After I divorced from chaos step

"Your personality is really distorted."

Dazai squatted on the ground, shook the water off his body, and looked at Tsu with a cold expression with emotion.

Jin stared at the already boiling river in front of him, his kite-colored eyes lifted up, reflecting the green hills in the distance, all quiet.

The fish and shrimp in the river were all cooked, and the heat was billowing, rushing straight up the mountain, and the whole river exuded an unpleasant fishy smell.

I took out a handkerchief from my pocket, handed it to Dazai, and motioned him to wipe off the water on his face.

"The Qingxi sauce is the best."

Just as Dazai stretched out his hand to pick it up, suddenly a hand stretched out from the side, grabbing the handkerchief with two fingers.

I:"……"

Dazai: "..."

Jin took the handkerchief he had cut off, wiped off the water on his hands, and threw it to Dazai unceremoniously: "Remember to go home and wash it for others." Then he said, "Let's go."

I looked back at Dazai, he was holding a handkerchief, pointing at me, and made a gesture of wiping his neck.

... Dazai probably hates Tsuba.

Yes.

Who would like someone who kidnapped himself when he was young and wanted to kill himself and refine it into medicine?

The mountain in front of us is called Yueying Mountain. It is said that 20 years ago, there were a large number of fireflies living here, and the light was enough to reflect the bright moon in the sky, so it was called Yueying.

Later, because of an unknown wildfire, the fireflies here were almost extinct.

What I don't understand is that Jin's ability allows us to go directly to the top of the mountain, but he just teleports us to the bottom of the mountain.

I looked at Tsu who was walking in front alone, his figure was very similar to the current Dazai, yet somewhat different.

When I was a child, I watched Jin wearing exquisite kimonos and stepping on the snowy corridor with clogs. At that time, he had a kind of alienated tenderness.

Now there is only alienation.

The black windbreaker draped over his shoulders was blown up and down by the night wind in the mountains, exuding an inhuman gorgeous aloofness all over his body.

I couldn't help asking Dazai in a low voice: "Mr. Dazai, are you really not related by blood to Mr. Jin? Is he your big cousin or something?"

Dazai let out an "ah" and said, "I don't have any brothers."

I guessed again: "Are you from the same place, so you look alike?"

As the saying goes, one side supports the other side.

"Then do girls in Kamakura look the same as Qingxi sauce?"

I couldn't refute what he said.

"You can keep guessing." Dazai said with a smile, "but it's better that you don't know about this kind of thing."

It's more curious not to answer.

There must be a relationship between them, otherwise Jin would not have found the target so accurately back then, knowing that Young Zai's ability is effective for me.His own abilities also work on me, but because he's too weak, he can't stabilize me for long.

Father and son?The age is not the same, and Jin is too mean and ruthless to Dazai. Before, he could break Dazai's arm without hesitation, and even thought of killing Dazai as an antidote.

brother?Dazai had already denied it just now.

I thought of the story of Dolly the cloned sheep told in the junior high school biology book, and I couldn't help but think of Dazai and Jin.

Is it—

Dazai is actually a clone!

In case he really is a clone, isn't that against the law?

etc!Even if Dazai is really a clone, this kind of thing is not his fault.

"Stop thinking about it." Dazai waved his hand at me, "Let's guess slowly after you go back."

My eyes fell on the bandage on Dazai's arm. As far as I can remember, he seemed to have been wearing bandages all the time, from childhood to adulthood.

I asked Ranpo if Dazai often injured his arm, and Ranpo said that it was his personal hobby.

Hobby?I have a hobby of wrapping bandages on my arms and body.Even Doppo Kunikida called it a bandage waste device, and he never tires of buying bandages.

Is it to cover up the traces that he is a clone?

……is that a lie.

"Looking at your appearance, it seems that you have guessed it." Dazai suddenly changed his words, "Then I will give you another chance to guess what the relationship between me and this guy is."

Jin, who was walking ahead, also stopped, and his fingertips slowly brushed against the rock wall.

"Tell me." He also looked at me.

I don't think my reasoning makes sense, but I can't think of any other possibility.

"First of all, you can't be father and son. Although Mr. Jin brought back the young Dazai-kun when he was young, the age difference is too small."

"Ah."

"Mr. Dazai also denied that you are brothers just now."

Jin narrowed his eyes and said softly: "We are indeed not brothers."

"But you are so similar, even the original supernatural powers are very similar, so I guess—" I hesitated for a full five seconds before saying, "Mr. Dazai was cloned by Mr. Yotsu."

There was no surprise on Jin's face, and he asked, "How did you deduce this conclusion?"

"...He was not injured on his arm, but he was always wearing a bandage. I thought he was a fan of COS mummies, but now I guess that he may be trying to cover up the fact that he is a clone."

After hearing what I said, Tsu and Dazai fell silent together.

I know I'm exaggerating, since the clones aren't robots and shouldn't have any traces that need to be bandaged, but I can't think of anything else they could be related to.

I tried to divert the embarrassing atmosphere, but Dazai spoke slowly, with unprecedented solemnity in his eyes.

"I didn't expect that what I had been hiding for so long was finally discovered."

"Uh……"

He raised one arm, looked at the bandage wrapped around it, and smiled wryly: "I've done so much to cover up, but I've still been seen through."

"……"real or fake?

"You're right, Qingxi sauce. I don't want to hide anything anymore—"

Jin yawned a long time at this time, this expression softened the coldness on his face and made him look a little more friendly.

Dazai blinked, under the faint moonlight, his long and curled eyelashes could be vaguely discerned.He slowly said the second half of the sentence: "Our clones are going to start conquering the earth hahahaha——"

He couldn't hold back, and laughed outright.

What happened just now was actually pretending.

"Qingxi sauce, you are so cute, why do you have such a magical idea?"

"Hey, Dazai-kun! You lied to me."

"I'm sorry, I couldn't help it for a while hahaha." His apology was insincere, but I was not angry.

"It's fine if it's not a clone." To this world, clones are also heterogeneous. As long as they are heterogeneous, they will not be truly accepted and will not have real freedom. "Otherwise you will have a harder life."

Dazai stopped laughing, and said softly, "I see."

"So what's your relationship?"

"You can't guess." Jin stepped on the slope and continued to walk up, "The relationship between me and him is far more inexplicable than the clone you said."

"Hey, even if it's really a clone, I'm not the cloned party." Dazai crossed his arms, looked at Jin from a lower place to a higher place, and his expression became more playful, "Because this is my world."

I didn't say a word, and I didn't speak again.

I was worried that my mother and Luanpo would call and ask me where my father and I went, but Luanbu sent me an email, saying that he and my mother would have to play in the detective house for a long time before going back, so don't worry me and my father .

... Fortunately, he is obsessed with detective games, otherwise I really can't explain it.

All the way up, the smell of rotten fish and rotten shrimp from the boiling river still lingers around us, making it suffocating.

"Do you notice any difference?"

Jin slowed down and walked beside me, Dazai still walked last, looking east and west.

"When I went up the mountain before, it didn't seem to take so much time."

I got the power from here when I was nine years old, and I woke up lying down by the river.

Later, I climbed up the mountain many times, and never found any abnormalities.

"Because the Moon Ying Mountain you saw before was just the Moon Ying Mountain that others want you to see."

"Huh?" I looked at Jin puzzled.

He pointed to Dazai standing on a hillside five meters away from us.

Dazai made a pair of binoculars and looked into the distance, as if waiting for something.

Time passed by one second after another.

Suddenly, I saw a little fluorescent light flying through his hair.

It's a light fluorescent yellow.

Like a dot floating in the air.

"Yo, the owner of this mountain is here."

Dazai lowered his arm, and the firefly yellow light fell on his bandage.

Then, countless firefly yellow light spots flew out from behind him.

There were also spots of light falling on my shoulders, and I realized that they turned out to be the fireflies that were said to be extinct in Yueyingshan.

I have never seen so many fireflies.

There are more and more fireflies, almost covering the entire night sky.

And the direction they flew in was another road that I had never seen before.

The corner of Jin's mouth curled slightly: "It's interesting that the firefly leads the way."

"A certain person really has a vicious heart." Dazai sighed, tugging at his bandage, "For his own benefit, he would rather destroy other people's residences."

Seeing that I didn't understand, Dazai explained: "The fireflies in Yueyingshan are called water fireflies. They live near the water and have high requirements for water quality. There is only one river here, and it has been completely destroyed now. They There is no way to inhabit and hide, so we can only show up, just to lead us the way, that’s why someone boiled the river just now.”

I turned my face away with difficulty and glanced at the river at the foot of the mountain from afar.

Jin boiled a river without any mercy, and all life in the river died in an instant, but he didn't even frown.

"What will happen to these fireflies?" I asked Dazai.

Dazai blew on the fireflies that landed on his bandage: "They will die in groups, because they can't leave the river for too long, and the fireflies here will probably be truly extinct."

"Is it."

I have never seen fireflies with the same color as the moon, and I still feel deeply sorry for them.

It takes a century for wind and water to reforest, and it takes many years for a river to form a complete ecological environment. It is even more difficult for water fireflies to hide in Tibet.

And all of this will disappear in one night.

Destruction is much easier than creation.

——Because the Yueying Mountain you saw before is just the Yueying Mountain that others want you to see.

I only realized Mr. Jin's words when I climbed to the top of the mountain.

The place I reached before should be only halfway up the mountain here, but the real Yueying Mountain is higher up.I guess some kind of supernatural barrier is set up here, similar to tricks such as blindfolding or isolating space.

Dazai's ability can invalidate the ability set here, so Yueyingshan showed its original appearance.

"But isn't this strange?" I asked suspiciously, "I know that some supernatural powers can still exist after leaving the body, but Dazai-kun's supernatural powers can't be effective until they touch his body, why is the mountain body at this time Just show it?"

I know that my brain is not smart, what Jin and Dazai can know by looking at each other, I have been thinking for a long time, but I can't think of an answer.

"Didn't you notice something touched him just now?"

I quickly recalled all the scenes from Dazai climbing up the mountain in my mind.

Whoever touched him, whoever touched him—

"firefly."

"Yes."

"Can fireflies still have abilities?"

I never thought that such a small animal could have supernatural powers.

"It's rare to see, and the principal of Xiongying High School is just a white mouse with an awakened personality." Jin paused, and then said, "But the fireflies here are different, they don't have supernatural powers, someone endowed them with supernatural powers and asked them to guard the fireflies." This mountain."

Giving fireflies the ability to...

Since fireflies can be endowed with abilities, humans must be able to be endowed with abilities, so I may be here too, and someone forcibly endowed them with abilities.

"According to the definition of the law of causality, any phenomenon must have a cause. Since your accident happened on this mountain, it should be here."

A large number of fireflies gathered on a certain rock, it seems that they don't want us to get close.

Jin turned his head to look at Dazai, and raised his jaw towards Dazai: "Go."

"I'm not a tool man." Dazai pouted, and put his hand on the rock.

The group of fireflies slowly dispersed.

Fireflies whose abilities are removed are just ordinary bugs.

"Next is you," Jin said to me, "get rid of the rocks up here, only the rocks."

I did.

Huge rock formations slowly disappear.

I eliminated four layers in total.

There was a deep hole underneath.

What the fireflies are guarding must be the things below this pit.

What caught the eye was dozens of skeletons overlapping in a distorted manner.

Careful observation reveals that these skeletons have defects to varying degrees.

Jin jumped down into the pit and rummaged through the pile of skeletons without hesitation.

I glanced at Dazai, his eyes were not on our side, he had untied a bandage on his arm and was playing with it.

……so awkward.

One is playing and the other is flipping.

So what should I do?

"found it."

Jin jumped up from the pit, holding a marble in his hand.

It is a light blue marble.

... I have several bottles of this kind of marbles piled up in my house, because I am particularly obsessed with shiny and round objects because of Ranbu.

But the marbles dug out from the dead, I'd better not give them to play with.

Heart shock.

I don't want it at all.

Jin stuffed the marble into my hand: "Keep it safe, this is the only thing I found from that pile of skeletons that didn't rot."

I really couldn't refuse, so I stuffed it in my pocket indiscriminately.

"I'm sleepy." He rubbed his eyes and muttered childishly, "I'm going back."

He held out his hand to me, and I subconsciously looked at Dazai.

"Dazai-kun——!!!"

I saw a golden ball in his hand.

It's almost like a moon.

He took off all the bandages on his body and wove them into a big ball. All the fireflies gathered on it, making the ball sparkle.

I looked up at the moon in the sky—it was just so bright.

The dreams woven by mortals are so touching.

He smiled and groaned: "Qingxi sauce, this time I picked the moon for you."

I think of the night when we first parted.

I moved anything in the house that could hold water to the beach.

I filled each bowl with water so that the stars were all reflected in the water.

When the wind blows at that time, the starlight ripples with the water waves.

When the wind blows at this time, the moon seems to shake off a little silver light.

Before I had time to feel emotional, Jin had already grabbed my hand.In the next second, the two of us were in the hospital just now.

"Mr. Jin, Dazai-kun is still alone on the mountain."

If you take people there and use them as tools, don't you include a return ticket?

"Don't worry, you won't die anyway."