When the head crosses Yokohama

— a bet.

24.

"Kurolo, would you like to make a bet with me?"

In the landmark building, Dazai, who was stabbed below the atrium with a dagger, supported his body dying, and used a bet to keep Kuroro when he was poisoned.

——The world will soon undergo earth-shaking changes, and by then, Kurolo, everything you have done will be in vain.

Kuroro thought of this bet again. After experiencing events such as the rise of the sky casino and the sudden change of the memory of the world, he finally began to face up to this bet.

If it's a bet, there must be a bet.

Kuroro said that if Dazai's prophecy did not come true, he would kill Dazai Osamu and his fellow detective agencies within two days as punishment... and now, Dazai's prophecy has indeed come true.

So it was his turn to cash in on the bet.

Kurolo laughed.When heading to the sky casino, through the mouth of the pilot, the follow-up part of the bet has been conveyed to Kuroro - Dazai hopes that Kuroro can help the detective agency get something, and now Kuroro finally understands, this thing Just a page of a book.

"As a robber, Dazai-kun, why do you think I will fulfill the bet?"

Even so, Kurolo watched the white-haired boy from the detective agency leave with the two girls—he could kill Montgomery, or he could go back on his rejection of the bet, but Kurolo didn't.

If everything Atsushi Nakajima says is true, then books are indeed a magical thing.

——wanted to grab the book.

Such thoughts appeared in Kuroro's mind.

If more information can be obtained, it doesn't matter to cooperate with the detective agency for a while, Kuroro thought so, so he conveyed his wishes to Dazai-kun.

But Atsushi from the detective agency was obviously very wary of him. Although Kuroro didn't want to act with him, Atsushi Nakajima retreated very vigilantly before Kuroro opened his mouth—the kid from the detective agency really Still too young, and he didn't seem to resist himself at all.

Well, forget it.

Compared to this matter, Kuroro really cared more about Sigma.

——The ability turned out to be to exchange information, to exchange what the other party most wanted to know from me with what I most wanted to know from the other party... Such a different ability is really convenient.

Thinking of this, Kuroro narrowed his eyes slightly.

Sigma's ability can be used as evidence of Atsushi Nakajima's intelligence, Kuroro thought about it, and remembered that Sigma should have been in the monitoring room just now.

Where is the surveillance room?

He raised his head and glanced at the nearest monitoring equipment, and the next second he strode towards the east.There was no need to hide himself, Kuroro just swaggered under the screen of the monitoring equipment until he came outside the monitoring room door.

Pretentiously, Kuroro even knocked on the door.

There was a breath of living people inside the door, and Sigma was still in the monitoring room.

"Hello, Sigma." After knocking on the door, Kurolo walked in by himself. At this moment, the long-haired Sigma was staring at Kuroro nervously, but he seemed a little absent-minded, and he was still watching the surveillance video from the corner of his eye. .

Kuroro also looked towards the surveillance video.

The coin bomb hidden in Sky Casino is exposed.

"Is that the case?" As a building suspended in the air, the Sky Casino does not belong to any country. The guests who come to the Sky Casino include various nationalities, so the coins brought out of the casino naturally circulated all over the world." As long as these coin bombs are detonated at the same time, the world will explode on a large scale... Sigma, do you want to cause a worldwide panic?"

"No... I just want to keep my casino.

If the pages of the book were snatched back by the detective agency, his casino would disappear, which was something Sigma could not accept anyway.

"Since you have seen things you shouldn't have seen, I'm sorry," Sigma frowned, making this decision with difficulty, "I can only blame you for being unlucky!"

Everyone who knows this secret must die! !Dostoevsky said, as long as they all died in the casino! !

Sigma's eyes revealed madness. It was very difficult for him to make a decision to kill, but Sigma did not hesitate to do it. The large-caliber gun behind him was prepared for this moment.

But it's too slow.

The movement of drawing the gun is too slow, the movement of pulling the trigger is too slow, and even the movement of escaping is very slow... Except for the extremely convenient supernatural ability, other parts of him are ordinary people.

Not Kuroro's opponent at all.

Before he had time to shoot, the young man on the opposite side had turned into an afterimage and appeared in front of him.When Sigma turned his head, the surprised expression on his face hadn't been revealed yet, but there was already a sharp pain in the hand holding the gun—the wrist was twisted just like that, without even a blink of an eye, Sigma had already lost.

"you!!!"

Kuroro clamped down on his movements. The black-haired young man who didn't look stout was surprisingly strong. Sigma was tightly suppressed and couldn't move at all.

it hurts! !

The severe pain from his wrist made him turn pale, and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead, but compared to the physical pain, Sigma was more annoyed by the anxiety in his heart.

The development of things is different from what Dostoevsky expected. What should he do now? ! !

"Sigma, I just learned something interesting from the detective agency." Finally able to communicate properly, Kuroro gently brushed his hair, "Your ability is to exchange information, right?"

When he heard about the detective agency, Sigma's expression suddenly became very ugly. He had hoped that the young man in front of him had nothing to do with the detective agency, and secretly thought about letting this person go... But now, this person not only knows The secret of the coin bomb is very likely to be someone from the detective agency.

In any case, this person must be killed.

Thinking of this, Sigma gritted his teeth.

"Sigma, use your ability on me." He didn't expect Kuroro to say something like this next: "Let me confirm whether the facts are what the detective agency said."

"What?" He was suddenly a little confused.

"I said, let you use your ability to me." Kuroro's words are not a request, but an order, "If you don't do it, Mr. Manager, I will kill you here slowly. Although I I'm not good at torture, but if it's just a painful death, I can still do it."

There was a smile on the corner of Kuroro's mouth when he said this, a relaxed and comfortable calmness was vividly reflected in this person.

——Krollo's feeling for Sigma...is actually a bit like Dostoevsky.

Damn!

Dostoevsky is a terrorist, and the black-haired young man in front of him is not a good person... It is too much for an ordinary person to struggle with so many abnormalities, just to keep a little of himself. It's difficult.

Thinking of this, Sigma clenched his fists.

But even so, he still has to continue... No one can stop him, no matter who it is! !

The moment the idea appeared, his hand was already moving.Just to prepare for such a moment, Sigma secretly carried a lot of coin bombs on his body. He couldn't let the black-haired youth in front of him lead him away.

If the plan of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man fails here, then everything he has done before will be meaningless!

Sigma pressed the button on the coin bomb.

The power of a single coin bomb is enough to kill a person, not to mention that there are still a lot of Sigma secretly carrying on his body. He thought that if the bomb exploded, Kuroro would at least lose his ability to move-although this kind of damage to the enemy would naturally cause a thousand wounds. Losing [-] is very stupid, but this is the only way out of trouble that Sigma can currently implement.

But things will always surprise you.

The explosion sounded, and Sigma felt the pain of the flesh and blood exploding at that moment, but when the smoke and dust of the explosion dissipated, he saw Kuroro standing in front of him unscathed.

In addition to the messy hair, the expression on the face is a little shocked.

How is this going?

Sigma looked in Kuroro's direction in a panic, and found a book appeared in Kuroro's hand at some point.

It was a book with a bloody handprint, and the pages were marked with strange characters that Sigma didn't recognize.But just looking at the book, he felt an extremely ominous aura emanating from it.

At the same time, a strange aura shrouded the black-haired youth.

daunting.

Kuroro opened a page of the bloody handprint book, "Although the power system of telekinetic ability and supernatural ability is different, I'm not sure if it will work, but you can still try it."

Muttering this to himself, the black-haired youth cast his eyes on the book.

The ability to read is called [Mother's Request].

Kuroro vaguely remembered that he stole this strange ability from a child who was less than ten years old.A long time ago, when Kuroro had just cultivated the Thief's Ultimate Intent, he blindly collected a bunch of garbage mind abilities to fill in the blank pages, and this was left there in the initial period.

[Mother's Request], a mental ability to force the other party to execute a certain order.

It was a boy who was less than ten years old who developed this thought ability. He was very talented, but he only used this ability as a tool for playing—sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t work. The child was coaxed around, and then the ability was stolen.

Just try it out.

Such thoughts flashed through Kuroro's mind.

The light of telekinetic ability lit up from the book, Kuroro frowned, and then looked at Sigma.Only then did Sigma realize that Kuroro was no longer restraining him... He should have taken the opportunity to escape when he was surprised just now!

But it was too late when he realized that Kuroro had already stretched out his hand, and under Kuroro's eyes, Sigma inexplicably lost the courage to blew himself up just now.

The telekinetic ability [Mother's request] was activated——

After a flash of light, Sigma's expression became a little dull. He didn't know what Kuroro had done to him. He only saw his hand stretched towards Kuroro involuntarily. He couldn't control himself at all and could only helplessly. Watching himself activate a different ability.

Information exchange, this is a seemingly long process.

But the actual time of occurrence was less than [-] second, that is, in less than [-] second, Kuroro suddenly received a lot of information in his mind-Sigma was created by the book three years ago, bringing With a ticket, he appeared in the desert and began his lonely journey.

The first wave of human beings he encountered were human traffickers, who were sold to many people because of his precious supernatural powers. Also because of his abilities, he would never be able to get close to others.

It is very scary to face another person without a secret.

Eventually, Sigma escaped.

Books, human traffickers, supernatural powers, and Dostoyevsky who just hooked up not long ago, scenes of scenes flashed through Kuroro's mind, and Kuroro suddenly watched the short life of a stranger.

In order to find a home, Sigma stumbled and lived until now. His loneliness made him a heretic, but in essence, he was just an ordinary person who wanted to have his own home.

——Krollo thinks Sigma's obsession is very boring, and he can't understand this obsession.

But at the same time, Kurolo also confirmed that the book does exist, and the kid from the detective agency did not lie to him.

Kuroro's mood visibly brightened.

Then just go and find the book.

"Hey... your name is Kuroro Rusil, right?" Sigma collapsed on the ground after being forced to use his ability, and learned some information about this person from Kuroro's mind, which made Sigma suddenly He became sluggish, his expression was a little complicated, and he looked at Kuroro with some kind of pity: "It turns out that you are also like me..."

Kuroro probably guessed what kind of information this person got in his mind, but this sympathetic look really made Kuroro a little dumbfounded. Just when he walked up to say something, the air Suddenly there was a dangerous breath.

Kuroro has always been very keen on the premonition of danger. When a gun suddenly pierced through the air and pressed against his head, he had already flashed to another place in the next second.

The piercing bullet shot through the ground along its original trajectory, and the splashed stones scratched Sigma's face beside him.At the same time, a cloak suddenly appeared in the air, with a gun and the hand holding the gun, and then the whole person came out of the cloak.

It was a blond young man in a clown costume with a big smile on his lips.

He appeared suddenly through the cloak, put away his pistol and made a rather funny salute gesture as soon as he appeared, and bowed to the two people in the monitoring room to say hello.

"Good morning, everyone!"

"Then let's start asking questions, why didn't I die even though I was cut in half?" The young man in a clown suit raised his finger and looked at Kuroro and Sigma, who was paralyzed on the ground, with an exaggerated expression.

But he quickly became flustered again, "No, no, this question is beyond the outline, and our guest can't answer it!"

In two seconds, the clown youth who appeared suddenly changed into a satisfied smile: "Then in order to let the guests enjoy the performance better, let me change the question——Dangdangdangdang! Then why did I appear here? "

"the answer is--"

The noisy blond clown couldn't answer his question quickly, and the impatient Kuroro had already attacked him. This time, it was a hand blade without any warning, and the murderous look was revealed in an instant. When he appeared behind the clown A shudder of hairs stood up on his neck.

The clown youth disappeared from the spot.

Immediately afterwards, the cloak was revealed from another place, and then got out from the cloak.

"Ah, it's so dangerous, so dangerous!" With an exaggerated expression, the clown youth looked at Kuroro, "It seems that our guest is an impatient guest, we must treat him well hahaha!"

Kuroro had seen this man.

He had passed this clown before when he stepped on an amusement park in Yokohama. At that time, the clown kidnapped the young member of Yokohama, and then killed the promising big man in the Ferris wheel.

"Did I tell you one thing?" Kuroro brushed his drooping hair, and his face did not look like a vicious person no matter how he looked after he suppressed the evil killing intent, "I am now I really don't like clowns."

"It's best not to have someone in a clown suit in front of me if I'm not prepared enough because it brings back pretty bad memories."

When Kuroro wants to kill people, he usually doesn't talk nonsense, but this person really pokes Kuroro's anger too much, "I don't want to know what you did, but it's too noisy, it really affects the mood."

Kuroro didn't talk nonsense anymore, the sudden appearance of the clown really aroused Kuroro's disgust, so in the new round of attacks, he had no intention of letting this person go.

The clown youth's ability seems to be to connect different spaces through the cloak, he can transmit himself, and should also be able to transmit other things, it is a very convenient ability.

But when facing this kind of opponent, as long as the speed is fast enough.

Having made such a judgment in his heart, Kuroro released Yuan at the same time.In Yuan's perception atmosphere, he could immediately perceive the opponent's actions. Even this convenient space-type ability did not pose much threat to him.

on the right!

The moment he realized it, Kuroro had already raised his hand and kicked his legs to attack there, and with a palm of his hand, a dagger appeared in his hand.

The battles between masters of mental ability are often extremely dangerous, relying on instinct and perception of danger, they can avoid most attacks and counterattack quickly.

And Kuroro's physical skills are definitely not low in the hunter world, so when Kuroro locks on the clown youth, the surrounding murderous intentions are already covered. For the opponents in the circle, this is a spider predation. game.

The clown youth gradually began to feel the pressure.

His reaction speed and reflexes are already very strong, but after chasing and hiding with Kurolo for a while, this state of ease has gradually turned into a burden.

Kuroro's speed is too fast, as long as he appears in this space, Kuroro will immediately appear behind him in the next second.

The dagger was cold and aggressive. If it weren't for his supernatural ability, he would be more suitable for escaping. He felt that he should have been nailed to the floor by Kuroro by now.

A little distracted during the battle, the dagger has been inserted into the back along the shoulder, and the sudden pain made the young clown laugh out loud.

Even at such times the look on his face was comical.

"Ah! What an impatient guest!" Stretching out the cloak and reaching in with one hand, he didn't know what he was digging for, the clown youth said at the same time: "You are not my target, so for me this is just a meaningless battle. "

Just when Kuroro thought he was going to say something nonsense, the clown youth simply retreated. He raised his head and glanced in the direction of Sigma, not knowing what he was conveying, but in the next second, he again He gave a funny bow like he did when he first appeared, and then disappeared in place.

It has a hint of running away.

The clown...?

As a result, the other party came here and still did not convey anything.

"Who is this clown?" Kuroro looked at Sigma on the ground.

"...is one of the members of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, called Gogol."

"Oh... is he Gogol?"

The clown Gogol, a completely alien being no less than Dostoyevsky, every time he came into contact with members of the Five Decays, Sigma would feel that he was out of place with them.

But Kurolo just smiled.

He shook off the sticky blood on his hands, and didn't bother with Gargoy anymore.

Let go of the matter of venting anger first, after stabbing the clown, Kuroro inexplicably felt a little better.Moreover, this is not the important thing now.

"The person in the way has finally left, and now we can have a good discussion about the book, Sigma."

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The book was indeed placed somewhere in Sky Casino, but Sigma had absolutely no intention of letting Kuroro get it.

After a series of confrontations, Sigma has come to terms with a reality.

He is no match for Kuroro.

So he planned to make a false promise to Kuroro first, and then find a chance to escape - besides Kuroro, there are two troublesome hounds in Sky Casino, as well as people from the detective agency.

Don't let them know about the coin bomb.

The more he thought about it, the more difficult it became, and Sigma's eyebrows were almost bald.

But even so, Sigma, who was being held hostage, still remembered what he had learned through the exchange of information at this moment. After hesitating for a long time, he finally asked, "Kurolo, why do you want to get the book?"

Is it because, like him, you have nothing, so you want to use books to realize your ideals?

The following words were already on his lips, but Sigma still didn't ask them out.

Ever since he saw part of Kuroro's memory, his feelings towards Kuroro have become a little subtle.It's like an isolated island floating in the vast ocean, suddenly one day you find that you are not the only one.

"Because of the bet."

But Kurolo gave a completely different answer:

"At the moment, it's because of the bet."

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in prison.

"May I ask you a question?"

Sitting opposite each other in the narrow cell, Dostoyevsky and Dazai observed each other's every move, seemingly getting along quite peacefully.

"What is your bet with Kurolo Roussillo?" asked Dostoevsky.

"Tuo Jun, haven't you already guessed it?" Dazai smiled and pretended to be stupid.

"What I want to know is the opportunity. Sigma's purpose is very clear, but if it's that Kuroro Rushiru... Mr. Dazai, what conditions should you use to restrain him?"

Dostoevsky seemed a little distressed, "But I thought about a few possibilities, and none of them seems feasible."

"A person who has no beliefs and no common interests, Mr. Dazai, why would you place your bet on this person?"

There was a smile on Dazai's face, bright and dreamy, but in this situation, it showed some irony.

"Mr. Tuo, you must have no friends, right?"

"Ok?"

"Kurolo-kun, you are a person who values ​​friends more than you think~"

So in the beginning, Dazai and Ranpo still decided to take a gamble even though they estimated that the chance was only 20.00%.

Now, the odds have risen to 50.00%.

More than enough words to contain Sigma.