Everything is doomed, trying to speculate on the facts, but unconsciously fell into a deep sleep.

The rain outside the window kept falling, and the sound of beating on the ground was continuous. Hoshino had never felt that the sound of the rain was so rushing, making her restless. She leaned back in the chair, took a deep breath, looked at the seat where Dazai had just sat, Eyes lowered.

friend.

What kind of person is Dazai's friend?

It's really, really jealous.

The knuckles tapped rhythmically on the table, mixed with the sound of rain outside the window, lingering in the room.

Hoshino looked at the rain outside the window, and his thoughts suddenly turned to the question she just remembered.

Akutagawa, Xiaoyin.

Armed detective agency, port mafia.

Xiaoyin joined the port Mafia before she met Dazai, and she didn't know the specifics of it.And Akutagawa, he wants to know the information about the man in black, which is inseparable from the help of the Armed Detective Agency.

Tsk, I'm in trouble.Hoshino had a headache, he didn't have enough clues, and couldn't complete the puzzle at all.

First: Xiaoyin will not take the initiative to contact Akutagawa

Second: Akutagawa may know that Silver is in the Mafia

Third: what happens if you know

Fourth: What is the probability of an armed detective agency getting involved?

……

She was so absorbed in speculation that she didn't even notice that the rain outside the window had stopped.It wasn't until the phone rang that Hoshino suddenly returned to reality.

In reality.

"Ah, yes. It just so happens that the sky is fine now, so I'll send the wine there now." The twilight outside the window was low, and the dark clouds still remained in the sky, tangled and entangled.

She stood up so quickly that she accidentally knocked off the wine glass on the table, and the sound of the glass hitting the ground woke Hoshino up

Come on, she closed the phone, looked a little helpless, frowned and sighed, "Even if I don't like rainy days, I'm... strange.

Lupine called to ask her to deliver this month's wine, that's exactly what he said to the other party at noon, now look outside, no wonder the other party called to remind him, it's true.If it wasn't for the call from the other party, she might have sat here all afternoon thinking about Akutagawa and Xiao

silver thing.

The fruit wine to be delivered was already prepared in the inner room, Hoshino waved for a taxi, put the goods in the trunk, and she sat in the co-pilot.

There are very few pedestrians on the road, perhaps because of the rain, people stay at home.The remaining clouds in the sky have dispersed, and there is still water vapor floating in the air, which feels slightly damp.

"Miss, it's a bit cold, do you want to open the window?" The driver asked politely.

"Yeah." Hoshino smiled awkwardly, taking advantage of the steam on her face to wake up, she was thinking about Dazai's friend just now.

Lupin arrived soon, the driver helped Hoshino put the goods at the door of the bar warehouse, the boss came out to sign the order, and chatted with Hoshino, such as whether there are any other topics such as recent flavors, if any , please send over some first.Hoshino agreed with a smile and bid farewell to the boss.Coming out of the warehouse and passing by the alley before leaving, she suddenly saw a figure flashing past her eyes.

Dazai.

Hoshino quickly held back his breath, turned and hid to one side.

Unmistakable, it is Dazai.

Hoshino immediately went back the same way to the back door of the bar warehouse, and met the boss. Hoshino successfully stood behind the door of the room behind the counter. She held her breath and leaned against the door. The voices of customers on the counter could be heard here.

In the bar, the soothing voice of jazz is singing low, and the gray stains on the wall show the indelible traces left by the years in this bar.

Everything is the same as the bar from memory.

Hoshino stood behind the door, and now she was extremely grateful to Yuki for teaching her how to hide.As long as she doesn't take the initiative to show up, there is no need to worry about anyone finding her.

Not long after, another person also came.

It's... Oda.

She had never heard Oda say anything about Dazai to her, so Oda probably didn't know Dazai.

"No, it's the first time we've met. Not only that, it's the first time I've come to this store, the first time I've sat here drinking, Odasaku."

Wait, not friends.

After Dazai's embarrassing self-introduction, the air returned to its previous silence.Then, Dazai started a topic first.She didn't think Dazai and Oda could have anything in common, but Dazai seemed to know.

"Odasaku, I have something to tell you, it's very interesting, do you want to hear it?"

"By the way, I almost forgot the business...Odasaku, I heard that your novel won the Newcomer Award, right?"

The conversation seemed to be really peaceful. If you ignore Oda's monotonous answer, they would be like friends who haven't seen each other for many years, but Hoshino could hear that when Dazai's topic mentioned the novel, Oda's responses increased significantly.

"I think you already have a pen. If you can't write, no one in this world can write. I can guarantee this. You just have to believe in yourself." The people outside said so.

"Thank you. But suddenly being guaranteed by someone I met by chance, I always feel that it is not convincing."

Hoshino took a breath of air, but the reaction outside was more intense than hers. The jazz music did not disturb Hoshino, and the tranquility between them was displayed in front of Hoshino by the melody.

Oda suddenly started to get straight to the point. He mentioned Akutagawa and the port mafia.The answer given by Dazai made the fog in front of Hoshino clear up.A bad premonition suddenly rose in Hoshino's heart, and the uneasiness this afternoon swept through her brain.What troubled her all this time became clearer with the conversation between Dazai and Oda.

It must not be a good thing that the pawns in the plan see through the plan.

The atmosphere became tense, and the sound of pistols being loaded seemed out of place in the bar.

Hoshino put her hand on the doorknob, and at that moment, she wanted to go out.However, something is not clear enough, wait a minute.

"Put the gun away."

If they are really friends, the current situation is definitely one of the most unacceptable facts in the world.

"I didn't choose to be a leader, really."

"It seems that if you want to save Akutagawa, you can't think of other ways. If I can get out of this store alive."

"It never occurred to me to set a trap for you."

Even if Oda couldn't judge it, Hoshino knew very well that this sentence was true.And when she judged it to be true, her own face suddenly turned pale.

"Odasaku, you just asked me why I brought Akutagawa to the Mafia, right? To protect the world."

"this world?"

"This world is just one of countless worlds. In the other—in the original world, we are good friends, we toast and drink here, and we have endless words to talk about."

It turned out to be the case.

Hoshino withdrew his hand from the doorknob.Therefore, all the memories of Dazai are not his own, but the memory of another Dazai. For him, it is a warm dream that makes people immerse themselves and cannot break free.

"Even if it's true. What you did to Akutagawa won't be written off."

"Odasaku, listen to me, I—"

"Don't call me Odasaku. You shouldn't call your enemy that."

It seemed to be quiet outside, Hoshino could only hear the melody of the piano.If Dazai really knew Oda from another world, then what Oda said today was probably within his expectations, or he hadn't expected it at all.After a long time, Hoshino heard Dazai speak again.

"I called you here to say the last farewell. It is very fulfilling to have someone in this life, and to say goodbye to him. And if I go through all the suffering in my life just to say goodbye to him , there is nothing else to ask for in this life, isn’t it?”

The cold air in the bar warehouse penetrated into Hoshino's lungs, cutting Hoshino's body like a sharp knife.From the first thing she pointed out when she met Dazai, it turned out to be a conversation with Oda.After that, Hoshino couldn't hear anything, she was completely immersed in her own world, and there was nothing there.

The sound of the bar closing behind the wooden door also woke up the people hiding in the fairy tales in their dreams.Hoshino opened the door and went outside, looking at Oda who was still sitting there.The two looked at each other, and Oda was surprised by Hoshino's pale face.

For a moment, Oda heard her say, "Thank you, Oda."

Thank you for not shooting.

"Hoshino, you—"

She nimbly crossed the counter, walked up the steps through Oda, stopped, looked sideways at the people below, with the corner of her mouth twitching, "Actually, it's just

Even if Oda didn't believe it, he wouldn't end his dream for a stranger, otherwise it would be ridiculous. "

The fog in front of the jigsaw puzzle became clear as the conversation between Oda and Dazai ended. Hoshino guessed where Dazai would go next and knew his next move.Hoshino didn't even need to follow Dazai, Hoshino knew where he was going.

Puzzles are puzzles, but they are also pointers.

***

By the time Hoshino rushed to the roof of the Mafia building at the port, the battle was over.She hid behind the ruins and slowly approached them.

"Mr. Dazai, it's dangerous over there, please come back." Atsushi Nakajima's voice trembled, hurried and flustered.

The strong wind on the roof blew Dazai's voice into fragments, and Hoshino could not continue to approach in order not to be discovered. "...If more than three people know about it at the same time, the world will be unstable, to a large extent..."

Even if he didn't know the previous content, Hoshino generally knew that it was a secret that could not be revealed, but the three of them...

She knew Dazai's next move, three white pills slipped from his cuff, and she gave them different functions.In an instant, Hoshino had already planned two outcomes: live together and die together.

The young man standing on the edge of the roof leaned back, and at the same time, Atsushi Nakajima shouted loudly to Hoshino's ears.She rushed out from behind the ruins, stuffed one of the pills in her hand into Atsushi Nakajima's mouth, then punched him in the stomach, forcing him to swallow it.

In the chess game, the queen in the rear moves to the front without authorization.

"Akutagawa, send me down!" Without even waiting for Akutagawa's reply, Hoshino followed Dazai and jumped down.She was betting, betting on the teaching results of Oda and Dazai, betting that Akutagawa would use Rashomon to send her down.

Roshman wrapped his arms around Hoshino's waist, and Hoshino stretched out his hand downwards.

The wind messed up the young man's hair, Dazai half-opened his eyes, and a gleam of light shone in those kite-colored eyes.

Is it a phantom?

It is said that what a person sees when he is about to die is the most cherished thing in his life.

I'm sorry, Hoshino.However, the world I want to protect is in your hands.

He smiled at Hoshino, avoiding the hand outstretched to him.

The bandage that spread from the wrist fell into Hoshino's palm instead of him.

***

There was no sound of him landing on the roof.

Akutagawa staggered to the edge of the roof and peered down.

The afterglow of the setting sun, bright red and fiery, penetrated into the cracks of the paving stones, blood spread, and the curly black hair stuck to the ground mixed with filth.Hoshino was half-kneeling on one side, the light purple windbreaker was stained with blood, her fingertips were still resting on the corner of Dazai's lips, so cold that she lost feeling.

Just now, Hoshino saw with her own eyes the flesh and blood of her subordinates, she even heard the bones break and the blood spurt out.

sound.

The powdered pills entered Dazai's body along with the blood, and the powder on the wound promoted the body to recover at a speed visible to the naked eye. After a few seconds, except for the blood all over the ground, the body of the young man lying on the ground recovered as before, without any injuries look.

All this is done in secret.

When Koye Ozaki led the medical team to arrive, she saw Hoshino half kneeling there, her chestnut hair hanging down, her bangs covering her eyes, her state was exactly the same as the dolls in the window.

"quick--"

The scene was in chaos. Anyone who saw the large bloodstains on the scene would know what happened. There was no suspense.

"Hoshino..." Ozaki Koye thought that when Hoshino rushed over, he saw Dazai's body. She stretched out her hand to pull Hoshino up and hugged him in her arms. Hoshino could clearly feel that Ozaki Koye was trembling.So she attached Ozaki Koyo's back and patted it lightly.

"It's okay." Hoshino raised his head, and said in a voice that only two people could hear, "Dazai will not die. Sister Hongye is blocking the news now, and it's better to announce that the leader fell to his death. Forging corpses and so on, leave it to Hongye Miss."

"You...Hoshino..." Koye Ozaki lowered her eyes to hide her shocked expression.

"I still have something to do. Sister Hongye is going to deal with the hospital. Also, please call Zhongyuan back immediately." Her voice was as soft as a gust of wind, passing by Ozaki Hongye's ear, making people feel reassured.

Koyo Ozaki took Dazai to the hospital. Hoshino took off his coat and folded the blood-stained area inside. The coat was neatly draped over her forearm, covering her left hand.

The first and second floors of the Mafia building in the port are like hell. The corridors are full of severed limbs, scattered on one side, or piled up in a corner. The entire wall seems to be painted with blood, making people dizzy red.The blood on the ground is like the stagnant water on the road in a rainy day. Every time you take a step, the splashed blood adheres to the shoes and trousers of the walker.The air was filled with the smell of blood, Hoshino felt uncomfortable, she just wanted to get out of here quickly, and never set foot in this place again.

On the rooftop, Akutagawa had already left.Atsushi Nakajima still maintained the posture when he fell down, Hoshino squatted down and stuffed the last pill into his mouth.Not long after, the boy woke up, and he excitedly grabbed Hoshino's right hand, "Miss Hoshino, Mr. Dazai—!"

"Don't worry." Hoshino rubbed the boy's silver-white hair and chuckled, "Mr. Dazai, I have already saved him. But, Atsushi, there is one thing you have to tell me—how much do you remember?"

The boy sitting on the ground thought carefully for a while, looked up into Hoshino's eyes, and said blankly: "The plan four years ago, Mr. Dazai asked me to bring Kyoka to the Armed Detective Agency, except for these—— Later, I , I don’t remember anything.”

"The memory is blank? Well, that's good." Hoshino raised the corners of his lips in satisfaction, "Then, Dun-jun, as the protagonist of this incident, you know all the causes and consequences, right? Now let's go to Jinghua, and I'll take you there Armed Detective Agency, on the way, tell me what happened."

The rooftop that had just experienced the battle was full of ruins, and there was no flat place. Hoshino stood up but staggered.

"Miss Hoshino, you—"

"It's okay, it's just that the ability energy is exhausted." Hoshino stood firm and sighed helplessly, "Let's go, it's okay." When the ability energy of the ability user is exhausted, the body will enter a state of fatigue, forcing the ability user Rest, now Hoshino is almost at the end of his battle.

Going down from the rooftop, Hoshino suddenly thought of something, stopped and said to Atsushi Nakajima: "Atsushi, I'm going to see Dazai's office, you go to Kyoka first, we'll meet downstairs."

The leader's office is not difficult to find, it is at the end of the corridor paved with red carpet, after Atsushi Nakajima signaled to Hoshino, he went to the second floor to find Kyoka alone.

Hoshino pushed open the door, but the lights in the room were not turned on.

Just today, the office shone with light for the first time in four years.The light from the floor-to-ceiling windows is enough to see the interior clearly.Antiques, red carpets, tables and chairs, everything is a valuable thing, time seems to be dispensable here, and the decoration here may not change even in a few decades.

From the moment the door is closed, the outside world is insulated from here.Here, no cry for help, no matter how loud, will be heard.The breath that remained here penetrated into Hoshino's skin, bringing a slight coolness, making it suffocating.Sighting roughly across the room, Hoshino stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows and had a panoramic view of all the bustling Yokohama.

She lowered her eyes, all her emotions turned into silent sighs, extremely suppressed.

The author has something to say:

Dazai deliberately gave Hoshino a wrong direction: he and Oda Saku are really good friends.So he went to see his friends and didn't have to worry at all.The fairy tale has been mentioned countless times in the article before, which means that Dazai and Hoshino have their own dreams.Ah, I won't explain it in detail, it will affect your own interpretation.

By the way, explain Hoshino's plan, to die together and live together.

If Dazai held Hoshino's hand, Hoshino would pounce on it, Rashomon would naturally disappear, and they would fall together.

[How can I ask for comments from the cuties?Waiting online, very urgent. 】(‵▽′)ψ

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