Those years when I was a purchasing agent in Yokohama

When Chu Shu woke up, it was still dark, and his vision was pitch black. He tried to close his eyes and sleep again.But I couldn't fall asleep anyway, so I just stared blankly with my eyes open for a while.

The ten-square-meter staff dormitory is narrow and crude, and is not equipped with heaters and air conditioners to provide heating. In the cold winter night, it feels nothing to curl up in the bed and fall asleep.

But when I woke up suddenly in the middle of the night like this, the cold air around me gave me a sense of existence, and before I took a few breaths, my nose seemed to be frozen off.

Chu Shu's forehead was sore from the cold, so he buried his head into the bed, but as soon as he buried his head, his chin touched a furry thing. Through the blurred light in the room, he could vaguely see that it was a dark creature. Huge head.

In the middle of the night, a fluffy head suddenly appeared in his arms, and Chu Shu's heart suddenly missed a beat.But soon he returned to normal, and recognized that the head belonged to Dazai.

After getting along for this period of time, he was almost used to this situation. It was as if the unlucky child's head didn't want to grow on his own neck, and whenever he had a chance, he would put his head in his neck or his arms.

Like a koala, he regarded Chu Shu as a reliable tree trunk and wrapped his hands and feet around his body. In the cold winter, it played a little artificial heating effect.

Although the room is pitch black right now, I can't see anything clearly.But the body temperature conveyed through the thin pajamas made Chu Shu feel an inexplicable sense of peace of mind.

He is here, Dazai is here.

Thinking of the young man wearing a red scarf in his dream, who seemed to be cosplaying on a well-known social software, Chu Shu suddenly felt stuffy in his heart, and felt blocked for a while.

I don't know if he was haunted by the dream just now. Chu Shu lowered his head in a strange way, found the forehead of the young man in his arms in the darkness, and kissed him with a "baji". There was not much movement, but in the quiet atmosphere Among them, it is particularly prominent.

Chu Shu immediately closed his eyes guilty, just wanting to pretend that nothing happened.But just as his eyelids closed, another voice sounded in the room the next second.

"Is this a good night kiss or a good morning kiss?"

The voice of doubt was mixed with a few traces of sleepy hoarseness, like a long and thin feather, which stimulated Chu Shu's fragile heart time after time.

"I woke you up?"

Being caught on the spot, Chu Shu no longer needed to act. He opened his eyes again and looked at the young man in his arms rather uncomfortably.

Dazai raised his hand and stroked the broken hair on his forehead, "I didn't wake him up, but I was woken up by your kiss."

Chu Shu was speechless for a while, "Are you Sleeping Beauty?"

Dazai rubbed against his arms a few times, found a comfortable position and continued to hug.

"Sleeping Beauty is going to marry the prince after she wakes up with a kiss."

"I'm not some prince."

"Exactly." Dazai yawned.

"You are not a prince, and I am not a sleeping beauty, but the kiss just now was indeed the kiss of true love. You woke me up, so you have to be responsible to me."

Dazai said something like this to him, if not a thousand words, then a hundred words. Chu Shu raised his hand and snorted his little hairy head, and nodded in response, "Okay, take responsibility, pay me all Here you go, all right."

Maybe because his tone sounded a little casual, Dazai shook his head directly to express his resignation.

"No, I'm at a loss."

"You lost money?"

When Chu Shu heard these three words, he couldn't help raising his eyebrows. He raised his hand to touch the switch of the light in the room, and turned on the light with a click. The originally dark space instantly became bright.

"What? I'm inflation now? How can such a big person pay you a loss?"

Dazai was a little uncomfortable with the sudden light, he squinted his eyes, and tightened his grip on Chu Shu.

"But you are mine."

He said.

"You don't need to pay me specifically, you are mine."

The corners of Chu Shu's lips curled slightly, "It's strange what you said. Why don't I know when I became your property? Is there something written on my body that I am your private property?"

"Yes." Dazai nodded seriously.

"where?"

"Secret for now."

He put his index finger between his lips, making a silent gesture.

Chu Shu didn't intend to continue asking, and changed the question, "Since you said that I already belong to you, how do you think I will be responsible to you?"

Dazai blinked his eyes, the bit of trouble just now disappeared in the conversation, and the clarity of the past has been restored in those beautiful black eyes.

"Do you believe that people will have an afterlife?"

He lowered his voice and said mysteriously.

As soon as he said this, Chu Shu thought he had met an old man who set up a fortune-telling stall under the overpass.

A black and bold question mark slowly rose above Chu Shu's head. The kid stayed up in the middle of the night to discuss such inexplicable questions with him.

"I didn't believe that people would have an afterlife. To be precise, I didn't want it."

Dazai seemed to be particularly interested in this topic, and there was a tendency to have a night talk with Chu Shu on this topic.

"In this life, I don't want to live in this world as a person. If I continue to do this in my next life, it will be too painful."

Chu Shu didn't think about why he had the sudden whim to ask the question just now, but just looked down at him without speaking.

"If possible, I don't want to have an afterlife, but if there is, I hope not as a human being, but as other simpler creatures, ephemeral mayflies, fleeting epiphyllum, these are my A creature wishing to be reborn."

When he said these words, the expression on his face was always calm, as if he was just reading an excellent model essay aloud.

Chu Shu stared at him for a long time, then slowly said: "I don't know if there is an afterlife, but there are parallel time and space in this world."

Every action a person makes and every word he says may generate different parallel time and space, which he personally experienced in the world ten years later.

"Parallel time and space and afterlife are not on the same level. If parallel time and space are compared to horizontal worlds, afterlife is a virtual vertical world."

Dazai let go of Chu Shu's waist and sat up from the bed. While talking, he stretched out his hands and gestured in mid-air, as if he was a university lecturer answering students' doubts.

"We have no way of knowing whether this virtual afterlife actually exists. But if it does exist, and I happen to be so unlucky enough to be reincarnated as a human again..."

Dazai put down his hands that were gesticulating in mid-air, and looked down at Chu Shu who was lying on the bed. The thin bangs on his forehead blocked his vision, and the shadow cast by the electric light completely blocked most of his face , Chu Shu raised his head and could only see his white and thin jaw.

"You have to take responsibility and support me for another lifetime."

"why?"

Chu Shu also got up from the bed, and sat cross-legged next to him, "This life has not yet been decided, so let's talk about the next life so soon."

"This life is already set."

Dazai shook his head, stretched out his hand to grab Chu Shu's hand, and played with the little flesh on his fingertips carelessly.

"Either I die and you die for love, or you live and I reluctantly live with you. There are only two choices."

Chu Shu glanced at him, "You just think that I won't live alone after you die?"

"It's not a confirmation, it's an affirmation."

Dazai raised Chu Shu's right hand to his mouth, then suddenly lowered his head and took a bite on his index finger. Chu Shu gasped for air with a "hiss", and the sharp tiger teeth bit the tender flesh of his fingertips , a bright red drop of blood was forced out from the center of the fingertip.

"Before I die, I will kill you first."

The young man loosened his teeth, and gently licked the small wound on the tip of his index finger with his tongue. Together with the tiny blood bead, the index finger felt a slight tingling pain and a little itching.

Before Chu Shu opened his mouth to speak, the young man leaned over and leaned his head up to press his lips. This kiss was filled with a bloody smell of iron rust, and it was his blood.

"Since I reluctantly choose to live with you now, to be fair, you must die with me when I die."

"Whether you are dead or alive, you are mine. In this life, the next life, and every life after life, you are mine in all vertical virtual worlds."

Chu Shu's mind was confused by his sudden kiss, and he couldn't react for a while when he heard his domineering and childish words, and finally asked vaguely for some reason, "Then What about the horizontal world?"

He knew that this young man's possessiveness was not ordinary, and that his next life had already been clearly arranged before this life was over.

But now that the vertical world is all arranged, what about the horizontal world?Doesn't the horizontal world need to be arranged?

Dazai paused for a rare moment. He looked into Chu Shu's eyes. Chu Shu always felt that his eyes seemed to be looking higher up, as if he was staring at his forehead.

"We're only in this one world."

After a few seconds, he calmly said this sentence.

Before Chu Shu asked him what he meant by this sentence, his head came up again.This time, the boy didn't give him any space to think.