Nearly 200 people died in Okakaki Village, Kanagawa Prefecture within two months. The people in the village had no time to grieve, and could only deal with one funeral after another numbly.

Oda Sakunosuke and Kunikida Doppo, who belong to the Yokohama Armed Detective Agency, watched another burial that is almost extinct in the country.

Doppo Kunikida upholds the scientific spirit and is very disapproving of this kind of burial. "Senior Oda, should we stop them? Burials are likely to cause land pollution and the spread of the virus."

Oda Sakunosuke nodded: "Well, you're right."

"Senior Oda, I don't want you to agree with me..." Kunikida Doppo said weakly.

"That's it."

The funeral ceremony came to an end, and people carried out the coffin to the cemetery next to the temple outside the village.

At this time, a person suddenly fell from midair, and landed on the coffin, click——the coffin cover cracked, and the pale face of the deceased was exposed, which was in stark contrast to the rosy complexion of the young man on his body.

"Where did they come from?" "Why did you destroy the funeral?"

The villagers denounced angrily, intending to arrest and punish the culprit.

Oda Sakunosuke saw clearly that the falling person was just a boy who looked like a student, so he wanted to stop him.

At this time, the young monk in charge of the funeral ceremony came forward to appease the villagers, "...the most important thing is for the dead to be buried in the earth, and other things will be left for later." He is the host of the temple outside the village, and he is usually invited to perform funerals in the village. thing.

The villagers were appeased, and temporarily threw the boy who smashed the coffin aside, and continued with the funeral.

Seeing this, Oda Sakunosuke said, "Kunikida, I'll go and have a look."

"Senior Oda, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has sealed off the surrounding area, this person appears strangely, be careful." Kunikida Doppo said worriedly.

An unexplained disease appeared in Okakaki Village, and the patient would become anemic until death, and there was no feasible treatment at all except blood transfusion for maintenance.

The detective agency was entrusted by the government to find out the source of the disease, but Edogawa Ranpo, the pillar of the detective agency, was busy with the recent black market transactions in Yokohama, so the president had to send the two of them over.

However, they went to the village for a week, searched inside and outside the village, and there was no suspicious existence of poisons or sources of infection.

The cause of the disease is still unknown.The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has already issued a warning that no entry is allowed around the village. How could outsiders sneak in at such a time?

Unless it's someone involved.

Kunikida Doppo feels that his reasoning is very logical, but he meets Oda Sakunosuke who acts on intuition.

"I think he's just a student." Oda Sakunosuke stepped forward to check on the comatose boy's injuries, "He's not seriously injured, he just fainted after being hit, and he'll wake up soon, I'll take him to rest."

"Senior Oda!" Kunikida Doppo was anxious, "Since he's fine, it's fine to put it here, and he will leave by himself when he wakes up."

"However, those villagers will beat him when they come back." Oda Sakunosuke said in a normal tone.

Kunikida Dobubu: "..."

Unable to refute.

So, Oda Sakunosuke brought the boy back to their temporary residence.

……

Sato Hiroshi woke up from the painful dream of being beaten constantly, and saw a strange roof in front of him, and a familiar voice came from beside him asking, "You're awake, how are you doing?"

Yes, I rolled down the hill... Is this a hospital?

Hiroshi Sato tried to sit up, and when he moved a little, his back hurt as if someone had hit him hard with a bat, "Ugh—it hurts!"

"You fell from a high place and smashed someone's coffin. Fortunately, you didn't get hurt by the wooden thorn."

Ah, that's the way it is-it's strange! ! !

Sato Hiroshi suddenly sat up, grinning his teeth in pain from his back, but he didn't care at all, he twisted his body and asked, "Mr. Oda! Are you joking? How could I hit someone else's coffin!"

Oda Sakunosuke showed no expression: "Do you know my name?"

"Mr. Oda!" Hiroshi Sato lay on the tatami, "Did I really hit someone else's coffin?"

Was it the coffin he had in mind?Used to pretend to be dead?

"Well, I broke the cover and leaned against the dead, just like the pose for a photo."

Sato Hiroshi: "...Mr. Oda, there is really no need to describe the scene to me."

"That's it." Oda Sakunosuke nodded and said, "You have an impact injury on your back, and you need to rest for a few days."

Hiroshi Sato lay on his stomach like a tortoise that couldn't turn over and said, "No wonder I feel so painful...Mr. Oda, you saved me, thank you..."

"You're welcome."

"What is this place? It's not like a hospital, a community medical service center?"

"This is Okakaki Village..."

"Senior Oda!" Kunikida Doppo yanked open the paper door, entered the room with tea and ointment, and said with a straight face, "We don't know his identity and purpose yet."

Sato Hiroshi's face was pressed against the musty tatami mat, and he sighed exhaustedly: "...don't tell me that you are here to perform the task of exorcism."

Oda Sakunosuke said: "It's okay, Kunikida, this child doesn't look like someone involved." Then he said to Sato Hiroshi: "The two of us are members of the Armed Detective Agency, and we are here to investigate the strange disease in the village."

Hiroshi Sato suddenly realized, "Oh, Mr. Oda said a few days ago that he found a job. It turned out to be a detective agency."

Kunikida Doppo frowned: "Senior Oda is a very qualified member of our detective agency."

"Ah." Hiroshi Sato didn't know why, and when he mentioned the detective agency, the only thing he could think of was the Mori Detective Agency, and the place where Mr. Oda worked was probably similar to that.

Speaking of which, Mr. Oda's work content is similar to that of Conan, and Conan is really good.

Hiroshi Sato's thoughts drifted wildly. When he thought of Conan, he thought of chasing the murderer in the tropical paradise. When he thought of the murderer, he thought of his aunt being injured. When he thought of his aunt being injured, he thought of his parents...

"Ah!" He suddenly yelled, and said pitifully, "Mr. Oda, can you not tell my mother about my injury, she will definitely be worried."

Kunikida Doppo looked at senior suspiciously: "Senior Oda, do you know his parents?"

Oda Sakunosuke: "..."

Hiroshi Sato felt that Mr. Oda looked weird today, but he didn't think much about it, "Mr. Oda, please take me in for a few days, and I will go home after the injury is better, and... can I tell my mother I stay with you to help?"

……

"... I see, then please ask Odasaku to hold Mrs. Sato." Dazai put down his phone, and said to the two people who were waiting for the result: "Sato is safe, he called home and said he would stay by Odasaku's side to help the couple." The day is busy, and Mrs. Sato sent Daifuku to Oda Saku in the morning, saying that it was my son who caused trouble."

Saiki Kusuo, who had been tense all night, finally felt relieved, "Just be safe."

Wujo Wudao: "It's a bit similar to the last time I was in the high school..."

Osamu Dazai leaned on his chin with his mobile phone, "Speaking of which, Sato saw 'me' last time, and this time saw 'Odasaku' who works in a detective agency, it is probably from the same world."

The three of them looked at the position between the two big trees. Is this the entrance to another world?

"The three of us can't get close, Saiki-kun's perspective doesn't work, why is Sato alone sucked in..." Osamu Dazai looked puzzled.

Saiki Kusuo's super power is powerful enough to change the world, so he has a deeper understanding, "It's the world over there that rejects me."

Gojo Satoru snapped his fingers, "No matter what the reason is, since Sato-kun is safe for the time being, Kusuo should at least go to rest for a while. There is a hotel nearby, and I have booked it as a foothold. High-level professionals will take over later. here."

……

After reporting his safety to his family, Hiroshi Sato felt relieved, fell asleep in pain and sleepiness, and woke up the next morning.

He wanted to ask his classmates how they were doing, but found that the phone had automatically shut down due to low battery. He wanted to borrow a charger, but Mr. Oda was nowhere to be found in the house.

Sato Hiroshi had no choice but to climb to the window and wait until his heart became extremely heavy.

In just one morning, two funeral processions passed by outside. As far as a village is concerned, the death rate is too high.

What is the disease...

When it was lunch time, Oda Sakunosuke and the two returned to their residence.

"I left you breakfast, but you didn't eat it." Oda Sakunosuke took off his apron and put it on.

"Eh? I'm sorry I didn't notice, I wasted Mr. Oda's thoughts..." Sato Hiroshi said guiltily.

"It's okay, eat more at noon, I made curry."

Although the phone was successfully charged, he still had a sad face, and moved little by little to Kunikida Doppo who was taking notes at the low table, "Mr. Kunikida, the disease spreading in the village seems to be very serious..."

Kunikida Doppo pushed his glasses, "It's a very serious disease. There are no symptoms of the disease. The patient will feel dizzy, nausea and fatigue. It is anemia symptom. If the blood transfusion is not timely, the person will die of lack of blood in a few days. The sick in the village There are so many people, it is difficult to supply all patients with blood transferred from outside, and some people will have adverse reactions after blood transfusion... Therefore, the mortality rate of patients in the village is very high."

Hearing this, Hiro Sato felt even more uncomfortable, "Is there no other way? The medical conditions in the village are not good, so transfer them to a big hospital in Tokyo..."

"The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare does not agree to transfer a large number of patients until the transmission route of the disease is fully determined. The task of our armed detective agency is to find the source of the disease and save the villagers here." Kunikida Doppo said firmly.

Hiroshi Sato was deeply moved, "Mr. Kunikida, come on!"

"I will." Kunikida Doppo nodded seriously, and believed in Oda-senpai's opinion in his heart - this boy is just an ordinary student.

After eating, the two went out to investigate. Sato Hiroshi volunteered to participate, but the two refused, and it was not a task that required hands-on work, so they took him with them.

"When the back hurts, you have to go back and rest."

"Yes! I slept through the night last night, and my back didn't hurt so much." Sato Hiroshi knows how to measure, and he wants to help because his health is really better.

Okakaki Village is neither big nor small, with a population of over 200, and young people account for less than one-tenth of it. Many people died of the disease. There are more than [-] families in the village, and there are very few families that have not died.

Many families still have more than one patient.

The entire village was lifeless, with despair written all over everyone's face. Some families cried out in grief, while others cursed.It is unreasonable to scold the world, why does bad luck come to Okakaki Village.

Hiroshi Sato's heart was crushed by a heavy boulder, and there was no way to help them.

Sakunosuke Oda and Doppo Kunikida have adapted to the desperate atmosphere of Okakaki Village, collecting clues without being affected.At present, they have ruled out factors such as water quality, meat, and plants, and they will continue to test radiation, air, etc.

Hiroshi Sato followed behind them, stepping forward to help when needed, and following silently when not needed.

While he was busy, a young monk with short violet hair and glasses came from a distance.

Oda Sakunosuke and the two nodded, "Master Muroi."

The young monk said: "You two have worked hard, did you find out the clue?"

When asked about the progress, the two members of the detective agency were silent. They came to Okakaki Village for many days, but found nothing, so they naturally felt ashamed.

The young monk was considerate, "Okagaki Village is very grateful to the two for their help. The occurrence of the strange disease is a natural disaster. It should not be blamed on anyone, let alone the two of you."

"Our detective agency failed to help everyone..."

Sato Hiroshi stared at the monk, and frowned unconsciously. People say that the monk is a monk, and this person in front of him is probably a typical one—his eyes are as calm as a mirror. When talking to him, he can only see himself, not what is behind the mirror. mood.

"Speaking of which," the young monk said, "I heard from the villagers in the past two days that there are strange people wandering around the village. Could you ask the two of you to go and have a look?"

"It's my duty." Kunikida Doppo agreed without hesitation.

Following the direction pointed by the monk, the three headed towards the south of the village. On the way, Hiroshi Sato asked about the identity of the monk.

Kunikida Doppo explained: "He is the abbot of the temple near the village. He is serious and reliable, and the villagers rely on him very much. It is said that the temple was dilapidated before, and he repaired it himself after he came..."

"It looks like a very pure monk." Hiroshi Sato had a strange impression of Monk Muroi. On the one hand, he felt that he was completely in line with the image of a monk who was born, and on the other hand, he felt that he was too indifferent.

Since he is an out-of-the-world monk, he will naturally be more emotionally indifferent than ordinary people. Isn't this a very reasonable thing?

Hiroshi Sato stopped thinking about it.

The three of them went to the field to the south of the village and searched around, but found no trace of anyone.

"...Could it be that the villagers read it wrong?" Kunikida Doppo guessed, "Whenever someone appears, it is impossible not to leave a trace."

Oda Sakunosuke bowed his head in silence for a moment, then suddenly pulled out a pistol from his waist and pointed it at the tree crown next to him.

"Get down!"

Sato Hiro was stunned, and before he thought of complaining, Kunikida saw Kunikida lonesomely facing the enemy, took out...book and pen and stood ready.

Hiroshi Sato pursed his lips: "emmm..."

The canopy of the tree swayed a few times, and a person really jumped down.

Covered in black, with a bandage over his left eye.

"Dazai?" Sato Hiroshi said in surprise.

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