The whole of Yokohama thought we were together

After Dazai Osamu's voice fell, Oda Sakunosuke's mobile phone also received a message from Kunikida Doppo.

—There is movement in the fog.

When the two came out of the dormitory building, they realized that the fog was really too thick. Under the darkness of night, they couldn't see the moon above their heads. The fog was boundless. Although a person could see five fingers in it, he was two steps away. It is a little difficult to see the figure again.

Perhaps it was because of Kunikida Doppo's arrangement that the movement in the fog only gathered in one place, and it was a good thing that the police who were in charge of protecting the students did not come out to make trouble.

Osamu Dazai subconsciously glanced at the people around him. Oda Sakunosuke had already held the gun in his arms, the bullets were loaded, and his eyes were calm.

"At the warehouse."

Dazai Osamu responded, and the direction of the voice was indeed roughly around the warehouse, but he was a little surprised that Oda Sakunosuke was able to accurately locate the warehouse.

What surprised him even more was that after the other party finished speaking, he suddenly turned to look at him and asked, "Do you still remember your ability?"

Osamu Dazai gave the answer instantly: "I probably don't remember."

Oda Sakunosuke paused, as if he was thinking about why there was such an uncertain tone of "should" in this kind of thing, but soon he said again: "Then you stay here, you can't see clearly in the fog, I'm afraid I can't care about it." on you."

Osamu Dazai nodded obediently: "Okay."

Oda Sakunosuke moved quickly, and after receiving the response, he quickly ran towards the target point without saying anything unnecessary.

His footsteps were too soft, if Osamu Dazai hadn't watched the other party run into the fog and lost track, he might have thought that the other party disappeared out of thin air.

[This skill...]

Osamu Dazai stepped up and followed while thinking, and the illusion of being "well-behaved" disappeared without a trace in just a second.

Although the figure of Oda Sakunosuke is no longer visible, Dazai Osamu still remembers the location of the warehouse, so even if he can't see anything around him, he can determine his position and whether he is approaching the target by relying on the floor tiles he stepped on. point.

Soon, Osamu Dazai heard more and more noises, and Kunikida Doppo didn't know what kind of lighting tool he used, and he could vaguely see a little outline from where he was, but then, the other party Suddenly he let out a bewildered "Huh": "...no one?!"

The next moment, gunshots rang out, right in front of Osamu Dazai!

[Hey - how dare you shoot in this situation...]

Osamu Dazai really admired it, and he walked forward quickly, but it seemed that a wall suddenly appeared in the fog that was originally empty, and he couldn't react in time, so he bumped into it firmly.

"Well!"

He was knocked back and staggered back, and when he heard this muffled grunt that obviously didn't belong to him, he realized that the opposite wasn't a wall at all, but a person emerging from the mist!

Osamu Dazai's eyes slid from his masked face all the way to his bleeding right leg, and he couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

[This gun still hits...]

The other party seemed to be extremely shocked when he saw his gradually emerging body, but soon he recovered from the pain of the gunshot wound on his leg. Before Dazai Osamu could say anything, he suddenly turned his face to The mask was pulled upwards, and then it seemed that it was too much, so it was pulled in the opposite direction.

Osamu Dazai watched his movements thoughtfully, and the other party seemed to understand that he had wasted too much time, and the next moment he gritted his teeth and plunged into the mist in the other direction.

Osamu Dazai did not chase, his attention was attracted by a blood-stained leaf on the ground, he knelt down and observed it for a while, then picked it up, and continued to go to the warehouse in the original direction.

"...I only heard footsteps when I was chasing after him. I obviously felt that I was not far away, but I couldn't see anyone at all!"

Kunikida Doppo's voice paused, and then, a beam of light shone towards the position where Osamu Dazai was.

Osamu Dazai raised his hand to block it: "It's me."

"You're here too?" Kunikida Duppo turned on the bright flashlight, a little surprised, but soon he thought of the other party's ambiguous remarks before, "Did you guess that they would take action tonight?"

"Your statement sounds like the actions of those criminals were organized by me." Osamu Dazai said.

Kunikida Doppo: "Then explain what you think!"

Osamu Dazai walked over slowly: "Without evidence, even if I tell you, you won't believe it."

While the two were talking, Oda Sakunosuke by the side suddenly reached out and wiped the wall of the warehouse with the help of the faint light, his fingertips were instantly tinged with coolness, and he put his fingers under the tip of his nose to smell it. Smell, it seems that there is still some vague smell.

"Not yet..."

As soon as his words came out, the two people over there immediately looked over. Kunikida Doppo put the flashlight close to the wall and observed carefully, while Dazai Osamu looked close to Oda Sakunosuke's fingertips and said, "Actually, for Kawada-san I have a guess about the criminals' appearance during the two nights mentioned."

"I think they may have come to throw the corpse."

As soon as he finished speaking, Kunikida Doppo's hand holding the flashlight tightened instantly.

In the misty mist, the yellow light of the flashlight cast a circle of light on the wall, which was swaying slightly with the trembling of the owner.

Within the light circle, there are some damp water droplets on the cement wall that has not yet dried out. Except for the place that was wiped by Oda Sakunosuke's fingertips, the rest of the wall is extremely smooth, as if...someone just used Wipe the spatula carefully.

But the school's construction team had stopped working a long time ago, and even if the construction would not be in such a foggy night, then it could only be the criminal who escaped just now.

Why do you go to school to build walls, or what is in the walls?

For a while, no one spoke, and it could almost be said that needles could be heard around.

After a long while, Dazai Osamu was the first to speak, but the topic obviously flew in an abnormal direction.

"Kunikida-kun, you're shaking."

Kunikida Doppo's complexion was ugly, white and blue at times, as if he was constantly switching between several complex emotions, but his voice was still very loud: "Shut up! I'll go find the principal!"

After speaking, without giving them any time to react, he threw away the flashlight and left the place quickly.

The direction of the flashlight flying was facing Osamu Dazai, he didn't think much about it, and took the opportunity, but he didn't feel it was wrong until he saw the flashlight turned into a piece of light paper in his hand.

"...Is this a supernatural power?" He held up the paper and looked at Oda Sakunosuke.

The other party nodded, and was a little surprised: "Your ability is—to invalidate the ability?"

"Maybe, you're so smart."

Oda Sakunosuke didn't hear any praise from his tone, and the other party didn't let him explore too much, and stuffed the paper into his arms in the next second: "Give you off."

Then he bent down, found a spatula from the construction equipment, picked it up and shoveled the wall, "Are you saying Kunikida-kun is angry, or is he afraid?"

The cement was not dry, and Osamu Dazai pierced it so deeply that the tip of the spatula seemed to hit something directly.

"Maybe both."

As soon as Oda Sakunosuke finished answering this sentence, Dazai Osamu suddenly let go of the spatula stuck on the wall, and then slowly backed away.

"what happened?"

"It doesn't feel right..." Osamu Dazai looked at the wall carefully again, gestured with his hand, and said, "If three people were built into the wall, I should be between the three people." How can there be something in the gap..."

Oda Sakunosuke was stunned: "Three people, isn't it four?"

Seeing that Osamu Dazai was frowning and thinking, and didn't intend to answer, Oda Sakunosuke could only follow the other party's train of thought, "If you mean the first three people, then this wall cannot be put down."

Now it was Osamu Dazai's turn to be surprised.

Oda Sakunosuke: "The student council president and the bad stature are both very tall. Even if the third missing person is a girl, judging from the photos, with their bone structure, there is no way to force them in——I just said Thinking about it too."

Osamu Dazai didn't read the information at all, so naturally he didn't know about their body shapes, but now he understood after listening to the other party's explanation.

"That's right." He snapped his fingers and looked at the cold concrete wall, "It should only be a part of the corpse."

Not long after the conversation between the two, Kunikida Doppo rushed over with the school and the police. When the work of demolishing the wall was finished, the fog cleared and it was dawn.

As the two had guessed, although there were a total of three corpses stuffed inside the wall, the corpses were not complete. Only half of each corpse below the navel appeared here, and the other half was still missing.

Judging from the clothes on the legs, the preliminary judgment is that the first three missing students.

As if to exchange something, Kunikida, who had been standing with the police all this time, walked towards the two of them.

"Forensic doctors need to rely on the dead body to determine the time of death, and the students' family members also need to claim the dead body, so the dead body will be taken away later. The body of the mayor's daughter has not been found yet, and she may still be alive..." Kunikida Doppo seemed extremely tired , he pressed his forehead, his eyes touched Osamu Dazai, and suddenly his voice changed, "What are you doing here?"

"Eat." Osamu Dazai answered without hesitation.

Kunikida Doppo: "But we never agreed to a deal with you, why did you get involved in this case?"

Oda Sakunosuke frowned slightly.

This time Dazai Osamu did not answer so quickly. He tilted his head, seemed to be thinking about it seriously, and then slowly said after a while: "There is no special reason, it's just boring. And, if I help you You owe me favors, and the detective agency will no longer be able to refuse my request to eat."

Besides, when you come to school, you can eat and drink, why not do it?

Kunikida Doppo didn't relax because of his few words.

Perhaps it was because of the other party's previous identity and the things that that name did in the past that were too "entrenched in the hearts of the people". Although the other party has indeed helped a lot since he came to this school, there is still a lump in his heart that prevents him from The way is to let go of your guard and trust the other party.

but……

But if Osamu Dazai is telling the truth, then he must ask clearly about the fact that he was able to find out whether there was fog last night.

And just when he was hesitating, Oda Sakunosuke, who was standing aside and hadn't said much, suddenly opened his mouth, and the question was exactly what he thought in his heart.

"Why would you think of those people throwing their bodies today, Dazai?"

Perhaps it was because he heard his name called for the first time, Osamu Dazai was silent for a moment, and then said: "From the time when those criminals took the students away, I suspect that they, or the person who took the action, at least He has a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder—this was also proved when I met him—and this kind of thinking actually made me immediately think of a number law, a sequence relationship that can most arouse the sense of beauty— —”

Before he could finish speaking, Kunikida Doppo suddenly answered in a daze: "...Golden section sequence?"