The devil is too popular

People on the moon are mostly silent.

Atsushi Nakajima has been living until now, and has never heard that a bright future is achieved by killing people.

Their eyes are all looking at one person

"Let's start from the beginning." Osamu Dazai said.

In the past month, what they have seen is nothing more than tragedy and tragedy repetition.

There are lights flickering everywhere, and dead people everywhere.The number of dead people is so large that they don't even have the thought of pity. It seems that even if they don't die under Jie Ai's hands, they will definitely meet their doom somewhere. It's just that the time and the person who killed them have been slightly changed. , the ending ushered in is no difference.

Those dead, although they are all exactly the same after death, they can't even find their bodies, and they can't even see a little bit of evidence of their existence in the world.But before the light bloomed, they also had a relationship with someone, and they were also important people to someone.And if they didn't greet that ray of light, on the second day, they would also get up with a yawn, rush to the company by tram, and greet their own little troubles and little happiness.

But in the light it all ends.

Nothing will continue.

In this regard, some people think that this is the so-called tragedy of a certain person, while others think that this is not a personal misfortune, but a more grand misfortune about the whole world.

Ranpo's evaluation of this world is "this world is rotten to the bone", and he is correct.

But at this point, a newer question should be raised, a question that should be paid more attention to.

Why did Jie Ai agree to this script?

From ancient times to the present, everyone has unanimously praised that those who achieve great things do not care about small details. In China, Cao Cao, the hero, also has such a great saying that he would rather me bear the world than the world.When Atsushi Nakajima heard it for the first time, he could only choke out the words "Where did this come from?"It doesn't feel very handsome.

After knowing that Yuai can travel to the world of novels, the members of the detective agency also searched for various light novels and comics on the market, and watched a large number of them.

Atsushi Nakajima has gone beyond the blush on the bold illustrations on the illustrations, and has become a familiar comment "Oh, this author, his style is a big explosion in the opening paragraph." "This author, turn to Chapter 3 It's almost time to die." "This author, although the beginning is easy, but at the end, none of the protagonists will die" is an amazing person.

On the road of growth, I don't know how many mines I have stepped on.

In the novels he read, it has become a trend for the protagonist to step on others to take the position.Even to this extent, if someone has a hole in front of you and you don't catch it, and you step on someone's wound and climb up, you will be called, 'What an idiot,'" the author So naive', 'reading stupid' and the like.

But Jie Ai has not received a similar education, she is essentially completely ignoring world affairs, naive of subjugated country and faint king.

She is not someone who will step on other people's corpses to gain glory. More often than not, Yuai is the type to give up something in order to protect a person, because she firmly believes that she is a demon king above everyone, and there is no need to plunder at all. others to maintain their dignity.

If you say to her 'Kill this child, I will make you a god', Jieai will definitely cut off your head, and use magic to draw memories from your soul to get what you want.

"Oh, you think so, I really don't know if this kind of statement is known, will you be happy, or will you cut off your head severely?" Dazai smiled gloatingly.

"Then, Dun-jun, let me ask you a question." His tone was very sweet, with an incredible feeling, "What do you think is death?"

"If you die..." Nakajima Atsushi thought for a while, this is too grand a question, even a philosopher may not be able to come up with an answer.

Osamu Dazai continued, "Don't be so serious, just think about it briefly, when do you see a person and think that this person is dead?"

"Well... there are no signs of life."

"What are the signs of life? Tell me in detail."

"The heart doesn't beat, it doesn't breathe, it doesn't move."

"But this way..." Osamu Dazai's smile deepened, "If you spy on people in another room from one room, you can't directly touch him, you can only spy on him, and I use some kind of scientific All the physical characteristics you mentioned above are shielded by the instrument, but in fact he is just asleep, so you still think he is dead at this time?"

"Yeah." Dun nodded, "I would think so."

"But he's not actually dead, is he?"

"Correct."

"Why do you think he's not dead at this time?"

"...Because you said he was asleep?" Dun said hesitantly.

"I can lie to you too." Osamu Dazai said with a smile.

Looking at his smile, he would really believe this sentence, he could really do such a thing.

Don made an uh.

Osamu Dazai obviously didn't intend to stop the conversation, he continued, "So Atsu-kun doesn't want to believe me, alas, what a suspicious child." He sighed.

Who is to blame for this...?

"So Dunjun continued to wait there, waiting, waiting for several hours, his stomach was empty, his legs were numb, and the lying person finally got up and went to the table to drink water, but this At that time, Dun Jun's throat was still so thirsty."

"Well, although your statement is full of malice against me, it also proves that you didn't lie to me, he just fell asleep."

"But even at this time, because of the shielding of the instrument, you still can't detect his physical characteristics?"

"The blood doesn't flow, and the heart doesn't beat. According to Dun, isn't this death?"

"..."

"What's more, even if he really falls asleep, it's no different from death. The characteristics are the same when he closes his eyes. Why do we feel at ease when a person falls asleep? Isn't that okay? Do you understand that he died briefly?"

"..."

Atsushi sensed that Osamu Dazai was lying, but couldn't find an opening to refute him.

No, it would be better to say that the person who can refute Osamu Dazai on fallacies has not yet been born. If he was born, he must be a bastard who will do more harm to the spirit of the world.

The bastard continued talking leisurely.

"In Greek mythology, the god of sleep is the brother of the god of death. The difference between them is—?"

He looked at Atsushi, who was silent, Dazai smiled and continued.

There was an indescribable irony in this smile, Nakajima Atsushi silently clenched his fists.

Hard, fist hard.

Mr. Dazai is actually a good person.he thought blankly.

But why, there are always times when I want to punch my fist hard on his beautiful face?

"The difference between sleeping and dying is that you will continue to wake up after falling asleep." Osamu Dazai said.

"Yes. That's right. That's it," said Dun.

I have to say something to prove that he is not a complete idiot, but maybe it is an illusion, and this echoing Sanlian makes him even more blindly obedient idiot.

Yosano Akiko over there cast a sympathetic look over there, and Akun silently shut his mouth tightly, deciding that if it was not necessary, he would stop talking.

And Osamu Dazai finally put on a teachable expression, and continued, "Although sleep will go through a short period of immobility, which is similar to death, but after hours or even years—isn't there that kind of death?" Seriously ill vegetative person, is it an example of suddenly regaining consciousness one day? He will wake up again, hug and kiss his family again, and do some things that should be done, so... "

His smile deepened, "If a person dies, but his soul, or something that can continue to move, do you think it can be regarded as death?"

"In this case... it can only be regarded as officially dead." Dun said.

"Officially... for those around him, is he still alive?"

"Yes." Don nodded firmly.

"Well, let's say it this way. Now there are two people, and they are both dead. For people in this world, they can neither move nor communicate with them. But in a certain place. ..”

"Well, the place where the dead are going is the Hades." Dazai Osamu muttered, "In the Hades, the two of them can still talk to each other, communicate with each other, and touch each other. Do you think that for these two people, they are the same as each other? alive?"

"Of course I'm alive..." Dun opened his eyes wide, "You mean?"

Osamu Dazai lightly put a finger on his mouth, motioning for him to keep silent.

"The first power obtained by knotting love." He whispered softly, as if revealing some great secret, "It's the power of Hecate, the goddess of the underworld."

The mystery has been solved.

Knot Love came to this world to gather believers.But judging from the results, the number of potential believers became less and less because of her wanton massacre—it could easily be a loss of 10 billion for Glory Night, which no world could bear.

Fortunately, this world is in a modern background and there are more people. If in the Warring States period hundreds of years ago, tens of thousands of people died, a country could be destroyed. Where would Jie Ai find the believers she wanted?The thread of fate of the whole world is finished.

What knot love wants is not short-term belief, just like those weapons, when they create disasters for others, the victims all believe in the power of the weapons, and they also believe in the power of the weapons when the perpetrators use them.At least believe in the power of this weapon.

But it is precisely because of the power of the weapon that it cannot be used for a long time. As long as it is used once, everyone will know how to be afraid and learn to be docile.Without provocateurs, there will naturally be no attacks.

What's more, compared to people who passively accept injuries, maybe those who use them will take precautions against weapons after seeing that they can deprive others of their lives so easily, and keep them in dust.

"Closed in dust means forgotten." Osamu Dazai said.

Although they know that these things will cause harm to people, they don't have much fear of them, just like everyone knows the power of nuclear W bombs, but how many people are afraid of nuclear W bombs falling on their heads from morning till night Woolen cloth?

"It's another thing to build a world that lives in fear, where everyone is vulnerable, trembling with imminent death."

"If you want to do this, it will be very easy-dividing people into grades, building concentration camps, controlling diet and thoughts, pulling out hundreds of people every day to kill them, and letting everyone witness their horrors with their own eyes is enough. gone."

"In this way, the world will become a breeding ground for fear (faith), and love will naturally harvest faith easily and conveniently."

Osamu Dazai said relaxedly, while Atsushi Nakajima frowned

"But what Yuai wants is not such a world." Dazai said.

"What she wants is lasting happiness."

He paused, and with a smile, he repeated what the emperor and Jie Ai had said, "Brilliant future"

Those who died were not really dead.Or at least not in Jie Ai's eyes.

"Those who are willing to submit to her will live in the world of the living, ruled by the princess and the emperor, and those who die are unwilling to live in this world, unwilling to endure such a world, or because People who have been kicked out of this world for various reasons can live freely in Hades."

"Most of the killings carried out by Jie Ai are aimless mass killings."

"For example, in Night of Glory, didn't she just select an entire area to explode? In the conquest of eu, Requiem just killed people who hated being in love. Most of the people who hated were Those who know each other, in that world, they can also meet their relatives and friends.”

"Jiaai seldom draws out a weapon for a certain person alone. In her eyes, human beings are nothing more than microorganisms. Pulling an entire microbial petri dish into her territory is what Jieai wants to do."

In her territory (Hades), everyone will live as if nothing had happened.

"From the outside world, it seems that they are already dead, but they firmly believe that they are still alive, continue to meet someone, continue to love, to hate, this is undoubtedly the greatest belief-this is to bet everything on yourself In Jie Ai's body, I believe this goddess can support their lives!"

"In this kind of continuous belief, Jieai can certainly gain the power she wants. She has an incomparable talent in death."

"But." The expression on Dazai Osamu's face, as if all his previous words were just for this 'but'.It's like how hard it is to build dominoes, isn't it just for the moment when it is toppled?

Destroying what has been worked so hard to build is the essence of tragedy.

"Jie Ai didn't expect that she would fall in love, did she... Can this be considered love?"

With a smile that he didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement, he turned around and looked around, but Luanbu just kept silent.

"The ability to make love will attract attention everywhere, and as a princess, she will naturally be scrambled by all eligible royal families. And it is better than the universal wishing machine to satisfy all their wishes."

"It doesn't matter, power itself is harmless, it just depends on how others use it. It's just that in this world, those who can use the power of love for kindness..."

Osamu Dazai spread his hands, "Not one."

"In the process of responding to other people's wishes, causing a big crisis to this world, if someone is willing to endure that abominable prince and not willing to die, he will naturally accept her and his rule in reality. Unwilling to endure Those who live in the underworld will accept a more loving princess... No, to be precise, it is a goddess, and her rule is so peaceful."

"It can be described as love and peace." He said.

"Princess Wars is a game that goes on and on and is invincible. But games without obstacles are the most boring."

"Getting Jieai to play strategy games is much more difficult than getting her to actually conquer the world. Strategy games can take her at least a month, but conquering the world can be done in just 3 minutes."

He said words that were so arrogant and unreasonable, but because the target of the words was such an unreasonable demon king, everyone had no choice but to keep silent.

"One day, Jie Ai, who is bored, will naturally fly to the sky and touch the red moon. Because everything on the ground is too boring."

"The moment you touch the moon, you can return to yourself by making love."

"If the king of the earth is too stupid to be tolerated—but if you can make Jie Ai feel that he is a bastard, then he must be a really terrible stupid king—she will also treat that Killing the king, destroying the world, or saving the whole world under her own rule, that is the so-called happy ending”

"This is our script." Osamu Dazai said leisurely.

"But she doesn't seem to be ready to accept such a fate...not as a demon king, she lived to the end as a princess..."

"Did you say so?"

Osamu Dazai turned his head to the side, and beside him, suddenly appeared a beautiful and inconspicuous young girl with nothing on her back, she stood quietly, her eyes had no expression, her palm was pressed against her heart, her soft skin deformed by extrusion.

Tears kept falling from her lifeless eyes, dripping down her cheeks to the floor, staining the floor dark.

When the girl's eyes gradually regained clarity, the tears stopped instead. The girl——Edogawa Yuai, let go of the hand holding her chest. When she put down her hand, a layer of clothes was naturally wrapped around her body, but she didn't know Whether it was intentional or not, the clothes were exactly the same as the dress she wore when attending the banquet below.

She rubbed her eyes in confusion, wondering why there were so many tears.Finding that Osamu Dazai was looking at her, he greeted her in a friendly way, with a hint of crying in his voice.

"Speaking of which." She said, pressing her heart again, "This place hurts so much."

"Am I sick?"

Dazai kept smiling.

"Ah, I think it must be a serious illness." He said softly.

"It's like this. After using the plague power too much, I will catch a bad cold, so this time it's about the same."

"Almost... don't you remember what happened before?" Atsushi Nakajima couldn't help asking.

"Well, I don't really remember it. When it dissipated, it didn't give me the memory back."

"Is this a girl's reserve? She feels a little shy and doesn't want others to read her diary...?" She tilted her head.

"But I'm not a feudal patriarch, I'm also herself..." Jie Ai muttered dissatisfiedly, her gaze swept across the earth below.

There happened to be a near-death carnival scene below, but her eyes flicked past it like a piece of furniture.

—— Normally, this kind of scene would attract her attention.

"Enough power has been stored, and the goal has been successfully achieved." She said simply, "Let's go back."

"...Don't you want to go down and have a look?" Osamu Dazai asked.

Junai shook her head.

"Nothing to see, no strong enemies, everything in Yokohama is there," she said, "and..."

Jie Ai's eyes were confused for a moment, and a tear that was not shed completely slid down her left eye.

"That's something that belongs to another me." Jie Ai said.

Ordinary, precious, things that even I don't want to let go.

[Prom] The 3rd day after the event.

The changes that should have happened have already passed, unexpectedly easy.I don't know whether it should be said that people are too indifferent, or if they have to be so indifferent in order to survive in this world.

Although there was a lot of noise that night, the number of dead was miraculously zero, as if it was just a joke the princess made with them before leaving this world, reminding them, 'Don't forget me'.

In fact, she could have done otherwise.

Even if in the past ten or twenty years, or even a century later, there will be no trace of everyone in this world, but future historians will never forget that there is such a girl when they investigate and study. Single-handedly changed the way the world thinks about the impact an individual can have, and the very concept of the word science.

Until now, many scientists do not think that what she wields is a weapon called science, but thinks that it should be something closer to magic.

"Or this is the wisdom that she can only understand." The well-known scientist who went to Imperial University to give a lecture calmly replied to the students' curious questions.

"Research, yes, of course we have to study the works left behind by her. But it's like we built a tower of Babylon, hoping to gather the wisdom of all mankind to touch the sky...it's not allowed."

"All attempts to understand will only lead people to a deeper abyss. One day the tower of Babylon will be damaged, and people will gradually be unable to understand each other, and only follow the direction of the wisdom they have experienced to the end, as a god to us. punishment."

"Comment on merits and demerits? That's not something I can do. She may be a reward from the heavens, or it may be a deeper disaster, but that is something that can only be understood after 1000 years, and now..."

He said calmly, "We regret but are grateful for her death."

After speaking, the scientist walked out of the lecture site.A group of students were left looking at each other.

At the same time, during the ceremony celebrating the establishment of the nuclear power plant in District 11, His Majesty the Emperor was conferring the title of Duke Nina Einstein, Minister of the Imperial Research Department.

She was the first duchess in recent years, and a few weeks ago she was a commoner, a timid schoolgirl who progressed so quickly that everyone would be dumbfounded.

But they can actually understand that the people related to Her Royal Highness are so beyond common sense.Moreover, Nina's appearance at this time can also make everyone extinguish their envy and jealousy, replaced by full of pity, and the joy of "fortunately, I didn't have anything to do with the princess like her".

The original award ceremony should have made Nina kneel on one knee, and then the emperor tapped her shoulders, neck, and top of her head with a sword.

"But obviously it can't be done now," Nina said.

The emperor looked at the girl in front of him. The girl was completely blind. She was sitting, or to be precise, slumped in a wheelchair. Her thin body was sunk deep in the cushion, and her absent-minded eyes were facing him.

There are some needle holes left on her arm, because since Nina learned the news of the princess' death, she stopped eating. To maintain her life, she had to inject glucose, and even the injection needle was always taken by her. After tearing it down, blood flowed all over his hands. The staff who took care of Nina had already complained to him many times.

"It's very difficult for us - that adult doesn't want to live at all!"

"You look very bad," said the Emperor.

Usually people regard Nina's tragedy as proof of the cruelty of the princess: see, even if Nina Einstein is the only one in the whole country, or even the whole world, who will take the initiative to protect the princess and fight for the princess, But what has become of her?

"There is no such thing as love in that princess," they said. "She is a beautiful monster, and she has no human emotions."

"I think a little, but Her Royal Highness didn't hurt me." Nina said.

It's a lie, but it's true.

Nina's eyes were permanently blinded by looking directly at the light of the explosion.is irreversible.But that's because she didn't take protection herself.

She was completely paralyzed from the waist down, which happened to be the part of Nina soaked in the shadows when she was discovered, and it was believed to be the product of the [banquet].But other people all over the world soaked in the shadows under the ankles have not lost their ability to move, so this can be understood as the disease caused by the projection of her psychological problems onto the body.

This sounds easy to fix, but it's actually more of a nuisance than an eye condition.

It should be believed that even if a truck driving at a speed of [-] kilometers per hour is in front of her eyes, Nina will not get up to avoid it, she will really sit there, facing death like a truly paralyzed person.

No, it would be better to say that death is what she wants to pursue.

The person beside him was holding a tray, and the emperor picked up the badge from the tray, and stretched the badge to Nina's chest to help her pin it on.

Her blank eyes were on him.

The emperor stretched his hand halfway, paused slightly, threw his hand back, and threw away the badge directly.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty?"

The attendant next to her was frightened, which was obviously a very disrespectful act, but the emperor didn't seem to have any resentment towards Nina.If it is said that Qiaotu dies and Liang Gongzang, after the death of Her Royal Highness, it is not too likely to liquidate the "favorites" left by her.

He looked so calm, and there was even some tenderness in his tone.

"This is a medal that symbolizes the status of a duke." He said that so many people have worked hard all their lives for that small piece of medal.

"But you shouldn't need it anymore, right?"

Nina nodded slightly.

"Yes," she said.

Miserable to such an extent, she clutched her chest tightly with her hands, but showed an almost happy smile.

"I have a more honorable badge," she said.

On Nina's head, the Hades helmet was shining brightly.

The emperor nodded.

At nine o'clock that night, Duke Nina Einstein shot herself in her residence.

The Imperial Bureau of Investigation conducted a search and inventory of her research base, and found the eldest lady of the Ashford family, Miley Ashford, who was considered missing in the basement of the base.She and the dead duchess seem to have had a connection in life.

He was stranded in the base of Nina, known as the murderer, for a full 72 hours.Everyone was worried about Mi Lei's mental and physical safety, but after a careful inspection, it was found that she had no wounds on her body, and she was just frightened.

"Nina didn't hurt me." Mi Lei said while sitting on the hospital bed. She was forced to observe for a week in isolation to ensure that she was not infected with the biochemical weapon virus in the basement basement.

Facing the reporter's microphone and camera, perhaps because she was supposed to be interviewing others, but now she was being interviewed, this young lady who aspired to be an excellent reporter smiled embarrassedly, her eyes were a little sad.

"Nina is just a girl who is sometimes very brave just for the sake of liking someone." Mi Lei said.

When the news of Duke Nina Einstein's death came, His Majesty the Emperor was correcting today's documents in the palace. After he heard the news, the tip of his pen didn't stop, but just said, "She went to accompany her."

"So where's the next world. Huh... Yokohama? Seriously?"

"Aren't you guys not allowing me to play in Yokohama no matter what? I also thought about everyone, that's why..." Jie Ai's breathing stopped suddenly, and then her eyes glowed three times stronger than before .

"Is it really okay? Is it really okay! Let me play casually?"

"I'm going to be ruthless—huh, slap! It's going to cause a super crisis to the world like this. Even if you beg me to stop, I won't stop. I have to play until I am satisfied." ..."

"Hmph, I want you to know what kind of monster I released..."

She had an evil smile on her face, just like a little devil.

"Ah, yes, yes." Ranpo maintained an almost perfunctory acquiescence attitude towards this, he stroked her hair again and again, and smiled slightly.

"Let's make a fuss." He said softly.

In Yokohama, another world.