you.

Yuanyi.

Ji Guo Yan Sheng raised his head and saw the bleak moonlight.He wasn't human anymore, he wasn't human anywhere.Whether it's the way it looks or feels.

His body was blown towards his own roof by a gust of night wind, but he hesitated and ran to the roof of someone else's house.

He hesitated, hesitated.

****

Tong Mo looked at everything around him with his pair of incomparably special eyes.Notes, photos, files, stories.Desk, homework, drafts, books.There are only two children who grew up together dependent on each other, and there is no parent at all.If anything, that photo is probably the only place where they exist.

Tong Mo had heard in the past that Ji Guoyuan had lost his parents very early, and they were very similar in this regard.Tong Mo's parents died six years ago, when the "rumour" incident happened. His parents clearly treated him as a child of a god in the past, but they immediately abandoned him and ran away when he was in danger. However, The fleeing parents just met the person who came to chase them down and died on the spot.

Tong Mo watched their deaths, he was not sad at all, he just felt that it troubled him.If his parents died, he might be sent to an orphanage without a guardian.Although the orphanage is actually good, Tong Mo doesn't like to get along with other children.If there were stories that interested him in the children in the orphanage, he might be interested in some more.It's a pity that everyone's stories are the same boring and uninteresting.

Tong Mo really hates the repetitive stories.

He wanted to hear the wonderful stories, about the poor man who wouldn't give up his dead wife, the story of the monkey's paw, the story of the white whale spaceship that flew forever in the sky and finally fell down...*

He wanted to hear stories about the death of Aihe, touching stories.

It's a pity that everyone is the same.

Changing names and never changing souls.

so boring.

That's why when he met Ji Guoyan Sheng, when he heard the "heart" that belonged to the other party, Tong Mo would be very moved to introduce him to that adult.

He felt that if it was Yan Shengjun, he would definitely write a different story!He thought so.

After more than ten seconds, Tong Mo finally got a cup of hot tea.

Yuan Yi sat down beside him.

"What do you want to tell me?"

Tong Mo thinks that he has countless things he wants to say, but what he says alone is too boring.Some words become interesting and meaningful only in a certain context.So he just smiled ambiguously at Yuan Yi.

Tong Mo was good at smiling at the "religious audience" in the past.His parents promoted him as the Son of God, and based on this basis, they established a religion called "Tenth Bliss Cult".There had been a religion of that name in the past, and his parents built a small temple as a gimmick.

(It is surprising that his current society has such a similar title)

The parents didn't care about his feelings at all.But Tong Mo himself didn't care much about it.Since he was a child, he has no feeling for these flattering and commanding things, and he was born with such a pair of eyes, which may be the inspiration and responsibility given to him by God.

Out of this sense of responsibility, Tong Mo readily accepted to listen to everyone's "pain".Everyone's pain is different, but at the end of the day, it's a trivial matter that is so boring.

Everyone is stupid.

Every time he thinks of human beings crying because of this kind of thing, Tong Mo finds it very inconceivable.For this, he couldn't help but shed hot tears.

so poor.

Staring at Yuanyi with a calm face, Tong Mo also shed tears.There seemed to be countless tears accumulated in his eyes, as if they would never end.

Yuanyi looked at him, then handed him two tissues.

Tong Mo left after half an hour.

Before leaving, he said vaguely, "I'm sure we'll be friends." He didn't say where Kasugai was, or where Sakurako Shiratori was.He comes like a fly and goes like a fly that takes away the joy.But anyway, he's a down-to-earth nuisance.

Yuanyi sat on the somewhat old and hard sofa.

He found the note that Tong Mo had pressed under the teacup.

That's what my brother wrote down.

Yuanyi, who was sitting on the sofa like a wooden man, heard a knock on the door.He thought Tong Mo had dropped something, so he got up and went to open the door.However, what he saw when he opened the door was not the classmate Kobayata who was crying for him inexplicably, but the blond detective who had accepted the principal's entrustment during the day—Yingtsuji Xingren.

Xi Jianzi was wearing her orange slacks, which looked like a worker repairing a sewer pipe, but her face showed the indifference of some adults.

"It's annoying."

Xijianzi is waiting for Yuanyi to let him in.The spring night is not cold, but it is not hot either.If she stayed outside any longer, she might catch a cold the next day.

Spring is a season that is easy to catch a cold.

Yuan Yi opened the door and let the other party in.He asked: "What's wrong with Gen Mutsuki-senpai?" He probably wanted to ask how the matter was going, but because his mouth was not very clear, he asked a question that was different from his inner thoughts.

Xi Jianzi glanced at the clean floor and the slippers at the entrance, and asked in a low voice which pair he could wear.

Give her slippers specially prepared for guests.

Xi Jianzi saw the messy ground, and there were two teacups on the table.One of the cups was full of water, and the other was slightly stained.

Someone has been here.

"She wanted to kill herself but was stopped."

Xi Jianzi didn't ask who was here, she lowered her head to put on her slippers, and saw the scars on her feet.

Tsk, why didn't this kind of thing disappear along with the cosification?

Yuanyi's gaze fell down, just in time for Xijianzi's movement of stretching down and covering his ankle with his trouser leg.He didn't ask a word, just led Xi Jianzi into the living room.The living room is a little empty, because the coffee table is too small, and the TV is far away from the sofa.

"Want tea?"

Xijianzi said hello.

She observed some of the dresses and decorations here, and judged that this is a place where no adults live.Xi Jianzi held the teacup, and the temperature of the hot tea spread to her palm one after another, "Gen Mutsuki is being sent to the hospital now, and Mr. Kunikida will watch him."

Because wearing those color-changing glasses for too long, Xi Jianzi, who doesn't usually wear glasses, is a little uncomfortable.When Yuanyi went to serve tea, Xi Jianzi took off her glasses, took Misaki Naruto out of the leather bag, and placed them carefully beside him.

If he sat down directly, Misaki Naruto's leg might be "broken" because of it.

Xi Jianzi can't let the other party suffer such harm.

Because she (Ayatsuji Xingren) is the one who loves Saki Naruto the most in the world.

"Hmm." Yuan whirled and seemed to think of something, "Is there any sign?"

Xi Jianzi set up the two slender legs, and put his hands together on the protruding knee bones.

"If you are willing to tell me, there are already signs."

The young man with hidden thoughts became one of the insurmountable stepping stones for Shi Jianzi to solve the case.

Facing the detective's reproach-like voice, Yuanyi lowered his eyes, "I'm sorry."

"Then why do you say sorry?" Xi Jianzi always felt that he couldn't understand Yuan Yi's thoughts.What the hell is he trying to do?What exactly does he want?Why was he hiding all this, yet so desperately eager to unravel the mystery?

Among all the people, the person Xi Jianzi can't understand the most is Yuan Yi.

Whether it is the expressionless face or the almost transparent eyes, Xi Jianzi feels incomprehensible.She hates such people, because such people are always associated with "unanalyzable".

If you can't analyze the other party, you can't play such a person, and it is difficult to take actions that are beneficial to yourself.

Yuan Yi then said, "I'm sorry."

Ever since we met, he has been saying such strange words.Whether it's sorry, sorry, please, his life seems to be made up of these boring words.

Xi Jianzi didn't look at the other party again, just holding his own teacup and drinking hot tea.

At the beginning, Yuanyi was still looking at the teacup in his hand—it was already the fourth cup of tea today, and it took a while before he shifted his gaze to Xijianzi.

"Brother, he is a very good person."

Xi Jianzi gave a "hmm" and motioned for the other party to continue talking. "Very good" is an adjective. One person thinks it is good, and another person may think it is bad.As long as it is a description of others, it is a situation that has characteristics that vary from person to person.

Yuanyi seemed to be looking at Xijianzi, or at the flowers and plants on the balcony, or at the dark blue sky outside.

"Mom and Dad left us very early, and it was my elder brother who pulled me up."

Xi Jianzi asked, "You obviously grew up together."

"I couldn't speak before, and I didn't start speaking until I was seven years old."

"What language barrier do you have?" Xi Jianzi thought it might be a throat problem, and then healed something when he was seven years old.

Yuanyi shook his head, "Does Mr. Detective know about special eyes?"

"The ones like Kobayata Tongmo?" The special eyes that Xi Jianzi first thought of were the seven-colored eyes like Tongmo's.The seven colors mixed together create a beautiful and rare luster like a rainbow.

Yuan Yi is really a head-shaking weirdo, no matter what Xi Jianzi said, he would shake his head and deny something.So Xi Jianzi began to stare at the young man beside him with that almost condemning gaze.

So he began to narrate, narrating his past.

"I was not in good health when I was born, and the old people in the temple said that it was because of the sins I committed in my previous life."

"Dad, and Mom, are very worried about me."

"But I was, a stupid kid."

"why?"

Xi Jianzi felt as if he had said something meaningless.

But Yuanyi quickly picked up the conversation, he seemed to want to talk about something very much.

He may have never told anyone about his past so frankly.

Perhaps everyone is not curious about his past.

Ji Guoyuan has a face that makes people not want to chat.

"My eyes," Yuanyi pointed to the pair of eyes that seem to be covered with a transparent red film in the eyes of others, "it can see [transparent]."

Xi Jianzi followed up and said, "Transparent?"

"Well. It's like I can see the internal organs of the bird's body, and you can too."

Xijianzi: ...

Xijianzi:? ? ?

"No...then you can see me, what?" She sensed her gaffe, but she spoke too quickly, as if it was irreparable.In the end, Xi Jianzi had no choice but to straighten his back, with a cold expression on his face, as if the anxiety that was seen through just now had never appeared at all.

Yuanyi said, "You are very healthy, and you will definitely live to be a hundred years old."

Xi Jianzi then remembered that the other party said that he could not survive.

"So when the doctors said I couldn't live for a few years, I knew it. Whether it was the changes in the organs, the growth of the bones or the flow of the blood, it brought pressure on me. The longer these activities last, My lifespan will become shorter and shorter."

"Although the well-meaning doctor said that I can live to the end, I think my life span is numbered."

Xi Jianzi: "Aren't you afraid?"

"I think death is not something to be afraid of." Mingming was only 16 years old, but he said such words that he didn't care about life and death, "I heard people say that a person will die three times in his life. The first time is when the heart stops beating. the second time when his family forgets him, and the third time when all traces of him as a person disappear from society.[*]”

"If I die, my relatives and friends may still remember me. If my relatives and friends also forget me, I think the land where I was buried will at least remember me for nearly a hundred years. Even the flesh and blood are gone , the bones turned into powder, but my life still stayed in this world.”

"I think that's enough."

Xijianzi suddenly thought of Osamu Dazai.

Enichi is a young man who is indifferent to life and death, and Osamu Dazai is a man who is afraid of death but pursues death.

What an ironic contrast.

The expression on the boy's face changed considerably.

"I thought my brother would understand me."

"He cares about me more than I thought."

If there's anything in this world that he (brother) can't let go of, it's undoubtedly Yuanyi, the idiot brother.