Supernatural ability spring flowers and autumn fall

Putting away the three-color balls that he just bought from the Japanese confectionery shop, Qiuya continued to walk slowly along the road from Kanazawa District to the beach.Now it is almost the end of September, and Yokohama is slowly beginning to see autumn.The plants planted on the sidewalk beside the street have already shed their leaves one after another, and the breeze that blows from time to time no longer carries the unique heat of summer.

Since going to school and having a part-time job at a detective agency, Qiu also feels that his pace of life has become faster with a full schedule. Besides going to class, he has to go to the detective agency to deal with intelligence matters every day.Although Dazai was by his side and accompanied by many friends, he found that he hadn't slowed down and observed the changes in the scenery around him for a long time after he suddenly couldn't do anything today.

Plants change the most with the change of seasons, and his supernatural ability acts on plants.Spring flowers fall in autumn, which refers to the cycle of growth of plants during the change of seasons. It is really inappropriate to ignore the origin of one's own supernatural power for a while.

After deciding where to go alone, Qiu Ye felt a little relaxed inexplicably, curling his lips, and stopped and stopped on the way with a nostalgic smile. When he was tired, he went directly to the nearby bench Sit down and stare blankly at the leaves of the nearest tree.

By the way, ask Mr. Shu to confirm whether the mafia is still following him persistently.

In the end, Qiu also spent an afternoon before arriving at the destination of his trip - a cemetery by the bay with very good greenery.

On the way, he took the box of three-color balls into a stationery store and bought a tape measure and a baseball.

After stepping into the cemetery, he put everything in his hands aside, bent down and collected some wild flowers from a nearby raised mound.

This place was the cemetery where the only 'sacrificed' member of the IIC organization was buried four years ago when the Port Mafia fought against smugglers from Europe.

Although both he and Dazai knew that there were no human bones buried under the tombstone that read 'Oda Sakunosuke', they also knew that it was indeed a tombstone belonging to the 'Oda family'.

What was buried inside was the clothes of three children named Oda Yu, Oda Katsumi, and Oda Sakiraki who were attacked by the explosion of the undead army and had no bones left.

When he came to the tombstone, Qiu Ye quietly lowered his head and took out the presents he just bought from the bag one by one.

When he was still on the second floor of the hotel, working as a character recognition teacher for the children, he remembered the strengths and personalities of each child in it.Yu is very good at math calculations, every time he assigns arithmetic homework, that child is the first to complete and check for Qiuya - he said that he might become an engineer boy in the future; So good, but he is very athletic, and his personality is also very passionate-if he grows up, he might be the second Hirota Saijo; and he was the most attached to him back then, and he promised to wait for him to blossom. Afterwards, Sakura will come to his shop as an illustrator...

The ultra-high temperature explosion left the three children with nothing...

Sniffing, Qiu Ye raised her head and quickly blinked her pale green eyes to hold back the tears, then lowered her head and picked up the bouquet of wild flowers placed on the far side, and weaved them into a garland bit by bit .

On the way, he couldn't help chuckling, because this bouquet of flowers was exactly the same as the one that Sakule picked for him and Mr. Oda at a summer picnic more than four years ago, and it looked very simple and rough. Composed of several small flowers of different colors.

After weaving the garland and placing it in front of the tombstone together with the tape measure baseball, Shuya looked away, staring blankly at the scenery by the bay of Yokohama at sunset that the target could see.

The leaves of the sycamore trees in autumn begin to turn yellow, but they are not completely yellow until late autumn in October, November or even the beginning of winter.Qiu also picked up one of the fallen leaves, raised his head and looked at the trees next to the cemetery through the gaps in the leaves.

The golden sun that was gradually setting in the afternoon shone on his body through the gaps in the leaves. It was not as hot as summer, and it was not as cold as winter with only a hint of warmth.

At this time, the sunshine at this moment of this season is really the most comfortable.Combined with the sea view that can be seen in this specially constructed area in the Yokohama Bay Area, and the subtle noise of the waves, Qiuya really feels that Dazai has chosen a very good place for the children this time. They sleep forever.

"I'm sorry..."

After appreciating the scenery in front of him enough, Qiuya put his head against the stone slab of the tombstone, raised his hand and stroked the word 'Oda', and lowered his eyes to lean on it.

"We will work hard to bring Mr. Oda back as soon as possible."

Both he and Dazai are trying to figure out a way for this matter, so that Mr. Oda, who is still hiding in Yahara, can come back to Yokohama quickly, to a place where he can see the children and the sea of ​​Yokohama.

This reliance kept the time until the sun was about to set. After feeling that the sunlight on her body was getting darker and darker, Qiu also straightened up and opened the box that she bought from the pastry shop at the beginning, and put a few strings of three-color cakes inside. The meatballs were packed in paper plates and placed in front of the tomb.

"I almost want to go home, but if you still have to follow the road ahead, I will be very distressed." Lowering his head, Qiu also took out a bunch of meatballs from the box, and looked at the gold in front of him under the setting sun. In the sea water, he said with a flat face, "And it will be dark soon, and it will be time for you to work, so why don't you go back?"

No one agreed to his words, but after staying for a while, there was a very obvious sound of footsteps behind Qiu Ye, which he had not heard on the road.

"..." Akutagawa Ryunosuke walked behind the young man who was kneeling in front of the tombstone, lowering his head and biting a three-color ball. "How did you find me?"

He thought that his stalking should be difficult for ordinary people to notice.

"You don't need to care about this," Qiu Ye turned his head, looking at the young man with a fierce face who should be about the same age as him, "Do you have anything to say to me?"

He didn't think that this young man followed him all afternoon just to use him to block people from the detective agency. After all, he had already wasted such a long time in this place, and Akutagawa also stayed with him for an afternoon without any regrets. action.

"..." The young man in the black windbreaker who had been struggling all afternoon paused, but still couldn't say what he wanted to say.His time shifted a bit, and he came to the tombstone that was mostly covered by Qiuya, and a few words were clearly written on it, "... Oda Sakunosuke."

The tone was the same as when he called the Armed Detective Agency yesterday, this guy pronounced Mr. Oda's name through gritted teeth.

"That person is just a person at the bottom of the mafia..." Before Shuya showed a puzzled expression, Akutagawa Ryunosuke said his thoughts and opinions to himself, "Why, this Oda is, that The Armed Detective Agency is, Mr. Dazai’s new subordinate, Tora, and even you!”

The uncontrollable anger made his voice louder and louder, and with the increasingly ferocious expression, the hem of his black windbreaker swayed in the absence of wind,

"Why! Mr. Dazai always surrounds him with weak people who are not qualified to be around him!" The fibrous blade formed by the hem quickly attacked Qiuya, "I have become so powerful now, why is he still Leave me behind!"

The sharp blade that quickly struck at him made Qiu Ye's pale green eyes widen, and his pupils shrank violently.But in the end, the black cloth strip stopped before it hurt him, and retracted behind the black-clothed youth in front of him.

This young man, who was still panting after shouting, breathed in the wind from the sea and coughed a bit, still remembered the warning he promised his teacher yesterday that he must never hurt this Sakuraba Qiuya.

Originally, he just wanted to follow up and ask, what kind of ability does this person have, so that Mr. Dazai would be with him even during his defection, but he didn't expect that he would end up like this in the end.

"...Why?" Qiu Ye gasped as he looked in front of him, and the young man who lowered his head and stopped looking at him also sighed softly, thinking about the question the other party yelled out.He tilted his head to let himself lean on the tombstone again, raised the fallen sycamore leaves that he had been holding in his hand for a while, and finally came to a conclusion with a smile, "Maybe because I know how to cook."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke: "..."

"Pfft, just kidding," Shuya chuckled and shook his head, put down the leaves and looked at the other party, "I don't know why, after all, I can't fully understand Dazai's thoughts, even if we have been together for eight years .”

Just like what he said before, it is completely impossible for one person to put himself in the shoes of another person, because no conditions will allow him to do exactly the same situation.

So in the same way, he has no way to fully understand Dazai, all he has done is to accompany him all the time, and then try his best to grow to the extent that he can be with him.

However, the specific reason why he was with Dazai, he only knew that his reason was that he liked Dazai, and he had to answer for Dazai himself.

"If you want to get an answer, the best way is to ask Dazai," Shuya suggested, looking at Akutagawa Ryunosuke who became dazed after he answered, "or you can also think back, he Maybe something was mentioned in what I told you before."

Every time he accomplishes something, he can recall that Dazai had said similar words to him a long time ago, or the corresponding details. However, it is obvious that Dazai taught him and Akutagawa in a different way. can speak.

"Eight years..."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke was obviously surprised by Shuya's mention for such a long time.

"Well, eight years," Qiuya admitted with a nod, turned to look at the sun that had completely set in the west, and suggested to the young man behind him, "It's almost dark now, since you keep your promise with Dazai and won't hurt me, I really don't have the strength to send you to the military and police, so why don't you just leave like this?"

At least don't get stuck in this place and waste time.

"...I will ask Mr. Dazai myself," Ryunosuke Akutagawa said to Shuya, seeing that it was indeed time to work in their mafia, "Maybe I will persuade Mr. Dazai to go back to the port mafia. Won't be coming back."

"You can try it and see if he will leave," Qiuya replied with a smile, turning his back to the dusk scenery by the bay by the tombstone, looking at Akutagawa confidently.

The scenery of this city at dusk is very beautiful, that fellow Dazai will not leave so easily.

He looked at the young man in front of him who was finally willing to leave, and after remembering that he was Dazai's student, he bent down to lift up the snack box and opened it, and passed the remaining three-color balls to him, "Do you want to try it, three-color ball."

Pink, white, and dark green balls are strung together on bamboo sticks and placed neatly in the dim sum box.Although it has been out of the oven for more than four hours, it still looks very good.

"I don't need this kind of thing!" The mafioso, who didn't have any color on his body, took a look at Dim Sum, and raised his hand to overturn it.

"When Dazai was still in the mafia, he liked to eat the dim sum I made." Before the other party touched the box, Shuya stopped his movements first. "Of course, he also likes it now."

Seeing the young man who stopped his movements and stared at the three-color ball with a disbelieving expression, Shuya directly picked up a bamboo skewer and handed it to the other party, "At that time, I would make some snacks for the children, and Dazai would do it every time. Come and steal it, don't you try it?"

Akutagawa Ryunosuke: "..."

"Please don't follow me, go find your answer."

After watching the other party tie the bamboo sticks with trembling hands, Qiu also stuffed the whole snack box into the other party's arms and turned to leave, not giving the other party a chance to speak.