[Comprehensive] Confession Mask

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Yokohama, Central Shopping Street.

After Yusae Mishima's reasoning, Akutagawa followed her, and indeed found several situations similar to the first crime scene—no matter the height of the blood splatter, the amount of blood, and the traces were all the same. Zhe, it was only because the rain that fell two days ago covered the traces that the terrifying traces were covered up.

In that case, he was quite sure that there was a monster lurking near the shopping street, and would haunt it at night.And if he and Yusae Mishima were in an ambush in the same type of dark place, maybe they would be able to draw that thing out, right?

It's just that he didn't expect that the ambush suggested by Yusao Mishima was based on such sophisticated reasoning.

...If it were his violent fighting style that is always blamed by Osamu Dazai, such subtle traces would have been ignored by him long ago. way to go hunting.

But just like Mishima Yusae said, there are too many eyeliners of the Supernatural Secret Service Division lurking around here, and his method will cause problems.

So today, Akutagawa really felt that he had learned some skills from that woman who seemed to be fooling around—just like when he followed Osamu Dazai before, and was used by this unpredictable person in a strange way Taught him something profound.

He now had to admit that that woman was somewhat capable.

... No wonder since she came to Yokohama, she was able to solve some monsters that troubled the boss one after another, and she also maintained an equal relationship with that Central Plains.

But there was one thing Akutagawa still didn't understand.

"...Where did your knowledge of ghost stories come from?"

Akutagawa put his hands in his trouser pockets and followed Mishima in the shopping street, while the white-haired girl in a top hat looked back at him, and then smiled softly.

"Oh, isn't it a matter of course to have this bit of knowledge?"

She replied softly, her clear eyes were so calm that she could see through everything.

And Akutagawa was stopped by her question in a natural tone, because he couldn't answer for a while, the girl turned his head back at the right time, and continued to look at the road ahead.

And since he asked the question, the girl's back looks a little distant and indifferent, which is also similar to Dazai Osamu, or... this is the most similar to Dazai Osamu.

Once she encounters a question that she doesn't want to answer, she will cleverly avoid the question with an appropriate expression and tone, and after answering, exude that alienated aura as a hint of rejection.

And every time at this time, Akutagawa didn't dare to go after him and walk into that person's domain.

Just blindly longing for that person to look back at him, to come out of the darkness and look at him again.

...And because of this, he was intertwined with that person, and before he understood him, he lost the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder with that person.

Akutagawa's eyes gradually dimmed, and he watched the girl wearing the top hat get farther and farther away from him. The moonlight spread palely on her body, but it only made her back darker.

But she still walked forward calmly with unhurried steps, just like that person.

Akutagawa can almost see the double image of his most cherished master from her body.

This made him unable not to think this way: this woman, under her friendly and gentle mask, was just an empty shell after all.

……

"...Akutagawa-kun, be careful."

And just when Akutagawa fell into deep thought, the girl's light voice came from the front.

But because of the sudden incident, Akutagawa didn't react for a while, he just stared round and saw a dark and muddy figure rushing towards him.

"Luo Sheng... um!"

But just before he used Rashomon, who was half a beat behind, a strong gust of wind pushed him away from the turbid black as if protecting him——

And Akutagawa was blown into the air by the strong wind like a kite, he looked down at the black object from a height, and saw what an ominous thing it was——

It is turbid black and red in color, has human limbs, but... no head.

Headless but moving rapidly.

"what?!"

This is the first time Akutagawa saw the monster's posture, what kind of disgusting thing is that? !

I could only hear the dense "cluck-clack" sound of the weird joints swinging, the headless black thing moved quickly on the street, and then quickly jumped on the passers-by who hadn't had time to escape, raised its strong arms and wanted to To twist a person's head abruptly.

Screams came from all over the street one after another. Victims had already started to appear. The moon hanging high in the night sky gradually turned blood-red, and Mishima was blocked by the wind that Sae Zong was trying to use supernatural powers. The movement of the monster, but because there are still many passers-by on the street, she can't be too precise.

"Ahhh-"

"what--"

The citizens fled from east to west on the road, while Mishima stared at the bloody monster with clenched eyebrows. Without much thought, he pulled out his hand/gun from his waist, and then directly attacked the monster's location with neat marksmanship.

boom! boom! boom!

Three bullets were fired, but only one hit the monster's arm, but this time the monster's regeneration speed was a bit fast. It only took one second for the arm to be blown away, and it grew back in the next instant.

And Yusae Mishima frowned and pressed the brim of her hat, thinking about the countermeasures to fight in the side streets, and when she was about to use further supernatural powers, a pair of soft hands suddenly hugged her thighs at this moment!

Mishima focused on the footsteps that Sae had intended to move forward, and then told her to look back in astonishment—she saw that the one hugging her thigh was just a frightened little girl.

I saw that her pupils lost focus and looked at the monster in the middle of the side street. As for the blood on her hands...it seemed to come from her mother.

Yusae Mishima looked at the several corpses with severed heads lying upside down in the corner with some astonishment. At that moment, she couldn't push the girl away from holding her hands.

And the monster also approached Mishima Yukao at this time.

Akutagawa, who was frozen in the air, could only see the pitch-black monster flying towards the white-haired girl in the top hat at an extremely fast speed, but her hand that was planning to use the supernatural power was half a beat behind, and also because of the wind. Slow down, the monster's hand seems to be touching her...

"Woman!" Akutagawa frowned and yelled, and then, almost at the same time, yelled: "Rashomon!!!"

The jacket Akutagawa was wearing turned into a ferocious black beast in an instant, and then bit the back leg of the black monster with the fastest speed, saving Mishima Yusao in a critical situation.

Only then did Mishima react, and he blew a gust of wind with his backhand to protect the little girl and blow it to a distance, protecting it with a wind barrier, and the next second, he frowned again.

"...Extraordinary power, Kamaitachi!"

As she spoke, Akutagawa watched helplessly as the girl's figure disappeared in situ, and then, a white wind barrier visible to the naked eye was formed from the in situ, entangled the black monster as if alive, and then used the monster The wind chokes—

In the strong wind, the wailing from monsters and the sound of bone shattering can be heard endlessly, and Akutagawa Hiroshi looked at the white wind in front of him in astonishment in the air, so Yusae Mishima's supernatural ability... can turn himself into a gust of wind ?

The monster seemed to be completely controlled by a huge hand, and it couldn't escape no matter how hard it struggled.

And at this time, a voice joined again——

"...Supernatural power, in the muddy sadness!"

It was a very familiar voice called Akutagawa, and I saw a huge black object falling from the sky, and then covered the monster heavily - and Akutagawa took a closer look, and found that it was a cage, which was actually in the middle of the Central Plains. During the manipulation, it turned into a size just enough to imprison the monster, and fell heavily to the ground.

And the white wind barrier that imprisoned the monster for a short time also took the opportunity to come out from the gap in the cage, which was not too big or too small, and gradually pieced together the original "shape" of Mishima Yusao in the air.

I saw the girl's snow-white long hair fluttering in the air, and she put on her hat with a calm and pale expression. The cold temperature only flickered in her eyes, and soon, she put some warmth on her expression .

"Mr. Nakaya, did you come so late on purpose? You made me miss the eight o'clock file tonight!"

She pursed her lips and acted like a baby to Zhong Yuanzhong, but the latter didn't mind. Instead, he folded his hands and looked at the monster he locked in the cage with satisfaction, saying triumphantly: "Sorry, in order to find a suitable cage. It took a while."

"You're doing great, Akutagawa."

"No, it's basically her..."

"This woman can't boast."

"Hey! Mr. Chuya is too much!"

Mishima folded his hands between Sae and then turned around angrily.

The snow-colored hair was fluttering in the wind, and it seemed that the hair tie might have been broken during the battle.

But her back with white hair reaching to her waist is actually very pretty.

Akutagawa looked at the girl who seemed to be glowing faintly under the moonlight, with a dazed expression.

……

On the other side, on the roof of the shop where Akutagawa was in a daze.

"Wow, I didn't expect this time to be preempted by that idiot Chuya."

"Then... Dazai-san, do we have to do this too?"

"Why not? Dun-jun, I am optimistic about you——Go!"

Just when Zhong Yuanzhong was thinking about where to move the monster back, a strange scream fell from the sky from the roof of the Hengjie building, and he just looked up, and saw Atsushi Nakajima descending from the sky face down .

So Nakahara took a step back without a trace, so that Atsushi Nakajima could successfully land on his face.

Then Dazai Osamu, wearing a windbreaker, descended from the sky and landed on both feet.

"Dazai/Mr. Dazai?!" Nakahara Chuya and Akutagawa asked at the same time.

"...and Nakajima-kun." Yusai Mishima helped Nakajima who was on the ground with a smile, and looked at the bloody face with a smile.

And the instigator, Osamu Dazai, who kicked the man down the stairs, still had a smile on his face, and reached out to dig his ears.

"...Yes, good evening."

"Although it's troublesome, the president asked us to capture the monster~" Osamu Dazai stretched out his hand and grabbed Atsushi Nakajima from the ground, first glanced at Nakahara Nakaya and Akutagawa, and finally put his ambiguous gaze on Mishima Yoshikazu's body.

"By the way, I didn't want to come when I heard Yuchuya, but I thought that Ms. Mishima might be there, so I followed up~" Dazai held one cheek and smiled slyly: "Miss Mishima, if I succeed Take the monster back, how about you dump Chuya and live in my house?"

"If we do that, we can study together how to burn charcoal to commit suicide tomorrow morning~"

Dazai's eyebrows and eyes were curved, and the shameless invitation sounded not only frivolous and ambiguous, but also a bit tentative.

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The author has something to say: Dazai: I want to commit suicide with a refreshed mind today~

Mishima: Go