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An hour later, lupine bar.

"...that's how it is."

Ango Sakaguchi adjusted his glasses and concluded with this sentence.

"All I already know, whether you entered the port Mafia as an undercover agent of the Supernatural Secret Service, or you were assigned by the leader to go to Europe to contact MIMIC and become a three-sided spy, and even lured them to Yokohama, because the leader wanted to The ability to open the license required...all of these things I already know." Dazai Osamu looked at his palm, as if there was something that caught his attention, "Tell me something I don't know."

Oda Sakunosuke did not speak, since Dazai Osamu brought him to this bar they often come to, and when he saw Ango appearing and revealed his identity as a three-faced spy, Oda Sakunosuke kept quiet and listened: he guessed that Ango was the leader A spy placed in MIMIC, but he didn't know that before Ango entered the port of Mafia, he was actually a member of the Supernatural Secret Service Division.

Ango Sakaguchi was silent for a while, and then said: "...she went to find MIMIC." Thinking of the smile of the person before leaving, Ango Sakaguchi felt as if a block of salt had been stuffed into his throat, and even his voice became hoarse , "... go see her, Dazai, otherwise..."

Maybe there will be no chance to meet again.

A powerful superhuman who can control multiple soldiers of MIMIC within a second and rescue him effortlessly, no matter how strong the leader of MIMIC is, even if he is facing a supernatural being who can predict the future, theoretically, he should not be able to limit himself. Take her away one by one, but...

Ango Sakaguchi could not forget that expression.

She already had a sense of her own destiny—he didn't know why she felt this way, but Ango Sakaguchi's intuition as an infiltrating investigator told him that what she was about to perform was a mission of no return.

That's why there is such a trembling smile.

Dazai fixed his eyes.

"...you go," Osamu Dazai said without raising his head, still looking at his palm, "The leader didn't issue a warrant for you in the organization, that means he let you go." , but this does not mean that you can appear openly in front of Port Mafia, especially in front of a cadre like me."

"Leave before my men surround this place."

Ango Sakaguchi opened his mouth, but he couldn't say what he wanted to say, he closed his mouth again in despair, and left in a hurry.

"...Is this okay?" Oda Sakunosuke asked hesitantly.

"It's nothing bad. The leader has achieved his goal and obtained the opening license for the ability. In the future, the port Mafia can move more freely... But MIMIC is still a problem, although it is used by the leader to obtain the opening license for the ability. , they have not come in handy, the 'task reward' has already been obtained, but..." Osamu Dazai poked his head, "She... did such a thing in the Mafia headquarters building at the port, it can be clearly seen , if Mr. Mori leaves MIMIC alone just because he got the 'reward' early, her threat in the chief's office can be realized in advance."

So MIMIC still has to be solved.

"The leader of MIMIC has already taken a fancy to you, Oda Saku. Before he left, he said that he would let you understand their wishes," Osamu Dazai finally raised his head, and Oda Sakunosuke saw the boy's pale face and iris-colored eyes Hitomi seemed to be staring at nothingness, "They are a group of walking corpses who have lost their souls...they want to make you like that too."

"I can't imagine it." Oda Sakunosuke bluntly expressed his thoughts, he couldn't figure out how he would become a walking dead.

"It's so naive, Odasaku." Osamu Dazai smiled without the slightest hint of joy, "It's very simple - just kill people you value, such as children."

In Oda Sakunosuke's eyes that were shocked by that sentence for a moment, Osamu Dazai continued: "When he said that before he left, I realized that his next target is children, so I immediately Set out to get people to transfer the children—but even though I am the cadre of Port Mafia, the power I can use still belongs to Port Mafia, and in Port Mafia, there are people with higher authority than me."

"That's our leader."

"If you don't get the license to open the ability, in order to force Oda Tsukuru, who is the most suitable for dealing with MIMICs in the port Mafia but is unwilling to kill people, to fight, then you can only destroy what he cherishes and make him walk for revenge. The souls of the dead—just like MIMIC—the leader will reveal the whereabouts of the children to MIMIC, and you can imagine what happens after that without me telling you.”

"...But now, the leader has obtained the license to open the ability." When Oda Sakunosuke opened his mouth, he realized that his voice was surprisingly hoarse.

"She said that she would watch the port Mafia—if Mafia, the port that introduced MIMIC into Yokohama, didn't deal with it, but let the Supernatural Secret Service take action, guess who just gave the warning would go immediately Realize her words?" Osamu Dazai said softly, "Ango knew that she went to find the MIMIC people, and she went to stop them, but the leader didn't know about it."

"So, Odasaku," Dazai Osamu took a piece of note paper from the bar, wrote down a series of numbers and addresses, and handed it to Odasakunosuke, "Take the children to this address—this is not the property of the port Mafia , it was given to me by my favor in the early years by its former owner, even the leader didn't know about it, so it is still a reliable safe house, taking the children to hide in it for the first month No problem—as for one month later, the matter should be almost over, and then go to Ango, he feels guilty for you, and you didn't do much dirty work in the port of Mafia, he will help you clean up and go ashore of."

Oda Sakunosuke accepted the paper but did not leave immediately, but asked, "What about you?"

Dazai arranged the escape route for him and the children, and even said that he would go to Ango a month later, so what about himself?

"I'm going to find MIMIC." Osamu Dazai said, "Ango's meaning is very clear. Now that he is exposed as a spy on three sides, MIMIC will kill him. Although there is no arrest warrant for Mafia at the port, he is not convenient in this situation. next time, but she went to see MIMC alone again, so he wanted me to go."

to save her.

Oda Sakunosuke understood what he hadn't said, nodded, turned and left without asking any more questions.

He needs to hurry and get the kids out of the Mafia property at the port to safety.

Osamu Dazai also left, but unlike what Oda Sakunosuke expected, he did not go back to the port Mafia to gather troops, but went to the suburbs alone.

Did he ask his subordinates to go to the suburbs to wait for him in advance?

Oda Sakunosuke's doubts disappeared in a flash, but there were more urgent problems to be dealt with. He suppressed his doubts for the time being, arrived at the hiding place of the children, and took them along with the curry shop owner who asked to take care of these children. The address of the safe house that Dazai gave him.

After settling the children down, Oda Sakunosuke thought for a moment, asked the coffee shop owner to continue to take care of the children, and then turned back and left for the suburbs.

At the same time, he called Sakaguchi Ango - thank God he hadn't had time to change his contact information: "Ango, I'm Oda Sakunosuke."

"Mr. Odasaku?"

He was obviously surprised to receive his call over there, and Oda Sakunosuke quickly continued: "Do you know where the headquarters of MIMIC is?"

An address was quickly reported over there. At the end, Ango Sakaguchi couldn't hold back and asked, "Did Dazai ask you to ask?"

"No, Dazai has already passed," Oda Sakunosuke said while running, "I'm a little worried, I want to go and have a look."

There was silence on the other side of the phone for a while, and the voice of their mutual friend came: "...Then please, Mr. Odasaku."

Although Ango Sakaguchi did not tell Osamu Dazai where MIMIC's base is, combined with his previous experience of being kidnapped, combined with Yokohama's own terrain and surrounding conditions, Osamu Dazai successfully deduced the current hiding place of MIMIC.

But he came without Oda Sakunosuke who got the answer directly from Ango.

Before he arrived, the remnants of MIMIC and its leader had already fought with the lonely Oda Sakunosuke: with the superimposition of two supernatural abilities that also "see the future a few seconds later", this place became a singularity. At this point, the passage of time becomes fast and slow.

The fast one is the thinking speed of the two superimposed supernatural power masters, and the slow one is the speed of time passing in reality.

In the blink of an eye for less than a second, the two of them have already completed the communication that usually takes hours or even days to complete.

Oda Sakunosuke knew the reason why Mimic sought death, and Andre Gide knew the reason why he gave up killing.

If it was Oda Sakunosuke a day ago, he would not be able to understand Gide's pursuit of death-but in the hypothesis that Dazai showed him, after Oda Sakunosuke saw the future of the death of his adopted children, he understood. .

If there is any way to save them, save these ghosts abandoned by the world... Oda Sakunosuke clenched the gun in his hand, he couldn't find the answer, even if he knew MIMIC's past, he still couldn't find the way to let them Understand his mood and understand the reason why living is the best option.

Because MIMIC is already in hell.

Betrayed by their motherland, they killed their comrades who fought side by side in order to survive, survived as an enemy army, lost all the pride and honor they once had, stained their hands with the blood of their companions, and covered their bodies with stigma—they have no A reason to live.

Dying on the battlefield like a soldier instead of committing suicide like a coward is the best home they can find for themselves.

Does she... know this?

Suddenly, Oda Sakunosuke thought of this.

Does the woman Ango mentioned know about this?

If she knew, then...would she think of a way?

Just when Oda Sakunosuke thought of this, the roof of the bungalow where he was fighting with Gide suddenly shattered, and the two almost subconsciously raised their heads to meet the bright sky, which was so brilliant that it almost pierced the eyes of people in the dark. bright--

They saw the girl carrying the light on her back, as if she had wings on her back, descending from the sky.

It fell in the middle of the two fighting.

The singularity disappears suddenly:

The puppetry belonging to Maomata was activated the moment they "saw" her figure, and the two people who were restrained from moving were also included in the scope of "prohibited" together with their supernatural abilities, so the singularity was born with the help of supernatural abilities It also disappeared.

"Andre."

André Gide was in a daze.

The child's clear voice is the same as when they were separated, as if these months have not passed.

"I knew you wouldn't listen to me." Seeing Mimic's expression, he knew that they still didn't know the changes in their homeland, and Xiao Ba sighed.

Gide's face moved, and he seemed to be trying to show a smile, but failed: "Do you know what we have encountered? Do you know what a painful experience it was for us? You know that just How much effort did it take to make it grow well and stop bleeding?"

Such a past that he dared not even go back to the capital to see. Now he can communicate with Oda Sakunosuke and tell the other party his past, which has exhausted his great courage.

"Why do you think I don't know? If I didn't know, I wouldn't be standing here. When you don't know anything, it's best not to point fingers at other people's lifestyles. I've always known this truth." Xiao Eight sighed again, "But, as John said, only when the carrion is dug out can the wound really heal—otherwise, even if the surface is healed, the inside will still be festering and bleeding."

John was a doctor in MIMIC, or rather, a military doctor in their ranks before they defected.

It's just that when John said this, he was teaching the child how to deal with wounds. Andre Gide never thought that this could be used by the child to say such things.

"... No matter how good it becomes there, it is not the motherland we can go back to." After a long time, he finally spoke.

Ten years have passed since that great war, ten years since the end of the war, and his motherland...has almost recovered from that devastation, right?

But that has nothing to do with him, with MIMIC who bears the name of betrayal.

"Unfortunately, no."

André Gide froze.

……What's the meaning.

"Just a few months ago, your motherland just experienced a coup. The army staged a coup, killed the traitorous regime, and eliminated the corrupt bureaucrats. If you insist," Xiao Ba tilted his head and recalled The scene when I left, "The people are liquidating all the traitorous behaviors of the former regime from the third supernatural war to the present.

"If there is a seller, there will naturally be a 'buyer'. The newly established regime's behavior of suppressing the former regime obviously violated the interests of the 'buyer'. So not long ago, the 'kbfz coalition army subverted the regime' as an excuse," The buyer's country, in the name of justice, stationed troops on the border, and waited for the new regime to become unstable, then marched into the border to become the "army of justice."

At some point, the MIMIC soldiers who were scattered around the bungalows gathered here: maybe they came to help their commander fight at the beginning, but now...

Holding weapons, they stood behind their commander, but their faces were blank: in exile, most of their faces appeared numbness, but rarely blankness.

Because only those who don't know what to do will be at a loss. For those of them who have been burdened with death early in the morning, there is nothing to be confused about.

But now, they are getting confused.

Andre Gide's expression was stiff: "...that's the same as us..."

"Do you know the reason for the mutiny in the army?" Xiao Ba interrupted him, "Because they learned that the boss they thought was mutiny ten years ago was betrayed by those politicians, 'sold' oh. Then they got Over the years, these politicians have embezzled national property for their own benefit, sold the property belonging to this country to foreign capital at a low price, transferred personal assets, and even introduced foreign capital into the country to control the people's livelihood economy..."

"Are you angry? Very angry. You see, you are angry. You can't stop them from being angry. What's more, they got real first-hand information compared to the dictation you gave me."

"So it's not surprising to overthrow this regime that betrayed the army and the country, right?"

André Gide stared blankly at the girl in front of him, the child they had accidentally rescued. Now she was wearing a white casual shirt with exquisite tailoring and unique design, matched with an elegant and dignified blue knee-length skirt. It reminds me of a female student walking down the avenue of an academy with a book in hand.

It has nothing to do with the battlefield filled with gunpowder.

But he still remembered how they looked when they rescued the child, covered in yellow sand and the smell of blood, the blood that flowed out soaked the clothes on his body into reddish brown, and then oxidized into dark brown by the condensed blood, almost no contact with the ground no difference.

He knows how talented this kid is, whether it's in combat or in his mind-the army that hasn't found out that they betrayed the truth for ten years suddenly found out the truth a few months ago. The boy who had left London was inseparable.

The grievances have been washed away, and those who betrayed them have also been punished as they should. It seems that they can let go...but...

"You can go back to your hometown, and you can regain those honors—do you think I will say that?" Xiao Hachi said coldly, and the change in tone made Oda Sakunosuke couldn't help but look sideways: this kind of attitude seemed to be overwhelming at first. Hope the last twist drags one into hell with the narration and tone of voice....

Why does it sound so much like Dazai?

Gide was stunned for a moment, and soon he realized:

His country needs men to fight for it, and they, MIMIC, are a group of people who seek death.

Since they are all about to die, what is the difference between dying in this Far Eastern country and dying in the war against invasion for the motherland?

Die in battle like a soldier.

Just for them, no?

The person in the gray cloak receded towards the depths of the woods like a ghost, but within a few minutes, only Xiao Hachi, Oda Sakunosuke, and Osamu Dazai were left in the bungalow.

He didn't speak all the time, and stood quietly in an inconspicuous corner, as if he didn't exist, until the MIMIC people left, the boy opened his mouth like a dream:

"It's great...give them a reason to live, even if it's a reason to 'send death', go back to the motherland, return to the battlefield, fight for the motherland, fight for the hometown...even if they want to die, they have The new fetters of the soldiers-the soldiers who fought with them will not watch them die.

"If there are too many threads on the body, the pace towards death will be held back."

"Is this your repayment to them? In order to thank them for saving you," Osamu Dazai turned his head to look at the girl not far away. "My repayment, Ms. Investigator of the Supernatural Secret Service Division."

Xiao Ba looked back and blinked: "No, I'm not the investigator."

Is this the point! ?

Osamu Dazai felt a fire burning in his heart——when he saw her, the heart that had been crushed to death by the news Ango brought ignited a flame, clamoring for her to tell everything honestly Come out, why come to him, why are you willing to stay by his side, why... you have to promise him.

It doesn't matter if you want to use him, you can do whatever you want, as long as... as long as you need him, as long as he is valuable to her, because then she won't leave him, even if it's only before the goal is achieved, that's fine ……But--

She could clearly hear that she was acting weird, but she paid attention to things that were not the point at all, and didn't pay attention to what he really wanted to say!

Why avoid him?

With her personality, she shouldn't... She shouldn't explain it. Yes, Ango said, she came alone. At that time, he thought she was ready to fight MIMIC alone, ready to die, but now It seems that people from MIMIC are reluctant to do anything to her, so why did Ango let him come to see her for the last time...

The meaning behind this made him shudder.

... If he is not necessary to her, then can she turn around and leave at any time?

The girl who finished speaking seemed to feel something, and turned her head to look at the sky. When she saw the things in the sky clearly, her expression... Dazai Osamu couldn't describe that appearance, and he suddenly noticed something:

Odasaku has traces of fighting with the leader of MIMIC, but if she arrives here one step ahead of Odasaku, Odasaku and the leader of MIMIC will not be able to fight at all!

In other words, she came here after Oda Saku.

Ango said that she went to find MIMIC after she left the Mafia building at the port, and he and Odasaku set off after hearing Ango's news, and Odasaku even went to transfer the children first...

Even so, Odasaku arrived here one step ahead of her.

Where did she go and what did she do during this time?

Osamu Dazai's eyes followed uncontrollably to the air.

He saw what had kept her late.

Above the sky of Yokohama, a shattered red giant sword was hanging in the air.