Are you with Dazai today?

"In my opinion, he's just a wriggling lump of meat."

After Dazai Osamu said this, Shiinagawa was taken aback, but he didn't feel any abnormality at all. Could it be the ability that can make people hallucinate?

"Oh."

"Oh! Shiina, just answer 'Oh'!"

Osamu Dazai flails his limbs exaggeratedly

"That's a piece of meat!"

Then Osamu Dazai lowered his arms as if giving up on something.

"Forget it, I shouldn't expect you Shiina to have any terrorist cells."

"……sorry?"

"There's no need to apologize for this kind of place."

Shiinagawa shook his hand subconsciously, but there was no familiar cold metal feeling on his hand, only then did he realize that his weapon was still inside the house.

Take it with you from now on, just in case.

"So what do we do?"

So far, it seems that Spider Tian Ruri has not made any moves, if she really wants to do something, especially, if she plans to make a move on Dazai...

Then don't show mercy.

cut it.

"Shiina, you look scary."

He patted his face with both hands, and at the end he squeezed it, the boy's cheeks with a little baby fat felt pretty good.

"What else can I do, of course, go to the shrine first, come here."

Shiinagawa frowned, his eyes were filled with disapproval. In his opinion, it is the best policy to leave as soon as possible when he knows that there is a certain danger on the other side.

When the opponent's force value and ability are unknown, the conflict can still be avoided as long as it can be avoided.

Of course, Shiinagawa didn't think he would lose in a real fight.

Osamu Dazai flinched, he was not afraid of the serious Shiina, really, he was not afraid!

"Even if Shiina looks at me like this, it's useless. Let's go to the entrance of the town now. If I'm not wrong, we've already been locked up."

"Spider Tian Liuli didn't try to hide her abnormality at all. She is either a big fool like this, or she is confident that we will not be able to escape."

As it turns out, Dazai was always right.

Shiinagawa and Osamu Dazai stood at the entrance of the town, and there was an invisible membrane at the boundary between the town and the outside world, blocking them.

Osamu Dazai touched the invisible membrane with some novelty, it was soft and elastic to the touch.

"Unbelievable, even my [Disqualification in the World] is useless."

Shiinagawa narrowed his eyes, under the sunlight, the boundary between the town and the outside world glowed with unnatural light.

There is no invisible enchantment here at all!

One after another, the transparent spider silk wrapped the town like an airtight cocoon.

Shiinagawa dug up some of the soil under his feet, and as expected, there were also those spider threads underground.

Then Shiinagawa pulled the spider silk with all his strength, the spider silk was not sticky at all, but it was full of toughness, Shiinagawa tried all his strength but couldn't tear it apart.

If even his sword can't cut through, they're really stuck here.

"Dazai, do you want to..."

Shiinagawa made a gesture of wiping his neck.

"Just wait, wait until Shiina gets your weapon, don't startle the snake, just pretend nothing happened."

"learn."

……

"so--"

Shiinagawa looked at Osamu Dazai helplessly.

"So it's better to have fun!"

What time is it still talking like this, if it wasn't for Dazai Osamu, Shiinagawa would make the other party physically awake.

However, the opponent is Osamu Dazai.

In that case, Shiinagawa would have nothing to do.

"But then again, it's pretty spectacular."

Thousands of red torii gates are lined up. This kind of scene Shiinagawa has only seen in the Fushimi Inari Shrine advertised on the Internet.

The red paint on the torii gates is very old and has come off in some places, but no one has repainted them.

After entering the tunnel made up of torii gates, Shiinagawa felt that the surrounding sounds were significantly weakened. The sound of wind, the sound of leaves being blown by the wind and rubbing against each other, and the sound of birdsong became almost inaudible.

It's weird, it's so quiet.

The loudest sound was actually the footsteps of the two of them on the stone steps.

Shiinagawa and Osamu Dazai stopped in their tracks.

A section in the middle of the overly long thousand torii gates disappeared, not because it disappeared, but there was a section without torii gates in the first place.

"Does Shiina know?"

"what?"

"It is said that the torii gate acts as an enchantment gate. After entering the torii gate, it is the realm of the gods."

"The torii is Shinto, and the torii is broken to keep the gods inside the shrine."

God.

[Because we believe in the god of spiders. 】

Spider Tian Liuli's words echoed in his ears.

Spiders, gods.

It turned out to be the case.

"Did Dazai expect to find some clues here? It's amazing."

"Hmm! Right, right!"

Walking through the section of road without torii, the smell of soil, running water, and old wood.

And then... If what Dazai said is correct, they will embark on the road of 'keeping the gods'.

The closer you get, the more you can notice that the torii in this section is more dilapidated than the first section, and there are several deep and long ravines on the red-painted pillars.

Shiinagawa walked to the torii gate and stroked the ravines. From Shiinagawa's point of view, they looked like they were cut with a sharp knife.

No, it reminds me of the god of spiders.

The spider's... chelicerae or legs?

No matter what size it is, it's not good.

"Dazai, let me first..."

Shiinagawa planned to go in first by himself, and let Osamu Dazai follow after confirming that there was no danger.

As a result, Shiinagawa saw the scene that made all the blood in his body rush to his head.

Dazai jumped directly over it, squatting down standardly like a long jumper, using his legs hard, and crossed the boundary.

"very!"

Shiinagawa: ...

I'm sorry, but he wants a zero for him.

Don't be angry, don't be angry, I am not angry when others are angry, and beating and scolding children is bad behavior.

Shiinagawa's patience is increasing every day because of Osamu Dazai.

"Dazai...you really are."

Shiinagawa rubbed her temples, followed Osamu Dazai into the boundary, fortunately Dazai was fine.

Go back and punish Dazai to eat fried pork with green peppers without meat.

Shiinagawa ruthlessly announced Dazai Osamu's trial.

What?He is not angry, absolutely not angry because of Dazai's mess, absolutely not!

【tick】

Ok?

what is that?

Shiinagawa looked at the object that suddenly appeared in front of him.

It was a person, lying on the ground, and it was a woman.

Shiinagawa couldn't see her face clearly, her face was covered with something like a mosaic.

"Shiina? Why don't you go?"

And then she, she only has the upper body.

A blue liquid flowed out from the section of her body, what is that?

"Shina?"

Shiinagawa thought he could guess, he knew what it was a long time ago.

It is a collection of water, plasma protein, inorganic salts, amino acids, urea, uric acid, creatinine, glucose, and lipids.

It was blood, blue blood, although the color was a little strange, but it was undoubtedly blood.

And then her end is - she will die, no doubt, irreversibly.

After all, how can anyone survive with only the upper body left?

She would die, her blood coagulated, her body cold and stiff.

She would disappear, that is - she would not exist anywhere.

This realization caused Shiinagawa's brain to explode with a buzzing sound.

Accelerate, accelerate, accelerate, rise and fall at extreme speed, and it is difficult to breathe and breathe.

It would be great if I could just escape with you to a place hundreds of millions of light years away.

"Shina!"

Dazai's voice pulled Shiinagawa back from the dream to reality, Shiinagawa's heart was beating violently, and his head was still a little unconscious.

So cold.

It's like the chest is about to burst.

Shiinagawa hugged Osamu Dazai tightly, slowly tightened his arms, absorbing the warmth from the other person, and made a sound similar to a sob.

Osamu Dazai hesitated for a moment, imitating Shiinagawa's usual technique and patted the opponent's back lightly.

"Okay, okay, really, Shiina is really a coquettish dog."

"It's not a dog."

Shiinagawa retorted in a low voice, and tried hard to calm down his emotions, not to let emotions affect his state.

"Sorry, let me hold you for a while, it will be fine in a while."

It's okay, it's okay, there must be no problem this time, calm down, don't go crazy.

"I don't want it, Shiina hugged her too tightly."

"But it's not bad if you can suffocate to death if this continues, so let's do it."

Osamu Dazai did not refuse the hug until the end.