Seeking the Law of Summoning in Taisho

"Mr. Dazai! You are finally back. After disappearing for so long, I am really worried about you! If the lord hadn't stopped me, I would have gone to find you!"

"It's just that a lady agreed to jump into the river with me. I was so happy that I forgot to tell you, but don't worry, I'm not dead and come back~"

"..."

"Kana Hui-kun~ This is your residence? It looks very quiet and peaceful!"

"Well, I have wiped out all the ghosts here. I plan to go to a place a little further away in two days. It would be great if the lord can issue a task."

"so……"

"Why don't you talk again? What is this?"

The wild boar headgear that came over touched Osamu Dazai's forehead, interrupting his concentration on eavesdropping. Seeing that the other party attacked directly, he quickly turned off the sound in the earphone, took it off and held it in his hand.

"Is this?" Dazai Osamu shook the earphones, but dodged the moment the opponent stretched out his hand, "This is the secret weapon to know the world's affairs without leaving home~"

"Weapon? So small?!" Zuihei Inosuke was surprised, and his thoughts became stronger, "Show me! I'm the king of the mountain, so of course I need the strongest weapon!"

Osamu Dazai leaned back: "Ah, don't put dirty things on my clothes!"

"Then show me!"

Zuihei Inosuke scrambled for a long time, but seeing that he couldn't scramble, he jumped up and almost threw himself on Osamu Dazai.

Osamu Dazai teased him for a long time, and finally threw it into the air with a smile, and let him catch it by himself.

It's just that when he looked back at his hands, he was taken aback, and said in surprise, "Where's my half fish?!"

Zuihei Inosuke pretended not to hear, and concentrated on studying the earphone in his hand.

--

That day Zuihei Inosuke studied all night but failed to find out why, and finally returned the earphones to Osamu Dazai.

Two days later, Zuhira Inosuke went outside Takosuke's house again. As usual, he didn't see the old man. He threw the acorn into the backyard, then sat on the big rock outside and began to wait.

After waiting for a long time, until the sun gradually moved to the top of the head from the east, and there was still no movement inside, he finally moved and jumped off the stone, apparently ready to leave.

"Why send acorns?"

The sudden words startled him, Zuhei Inosuke looked intently, only to find Osamu Dazai standing behind the tree, with one hand still fixed by the branch, his whole face huddled in the scarf, looking pitiful I don't know why I have to suffer the cold wind outside.

Zuhira Inosuke heard what he said, turned his head slightly, and hummed: "I won't steal things like what Octopus said. Acorns are my most cherished treasure. I got them from the old man." I traded my treasures for all the food! No one can accuse me!"

Dazai understood.

It appears that this has been falsely accused.

He came out from behind the tree, raised his other hand and spread it out: "Then your baby is quite ordinary."

There were a few acorns in his hand, and when Zuihei Inosuke saw what was in his hand, he jumped up and shouted, "Ah! You stole my treasure!"

Osamu Dazai dodged the snatching hand he stretched out, and retorted: "Who told you to snatch my fish yesterday."

"I didn't snatch it!" Zuihei Inosuke put his hips on his hips, so angry that the nostrils of the hooded wild boar were snorting. "That fish was put in front of me! I can eat it!"

"Ah," Osamu Dazai nodded, "Then this acorn also fell in front of my eyes, so it's mine?"

"You and I--"

Zuhira Inosuke pointed at him, and said in a daze, "It seems... so."

After a moment of silence, he folded his arms and turned his head, "humph": "Forget it, who made me the big brother! The big brother is to give way to the younger brother, so I just send you off."

Dazai Osamu bent his eyes and laughed, just when Zuhei Inosuke thought the other party would accept it, he smashed the acorns one by one onto his headgear.

"Keep it for yourself!" Osamu Dazai threw away the last one, turned around and left, "Remember not to steal other people's things in the future, otherwise all your acorns will disappear overnight~"

Zuhira Inosuke held a hand full of acorns, thinking that there would be no more acorns to exchange for things in the future, and he would become a pauper, and couldn't help shivering.

After Osamu Dazai walked far away, he came back from his imagination, and suddenly remembered another thing, and hurriedly chased after him.

"Hey! That—"

He ran to Osamu Dazai and stopped him: "That, what you said... that will never be seen again, is it true?"

Osamu Dazai understood that what he wanted to ask was the topic of death that they talked about yesterday, so his expression became a little serious, and he nodded: "Yes."

Zuhira Inosuke fell silent, and he couldn't see what kind of expression he had through the hood.

After a long while, he suddenly ran towards Takosuke's house again. Osamu Dazai turned around, and saw the other party running to the big rock he had sat on just now, and bent down.

Zuihei Inosuke flipped the acorns that Osamu Dazai gave him, and put them all there.

Although the movement is not gentle, it is also his most precious thing.

Now, it's all given to someone else.

"Let's go." After he finished this, he walked back to Osamu Dazai, his tone still carrying his own unique confidence and pride, "I won't come in the future, these things, I will treat them as gifts from me." This is the last gift for my little brother."

He may not understand death enough, Dazai thought, but he should already know how to say goodbye.

"Inosuke," he patted the other person's shoulder, "Come, let me play an interesting game with you."

Zuihei Inosuke was puzzled and inexplicably excited to follow him to the forest, and was instructed by the other party to pick up branches.

"...Ah?!" Zuhira Inosuke looked at him dissatisfied, "The game you said is picking up branches? Isn't that what you do every day?!"

"Of course not," Osamu Dazai said leisurely, "This is just the first step, remember, you need branches of similar length!"

Raising his hand and pushing him, Osamu Dazai urged: "Go! A big brother can't let an injured younger brother to work, right?"

As he spoke, he shook his hanging arm, indicating that he was still a "weak" patient.

Zuihei Inosuke's sense of responsibility overflowed at once, and he rushed towards the forest without saying a word.

Tree branches in winter are not easy to pick up, especially after the snow has buried everything that can be seen. If you want to find the target, you must first remove the snow layer to expose the branches.

Zuihei Inosuke obviously didn't like that kind of troublesome way. Relying on the protection of his headgear, he plunged directly into the snow and started "snow diving"!

The speed has indeed improved a lot, just the posture... a bit like a polar bear looking for food.

Osamu Dazai was tired after waiting for a while. Taking advantage of the other party's busy time, he ran back to the cave and fell asleep again. When he woke up again, Zuhira Inosuke also hugged a bunch of branches that looked about the same length as required came back.

"Welcome back, Inosuke~" Dazai Osamu greeted him enthusiastically, "The next step is to weave all these branches into a cage!"

Zuihei Inosuke: "Why?!"

"Because you can make a game if you edit it well, and you can't make a game if you don't edit it well."

In this nonsense that was said as if he hadn't said it, Inosuke Hirai didn't move: "I don't—"

"Could it be that you don't know..." Osamu Dazai suddenly realized, "No way, the king of the mountain can't even do such a simple thing—"

"Who said I can't do it anymore!" Zuihei Inosuke's arm was stretched with blue veins, and his movements seemed to be speeded up ten times, "I will make it for you now!"

Dazai Osamu was on the sidelines, and the old god took the time to guide: "The one should be inserted into the hole...the bottom of the cage should be made stronger...it's reversed..."

After a lot of effort, an ordinary cage was finally made!

"Yeah, not bad!" Osamu Dazai held up the basket and looked back and forth, making no secret of his appreciation, "As expected of the King of the Mountain!"

Zuhei Inosuke, who was tired and slumped on the ground, exhausted his last strength and raised his thumb upwards.

A thumbs up for myself.

"Leave the rest to me!"

Osamu Dazai tied a rope to the cage. After leaving the cave, he propped up the cage with two wooden sticks on a flat place, and then put some grass seeds under the cage.

After doing all this, he returned to the cave, pulled the rope until it would be straight in the next moment, and then began to sit and wait.

Zuhira Inosuke got up from the ground, looked at the cage with wooden sticks leaning on it, and asked, "What is this?"

Osamu Dazai: "Bird fishing."

Zuihei Inosuke: "...?"

"Huh?!" He straightened up, "What is that?!"

Osamu Dazai explained in a calm manner: "It's similar to fishing. You use things that the other party is interested in to lure it into the bait, so it's called 'fishing for birds'."

Zuihei Inosuke: "What is 'fishing'? What do you mean by what you are interested in? Just catch the fish you eat, why do you want to fish?"

Dazai was silent for a moment.

He turned his mouth to Inosuke Hirano, sat up straight, and said seriously: "Fishing is a game created by people to compare beauty. Animals like fish are naturally interested in beauty, so if someone stays by the water, they will see it." See if the other person is good-looking, if he is good-looking, he will directly surface and run into this person's hands, this is fishing, fishing with beauty is much easier than catching fish!"

Zuihei Inosuke seemed to understand but half understood: "Then I can fish too?"

"Hmm..." Osamu Dazai touched his chin and observed him seriously, and said for a while, "You can't look like this, but if you take off the headgear, those fish will probably want to jump directly into your mouth."

"Really!" Zuhira Inosuke took off the hood excitedly, "I want to try it too!"

The moment his voice fell, a sparrow flying from nowhere suddenly landed in the cage, lowering its head to pick up the grass seeds on the ground.

Osamu Dazai quickly pulled the rope, and the cage fell down, locking the sparrow inside.

Zuihei Inosuke said in surprise: "Wow! It's really useful!"

Osamu Dazai nodded: "Of course!"

Although he didn't know why it was such a coincidence, his goal of finding a partner for Inosuke was finally achieved.

The two went outside, Zuhira Inosuke squatted beside the cage and looked at it for a while, then turned his head and said with a smile, "Haha! Let's eat roasted sparrows tonight!"

Dazai Osamu: "..."

He quickly let the sparrow go.

Forget it, some people are doomed to be alone all their lives.

The author has something to say: Sparrow: I treat you as a friend, but you want to eat me? !

I think this article can be renamed "The Years Dazai Raised Children in Taisho"...