Everyone is urging me

After I caught up with him, Teresa had already discussed with Chuya.

As soon as I saw the backs of the three of them, Teresa called me to stop me.

She said she wanted me to go back to the orphanage with her, so I don't have to worry about money being stolen.

I glanced at Nakaya and Shirase, who nodded at me but were not going to explain to me, and started patrolling. Finally, they turned with Teresa's gentle force and walked towards the gate of the orphanage together.

"The matter of money..."

"It was an accident," she said, "I took the money out and forgot to put it back."

I looked up at her, but she didn't look at me.

But I don't ask any more.

Because I know that Teresa, who said this sentence, wanted me to agree that the theft incident was an oolong.

"Is it... Brother Zhongye?"

I mean the envelope refilled with coins in Teresa's hand.

Teresa nodded with a smile.

She said softly in an undeniable tone, "There are no thieves in the orphanage, they are all good children."

Although what happened in the yard, I also agree with Teresa's words.

I don't know the past of the children in the orphanage.

But now they are definitely not bad boys who will steal the dean's money.

When they returned to the orphanage, no one left.

When Teresa and I came back, they all looked at us helplessly, and none of them dared to ask first.

"What's the matter?" Teresa smiled when she saw this, and walked into the crowd naturally, "Why are you standing here? Normally, you all happily ran out of the yard to play."

"Dean, just now you..."

"Ah, are you talking about my sudden departure?" Teresa made a stunned expression, and then replied with a little apology, "Sorry, did I scare you? Actually, I just remembered that something fell on Nakaya-kun It was there, so I rushed to find it..."

She deliberately moved the envelope in her hand to let others see that the money was not lost.

The children who didn't understand the twists and turns breathed a sigh of relief, dispersed one after another, and returned to their usual daily life.

The Akutagawa brothers and sisters who noticed the twists and turns suppressed their doubts under my signal, pretending not to know.

As for Dazai, who was the only one who analyzed everything clearly, he glanced at the filled envelope with an unclear expression, and then set his eyes on Teresa with a gentle face.

Dazai slowly came to Teresa and me after the children were all gone.

"...Why don't you doubt me?" He seemed to be talking to himself, and seemed to be asking for an answer, "Anyway, I'm a burden and I don't fit in with the group. Let me be a 'prisoner' and let me hand over the stolen money?"

Osamu Dazai's background is not bad, and others know this.

After all, those who are literate at this age and have a wide range of knowledge are almost all children of wealthy or powerful families.Although others don't know why Osamu Dazai was abandoned in the abandoned grocery pile, they all have their own ideas about his origin.

If it was an ordinary orphanage, in order to avoid financial crisis, it would naturally choose to recognize him as a prisoner and use his background to "recover" the money.

To be honest, even if I interrupted the children's suspicions, Dazai felt that the final result would be to make him plead guilty.

Anyway, he is just an outsider who lives here temporarily because of illness.

He has a bad personality, is not obedient to discipline, and often makes other people angry.

There is no harm in throwing him away from Baili through this matter.

——But why, they didn't?

I noticed that there was a little confusion in Dazai's eyes.

"Dazai-kun." Teresa noticed his expression as I did. She knelt down and looked at him at the same level, "I don't want, and I don't want to wrong any innocent person. As the dean, I can't just avoid risks , arbitrarily convicting others without evidence."

"I, the dean, originally existed to protect you young ones."

"If one day I become someone who hurts you, then I will lose the meaning of existence."

Teresa is a good person as she looks.

I would choose to stay in the orphanage, perhaps because of her tolerance and kindness as the dean far surpassing others.

Obviously, in the past nine years, Dazai had rarely seen someone like Teresa.

In particular, Teresa's gentleness has not been obliterated by the hard reality in Leibo Street.

The expression on his face disappeared.

As if afraid of this tenderness, Dazai instinctively avoided Teresa's gaze on him.

——Such a gentle dean will immediately be hurt by this gentleness.

Dazai thought.

It would be nice if he was treated as a criminal.

In this way, you will not know the truth in the future, and you will not have to bear the pain caused by tenderness.

But if so...

He would never see the tenderness that made him retreat.

Dazai didn't believe Teresa's words, and wished she wasn't lying.

So he looked up again.

"You'll regret it," he said.

Teresa froze for a moment, but she was not afraid of such gazes.

"I don't know what my future self will think."

Teresa's voice was gentle, with a calmness that suited her age, "But... at least now, I don't regret my choice, not every time."

She answered him with a smile that could be called shining, "If you are skeptical about your current choice because you are afraid of the future, it will only make your current self fall into the annoyance of making wrong choices."

"Dazai-kun, then I will regret it."

I seriously doubt Teresa is the heroine of my novel.

Look, a few words left Dazai speechless.

I can't even do it.

In Teresa's education, Dazai no longer volunteered to be the thief.

If he doesn't make trouble, I can concentrate on investigating the truth.

Although Teresa said that she believed that the children in the orphanage would not steal money, this matter cannot be left alone.

After obtaining Teresa's consent and guaranteeing that this matter would not be brought to the children again, I officially took over the investigation of the truth about the theft of funds-it is an investigation, but it is actually more inclined to prevention.

Because under the protection and attention of me, Zhongya, and even other children, he could sneak into the orphanage and steal money, and the culprit must not be easy.

Either they are so skilled that they are comparable to Zhongye, or they are very familiar with the orphanage.

I lean toward the latter.

So after Zhongye came to pick me up at night, I quietly discussed with him, preparing to create some incidents artificially to lure the criminals into the bait.

It's just that I didn't expect that when I wanted to fish and enforce the law, the real criminals also made moves.

Only two days after the envelope incident, the adopted son Yuichi who received the message from Teresa, the person who sent the money, returned to the orphanage.

On the surface, it was to come back to see Theresa and the children, but actually it was because of the money being stolen.

Amid the children's welcome words, Yuichi, a mature blond boy with glasses and a mature temperament, handed out the gifts for visiting, and then stepped forward under Teresa's loving gaze, and stretched out his arms to hug her.

He said to Teresa, "I'm back."

"You are so busy with work, is it alright?" Teresa replied with a welcome sentence, and then put on a worried expression, "Although I wrote about this matter... But I didn't say that I can handle it myself, you don't need to rush come back?"

"Mom, your business is my business, so it's unnecessary to say anything."

In the entire orphanage, only Yu called Mother Teresa for a while.

Because in terms of status, he is the only adopted son on Teresa's household registration.

Yuichi is indeed the first big brother in the orphanage.

Although his appearance is slightly refined, his mannerisms have the sharpness of a warrior. Even if he doesn't love to laugh like Teresa, Yuichi's demeanor is similarly gentle, making people feel that he is a kind brother next door.

"These two little guys are the newcomers you mentioned in your letter, right?" Youyi looked at the Akutagawa brothers and sisters who were inseparable, and greeted them with a friendly aura.

However, inadvertently, he and Dazai, who still kept going alone (although he couldn't do it alone with Akutagawa), met their eyes.

The boy froze just right, and then spoke again, "...is this again?"

I was about to introduce Dazai, but Dazai unexpectedly spoke first.

"Dazai, my name is Osamu Dazai." He said to You with a smile, "I heard that brother Yuyi is helping the government? It's amazing. But it's strange... I don't know brother Yuichi, why do I feel familiar?"

Originally, I thought Dazai was habitually offending people, but Yuichi's answer made me change my mind.

"Maybe I have a more popular face." Yuichi said.

Isn't this a joke?

Although Yuichi is not as good-looking as Dazai and Zhong, he is definitely not the face of the public.

I'm suspicious of Yuichi's return.

"Ah, so that's the case, I thought..."

With kite-colored eyes, Dazai looked straight at the young man's eyes covered by glasses, "...I thought, where did I meet Brother Yuichi?"

Yuichi didn't answer.

I seem to have realized something.

Facing Dazai's temptation, Yuichi's answer is obviously wrong.

Maybe Yuichi realized something, such as Dazai's identity before he came to the orphanage?So I deliberately avoided the topic in front of so many people to prevent other children from knowing about the dispute between the government and the gang?

But not right.

If Dazai was familiar with him because of his official status, there was no need for Yuichi to change the subject.

and so--

Yuichi's identity, or the purpose of coming back is questionable.

Although I don't want to think so, isn't Yuichi the one who meets the two criteria of "people close to me" and "familiarity with the orphanage"?

I put this guess in my heart and will not express it for the time being.

With Yu deliberately avoiding the topic and Dazai taking the initiative to back down, the dangerous words are kept to the limit.

I also discussed my findings with my heart, so I didn't get involved in the undercurrent between them.

But when I left, I didn't expect that the two people who didn't seem to talk to each other would get together tacitly when no one was around.

"I heard that you were almost misunderstood as a criminal who stole money?"

If I really want to say it, it was Yuichi who took the initiative to find Dazai who was rarely alone.

In his own capacity, he first tapped out the details of the incident from the children, and then took advantage of Akutagawa Ryunosuke holding the book to ask Teresa a question, finding the right gap to stop Dazai.

The eyes behind the lens don’t have the gentleness when facing Teresa, they are all the ambitions that Dazai is familiar with, “It’s a bad feeling to be misunderstood, isn’t it? Do you want to catch the ‘prisoner’ yourself and feel proud?”

Dazai looked at him, and hammered his palms before the other party noticed the strangeness, "Ah, I remembered!"

"what?"

"I remembered, where did I meet Brother Yuyi?"

Yuichi swallowed what he wanted to ask.

But Dazai pretended not to reveal the truth.

"It must be when the goods of 'Aurora (Aurora)' are handed over to the port of Mafia." Dazai saw that Yuichi no longer used the aura of his neighbor's brother to cover up his gangster aura as expected.

Although he revealed his identity by himself, Dazai felt bored again after seeing Yuichi's performance, "I have a good memory. At that time, you were called 'captain' by the members of the port Maifa... But the director once Say, you are doing things for the government."

Speaking of which, Dazai no longer deliberately used the honorific title, "Where's the double agent, you."

"We and Aurora have the same purpose, so there's no need to embarrass each other." Having said this, Yuichi no longer pretended, "Isn't the purpose of Aurora sending you here also for the ownership of the 'monster'?"

Familiarity works both ways.

After Dazai pointed out his identity, Yuichi also thought of Dazai's identity.

Although he is only nine years old, Osamu Dazai is a highly respected (feared) military advisor to the leader of Aurora.

"Why don't we cooperate?"

"There are two supernatural beings in the orphanage. Even if the port Mafia gets a 'monster', you Aurora can also get rabies."

Yuichi's proposal is very reasonable.

As a (temporary) partner, Aurora can save a lot of things by cooperating with the port Mafia, and the rare ability users can also be "reasonably" divided.

but……

"...You really don't look like the dean."

Hearing Dazai's emotion, Yuichi frowned slightly, not understanding why he brought this up now.

"I wasn't my mother's biological son in the first place." The boy said in a tone that was hard to define.

Immediately afterwards, he eagerly returned to the original question, "Since our goals are the same, why don't we cooperate?"

"Yeah." Dazai tilted his head and rolled his eyes with a smile, "You're right."

A smile concealed the indifference in the boy's eyes.

He was letting the boy walk towards the trap step by step, but he just watched quietly with an observing gaze.

"Then... happy cooperation."

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The author has something to say:

Woohoo, the annual leave is gone, why is the happy time always so short!

No need to guess, Yuichi is behind the scenes.

He is not only the person who hired Oda to kill the heroine, but also the culprit who stole the money.

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The tips on using Shuling are written for Yuichi's identity.

The author Sang wants to compress the plot, and try to write Yuichi's incident in the next chapter before pulling down the timeline.

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