What world is Lixiang in today?

"Don't trust Dazai."

Fujimaru Tatsuka was stunned for a moment, and then showed a faint smile: "I see."

"——" Ranpo was speechless for a while, he shook Fujimaru Tachika's shoulder in disbelief, "I know you know, that guy is Dazai! If you let it go I will definitely try my best to stop you! Even if Mr. Oda tries to persuade that guy, he won’t be able to persuade him..."

"I won't let it go." Fujimaru Tachika lightly patted Ranbu's hand on her shoulder, "If Mr. Dazai says, I will take care of him."

"You can't beat him." Luanbu concluded without hesitation, "That guy may have already started to plan a plan, and it is very possible to follow you until the last moment to betray him—"

"However, if the opponent is 'the Dazai of that world', it will be very difficult if Mr. Dazai is not allowed to deal with it?" Fujimaru Tachika shook his head, "Besides, he still has the Holy Grail in his hand..."

"It will only be more difficult for you to deal with two Dazai at the same time!" Ranpo retorted.

"So in order not to cause such a situation, I have to work hard." Fujimaru Tatsuka smiled confidently, "I know Mr. Ranpo is worried about me, it's okay, I will work hard!"

"You...forget it." Luanbu sighed, "Do you have a map?"

"Eh?"

"I'll draw a route for you, follow it to find Dazai." Luanbu took the map from someone who didn't know where he got it from Yan Qing, who was elusive, and started gesturing, "From here, here, here, and here... …Don’t take a detour, if you haven’t found him after walking in order, you must be ready to run away, and then let your servants catch him.”

"Can I catch him now?" Yan Qing looked eager to try, "Caster is here to prepare, I can bring that guy to you right away."

"No—on the contrary, no one should follow me! Especially Mr. Oda!" Fujimaru Tatsuka stuck out his tongue with a smile, "I'll go back as soon as I go!"

"But--?"

"It doesn't matter." Fujimaru Tatsuka patted his chest confidently, "I can handle Mr. Dazai."

The heroic spirits looked at each other, and finally let the little girl go to deal with the most difficult guy by herself when there was an avenger guarding the master.

Around dusk, Dazai was put on by Fujimaru Tateka who was walking along the route given by Ranpo beside the port.

Although he didn't seem too surprised, he just blinked at the little girl with a pure face: "Oh, what a coincidence, Li Xiangjiang! Are you walking here?"

"I'm here to look for you." Fujimaru Tachika stopped a few steps away from him, it would be dangerous to get any closer, and with Osamu Dazai's virtue, it is possible to jump directly.

"Come to find me?" Dazai was still acting, "Are you ready? It's so fast, as expected of Chaldea who has already saved the world once!"

"Actually, the point is you...but I don't know if I'm ready yet." Fujimaru Tachika shrugged, "Why don't we stop acting, you don't want to save the world that much, do you?"

"That's too much, Tachika-chan, do you actually doubt my sincerity?" Dazai showed an aggrieved expression, "I'm the one who promised Odasaku to save people!"

"Is that so?" Fujimaru Tachika cast his eyes on the calm sea behind Dazai, "It's different from me..."

"So, Lixiang, why do you want to save the world?" Dazai changed the subject, his eyes full of inquiry.

He was really very curious.

Why save the world?

"...Why?" Fujimaru Tateka frowned, and touched his chin in distress, "This...you know I have amnesia, so I don't remember saving the world at all..."

She paused for a moment before speaking again: "However, as far as the reasons I can think of... just want to live, doesn't it feel like this?"

Dazai was silent for a long time, and finally shook his head: "No, it's not the answer. Although I have a lot of things I want to know about this aspect, what I want to know more now is another..."

"Huh?" Fujimaru Tachika tilted her head in confusion, so it's not the answer?

Dazai looked at her blank expression and sighed: "What I want to ask is this world—this world has nothing to do with you, right? Why do you want to save it?"

"Uh..." Fujimaru Tachika scratched her hair a little uncertainly, "Because this world is facing a crisis...?"

Dazai raised his eyebrows, and looked at her with the same eyes as if he was looking at Nakahara Nakaya.

"Just kidding, kidding..." She quickly waved her hands, "However, I don't seem to have any suitable reason, if there is something I can do, I will do it..."

Dazai looked into Fujimaru Tachika's eyes, and there seemed to be a bit of confusion and distress in the orange-gold eyes, but there was no perfunctory.

"For you, this world is actually completely irrelevant." So he pointed out bluntly, "Besides the world you saved, this world, there are many other worlds, right? Do you want to save them one by one? ?"

"It can't be done to that extent." Fujimaru Tachika shook her head, "But since I've come here, I can't ignore it."

"Compassion?" Dazai sneered, "How arrogant..."

Fujimaru Tachika didn't know what to say for a while, so she could only shake her head: "You may think that I am saving the world from above, but I just can't ignore people who are in trouble or the world... Actually, I don't quite understand—"

"I don't want to see others cry. If I can, I want to be the one who can wipe away tears for others."

Dazai pondered for a moment, then turned his back to Fujimaru Tachika, and faced the sparkling sea under the setting sun.

Standing like this for a while, Fujimaru Tateka felt that silence was not an option, so she took a step closer to Dazai: "That..."

"If you didn't choose to save in the first place, maybe there wouldn't be so many things." Dazai interrupted her.

"...Huh?" Fujimaru Tatsuka was confused by his nonsense words.

Dazai turned his head sideways, glanced at Fujimaru Tatsuka's expression out of the corner of his eye, and showed a complicated smile.

"—I never, never thought of resurrecting Odasaku."

Fujimaru Tatsuka was taken aback.

At this time, Dazai exuded such intense sadness that Tatsuka Fujimaru, who had only known him for a short time, felt a little absurd, as if such heavy emotions should not appear on this game-like guy.

Regardless of Fujimaru Tatsuka's reaction, Dazai continued talking.

"At that time, Odasaku went to the appointment with the determination to die. I tried my best but failed to stop him, and failed to rekindle his longing for 'life'."

He closed his eyes, and in his memory was the appearance of his friend resolutely leaving. There was no hope in those gray-blue eyes, and the pursuit of death even surpassed himself.

Different.

He couldn't find the meaning of living, so he wanted to seek the answer in the place closest to death. At that time, Oda Tsukuru truly longed for death.

He didn't want to drag Oda Saku like this back to this absurd world like a rusty dream, to continue endless regret and loneliness in a hopeless life.

like him.

"but--"

One night in his home, after the girl fell asleep, he saw his friend sitting by the window with a beautifully bound notebook and writing something.

"Master sent me." The red-haired man explained after noticing his gaze.

At that time, his eyes were wide open, and he hesitated for a long time before he dared to ask in a low voice: "Oda Zuo—do you still want to write a novel?"

The friend raised his head and looked at him with the same gray-blue eyes as before, filled with unknown emotions.

They all know it's not just a matter of 'fiction'.

So Oda Saku just replied: "The master suggested that I...try to write some diaries."

That is not a dream that can continue after returning to the world, it is an existence called hope, and that is the "meaning" that he has been searching for all his life but has not been able to find.

"But..." After a period of silence that almost suffocated him, his friend showed a faint smile, "It may be good if it goes on like this."

"It was you who made Oda Tsukuru rekindle the hope of 'going on like this' on your own initiative." Osamu Dazai paused every single word, accusing him, "Now you want to let him return to death in order to save the world—don't feel like Is it arrogant?"

Fujimaru Tateka lowered her eyes slightly and clenched her fists.

"But you will still do this." Dazai turned around and faced Fujimaru Tachika again, "Actually, I have been thinking for a long time about a way to hinder you, but the answer is that there is no solution—even if you don't rely on me, you can still do it in the end." Find a solution, all I can do is stall for time."

"But what's the matter? Even if it can be delayed for a day, I will do it"

He opened his arms and laughed: "Are you going to catch me?"

Fujimaru Tatsuka pounced on him——

He fell backward on his back—

"Give-me-back-come!"

Being grabbed by the wrist, Tatsuka Fujimaru was lying on the edge of the seashore, with Osamu Dazai hanging from below.

In the end, I still underestimated the little girl's agility and strength... Dazai sighed in his heart, and then restored his smiling expression: "Oh, are you angry?"

"Nonsense! Of course I'm angry!" Fujimaru Tachika, who surpassed Dazai's expectations by relying on the magic dress on her body, began to pull him up angrily. Fortunately, this guy didn't resist, otherwise she would have used gandr first. .

"Sorry, sorry—then you decided to take me back?"

"Stop talking nonsense!" Fujimaru Tachika dragged him to the beach with one hand, and then threw him to the ground when Dazai had no chance to react.

"Ahem——Be kind to the captives..." Dazai felt that his spine was about to be broken by the girl's unconventional hand strength, and his level was almost comparable to that of Chuya who didn't use supernatural powers. People don't have to be like this..."

"Stop smirking Osamu Dazai! Listen to me!"

Fujimaru Tachika squatted down, grabbed Dazai by the collar, and said loudly, "Since you think I'm arrogant, then I'll continue to be arrogant!"

"—things exist beyond what your mind can predict!"

The iris pupils suddenly shrank.

"Although I don't understand your loneliness like Oda-san—but, but—"

The orange-gold pupils in front of him flickered, making Dazai feel at a rare loss.

What is she sad about?

pity?No, it's not, not that cheap, arrogant sympathy.

But she obviously doesn't understand anything, so why——

"I don't know the meaning of living, and I don't understand either!"

The girl's voice was gradually approaching a scream.

"But if you're just looking for something that blows your mind off, there is!"

"Whether it's me, Oda-san, Heroic Spirit, or Chaldea—aren't these all existences beyond your imagination?"

No, in fact, since the girl with amnesia and Oda Saku found him together, he had vaguely foreseen that he wanted to correct the "existence" of Oda Saku.

But he couldn't refute, he just stared blankly at Fujimaru Tachika in front of him.

"Even if you expected this situation, then come and make a bet!"

It was so hard that it hurt the back of his neck.It was so loud that it made his eardrums tingle.

Fujimaru Tatsuka smiled confidently at him: "Whether it's Oda-san or a way that the world won't be destroyed, I will definitely find it!"

"what,"

"If I do it, you will lose!" Fujimaru Tachika then let go of his collar, stood up, and patted the dirt on his body, "Because that would be considered a situation that you 'did not foresee' Bar?"

Even though he didn't understand anything, he was still saying such things... Was he trying to save him?

Dazai stood up with support, and replied with a smile: "Ah—then I admit defeat."

"Are you so confident in me?" Fujimaru Tachika muttered dissatisfiedly, "Don't say something like you already expected that I would find a way!"

"No, no, I sincerely admit defeat—" Dazai gestured and raised his hands to beg for forgiveness.

"Forget it, let's go back. If we don't go back, they will be worried." Fujimaru Tateka sighed, stopped asking any more questions, turned around and started to walk back, leaving Dazai carelessly behind.

It's not that she can do it, to be honest, Dazai is not such an optimist.

But when he said that sentence, he had already lost.

These were words he hadn't expected.

Who would have thought that Fujimaru Tachika could do that?Should it be said that he is a person recognized by Mr. Ranpo...

Dazai couldn't help laughing, and trotted two steps to keep up with the girl's pace: "Don't worry, aren't you afraid that I will take the opportunity to run away?"

"Hmm..." Fujimaru Tachika thought for a while, "If you still plan to take advantage of the opportunity and run away, I'll ask Yan Qing to tie you back."

"Wow, how rude, Lixiang really learned from the little dwarf when he went to Mafia!"

"If you are learning from Mr. Zhongyuan, then you must be beaten until you can't move and then tied back?"

"Sure enough, I have failed my studies! It's too much!"

"That's your problem too."

The two of them walked towards Dazai's house, which is the current temporary stronghold of Chaldea, chatting with each other.

Such a picture coincides with a certain night.

"...What an unexpected and reasonable statement..."

Robin Hood, a good follower who was watching his master from a distance, sighed, and ran his fingers along the feathers of the blue bird sitting on his shoulder.

"That's the kind of guy she is." Another voice was quite sure.

Robin Hood turned his head, and wherever he looked, was the white-haired avenger hiding in the darkness.

"Then why is it so rare that you don't even come here to watch?" he asked.

The Avenger fell silent.

"Well, I'll just ask casually." Robin Hood shrugged, "Anyway, you always have your own ideas, so it doesn't matter if you don't need to tell me."

"...No big deal." The Avenger snorted.

"Forget it, the master is going back, and I'm leaving too, how about you?" Robin Hood readily let go of this topic, "Aren't you going back to stay by the master's side?"

"..."

The Avengers disappeared into the shadows.

Before he left, Robin Hood seemed to hear a faint murmur.

He laughed helplessly: "It turns out that it's not just me who is afraid of someone who can't hold back and beat up that guy named Dazai..."

As expected of a master, even this guy can communicate calmly.

Well, calm down.