It's night, Lupine's bar.

The bar is located in an alley, the storefront is not big, you even have to go down a step to really enter, and there are only two inconspicuous signboards at the door.

Such bars usually only accept regular customers, but today three of the most frequent customers are sitting in front of the caramel-colored bar.

This collocation will only feel strange to "knowledgeable" people.

The boy on the far left with fluffy black hair and many bandages on his body is actually one of the youngest cadres in Port Mafia.

Port Mafia is a behemoth lurking in the dark side of the city, an existence darker than black//society.

The ordinary-looking red-haired young man in the middle is a writer who recently held a book signing.

The man with glasses on the far right has a gentle look, just like a civil servant.He is indeed a civil servant, but he belongs to the Supernatural Secret Service Division and is now a promising investigator.

Three people with different identities who knew each other well chatted and drank wine familiarly, and they had been getting along like this for the past two years.

The phone rang, and the three quickly determined that the source of the sound was Oda Saku in the middle.

Dazai and Ango felt a little strange, usually they were two busy people who received a sudden call, but this time it was actually Odasaku!

"It's the editor's call. It may be that the article needs to be revised." Oda Saku relieved their curiosity.Since it wasn't something confidential, he didn't particularly leave his seat to avoid it.

The editor's voice came from the other end of the phone,

"Sorry to bother you, Oda-sensei. I have received and checked the original manuscript of the new work. There is no problem, but..."

"Is there anything that needs to be changed?"

"No, no, no problem with the teacher's article." On the other end of the phone, the editor could imagine shaking his head frantically, and he said, "When I was sorting out your manuscript, I accidentally found a strange article in it, which didn't look like It's your handwriting."

The editor became excited while talking, "The above content is so exquisite, I couldn't help but call you at this time to ask about its owner."

"Other articles?" Oda Saku happened to have something to do on the day of submission, so the editor went directly to his room to pick it up.

"Yes, I probably got in by accident. It's a work called "Rashomon" without a signature, do you know?" He asked cautiously.

Odasaku realized that it was an article written by Akutagawa, and I wanted him to see how it was.He put it on the table after reading it, probably confused because of it.

"Yes, I know the author of the article, he is my friend's student." Oda Saku looked at Dazai, it was indeed a wonderful article, even he would feel inferior.

"Great, then is the other party interested in publishing it? If the other party is willing, please consider our publishing house!" The editor tried his best to fight, "There are also friends of teachers who want to publish their works, we also welcome them very much. "

Apparently, the editor regarded Dazai as the author.

"I'll ask them."

After hanging up the phone, Odasaku told Dazai and Ango about the incident.

Ango pushed his glasses, quite surprised, "Is that Akutagawa-kun?" He left the port of Mafia at about the same time as Akutagawa joined. He had met before, and heard Dazai and Oda mention something that had nothing to do with the organization. aspect.

Odasaku nodded, and said to Dazai: "I will go to the publishing house to get back his original manuscript later."

Dazai had heard about Akutagawa's writing, but he hadn't really seen the content.Today, I happened to meet the editor of Oda Saku who praised Akutagawa's article, and he also became interested.

"I have photos here. Because the content of the article is really exciting, Dazai, I want you to read it too." Oda took out his mobile phone, and pulled out the photos for Dazai to see.

It's just a short story, and it doesn't take long to read it through. Dazai quickly finished reading all the content and passed the phone to Ango.

He fell into silence expressionlessly, or rather, fell into aftertaste.

After a long time, he said slowly: "It's really unexpected..."

The next day, Odasaku retrieved Akutagawa's manuscript, found Akutagawa and explained the series of events yesterday.That was just one of the many articles Akutagawa wrote after he became fond of literature, but he reaped unexpected results.Akutagawa, who was delighted in his heart, agreed to publish, and he and Oda Saku made an appointment to meet the editor together.

The meeting place was a coffee shop. When Odasaku walked in with Akutagawa, he saw his editor at a glance.

He went up to say hello, but saw the editor showed a terrified expression, looked in his direction, and fell to the ground with the chair.

"—The evil dog of Mafia at the port!" He pointed to Akutagawa behind Oda Saku in horror.

Oh no.

Odasaku realized.

He once confessed to the editor that he was a clerk in Mafia, and the editor accepted it after being surprised, but he didn't expect the other party's reaction to Akutagawa to be so strong.

Generally speaking, Port Mafia pursues secrecy[1], and it has appeared a little more in the past few years, but it is also a good thing.On the other hand, Akutagawa is the complete opposite. He does not hide his actions, and it is not uncommon to attack in public. Therefore, many ordinary people know what he looks like and are deeply afraid of him.

His editor's reaction was so strong, he must have witnessed the scene before.

But Akutagawa also added fuel to the fire at this time, "I am the lackey of Mafia at the port, Ryunosuke Akutagawa."

The editor remembered what happened to the enemy opposite him after he saw this boy self-reporting his family last time, and immediately ran out of the coffee shop.

The issue of the publication of "Rashomon" was left as it is. Afterwards, Oda Saku received an apology call from the editor, and the editor also claimed on the phone that he could no longer continue to be responsible for his works and related work because of physical discomfort. Will be forwarded to the Editor-in-Chief.

Since Dazai and Ango were also quite concerned about this matter, Oda Saku also informed them of the matter.

"There's no way around this, right? It's normal for ordinary people to be afraid of Mafia." Anwu was not too surprised after hearing this. "Didn't you scare the teacher when you went to see the teacher last time?"

"Is there such a thing?" Oda Saku's tone was full of bewilderment.

He recalled that he once participated in the open day of Kosuke School——

"Mr. Oda, Kosuke always says that he wants to become Mafia. Does Mr. Oda know about this? Even if you are usually busy, you should pay attention to your child's preferences and don't be fooled by some weird game works. It's off the mark."

"It's not about the game, Xingsuke is targeting me, that's why he said he wants to become Mafia."

"...meaning, Mr. Oda is a member of Mafia?"

"Yes."

After that, the teacher never approached Odasaku again. He thought it was because Xingsuke was doing well in school, so it turned out that the teacher was scared by him.

Oda was thoughtful.

An Wu complained: "I just realized it now, it's too natural."

When they were chatting about this matter, Dazai beside him said abruptly, "Why don't you resign Oda."

The two stopped talking and looked at Dazai who was expressionless.

After thinking for a while, Odasaku replied: "Because of Mr. Chuya's help, I am very satisfied with my job and have not thought about resigning."

"This is not an ordinary job. Will you really let him go?" Ango still has lingering fears about Mori Ogai after leaving the port of Mafia for two years. Leaving aside the cadres of Chuya, Mori Ogai, who believes in the best solution, he Would he really let go of a person with supernatural abilities easily?

"So, let's defect!" Dazai put down his wine glass heavily, showing a childlike smile, as if facing an interesting game.

"Defection is more——" Ango reacted suddenly, he stood up in fright, staring at Dazai with burning eyes, "Is it okay to let me know?"

Ango has already understood what Dazai meant. For Odasaku, a clerk who does not touch the core affairs, the word "resignation" is enough, and the word "defection" is enough to be used here. Dazai himself.

"So it's Dazai who wants to resign." Odasaku nodded with a sudden realization.

"It doesn't matter, Ango is not an irrelevant person. Didn't it be agreed that Ango would help us?" Dazai was satisfied to see Ango slump back to the chair helplessly.

Ango also thought of what happened two years ago. He once thought it was Dazai's joke, and he did mention that he would help Dazai and Oda clean up.

Wait, whitewash?

Ango looked at Dazai in surprise, "Do you really want to clean up?" It is not necessary to defect or even leave the dark world, and there are many people who are active in other fields with black resumes.

There is only one case of demanding whitewashing. Dazai's next target requires past experience, and such organizations are generally official.

This also shows that the defection proposed by Dazai was not a whim, but after serious consideration and finding a next home.

"That's not true." Dazai denied Ango's guess, he hadn't thought about leaving the house yet, "It was Ango himself who sent it to the door~"

Although there is no need to clean up, but Anwu had brought it up in the first place, so he just pushed the boat along.

Ah, it is true that I proposed it first.

An Wu wished he could go back to two years ago, and covered his mouth so that he wouldn't fall for his future self.

Two years ago, Dazai’s black files are incomparable to what they are now. Back then, it was better to do a few tricks, but now...

Ango roughly calculated the workload, and felt that his eyes were dark.

When Ango fell into despair, Oda Saku also remembered the conversation two years ago, "So, did Dazai think about it for two years? If that's the case, let's do it."

Odasaku thought of Dazai's usual situation again, and felt uneasy, "I will also propose resignation with Mr. Nakaya."

Neither asked him the real reason for his defection, but would act on his bland proposal.

Dazai's proposal to defect was certainly not an impulsive idea.

He didn't forget that he found out from Chuya's actions that Oda Saku would die in the future, and according to his speculation, it was very likely that he died in a certain plan of Mr. Mori.

Dazai can't guarantee that such a thing won't happen in the future, and it's impossible for him to rely on Chuya's slug brain who can be fooled casually.

Besides, that guy Chuya has been working hard towards the position of leader. If he really succeeds, if he still stays in the organization, wouldn't he have to obey his orders?

Absolutely not!

Although Dazai also knows that as long as he wants to, it is easy to become the leader before Chuya, but becoming the leader is too troublesome, and then there is no time to come to Lupin, and there is no time to kill himself, and Chuya and Kazuya The other guys will definitely look down on him.

He doesn't want to be like that.

Become like Mr. Mori or something, it's disgusting!

To sum up, the idea of ​​defecting naturally appeared in Dazai's mind.

As one of the five cadres of Mafia at the port, the secrets in his mind are enough to cause the top executives in the organization to be executed hundreds of times. Using this as a threat, he can make Mr. Mori completely give up his idea of ​​attacking Oda, and dare not touch them.

"But... Dazai, have you thought about what to do in the future?" Oda Saku, who raised five children, weighed his savings, and it might be a bit bad if he lost his source of income.

"I don't know~" Dazai spread his hands.

"Isn't that just a naked resignation?" Oda Saku thought seriously, and he looked at Ango, "Why don't you go to save people."

Dazai and Ango looked at him in surprise.

"Why?" Dazai asked.

"For you, there may not be much difference between justice and evil. You said that you joined the organization to find the meaning of life, but—you won't find it." [2]

Dazai withdrew all expressions and looked at Odasaku with empty eyes.

"You also know very well that no matter whether you are on the side of killing or saving people, nothing beyond your expectations will happen. There is nothing in this world that can fill your loneliness. You will always be there. Wandering in the dark.”[2]

At this moment, Dazai didn't know whether to be happy that Oda Saku could understand him so well, or despair at his words.

The atmosphere also solidified with Oda Saku's words, Ango held the wine glass, but did not drink it for a long time.

Oda Saku changed the subject and said, "So, why don't you try to save people, at least...Ango helped us clean up."

Dazai seemed to be acquainted with Odasaku for the first time, he looked at him intently, looking at this man who could read his mind.

What broke the atmosphere was Dazai's laughter.

As if withdrawn from the dark and gloomy state just now, Dazai regained the self-willedness in front of his friends, and his eyes were bright again.

"Well, for Ango's sake, I will think about it."

Ango also sighed, "It's absolutely impossible to refuse." No matter how troublesome and difficult it is to whitewash Dazai, he never thought of refusing.

They don't know whether the Dazai who is going to the light will become better, but as long as they are still there, Dazai will not really fall into the abyss.

Because they are best friends.

Cheers to my best friend!

//

Two weeks later, Dazai took care of everything, and with the help of Ango, the children and the boss were also placed in a safe place.

Because no one from Chuya could be found, Odasaku had no choice but to put down his resignation letter on Chuya's desk as a farewell.

He didn't know that this day was actually Chuya's anti-drug training day, and Dazai had chosen this day on purpose.

Odasaku rushed to meet Dazai, he saw Dazai sitting on the handrail of the bridge, sent a text message, and then threw the phone into the Tsurumi River behind him.

"I've already informed Mr. Mori, Odasaku, we're about to flee, are you ready?" His eyes, which had already taken off the bandage, were eager to try.

"Well, I'm good at chasing and being hunted, but where are we going?"

"Bodo."

As Dazai said, in the next few hours, they were chased and killed by the highest level of Mafia at the port, but Ango was able to play with the pursuers for half a year, and Dazai could do the same.

These chasers didn't even see their shadows, let alone submit to the war.

Until—the real pursuer arrives.

"Mr. Dazai!"

The majestic white tiger blocked the way of the two, and then the white tiger turned into a boy.

It was Atsushi Nakajima who, as the leader of the Konoe, chased after the news as soon as he got the news.

The author has something to say: Dun Dun, run! [Building, lift paper, run fast.jpg]

Akutagawa's article will be published, and Chuya too!

Recently, cute comments are often deleted, sad.Obviously, I don’t feel any harmonious words from the background, and the content is also meaningful. It’s either repeated comments, or I don’t know why it was deleted.

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(Real) Little Theater:

Bunzai: Hey, I don't want to be the leader, how nice it is to drink with Oda Saku and Ango!

The leader Zai Mo Mo picked lemons.

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[1] Although the sentence "Port Mafia pursues secrecy" is very flawed, it was said by Ms. Akiko.

[2] Quoting Hei Shi's lines, with changes.

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