Osamu Dazai

"Then let's go." Dazai Osamu led Horikita Suzune to the Keyaki Shopping Center slowly.

It's summer vacation, and it's still morning, so there's not too much traffic in Zeech Shopping Center at the moment.

No one noticed them at all.

Dazai Osamu and Horikita Suzune ordered a breakfast for two, and quickly ate it.

In the middle of eating, Osamu Dazai suddenly asked, "By the way, Suzune."

"What?" Horikita Suzune asked suspiciously.

"Do you like divination?" Osamu Dazai continued to ask.

Girls like divination - only this woman can destroy such an impression of ordinary girls in the world.

"It's really a strange thing to ask." Horikita Suzune said flatly.

"Why, don't you like it?" Osamu Dazai asked.

Horikita Suzune paused for a while and said, "Well...although I'm not enthusiastic about it, I'd be lying if I said I hated it."

"Then have you actually asked someone to do a fortune-telling?" Osamu Dazai continued to ask

"No matter how you say it, it's not to that extent. At most, I just watch the news every morning." Although Horikita Suzune was puzzled, she answered.

The news she was talking about meant that the birthday month divination often appeared on it.

Horikita Suzune said in front of the TV that her lucky color is red or white, and then changed her clothes, or hung decorations on her bag... It's a bit unimaginable.

"Could it be that you are obsessed with divination?" Horikita Suzune asked back.

"No, although it's not like that, but do you know the fortuneteller who has become a topic recently?" Osamu Dazai shook his head and said.

It is said that a very efficacious fortune teller came during the summer vacation.

And this topic has become very popular among the seniors, even the club activities are all about the fortune teller.

"A fortuneteller...?"

Horikita Suzune remained silent for a while as if recalling it, but soon she seemed to remember it.

Then he said in an understanding tone: "It seems to be quite a sensation, I've heard of it."

"Then do you think divination is trustworthy?" Osamu Dazai took a sip of the water beside him and said.

"Although I don't know what other people think, but I think that if you really have the ability, you can calculate it accurately." Horikita Suzune replied instantly.

"Do you think this is the existence of some kind of supernatural power?" Osamu Dazai said slowly.

He has never seen an owner with divination ability.

Oda Sakunosuke only has the ability to predict the future, but that is not divination.

"That's not the case. Fortunetellers don't have the ability to see into the future."

Horikita Suzune vetoed, "Isn't this a matter of course? This is as boring as people who say ghosts exist.

However, very different from supernatural beings, fortune tellers use a large amount of past data, that is, people's behavior patterns as a benchmark for divination.

In addition, this is a test of the fortune-teller's personal ability to guess the object in front of him. "

Horikita Suzune is not purely a girl who loves to dream, she has her own set of answers based on theory.

"In other words, is it to use the ability of cold reading?" Osamu Dazai raised his mouth slightly.

"Although this is smug, I also know it."

Horikita Suzune replied as if feeling a little bored.

"We can't observe ourselves objectively, but divination experts are good at eliciting the other party's information from short conversations, and find out the parts that are not even discovered by the person who is divined.

Ultimately, this is left as a result of divination.

It should be possible to think so. "

Cold reading - if translated literally, it means reading the other person's heart without prior preparation.

This is a technique of nonchalantly eliciting personal information from the conversation, and then convincing the other party.

Obtain the other party's information with the ability of observation or insight, and then convey this through ingenious words, so that the other party believes that you can see into his future or past.

Although explaining the meaning is simple, it is very difficult and requires superb skills to guide the information without bringing distrust to the other party, or to make the other party believe in yourself.

"I seem to be a little interested." Osamu Dazai tapped the table with his fingers.

"Really?" Horikita Suzune said after eating the last bite of breakfast gracefully, "Then you can go and have a look."

"Hey, don't you want to go together?" Dazai Osamu blinked and said.

"I'm sorry, but I'm free."

Horikita Suzune also picked up the cup, took a sip of water and said, "You also know that I don't particularly like being in the crowd, right?"

...it was exactly as she said.

The fortuneteller who is at the center of the topic vortex will of course be crowded with many students and it will be very lively.

Depending on the situation, not only students but also adults on the site may pass by.

Osamu Dazai really couldn't imagine Horikita Suzune divining someone in a crowded facility.

"But... didn't you agree to play with me at school for a day?" Osamu Dazai smirked.

"This... just go!" Horikita Suzune hesitated for a while, then slapped the table and whispered.

"Puff ha ha ha ha ha."

Osamu Dazai couldn't help laughing when he saw Horikita Suzune intentionally suppressing her voice to a very low level because she didn't want to disturb others.

"What are you laughing at?" Horikita Suzune whispered again.

"No, no, nothing, anyway, don't worry about divination, let's go to the movies first." Osamu Dazai looked at the time, it was almost nine o'clock.

And divination seems to start business at ten o'clock, so there is still a lot of time to play.

"Ah...a movie." Horikita Suzune seemed surprised.

"That's right, let's go." Dazai Osamu didn't explain too much, he directly took Horikita Suzune's hand and walked towards the cinema.

……

The movie theater is located on the third floor of the Zelkova Shopping Center.

It's very spacious and cool.

The current flow of people is not too much, so Dazai Osamu and Horikita Suzune can watch a movie freely.

"How about it? Is there anything you want to watch?" Dazai Osamu pointed to the list of movies displayed on the big screen.

Horikita Suzune didn't speak for the time being, she planned to read the preview first, and then choose.

Soon, Horikita Suzune watched all the trailers in the cinema.

Then, pointing to a list, he said, "How about this one."

Osamu Dazai also looked at it and found that the name is a little scary, but the type is indeed a youth romance movie, the name is

"Wait a minute, I'll take a look at the introduction and reviews." Osamu Dazai immediately turned on his phone and looked at the reviews of the movie on the school forum.

The synopsis goes like this.

The young protagonist with no name and the patient heroine with no future, after he picked up her diary, the lives of the two who had never met in the class have changed since then.

For the boy, he wants the recovery of the girl suffering from pancreatic disease, and for the girl, she wants to live a normal life with him.

After the two people with opposite personalities met, their emotions were complemented.

Moreover, the score of this movie on the school forum is also very high, as high as [-] points.

The comments are also full of tears and razor blades.

This made Osamu Dazai a little bit interested.

"Okay, let's book tickets." Dazai Osamu nodded and said.

"Yeah." Horikita Suzune followed Dazai Osamu and went to the booking counter together.

Osamu Dazai had a simple conversation with the counter staff, and after specifying the viewing time and movie, the counter staff handed over the shell paper with the seating chart printed on it.

"Do you want to buy something to eat? Now there is a discount on the couple's package." The counter staff recommended.

"Then let's have one." Osamu Dazai replied quickly.

Horikita Suzune frowned, and grabbed Dazai Osamu's waist with her hands behind her back.

Osamu Dazai also held Horikita Suzune's waist with his right hand with a calm expression, while his left hand held the bill.

Horikita Suzune's cheeks were flushed, she put down her hand, patted Dazai Osamu's hand a few times to make it go down, and then looked down at her toes.

The counter staff quickly brought two buckets of popcorn, two cups of Coke, and two cups of milk tea, walked over, put them on the counter and said, "The total consumption is 1550 points."

"OK, thanks."

Osamu Dazai picked up some of them, then looked at the villain next to him who lowered his head and dared not look at him, and said, "Such a lot of things, do you want me to take them by myself?"

After hearing this, Horikita Suzune picked up the other half of the food and said, "Hurry up and go in."

Horikita Suzune felt a little nervous because there were more people in the movie theater.

"It's not time for the show yet." Dazai Osamu pointed to the time on the big screen and said.

Generally, the entry time of the movie is 10 minutes in advance, but now there are still 7 minutes before the movie starts.

In other words, the two still have to wait 7 minutes before they can enter.

These Horikita Suzunes could only wait helplessly.

Osamu Dazai found a rest space to pass the time.

Horikita Suzune and Dazai Osamu played checkers for 10 minutes in the rest space.

"You can go." Horikita Suzune couldn't help asking.

Because people around have noticed them.

"Well, yes, let's go." Dazai Osamu looked at the time and said.

Then, with Horikita Suzune, they walked into the cinema hall.

There were sporadic couples and students entering the venue at the back.

……

Dazai Osamu and Horikita Suzune are in the middle of the fifth row.

There are a total of ten rows inside the movie hall, in other words, the middle of the middle.

After Dazai Osamu and Horikita Suzune arranged the food, they sat in the middle of the fifth row, obediently waiting for the movie to start.

Nearby seats started getting filled at an earlier time.

Osamu Dazai looked at the screen. He also liked the time when he watched the preview of the upcoming movie before the official movie was broadcast.

So he must be sitting down most of the time before the preview starts.

Compared with watching on the TV in your own room, this can arouse a strong interest in what movie to watch next time.

The big screen is glamorous, and it's not an exaggeration to say that people go to the cinema for that.

However, the theater is very bright now, and instead of playing movie promotions, it is playing advertisements for supermarket products and the like.

Images of fluffy and plump rice being turned over with a rice spoon, crispy seaweed grilled on a net, and children eating onigiri are played.

Horikita Suzune couldn't help looking at Dazai Osamu, seeing her sneaking around from the corner of her eye made Dazai Osamu want to laugh a little.

The look is not the kind of direct look, but a few glances without comment.

Look at that when you drink your drink.

When Horikita Suzune turned her head, Osamu Dazai also turned her head to look at her, but she turned her head back in an instant and looked straight at the big screen.

Osamu Dazai smiled lightly and said, "Is the phone set to vibrate?"

Horikita Suzune pretended to be calm and said, "Do you think someone will call us?"

Indeed, the contacts of the two are very similar, only Chabashira Sae, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, Hirata Yosuke, Kushida Kikyo and others.

Maybe Osamu Dazai has a little more, because he still has the student council to deal with.