The whole of Yokohama thought we were together

However, when he heard Osamu Dazai say this, Kawada didn't have the anger or sadness of being framed as imagined by Kunikida Doppo on his face. He just looked at the other party and said expressionlessly: "I hope these are designed by me. of."

There was a touch of self-deprecation in his tone.

Hearing this, Kunikida Doppo's expression changed.

He stared at Kawada with a serious expression: "Young man, there are many ways to solve things, and 'to die together' is the worst one. You are still a child, and you can ask adults for help when you encounter problems that cannot be solved. We will have a better solution, even if we can't solve it, it will never be your turn to bear it as a minor. You have to remember that self-destruction is always a choice for the weak. Right to stop your life here, including yourself."

Osamu Dazai: "Maybe for some people, self-destruction is the only way to salvation."

Kunikida Doppo has already practiced the ability to get angry as soon as he speaks, especially when there is a young man in front of him who is about to die, and the other party not only refuses to persuade, but also encourages him, and he can't help but feel angry. Angrily said: "Don't make sarcastic remarks there! If you have nothing to say, just shut up!"

Osamu Dazai was well aware of the fact that he didn't invite him to see him, and he didn't get angry when he heard the words, he shrugged indifferently: "Then I'll go to the bathroom."

After finishing the words, he turned around and walked out. Looking carefully, his footsteps turned out to be a little brisk.

Kunikida Doppo's already rare friendship with him fell to the bottom in an instant.

The sound of that person's footsteps gradually faded away, and the room fell into a moment of silence.

"If..." Kawata said softly in this quiet atmosphere, "It would be great if my teacher was you."

Kunikida Doppo was taken aback for a moment: "I..."

However, Kawata suddenly interrupted him and shook his head, as if trying to dispel his thoughts: "By the way, if that person just now is your companion, you should be more careful."

Kunikida Doppo and Oda Sakunosuke looked at each other and asked, "What? You know about him?"

"I don't know, I mean..." Kawata said slowly, "His tendency to self-destruct is much more serious than mine."

After all, no normal person would say, "Should I jump or not? If you don't jump, let me do it."

At that time, the young man's eyes were barren, and the words "no life interest" were written all over his body. The extremely negative state made him drop his raised foot, and he couldn't help but say something.

[What is it, it seems to be——why did you commit suicide? ]

The other party smiled and said, "There is no reason."

That demeanor was not so much a smile as it was a simple twitching of the corners of his mouth. The indifferent eyes did not change at all, but made him feel sad even as a bystander.

After he finished speaking, he easily silenced the other two present.

Kunikida Doppo frowned, not knowing what he was thinking, but after a moment of silence, Oda Sakunosuke suddenly asked, "Why did he give you the coat?"

"At that time... I should have thought, since I was about to die, why were I hiding these things, so I complained about my own affairs..." Kawata paused, "After he heard it, he gave the coat to the I also said: 'The sea is very cold, wear a coat to at least keep you warm'."

After Kawata finished speaking, he added indifferently: "Although I think he just wanted me to sink faster in the water—and I don't know when he took my school badge away."

Oda Sakunosuke did not speak after listening, looking thoughtful.

--

Unlike the people in the room with different minds, Osamu Dazai walked lazily towards the bathroom after leaving the door.

Although the school does not look so glamorous from the outside, the inside of the building is not bad.

The sky outside has already darkened, but the incandescent lamps in the corridor are lit from beginning to end, reflecting light on the walls and tiles on the floor, and people will have the illusion of being in daylight when they are in it.

Therefore, even though there were not many people living in the entire dormitory, it was extremely quiet at the moment, but it did not produce the weird atmosphere that a school should have.

When Osamu Dazai was thinking, he had already reached the door of the bathroom.

When he opened the door and went in, he seemed to see a figure entering the compartment from the corner of his eye. At this point and this place, he subconsciously thought it was a student coming to the toilet, but he didn't care, so he went straight to the sink .

The water with the unique coolness in the pipe washed over the fingers, Osamu Dazai didn't move much, and let the water flow over the skin, turning the initial coolness into numbness.

He was beginning to feel uninspired again.

"Going to the bathroom" was just an excuse. He really didn't get along with that person. Instead of being an eyesore, he might as well come out to avoid the limelight.

But now that I think about it, the incompatibility may be just because the appearance of the other party is the norm in the world, and he has been a different kind from beginning to end.

If there is a line in this world that divides good and evil into two sides, then Kunikida Doppo must be on the side of good, or even the kind of person who is too idealistic. Osamu Dazai actually doesn't hate this kind of people, because in fact Regardless of whether they are in good or evil, they must be constantly pursuing something, goals, ideals, or something more elusive, and even hearing something that would make him laugh, but in short, at least they will not be like him, standing on the line blankly, With a glance at the past, you can see clearly the way you came from and the way home, but you are alone and extremely lonely.

A place beyond the line, stupid, but enviable to him.

The place where his hands were washed by the water was almost unconscious, and Osamu Dazai slowly regained his senses, and then he noticed something was wrong.

He has been standing here for at least 5 minutes without talking. Why is there no sound at all in the compartment that someone went in?

When he thought of this, he raised his hand and turned off the faucet.

After the sound of the water disappeared, he didn't move, and the bathroom became more and more quiet, except for the sound of his own shallow breathing, there was no movement at all.

After a while, Osamu Dazai was sure that there was no other living person here except him.

[Then what happened to the figure I glimpsed out of the corner of my eye?Hitting a ghost? ]

Osamu Dazai suddenly has the interest in living again.

He took advantage of this momentary interest...to kill himself.

Because he didn't pay much attention at that time, Osamu Dazai couldn't remember exactly which compartment the shadow entered, so he simply started from the first compartment and opened the doors of the compartments one by one.

He moves extremely fast, and if there is no one inside, he will replace it with another in an instant. I don't know if he has the idea of ​​not giving the "person" inside time to react.

But the idea was good, but the reality was doomed to disappointment. When he opened the last door but still found nothing, Osamu Dazai had to admit that he might have been wrong.

[Could it be the wind that was blown when the door was opened? ]

Osamu Dazai thought in disappointment, when he was about to let go and let the door bounce back by itself, he glanced at the end of his eyes, but suddenly stopped.

He saw a string of familiar phone numbers on the wall of that cubicle.

After two seconds of careful observation, Osamu Dazai was sure, this is not deja vu, this phone number is the string written on the back of the note in his pocket!

Oh, it seems a little rude to say it's a phone number, because next to the phone number is the words "Yato is open! Help you solve all your troubles"——

This is clearly a small advertisement!

Osamu Dazai touched his chin.

Before he lost his memory, what was wrong with him, he would carry an advertisement with him!

Is it difficult-

Could it be that he was originally a charlatan named "Yato"? !In order to remind myself to remember to earn money, did I leave this string of phone numbers!

Thinking about it this way, it's a bit pitiful.

What's even more pitiful is that he only has a number, not even a mobile phone!

Thinking of this, Dazai's face showed no melancholy, instead he pondered for a moment and made up his mind.

[Before the next suicide comes, let's cheat a mobile phone first...]

--

When Osamu Dazai came back, the questioning of Kawada about the case had come to an end.

Someone from the school came and said that they had prepared dinner and a place to rest. Kunikida Doppo didn't refuse this time, and had dinner with two other people, and then went to the two dormitories arranged by the school.

Under such circumstances, it was naturally impossible for them to fall asleep. After returning to the resting place, Kunikida Doppo and Oda Sakunosuke summarized the current situation.

Osamu Dazai was flipping through his notepad boredly, listening to them half-heartedly.

Although the information obtained is still very little, two conclusions can still be drawn:

First, the time when the supernatural criminals abducted the students may be regular; Might be more inclined to operate on foggy nights.

After finishing speaking, Kunikida Doppo sighed: "It's all 'possibility' and 'guessing', isn't it still clueless about the criminal's face and whereabouts..."

"Why don't you give it to Mr. Ranpo?" Oda Sakunosuke asked.

Kunikida Doppo: "Mr. Ranpo suddenly said this morning that he would change his itinerary. Before we came here, he and Akutagawa had already left for Tokyo."

Oda Sakunosuke: "Is that so..."

This kind of criminal case was handed over to the most veritable detective of the Armed Detective Agency—Ranpo Edogawa in the past. After all, that person's observation skills, logical reasoning ability, and analysis of the overall situation of the incident are unparalleled.

If today's matter was handed over to that person, the target would have been locked in less than an hour.

It's a pity that it's getting dark now, but they haven't come up with any results yet. If the criminals can't be caught as soon as possible, those students...

"Is it foggy tonight?" Osamu Dazai looked at the timeline on the notepad and interrupted the anxiety in the atmosphere.

"What?" Kunikida Doppo was shocked, "Do you think they might come tonight?"

Osamu Dazai said perfunctorily, "I'm just curious."

However, after this sentence, no matter how much Kunikida Doppo asked, Dazai Osamu remained silent, as if the sentence just now was really just mentioned casually.

Kunikida Tokpo thought for a while in the house, but still felt that he should take precautions, so he went out, intending to talk to the principal and the police.

After Kunikida left alone, Dazai Osamu also planned to leave, but when he turned around, he saw another person in the room lying on the bed at some point.

His feet were still on the ground, but his eyes were closed. It was obvious that he was lying back while sitting on the bed, and he was tired of even adjusting his posture, which made him look a little awkward.

[……Fell asleep? ]

Dazai was a little surprised.

When Mingming went to the coffee shop with him, this man kept his hand on the holster, and he could subconsciously avoid it when he reached for his shoulder, but at this moment he fell asleep defenselessly?

So relieved of him?

While thinking this way, Osamu Dazai suddenly caught a glimpse of a pair of scissors on the table.

He raised his eyebrows, and when he took the scissors from the table and walked back, he didn't deliberately make light footsteps at all, but the person on the bed seemed to be really fast asleep, without any sign of opening his eyes.

He walked to the side of the bed, squatted down slowly, looked at the other person's peaceful sleeping face, smiled extremely badly, and slowly brought the scissors close to the top of the person's head.

Even the light yellow light couldn't warm up the cold light on the blade, the cold light gradually approached, and then approached——

But when he is about to come into contact with the other party, he can't make any progress.

Oda Sakunosuke's hand was firmly locked on Dazai Osamu's wrist, and the brown eyes that were originally closed opened in an instant, looking at him indifferently.

"Oh, you're awake."

Even though his wrist was already a little painful from being pinched, Dazai Osamu's expression was still indifferent, even with a little imperceptible smile.

Oda Sakunosuke: "...what are you going to do?"

The voice turned out to be a little hoarse.

"Haven't you heard of it?" Dazai Osamu said calmly, "If you cut the hair on the top of your head, you can grow taller."

Oda Sakunosuke was silent for a moment, his expression seemed complicated: "...Am I short?"

"But no one thinks you are tall." Osamu Dazai said, "I want to help you, if you don't want to, forget it."

As he said that, he wanted to withdraw his hand and stand up, but Oda Sakunosuke was thinking about something, and the strength in his hand did not relax at all. Osamu Dazai got up halfway and was forced to sit back.

"I said I won't cut your stupid hair anymore, Mr. Detective, let go, I'm going back to sleep." Dazai Osamu was a little inexplicably irritable, and he waved his other hand in front of the opponent's eyes, trying to shake him back Thoughts that know where to go, "I said—"

"Did you also want to help Kawada when you were at the beach?"

Osamu Dazai was a little puzzled: "What are you talking about?"

Oda Sakunosuke looked at him with fixed eyes, "The reason why you gave Kawata the coat is because you thought that if this person jumped into the sea, the coat would fall into the sea with him, and if someone followed you and saw Jacket, you may think that you have committed suicide by jumping into the sea. If it goes well, the people who followed you will leave immediately, then it will be a matter of course for Osamu Dazai to disappear in this world. If it doesn’t go well, and he went into the sea to save you, then you can also observe in the dark This person, make another plan."

After a pause, he made a conclusion: "It kills two birds with one stone."

After he finished speaking, he was silent for a moment, as if he was waiting for Osamu Dazai to speak, but the other party seemed not to understand the whole time, but he didn't struggle with his wrist, as if he wanted to see what nonsense he could say.

Oda Sakunosuke continued: "I have been thinking before, if Kawata didn't choose to jump into the sea, but just left in your coat, wouldn't this approach fall short? But after listening to what Kawata said, I I suddenly understood."

"If you think about your actions in terms of good intentions, everything will make sense."

"I met a young man who was in a poor situation, dressed in thin clothes, but still worked hard to move towards the future, so why not give him a warm coat?"

To fulfill Osamu Dazai's plan, or to fulfill himself, all depends on the young man's thought.

Oda Sakunosuke suddenly realized at this moment that maybe he had misread Dazai Osamu from the very beginning—or rather, this amnesiac Dazai Osamu.

He, as well as the entire detective agency, all preconceived him as the mafia leader, but never looked at him objectively and with a neutral attitude, to see what the "Dazai Osamu" who met for the first time was like. .

Excessive vigilance, excessive attention, all stem from prejudice.

The touch of the hand brought Oda Sakunosuke back to his senses, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Osamu Dazai shaking his wrist, but his eyes fell out of the window.

"Although I really want to praise your storytelling ability is really good, suitable for writing novels, but it's too late now—"

"It's foggy outside."