After becoming a chaotic daughter

Thin rain fell from the dark sky.

Holding a small umbrella, Nanako, who came back from school, walked slowly downstairs to the detective agency with her schoolbag on her back. She wanted to go to the coffee shop to eat cake before going back to the detective agency.

In the past few days, Yokohama has always been raining in the afternoon, just when she was leaving school, and it lasted for more than an hour on and off.The rain was not heavy, but the overly humid air always made people feel a little uncomfortable, and Nanako found it a bit troublesome to always avoid the puddles on the road and walk back to the detective agency.

She looked down at the floor tiles on the road, walked around the small puddles, and walked to the door of the coffee shop, where she saw a boy holding a black umbrella standing in the rain.

The young man was holding a large black umbrella, his slender figure was wrapped in a black suit, his expression was as thin as the hazy mist rising from the rainy day, his exposed wrist was wrapped with a white bandage, as if he was about to attend an event Funeral guests.

He was facing the direction of the coffee shop, standing quietly, watching the situation in the shop through the glass wall of the coffee shop, the umbrella in his hand blocked the falling rain, and seemed to be isolated from the rain in the sky full of rain. A narrow world.

Nanako walked past him holding an umbrella, walked up the steps at the entrance of the coffee shop, stood under the eaves, closed the umbrella, and shook it vigorously, trying to dry some of the rain on the umbrella.

"Little sister." The young man standing not far from the steps suddenly stopped her, and smiled with the corners of his lips curled up. The thin mist on his delicate face disappeared like snow melting in spring. trace.

He asked Nanako, "Do you know how the Armed Detective Agency should go?"

Nanako grabbed the handle of the umbrella, stopped shaking the water, looked up at him, blinked her round black eyes slowly, then stretched out her finger and pointed to the side, and answered him: "Over there, there is an entrance. Then take the elevator to the fourth floor."

"Thank you." The boy slightly tilted his head to one side, and thanked Nanako with a smile.

Nanako didn't speak, she turned around with her umbrella and pushed open the heavy glass door of the coffee shop, and entered the shop with her schoolbag on her back.

Gentle piano music is playing in the coffee shop. There are no customers in the rainy day, and the shop is quiet. Except for the shop manager who is wiping the glasses and the waiter auntie who is packing up, only Oda Sakunosuke is sitting with his back to her. Drink coffee at the bar.

Nanako also ran over, struggled to climb up the high stool, and sat side by side with Oda at the bar, took off her schoolbag, moved her buttocks and sat down, and ordered with the waiter aunt: "I want a strawberry cake, thank you. "

"Okay." The waiter aunt responded kindly and walked into the back kitchen.

The store manager standing at the bar made her a glass of sweet lemonade. Nanako said thank you, holding the glass, biting the straw and sucking it up.Soon, Auntie came out of the back kitchen with a plate of strawberry cake. Nanako put the lemonade back on the bar, pushed it aside, pulled the cake, and began to eat with a small spoon.

The wind chime hanging at the door of the store rang, and footsteps approached the bar behind her. Nanako didn't pay attention, and continued to eat her cake wholeheartedly.

"Boss, please give me a cup of coffee~" The visitor sat on the other side of Oda, and asked the store manager for a cup of coffee in a brisk tone, as if he was already a regular customer of this store.

But Oda, who was sitting next to him, knew that was not the case. Hearing the familiar voice, he subconsciously turned his head and looked at the boy sitting beside him.

"Ah, Odasaku, it's been a long time no see!"

The boy—Osamu Dazai raised his hand to greet him with a smile. The sleeves of the suit that were originally flat became a little wrinkled due to the damp moisture in the rainy day: "How are you doing recently?"

Obviously, they met in the Mafia less than a week ago, but his tone seemed to be chatting with a friend he hadn't seen in a few months. Oda Sakunosuke had an illusion at a certain moment, as if he was from the Mafia. It was a long time ago that the office I worked in drove away.

He regained his composure, and naturally answered Dazai's question: "I'm still familiar with the new job, and I've been investigating an incident with my senior these two days, and it's a little tricky."

"You seem to be very busy, you have more stubble than the last time I saw you." Dazai said with a smile, sitting very relaxed on the high stool, with one arm leaning on the bar counter, "Jumping is hard work Bar."

"It's true that many things at work are different from before."

"Learn from scratch?"

"exactly."

Seeing Oda's appearance of being very troubled by the new job, Dazai laughed happily: "That's good, if you say Oda is easy, I will feel unbalanced." You know, after you left, Mr. Mori was very busy, you can't imagine what kind of situation it is! But I also have to work, since you are also busy, then everyone is It's half a catty. Do you know that 'those guys' didn't wait for you, probably because they became angry. The offensive has become more and more fierce these days. I see that Mr. Mori lost several strands of hair. I have to say, Oda Saku The timing of the choice is really ingenious, I really deserve to be you!..."

He rambled about what had happened in the past few days, mimic attacked several mafia stores, Dazai captured a few more prisoners, how fierce Akutagawa's actions were.

Just like when they were sitting in the lupine bar in the past, chatting about their respective jobs, mixed with dissatisfied complaints and smiling schadenfreude, but now they are not in a mafia-owned bar, but in an ordinary coffee shop, So both sides tacitly avoided words that couldn't be said outright.

Oda listened intently to Dazai's words.

They were sitting in a quiet coffee shop, a current cadre of the mafia, a detective agency intern who had just defected from the mafia for a few days, a little girl who was absorbed in eating cake, and a middle-aged gentleman who was making coffee, wearing an apron The waiter auntie who was resting on the sofa seemed to slow down the flow of air.

His thoughts seemed to leave his body, he was a little dazed, but he could clearly hear what Dazai said.Nanako, who was sitting next to him, was eating the cake, and the small metal spoon hit the porcelain plate, making a slight crisp sound.He felt as if his whole being was divided into two halves, one half had come to the detective agency, but the other half was still in the mafia.

He listened to Dazai's words and responded with a few words from time to time.The coffee is ready, the store manager gently placed the porcelain white coffee cup in front of Dazai, Dazai stopped talking, took a sip of coffee, no sugar and creamer added, the black coffee was so bitter that he wrinkled his whole face exaggeratedly .

"Dazai." Oda suddenly called out to him.

"Huh? What?" Dazai responded, adding sugar cubes to his coffee.

"Feel sorry."

Oda said to him.

Dazai stopped adding sugar cubes to the coffee, he pushed the remaining sugar cubes aside, stirred the coffee and turned to look at Oda: "There is nothing to be sorry about, Oda Tsukuru."

"If you mean that you came to the detective agency and didn't say hello to me, then you really should apologize, after all, it took me a lot of effort to avoid Mr. Mori and find out your whereabouts." Dazai said , but there was no sense of blame on his face, and he asked in a relaxed tone: "Are you going to stay here in the future?"

"If everything goes well." Oda replied, "According to the signed contract, I am still in the probationary period. If I pass the one-month probationary period, I can become a full-time member."

"Contract?" Dazai was slightly taken aback when he heard the word, and then laughed, "Sounds very interesting."

"So what about you?" Oda unconsciously stroked the coffee cup in his hand with his fingertips, "What do you plan to do afterwards?"

His question made Dazai slightly restrain his expression, and the smile on his face faded.

"On the day you lost contact, Mr. Mori held a secret meeting with people from 'that agency'." Dazai said slowly, "I also learned the content of the meeting from Mr. Mori later, and asked Ango to go back and deal with it." 'Those guys', Mr. Mori will be able to get the [operating license]."

He used vague words to replace the unexplainable things, paused, and when he spoke again, his tone changed subtly: "Mr. Sen originally wanted to use you to deal with those guys, but you suddenly disappeared, I It also took a lot of effort to find out where you are, but Mr. Mori will surely find out here soon."

"Did I trouble you?" Oda asked bluntly.

"No, to be honest, not at all." Dazai answered him, "Now the organization is facing the siege of those guys, Mr. Mori should not be free to deal with your affairs for the time being, and you found a good place to talk to two people at the same time. The organization is the enemy, and Mr. Sen will not be happy to face this situation, so you can rest assured for the time being."

But that was only "temporary", Oda thought in his heart, after the matter of mimic was resolved, the mafia would deal with him as a traitor, after all, the port mafia would never allow traitors to exist.

How to solve it at that time?If possible, he still wants to resolve this matter without affecting the detective agency as much as possible. After all, this is probably a dispute between him and his former company.

He felt that the situation was a bit troublesome, but Dazai seemed to have guessed what he was thinking: "Don't worry, I already have a way to solve the problems in the organization. You just need to work hard and pass the probationary period before you."

Oda doesn't know what Dazai's "method" refers to, but there is no doubt that mimic is a well-trained organization, and their leader is also a powerful supernatural person. If they want to settle this matter, it will definitely not be simple thing.

His defection from the port mafia must have caused Dazai a lot of trouble, but he also knows that he is not a smart, clever, and talented person.

In the current situation, he couldn't think of a better choice.His friend became an undercover agent, the leader used him ruthlessly, and the enemy was entangled like a poisonous snake. Facing such a complicated situation, he felt like a cheap boat in a storm. At a loss, just trying to keep myself from being overturned has already exhausted all my strength.

"This is a favor I owe you." After a long silence, he heard himself saying this to Dazai.

"I said it, Odasaku." Dazai smiled softly, "The person concerned has already forgotten about human relations, let alone this is not your problem...from the very beginning."

"If you just want to deal with those guys, using you as a 'gun' is not the only solution. It is my fault that you will be chosen by Mr. Sen as a bargaining chip. If it is not because of me, there are so many mafia member, Mr. Mori may not notice your existence."

He was silent for a few seconds, he didn't know what to think, and repeated the sentence again in a low voice: "...This is my fault."

He stared at the coffee in his hand with an inexplicable expression.

Oda Sakunosuke lowered his head and took a sip of coffee. For some reason, he suddenly remembered Ango who had betrayed them. To this day, he still does not want to see Ango again, but there is only one thing he is certain of.

"I don't think the acquaintance of the three of us was a mistake." Oda Saku replied to Dazai, "If you have to say it was a mistake, then it's probably not too bad a mistake."

The expression on Dazai's face froze, as if in those few seconds, even time stopped moving forward. After a while, he seemed to finally regain his senses, and suddenly laughed out loud.

"You're right, Odasaku."

Laughing until tears came, he said to Oda, "And even if it was a bad mistake, it's not a big deal."

Oda Sakunosuke didn't know why he laughed suddenly, but he still raised the coffee in his hand, and Dazai also raised his coffee, and the two cups touched lightly in midair, making a crisp sound.

Nanako, who was eating cake next to her, raised her head in a daze, and turned her head left and right to look.Seeing these two men holding coffee toasts for no reason, she scratched her hair in confusion, then continued to eat the cake with her head down.

Maybe it's Uncle Oda's special way of communicating with his ex-colleagues, anyway, it has nothing to do with her, as long as she eats the cake quickly and packs dessert for the idiot father to go home.

"I made a deal with Mr. Mori." Dazai took a sip of coffee and said to Oda, "It's not that you can kill those guys only by sacrificing you - this is a good time, I investigated it, the detective agency is A very 'nice' place. Mr. Mori didn't expect you to have a relationship with the detective agency, which caught him off guard, so now he is in a passive situation. Now that things have happened, I want to solve it within the estimated loss To get rid of the enemy and achieve his most important goal, it depends on my actions."

"I have to act too." Dazai said, stood up, put the coffee back on the bar, his eyes raised with the movement of getting up, and naturally passed Oda, and saw the man sitting on Oda On the other side, Nanako whose small body was almost completely covered by the man.

He paused for a moment when he got up, and suddenly asked Oda again: "You have decided to choose the side of justice, haven't you?"

"Probably." Oda answered him calmly.

"Why?" Dazai tilted his head, "Are you disappointed in Mr. Mori?"

Oda Sakunosuke thought for a while, and replied: "Two years ago, when the dragon head war was about to start, I rescued a little girl on the side of the road, so now I have the help of the detective agency, and I am still alive and sitting here with you." You chat together."

"So it's because of the saying 'good people get rewarded'? Such a vulgar reason?" Dazai asked following his words.

Oda Sakunosuke shook his head: "Saving people does not necessarily result in rewards, and killing people does not necessarily result in evil consequences. Everything is just a coincidence. Otherwise, the mafia and criminals would have disappeared from this world long ago."

"Then why?"

"Perhaps," Oda himself answered him not so sure, "it was just for that moment that happened by chance."

Dazai had a smile on his face, he lowered his eyes, turned around, turned his back to Oda and said, "The next time we meet may be a long time later, I hope at that time, I can read your written first novel."

"Goodbye, Odasaku."

He walked towards the outside of the coffee shop, picked up the black umbrella on the umbrella stand at the door, and the moment he opened the glass door to go out, a black-haired young man who was about to enter the shop passed him by.The young man holds a long umbrella in his hand, has a pair of impressive narrow eyes, and the tip of his raised hair is stained with rain.

The young man's footsteps into the store suddenly stopped, he turned his head, and looked at Dazai with a strange look in his eyes, but almost in the next second, he withdrew his gaze and walked towards the store.

"Nanako—"

Dazai heard the high-spirited voice of the young man behind him, and as the glass door was completely closed, the voice finally disappeared.

Holding up the umbrella, he walked into the rain.

The author has something to say:

According to the if line, we can see that Oda survived, Mori Ogai and Gide were rescued by Dazai after the battle, and he faked his death to become the director of the orphanage. Therefore, there is indeed a way to defeat mimic without killing anyone. Dazai can think of this method When he came out, he didn't expect that it might be because of insufficient information (Mori Ogai concealed information)

Now the situation is that Oda has escaped, but the Mafia has already engaged with mimic, and Mori Ogai is in a dilemma (it is impossible to go to the detective agency to rob Oda at this time), so he can only share information with Dazai, and Dazai uses "assisting to defeat mimic" as an excuse. Conditions, let Mori Ogai not pursue Oda, and leave the Mafia after solving the mimic (on the surface it is a defection)

As for the specific method to defeat mimic, I have to ask Asagiri (vicissitudes of cigarettes.jpg (or even you do some work)

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Odasaku has been in the company for a few days now, and it is a probationary period on the surface, but it is actually a test and assessment period for joining the company

The probationary period is because the probationary period can be dismissed relatively easily, so that it is convenient to reject members who fail the entrance test, so that the other party will not realize that they are actually fired because they failed the entrance test

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Dazai came to the detective agency for two years