Playing house in the anime world

After the little boy died, the man continued to live in the town for more than ten years.

During these ten years, he sent away the old neighbor lady, the old landlord lady, and then became the new landlord uncle.

He inherited the grocery store and the cats and dogs.

Although the cats and dogs of that time are no longer alive, these new cats and dogs are their children. The town has undergone many changes and there are many new faces among the residents.

The children in the neighborhood still love the cats and dogs in the grocery store, but as time goes by, the town is no longer as old and cozy as it once was, and the modernization of the city has gradually replaced the town of the past.

The man gradually grew old, and he even outlived the organization he once served.

As time went on, there were fewer and fewer familiar faces in the town and the grocery store was closed.

The man lay on the bed, looking out the window, stroking the chocolate strawberry in his hand.

He is old, his teeth have all fallen out, his hair is gray, and his skin is wrinkled like tree bark. He doesn't dare to look closely when looking in the mirror, but he can't see clearly anyway.

He touched the brand new strawberry chocolate box and heard that this old brand could no longer hold on and was about to go bankrupt.

Maybe it's time to give up this hobby of mine.

The man closed his eyes.

The story ends here. Dazai Osamu was stunned. The man closed his eyes. Was he just sleeping normally, or was he... dead?

At his age, it wouldn't be surprising if he died, but this ambiguous description always makes people feel that he is not actually dead yet.

Dazai Osamu felt his neck a little sore, and he was surprised to realize that he had been reading for two hours.

This ending should be considered a perfect ending. At least it fulfilled the man’s wish. He wanted to be an ordinary person, live an ordinary life, and break away from his past world and identity.

Although he also lost a lot in the process.

The friend who helped him leave the organization eventually betrayed him, and the child he picked up along the way also eventually left him.

But this is also inevitable in life.

He was able to live such an ordinary life, which was what he wanted.

It wasn't until all his teeth fell out that he thought about giving up his favorite strawberry chocolate.

If the last description means that he passed away in his sleep, then his strawberry chocolate is actually no different from not having quit eating.

Dazai Osamu found that there was another page at the back, on which was also written a sentence - "Strawberry chocolate is really delicious."

"Is this the final prank..." Dazai Osamu couldn't even tell, was this last sentence said by the man or the author?

Is it a last will? An epitaph? Or a sincere confession?

Maybe it also means "I won't be a stray dog ​​in order to eat chocolate covered strawberries"?

Dazai Osamu thought about it carefully and suspected that the strawberry chocolates sold in the grocery store might have been eaten by the men themselves.

Dazai Osamu found that there seemed to be a bookmark in the cover of the book. He took it out and saw that it was a piece of white paper with another ending written on it.

"He was lying on the bed when there was a knock on the door. It was two policemen and a nervous neighbor. But no one came to open the door until someone broke in and accidentally kicked away the strawberry chocolate that had fallen on the floor."

"Hmm...this ending..." Dazai Osamu thought thoughtfully. This ending should be that the man's identity as a killer was finally discovered, and the police came to his door. However, at this moment, the man passed away in his sleep.

In a sense, it can be considered a happy ending, because the man had left this world before he was discovered, and he had no idea that his identity had been exposed.

As for other people, the person involved is already dead, there is no evidence, and there is nothing more to say. Anyway, the person is already dead, and the matter will eventually come to nothing.

However, it is also possible that the man had not appeared for several days, and the neighbor was worried that something had happened to him, so he called the police, who found that he had died in his sleep.

This ending is a little more open than the one in the book, and different people can interpret it differently.

However, in the end, the strawberry chocolate was accidentally kicked away. Does this count as a cue to the name "Strawberry Chocolate Killer" at the very end?

What did the poor strawberry chocolate do wrong? Not only was it eaten by men for its entire life, but it also fell to the ground and was kicked by someone in the end.

This ending should be a scrapped draft, or it may be a little easter egg. I don’t know if this note is inserted in every book, or if Oda Sakunosuke gave him this ending specifically.

"Odasaku actually wrote a novel..." Dazai Osamu touched his chin, and it looked very realistic.

"Every time I read about strawberry chocolate, I always subconsciously change it to spicy curry rice in my mind..." Dazai Osamu scratched his head. The shadow of Oda Sakunosuke was everywhere in this book.

Whether it was the two-story building, or the model of living upstairs and opening a shop downstairs, or the betrayal of friends, picking up children... or even the fact that the child didn't survive in the end...

But at least there was a pretty good ending this time.

I also learned a lot of life skills...

And...the person who saved the man was wearing a hat, had bandages on his fingers, was a little short, had beautiful eyes, liked to drink, liked to eat crab dishes, and hated dogs...Why did he give me a subtle and disgusting feeling!

Why do you want to sew yourself together with the dwarf!!!

But considering that this person is rich and can eat crab dishes every day, just bear with it for now!

And the sister of the lady at the convenience store always looks a bit like Gojo Aiko...

The two sons of the driver uncle who often delivers goods with me look like Noriaki Kakyoin and Caesar.

The doctor I met when I went to the hospital to have a tooth pulled also felt like Kanae Kocho.

He even secretly smuggled some spicy curry rice into it. The specialty of this town is spicy curry rice. One of the pillar industries in the town is a company that specializes in producing curry blocks. Their signature product is spicy curry blocks. There are several factories that make spicy curry blocks in the town.

And... the organization he once served did not outlive him. It eventually went bankrupt due to an economic crisis and was wiped out by a hostile organization. The few remaining members finally set up an insurance company and barely survived, but in the end, because the boss was a lolita complex and was suspected of molesting young girls, he was arrested and the company went bankrupt again.

I always feel like he's being weird or something...