[Bungo Stray Dogs] With the Light and the Dust

The dust in the air fell silently.

Bei Chenguang slowly withdrew his grasping hand, looked down at the black coat that had fallen to the ground, and there was something almost uncontrollable rolling in his quiet eyes.

"Give me the pages, please."

She raised her head and said softly.

"Go." Natsume Soseki, who watched all this happening quickly, sighed, and handed the page to Bei Chenguang, "Go and bring him and them back."

Bei Chenguang nodded silently, and took the pages of the book.

The page of the book fell into her hand, and light appeared where it touched her fingers, enveloping her whole body.

After a while, the light dissipated, and Bei Chenguang's figure also disappeared.Only one page was left slowly falling to the ground.

——

Osamu Dazai opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was an absurd and rather funny scene.

On the roof of the familiar Ganghei Building, two Akutagawas, one black and one white, face each other, and the off-white and black Rashomon intersect and tear together, looking like cobwebs stuck together.

Thinking of this, he did indeed laugh.

"Mr. Dazai, are you alright?"

Nakajima Atsushi rushed out from the corridor, behind him was the explosion of fire waves and the snow-white blade extending from the fire waves.

"It's Atsu-kun." Osamu Dazai only glanced back, and he was almost sure of the current situation, "I see, the condition for returning to the real world is to kill 'me'."

Nakajima Atsushi opened his eyes wide in surprise, "Mr. Dazai, are you also..."

Atsushi, whose black coat on the other side was almost torn during the battle, stood up silently, glanced at the two Akutagawa who were fighting, then at Atsushi Nakajima, who was similar but different from himself, and walked to Osamu Dazai.

"Mr. Dazai."

"Yeah." Osamu Dazai nodded, looked thoughtfully at the setting sun that was about to fall, and a cold smile appeared on his lips, "Is it this time, it's really calculated to a disgusting level ,[Book]."

As his words fell, a gap was blasted out by the explosion, and several people jumped out of the ground on the top floor.

They were all fairly familiar faces.

"Hey, boy!" The captain of the hound, Fukuji Sakurachi, even waved his hand heartily to say hello, "Is the plan going well outside? I'm chasing and killing the detective agency, but the water is almost thrown into the sea!"

Tanizaki and Kenji who were hunted down badly: ...Huh?

Suehiro Railway Station of the Armed Detective Agency is serious about following orders:?

"It's pretty smooth, except for the last step." Osamu Dazai smiled, and glanced at everyone present, "Now everyone is in the last page of the book, if you don't go out from inside, the last page cannot be written— ―In this way, the plan can be regarded as aborted.”

Although Atsushi Nakajima couldn't understand any pages, he still understood that Dazai Osamu's plan would fail if he didn't return to the real world. He couldn't help but ask, "Then...Mr. real world?"

"Didn't it already tell you?" He had that slightly sarcastic smile on his face, "That's the only way."

"If that's the case, then there's no other way." Fukuchi Sakurachi lowered her body, and the members of the Hound followed his movements and got ready to fight.

"Ah, ah, if it was me before, I probably would have wished for it." Osamu Dazai showed a distressed expression, "But I have already promised that I will go back with her alive."

Hikari will be angry if he misses the appointment.

Hmm...although I haven't seen Hikari angry yet.

Heiton, who was standing silently behind Dazai Osamu, rushed out at the same time as his voice fell. The black figure was like a wandering shadow, so fast that he couldn't see his movements clearly. Cut off with a knife.

The tiger's claws, which can cut even steel, grabbed Fukuji Sakurachi's raised arm, making a sound like metal hitting

"So strong... No! Mr. Dazai!" Atsushi Nakajima sighed and immediately came back to his senses, "Mr. Ranpo in this world said that if you follow that voice, you will regret it, so the real method must be hidden. Somewhere, just wait for Mr. Ranpo to come over..."

Dazai just smiled.

Atsushi Nakajima was still a little uneasy, and was about to say something, when he caught a glimpse of a figure not far away from the corner of his eye.

Long dark hair, and eyes that are impressive once you've seen them.

It was the woman called [Miss Guang] that he saw on the side of the street before but thought he had misread it. Didn't he misread it?

Dazai Osamu's slightly dark iris-colored eyes calmly watched all the developments, and the moment he saw that figure, there was light.

"Light..." He watched her come step by step, and when she reached a place only one step away, the smile on her face was not fully revealed, and the words she wanted to say came to an abrupt end as if they were cut off.

The sound that seemed to cut even the bones sounded.

He lowered his head slowly, a sharp short knife sank into his chest, leaving only the handle outside.

Holding the handle of the knife is a plain white hand.

Blood spurted out of Osamu Dazai's mouth, he took a hard breath, grabbed the man's arm with all his strength, opened his mouth, his lips twitched, and made a slight sound.

"...not her."

The person caught by him let go of his hand and took a step back, as if smiling, the facial features belonging to Bei Chenguang twisted and twisted, and finally turned into a flat blank.

This scene overlapped with the scene of Dazai's death on Standard Island. Atsushi Nakajima's body trembled and his mind went blank.

But...this time I didn't talk to Dr. Yosano...

All the other people who were fighting stopped, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa who happened to turn around to see this scene opened his mouth, but suddenly lost his voice.

'Thanks to you, the world is about to undergo another cleansing. 'The existence that pierced Dazai Osamu's chest with a knife in the appearance of Kita Tatsuko, or just called [Book], ignored the other people present, and unexpectedly spoke to Dazai Osamu.

Osamu Dazai, whose pupils had begun to slack, fell to the ground, his lips moved, but no sound came out, but [the book] read what he wanted to say.

'I created this world that is the same as yours, just to intersect your world with this world for a moment at this point in time, to coincide the timeline before you came to this world with this time, so that you [true ] to death. 'The voice of [Book] can only be heard by Osamu Dazai, and it is more like a complete personality with thinking and personality than an existence without wisdom and thought,' this is equivalent to changing the past, what has happened, Like the fact that you came into this world with that [world] will also be changed. '

'Originally, I didn't mind letting you stay in this world. If you want to blame, you have done too much. '

[Book] After saying this, he ignored Osamu Dazai who was lying on the ground, and was about to pull away from this body created according to Bei Chenguang's appearance, when he suddenly found that he couldn't move, and even his consciousness was trapped in this body inside.

Osamu Dazai emitted a little light, spreading over his body, as if echoing something.

Those rays of light gradually condensed into a figure.

That figure was Bei Chenguang.

She emerged from the light, leaned over and hugged Osamu Dazai who had fallen to the ground and had lost consciousness, raised her eyes slightly, the overly rich gold in her eyes was almost black.

[Book] froze on the spot, watching her raise her hand to wipe away the blood from Dazai Osamu's lips intently, the sound of her lips opening and closing was as soft as a whisper.

"He's very afraid of pain."

At that moment, even the existence of [book] had a creepy feeling.

......

"You have to climb the stairs slowly and do it yourself, can't you let me go up first!" Akaye Jiu, who was pulled by the collar by Kawabata Yasunari, noticed that there was no movement above, and was so anxious to bite him.

"You don't need to go up." Kawabata Yasunari suddenly let go of Chi Yejiu's collar.

Caught off guard, Chi Yejiu, who was sitting on the ground, was stunned for a moment, raised his head, and saw Bei Chenguang who appeared in front of him holding Osamu Dazai.

"Use your powers on me and him."

Bei Chenguang's voice reached Chiyejiu's ears, and he saw the bloodstains on Dazai Zhizhi's chest. He didn't care about other things, and quickly got up and ran over, using the supernatural power according to Bei Chenguang's words.

The effect of breaking away is to transfer vitality, but [the world] does not have the concept of vitality, what is transferred is her life as [world consciousness].

And Bei Chenguang just focused on holding Dazai Osamu's blood-recovered face, and gently pinned the blood-stained hair on the side of his face behind his ear, and then lowered his head and kissed him on the lips.

——

In the blue sky, the hidden light curtain reappeared in everyone's eyes.

This light curtain melted from the middle, like melting snow, and quickly disappeared completely.

Everything that belonged to the world that was created has disappeared, the white Akutagawa, the black Atsushi and Kyoka, the corpse-like crowd downstairs, the filthy Nakahara Chuya...

Nakajima Atsushi looked around, still didn't figure out what was going on, but he felt that something was slowly peeling off from his body, and then felt unprecedented ease.

And in the underground library of the Supernatural Secret Service Division, Natsume Soseki wrote the last word on the page.

"The power has disappeared." Dostoevsky in Meursault Prison looked at his hands, "Did my plan succeed? ... No, it turned out to be like this..."

"However, this ending is not bad."

Dazai on the opposite side heard his words, looked up at him, and smiled calmly, "Yes."

Various events that occurred under the plan of the five declines of heaven and man ended in a way that no one expected.

——

Everything returned to normal. Although there is no power, the work of the detective agency is still going on.

A few weeks later, Atsushi Nakajima, who was once again sent out to run errands by his seniors, came across Chi Yejiu by chance.Because he was a little concerned, he asked about the situation of Dazai Zhi and Bei Chenguang after that day.

When Chiyejiu heard his question, he showed a strange expression, and after a while he said:

"Probably, go around the world."

——

In the sixth month after that, Osamu Dazai and Bei Chenguang, who just finished their trip around the world, returned to the deserted island where they landed when they first came to this world.

Almost all the traces of life that have been left here have disappeared. The bandages that Osamu Dazai replaced can only be seen in the soil with a few remaining fabric fibers that are the same color as the soil. there is none left.

Osamu Dazai walked around in the cave, and suddenly smiled briefly.

"What's wrong?" Bei Chenguang asked.

"I just suddenly remembered the words that Guang said to me at that time."

"?"

"Because you made that look."

"[I already know how to live.]" When Osamu Dazai said the last sentence, Bei Chenguang already remembered what he said at that time, but she did not let him say that sentence, but stared at him His eyes said another sentence, "This is your expression now."

"That's right."

Osamu Dazai's smile slowly unfolded, so gentle that it can't be described in words, as if the whole world's snow had melted into his eyes.

Bei Chenguang took his hand, and the same dim light as when he came enveloped both of them.

At the place where they came back, there was already a figure waiting here.

With copper-colored hair and a sand-colored coat, he looked a little more mature than Dazai Zhi remembered, and his eyes were more peaceful. He nodded to Dazai Zhi and Bei Chenguang, and said in a tone that had never been separated:

"haven't seen you for a long time."

"Ah, Odasaku, long time no see."

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The author has something to say: It’s over——

The existence of breaking away is for this moment!This ending is the burden of life!

Then Osamu Dazai became, Dazai? Live the same life as the sky? Absolutely can't die? Ji :D

Book: Wouldn't it be nice to get out of here for five years? I have to make trouble.

Guang: I love it, do you have any comments?

The personality of the book, in fact, does not have any setting, it is just a feeling, writing a book means writing a person, if it has a personality, it should be more like a person than the original light.

I will write the extra episode in a few days, and I will edit the full text in the next few days