Drowning in a sea of ​​moonlight

Odasaku

Under the dim light, there is faint jazz music and milky white smoke floating in the bar.

"Dazai-kun hasn't come yet?"

Ango said, with an obviously disturbed expression on his face.

I can understand.After all, Bibi had spoken a few times when he was helping me settle in a new home. This should be the first time the two of them met after Dazai was cleansed.

"Don't worry, Ango, he will come. It seems that he will be a little late to save a kitten that climbed a tree on the way."

Ango adjusted his glasses and sighed, "Thank you, Odasaku-san. I really... don't know if Dazai-kun is still willing to regard me as a friend after something like that."

"No problem." I took a sip of wine, "If he is willing to come, it probably means that he is willing to forgive you."

"...That's right." Ango looked down at his wine and smiled slowly.

...What a day like a dream.

On that night three years ago, the combination of the three that should have been fragmented and no longer existed.

At that time, Ango said, "If one day, the nature of the Supernatural Secret Service and the Mafia are different from before, and we can also have a more free stand...at that time."

No matter how you listen to it, it is just a fantasy that has no possibility of realization.

The friendship the three of us had had until now, had been shattered at that moment.collapsed.It is impossible to recover.

Just because it is no longer possible, and because the precious things in the ordinary days are so out of reach now, it is like realizing that the cherished photo frame is not indestructible the moment it is broken, but wanting to accept it When holding those fragments, the palm will only be dripping with blood.

Therefore, such a fantasy is so cruel that it is unbearable.

But now, like a miracle, that photo frame was put together and put back in its original place with great care.

And now, although we still can't completely belong to the light, we have actually untied the shackles on our bodies, and we can work together with important friends in a place outside the darkness——

"Oh, are you already waiting for me?"

said a brisk voice.

Dazai smiled and said, "Boss, please bring me a glass of whiskey."

Ango

Ango silently watched Dazai sit down on the other side of Odasaku very naturally, poked his finger at the ice puck in the cup, tilted his head and said, "It was super-thrilling just now, that cat couldn't understand that I was The one who came to help it kept showing its teeth and claws, and almost fell down with me.

But that look of desperately defending dignity, I really want you to see it too, the momentum is superb, much more interesting than the so many soft-legged shrimps I have encountered before~"

Oda Saku asked very naturally: "Really? Then I really want to see it."

"Well, I wanted to bring it here, but it's a pity that if I don't let it go, I might be scratched blind by it, so I have no choice but to admit defeat." Dazai pouted and said, "But facing such a desperate opponent, it is also an honor to have a gentleman Oh, the defeat of temperament."

"That's it, what a pity."

Dazai turned his head curiously, passed Oda Tsukuru, and looked at Ango: "Hey, what's wrong with Ango? Did he choke on alcohol? Or was it because he was poisoned and his vocal cords were damaged and he couldn't speak? Wow, that's so fresh , before I am cured, please let me experience a little more of this kind of freedom that will not be complained at all—wait, wait—”

"...Don't be safe, Dazai-kun."

Ango tightened his arms and said in a low voice.

"...Wow, Ango is broken, won't you cry next?"

Dazai spoke in an extremely disgusted tone, but Ango could feel his body was unnaturally stiff, and his arms were hanging down by his side in bewilderment.

"Please let go of me, Ango, I'm a family man now, I'm sorry that I can't play with you like this——"

"Huh? Because it feels like this atmosphere, is it weird for me to do this?"

Standing up from his seat, his strong arms easily encircled the two of them, and Odasaku condescendingly showed an extremely honest and puzzled look.

Although very strange, filled with strange.

...However, to be able to reunite here like this with friends who I thought had been lost a long time ago, toast and laugh.

...It really seems like he had it because of excessive lack of sleep, a too good dream, the same.

"...I can only say that fortunately there are no other people in the bar now. It is true that the current atmosphere is like brothers reunited after leaving home for many years, creating an atmosphere that would embarrass others so much that they want to rush out. "

In the silence, Ango spoke slowly.

"Ah, I started complaining, resurrected! Don't you cry?"

Dazai, who was the only one sitting among the three, said with hopeful eyes.

Originally, I didn't feel like crying at all, but after hearing this sentence, seeing his smile as before——

Completely different from the cold and loathsome smile when we met the last time, the smile as a "friend"——

I don't know why, as if being hit by some sour bullet suddenly, the eye sockets are really sour.

"...Thank you, Dazai-kun."

An Wu let go of him, sat back on his seat, raised his own wine, took a sip, and tried hard to blink away the slight tears behind his glasses.

"...Hmph, that's natural, thank me as much as you can."

Dazai said proudly like a fox with its tail up.

Then he stroked the gemstone on his neckline with his fingers, and smiled again, the smile was very quiet.

"...Thank you too for giving this to me, Ango."

ah.That's what I won from my superiors, and it's given to him by Mr. Today——

"...Speaking of which, Dazai." Odasaku suddenly asked as if remembering something, "You and now...?"

Dazai

"Well, we've dated. The nasty kid has nothing to do at all, which made me worry for so long in vain."

Dazai said while lying on the bar counter.

"And he is a big liar, you don't know, he is taller than Oda Tsukuru, and he is only one year younger than Ango, he is not a child at all. You will be super surprised when you see him of."

"...Then why do you still call him a kid?...Wait a minute, I might not want to know the answer to this question. Please don't answer it."

"Is there such a big difference? I am really curious about what he is like now. He will be very mature."

I got the above replies from two friends.

Dazai recalled the chat records on the phone and today and last night, and felt the corners of his mouth rising uncontrollably.

"It's a pity that he's a busy man right now. He might be even worse than Ango. I don't know when I'll let you guys see him~ Although he'll be back tomorrow night, I want to monopolize him~huh~"

"...is happy for no reason." Ango observed calmly, "If he's particularly busy, doesn't that mean you can't always see...? Etc. , Dazai-kun?!"

The moment Ango's words came out, Dazai fell headfirst on the table, and said lifelessly: "...Don't, it's too much, don't remind me, I'm already very sad... Ango is so cruel."

When Ango's original serious expression was completely broken, and he was panicked and wanted to comfort him, Dazai was secretly laughing in his heart, celebrating that he had avenged himself for being caught off guard just now, and on the other hand...

Thinking about that person.

I was thinking of his palms that were always warm, his eyebrows that were becoming more and more attractive, and those sharp golden pupils, the always gentle eyes when looking at me.

Thinking of the one I love, my anchor, my sword, my haven.

He is coming back.

"Ah, Dazai-kun? Dazai-kun?? Seriously, although I think he's teasing me, how could he have such a big reaction? How long does it take to see each other—"

"Calm down, Ango. Let's chat with Dazai about the detective agency, maybe it will cheer him up."

Oda said.

"Or, although it's very late, I've recently started writing a novel. Sometimes I'm a bit out of inspiration, but it's surprisingly as satisfying as I imagined—"

Dazai sat up straight in Ango's question about "Eh? Novel", and asked in a loud voice, "Is it true? Oda Tsukuru! Wow, I really want to read it, how is it, what is it about—"

"Although I feel a little ashamed to talk about it like this when I haven't finished writing it."

Odasaku paused, then smiled, "However, it's a story about a killer. A story about a former killer who found hope and regained his life."

"...that's great." Ango said with a smile.

"." Dazai turned his face sideways, looked at those two people, and smiled softly.

"Isn't that super appropriate?"

Really, it's so beautiful that people can't help but think, "It must be a dream, right? Will I wake up somewhere in the next second?", the time.

To be here with these two again.

Can... still have that friendship that was supposed to be falling apart.

It turns out that not everything will disappear in the end.

So is that person.So are Odasaku and Ango.

......All I have, the most precious things, are still here.

There is nothing in my hand.

——Trying to believe so now,

Also... is it possible?

"Wouldn't be able to go back to Lupine though, after all the Mafia probably wouldn't welcome any of the three of us right now—"

Ango said.

"But, Odasaku-san, Dazai-kun, let's have a toast."

"Hmph~ Of course we can't miss this link~" Dazai said,

"Okay, glasses up, so the toast says—"

"For stray dogs."

The unanimous answer of the three people echoed in the quiet bar, accompanied by the crisp sound of glasses clinking, just like that night three years ago.

There is no doubt that this voice will continue to ring out in the days to come.

The author has something to say:

Say yes, and after it's all over, reunite the rogue pies drinking together.And a hug that never had.

Really, everything is too beautiful.Our master has not lost precious things, and can try to believe that there is not nothing in his hands, and that there is not nothing at the end of it all.There will be something called "meaning of life".

A chapter that is too good to be true as a dream.

weaving: it is a miracle

Zai: I will wake up in the next second

Ann: ...It's not because I have insomnia that I have such a beautiful dream, uh uh uh

Compared with Lupin's "dark and lazy" before, I used "hazy" in the bar here.

It is more in line with the atmosphere at this time, with a little warmth, a little stability and calmness after experiencing everything. (And Ango's vaguely uneasy expectation.)

Zai's mentality became more tolerant here, not to mention that Oda Saku didn't have an accident, and Ango gave him the important gift that was given to him today to support him through the two years of the Supernatural Secret Service Division.

So he has basically returned to the previous way of getting along with each other...but under the surface of pretending to be natural, he is also nervous.

As for why Zai occasionally calls today's "little friend"... one is because he called it that way in front of Oda Tsukuru and Ango before, and the other is... the fun (dog head)

(An Wu vaguely guessed)

Today, the scenes of meeting the other two members of the rogue faction, Tanizaki brothers and sisters and Dun Jun will be in the main story~

The kitten I rescued...in fact, I used it to insinuate himself hahaha, I don’t know if others are trying to save him, clinging to the tree and refusing to come down, scratching people, and making humans almost fell off the tree.

Fortunately, I finally got my own shit shovel officer.

The next chapter is the long-lost knife slaughter...memory killing.But it's actually sugar with glass shards, it's surprisingly sweet, so stay tuned.

(The next chapter also has a picture of CP coexistence in this article)

In fact, I am very perfectionist, and I have to revise it no less than ten times after writing it. It may take five or six hours for each chapter from writing to revising to my satisfaction.

Then recently, the inspiration has really dried up, and the number of clicks/favorites/comments is not much, and my motivation is a bit lacking.

..... Please also communicate with me and give me motivation, orz, you can exchange plots, brainstorming, guessing the main line, etc.thank you all...

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!