my brother is scumbag

90.

In order to celebrate the Port Mafia possessing a supernatural license, there was a banquet naturally.

It was only half an hour after the banquet, and Zhong was already drunk. At this time, he was holding a wine bottle as a microphone, and began to sing. A group of subordinates who were also drunk were surrounded by him, like the audience attending a concert. Clapping loudly and cheering.

So Zhong also sang more and more vigorously.

I've already seen Officer Ozaki taking pictures with her mobile phone, and even with her other hand covering her lips, I can tell that she is smiling happily.

On the contrary, Dazai didn't pay attention to Chuya at this time, but talked with Oda, with a faint smile on his face.

Itachi was also at the scene, eating dessert with a calm expression, and occasionally exchanged a few words with Gin, as if he didn't notice Akutagawa's fierce gaze next to him.

Because it was a banquet inside Mafia, people from other organizations would not be invited in, and those people would only send gifts to show their sincerity.

I sat not far from Dazai, sipping a low-alcohol drink, and casually unwrapped them.

91.

These gifts are worth nothing but money.

When I picked up the last gift box, I opened it and found it was a palm-sized crimson velvet box.

Inside was a very large pearl.

It's as big as a human eye, or a bit bigger than that.

And it's an extremely rare black pearl.

I put all the other gifts aside, but this is the only one I hold in my hand.

It's not because of its preciousness, but I always feel that it has a kind of attraction for me.

92.

When Mori Yui took out the black pearl from the gift, Itachi's expression moved, and he quickly glanced in Mori Yui's direction, and his eyes fell on the black pearl in her palm.

Also at this time, Dazai got up from Oda, walked to Mori Yui and sat down.

93.

Dazai also seemed interested in the black pearl in my hand.

"It's beautiful~"

He leaned over and looked at me with longing eyes.

"Yuki-chan, can you give it to me?"

"Um……"

I thought for a moment and glanced at him.

"It's not impossible to give it to you." When he was about to raise his hand to cheer, I changed the subject, "But there are some things I want to say to you."

"What?" He blinked.

I glanced at the lively banquet hall and motioned for a quiet place to chat.

94.

After leaving the banquet hall, the noisy sound was blocked by the door, and the corridor was much quieter.

"Is there anything Yui-chan wants to say to me?" Dazai said with a smile.

I motioned for him to hold out my hand.

"Well?"

Dazai let out a sigh, tilted his head, but still followed what I said, and stretched out his hand to me.

I put the black pearl into his open palm, but when he was about to take it back, I raised my hand and grabbed his wrist.

The bandages tied around his wrists prevented me from touching his skin, but they couldn't prevent the transfer of heat.

It's still so cold.

I think.

Obviously, they have been in the heated banquet hall for a while.

"Dazai."

Because of the height difference, he needs to lower his head slightly to be able to look at me.

I looked into his iris eyes, his pupils reflected my appearance, staring at me seriously, waiting patiently for my words.

She looks surprisingly well-behaved, making it hard to bear to say any hurtful words.

But I spoke anyway.

"You, which Dazai are you?"

The moment my voice fell, although his expression didn't change, I could feel his heartbeat stop from the place where I grabbed his wrist.

95.

The air in the corridor seemed to be stagnating.

It wasn't until he spoke that the flow resumed.

"When did you find out?"

When he said these words, his eyelashes trembled, and the expression on his face that belonged to Dazai that I was familiar with was put away by him, revealing a deeper darkness, with a kind of indifference of a superior feel.

I thought about it, and said vaguely:

"...Some details, so I suddenly realized it a while ago."

In fact, he played the Dazai I know very successfully. Although there are some things that are different from Dazai, they are not against harmony.

Otherwise, Zhong would not just talk about whether he was pretended to be, but would directly arrest him and interrogate him.

As for being discovered by me...

How should I put it, I just realized this too, that is——

Dazai and I have left too many traces in each other's lives.

96.

Although I didn't explain it, he seemed to have thought of it and sighed.

"Ah, really, he is obviously a peer, but he is luckier than any other world."

From his words, I confirmed that my guess was correct:

"You really are the Dazai of other worlds."

No wonder everyone didn't notice the exchange of the two.

Because he is indeed Dazai.

It's just that he's not the Dazai of this world.

"I probably met you for the first time when I was in the office that day." I said.

At that time, Dazai was dressed like a leader.

"So that world is where you solved the terminally ill ex-ex-leader?"

"No," the leader Zai replied briskly, "Actually, I usurped Mr. Sen's position."

He stared at me without blinking.

I thought about it and raised my thumbs up: "Good job."

The leader Zai Puchi chuckled, the indifference on his face dissipated a little, and he became somewhat similar to the Dazai I knew again.

Although I don't know what happened in that world, but with my brother's character, I think he must have done something trivial.

After all, even I, as my own sister, usurped his position because I wanted to protect the person I wanted to protect.

It's better to strike first.

97.

The leader Zai asked me, why did he discover his identity before, but let him exercise the power of a cadre, and even entrusted him with solving the mimic and obtaining the permit. Are you not afraid of him doing bad things?

Then he asked again, since he hadn't said it before, why did he suddenly reveal his identity at this moment.

"Because your actions are beneficial to Mafia, and in the process, you didn't hurt the people I care about."

To his first question, I gave this answer.

Since he was able to resemble the Dazai I knew so much that no one else would notice the change, it meant at least one thing.

That is, a large part of the experience of the leader Zai overlaps with that of Dazai.

Think again about the crowds that Chief Jae often came into contact with.

Whether it's me, Chuya, or Oda, maybe we're not as shrewd as Dazai in certain things, but it's not like we can't feel the hypocrisy.

If the leader Zai's feelings for us during this process are all staged, and everyone is not stupid, they will always be able to detect something is wrong.

So, he does have feelings for us.

Whether it's because he's projecting on us feelings for another person who belongs to his world.

At least with the Dazai I know, even if he takes advantage of it, he won't really hurt the person he cares about.

Because he is a coward who doesn't even have the courage to grab someone else's hand.

A person's experiences create character.

Even if the superior becomes the leader, his essence will not be much different from the Dazai I know.

98.

"As for why I'm breaking it now, it's because I've been thinking about the reason why you came here."

I looked at the black pearl in his palm.

"So I have been waiting, and just now, when you asked me for this pearl, my intuition told me that I have waited."

"...So, do you still want to give it to me?"

The leader said in a low voice.

"Maybe it is a treasure that is very important to you."

"Is it a treasure?"

I repeated his words and suddenly changed the subject.

"Actually, you helped me a lot."

99.

I think it should be that the timeline of his world is much faster than that of my world, so many things that have happened in his world have not happened in my world.

For example, the trace of the brain flower.

Such as mimic events.

This can also explain why when experiencing these things, I always feel like I am following the script.

I don't know what will happen according to the original timeline.

But the leader Zai would solve it in such a hurry, and even do it himself, presumably the original world line must have an ending that I don't want to see.

and so--

"You have given me the treasure I want." I said sincerely.

100.

"Actually, this pearl should have been given to you for nothing."

"However, I always feel that with Dazai's personality, if he meets his counterpart, he will probably be happy to trick him."

"Ah, so I really have no choice but to make a deal with it with the cheek."

The leader, Ms. Mori, didn't let go of the hand that was holding his wrist tightly. When she said these words, she showed a disgusted and helpless smile on her face, as if she felt a headache for that Dazai, but she couldn't answer his question. I couldn't see it, so I had to take action.

"All in all, mackerel is annoying when it's crying."

"So, hopefully, it can be traded for him back."

The leader Zai didn't answer immediately, he watched Mori Yui, but his thoughts began to drift back to the past.

101.

The leader Jae knew what was in his hand.

Because that's what he wrote in [the book].

The so-called [book] is a blank novel, as long as a logical story is written on it, no matter how small the probability of this matter is, it will become a reality.

Even the eye of the cursed object that has not been discovered for many years.

It is inside this black pearl.

It is also what the leader needs.

Because after obtaining the power of the [Book], it can become the cornerstone of his world, maintaining the stability of the world, so that the world will no longer be destroyed because the [Book] is known to three or more people.

Does Mori Yui really not know what she exchanged?

Chief Jae doesn't think so.

102.

The supernatural ability of the leader Zai can also invalidate other supernatural abilities [Disqualification in the World].

So when he came into contact with the book, the singularity generated would allow him to read his own memory in other worlds through the [book].

Before coming to this world, the leader Zai saw the fragments of countless parallel worlds through the [book], and thus discovered this unique world of Yui Mori.

So he realized a long time ago how much Mori Yui, as the leader, condoned the Dazai of this world.

After coming to this world, he realized more deeply how lucky Dazai is in this world.

have companions.

have friends.

There are people who care about him.

No one he cared about died.

This is the only world where Oda Saku is still alive, and has even published his own novel, except for the world of the leader Zai.

And the Dazai of this world doesn't even know anything.

It is not known what his peers in countless other worlds have lost.

Really...

Lucky enough to make people feel deeply jealous from the bottom of their hearts.

If Yui Mori hadn't proposed an exchange, it's probably really hard to say when Dazai will be able to return to this world.

103.

I always feel that the leader is thinking about something not very good.

Although the leader Zai looked calm, but because of my familiarity with Dazai, I still felt something bad from Dazai's peers.

Fortunately, nothing happened in the end.

He agreed to my exchange.

104.

After the banquet, the leader Zai and I returned to the residence.

Before he went into his bedroom, he turned his head and said goodbye to me calmly.

I realized that this was probably the last time I saw him.

--"goodbye."