[Bungo Stray Dogs] With the Light and the Dust

Rousseau left.

Ovid and Chekhov stayed on the island for a few days and left.

After a brief reunion, Verne was left alone on the island.

The original seven people, some disappeared, some died, and now even Roland has left forever... When the circle gradually became incomplete, what reason did he persist?Verne, who has always insisted on protecting the island where the seven people can reunite, suddenly became confused.

Like a child who has lost his way, the more confused he is, the more afraid he becomes.

[Leave if you have the chance, there will be no more wars. ]

The words brought by Chekhov still ring in my ears, but now, he is the island, and the island is him, how can he leave easily?

Confused, Verne unknowingly came to the library on the island where few people go. This is his favorite place to stay, because the quiet environment here allows him to calm down.

But today's library has another guy.

"Lumière?"

The golden-eyed woman who was sitting on a soft armchair and flipping through a book raised her head to look over, and when she saw the person, she nodded her head as a greeting, "Verne."

Verne thought for a while, walked over and sat down opposite Bei Chenguang, and inadvertently saw the book she was reading.

It was an anonymous book with a completely black cover, not only without a title, but also without an author, and what he could only roughly recognize was in Italian.

How strange, is there such a book in this library?How did he never notice?

In fact, Verne, who is indeed a librarian, thought this way, and looked away from the book in Bei Chenguang's hand, "Are you here alone?"

In his impression, Osamu Dazai and Bei Chenguang have always been inseparable.

"En." Bei Chenguang just responded, his eyes left the book, fell on Verne, blinked slowly, and there was a penetrating spirit in the pale golden pupils.

Just as she once saw the expression of "I don't know how to live" on Dazai Osamu's face, now she also saw a similar expression on Verne's face.

Maybe even they themselves don't know what kind of expression it is.

Just like a lost child can't find a home, a wandering person can't find a home.

"Verne, what are you confused about?" Bei Chenguang closed the book, looked directly at him, and asked without euphemism or preparation.

"Me?" Verne froze for a moment, pondered for a while, and didn't think about it. This is not a topic that can be discussed with someone he has known for a long time. He just smiled wryly, "If I want to say it, I just lost the reason to stick to it. , and I can’t see…the direction I can move forward.”

"There will be." After listening quietly, Bei Chenguang lowered his eyes to think for a while, raised his head and looked directly into Verne's eyes, and said these words word by word.

"what?"

"There will be a way forward."

Verne was overwhelmed by her certain tone, and asked in a murmur, "Lumière...why can you be so sure?"

"Because I can see."

The lonely and sad young man was silent for a moment in Bei Chenguang's words, then he closed his eyes and smiled slowly, "Ah, really... I know why Dazai is always inseparable from you, if it were me, I probably wouldn't be able to bear it." Just hang around like him."

"I understand."

"Thank you, Lumière."

Bei Chenguang didn't pay attention to the previous sentence, he just nodded when he said "Understood", then stood up and put the book back on the shelf to leave.

"Lumière, don't you plan to borrow this book to read? I am the librarian here, and I can help you with the book borrowing procedures." Verne also stood up.

"No need, I've finished watching."

"Okay, then...see you next time."

Verne watched Bei Chenguang walk out of the library until his figure disappeared outside the door. Then he took out a collection of poems he read most often from his bookshelf and returned to his seat, slowly flipping through the lines he was already familiar with, and gradually fell silent. calm down.

If there is a direction to move forward, then just wait.

Do you think so, Roland?

——

Verne thought that this was enough, but the next day, also in the library, he saw Osamu Dazai sitting in the same place where Bei Chenguang sat yesterday, flipping through the unnamed book that Bei Chenguang had read, only However, her posture is more relaxed than hers, lying on the table like a boneless person, resting her chin on her arm to read a book, with her coat casually draped on the back of the chair.

... a little subtle.

"Ah, Mr. Verne, you are here." Osamu Dazai saw Verne who entered the library, raised his hand and waved to greet him.

"Are you looking for something from me?" Verne asked.

"No no—" Osamu Dazai denied with a drawn out voice, and held up the book in his hand, "I'm just here to read the book. Speaking of which, does Mr. Verne know what this book is about?"

Verne shook his head.

Osamu Dazai's smile deepened, and he exclaimed in a wonderfully exaggerated tone, "It's [the truth]!"

This book seems to be just an ordinary chronicle, but if it is viewed by someone who knows the existence of [book], there are traces of [book] everywhere between the lines.

The author of this unnamed book recorded his conjectures in a cryptic description.

Although the birthplace of the ability is Europe, no one knows when the ability existed.But one thing is certain, it took nearly 100 years for supernatural beings to become active, and there has never been a record of supernatural beings before that.

So the author of this unnamed book made a wild guess about the unspeakable [book].

He believes that [book] did not exist in the world, [book] is an "existence" that appeared in the past 100 years, it brought [abilities] that did not belong to this world, and usurped the control of the world .

But at the same time, [Book] also set a self-protection limit, as long as more than three people know the existence of [Book], the world will be destroyed.

This is a direction Dazai Osamu had never thought of.

But once he thought in this direction, he found that many doubts made sense.

He once saw the development of other worlds through the characteristics of the [book], so he changed the development of his own world so that Oda could survive.But after Miss Guang saved him, she told him that five years later, Oda Saku also saw the development of the parallel world through the book.

The existence of [book] cannot be known by a third person, and Oda Saku, he is the third person.

"Ah, ah, that makes sense..." Osamu Dazai propped his chin and muttered to himself, "It seems that Odasaku, Atsu-kun and Akutagawa managed to destroy it."

But from this point of view, Miss Guang, who he originally thought was the incarnation of [Book], is actually... [World].

"What was destroyed?" Verne, who was listening at the side in a daze, asked.

"No, it's nothing." Osamu Dazai, who had cleared his mind, resumed his smiling expression. He flipped through the book casually, turned the book to the front page, and saw the author's name left on the inside page of the front page, "Let me see the author ...Dante? Does Mr. Verne know this person?"

Verne thought for a while, and vaguely found an impression in his memory, "It seems to be one of the earliest supernatural beings?"

The author has something to say: Finally...!The identity of light is out!That's right, it is the incarnation of the world consciousness that has been usurped of control!After Odasaku and the others destroyed the book, they released the world consciousness (light) trapped by the book.

This private setting is a relatively reasonable setting that I came up with based on the original work, although there is a high probability of slapping the face.

The setting of the original [book] is either a special world view or something wrong with the [book]. How can the normal world be so fragile? If more than three people know the existence of books, the world will be destroyed or something.

Here is the original part of the 55min bonus for you to feel:

"Most people with supernatural powers think that supernatural powers are part of themselves." Dun seemed to be asking himself and answering, "But, in fact, this may not be the case. The supernatural powers may have come from some other place, and then attached to us On the body. From somewhere that is difficult to guess... Although I can't say it clearly, I think so."