After retirement I became a guardian of troubled youth

Osamu Dazai sighed deeply: "Chuya..."

Zhong also snorted and stepped on a wooden chair, behind which was the cabinet where the rings were stored.

He raised his eyebrows, confidently flaunting: "If you have the ability, take your brother and continue hiding?"

Osamu Dazai spread his hands flamboyantly, shaking his head as if he hated iron for being weak.

"Zhongye...you are really easy to be deceived."

"Could it be that the position of King of Sheep was also tricked into taking the position to block guns?"

Zhong Ye frowned: "Huh?!"

"I mean--"

Osamu Dazai walked forward unhurriedly, bent down and knocked on the cabinet, and turned his head to look at the young man who was already close at hand.

"Didn't you realize that even though I'm trapped, you still can't see your brother?" He smiled mockingly.

The glass cabinet, which was supposed to be extremely hard, became vulnerable at this moment, but it was cracked like spider webs with just a light tap from him.

The sound of glass shattering was accompanied by Osamu Dazai's sad sigh.

……

Hikaru Ueno looked at the boy opposite, fell silent for a moment, and took another look at the note in his hand.

He blinked and asked Luanbu: "So, you are not trapped?"

The boy sat on the window sill, shaking his legs happily.

"of course."

He held up the ring in his hand against the moonlight.

There was a gust of wind hanging outside the window, and the huge hang glider passed by the window, casting a shadow.

Phantom Thief Kidd, with a child in his arms, took the ring from him, and said with a smile, "Thank you, little friend."

Luanbu waved at him: "Happy cooperation~"

He watched Phantom Thief Kidd walk away amidst the sound of sirens, looked back at Hikari Ueno, and jumped off the window sill, showing a sweet smile.

"Brother, long time no see~" the young man opened his arms in Luanbu, declaring his sovereignty and said, "From now on, you are mine."

Hikaru Ueno realized what had happened and was a little helpless.

The note delivered by Kaito told him that Ranpo Hezhong had also been kidnapped, and he was now on the top floor of this villa, and asked him to come and rescue them before the lights went out.

But now it seems that this is a magic trick conspired by a clever kid and Mr. Phantom Thief.

He looked at the young boy's triumphant expression, stepped forward to hug him, and asked, "The two of them?"

Luanbu thought for a while and said, "I'm loving each other and cultivating brotherhood."

The next second, the door of the room was suddenly kicked open from the outside.

Two people who were "in love with each other" appeared at the door.

Nakaya was still maintaining his handsome posture of kicking the door, Dazai Osamu had already squeezed in through the gap between him and the door, and grabbed Hikari Uedo's sleeve.

The expression is weak and pitiful, but the action is very strong and separates the two people who are stuck together.

Ranpo grabbed Ueno Hikaru's other sleeve, but neither of them dared to pull it hard, so they could only compete secretly with their eyes.

commonly known as...

His eyes are drawn.

Hikaru Ueno, who was watching Nakaya, gradually felt that he was wrapped in silk thread, so he turned his gaze back and looked at the children on both sides of him.

One puffed up his cheeks angrily, and the other had tears in his pitiful eyes.

As for the kid Zhongye, after realizing that his actions just now had ruined his personality in his brother's heart, he stood against the wall without saying a word, with his hands behind his back, looking cute and reserved.

It seems that he didn't call out all the "Tai-zai-" that pierced Changhong so far, and he didn't kick the door lying on the ground next to him.

Ueno Hikaru looked at Shuji, then at Ranpo.

Decided not to pursue the things they did today.

After all, these are two children whose IQs are far beyond ordinary people, and Ueno Hikaru will not find it too strange for them to do anything, as long as they are still good children.

Be a good boy now, and be a good man when you grow up.

This is what Hikaru Ueno hopes for them the most.

After all, after every soul goes to the Underworld, it will be punished according to the quantified value of viciousness.

As soon as Hikaru Ueno raised his hand, the two children automatically let go of his sleeves, stood side by side in front of him, and then squeezed each other secretly, trying to stand in front of him.

Some cute little gestures.

Ueno Hikaru touched the heads of the two, and asked indifferently and without expression: "Who brought Chuuya into this?"

Yes, he is more concerned about this issue.

That well-behaved, cute, introverted and shy child back then suddenly ran in the completely opposite direction when he didn't notice at all.

Although this kind of movie also has its own unique cuteness, but...

The behavior of kicking a bad door does not belong to a "good boy".

In fact, he usually has no expression and is indifferent, but it is probably because of the two children's own guilty conscience, coupled with the deterrent power of Ueno Hikaru himself.

It seemed a bit like a question.

Ranpo and Osamu Dazai froze for a moment, looked at each other at the same time, then raised their hands: "It's him!"

Ueno raised an eyebrow.

Zhong, who was standing against the wall, looked dazed.

He didn't quite understand why he was suddenly cueed.

Osamu Dazai seized the opportunity without hesitation: "Brother, after you left, he and Chuya lived together."

"I only lived with him for two months!" Luanbu snorted, "It was you who kept making trouble for him after that."

Osamu Dazai said righteously: "I took some time off from busy work to care about my younger brother."

He sighed, his expression became sad and sad: "You said that you are looking for trouble..."

Zhong Ye: "..."

He touched his ears uncomfortably under Hikaru Ueno's gaze, and said without looking away, "The three of us lived together for a while."

Not affirming or denying, but providing another piece of information, which put Ranpo and Osamu Dazai into a new predicament.

Ranpo and Osamu Dazai looked at each other.

Damn it, I didn't expect that this naive and deceitful little brother would also learn to play tricks.

—You must have taught it.

——Slightly, slightly, I wouldn't teach him these things, it's obviously because you usually go too far and imperceptibly.

Hikaru Ueno was curious: "Living together?"

"Well, that's right." The two teenagers who were still "eyes drawn" in the last second were not squinting at the same time in the next second, with a cute face, "Just two years ago."

Osamu Dazai was wronged: "At that time, I was framed by others and kicked out by my employer."

Luanbu felt aggrieved: "The store manager's friend is back... I changed a lot of jobs and it didn't go well."

Osamu Dazai choked with sobs: "You only left a place for Chuya."

Luanbu choked up: "We have no other place to go."

Zhong also interrupted the two people whose emotions were brewing to the peak: "So they were on a dark and stormy night..."

Osamu Dazai interrupted: "Look, I taught Chuya this idiom."

Zhong Ye: "..."

"Breaked into my room."

Luanbu hummed: "You talk nonsense, the two of us obviously knocked on the door."

"That's obviously because I regarded you as thieves when you first came in!"

Dazai Osamu rolled up his sleeves, "Look, brother!"

"He is so ruthless. The wound he left when he beat me back then hasn't healed yet."

"You obviously cut it yourself two days ago!"

"Hey~"

Luanbu: "But the second time we knocked on the door, you still kicked us out..."

Chuya: "That's the window you knocked on!"

Luanbu: "嘿~"

Hikaru Ueno: "So you guys end up?"

Osamu Dazai pressed one hand on his chest, and raised the other high: "Ah!——"

"It's all thanks to the warm-hearted angel Chuya. He took in us who were homeless regardless of past suspicions, and this allowed us to barely survive in this world."

He lowered his head and wiped away the tears that didn't exist in the corner of his eyes: "I am so grateful to him, how could I have the heart to lead him on a wrong path."

Luanbu followed closely behind, but it was not as pretentious as he, and seemed a little more real: "During those three months, Chuya went out early and returned home every day to work hard, and was also responsible for our two meals a day. Will spend money to take us on a tour..."

"I can't wait to give him the best snacks in the world, but how can I bear to watch him degenerate day by day."

Zhong Ye said indifferently: "...Oh, is it my own fault?"

Osamu Dazai opened his eyes wide and retorted without thinking: "How could that be!"

He was choked up again and couldn't speak: "If it wasn't for being unkind, how could our brother Chuya be like this..."

Zhong also hesitated.

In fact, he didn't look so bad now.

No, he accidentally kicked the door.

Oh yes, that door seems to have been tampered with by some guy who is choking right now.

……

…………

Ok? ? ?

Ueno Hikaru listened for a long time but did not understand why, and asked: "So who is it?"

Osamu Dazai and Ranbu looked at each other and agreed on the answer: "It's a sheep!"

Hikaru Ueno: "?"

"It's the organization that Chuya joined." Osamu Dazai waved his hand, as if he didn't want to talk about it in detail.

Ranbu also sighed, looking very worried.

"Although it looks like, brother, you may think that it is a good place, but in fact... who knows what those people have in mind for Zhong."

Osamu Dazai answered: "Obviously, they are just taking advantage of it."

He curled his lips in disdain: "Those kids don't have any skills themselves, so they want to rely on Zhongye's strength to gain a foothold, but they are too afraid of him."

Zhong also frowned: "You don't—"

Before he finished speaking, he was directly interrupted by Osamu Dazai: "If you don't believe me, we can do a test."

"Test what kind of intentions those people have for you."

Zhong also resolutely refused: "You don't need to test, I know my own things well."

Osamu Dazai was sad: "I also want to do what I can for my brother, but my brother is always ungrateful..."

Zhong Ye: ...

"You're trying to create some chaos within your power." He rolled his eyes and muttered softly.

Dazai looked even more sad.

He covered his heart, as if he was severely hurt by Zhong Ye's complaints.

Ranpo suddenly turned against him, and began to speak to Zhongya: "Because Dazai always helps other people incomprehensibly."

Hikaru Ueno: "..."

Luanbu raised his head proudly: "Look, Zhong doesn't think I'm making trouble."

Zhong Ye: "..."

A certain "Brother Detective" allowed him to figure out the entire streets and alleys of Yokohama in just three months, and his cooking skills went from ignorant to master level.

It's really not "adding chaos".

"So if my brother needs someone to help deal with the 'sheep', Detective Chaos is very suitable."

"Ranbu doesn't know about 'sheep' at all, but I've already made a plan." Osamu Dazai cut off halfway, took a step forward, and grabbed Hikaru Ueno's wrist, "So brother, just follow me next time." .”

"Besides," he blinked innocently under Ueno Hikaru's gaze, "The time when my brother came to the world this time was originally prepared for me."

"But," Nakaya said before Hikaru Ueno nodded, "If brother wants to see 'Sheep', just follow me."

He said frankly: "I haven't made any shady friends."

"Then let's go together." Ueno Hikaru spoke first before Ranpo and Osamu Dazai spoke.

"Let's go visit your friends together."

……

The time for the "visit" was chosen early the next morning.

That night, the four returned to Chuya's hut.

Of course, before leaving, Osamu Dazai went to the basement to release the real Mr. B who was knocked unconscious by Kaitou Kidd.

As for the consequences of not completing this mission, Osamu Dazai himself didn't care much.

Anyway, these dignitaries have reached a delicate balance with each other. Even if Mr. B gets angry again this time, he doesn't dare to do anything outrageous to him.

Zhongye's group of lamb friends live on Radium Bowl Street.

A few years later, Radium Bowl Street is not as dilapidated as it was after the explosion.

Although it still looks a bit dilapidated, and many places are similar to slums, but with decent buildings, people can really live.

The base of the "sheep" children is in one of the larger abandoned warehouses.

That warehouse is almost the best living place on Radium Bowl Street.

Before meeting Zhongya Chuya, these boys and girls could only live scattered in the streets and alleys, and found a dilapidated old warehouse as a gathering place.

But after the "King of Sheep" appeared, "Sheep" gradually became the most powerful small group in this area.

It can almost be said that as long as there is Zhongyuan Zhongzai, these kids will dare to walk sideways on this street.

Central Plains also joined "Sheep" after being separated from Ranbu for a while.

Xiaozhong, who is alone, looks like a wandering street child even if he has a place to live.

He doesn't go to school, and he doesn't have to work.The large amount of work belonging to the port mafia that Ueno Hikaru left for him before he left was enough for him to spend a long time alone.

Besides, Zhongyuan Zhong is not the kind of spendthrift kid.

He even spent very little money.

Just, no worldly desires.

For a while, what Xiao Zhong liked to do most was wandering Radium Bowl Street.

Especially those places where there are more children.

He hoped that among so many times, it would be good to meet Ueno Hikaru once in a while.

But never once.

Mr. Death walked away neatly, leaving nothing behind except for a bracelet and a pair of black gloves that could not be taken off at all.

Then one day when he was wandering, he also met a group of children who called themselves "sheep" in the Central Plains.

At that time, one of the children in the group was suffering from a high fever because of being shot, and his life was dying.

Nakahara also felt that this time he might have a chance to meet Hikaru Ueno.

Although at that time, he himself felt that such hope was very slim.

But because of this little hope, he stayed behind at the request of the group of children.

This is the reason why Chuya decided to stay here in the first place.

Most of the children living on Radium Bowl Street are orphans, who have no money to pay the high medical expenses.

These children always thought that Zhongyuan Zhongye was also a poor orphan just like them.

Therefore, they never thought of begging Zhongyuan Zhongya to take a child to the hospital.

They only asked Zhongyuan Zhongye to help them grab more medicine and food.

The vitality of the children on Radium Bowl Street is indeed very tenacious.

Many of them have survived day by day in such a difficult environment.

But the kid didn't get over it in the end.

They built a simple grave for the child on a barren hill.

Zhongyuan Zhong also guarded the grave for three days, but he didn't see the person he wanted to see.

On the contrary, the children of "Sheep" felt that he was very loyal.

In fact, Zhongyuan Zhong didn't really care about their loyalty, but he had nowhere to go but the vacant house, and he had nothing to do except wait for Ueno Hikaru. Therefore, at the request of these children, he really stayed in the "Sheep" in this organization.

After all, after living together for so many years, feelings will always develop after a long time.

Zhong Yuanzhong also vaguely noticed a certain side of these children, but he didn't really want to care about it, and he didn't bother to care about it.

If Osamu Dazai and Ranpo hadn't brought up the topic of "sheep" last night.

Zhong Yuanzhong also knocked on the door of the abandoned warehouse, closing his eyes.

... Then it will probably be a long time later when he has to face that side.

But he doesn't need to think about it now.

After all, under the tricks of Osamu Dazai and Ranpo Edogawa, no one can escape.

Zhong Yuanzhong is also very convinced of this.

If everything has a ceiling.

Dazai Osamu and Edogawa Ranpo are the well-deserved IQ ceilings in this world.

Although usually full of disgust.

Although the three of them seem to have a lot of contradictions.

...Probably actually a lot of contradictions.

However, Chuya Nakahara is still very happy that he can establish some kind of connection with these two people because of Hikari Ueno.

This connection is called "brotherhood".

It's very plastic, but it exists.

This gave him a real sense of Ueno Hikaru's existence.

Let him have a real look forward to the reunion with his brother.

It also made him feel that he, a person with unknown background and nowhere to return, seemed to be no longer so wandering.

...Although these two people are really annoying.

Zhong Yuanzhong also looked at the two bastard brothers who came up and tried to forcefully break through the door, and a "well" character appeared on their heads.

"Hey, let me tell you—"

"Ah," Osamu Dazai stopped in surprise and looked at him innocently, "It's open."

Central Plains Zhongye: "... Tai, Zai, Zhi!"

He admitted that his feelings just now were fed to the dogs!

He pushed the door open as if he was walking home in disorder, and echoed: "Okay!"

The silver-haired boy who was only three steps away from the door stared at the two joyful uninvited guests with his eyes widened.

Then he slowly shifted his gaze to Nakahara Nakaya, who was silently covering his face behind him.

Hikari Ueno saw the boy's expression as if he had swallowed a fly, and fell silent for a while.

Out of politeness, he raised his hand, knocked on the opened door, and said, "Excuse me."