The whole of Yokohama thought we were together

"no car."

Osamu Dazai continued, "When you were fighting with the people in the bungalow, I took advantage of the chaos and went around, but I didn't see any special transport vehicles."

"Could it be driven away?" Oda Sakunosuke guessed.

"The police car has already covered up the original traces, so I can only say that there is a possibility." Osamu Dazai shifted his gaze from the picture to Sakunosuke Oda, "But if this is the case, the culprits probably won't be caught. "

Oda Sakunosuke understood.

...It seems that someone still escaped before they went.

"The reason why you insist on entering the Red Maple Forest is because you thought of this?" Kunikida Doppo handed the picture to Oda Sakuyuki's assistant, and at the same time thought to himself, [With such careful thought, the next questioning work will be left to They shouldn't have to worry. ]

However, Osamu Dazai shook his head, "I didn't go for this—I was thinking about what the criminals used to rob the students."

Kunikida Doppo: "Didn't you already find the pattern?"

"That's the rule of going to school, I mean—what kind of students the prisoner is more inclined to take away. A person like him who has obsessive-compulsive disorder and strives to be perfect in everything will never be casually in the campus. Grab a student and leave."

Thinking of the little fireflies that disappeared from his fingertips at that time, Osamu Dazai said, "I suspect that the students who were taken away are all supernatural beings."

Oda Sakunosuke immediately frowned upon hearing this: "Are you sure?"

Although his expression still hasn't changed much, even Kunikida Doppo can feel that his tone of voice is obviously different.

[Looks like Oda knows about this too...]

Osamu Dazai was a little surprised: "What?"

Oda Sakunosuke was silent for a moment, and said: "If those four students are all supernatural beings, then these criminals are probably related to 'V'."

Kunikida Doppo frowned: "An organization that specializes in expelling supernatural beings..."

"They have always insisted that they are for the 'righteousness'. When this situation evolves to the end, no one knows what it will be like." Oda Sakunosuke said, "Maybe it is to expel the ability to cooperate with the ability. impossible."

Kunikida Doppo looked at the picture in his hand again, "If this is the case, is this what Mr. Ranpo wants to convey to us?"

"Maybe, he knows about this matter very well." Oda Sakunosuke was noncommittal.

"You know?!" Kunikida Doppo was really surprised this time. After all, he hadn't told anyone else about the story that happened when the detective agency was established after he learned it from the president.

Osamu Dazai watched the two of them play charades for a long time, and finally interrupted them at this moment.

"What is 'V'? What does it mean to be an organization that expels supernatural beings?"

"You don't know?" Kunikida Doppo turned his head.

"I've lost my memory." Osamu Dazai said calmly.

Kunikida Doppo looked at him suspiciously, "You can still tell the sum of the Fibonacci sequence and that Hanako..."

At the end of the sentence, he felt a little guilty, and his voice subconsciously quieted down.

Osamu Dazai rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "It's a habitual memory."

"Inertial memory, that refers to the memory that can remember how to do things? It's not like you remember specific things."

"Yes." Osamu Dazai nodded, "How to find clues to the case, and how to scare people after finding out that others are afraid of ghosts, this is me!"

Kunikida Doppo: "You are too straightforward! Also, you were trying to scare me back then!"

As a physical master who has always been physically strong in the detective agency, Doppo Kunikida is holding his chest at this moment, feeling that he may be a little angry recently.

While he was calming himself down, Oda Sakunosuke took up the topic beside him.

"It's an organization formed to expel and eliminate supernatural beings." He said, "They think supernatural beings are parasites that will corrupt the country, so they will make full use of what they think are valuable to achieve their goals. And they don't have to pay any price for it, because they are acting for the 'righteousness'."

"Oh——" Osamu Dazai dragged out his voice, expressing his understanding, "A group of criminals with high-sounding rhetoric."

"Cooperating with this organization is tantamount to digging one's own grave." Kunikida Doppo said, "It's really incomprehensible."

Osamu Dazai laughed when he heard this, as if he didn't think so, but he still didn't refute anything in the end.Speaking of which, several people also had a general idea about the direction of this inquiry, Oda Sakunosuke and Dazai Osamu followed the original plan, took the pictures to the Supernatural Secret Service Division, and met the prisoner.

Kunikida Doppo went to the president's office.

"President."

"Yeah." Seeing him coming in, Fukuzawa Yukichi got up from his desk and invited him to sit across from the chessboard, "What's the matter?"

"No." Seeing Fukuzawa Yukichi drop a word on the chessboard, Kunikida Doppo also stretched out his hand to the chess box, and said at the same time, "Judging from the results of the exam, Dazai Osamu did not have the kind of meeting we imagined. Oda, who is a roommate of the detective agency, seems to have no dissatisfaction with the unfavorable thoughts of the detective agency. No, strictly speaking, it should be said that he has a good relationship with him. In short, Osamu Dazai seems to be a good- "

Speaking of this, Kunikida Doppo's voice paused, his hand hanging on the chessboard trembled, and almost dropped the chess piece.

[Oops!Since Oda kept saying that guy was no different from everyone else, he almost thought it was normal for a guy who was crazy about buying bandages at the supermarket! ]

But fortunately, before he could say anything, Kunikida Doppo coughed quickly, and added: "Except for the strange desire for suicide and bandages, I haven't found any other problems for the time being."

After hearing this, Fukuzawa Yukichi did not respond immediately, he watched Kunikida Doppo put down the chess pieces on the board, seemed to think for a moment, and then asked aloud: "Is Oda the partner currently arranged for Osamu Dazai? "

"No." Kunikida Doppo replied, "Just because both of them happened to be involved in the previous commission, I asked them to go together to do the finishing work. For Oda, the original partner was me, but the combination of Oda and Akutagawa is more It is suitable for solving the arrest work of some large organizations, so most of the time is currently traveling with Akutagawa. Osamu Dazai...has not arranged a partner for him yet."

To put it bluntly, the entrusted missions in the detective agency are often freely combined, and I still don't know Dazai Osamu, so the matter of arranging a partner for Dazai Osamu has not yet been decided.

Kunikida Doppo raised his head at this point, "President, if you ask this, do you have any thoughts on the partner arrangement?"

"No." Fukuzawa Yukichi's expression remained unchanged, but his tone seemed to have more emotions than usual, and Kunikida Doppo couldn't understand it for a while.

"I just suddenly remembered a sentence that Oda told me a long time ago."

"What?"

"He said he was a little envious of my relationship with Ranbu."

Kunikida was taken aback, and looked away from the chessboard.

[Envy the relationship between the president and Mr. Ranpo?This kind of relationship with friends?Are we not his friends?Or is it that this guy doesn't show it on the surface, but in fact... is very lacking in love?Desperately want a friend's love? ]

Inexplicably, Kunikida Doppo felt a little pity for Oda Sakunosuke in his heart.

"It was a long time ago..." Fukuzawa Yukichi shook his head, with some emotion in his tone, "Time flies so fast."

Kunikida Doppo paused when he heard the words, and suddenly remembered the understanding of the organization "V" shown by Oda Sakunosuke when discussing the case just now.

He had some guesses in his heart, which became stronger at this moment, so he hesitated and asked: "President, did you know each other before Oda joined the company?"

Fukuzawa Yukichi thought for a while, then nodded: "That's right."

[I didn't see it at all! ] Kunikida Doppo was surprised.

"But President, when you get along with Oda, you don't look like an acquaintance at all!"

"It's just acquaintance, not familiar." Fukuzawa Yukichi still stared at the chessboard seriously, "And the acquaintance was not pleasant, there is nothing to say."

[Unpleasant acquaintance...V...red hair...]

Kunikida Doppo looked at the other party in shock, his voice was trembling with excitement: "President, Oda, is he also in the story you told me about the establishment of the detective agency..."

Fukuzawa Yukichi finally glanced at him.

However, at the next moment, he said: "I remember, Oda's past occupation has been listed as a reward, right?"

Kunikida Doppo: "Huh? Oh, yes."

"Then I can't say."

Kunikida Dobubu: "..."

[This is tantamount to a disguised admission, what does it mean!That guy Oda, he wouldn't have had that profession before, would he? ! ! ]

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Before going to the Supernatural Secret Service Section, Osamu Dazai, Sakunosuke Oda, and Kenji Miyazawa who came here to help sent the purchased things back to the dormitory, and then adjusted the route to find the prisoner.

Miyazawa Kenji left after delivering the things. The two of them didn't speak much along the way, and the atmosphere was a bit weird.

...But one of the parties didn't care, and the other didn't feel it at all, so they just walked to the destination.

The Ability Secret Service Division is located on the mountain. It looks like an ordinary library from the outside, and even old people who like to read go in and out. However, only those who know this place will know that there are government secrets in the depths of the library. mechanism.

Oda Sakunosuke explained his identity at the service desk, and someone led the two of them into the library. Osamu Dazai glanced at the passing guards, and found that the pockets of those guards were very unusual. Usually the guards wear bigger ones.

Thinking about it, he touched Oda Sakunosuke's arm, and said in a low voice, "Oda—cough, Oda-kun, guess what they are carrying around their waists?"

Oda Sakunosuke: "..."

[Dazai's voice just now...does he want to call me 'Odasaku'? ]