[Bungo Stray Dogs] Bless the world

Yayoi specially asked everyone to help tidy up the smallest small room for this boy named Akutagawa Ryunosuke - because he is the oldest, several years older than the other boys here, and his body is still He has not fully recovered from pneumonia, so Yayoi thinks it is best for him to live in a room by himself temporarily. Of course, if Yin is willing to move there, Yayoi has no objection.

"Akutagawa-kun, I put the timetable here, remember to get up on time, or you will miss breakfast." Yayoi posted the timetable behind the door.

——I also tried to call the boy "Ryunosuke" before, but he frowned unhappily and rejected the title.

So Yayoi can only call him "Akutagawa-kun".

When she turned her head, she saw Akutagawa staring at the books in the bookcase in a daze - this room was originally used to store some books that were too esoteric and not suitable for children to read. In order to make room for Akutagawa's bed, Yayoi I moved the others away, and the rest are left here temporarily because there is no place to put them.

"Akutagawa-kun?" Yayoi called the boy again, and he covered his mouth and coughed.

"Understood." The boy still nodded expressionlessly.

The words he said to Yayoi in the past few days did not add up to more than ten sentences, and the person who told him all kinds of things to get along with his friends was actually Yayoi—I don’t know if he listened to it or not. Just blindly answer with simple words such as "um" and "understood"-there is absolutely no expression.

"Then you have a good rest... Ah, by the way, just now Xiaoyin took you to see where the bathroom and bathhouse are in the house..." Before Yayoi left, he suddenly remembered this important question, so he held on The doorknob poked his head into the room, and saw Akutagawa staring at the books on the bookshelf in a daze again, this time the boy was too lazy to answer, just nodded, then lowered his head, covered his mouth and coughed.

"Then I won't disturb your rest." Yayoi seemed completely indifferent to his offensive behavior, she closed the door lightly, turned and left.

Whether it is the footsteps or the sound of closing the door, they are soft and gentle, very well-bred.

In the next few days of contact, she found that Akutagawa was very unsocial, always sitting alone, looking at the children playing with those cold eyes—yes, he was older than these children Quite a few, it must be quite embarrassing to play together.

In this regard, Yin is very different from him. Although she also looks a little shy, she is by no means withdrawn like Akutagawa.

"Akutagawa-kun." Yayoi came to his side, in fact, when she was three steps away from him, the boy raised his head vigilantly.

These three steps are the shortest distance he can allow Yayoi to get away from him, and if he takes another step, he will show his teeth like a stray dog ​​whose territory has been violated.

But Yayoi stopped at this bottom line, she stretched out her hand, holding a simple and elegant hardcover book in her hand, "This is for you."

In his previous life, he was always guarding the things he found, and the young man who took the spoils from others widened his eyes slightly, looking at this first gift in his life with disbelief.

"It's just some notes." Yayoi turned her head to the side and smiled slightly, "If you want to read the books on the shelf, you can start with the ones listed in this notebook, and you can ask me anytime if you don't understand anything."

Seeing that the boy did not reach out to pick up the notebook, Yayoi placed the small gift three steps away from the boy, then turned around and ran towards the children who were playing, "Come and play hide-and-seek with me?" ?” She called with a smile like a child.

"Sister is a ghost!" Sunako greeted with a big smile.

Akutagawa sat under the fig tree, stared at the notebook for a while, raised his head again, glanced at Gin who was playing with the children, and finally, his eyes fell on the handkerchief covering his eyes, smiling That woman who was going around catching those naughty kids....

——The sun is too dazzling.

——Almost burning pain in his eyes, accustomed to hiding in the dark, he lowered his head and blinked to relieve the burning pain, and then coughed again.

—Silly and naive woman.

The boy let out a snort of ridicule.

It’s been a while since I’ve been here, and now it’s the season of ripe figs in autumn. In the garden in front of the woman’s house, the previous owner planted an old fig tree, which was about to die due to lack of care. Shengsheng was saved by that woman——

In the whole house, there is actually only one person who can refer to the owner here as "that woman".

Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who had recovered, looked at Yayoi climbing up the ladder to pick figs for the children who lived with him with a cold, expressionless pale face—he, his sister, and Yayoi were not the only ones here. , besides them, there are seven other children, all of whom were picked up by Yayoi—this makes this small house that is not too big look like a small orphanage.

And Yayoi is the director of this small orphanage.

"There are more over there, sister." Yin blushed and reminded Yayoi with a small voice that there were still some figs on the branches that had not been picked.

But Yayoi handed the basket to the eagerly awaited children below, "We're not the only ones who want to eat these figs." This year's harvest was better, and she left more figs than usual.

"?" The children looked up at her with curious eyes when they heard her say that.

Yayoi did not respond to their curiosity, but just smiled and put her finger on her lips in a quiet gesture.

The children didn't know for a long time who was going to share the figs with them.

Until one afternoon, when the unsocial Akutagawa was hiding in his room in the sun in a daze, he saw a few sparrows jumping around the figs, taking a bite from time to time.

These sweet, ripe fruits will help these little ones survive the cold winter.

——It was a gift from a gentle woman who loved everything.

The boy quietly watched the group of chirping birds. The old fig tree even had some fruit-hanging branches stretched out to his window. Looking at the figure, cheered and jumped to the window to peck at his delicious food.

Then, with a rare, childish, mischievous thought, the boy tapped his finger on the glass window, frightening all the birds enjoying the fig feast, flapping their wings and flying away.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke is a bad boy with no heart.

All the adults who came into contact with him said so.

Not well-behaved, heartless, and a dog without emotion.

One day, that woman will get bored too, get bored, and then give up——Thinking like this, the boy let out a dull cough.