Why can't we be friends after the friendship ending?

Soon, the rainstorm arrived one step earlier than the weather forecast.

The crackling rain hit the glass, like the sky knocking on the window.

Fukuzawa looked out the window, and the previous smile was no longer on his face.When I was alone, it seemed that even the emotion of dealing with outsiders disappeared.

The illusion was created to delay their interference, but he, who was deeply trapped in it, finally made a compromise-like cry for help.

If the idea at the beginning was just to delay him, then why did he expose his existence in this way...?

Could it be that, at this point, are you still... taking chances?

I'm not a lucky guy.But maybe it wasn't too bad, he thought.

At least someone else has made that promise.

If it's a miracle, then show it to me again.

……

"It's raining."

The beginning of the noisy sound can also be heard in the train, which is very clear in the unusually quiet compartment.

"Well, the weather forecast is accurate in this way." Dazai nodded and said, "Because of the rain, it may arrive later than the expected time. I really don't know if it will be too late~"

"Speaking of which, if you don't get saved because of something like this, it's all your fault, Chuya."

"Huh? Don't say such things to me here." Zhong Yuanzhong, who was sitting on the other side of the carriage, couldn't help but said loudly, "If you hadn't lost your mind, you would still be thinking of blowing up my car with a bomb in this situation. How could I talk to you first!"

"But if you don't blow it up, you won't understand the importance."

"Can I not know the importance?"

"Ah, because the little dwarf just follows with his head..."

"Speaking of which, do you have any ideas?" Edogawa Ranpo, who was sitting beside him thinking, suddenly asked.

The two people who were still talking about each other suddenly fell silent, and Dazai thought for a while before saying, "I don't know exactly what the Sword of Damocles is all about, but I guess, that kind of thing is probably not something that can be destroyed by conventional weapons. Or have an impact."

"However, how did it come into being? If it existed a long time ago, there would not be as few recorded instances of the sword dropping problem. But if it existed recently, then it should have been 'developed' Bar?"

"Development...?" Edogawa narrowed his eyes slightly, rubbed his chin as if lost in thought again.

Chuuya glanced at him, then at Dazai: "How much do you know about Chuan himself?"

"Although there are not many, you can almost guess it." Dazai put his hands on his knees and said, "It's not difficult to guess that he himself came out of a certain laboratory."

"If there is an overlap between that laboratory and the 'development' of the Sword of Damocles, it's not impossible."

"Then his mother..."

"It's a terrible thing for the experimental staff to have feelings for the experimental product, isn't it?"

"..." Zhong also turned his head to look out of the window, and did not speak again.

When Dazai said this, he also knew that there was no need to delve into these matters.

Even if Fukuzawa was really just a so-called "laboratory product", he still couldn't forget the look in his eyes.

The orange-yellow sunset in the distance has a little too bright light in the darkness. Against those eyes looking at him, it is as if the night is shrouded in bright tulle. It is the future, and it is also a kind of cosmic romance. Colored with emotions.

Fukuzawa said at the time that he really wanted to kill himself.

But his eyes seemed to say: keep shining.

You are my hope.

It may be a bit narcissistic to say this, but Zhong Yuanzhong also thinks so.

He will save that person, no matter how many times he has to hold on to that thread.

"I understand." Edogawa suddenly said again, "I understand everything."

"What?" The rest of the people looked at him when they heard the sound.

"His hint is obvious, it's...deception. From the beginning, he has been 'deceiving' the people involved in various illusions, including himself. If you want to cheat, then 'deceive' There must be no shortage of such methods.”

"He needed to be completely unaware to be saved."

"But doesn't it mean that he can understand everything clearly?"

"Yes, he is indeed clear, but hasn't he stayed in the illusion for a long time?"

"...?"

"He mentioned to me before that a certain meaning of fate will be completely fixed after 'observation'. He said that fate cannot be changed because he will be in the state of 'observation' all the time. You must hide it from him For his own 'observation', he must first deceive himself with the 'false reality'."

Edogawa continued: "In reality, if he transmits information about himself to you, it will definitely lead to such observations at the same time. But if it is transmitted to you through the illusion, what he observes is in the illusion. 'Fate', and you pass the information to reality through the illusion, and the changes and influences brought about by these are hesitant to leave his 'observation environment' and cannot be 'observed' by him."

"...how did he know what we would do?" Nakaya couldn't help pointing at Dazai, "He didn't go in, did he?"

"That is the future that has been 'observed'." Edogawa Ranpo suddenly smiled, "In short, all our current actions are 'unknown' to him, so we have to rewrite Every chance."

"So that's it...that makes sense." Dazai nodded knowingly, "Then what we should think about now is 'how to prevent him from dropping his sword without killing him'?"

"Theoretically, this is indeed the case, but due to the lack of information on the Sword of Damocles, I cannot deduce the way to stop it." Edogawa Ranpo said.

"Small it directly?" Zhong didn't think the matter was too complicated, "The essence is the problem of the sword falling, so why don't we just get rid of the sword?"

"It's not impossible to think like this... But I'm afraid it will be difficult to do it. Can you intercept the nuclear bomb?"

Zhong also thought for a while: "I haven't tried it."

"Well, there is no need to try this. Assuming you can, where do we throw the nuclear bomb? The power will not disappear out of thin air, and it will still explode in another place if it is transferred by interception. When the time comes Countless people will still die because of this, even if it is thrown into the sea, the resulting tsunami cannot be easily stopped.”

"I think it's better to focus on the creation of the sword." Dazai interjected, "Let it go back where it came from."

"I'm afraid it's not that simple..."

"Throw it to another world?"

"It's possible if you know how to open it."

"Find Xie Ye a job while he's about to die?"

"Can the sword guarantee that it will not be resurrected?"

"..."

"It's totally impossible to say that."

"Because it's not unexpected enough..." Edogawa said, "I think he can think of most of them... But there must be a reason for not trying..."

"I think the breakthrough point is on you, Chuya." Dazai suddenly turned his head to look at Chuya, "Do you know anything? At least how to do it."

Zhong Ye looked back: "If I think about it, it's very simple. Whoever wants to destroy him can just destroy him."

"Want to try?"

"...something is wrong." Edogawa's expression became serious again, "it won't be so simple..."

"...Well, I guess it might be because, that way he can live, but all his changed destiny will be returned to the original place." Nakaya replied.

"That is to say, back to the beginning, he is an ordinary person, and we don't know him."

Those who were changed by him and survived will die, while those who died because of him will live.

Is that price acceptable to some people like them?

"How to choose?"