[Bungo Stray Dogs] With the Light and the Dust

"You are a time-powered user, right?" Yosano Akiko checked Dazai's status and turned to Wells.Maybe it was because the other party was a woman, so her attitude was milder, "Now he can remove his powers, and I will give him CPR."

Wells nodded, allowing the flow of time on Dazai to return to normal.

The only way for Yosano Akiko's ability to take effect on Dazai is when the heart is resuscitated, from the time when the heartbeat resumes until the blood flows to the brain, at this moment, because the heartbeat is still there, he is "on the verge of death" status, the healing ability can still be used, and at the same time, the brain is still in a stopped state, and the invalidation of Dazai's ability will not get in the way.

The time difference between these is about 0.5 seconds.

In the moment between life and death, by grasping the gap in the activation condition of the ability, you can use the healing ability on Dazai.

Different abilities, [please don't die].

Dazai's chest pierced by the blade healed under the effect of Yosano Akiko's ability, leaving only the shirt and bandage on the abdomen with holes pierced by the knife.

Dazai opened his eyes all at once, rolled them around, and then sat up straight like a corpse.

"Hey... come back alive?" He lowered his head and touched the place where he had been pierced, with a disappointed tone, "Yeah, this time I finally died, but I was resurrected... Okay Too much."

"Since it's done, don't get in the way here." Yosano Akiko sneered unceremoniously, and walked to Wells to treat her.

Dazai stood up while mumbling something, his eyes lit up suddenly when he saw Bei Chenguang (and Dazai Zhi) standing at the door of the basement, he raised his hand cheerfully and waved, "Ah, Miss Guang, thanks to being stabbed With this knife, I remembered that we met before backtracking!"

"It's a super romantic encounter~"

When Dazai heard this tone, he also sneered, turned his head and pulled Bei Chenguang and said, "Miss Guang, since there is nothing here, let's go directly to Verne's side, shall we?"

Bei Chenguang let out a "hmm".

Dazai received his own cold gaze from another world, not only did he not panic at all, he even worked very hard to follow up cheekily, "Wait for me, Miss Guang, Dazai-kun, why are you walking so fast~"

"Sometimes I really admire this guy." After treating Wells, Yosano Akiko shook her head and packed up the CPR tools that she just took out, as well as the knives that were not used at all.

"But..." Wells sat up, helped the camera hanging around his neck, lowered his head and smiled, "It's great, there are companions who are willing to do their best to save him."

——

The battle between Atsushi, Akutagawa and Gabe is coming to an end.

Originally, Gabe had already secured the victory, and the only one who threatened him, Dazai Osamu, was dead, and no one else could cause harm to him who controlled the entire island.But he missed a little bit.

With the help of Akutagawa, Dun was freed from the infinitely regenerable stone pillar that imprisoned him, and turned into a white tiger to break through many obstacles and bite Gabe's shoulder.

With the sound of joint breaking, Gabe's still human body was torn apart.

"...Damn it!" Gabe let the stone arm wrap around his feet to support himself to stand up, then pulled his shoulder out of the tiger's teeth, letting the stone arm grab him and quickly backed away.

"This is a supernatural power? How is this possible—" Gabe stared at the white tiger incarnated by Atsushi Nakajima, gritted his teeth and manipulated the stone to cover the bitten wound, temporarily acting as a tool to stop the bleeding, "I can't die yet ! I won't die...!"

"Why! Why are you all stopping me... again and again... I don't want to go back into that darkness again!" Gabe roared, and the surrounding stones rushed up with his roar, knocking Atsushi Nakajima Wrapped in it, "I just want to live! Is this, is it such an unacceptable thing...!" ①

As if, at a certain moment, he was the same.

Akutagawa, who was imprisoned by the stone pillar, stared at Atsushi Nakajima and Gabe who were fighting with dark eyes, and gave a soft "tsk" expression, not only did not empathize with them, but even became more disgusted.

He already knew what Gabe was going to say.

"Ha... long enough to live? Enough, how long?" Gabe, who was knocked down by Atsushi Nakajima, lay in a pool of his own blood, regarding Atsushi Nakajima's sentence "How many times have you repeated [now] , I have lived long enough, stop your abilities, let me save Mr. Dazai." He sneered.

"Neither life, nor the fact that I exist here now... will never be enough! Breathing, thinking, sound, light! And companions! There will never be a time like 'enough is enough'! Even Isn't it the same for you...!"②

That was the sound he had made when he was weak.

Akutagawa watched Gabu's dying struggle with cold eyes, and was about to manipulate Rashomon to give him the final blow, when the ready-to-movement black beast suddenly calmed down and retracted into his clothes.

He vaguely saw a pair of golden eyes, and then, as if being stared at by something, he was suddenly unable to move, even though Gabe was already unable to manipulate the stone pillar that imprisoned him.

[Gabe. 】

Gabe, who was still roaring, suddenly stopped speaking, and looked around in a panic, "Verne? Why did you come out...?!"

Atsushi Nakajima, who was about to attack, heard the name, and the tiger claws that had already come to Gabe stopped abruptly.

This name is the real owner of the body Gabe is using now, the phantom he saw in the hollow buried deep in the ground.

[Stop it, it's time to end all of this. 】

In Gabe's consciousness, the figure of the young Verne slowly emerged, as calm and gentle as before.

A smile appeared on Gabe's pale face, and the corners of his mouth were bleeding continuously, "No! I will never give you my body back!"

"When you were still manipulating this body, I had my own consciousness. But I couldn't say anything, and my voice would not be heard by anyone. I was only in the chaos and darkness, wondering about myself Is it life or death?" ③

Verne listened quietly.

"I also want to live, and I also want to have companions! Just like your 'seven betrayers' companions! Companions who face the same direction and share the same time! That's why I joined the Thieves Group...that's why I became the boss disciple!" ④

"Why... It's so difficult for me to live!" Gabe showed an ugly expression as if crying.

Verne was silent for a while, then spoke softly.

[So, do you want to live together? 】

Gabe's voice stopped abruptly.

"What, what?"

[If you are alone, let’s live together. 】

Verne says again that sentences have been transformed from inquiries into statements.

"what are you talking about?"

Unexpectedly, when I heard these two words, the grief and despair that filled my heart seemed to be melted away by something.

Gabe, who fell on the ground, clenched his fists. Seeing Atsushi Nakajima's face and the turmoil in the distance, the hysterical face suddenly... calmed down.

He let out a long breath, then let go of his palms, and slowly closed his eyes.

The faint breath just disappeared after he closed his eyes.

"...Dead?" Atsushi Nakajima looked at Gabu who was lying in a pool of blood with some hesitation. Just as he was hesitating, a hand reached out into his sight and covered Gabu's closed eyes.

It was the quiet but impenetrable woman he had seen beside another Dazai-san.

Is it called Miss Guang?

"The connection with Standard Island has been disconnected." She said softly, then turned her head and said to Yosano Akiko who came up after Wells, "Please use your ability."

"You asked me to save... this person?" Yosano Akiko looked at Gabu who was lying on the ground and lost his breath, and also at the distressed appearance of Atsushi Nakajima and Gabu just after the fierce battle, and couldn't help but help Help the forehead.

"Yes, he is the guardian of this island." Bei Chenguang looked at Yosano Akiko's hesitation, thought for a while and added, "It's all right now, after being rescued, it will be Verne and that supernatural body." A state of coexistence of consciousness."

"It's okay, just do what Miss Guang said, even if there is any accident, I'm still here, just touch it~" Dazai approached and said with a smile.

Osamu Dazai took a deep look at himself who was frantically creating his presence in Bei Chenguang's world, and did not move for the time being.

Now that Dazai said so, Yosano Akiko didn't hesitate anymore, and used the ability on Gabu.

The torn shoulder, the bloody abdomen hit by the tiger's claw, and other large and small wounds quickly recovered under the effect of Yosano Akiko's supernatural power, and the chest also regained the ups and downs of breathing.

Verne slowly opened his eyes, reflecting the faces staring at him from above.

He froze for a moment, then smiled at them.It's not Gabe's hysteria, but compared to Verne's gentleness, it has a little more of a boy's sense of clarity, "I'm sorry for causing you trouble. Thank you, White Tiger boy, doctor, Dazai, and..."

"Thank you, Lumière."

"Are you ready to leave Standard Island?"

"Yes." Verne smiled from the bottom of his heart. Of course, he did not forget to remind, "By the way, please leave this island as soon as possible. It will sink to the bottom of the sea in a short time."

Verne serves as the island's safety device, and once his heartbeat stops, the island is set to be completely abandoned.And just now, his heartbeat had stopped.

"Don't worry, I've sent a message back, and the transport plane from the Supernatural Secret Service Division will arrive soon." Dazai shook his fingers calmly, then turned to Bei Chenguang with a change of expression, and winked at her For a moment, "By the way, is Miss Guang coming to the Armed Detective Agency? Also, what I said about dying for love is still the same..."

"Dazai-kun, enough is enough." A hand was placed on Dazai's shoulder, and the iris-colored pupils that looked exactly like him looked at him coldly, the darkness hidden in them was deeper than when he was a mafia cadre, "stare If you look at other people's treasures, your eyes will be gouged out... If you still want to reach out, then cut off your hands too."

"What you are looking at is my light."

Dazai was quiet for a while, then laughed sullenly, "Oh, oh, it's really scary~"

The author has something to say: [So, do you want to live together?]

This sentence is a big killer no matter who you say it to!It is the ultimate strategy line that is even more powerful than the sentence "I hope you can live" that Guang said to Jae! !Finally, the ending of Verne and Gabe is written! ! ! ①②③④ are some very uncomfortable passages in my original book, just like I said before, there is nothing wrong with wanting to live!So here they can all live.

Verne: Thank you, Lumière.

Wells: Thankyou, World.

Wu Zhenzai: Miss Guang, Miss Guang×N

Chief Zai (can't bear it anymore): Light——

It is even more impossible to add more, but the number of words in this chapter is exploding, and there are too many elements!

Sixty thousand words!It feels like writing this chapter is like writing the final chapter.

The prediction was wrong, and Akutagawa was not written, but the next chapter is stable.