How to raise Dazai gently

"The first patient who got mermaid disease was Takuro Tajima, aged 41, engaged in fishing and whaling. When he got sick, his early symptoms were very similar to rabies, which made his crew mistakenly think that it was a cat on board. caused by expired vaccines."

"In the later stage, when he drank a lot of water and even immersed his whole body in the pool to breathe, it was already too late. His body became more and more transparent, and he could even see the opposite scenery through his body."

Oda Sakunosuke and Kunikida Doppo ran around Yokohama for several days and collected a lot of information.

Oda Sakunosuke read out the collected information: "After going ashore and returning home, I have investigated all the places he has been to, and found no clues."

"If it is reasonable to speculate, Tajima Takuro should have contracted the mermaid disease at sea."

Fukuzawa Yukichi nodded and asked, "Can you find out where Tajima Takuro went when he went to sea?"

Oda Sakunosuke shook his head: "His ship has been sold, and the crew has been scattered to different sea ships. I tried to investigate all his crew members, but there was not enough time, and some of the crew members had already disappeared. As the ship goes out to sea, I don't know when it will come back."

"Can I get in touch with them?"

Asked Yosano Akiko.

Kunikida Doppo answered, "The sea is very spacious, and they may not be able to receive the signal on the sea."

As he said that, he tapped his forehead lightly in frustration: "I'm very sorry, when we went to collect information, everyone didn't want to have more contact with us because of the rumors of mermaid disease, and in the end we only collected this information..."

"Don't be discouraged, Kunikida-kun, you have done a good job."

Fukuzawa Yukichi patted him on the shoulder and comforted him softly.

"Is there any news about the port mafia?" Tanizaki Junichiro asked, "They are local snakes entrenched in Yokohama, so there must be some information that we don't know?"

Fukuzawa Yukichi sighed lightly, shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "The port mafia is maintaining law and order in Yokohama, so as not to let the mermaid disease shake people's hearts and cause chaos. There is no new information exchange for us. I have news that , their internal members are also infected with mermaid disease."

"In that case, why not start with other sick people?" Oda Sakunosuke suggested, "Although it may take longer, if we can find out the common points of sick people and find out the way of infection, at least Yokohama People don't panic as much."

Fukuzawa Yukichi nodded, and agreed to Oda Sakunosuke's proposal: "Then please make another trip—I will meet with the congressmen, at least the government must cooperate with our work."

If Edogawa Ranpo was still awake, with his ability, he would probably be able to get the answer in an instant, and they would not be so passive, but the members of the Armed Detective Agency at this moment have tacitly not raised this point, not only It was for Yosano Akiko who looked haggard, and also for Fukuzawa Yukichi who kept worrying between his brows.

There is no doubt that the first case should be Tajima Takuro, but he sold his ship, and the former crew members were also scattered on other ships. To make matters worse, the crew could not be contacted because of signal problems. The line investigation seems to have hit a bottleneck.

Like the information found by the Armed Detective Agency, the port mafia has also encountered a bottleneck on Takuro Tajima's clue, but Osamu Dazai is different. He still has the dreamy prop "book" in his hand.

Under his writing, the original broken clues reappeared. When Tajima Takuro went to sea, he took several long detours to a certain sea island, and the name of this island was 'American Island'. It is the world policeman from the other side of the ocean, but it is rumored that this island used to be the habitat of mermaids, and there is also a long-lived woman on the island, who was blessed by the mermaid and lived to be one hundred and three years old, so this' American Island', also known as Mermaid Island.

Mermaid Island and mermaid disease, I am afraid that Tajima Takuro made several detours to go to Mermaid Island, there is something inside.

Osamu Dazai decided to take Araki Kongshi to the mermaid island to investigate.

They set off from Yokohama, went all the way to the port of the next city, and then set off from the port of the next city to the mermaid island in Fujing.

This is something that can’t be helped. Although the high-level government inside Yokohama wants to hide the mermaid disease, many cities and counties have already told their citizens not to go out as much as possible, especially in a certain seaside city.

The mermaid island is quite a distance from the mainland, and it takes nearly three hours to go there by boat. Considering the current speed of the ship, it is already a long distance, but every departure ship has It was full of people, and they were still talking excitedly.

Osamu Dazai listened and found that they came by coincidence. The annual dugong festival will be held on Mermaid Island. The lucky ones will be selected from among the visitors, and three dugong arrows will be presented as gifts.

"Did Tajima Takuro detour to participate in the dugong festival?"

Osamu Dazai stroked his chin and fell into deep thought.

Although his boat is only a fishing boat, it is not unreasonable to temporarily use it as a passenger boat during the celebration period to earn extra money. At least when Osamu Dazai and Araki Kongyo boarded the boat, there were still many tourists crowding at the port and complaining. Why is there no ticket.

Araki Kongyo changed his hat and wore it. The white wide-brimmed knitted hat not only blocked the overheated sun, but also blocked the eyes of others.

In the scorching sun by the sea, he didn't sweat a single drop. Under the too strong sunlight, Araki Kongyo's fair skin seemed to become more and more transparent.

"Hello, Miss, are you a mermaid?"

At some point, there was a little girl standing next to their seats, about six years old, maybe she came to Mermaid Island to participate in the festival with her parents.

She stared at Araki Kongshi curiously, from his black hair hanging down his waist to his face covered by the brim of the hat.

Araki Kuyo blinked, and he looked at the little girl with round cheeks, who was staring at him expectantly, probably waiting for an affirmative reply.

Osamu Dazai raised his eyebrows slightly, he bent down and asked the little girl with twin ponytails: "He is an ordinary human male—but why do you ask that?"

The little girl blinked her eyes with obvious doubts on her expression, she was probably wondering why Araki Kongyo was a little brother with long hair.

She was quickly attracted by Osamu Dazai's handsome face again. Facing his question, the little girl said confidently: "Because my little brother is very good-looking! My mother said that the mermaid princess is very good-looking! That's why she's the princess!"

Osamu Dazai showed a smile: "But it's useless for the mermaid princess to be pretty. In the end, the prince didn't recognize that the mermaid princess was the one who saved him. He fell in love with the human princess, and the mermaid princess turned into the sea. The foam of the waves is one with the waves."

The little girl was stunned, she opened her eyes wide and tried to see the expression of a joke on Dazai Osamu's face, but she couldn't find the slightest hint of a joke.

She was shaken, and there was an obvious cry in her childish voice: "You lied! Mom said that the mermaid princess lived happily with the prince in the end! The prince recognized the mermaid princess!"

"I'm not lying to you. This is the ending of Andersen's original work of the mermaid princess. If you don't believe me, you can ask other adults. Besides, even if the mermaid princess and the prince are together, they will not be happy, because human beings With fish, there is reproductive isolation, and they cannot give birth to children."

The handsome kite-haired man obviously smiled so softly, but the words he uttered made the poor little girl hiccup from crying: "Your mother just lied to you to keep you from crying. How pitiful, you are trusted!" relatives have been deceived."

"Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!"

The little girl ran away crying, Osamu Dazai sat up straight as if nothing had happened under the stunned gaze of others, turned to Araki Karashi and said, "Okay, I drove her away."

Araki Kongyo was stunned. He didn't really want to talk to that little girl just now. For him, apart from Osamu Dazai and the humans Dazai cared about, other humans would only make him feel troublesome, especially the cubs. Just raising the cub Dazai Osamu is already a headache for him.

But he came out to investigate with Osamu Dazai, and if he caused trouble, it would affect Osamu Dazai's investigation. When he didn't know how to act, Osamu Dazai saw his reluctance and used this method to rescue him.

Araki Kongshi's ears were too noisy, he raised his hand to cover his chest, the organ in this place seemed to have something wrong again, it was throbbing violently, the movement was so loud that Araki Kongshi had the illusion that this organ was about to go out at this moment. It jumped out of the chest, as if jumping into Dazai Osamu's arms.