cat blues

When Osamu Dazai woke up in the morning, he always felt that something was wrong. When he got up from the futon, he was still wondering. When he walked over and turned on the tap to wash his face, he suddenly realized what was wrong.

He clearly remembered that yesterday was May 5rd, and the weather had gradually turned hot, but why did he cover himself with a quilt when he got up in the morning, and the water coming out of the faucet was icy and slightly chilly?

This is not right!

Osamu Dazai dried his hands immediately, took out his phone and checked the time, good guy, March 3th!The time unexpectedly jumped back to more than a month ago!

Osamu Dazai's eyes immediately turned cold. Could it be that some time-type supernatural power user used his power on a large scale, turning the time back to more than a month ago?

In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through his mind, but in the end he went out step by step, and when he arrived at the detective agency, he was fed by Yukichi the big cat, and at the same time, he heard Kunikida Doppo urging Sakunosuke Oda writes a case report on Teiji Moritani.

Um?Emperor Moriya II?Wasn't that the day of May 5rd, that is, the incident that Mr. Edogawa Ranpo, the famous detective in the agency, dealt with yesterday?But aren't they back in March now?How do they still remember what happened this time?

Osamu Dazai couldn't help being choked, he coughed twice, and coughed out the milk that had choked into his intake pipe.

"Dazai! It's fine to eat at work, don't make the office so dirty!" Kunikida Doppo couldn't help but said angrily.

"Hey, Kunikida-kun is so stingy—" Osamu Dazai said in a fluttering voice.

"You bastard!" Kunikida Doppo was so angry that he almost broke his pen again, "Do you bastard know what time it is now? Don't give it to you over and over again just because Mr. Yukichi dotes on you." Make an inch of it!"

However, Osamu Dazai didn't care at all, and even had the mood to laugh awkwardly. After laughing for a while, he asked as if belatedly, "Speaking of which, why didn't you see Mr. Ranpo?"

"Mr. Ranpo woke up very early today to find the president." Kunikida Doppo is the type who will go for a good morning exercise. Naturally, he saw Edogawa Ranpo early in the morning. The only thing that surprised him was that Edogawa Ranpo There seemed to be some panic on Bu's face, which made him a little concerned, so he asked a question in passing, and got a reply that the other party went to find the president.

"Okay, after all, it's Mr. Ranpo." Osamu Dazai sat on the chair and turned around, holding his cheek and asked Oda Sakunosuke who sat down to start writing the report beside him, "Hey Odasaku, what's the date today? What was the date yesterday? ?”

"Why did you ask this question suddenly?" Oda Sakunosuke gave him a strange look, but he still answered honestly: "Today is March 3, and yesterday was May 12."

Dazai Osamu slipped his hand holding his cheek, and almost hit his head on the table. He twitched the corner of his mouth and asked again, "Odasaku, what did you just say? What date is it today?"

"I just said, today is March 3, and yesterday was May 12. Is there any problem?" Oda Sakunosuke didn't feel that he said anything strange, but asked solemnly.

What's the problem... It's a big problem!

Osamu Dazai wanted to reach out and touch Oda Sakunosuke's forehead for a moment, to see if he had a fever and was talking nonsense, but what made him speechless was that everyone around him responded to his nonsense. He was unmoved in the slightest, as if Oda Sakunosuke was not talking about fake nonsense that couldn't be more fake, but something that couldn't be more normal.

At this moment, Osamu Dazai wished for the first time that everyone was just playing a nasty joke with him, and it would be better if someone would jump out and say "are you scared?".

However, at this moment, the door of the room was opened, and Edogawa Ranpo walked in from the door dejectedly, "Dazai, it's useless."

As he spoke, he wobbled to his desk like a deflated ball, sat down on the chair and didn't want to move.

"Mr. Ranpo?" Kunikida Doppo looked at him puzzled, not knowing what went wrong.

But Dazai Osamu immediately noticed his strangeness, he immediately stood up from his seat, walked to Edogawa Ranpo, and asked in a low voice: "Mr. Ranpo, have you noticed it too? Time suddenly Something's wrong with this."

Edogawa Ranpo did not speak, but nodded vigorously. He is different from Dazai Osamu. If Dazai Osamu is immune to the sense of time confusion caused by this time confusion through his own ability, then Edogawa Ranpo is through him. Reasoning, aware of abnormalities.

You know, in the current situation where yesterday May 5rd is today March 3th, and everyone still takes it for granted, Edogawa Ranpo, who is an ordinary person, can still notice the abnormality from it. It was astonishing.

Edogawa said with a sigh, "I told the president as well, and the president is willing to believe me, but..."

As he talked, he felt aggrieved, but what's the use of the president trusting him alone?What's more, the president also called various agencies, but both the Supernatural Secret Service Division and the Ministry of Internal Affairs gave strange responses of "What are you talking about?" Some people even asked "Fukuzawa Yukichi-san hasn't had a good rest lately," he said.Ranpo Edogawa was so angry that he wanted to hit someone.

Now that we have reached this point, Edogawa Ranpo naturally knows that no matter how this kind of thing continues, it is unlikely to have any results, but he still couldn't help complaining, "Sure enough, people in government agencies are idiots, right? Are you idiots! The date has become so messed up, can't they even notice it?"

"Please calm down, Mr. Ranpo." Dazai Osamu said a step ahead, "Since it is beyond the reach of "manpower", then it depends on the power of the gods. "

As he said, he turned around and greeted Yuji the big cat, motioning for the cat to come over: "Mr. Yuji, Mr. Yuji, come here."

Yukichi Tomomi was about to go downstairs to work, when he heard Dazai Osamu's greeting, he walked over curiously.

"Anyway, lend me your mobile phone." After Osamu Dazai finished speaking, he took Maomao's mobile phone from Yukichi Daimao's apron pocket, grabbed Edogawa Ranpo and ran out, "Kunikida-kun, Let's go out first!"

"Hey Dazai, don't take Ranpo-san with you when you skip work!" Kunikida Doppo couldn't help shouting.

"Mr. Yukichi, I want to drink pearl milk tea later!" Edogawa Ranpo shouted loudly, making Kunikida Doppo who was about to chase him out couldn't help but stop.

Big Cat Yuji nodded knowingly, opened the door and went downstairs.

"Moshi Moxi, Lord Ghost Lantern?" Osamu Dazai stood on the roof of the building and dialed the phone to hell.

"Tsk, is that you?" Ghost Lantern couldn't help frowning when he saw an unpleasant voice coming from the phone of "Big Cat".

"I can't help it. Now we have encountered a very serious situation, and we must ask you for help." Osamu Dazai said miserably.

"You? It seems that other than you have noticed it?" Ghost Lantern raised his eyebrows.

"Master Ghost Lantern really knows!" Dazai Osamu's mood immediately improved a lot.

"I did notice the abnormality." Ghost Lantern said calmly, "It's better to say that at the beginning, I was the only one who noticed the abnormality. Afterwards, many people in hell realized what was wrong."

"There is an abnormal backflow phenomenon in time." Ghost Lantern frowned and said, "But you two will also notice that something is wrong, and it is indeed somewhat beyond my expectations."

"Master Ghost Lantern, I can feel quite strong anger from your tone... Is something wrong?" Osamu Dazai couldn't help lowering his voice and asked.

"Ah, I'm really angry." Ghost Lantern squeezed the snapdragon pen in his hand so hard that it almost broke the pen in his hand, "I stayed up all night yesterday and beat a hell A large group of people even went to Gaotianyuan."

He just said that he fought, right?I mean hit it!

"The group of idiots in Gao Tianyuan don't care about the chaos of time at all!" Ghost Lantern made a low voice, "Only a few who still have brains will notice the seriousness of this matter, and other idiots don't care at all!"

"Time disorder is an extremely serious problem, both for humans and for hell!" The ghost lamp punched the table hard, "Time can jump from May to March, and those born in April and What happens to the dead? Does nothing happen? What a joke!"

The ghost lamp's words immediately made Dazai Osamu and Edogawa Ranpo notice something they hadn't noticed before, and it can't be said that they didn't notice it at all, but they were too shocked to notice the time reversal, so that they didn't expect this aspect thing.

"In short, because I have to be busy dealing with this matter in the future, I can't help you more in a short time." Ghost Lantern sighed, "Hell must thoroughly count the dead, and there must be no birth and death due to time changes. Inexplicably disappearing or reviving."

He said and comforted, "Anyway, I will notify you immediately if there is any situation here, so let's do this first."

After speaking, Osamu Dazai heard the sound of the phone being hung up.

"It seems that everyone is very troubled." Dazai Osamu shook his head, "I thought it would be the influence of the ability of the wide-area supernatural power, but now it seems that this is not the case, even heaven and hell are combined. Being involved, it even changed people's perception of time... This is definitely beyond human influence."

"Yeah..." Edogawa Ranpo recalled what Ghost Lamp said just now, and couldn't help frowning.

"But it's a good thing Mr. Ranpo that you can detect something is wrong. After all, people's subconscious minds don't seem to be able to detect the time is wrong." Osamu Dazai looked at Yukichi's mobile phone, and the screen saver of the cat was as expected. uy-sea's photo, but the standby screen after opening it is a group photo of all members of the Armed Detective Agency. It was taken at the gate of the shrine during the Chinese New Year this year. of no trace.

Looking at this family portrait, Osamu Dazai couldn't help showing a smile.

"Because it's weird." Edogawa Ranpo couldn't help but said, "It's really weird. On the calendar of my mobile phone, the day before March 3th should be March 12th, and the first day of Monday The next day should be Tuesday, but in my opinion, the day after May 3rd should be March 11th. It is not super strange to go to work immediately after the Golden Week holiday is not over. ?"

"It's amazing, as expected of a detective." Osamu Dazai understood the strangeness Edogawa Ranpo sensed, but he knew better that the strange feeling must be very, very weak, so weak that it could not be noticed at all, otherwise other people would not be able to detect it. You don't say things like that for granted.And being able to detect something wrong from such a weak sense of strangeness, and to detect the time reversal at the first time, shows the skill of a famous detective.

At this moment, Dazai Osamu's cell phone rang suddenly. He turned on the phone with some doubts, and saw that the caller ID was actually Sawada Rabbit. He raised his eyebrows and pressed the call button, "Yo, Tsunayoshi -"

"Mr. Dazai!" Tsunayoshi Sawada revealed an excited tone immediately after hearing his voice, but was immediately suppressed by him, but even so, the trembling in his voice could be heard, "Mr. Dazai, Let me ask one thing first...what date is today?"

Osamu Dazai's eyes suddenly lit up, with an interesting expression on his face, and he said in a lazy tone: "Xiao Tsunayoshi, today is undoubtedly March 3th, and yesterday was also May 12rd." Day--"

Accompanied by his voice, Osamu Dazai could almost see the look of a boy who was full of anticipation visibly depressed, and he couldn't help laughing, "But in my common sense, the second day of May 5rd The day should be May 3th, and today should not be a working day, but should continue to be during the Golden Week holiday."

"Mr. Dazai, have you noticed it too?" Tsunayoshi Sawada shouted happily, "That's great, it's really great, Mr. Dazai, people around me are saying things like that, I thought, I thought... ..."

When Tsunayoshi Sawada said this, he really burst into tears of joy. He really almost thought that there was something wrong with him, otherwise why would everyone around him take it for granted that today is March 3 and yesterday was May On the 12th, tomorrow is April 5th!

And it’s fine if it’s just my new ghost family teacher saying this, but even my mother said this to me. While Sawada Tsunayoshi couldn’t help but wonder about life, he also began to wonder if they were united to play a prank on him .After being driven out to go to school, he was even more surprised to find that the school was still going to and from school during the Golden Week, and even the people around him said such things, which completely violated common sense words.

Panicked, Sawada Tsunayoshi had no choice but to call two people he knew who were not there, Nakahara Nakaya and Dazai Osamu, Nakahara Nakaya had already received the same answer as the people around him, just when he was about to despair At that time, he called Dazai Osamu, and finally got an answer that reassured him. Excited, Sawada Tsunayoshi couldn't help crying with joy.

Dazai Osamu finally asked, "Sawada Tsunayoshi-kun, are you calm down?"

"Hmm..." Tsunayoshi Sawada sniffled.

"Then answer me a question." Dazai Osamu asked with a smile, "Sawada-kun, which class are you in today?"

"Huh?" Tsunayoshi Sawada was stunned for a moment, then thought for a while and said, "That's Class 2B..."

"Sawada-kun, don't you forget that on March 3th this year, you were still in the first year of junior high school." Osamu Dazai said a very important thing.

Sawada Tsunayoshi was also stunned, "Yes, on March 3th, I should still be in the first grade, but..."

He looked at the students downstairs who were still coming in, and he could clearly see that this year's first-year students were playing around between the floors after class. As Osamu Dazai said, if it really is March 3 If so, they should still be in the first grade, and the freshmen should still be in the sixth grade of primary school...

"This, what the hell is going on..." Sawada Tsunayoshi was stunned, and he muttered to himself incomprehensibly.

"We don't know." Osamu Dazai said calmly, "You don't need to be too nervous now, Tsunakichi. After all, such outrageous things have happened now, and there is not much we can do. In fact, we all suspect that , This cannot be caused by human power. It is an adult's business to find a way to undo it. What you need to do now is to study hard, and I remember, did you have a new tutor over there? ? How, has the grade improved?"

The corner of Sawada Tsunayoshi's mouth twitched uncontrollably, "Too, Mr. Dazai..." There is something wrong with that tutor!How could you tell people, "I'm a killer, and I'm here to train you to become a tutor for the tenth generation of the Italian mafia" as soon as you come to your door!Not to mention that the governess is still a baby!A little baby!

What's even more frightening is that this little baby tutor is a beast!Even though he had studied and exercised very seriously during his young year, he almost didn't survive the Spartan education of this little baby, okay?It's terrible!It's even scarier than Osamu Dazai who gave him a whole year's study list!

However, at this moment, the school bell rang, and Tsunayoshi Sawada didn't care to say anything more. After he hung up the phone in a hurry, he ran towards the classroom.

And just after he disappeared on the rooftop, the newly promoted tutor Reborn, whom he was complaining about just now, appeared out of nowhere, and when he appeared, he even had a cup of coffee in his hand.

"The time is chaotic... huh..." Reborn took a sip of coffee calmly, and then said slowly, "Interesting, speaking of it, that "Mr. A member of the Armed Detective Agency, right?It seems necessary to pay a visit. "

"Otsunakichi is indeed an interesting person." Osamu Dazai closed his phone, turned his head and looked at Ranpo Edogawa who seemed to be sulking beside him, "Mr. Ranpo, let's go drink milk tea together, didn't you say that Mr. Yukichi's handmade milk tea?"

"Let's go!" As soon as food was mentioned, Edogawa Ranpo suddenly became much happier, and he immediately cheered up, "Today is your treat!"

"No problem..." Osamu Dazai took out a credit card of Chuya Nakahara from his pocket, "Let's go..."

When he came to the whirlpool coffee shop on the first floor, Dazai Osamu sent the content he learned from Sawada Tsunayoshi to Ghost Lantern while drinking coffee. After all, Ghost Lantern is a real boss. It would be useful for him to consult.

Ghost Lamp's reply was also quick, "Received..."

"Osamu Dazai!" Just when Dazai saw the reply from the ghost lamp, he endured him for a long time in Kunikida and finally couldn't help going upstairs, but the rooftop was empty, so he rushed downstairs immediately. Seeing this guy shamelessly sitting in a cafe while drinking milk tea while playing with his mobile phone.

Kunikida Doppo immediately rushed over to arrest him.

"Hey, don't be like this." After a "fierce struggle", Osamu Dazai walked towards the office by the back collar of the other party.

"Dazai, you bastard, stole my card again!" Nakahara Chuya rushed over and beat him hard.

As the ghost lamp said, the sudden rewinding of time has a great impact in all aspects, but this time rewinding of time does not seem to be a "backtracking" in the true sense. At least after an overnight inspection, the ghost lamp It was found that the number of the living and the dead did not change out of thin air. There were neither many dead people suddenly appearing, nor people born in "disappeared time" suddenly disappeared.

After exhausting investigation, Ghost Lantern found that the only trouble caused by the "backtracking" this time was the sudden change of the weather and the inexplicable working hours. The hour came quietly, and the date on Ghost Lantern's phone instantly jumped to April 4th.

Except for the change of date, there is no difference in any other strange things, and the only advantage of the sudden change of date is probably that April 4th is a rest day, although there is no such thing as a vacation in hell (?!), but the ghost lamp Feeling that it is necessary for him to go to this world, he has to ask Dazai Osamu and the others about the situation.

"Is today April 4th?" Osamu Dazai also looked at the instantaneously changing date, and got up from the futon helplessly. The weather suddenly dropped in early April this year, and the thin blanket he was originally covering was not enough to keep him warm. Just go get the quilt and cover it up, he couldn't help muttering, "I hope Mr. Ranpo doesn't catch a cold."