The bosses cry and put down the butcher knife

Three minutes later, two people, one big and one small, sat back to the place where they woke up.Listening to the high and low voices of the conversation outside the box and at the bar, they all felt... the subtlety of different reasons.

"This place..." After a brief silence, the girl said, "Is it a world created by supernatural powers?"

She thought of the empty alleys of Sanhua Street, and the white light that suddenly appeared afterwards.There are too many extraordinary abilities in this world, such as space-time teleportation, spying on thoughts, or imaginary worlds, some of which are real.

"You really don't know anything," the boy blinked, as if he was looking at a bird that had strayed into the cattery, "Could it be that these days there are still people who lure foolish kids with lollipops?" Uncle Nose Hair in such a dangerous place?"

"Who will be abducted by the lollipop!" Oda Miyuki was stunned for a moment, and then retorted loudly.

"I came with someone," she said soon, "a guy about your age, and we got separated."

"..."

The young man was silent for a while, thinking about whether the other party's sentence "a guy around your age" meant something.

In the end, he gave up and didn't ask her why she came here: "Okay, let me explain—first of all, you came in from Sanhua Street, right?"

Seeing the girl nodding, the boy continued: "Just this morning, a strange 'area' appeared on that street, which could not be destroyed or erased artificially. And all the people who approached it, one by one Disappeared."

The boy said and shrugged his shoulders: "My subordinates are also inside, so I had to come and take a look. I didn't expect that after the sun went down, that 'area' suddenly spread to the whole street - when I regained consciousness, I was already sitting Here it is."

"Subordinate?" Oda Miyuki raised his head and looked at him seriously: "Didn't you go to school?"

juvenile:"……"

The two looked at each other for a while, and then the latter turned his head away as if nothing had happened.

Oda Miyuki: "..."

Although there was something wrong with the direction of attention, Oda Miyuki also reacted: before this evening, somewhere in Sanhua Street, there appeared an "abnormal phenomenon" that would make people disappear.

But then the area spread, and the entire street was included—as the newspaper said, there were originally many people there, checking the situation, inquiring about news, having other plans, or simply joining in the fun...

If the other party is telling the truth, then at this moment, it is unknown how many people like them have been thrown into a strange place.

"Although it's a bit unexpected..." After a short silence, the boy almost said to himself, "In short, this is definitely not a world created by some random 'special ability'."

Although the ten-year-old Oda Miyuki is still a little ignorant, the black-haired boy—Osamu Dazai has dug to a place very close to the truth.

This world... should be based on certain rules, related to supernatural powers, and even related to reality - a more advanced illusion.

While this may seem like someone's supernatural ability, Dazai knows it's not.After all, his special ability "Disqualification in the World" is a counter-ability to eliminate all special abilities without distinction.

In fact, as the youngest reserve cadre in the history of the port mafia, Osamu Dazai knew far more than Oda Miyuki.

The earliest record of this "area" was seven days ago, when the city was just in chaos.A dozen escaped killers passed through a dark alley near Takashimaya, and then disappeared without a trace.

In the following week, similar situations occurred in six or seven different places in Yokohama.

The missing people all entered a relatively remote street, and there was no trace after that.The people who found it later touched that place, and either disappeared or found nothing.

In just one week, there were at least a hundred missing persons.

"So this world is the 'future'?" Oda Miyuki asked.

"No." Osamu Dazai leaned back in the chair, his eyes fell on the top of the box, "No matter how you think about it, it is at most 'a possibility of the future'."

The girl blinked, unable to see if she understood.She stared at the other person's face for a while, and finally nodded:

"So, the guy at the bar, the one with the black hair, is the 'future' you?"

The boy's uncovered eye blinked, then turned to look at her sideways.The three equally round eyes looked at each other for a while, and finally Osamu Dazai hummed:

"It should be, after all, I don't have any twin brothers."

When he said this, the undisguised voice outside, but very vague due to background music and distance, suddenly raised a tune excitedly:

["He just said duds! Ango, did you hear that? Why is it that only Oda Saku can always get such interesting jobs? It's not fair! I'm going to negotiate with the leader tomorrow, if I don't want to dismantle If it is a dud, I will not be a cadre!"]①

When the shouting went down again, it changed back to muttering and normal communication where only single words could be heard.Oda Miyuki looked at the boy next to him, and felt that he should say something:

"You in the future look very interesting."

Dazai Osamu: "..."

The boy looked at her, it was difficult to describe the expression.It seems to be facing a situation that has never been encountered before, which is a bit novel, but not sure.

Finally, he fell back on the back of the sofa, as if he wanted to disguise himself as a salted fish.However, what he said was not as offensive as it looked:

"Thank you for the compliment. You and that person over there also know each other."

Oda Miyuki froze for a moment.

There are currently three people sitting at the bar, excluding the suspected "future boy", there are still two left.But when the other party asked her, they used a very clear "that person".

Before waiting for the girl's answer, the black-haired boy turned his head and took a look, catching Oda Miyuki's doubts.

Then he laughed suddenly, and said in that deliberately soft voice, as he would talk to any child:

"Oh, oh, it's actually easy to guess. Although in the case of 'not knowing someone', there is the possibility of 'another completely different world line'; but as far as I am concerned, I have neither met someone nor They haven't become cadres yet, but they all have the expectation of this happening... Even in parallel worlds, the gap is not so big."

After finishing speaking, he winked at her: "So this world is probably a future that I haven't experienced yet. Using this as a reference, you can immediately think of 'this is the future', and you should know one of them."

Oda Miyuki: "..."

Oda Miyuki looked at him, and was entangled in the soft tone of this passage, but the content was... not suitable for children at all.

The girl half-opened her mouth and sat in her position for 5 minutes before she felt that she...probably?Understand the meaning of the other party.

Finally she decided to shut up.

To be honest, Oda Miyuki never considered the issue of "different world lines".As an ordinary ten-year-old girl, her brain circuit is very simple and straightforward:

The Oda Sakunosuke who was sitting at the bar looked older and had friends he didn't know now.So this scene should happen someday in the future.

Isn't this the most normal thought?

Am I abnormal, or is this guy abnormal?

The girl didn't say this sentence, but it was written clearly from her expression to her eyes.The boy didn't know where he was poking at the point of laughter, and he entertained himself for a while before he gave a fake cough:

"Speaking of which, I heard him being called...'Odasaku'?"

He paused here, as if trying to figure out the pronunciation, "The last name is Oda, and the first name is 'Zuo'?"

"It's 'Sakunosuke'." Oda Miyuki subconsciously corrected, "Oda Sakunosuke."

After she finished speaking, she muttered: "'Oda Tsukuru'? Who came up with the name, it's not as good as 'Asuke'."

"Hey, is that so? The name 'Oda Saku' is obviously very interesting."

The boy heard her thoughts, and answered with a smile.Oda Miyuki looked at him for a while, and then recalled the third person at the bar—a young man wearing glasses, who finally bulged his cheeks:

"Maybe you took it. After all, the remaining uncle seems to be the kind of person who has been issued a lot of good cards."

uncle?

This subtle address made the boy's face slightly stiff.He subconsciously recalled the three people he saw just now, and then looked at the little girl in front of him who claimed to be less than 11 years old.

Although "I" is obviously the youngest among those three people, but...

"'Oda Saku', is your relative?"

When the boy spoke again, he had already turned the topic in another direction.The girl obviously didn't think anything was wrong, she nodded and said:

"He's my dad."

There's nothing to hide about this.Although Oda Sakunosuke has always had a good temper, he doesn't usually talk much, and he doesn't have many frequent friends.

A friend who made him come here to chat, and who seemed leisurely and undisciplined... At least in the past few years, Oda Miyuki had never met.

It would also be nice if such a person would appear "in the future".

The black-haired boy looked at her too bluntly, as if confirming something: "It's not my own."

There is nothing wrong with this statement from the conclusion, except that it makes the parties feel quite uncomfortable.

Oda Miyuki held back for a few seconds, but still couldn't hold back the urge to commit violence against strangers.At the moment when the anger gauge broke through the critical value, a very brief scene flashed in her mind——

The point of the knife stabbing into the heart from behind over and over again, and under the withered branches and leaves everywhere, there is a bloody corpse remaining.

【...Ojita and Odile...】

"..."

So the girl fell silent.

The bandaged boy was a little surprised and looked sideways at her.

Although far from the age where he can claim to have much experience, Dazai Osamu has always been very accurate in judging others.It's like a gift, or a gift of so-called smart people.

Just like when he is in contact with people, he can't help but test, speculate, produce his own judgment, and then choose to approach or stay away.

In a sense, there is no difference between an adult and a child, at least most of the people he can come into contact with cannot bring him any surprises worthy of attention.

But accidents always happen, just like storms that cannot be predicted by the weather.

Oda Miyuki didn't know what the other party was thinking, and didn't even realize the sudden silence.When she came back to her senses and noticed the movement outside the box, she heard a neat sound——

【"For the wild dogs."】

Then there was the click of the camera, and vague comments and comments.

"It looks like they're about to leave."

The boy suddenly opened his mouth, while resting his chin with one hand, with a thoughtful expression, "If we go out at this time, 'now' and 'future' face to face...but it may not be the real future, if...huh?"

Before he finished speaking, he found that there was no one around him.The boy got up suddenly, and when he stepped out of the box, he saw that the girl had already rushed in front of the three of them.

"..." Osamu Dazai, "It's really a miscalculation."

With his eyesight, it is of course impossible to miss the scene of how Oda Miyuki jumped on the table, slid out of the seat in a second, and then rushed out.But seeing Gui saw, the actual reaction was still delayed for a few seconds.

"It's unexpectedly too lively..." Osamu Dazai said with some headaches, but he couldn't deny that he was looking forward to that result.

He knew how risky this step was, but in the worst case, it was nothing more than the long-awaited death coming as scheduled.

This is a magical place, an unusual world.Unaffected by his supernatural ability, even in front of his eyes, the appearance of the so-called "future" was shown.

No matter what the essence of "it" is and what purpose it has, Osamu Dazai is full of expectations for it.

"It seems that they can't see us."

After a while, Oda Miyuki came back disappointed.The three people over there have already gone up the stairs one after another, and they didn't notice the two people here, one tall and one short.

Even though the girl was almost under their noses just now, they ignored her.

The boy looked down at her, and heard Oda Miyuki's muffled voice:

"Because it's the future, can't it be changed?"

So the boy laughed, and the eye that was not covered by the bandage shone with a new emotion.

He turned around almost happily, and waved at the girl casually:

"I want to follow up to see, are you coming? Oda-chan."

Oda Miyuki froze for a moment, then nodded.Thinking back to the name she heard just now, she said with some uncertainty, "Dazai, uh...brother?"

Dazai Osamu: "..."

So, why is your expression so hesitant?