[Bungo Stray Dogs] With the Light and the Dust

Oda Sakunosuke saw a very strange woman outside the cafe downstairs of the Armed Detective Agency.

How should I put it, this kind of strangeness is not the kind of weirdness in strange clothes or strange behavior. The behavior and appearance of the woman herself are very normal, but for some reason, there is a subtle sense of alienation on her body.Therefore, it appears to be out of tune with everything around it.

Other than that, there is nothing special to note.

While Oda Sakunosuke was observing her, the woman suddenly noticed his gaze and turned her head to meet his gaze.

The first thing I saw was a pair of rare pale gold pupils.

In reality, pupils of this color are rare, but it is not impossible, but there is no pair of eyes like this woman's eyes... Oda Sakunosuke searched in his mind, and the intuition of a writer is almost Decided to choose a word to describe it.

- Divinity.

"Hello." Just as Oda Sakunosuke was thinking about this, the woman had already come to him and pulled him back with a question, "Can you tell me what year it is now?"

"OOOO year." Though puzzled, Oda Sakunosuke answered her question.

"Then, can you tell me the exact date?" The woman with a pair of pale golden pupils continued to ask, her beautiful and fair face was still serious, and there was no sign of joking at all.

"On October [-]," Oda Sakunosuke finished answering, and couldn't help but ask her, "Miss, have you encountered any difficulties? If you have any difficulties, you can tell me. My name is Oda Sakunosuke. I'm a member of the Armed Detective Agency and will do my best to help you."

She stared at Oda Sakunosuke for a while, then suddenly showed a shallow smile, and even the divine light golden eyes came alive, although it was only for a moment, "There is no difficulty, thank you, Oda Saku .”

"My name is Bei Chenguang."

Just when Oda Sakunosuke was stunned by that familiar address, the woman who called herself Bei Chenguang disappeared.

The place where he was talking to the woman was not remote, but the passers-by did not notice that a person had disappeared out of thin air here, as if she had never appeared before.

"Is it a supernatural power?"

Just when the Armed Detective Agency was about to start a war with Hong Kong gangsters, such a person suddenly appeared, Oda Sakunosuke subconsciously became vigilant, and sent a message to Kunikida.

And that call made him very concerned.

[Oda work]?

He had never heard anyone call him that, but the woman who called herself [Bei Chenguang] looked very skilled when she said this name.

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This time it really came at the right time.

Bei Chenguang raised his head and stared at the Ganghei Building not far away.

The Hong Kong and Black Building was in a state of chaos due to the enemy's invasion.In order to find his younger sister, the boy who manipulated the clothes and turned into a black beast, the boy who turned into a tiger, and the white doll Yasha and the girl.

"Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Nakajima Atsushi, Izumi Kyoka." Bei Chenguang, who walked into the Hong Kong Building openly, read their names softly, and no one noticed even if they passed by.She climbed up the stairs and came to the top of the building.

The height here is [-] floors above the ground, and it is built to the specifications of a heliport. There are no railings or walls to prevent falling at the edge of the building, and the sky is on the other side.

Bei Chenguang's eyes passed through the obstacles of the building and the distance limit, and saw the two teenagers who were fighting hard, saw the members of the detective agency who tried their best to support them, and finally fell on the two people talking in the Lupin bar.

The black-haired young man left. Oda Sakunosuke put the gun back in his arms, stood still for a moment, and left.

At the same time, Atsushi Nakajima, transformed into a giant white tiger, ran into Ryunosuke Akutagawa and jumped out of the mafia building.

Bei Chenguang just watched quietly.

This is the past, and she came to this point in time from the future just to change one thing.

After an unknown amount of time, Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Atsushi Nakajima landed on the top of the building.After a fierce fight, both sides were covered with bruises. In the end, the white tiger boy fell down, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa walked to Atsushi Nakajima with his wounds all over his body.

Just as Bei Chenguang knew, Akutagawa Ryunosuke gave up when he was only close to killing Atsushi Nakajima.

The tall figure in a black coat who had been watching them showed an imaginary smile when he saw this scene.He clapped his hands, then stepped out of the darkness and walked up to them.

"Congratulations."

Osamu Dazai.This is the friend Odasaku wanted to save.

Bei Chenguang listened to him explaining his plan to the two teenagers and the existence of [the book]. She looked at this thin young man who was smiling, and looked straight into his soul through the bandage-wrapped body. go.

【心を何にたとえよう一人ぼっちの吉しさを】②

Just like that, she suddenly remembered an irrelevant lyrics that she had forgotten where she heard it.

"This is the only world where he lives and writes novels. I can't let this world disappear..."③

Such murmurs are scattered in the wind.

"Ah," Osamu Dazai closed his eyes and said with a dreamy smile, "I'm finally here, the moment I've been looking forward to for a long time. I'm really looking forward to it, I'm really looking forward to it... But ah, You will finish that novel one day, but I can't see it. Now there is only this one thing, which makes me a little unwilling..."④

He took a step back from the edge and just dropped down with a contented smile.

A thirty-story building.

Bei Chenguang also took a step forward and stepped out of the edge. The wind blowing towards her face brushed her hair back, revealing her pale golden eyes.

Just when there were still about ten floors away from the ground, Bei Chenguang grabbed the wrist of the falling Dazai Osamu.

A faint light emerged from her body, enveloping Osamu Dazai who had his eyes closed.

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On an isolated island in the Pacific Ocean.

There was a rustling of leaves, followed by the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.

The startled bird flapped its wings vigilantly from branch to branch, and then carefully observed the sudden intruder.

Bei Chenguang let go of the hand holding Dazai Zhi's wrist and stood up, reaching out to pick off the leaves on his hair.

"Miss, where did you take me?" The young man with his eyes still closed sighed, showing a troubled expression and smiled slightly, "To be honest, miss, I was really scared when you grabbed my hand just now." I was very pleasantly surprised, I thought someone was willing to die in love with me."

"This is another world." Bei Chenguang said.

"Another world..." Osamu Dazai lay on the ground, raised a hand to his forehead, opened his eyes as if he was exhausted, and said softly, "Why did you save me?"

"Odasaku hopes you survive." Bei Chenguang squatted down in front of Osamu Dazai, "He helped me, so I want to help him realize his wish."

"Odasaku?"

As if he had stopped breathing, he opened his eyes slowly, and after a while, he showed a surprised expression belatedly.

"How could it be Odasaku?"

He murmured and confirmed again, "Is it Odasaku?"

"On the fifth year after your death, Oda Saku came into contact with the book by accident." Bei Chenguang narrated truthfully, "Just like you, he saw everything you did and what happened in the parallel world. "

"That's right," Osamu Dazai listened with a calm expression, and said with an exclamation, showing a smile similar to that when he fell from the roof, "That's great."

The author has something to say: This parallel world is the world of Butei Zai, and this time is when Oda Sakugo died: D

The leader, Zaijiu... has an inexplicable sense of Buddhism.

Yet he still wanted to die.

①③④The content of the special novel Heidun Baigai

②hand?Wei?-テル?`の周

What is this feeling

One person ぼっちの孤しさを the loneliness of being alone