The False Protagonist and the True Demon King[Comprehensive]

The heavy snow covered the road with a thick layer of white, the whole world was covered with white, and it was already the cold winter. The pedestrians on the road wore bulging clothes and wrapped themselves tightly. Even so, their faces were flushed from the cold.

"Wow, it's so cold this winter." Osamu Dazai huddled in his seat and stared out the window.

Shen Xi took his hands out of his clothes, "That's not why you put your hands in my pockets, and my hands are obviously much colder than yours."

"Shen Xi, don't be so heartless, because it's really boring."

"If I remember correctly, you're not working right now, but staying at the coffee shop." Kunikida Doppo's voice sounded from behind Dazai Osamu, Dazai Osamu blinked, and then instantly buried himself in Shen Xi's arms.

"No, I want to play with Shen Xi!"

Shen Xi looked down at Osamu Dazai, and then put his eyes on the book in his hand again, not paying attention at all.

"No, do you know how busy the detective agency is! Don't you feel ashamed to play outside while watching everyone work? And Shen Xi, don't always cover him!"

Shen Xi blinked, "Oh."

"Huh? A lot of work? Super busy?" Osamu Dazai sat up, "If you're so busy, why are you all here? Of course, even Kunikida is here!"

"That, that's because!"

"That's because there is no job at all." Yosano Akiko sat at the next table with a cup of coffee, "Kunikida, haven't you been able to find a job yet? Don't argue, everyone seems to have been exposed to the sun." There is nothing to do with salted fish."

"Even so, you can't just leave during working hours!" Kunikida Doppo tried to explain.

Osamu Dazai exclaimed, "Oh? Is that so? Didn't Kunikida find out that everyone was gone? Oh, Kunikida's mother-san who was abandoned by everyone, so pitiful~"

"No, no! Dazai, shut up!"

Shen Xi looked at Osamu Dazai lying in his arms, and then tried to pat his head.

"Well, Shen Xi don't pat me on the head."

"Hahaha, this pose is the same as taking pictures of puppies!" Yosano Akiko said with a smirk in a playful tone, "Understood, it turns out that Dazai has a pet for Shen Xi."

"That's really..." Junichiro Tanizaki coughed, "What do you think, Mr. Ranpo?"

Edogawa, who was eating dim sum, tilted his head in disorder, "Huh? You ask me? Although it's really not good to come out during working hours, but there is no commission right now, so it doesn't matter."

"Look, look, even Mr. Ranpo said that!" Osamu Dazai cheered, and the coffee on the corner of the table was bumped by him, and the brown liquid made circles of ripples.

Kunikida Doppo coughed, "Since Ranpo-san has said so, then it's alright...Miss, please give me a cup of coffee."

"But speaking of it, why haven't there been any commissions recently?" Atsushi Nakajima sat next to him and asked a little strangely, "It's not like this in the most leisurely time."

"It's because of winter."

"It really is because of winter."

"Huh?" Atsushi Nakajima was a little confused, "Is it because of winter?"

"I know!"

Miyazawa Xianzhi raised his hand, and he shouted cheerfully, "In the village, everyone can't work in winter, because it's not suitable for crops to grow at this time, even if you go to herd cattle, you can't find anything to feed cattle. They eat grass, so everyone rests in winter."

Kunikida Doppo pushed his glasses, "Although there is something subtle wrong, but what Xianzhi said seems to be acceptable."

"Because it's too cold this winter, when you stretch out your hand, it feels like it's going to be frozen into ice cubes." Osamu Dazai leaned on the table and picked up the coffee, "It's really tragic to come out to commit crimes at this time, maybe before you commit crimes If you succeed, you will be frozen to death."

"Where is such an exaggeration!"

"Yes." Dazai Osamu shivered, "every morning since it snowed, I suspect that I have already died once."

Atsushi Nakajima tilted his head strangely, "Oh? Why? Because it's too cold at home?"

"No, it's not such a simple reason." Osamu Dazai said with a look of despair on his face: "Shen Xi who is sleeping next to me, his body is colder than the snow outside, even if I turn on the air conditioner to the maximum, it will still be the same. Like a dead body without temperature."

Atsushi Nakajima twitched the corner of his mouth, "Yes, is that so? Ha, ha ha ha."

"Do you need me to apologize?" Shen Xi asked him.

Osamu Dazai sighed, "Continue reading your book."

So Shen Xi continued to read the book in his hand, he seemed to have abandoned the game, and threw himself into the ocean of literature, although Osamu Dazai felt that he was on a whim again, and would soon find it boring.

"But this won't work. We must find a way to get everyone to entrust. If there is no entrustment, the detective society may go bankrupt!" Kunikida Doppo stood up, "Everyone, don't be so discouraged, let's find a way together!"

"Oh?" Dazai Osamu looked at Kunikida Doppo with a grin, "Are you going to have another meeting about commissioning? I'm looking forward to it!"

"Huh? Kunikida still wants to meow like a cat?"

"No way!" Kunikida Doppo stood up, "Last time it was because of Osamu Dazai... This time it will definitely not be like this, because I will prohibit Osamu Dazai from speaking from the beginning!"

"Huh?! It's so unfair!" Osamu Dazai jumped up unwillingly, "Why do you want to ban me from speaking?"

"Don't you know?" Kunikida Doppo said seriously, "Because no matter what the meeting is, once you join, it will change the topic and become a strange behavior. Not only that, you will continue to dig holes for everyone, hahaha, Dazai , I already quite understand your methods!"

Nakajima Atsushi said sincerely: "Mr. Kunikida is really not easy."

Yosano Akiko was a little surprised, "Don't you just dig holes for Kunikida?"

"Ahem, anyway, Osamu Dazai is prohibited from joining the discussion, that's it!"

Osamu Dazai drank the coffee in his cup regretfully, "It's really a pity, I feel very happy when I think of the meeting that became interesting because of me, but I was banned from participating, Shen Xi, do you think so?"

No matter what Shen Xi said, that was the answer.

"Dazai is right."

"Right, right, Shen Xi still understands me, I like you so much~"

"I told you, Shen Xi, don't spoil him all the time." Kunikida Doppo sighed, "This seaweed head is already very lawless, but with you behind him protecting him, he will become even more arrogant."

Tanizaki Junichiro carefully smoothed things over, "So in fact, we have already discussed how to increase the number of commissions in the previous meeting. The current words are probably what Mr. Dazai said, because the weather is too cold."

"Well, everyone doesn't want to go out." Quan Jinghua nodded holding the juice, "I also thought about not coming to work in the morning."

"Then we're going to stay here and be salted fish all the time?"

"Salted fish?" Miyazawa Kenzhi sniffed his arm, "It's not salty at all."

"It's not this salted fish." Junichiro Tanizaki whispered, "It means that I have nothing to do when I'm idle."

Miyazawa Xianzhi blinked his eyes in a daze, "Oh, that's right."

"I propose!" Dazai Osamu raised his hand happily, but Kunikida Doppo interrupted him before he could finish speaking.

"The proposal is invalid!"

"Oh? How can you be like this!" Osamu Dazai looked unhappy, "Senior Kunikida is too much!"

Kunikida Doppo cracked the cup in his hand with a crack, "Only then will you know that I am your senior!"

"I always knew that Kunikida was my senior." Osamu Dazai raised his hand, "Miss, please give me another cup of coffee, and I'm hungry, and I want a fried rice with crab meat!"

"Dazai drinks less coffee, he won't be able to sleep at night." Shen Xi stared at him.

Silently staring at Shen Xi for three seconds, Osamu Dazai shrugged, "Okay, little sister, I don't want coffee, I'll replace it with milk."

It is clear at a glance who the fruit milk is for.

When the fried rice with crab meat was served, Osamu Dazai began to choose the crab meat with a happy face. He also forgot the topic just now, and he didn't care about the proposal at all.

"Speaking of it, it's actually not good to sit here like this." Atsushi Nakajima said to ease the atmosphere, "Is there nothing we can learn? For example, the efficiency of solving cases."

"Hey, that's fine." Edogawa ran over and sat down, "I can tell you about the cases I have handled before, and then give you 30 seconds to give the answer."

"30 seconds?" Junichiro Tanizaki's voice trembled a little, "It can't be done."

"Then 40 seconds!"

"A completely unnecessary concession..."

Osamu Dazai chewed the fried rice in his mouth, "Although it is indeed difficult, there are merits. Why don't you draw lots and line up in order. The first person will tell the story, and the latter will guess the truth." , and finally let the first person announce the answer.”

"Huh? This seems good, but what about the lottery?"

"it's here!"

Osamu Dazai took out a deck of playing cards with colorful numbers drawn on them.

"Dazai, you took something from me again." Shen Xi closed the book, "This deck of cards is not finished yet, now there are only numbers."

"Numbers are enough, and you don't need too many anyway." Osamu Dazai threw the playing cards on the table, "Do you want to come together?"

Edogawa Ranpo leaned over and took a look, "Okay, I'll be the referee! Although it's as boring as those detective novels."

"It seems good, let's solve the case together."

"Can it improve the ability to solve crimes?"

"I don't know, let's try first."

There was a smile in Dazai Osamu's eyes, "So, are you all sure to participate?"

After getting an affirmative answer, Osamu Dazai shuffled the cards and distributed them randomly to everyone.

"Huh? Do I have it too?" Shen Xi looked at the poker cards in his hand.

"No way, there is just one more card, Shen Xi, just treat it as a game."

Shen Xi nodded, looking thoughtfully at the number on the card, eight?This is the last number in it.

……

"So who will tell the story first? The number one?" Kunikida Doppo looked around, "Who is the number one?"

"It's me." Yosano Akiko pushed the card in his hand onto the table, "Okay, let me start, let me think about how to say it."

"I'm looking forward to it." Dazai Osamu held the card between two fingers and smiled happily.

Shen Xi leaned over to take a look, the number is seven, so this group of people really completely forgot how good at cheating Osamu Dazai is, let him deal the cards, he can accurately distribute the number he wants to everyone's hands inside.

"Two years ago, it was also such a snowy day. I read the newspaper and found that there was an explosion in a nearby restaurant. Seven people were killed or injured. When I got off work, I planned to use the pretext of helping the judicial autopsy to settle all the dead and survivors. , so I stopped by."

"I know about this incident, which caused a sensation at the time." Tanizaki Junichiro said: "It is said that the waiter in the restaurant was angry and retaliated against the society because the boss deducted half of her salary."

"It's not important." Yosano Akiko continued: "The point is that when I arrived at the scene, the snow field had become dirty and black due to the explosion, and I couldn't see the original appearance at all. , there is a girl standing in the still clean snow."

"She was wearing a white dress, covered in blood, and a pair of red shoes, holding a white umbrella in her hand. She just stood there, but no one cared."

"It's the rhythm of a horror movie!" Osamu Dazai cheered, "Now is the time of horror."

"Don't interrupt, Dazai!" Yosano Akiko glared at Osamu Dazai, and continued.

"I went over to ask her what's wrong, but she kept crying when she saw me, and kept crying to save her."

She paused with Yosano Akiko, "So, let me ask you, who is this girl?"

The surroundings were quiet, and it took three seconds for everyone to react.

"Huh? It's over? I thought something terrible was going to happen."

"It's really over? It's so strange, there is no clue how to guess."

Yosano Akiko smirked, "If I told you all, what would you guess? Tanizaki also said before that the reason for the explosion in the store was that the waiters were dissatisfied with the boss's revenge on the society. Let me tell you another news, one of the missing diners was wearing The girl in the white dress."

"Who is the number two? Go ahead and guess!"

Atsushi Nakajima threw out the card in his hand with a confused face, "I, I am two, but I always feel very strange, why do girls wear skirts and umbrellas when it snows heavily in winter? Then, I think The girl wants to ask for help."

"Huh? How did A-Dun come to this conclusion?" Everyone was curious.

Atsushi Nakajima blinked, "Because it's very conspicuous. If you make yourself so conspicuous, you usually call for help."

"Cut, it's really boring." Yosano Akiko complained.

"Feel sorry!"

Quan Jinghua threw out the number three, and she looked serious, as if she had guessed the truth.

"Wearing red clothes is disguising yourself, the umbrella in your hand is a hidden weapon, and crying is to make people around you feel sympathetic and put down their guard against her. Therefore, she must be a hidden killer. The goal is to have a relationship with Dr. Xie Ye .”

Everyone stared at Quan Jinghua quietly.

"Did I guess wrong?"

"No, no, no." Everyone shook their heads, "Most people really wouldn't guess that a girl is a killer."

"Although this guess is very interesting, it's still wrong." Yosano Akiko sighed, "Why didn't the two of you guess that the girl was a ghost? It's a shame I guided you in this direction!"

No one noticed that Kunikida Doppo seemed to tremble the moment he told Yosano Akiko about the ghost, he stared at the card in his hand, the number four on it seemed to be mocking him.

"So? Keep guessing! Who is the number four?" Edogawa happily patted the table as if he was watching a movie.

"It's me." Kunikida Doppo coughed, and he threw out the number four in his hand, "About this incident... Dazai! Don't look at me like that!"

Osamu Dazai blinked, "Huh? What's none of my business?"

This seaweed head full of bandages!Dressed up as an innocent person in an instant, I really wanted to push him into the sewer and let him scream for help because of the darkness and stench!

"There are too few clues now. I only know that the girl may be a missing diner. There was an explosion in the store and the girl was in the snow outside the store. Therefore, I think this girl should be a relative of the store manager. The store manager was killed, so she is very sad. .”

"It turned out to be a more boring answer than Arden..."

"..."

"But why do you think it's the store manager's relatives, and you have to add that it might be a missing diner?"

"..."

"Is it because Kunikida-kun thinks ghosts really exist? Those white, floating ghosts~"

"Osamu Dazai!"

Shen Xi lowered his head to keep himself away from disputes, although he always stood behind Osamu Dazai, but this kind of fighting should be left alone.

"Huh? Is it my turn?" Miyazawa Hyun-chi threw the No. [-] card on the table, "The lady holding the umbrella should be to keep out the snow, maybe the lady is a regular visitor here, when you come here I suddenly found that the store was gone, so I was very scared.”

"Then why are you calling for help?"

"Huh? That's right, why did you call for help?" Miyazawa Xianzhi thought for a while, "I know! The village chief grandpa once told me a story that people who die unjustly can easily become earth-bound spirits, so, Maybe Miss Sister is such an existence."

Osamu Dazai, who was dodging Kunikida's attack, clearly saw that Kunikida paused the moment he heard the ground binding spirit, and a hint of evil flashed in his kite-colored eyes, "Kunikida-kun, there are really ghosts in this world. Oh, I've seen it."

"Shut up! There are no ghosts in this world!"

Anyone can hear the trembling in Kunikida's voice, but the amplified voice is too powerful to be ignored by detectives like them.

"So Mr. Kunikida is afraid of ghosts."

"It's the first time I know..."

"No!" Kunikida-kun turned around, "I'm not afraid of ghosts, that thing doesn't exist at all!"

Dazai Osamu ran behind Shen Xi with a smile, "Shen Xi, do you think Kunikida is not afraid because he doesn't believe in ghosts, or because he is too scared and keeps telling himself that ghosts don't really exist?"

This guy!

Because Shen Xi had been protecting Osamu Dazai all the time, Kunikida didn't take revenge in the end, and could only sit angrily on his seat and sulk, and then came the sixth place: Junichiro Tanizaki.

"I'm really not good at pushing away, I don't have a clue at all." Junichiro Tanizaki scratched his head and smiled awkwardly, "It feels like everyone has thought about it very comprehensively."

"No, it must be said. You see, everyone has said it, and Mr. Ranpo is not wrong."

Edogawa Ranbu bit off the thick dim sum with a groan, "Yes, it's okay, I'll listen carefully."

"Maybe it's just passing by?"

Yosano Akiko burst out laughing, quite happily.

"Huh? What, what's the matter?" Tanizaki Junichiro was a little confused, "I said I'm not good at pushing away."

"But it is also the most exciting answer so far. Ignore all doubts and directly conclude that this is a passerby's decision." Dazai Osamu nodded, "Tanizaki, good job."

Junichiro Tanizaki looked at Osamu Dazai with a stiff expression, "Too, Mr. Dazai, is that so?"

"Yes, that's right, please keep it up!"

"Oh? Yes!"

Kunikida Doppo pushed his glasses, "So? Who is next? You and Shen Xi didn't have their turn, so you are the last two? This makes me wonder if you cheated when the cards were dealt. .”

"Does this require cheating?" Osamu Dazai stood up, "As for my deduction, everyone look out of the window!"

"Outside the window?"

Everyone froze for a moment, they all turned their heads to look at the window, and then they found a girl in a red dress standing outside the coffee shop door in horror. She was holding a white umbrella, and everyone couldn't see her clearly because she lowered her head. face.

"Yes, it's that girl in the snow?!" Atsushi Nakajima shouted in surprise.

Quan Jinghua pulled out the dagger instantly, "It must be a killer!"

"Jinghuajiang, don't be impulsive!"

On the other hand, Kunikida Doppo fell into deep doubts, probably already arguing in his heart whether or not ghosts exist.

Yosano Akiko's eyes lit up, "I haven't dissected a ghost yet!"

"With Dr. Yosano! That's not something that can be dissected!"

Shen Xi slowly took a sip of the fruit milk. He felt that the detective agency was idle, so he wanted to participate in everything.

"Let me see if this girl is a ghost!"

"No, it's too dangerous! Think twice with Dr. Xie Ye!"

Shen Xi took another sip of the fruit milk, and at the same time tugged at the corner of Osamu Dazai's clothes, "Do you want to drink it? It's blueberry flavored."

"Watch the show first, and drink later." Osamu Dazai leaned on the back of the chair and stared at the window, "It's really interesting, isn't it?"

interesting?maybe.

Finally, after being contacted by the detective agency, it was discovered that the girl came to drink coffee with friends, she was completely real, and had nothing to do with the incident two years ago.

When the detective agency went to find Osamu Dazai to settle accounts, he was persuaded by Osamu Dazai's categorical coincidence explanation. Only Kunikida Doppo did not believe all the words of Osamu Dazai, and started a revenge plan.

Of course, the final result was that Osamu Dazai got tricked again.

"Kunikida-kun has been praising me today, so shy, Shen Xi." Osamu Dazai threw himself on Shen Xi.

Shen Xi stared at Doppo Kunikida, whose face was as ugly as if he had eaten a fly, and then at Osamu Dazai, who looked like a child who succeeded in pranking.

Alas, it's so pitiful to be Dazai's partner.

I don't know if Nakaya-kun, who is in Hong Kong, will have a common topic with Kunikida-kun on this matter...