[Comprehensive] How to kill a rabid dog gently

Dazai, Chung and Akutagawa finished watching the confidential video tape.

On the screen, there is no doubt that the man in the black coat has the same appearance and manner as Osamu Dazai. He sits opposite to Chief Tanada of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Special Affairs Division. Between the two is a young man who looks like a clerk and wears glasses. Osamu Dazai is also very familiar, that is his old friend Ango Sakaguchi.

"What a nasty scene."

Osamu Dazai said with a half-smile.

The long table separated the Butei members of this world from the visitors from another world, and Dazai Osamu's every move was still vigilant by the other side.

"Cheng probably doesn't know about this, but Akutagawa-kun should know about it, right? As a member of Hong Kong Black."

"what--"

Akutagawa Ryunosuke from Butei showed an expression of disbelief, while Akutagawa who was sitting next to Sumiya just nodded calmly.

"Yes, this is the case of handing over the license for the operation of abilities with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mr. Dazai."

"Based on this video alone, the fact that 'Osamu Dazai' is the 'leader of Hong Kong gangsters' becomes irrefutable."

In the middle of Dazai Osamu's words, he suddenly turned his face to look at Akutagawa whose expression changed from astonishment to anger.

"In your opinion, is it incomprehensible that 'Akutagawa Ryunosuke' will become a member of the gangsters?" He had a complicated smile on his face, "However, it is true that you are lucky enough to say Maybe, after all, between me and Odasaku—”

"I don't think so."

Akutagawa in black suddenly spoke.

"He's just a poor guy who was abandoned for unknown reasons and hasn't stopped deceiving himself until now."

The young man who was brutally dissected by his cold language distorted his expression, turned into black thorns and stabbed at him violently. Akutagawa still had a cold face when he was attacked, and only his merciless counterattack reflected his bad mood.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who grew up in Hong Kong and black, has faced much more life and death fights than the other him, and he has also used his abilities more proficiently. He easily suppressed the opponent's attack, and what he wanted to do did not seem to be That's all, when Rashomon was about to pierce the boy's shoulder, Cheng grabbed his arm.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who was immersed in the anger of "the self in the parallel world was given up by Mr. Dazai", paused, and his body trembled imperceptibly.

His gaze met Shang Cheng's gaze, Cheng shook his head at him, held his hand slightly loosely, slipped to his wrist, and tugged his sleeve lightly.

Akutagawa's eyes widened slightly, and then he looked away in a bit of embarrassment. He withdrew the ability, and the face facing another self finally showed honest anger.

"You have more important things to do than fight me, who doesn't matter." He said almost scoldingly, "Every second wasted here, Yin is in danger, and you can't even do this kind of thing." Don't you even know!"

The younger sister's name made the boy wake up suddenly.His killing intent stagnated for a moment, and then immediately frantically flocked to the "Hong Kong black leader" who had not met yet.

"Wait, Mr. Akutagawa..."

The young man suddenly got up and left, as if he didn't hear his companion's obstruction.

"I want to go with you, you won't object, right, Butei Akutagawa-kun?"

Osamu Dazai stood up and spoke to him in a relaxed tone.Akutagawa, who was mentioned by him, turned his head, his blood-colored eyes were extremely ferocious.

"I'll go too."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke in black said that he didn't look at his other self and just passed him.

Before the boy's patience broke through the threshold, Cheng spoke.

"Since it's a favorable condition, it's better to use it, right? My sister may be waiting for you." She turned her face and looked at him intently, "It may look like some annoying guys to you, but they will help you Busy, I promise."

"..."

Maybe it's Akutagawa's principle of not attacking women, or it's because she really doesn't feel any threat.

His anger was miraculously suppressed a little, and maintained at a level that was close to overflowing but not bursting.

"Then I take it bluntly as the default."

Dazai said, quickly took Cheng's hand, and kissed her ring-wearing finger.

"Some things have to be confirmed...can you wait for me for a while, Ah Cheng?"

He suddenly laughed.

"This kind of conversation seems to be in line with the status of newlyweds." Osamu Dazai whispered softly, "Oops, I seem to have begun to miss you."

"Speaking of which, we still have a lot of things to do... After returning to Yokohama, we have to go to Italy together, do you remember?"

Cheng blinked with a smile.

"Dazai, come back early."

# # #

Because he was told by his new wife to "come back early", Osamu Dazai maintained a pretty good mood on the way to the headquarters building, which allowed him to ignore the extremely bad relationship between Akutagawa-kun and Akutagawa-kun in the small car. atmosphere.

"So, the point of disagreement probably lies in that day."

Osamu Dazai said with great interest.

"On our side, that day I hired Akutagawa-kun as my direct subordinate—by the way, as a gift, I killed the person who killed Akutagawa-kun's companions—after that, Akutagawa-kun accepted my persuasion I joined the gangsters." He added heartlessly, "Well, I jumped out of the fire pit and left Akutagawa-kun inside alone."

"... Mr. Dazai."

Although it has been a long time, Akutagawa's face was gloomy when he mentioned this matter again.

"Really, it doesn't look bad now, Akutagawa-kun, when you should let go as a man, you have to let go." Osamu Dazai, who didn't take what he committed at all, quickly changed the addressee, "Another Akutagawa-kun, since you did not join Hong Kong Hei, but was recommended by Oda to join the Armed Detective Agency, what happened that day, can you tell me more details?"

Butei Akutagawa, who had an unattractive complexion, pursed his lips tightly and turned his face to the car window.

"If we have more information, our chances of winning will be better? Don't tell me Akutagawa-kun doesn't want to rescue his sister..."

"Shut up!" the boy said angrily.

Then, he said very reluctantly: "That day, I killed those six people with my own hands... Then I met the man wearing the bandage—Osamu Dazai."

He paused, and the car suddenly became very quiet, only the sound of breathing could be heard.

"He said some weird things and took my sister away."

Dazai smiled lightly.

"In other words, it really was 'Dazai Osamu' who made a different choice."

He leaned back in his chair and sighed.

"What is that guy thinking, I really want to know."

Junichiro Tanizaki, who was driving, asked cautiously: "Mr. Dazai, didn't you say that the Hong Kong black leader 'Osamu Dazai' is also you, why..."

"Because he is me."

Osamu Dazai leaned back on the seat, thinking while staring at the gray roof of the car absent-mindedly.

"Why did 'I' make so many different choices? No matter how you think about it, this is far beyond the margin of error of 'Dazai Osamu'."

He sat up straight and looked out the window. The towering Hong Kong and Hei headquarters building loomed in the distance.

"This is why I want to meet him. Out of intuition, I think it may be related to our sudden appearance in this time and space."

Osamu Dazai looked at the distant silhouette, and all the scenery here made him feel familiar and strange.

"The leader of Hong Kong gangsters..."

He laughed and looked away.

"I always feel that maybe that is a poor guy beyond imagination."

# # #

This was the first time Oda Sakunosuke walked into this dilapidated bar.

Speaking of which, it is not that he does not drink alcohol, but he rarely goes to bars. This may be because before joining the detective agency, he did not have anyone who could be called a companion, and the drinking occasions were just drinking by himself in his own residence; After joining the detective agency, I could occasionally have a drink with Xie Ye and others-but this mainly happened in restaurants that allowed drinking near the detective agency, not bars.

He had no reason to come here, so he never came here.

Today, the purpose of Oda Sakunosuke's coming here is to get through the insiders who have information about the treasury in the Hong Kong gangsters, so as to gain some bargaining chips in the hostility with the Hong Kong gangsters.They agreed to meet here.

The person who made the appointment with him should be an old man, but Oda Sakunosuke only saw a young man on the seat.

"……You are?"

Hearing his voice, the young man's gaze turned to Oda Sakunosuke while looking at the wine glass.

He has beautiful and melancholy eyes.

He stared at Oda for a long time, so long that those who were stared at him began to hesitate whether they should make a sound to break the strange silence.

"Accidents are distressing, they happen so casually, and they ruthlessly disrupt everything, whether long-planned and resolved, or otherwise..."

The young man in a black coat said with a sense of loss.

Although he felt that these words were confusing, Oda Sakunosuke still listened patiently.

He gradually stopped talking, and just looked at Odasaku, showing a similarly melancholy smile.

"Long time no see, Odasaku."

"……haven't seen you for a long time?"

A little confusion appeared on Oda Sakunosuke's face.

"Sorry, we should be meeting for the first time."

"..."

The man's hand holding the wine glass was suddenly strong, but slowly, he let go of his hand and looked away.

"It's the first time we met."

He spoke with a light tone that didn't match the sadness in his eyes.

"You're right, we are all visiting this store for the first time."

# # #

Akutagawa and his party finally arrived in front of the headquarters building.

Osamu Dazai looked up at the tall building, squinted his eyes and searched for the location of the chief's office for a while.

"By the way, Akutagawa-kun, you should know the security arrangement of the headquarters." Osamu Dazai asked, walking straight in, "This way things will be much easier..."

He walked into the hall. Unsurprisingly, defensive forces had already been deployed there, led by a white-haired boy with a cold expression.

"Sorry, you can't go any further."

"!!"

Not only Akutagawa, but even Dazai couldn't help being surprised.

"Isn't this Dunjun?"

He said.

"I'm still thinking about why I didn't see you in the detective agency. It turns out that the situation here is reversed—"

Osamu Dazai suddenly stopped talking, he was keenly aware of the unnaturalness of the matter.

To say it was a coincidence would be too deliberate.It's as if someone deliberately played a game of chess backwards.

And the premise of doing this is that that person already knows how each chess piece will be played.

Atsushi Nakajima, who joined Hong Kong and Hei in this world line, didn't care why the other party could call him by his name, but even so, he couldn't help but look at Dazai several times.

"As the leader said, there was indeed a man with the same appearance among them." Dun said.

"what do you mean……"

"Reservation canceled."

Atsushi Nakajima said.

"The leader canceled all the scheduled plans for today, including the execution of Miss Yin. So if possible, please go back first."

# # #

In a corner of the mixed-use building where the detective agency is located, there is a coffee shop called "Whirlpool".

Chung knew about this, before she was drawn into this time and space, she was staying there with Dazai, talking with the people from the Armed Detective Agency.

The current Cheng also sits in this coffee shop, ordering the same coffee as back then, but alone.

But her "celibacy" is shattered with the arrival of another.

"A Cheng."

Compared with when he left, Dazai Osamu was more dusty, and before he had time to sit down next to her, he began to complain.

"Things don't seem to be easy to solve as expected. As expected of me, I am indeed a difficult opponent..."

Cheng stopped his movements and listened to him with a smile.

"...I'm kind of looking forward to what that guy will do next." Osamu Dazai said, "However, let's put those aside first, and go out for a walk with me?"

He propped his chin, turned his face sideways, and looked at her with Cheng's familiar nostalgic eyes.

"After all, we're still newly married."

Cheng gently put down the cup.

"it is good."

Dazai laughed, and took Cheng with the hand that wore the ring.

The sun is setting in the west, and the streets of Yokohama shrouded in warm afterglow are like a piece of slightly melted chocolate, with a bit of noisy stickiness.

They walked along this street until a few sparse stars hung on the horizon.

Dazai carefully let go of Cheng's hand, and turned to look at her.

"Cheng." He said, "This is really an unexpected surprise."

"Yes."

The night wind had already blown quietly, and Cheng parted her hair.

"I didn't expect you to come to see me, Dazai-san."

"Mr. Dazai" had a brief flash of surprise in his eyes, and then he said with a complicated smile: "How did you find out, I should have disguised myself well."

He rubbed the ring with his fingertips.

"After all, he and I are considered to be the same person." Osamu Dazai, who became the leader of Hong Kong gangsters, said calmly, "We should be the same person, but I have to say 'meeting you for the first time' to you. I think it's unfair—then, Cheng, please tell me."

He raised a sad, hard look.

"In your opinion, are we the same person?"

"Yes, or not."

Cheng put his hands behind his back, looking at the stretch of coastline and the little bit of skylight from a distance.

"If it was the Osamu Dazai I know, why would he choose a way of life that is definitely not suitable for him? Thinking about it this way, I couldn't help feeling a little bit worried."

She turned around, and Dazai Osamu was reflected in the eyes that closed the tide and the setting sun.

"That's why I wanted to see you."