[Bungo Stray Dogs] With the Light and the Dust

Prison for Prisoners of Espers [Meursault] in Europe.

In the two facing cells, the two who were trying to test each other as if they were chatting normally, possessed the world's top resourcefulness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky and Osamu Dazai.

Fyodor, who was wearing a white prison uniform, leaned against the head of the bed and said in a chatty tone, "By the way, do you know the fifth person in the hound?"

"What an abrupt question..." Dazai rested his chin on one hand, and replied simply, "The answer is no, only about him, and I couldn't find it no matter how hard I searched."

Fyodor smiled slowly, his slightly squinted purple pupils possessed both the cruelty of a snake and the resourcefulness of a fox.

"The phantom fifth person of the bloodhound is the dark executioner who manipulates metal. He is a man who has a relationship with the detective agency... Against him, how many people do you think the detective agency can survive?"

Dazai didn't speak, and still maintained the posture of propping his chin, pointing his index finger on his cheek once and for all.

Fyodor withdrew his gaze and continued to read the book that the reader was holding to pass the time. After a while, he suddenly stared at a certain page of the book and stopped moving.

"wrong."

It was a cold voice.

He said this without any expression on his face, "Although everything is going according to my plan, but...something is wrong."

Then he looked at Dazai, "Is that you?"

This time it was Dazai who laughed.

"Guess what~"

Fyodor stared at him blankly for a while, then suddenly closed the book in his hand.

"Although a perfect plan has been set up at the request of my colleagues who have fallen into the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, perfection means boredom, so I can't appreciate the sinful karma of human beings."

Fyodor sang like a song, and the occasionally tired purple pupils completely lit up, "Now not only have we met a well-matched opponent underground, but even the development on the ground has begun to become interesting."

"How delightful."

——

The Kyoto stronghold of the Ability Secret Service Division, the underground library.

In the empty and quiet library, the "rustling" sound of the pen touching the page echoed.

"The fifth member of the Hound has appeared, Ango has also gone to Yokohama, and the next step is..."

Osamu Dazai stared at the book Natsume Soseki was writing, and spoke thoughtfully.

His voice was not loud, he was almost talking to himself, "Retrieve that page from the hands of the five evils of heaven and man."

"Which page of the book did you ask Kyogoku to take?" Ayayo frowned disapprovingly, and looked sharply at Dazai with his eyes behind the sunglasses, "That guy can do anything, you don't have to be afraid that he will be in [Book] ] What is written on it?"

"You can rest assured, Mr. Kyogoku, Mr. Kyogoku will not do this, and even..." Osamu Dazai explained with a smile, before he finished speaking, he felt a strong murderous aura from the opposite side.

"Be quiet, both of you! Or go outside, don't interfere with my thoughts here!" Natsume Soseki stopped writing, raised his head and yelled at them.

In another world, the uncompromising leader of Hong Kong gangsters and the famous murder detective blinked in unison, and became as quiet as a chicken.

Ms. ?y village was drinking tea calmly beside her.

——

Kyogoku Natsuhiko, who was wearing a ragged kimono, came to the place where the stolen book page was deduced by Ayaya Pedestrians, and his tattered straw sandals stepped on the clean floor of the bookstore, but no one made any reaction to his appearance. reaction.

This is a bookstore near Shandu Gate in China Street.

"Oh, it has already been taken away." Kyogoku Natsuhiko stood in front of the bookshelf without showing any surprise, "It seems [Snow Crane]-kun is one step faster."

Saying this, he didn't stay here any longer, turned around and walked out.

The clerk sitting at the front desk only felt a gust of flowing breeze, but when he looked up, he didn't see anyone.

"Strange..." The clerk looked at the door suspiciously, "Why does it feel like someone walked by?"

He sat back in his seat and was about to lower his head to continue reading when he caught a glimpse of something vague on the right out of the corner of his eye.

He turned his head to look over, and the moment he saw it clearly, his pupils shrank to the extreme.

It was an enlarged old man's face, full of wrinkles.The gray pupils are transparent and treacherous like a demon, and the dimples on the cheeks make people feel childish and evil at the same time.

"So it turns out that Mr. [Snow Crane] is a cover, and the pages are here with you." Jingji Xiayan laughed happily.

The face of the 'clerk' changed, and he was about to react when his eyes suddenly went dark.

It was as if something landed on him, scrambling to get into his body from his ears, mouth, nostrils, and eyes.

He stood up uncontrollably, turned around, and took out an ordinary book from the fourth shelf of the exhibition shelf behind him, and a flat page fell out of the book.

Kyogoku Natsuhiko picked up the page and shook it casually.

"I've already got the pages, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to bring them back, Dazai-kun."

Kyogoku Natsuhiko looked up at the sky outside, and said as if talking to himself.

In the sky of Yokohama, a faint blue light curtain appeared.The light curtain stretched like cloth, and soon expanded to the point where everyone could see it.Pedestrians on the road, port mafia, bloodhounds, armed detective agency, five evils...everyone in this city has noticed this thing in the sky.

The 'clerk' controlled by the demon suddenly snatched the pages of the book in Kyogoku Natsuhiko's hand and ran out of the store, but Kyogoku Natsuhiko just stood motionless and watched.

"I don't know if it's too late to send it out." Jingji Xiayan squinted his eyes and looked at the rapidly expanding light curtain in the sky, with a trace of mockery in his tone, "So [the book] is such a thing, really boring."

The man holding the pages kept running, as if indefatigable.His mind and body are divided into two parts. The body is driven by unknown things, but the mind can still calmly judge the direction he is going.

It is the border connecting Yokohama and Yokosuka.

Chinatown was very close to the connected border, but the light curtain extending in the sky was much faster than his running speed, and soon formed an inverted bowl shape, enveloping the entire Yokohama inside.

His body was light and light, as if he was slightly drunk, and he let go of the hand holding the page at some point.

The pages of the book floated up with the breeze, drifted unsteadily across the river, crossed the border connecting Yokohama and Yokosuka, and landed outside the border.

The last thing that person saw was a man waiting outside the boundary bending down to pick up the pages of a book that had fallen at his feet.

And that person vaguely had a pair of pale golden pupils.

Consciousness ends here.

The curtain of light extending from the sky completely enveloped Yokohama.

At the same time, the personnel responsible for the observation of the relevant government agencies suddenly jumped up in front of the monitoring screen, their eyes widened in surprise.

The city of Yokohama, suddenly...disappeared from satellite detection.

The author has something to say: Xuehe-kun refers to Kawabata Yasunari, the clerk is the one who wrote the book pages in The Five Decays of Heaven and Man pretending to be, I guess the settings in the original book will come out soon, so I will not make the settings vaguely. up.

Kyogoku Natsuhiko’s superpower [Relying on Objects] (or translated into Demon Possession, but I feel that Relying on Objects is better), makes demons fall on others. This is an enhanced setting compared to the original work. The original work is spiritual. Influence.

Kyogoku Natsuhiko is a singularity born in this country, but I think that after his death (he fell off a cliff and died three months ago in the struggle with Aya?y), Kyogoku, who turned into a monster, has transcended the singularity energy concept.This is also the reason why Kyogoku decided to join the Dazai Project. Without the influence of supernatural factors, Kyogoku’s fear among humans (from the grandson of the slippery ghost, which is not involved in this article, is used here to describe the concept) can be better. spread.

In addition, the naked action at the end of this chapter was not arranged by Zai, but her own behavior.

I don’t know if everyone feels it, but Zai is trying his best to avoid direct contact with the book. Even if it can be solved more easily with the help of the light, he would rather choose a more roundabout way than rely on the light to solve the book.

It's because of [fear].

He was afraid of what would happen if Guang came into contact with the book, and he couldn't easily solve this matter, so he didn't let Guang participate in any plans, and carefully isolated it. (This is the reason why I just cut down the light scenes (bushi))