[Bungo Stray Dogs] With the Light and the Dust

The gentle breeze has the taste of the sea breeze, and the mottled shadows cast by the leaves are golden.

On a hill overlooking the city, among the lush mountain paths, there is a cemetery overlooking the sea.

And at the edge of the cemetery, behind a tombstone under a large, lush tree, leaned against a figure.

The gray silhouette is quiet and silent.

"The weather is really nice today." After a while, Dazai, who was leaning on the tombstone, raised his head, opened his eyes and said to himself, "It's a good day for going into the water."

Saying this, he lazily stretched his waist and stood up, his eyes stopped on the tombstone for a while, then he put his hands in his pockets and walked out slowly over the tombstone.

Then wandered all the way to Tsurumi River.

But on this day, Dazai did not commit suicide as planned.

Because before he jumped into the river, he saw a person.

Ah, maybe it should be said——

Saw the light.

——

On the quiet bank of the Tsurumi River, suddenly there was an exceptionally brisk voice, from far to near, calling 'Miss Guang~'.

The woman who lowered her eyes slightly and stared at the water raised her head amidst the shouts, her pale golden pupils turned around, and looked at the stranger who was running straight towards her.

"Light?" She asked softly, with a sense of alienation from everything around her, but subtly and unobtrusively blending into the surrounding environment, "Are you calling me?"

"What, what? Could it be amnesia?" Dazai opened his eyes wide, covered his chest with one hand flamboyantly, then stretched out the other hand to her tremblingly, "Then... Miss Guang, do you still remember?" Is your name Dazai Hikaru?"

Amnesia?

In fact, the incarnation of the world consciousness, which was born with omniscience and omnipotence, looked at Dazai's performance with a blank expression, and turned his head to ask after he stopped, "Who are you?"

"It's really not that easy to deceive, Miss Guang..." Dazai sighed, stood up straight, the exaggerated expression faded from his face, and an unpredictable bright and mysterious smile reappeared, "For the first time Meet, I'm Osamu Dazai."

When he spoke, he didn't look away from her for a moment, his iris eyes were full of complicated emotions, he didn't know what he was expecting.

"Why are you looking at me like this?" She directly asked the person who was being watched like this.

"Huh? What does this look like?" Dazai tilted his head.

"Your expression seems to be saying to me," she paused, as if organizing her words, and calmly said the following words after finding an accurate description, "[Help me]."

Dazai looked away from her, lowered his head and smiled.But rather than laughing because he wanted to, it was more like he was in too complicated a mood and didn't know what expression to put on, so he just smiled.

"...As expected of Miss Guang."

In the end, he sighed like this.

Known as "Miss Light", she sees all of Dazai's performances.But from the beginning to the end, her expression was calm, and her pale golden pupils showed a divine aura, "So, my name is [Guang]?"

Dazai didn't say yes or no, just smiled and said, "It's very suitable, isn't it."

She looked back, thought for a while, and let out a "hmm".

Dazai looked at her who had accepted the name, turned around quietly and left the river bank, pursed his lips and did not follow her, but waved his hands behind her and said loudly, "See you tomorrow, Miss Guang~"

Hikaru, with his back to Dazai, didn't respond, just paused almost imperceptibly in his footsteps, and then continued to move forward.

Her figure disappeared quickly, leaving only Dazai standing on the bank of the Tsurumi River.

He looked down at his palms.

"If we see you tomorrow, let's not commit suicide today~"

He selectively forgot that the other party didn't respond at all, so he muttered to himself, and when he raised his head again, he had returned to his usual expression, happily humming a song and walking towards the residence.

——

the next day.

Hikaru originally planned to continue to go to the bank of the Tsurumi River and think about the river, but remembering the person who said yesterday, see you tomorrow, she had already walked out and turned in a different direction, and finally walked to another unknown small river .

Then stand still and start thinking.

Speaking of thinking, in fact, most of the time is meaningless daze, just because there is nothing I want to do, so I found such a way to kill time.

But not long after, circles of ripples suddenly appeared on the surface of the water, and then bubbles burst out.

Light:"?"

With a "poof", a hand stretched out from the place where the bubbles appeared on the water surface.

"Gululu... Gulu beautiful Miss Gulu Gulu... You Gululu lost this Kim Dazai..." The outstretched hand was holding a wet yellow bandage, and the sound was accompanied by " Gululu" the intermittent words of the drowning sound.

"It's still Gulu... This Guru... Where is Gin Dazai..." He stretched out his other hand, holding the silver bandage in his hand.

"It's still this handsome and reliable Dazai~ Qiang Qiang!"

Following the last sentence, a figure suddenly emerged from the water, holding two bandages in the water, slightly curly black hair sticking to his face wet with water, forming a stark contrast with the soaked white skin The contrast of black and white, the water drops slipping across the brow bone, dripping on the eyelashes, and finally dripping on the slightly pale lips.

"...I didn't drop anything."

Hikaru took a few steps back, avoiding the splash of water as he emerged from the water.

"Well, he's really an honest man." Dazai nodded in a dignified manner, brushing away the water-soaked hair hanging down to cover his eyes, showing a bright and brisk smile, "Then, as a reward, I'll give this handsome and The reliable Dazai will give it to you!"

"No." A very decisive sentence.

Following this sentence, Guang also turned around decisively in action.

"If you don't want it, you have to throw it away." Dazai quickly reached out and grabbed her sleeve, holding it firmly, while looking up at her pitifully, "Don't you really think about it? I'm very useful Yes, I can still steal Kunikida's card to support you~"

Grabbed Light: "..."

She could only turn around, showing a rare expression of confusion and confusion, "Why do you..."

"Are you asking me for help?"

Dazai was quiet for a moment, then tilted his head and smiled.

It was a pure smile without any meaning.

"If I want to say it, of course it's because of Miss Guang."

"Originally it was just because I saw [possibility], but when I saw Miss Hikari by the riverside of Tsurumi River, [possibility] became inevitable."

"Yesterday, I wanted to commit suicide, but before I jumped into the river, I saw the light, so I knew that there was something more important in my life than suicide."

——

"Mr. Kunikida, tell me... is there something wrong recently?" Atsushi Nakajima, who was completing a commission and walking back to the detective agency with Kunikida, looked at the list of snacks sent by Izumi Kyoka on his mobile phone , asked out of the blue.

"Ah, you mean..." Kunikida paused as he was writing something in his notebook, his eyes behind the reflective lens made it difficult to see clearly, "That guy Dazai..."

"It seems that I haven't received a call for complaints this week, nor was I suddenly called to rescue Mr. Dazai who failed to commit suicide." Atsushi Nakajima counted with his fingers, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, and his expression gradually became serious, "And recently The frequency of Mr. Dazai's skipping work has reached a new high...Although he used to skip work frequently, but it is not as frequent as recently, and now he almost disappears after just passing by."

"That guy..." Kunikida clenched his pen, gritted his teeth, and said, "Too lazy!"

"No, no, Mr. Kunikida, I want to say," Atsushi Nakajima waved his hand quickly, "Mr. Dazai may have encountered some trouble, but he didn't tell us, but chose to solve it by himself?"

"You're talking about Dazai? What kind of trouble will that guy have? He just wants to be lazy and..." Kunikida pushed his glasses and said, halfway through the conversation, his eyes suddenly froze, and his expression gradually became stiff, " Wait, Don, isn't the one in front..."

Atsushi Nakajima followed Kunikida's gaze and was speechless for a while.

The man they were talking about was in a clothing store across the street at this time, and he seemed to be talking to the people next to him. From the angle of Nakajima Atsushi and Kunikida Doppo, his face could not be seen, but he could be seen Holding a white skirt, he folded his hands and leaned forward, as if persuading the person opposite him to wear it.

But the person opposite him obviously shook his head and refused.

But as soon as Dazai turned around, he happily picked up another skirt and gesticulated.

"It's Dazai-san... right?"

Atsushi Nakajima said in an uncertain tone.

It wasn't Dazai who made him hesitate, but the person opposite Dazai.

At this moment, Dazai called the clerk to take out a card to pay the bill.When Kunikida saw the card he took out, his heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously took out his wallet and took a look.

Atsushi Nakajima's heart skipped a beat.

"Too-zai-!"

"Oh, it's Kunikida-kun~" Dazai greeted with a nonchalant wave and a smile, the veins on the forehead of the berserk Kunikida pulsating, he grabbed his neck and shook desperately, "When did you take my card away!"

"I don't need to spend my money to be generous. I have repaid the downstairs credit a few times for you, and you actually stole my card!"

"Be human, Osamu Dazai!"

Dazai, who was shaken by the angry Kunikida's neck, didn't panic at all, and even had a subtle and unbearable smile on his face, and his voice was intermittently rising and falling like waves, "Oh, what a great compliment~ Kunikida-kun~"

Atsushi Nakajima: I dare not say anything, and dare not persuade anything.

He moved his position, glanced to the side, and saw that the woman who looked exactly the same as Miss Hikari in his impression, but felt a little different was looking at Dazai and Kunikida thoughtfully.

This kind of focused eyes seems to be in class...

Wait, don't imitate Mr. Dazai!

Hikari sensed that Atsushi Nakajima was looking at her, and looked back blankly.

Say nothing, do nothing, just watch.Atsushi Nakajima was stared at by those eyes for more than two minutes, feeling uncomfortable all over his body.

"That, that..." Quickly think of something to break this state!

At this time, the sudden ringing of the phone saved him.

With a sigh of relief, he turned and picked up the phone.

Tanizaki Junichiro's voice came from the other end of the phone.

……

"Mr. Kunikida, Tanizaki told us to go back quickly, saying that the client we made an appointment with earlier has arrived."

After answering the phone, Atsushi Nakajima turned his head, pointed to the phone, and spoke carefully to Kunikida who was in a rage.

Kunikida stopped his movements, and the rising anger slowly subsided.Finally, he let go of Dazai's hand, and opened his notebook to check, "The curator of the National Museum has an appointment for today... I have to go back quickly, we can't make people wait for a long time."

Atsushi Nakajima breathed a sigh of relief, "Yes, then let's go, Mr. Kunikida."

"We can't delay more things because of Dazai." Kunikida closed his notebook and took a deep breath.

But Dazai, who had just escaped from Kunikida's hands and was keen to sabotage Kunikida's plan, rubbed his neck and showed a restless smile, "Kunikida-kun... let me tell you, you... huh? "

He only started to speak, and then a hand stretched out from the right covered his mouth.

It was Hikari who walked up to him at some point, stretched out his hand because of the movement of covering his mouth, and raised his eyes naturally.Without the shadow covered by eyelashes, the pale golden pupils were suddenly filled with bright light.

The person who looked into these eyes suddenly forgot what he wanted to say.

Nakajima Atsushi couldn't help but praise in his heart that he did a good job, and then took this opportunity to quickly pull Kunikida away.

Dazai rolled his eyes.

Blinked again.

When he blinked for the third time, Guang withdrew his hand naturally as if he hadn't done anything.

But in the middle of withdrawing her hand, it was caught by another bandaged hand with sharp knuckles.

He lowered his head slightly and stared at her palm. After a while, he clasped his fingers tightly with her five fingers as if he had confirmed something.

"I see."

"If Miss Hikari doesn't want to be found, even I can't help it—and I can always find you, probably because..." Dazai said this, and laughed, and there was an unexpected gentleness in his smile, "Hikyou You must not like to be alone."

As soon as he said those words, Hikari's eyes widened slightly.But this expression is more like a kind of unconscious doubt than surprise.

"I understand, it's like walking alone in the night, the loneliness where you can't even see the shadow." Dazai took a step closer to her, raised his interlocking hands, and pressed the back of the light hand to his face, crowing. Feather-like eyelashes drooped, and she quietly closed her eyes.

Feeling the warmth from his hand, Guang opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything for a moment.

"I have a good idea, how about this." Dazai suddenly opened his eyes again with this movement, his eyes bent, and his tone rose, "I will accompany Hikari, and in exchange, Hikari will also accompany me, okay?"

Under his expectant eyes, the light words that he wanted to refuse came to his lips, and suddenly changed into:

"it is good."

The author has something to say: The sentence in the summary means that people are like rainbows, and you will know when you meet them.

"Light? Are you calling me?"

"Yes, yes, you have amnesia, your name is Dazaiguang~"

I believe you a ghost, you are a bad bandage.