Holy patriarchal tool man

On the afternoon of December 31st, Eiji Hiiragi came to Osamu Dazai's apartment with a bunch of ingredients.

Yes, since the bombing of the cargo ship, he has become a loving father who can come to the door at any time.Mainly to take care of this patient.

Yes, the fragile little kid of his family was unfortunately injured again in the cargo ship explosion, slightly fractured ribs, not a major problem, but it will hurt a little at first.

Worried that he would not eat well and mess around, Hiiragi Eiji had no choice but to come to him these days to cook for him, and supervise him to eat all of them by the way.

Especially when I heard that he was going to the bar to drink with Ango Sakaguchi and Sakunosuke Oda tonight.

As soon as he entered the door, he found Osamu Dazai lying on the dining table with a listless look, and he squeaked casually when he saw him walk in.

"...What's the matter? Are you feeling unwell today?" Eiji Hiiragi put the ingredients in the kitchen and warmed up a glass of milk for him while he was asking questions.

"Ha, what else can it be, that little vengeful dwarf probably still hates that I didn't let him soak in the hot spring the day before yesterday, and he's bothering me again today." As he spoke, his two long legs stretched out under the dining table. Straightforwardly, "Yingji, he is too much." He complained limply.

Hiiragi Eiji stuffed the milk cup into his hand with his backhand, and lifted the boneless bandage by the way, telling him to drink the glass of milk quickly.

Speaking of the trip to the hot springs in Hokkaido, Eiji Hiiragi also felt a little regretful, it was rare to be able to stay in such a good hotel, but he and Osamu Dazai missed the hot spring because Qiqi was injured, and Nakaya even worked overtime until the next day, so it was a direct mistake. past.

... I dare to blame Chuya, the other people who traveled to Hokkaido did not join forces to beat Osamu Dazai, which is considered kind-hearted.

After washing the vegetables, Eiji Hiiragi was about to peel the carrots when he heard Osamu Dazai say behind him, "No carrots."

"You can't be picky eaters." Eiji Hiiragi handled the carrots neatly, and then ruthlessly put them into the pot.

Osamu Dazai simply lay down on the dining table again, and complained to Eiji Hiiragi in a faint tone: "...I am a patient, and I only want to eat what I want."

"No, you need balanced nutrition when you're sick. Besides, don't you think you're a bit too picky?"

"I can't believe you haven't met a picky eater."

Hiiragi Eiji paused slightly for cutting vegetables.

Although he made an agreement with Osamu Dazai to tell him everything, and he himself has no so-called system restrictions, but this is the first time he is going to talk about this with others, he feels a little shy, and only hates that he can't write a report Write everything down.

But Osamu Dazai obviously didn't want this simple and rude way of reporting. After getting along for such a long time, Eiji Hiiragi could subtly understand some of Osamu Dazai's little thoughts.

Perhaps he hoped that Hiiragi Eiji could slowly integrate everything from the past in his daily relationship and tell him little by little.

He doesn't want all the honesty of Hiiragi Eiji, but just wants him to be more real.

"You are indeed very different from the people I have come into contact with before." Hiiragi Eiji said in a chatty state while chopping vegetables.

Eiji Hiiragi observed Dazai Osamu from the corner of his eye, and sure enough, the bandage spirit suddenly stopped poking Tomato, although he still didn't look at him, but he was clearly in a state of listening.

Eiji Hiiragi, on the other hand, has long been accustomed to the changeable mode of getting along between the two, and is very good at adjusting to Osamu Dazai's pace.

Thinking about his experience during this period, Hiiragi sighed and said, "You are suspicious and sensitive."

Dazai sat up slowly.

"Awkward and contradictory, and likes to deliberately annoy people."

And Osamu Dazai had already narrowed his eyes, resting his chin on one hand, and asked with a smile: "Is there any more?"

Hiiragi Eiji always felt that he seemed to be playing tricks on him again.

... My son is rebellious and hurts Wuxin, and he can't even listen to the truth.

"In a common sense, he doesn't seem to be a good person." Eiji Hiiragi concluded seriously.There is no shortage of bad things like watching the fire from the other side.

Even if you know what a person has done wrong, you still watch that person continue to move forward until the other person collapses and despairs, and it is irreparable.

Osamu Dazai even suppressed his smile this time.

"But I'm not a good person either." Eiji Hiiragi said flatly, "I'm very purposeful. For this, there are many things that can be tolerated."

"However, having said so much, I just want to tell you," he added a bowl of water to the pot, "no matter what kind of person you are, I will never leave you."

No longer just because the task is so simple.

Osamu Dazai's lips moved, but in the end he just lay down on the table again, but this time the back of his head was facing Hiiragi Eiji.

"However, they are really not very picky eaters."

Eiji Hiiragi automatically ignored a certain guy who hated eating natto. After all, the taste of that thing is too anti-human, and it is normal not to like it!

"...Hmph." Dazai Osamu's cold hum came from the dining room.

Hiiragi Eiji looked at the fire on the stove, and suddenly became a little lost.

"...Actually, I still don't know how to describe my past life to you, because it is completely different from here. It is also difficult for me to understand the exact meaning of what you mean by truth, and I don't know What should I do to better integrate into this world."

Osamu Dazai poked the small tomato that Eiji Hiiragi placed in the fruit plate.

"Is there anything you hate? Is there anything you like? Are there any familiar scenes here? Do you think of something in the past when you see it?" Osamu Dazai said softly, "An effort People who close their hearts can't be real. Eiji, in a certain way, we have many similarities."

Hiiragi Eiji was slightly taken aback.

"But in the end... I don't know what it means to really open my heart." Osamu Dazai said calmly.

Just at this moment, the little tomato was poked hard by his fingers and rolled out of the fruit plate.

A lone red fell on the log-colored dining table.

"But Eiji, it should be that he needs to love himself more."

Hiiragi Eiji looked at him in surprise, he never thought that this person who didn't care about himself at all would tell him to learn to love himself.

He silently turned back to stir the stew in the pot.

His heart began to throb again and again.Osamu Dazai is so smart, he should know how to love himself, but he has never been willing to do so.

Hiiragi Eiji once again realized his negligence. He still has a long way to go before his goal of being a good father.

"...Why did you come to point me out all of a sudden?" Hiiragi Eiji pulled the corner of his mouth hard.

The corners of Dazai Osamu's lips curled up, "Because it's an exchange of equal value." He stretched his waist, and when his right hand fell from the air, he vaguely crossed some predetermined points, "Let's get used to this terrible situation together." world."

Two inexperienced people with a similar negative attitude started groping to try.

[One of the wishes of the main character Osamu Dazai, the bond of life has been achieved]

[Congratulations to NPC Hiiragi Eiji for fulfilling one of the wishes of the main character Osamu Dazai]

Hiiragi Eiji stared blankly at the boy who was lying on the dining table and poking a tomato. In the plain words, what was hidden was the trust he secretly delivered.

He was really dragged back from the unknown abyss by Hiiragi Eiji. Although the change was still slight, he stopped at the edge of the cliff and did not continue to fall.

Hiiragi Eiji blinked his eyes hard, so as not to let the sour eyes continue.

"This is really a good end of the year, and I'm starting to look forward to the new year." After holding back for a long time, Eiji Hiiragi could only express his mood at the moment in this simple way.

With a "puchi", Osamu Dazai laughed and fell on the table.

"...What are you laughing at?" Eiji Hiiragi asked puzzledly after throwing all the ingredients into the pot.

Osamu Dazai still had that smiling expression on his face, he shook his head, "I just think that Eiji, who is trying to establish a connection with this world, is clumsy and cute."

"……nonsense!"

Is this the attitude a son should have towards his father? ?

At 07:30 in the evening, Eiji Hiiragi came to a restaurant that he had never been to before. This was the place where he had agreed to meet with Nakaya.

On the night of December 31st, there were a lot of pedestrians and guests in the restaurant.

In this way, the location of the restaurant seems to be very close to Hatsachi's temple this time.Is Zhong Ye going to visit the shrine with him?

Hiiragi Eiji suddenly looked forward to it, it was his first time in this world to participate in Hatsune.

Life in the police school is too busy, and his five friends are even more involved in incidents, so naturally they don't have the opportunity to come to this kind of place together.They were punished together for sweeping the public bathroom.

What's more, Chuuya doesn't look like he would go to a temple to pay homage. Once he behaves like this that doesn't conform to his appearance, Hiiragi Eiji will find it very interesting.

With such anticipation, Eiji Hiiragi walked into the restaurant in front of him.

With just one glance, he saw Chuya sitting by the window.

"Have you waited long?" Hiiragi Eiji asked apologetically.It really took some time for Osamu Dazai to cook, otherwise this stinky brat would have to drink with Oda Sakunosuke and the others on an empty stomach.

"No, just arrived." Saying that, Chuiya handed the order tablet to Hiiragi Eiji.

Then, he suddenly thought of one thing, the guy sitting across from him has always been a desireless person.

No matter where to eat or what to eat, it is always okay, okay, and okay.

Didn't he have any special preferences without asking the other party, but the light-haired boy just smiled at him, "Because, everything is delicious."

Although he thought this kind of behavior was very strange at first, after eating with Eiji for so long, as a person who doesn't like to get to the bottom of people who care about him, he is even very used to Eiji's magical style of painting.

Therefore, Chuya subconsciously wanted to take back the tablet he handed over, but found that he twitched lightly, but did not twitch - the tablet was being held by Hiiragi Eiji, and it seemed that he did not want to put it down.

Zhong was also a little dazed, "...do you want to order food?"

Hiiragi Eiji finally recalled what he did in the past at this moment, he nodded a little embarrassedly, but still handed the tablet to Chuya, "You click first."

However, Chuya just looked at him, then looked at the tablet in Hiirai Eiji's hand, then got up from the opposite side of Hiiragi Eiji, and sat directly next to Hiiragi Eiji.

But as soon as he sat down, Zhong realized something was wrong.

... He seemed to be subconsciously sitting next to Eiji, and the two of them were almost shoulder to shoulder, half of them touching each other.

Hiiragi Eiji's body has a faint refreshing fragrance, sitting in the position of Nakaya, the feeling is even clearer.The breath that belongs to Hiirai Eiji scrambled into his nasal cavity, and it was precisely because of this that Chuya felt that he had become strange again. His vision was limited to the slender fingers that Hiirai Eiji was poking on the tablet. He didn't even dare to turn his head to look at the other person's face.

He subconsciously wanted to move to the side, but Eiji Hiiragi was keenly aware of it as soon as he made a move, and he looked at Chuya suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

Chuya's Adam's apple rolled slightly, "It's nothing." After all, he didn't dare to move.

After finishing the simple ordering, Chuya stiffly sat back in his seat.

Seeing his look of being out of his mind, Eiji Hiiragi couldn't help asking: "What are you thinking?"

"...I was thinking, why didn't you like to order food earlier." Zhong also replied with a wandering expression.

Before making any response, Nakaya was the first to wake up. He looked at Hiiragi Eiji in shock, and then jumped up on the spot, startling Hiiragi Eiji, "What's wrong?" He also quickly stood up, I looked back and forth, but didn't find anything wrong.

After noticing that the people around were looking at the two of them, Chuya's face burned almost instantly, he covered his face and sat back in his original position, "...Don't ask, there's nothing wrong."

Hiiragi Eiji: "..." Is this the adolescent boy?

Zhongye's predicament was greatly alleviated by the successive dishes being served.

When the wooden fish rice balls on a white plate were brought up, the unremarkable food made Hiiragi Eiji's expression a little unpredictable, and he stared at the three rice balls for a while.

Zhong also took a bite of the clam, looking at Hiiragi Eiji's expression, he was a little puzzled, "Why don't you eat it? Do you think it's not good?" The wooden fish rice ball was the first dish Hiiragi Eiji ordered, so he must like it very much, right?

He felt that the taste of this store was quite good, so he brought Eiji here specially.

Although the other party didn't show any enthusiasm for eating, it didn't prevent Zhong also from wanting to take him to taste what he thought was delicious.

Hearing this, Hiiragi Eiji picked up a rice ball and took a bite.

Almost immediately, his expression creased.But only for a moment, let Zhongya even think that he was wrong.

Hiiragi Eiji eats very politely, especially today, he seems to be very devoted to eating, which makes Zhong also follow his appetite a little bit.

Hiiragi swallowed the last mouthful of wooden fish rice balls, and then the light-haired boy said slowly: "...As expected, I still don't like the taste of wooden fish."

Zhong Ye: "..."

Zhong Ye's hand holding the ox tongue stopped like this, and he even suspected that he had heard it wrong, "...don't you like it?"

His expression was extremely tangled, and he seemed to want to ask why he ordered it, and why he wanted to eat it first, but in the end, he just silently poured a glass of ice water for Hiiragi Eiji and handed it to him.

"...Because, my friend from the past especially liked to eat wooden fish rice balls." Hiiragi Eiji said softly, "Although I can't get used to its taste, when I was with him in the past, as long as I saw this dish, I would Point. According to him, the rice balls I made are also very delicious. Of course, I don’t feel anything.”

Chu also immediately understood the meaning of Hiiragi Eiji's words.I just use this dish to miss my old friends from the past.

"You today... no, it's recently, it seems to be a little different." Nakaya looked at Hiiragi Eiji in front of him and commented like this.

"It seems that my mood has changed a little recently." Hiiragi Eiji laughed, he tried to find an adjective, and described it with some hesitation: "If I insist on saying it, it is probably similar to returning to the world...?"

"Huh?" Zhong also seemed not quite able to understand this description, but soon his focus shifted, his blue eyes suddenly became sharp, "...is it because of Dazai?" His There was a bit of sourness in his tone that he didn't even notice.

Hiiragi Eiji didn't notice, he nodded, then shook his head again.He just started trying to put himself into the world.

"...Really?" Chuya's eyes narrowed slightly, "Forget it..." He sighed heavily, he could feel that this was a good change, "That guy can be regarded as a human thing."

...but what is the inexplicable unhappiness!

This mood lasted until after the meal.

Zhong didn't say anything about the next itinerary, but took Hiiragi Eiji to a sparsely traveled road, and then went to the road to a nearby mountain, which required climbing a flight of stairs.

Looking at the distance, Hiiragi Eiji ran in to buy an ice cream when passing by a convenience store.

When he came out biting the ice cream, what he saw was Chuya standing under the street lamp and looking down in thought.

He naturally walked over and stood beside Zhong Ye, "What are you thinking?"

Chuuya hesitated for a moment.He was indeed thinking about something that had been bothering him lately.

"...Eiji, do you think we are friends if we have a relationship like this?" He pulled the zipper of his biker suit to the top, and asked in a hesitant tone, "I always feel that... it seems that we are not the same as friends. .”

However, when Namiya looked back to see Hiiragi Eiji's expression clearly, his expression changed immediately.

Because he found that Eiji was looking at him with a shocked and hurt expression, and the ice cream in his hand fell in response, and fell to the ground with a "click".

After reacting for two seconds, Chuya immediately understood what the other party was thinking, "Wait, wait—! Listen to my explanation! It's not what you think!"

Hiiragi Eiji was even more at a loss, "...what does that mean?" He remembered Chuya's impression of him again - that confused ""friend"?"

...The most important thing is that it doesn't matter if you add double quotation marks, why are there still question marks!

He felt a little hurt, and his mood was reflected on his face.

But seeing the red-haired boy jumping to explain, Hiiragi Eiji suddenly felt that it was nothing, and he couldn't even tighten the corners of his mouth.

Thinking about Furutani Rei's unpredictable and unsatisfactory favorability, this can only be regarded as a drizzle.

He bent down to pick up the ice cream that fell on the ground, and looked at it with some distress.

Chuya closed his eyes and scratched at his hair. He sighed as if resigned to his fate, "Anyway, it's really not what you think."

What's going on... It's obvious that he's not like this at all.

"Ah."

At this moment, he heard the response from Hiiragi Eiji next to him.

Nakaya was taken aback for a moment, then turned his head to see the smile on Hiiragi Eiji's face again.

"Then when you have an idea, don't forget to tell me." Zhong also heard him say this.

"...Isn't that natural?" Chuya muttered softly.It doesn't matter who he is doing this for.If he really had an answer, he would definitely notify the person in front of him as soon as possible.

After taking a deep breath, Nakaya took the lead and walked to the front steps.

And Hiiragi Eiji stood there with a tangled expression.

...But no matter how he thinks about it, he feels that he and Zhong are also very good friends.This kind of eating together, going out to play together, going to New Year's worship together, and many private agreements, isn't it good friends?

One step, two steps.

Nakaya took advantage of the moonlight to step up the stairs leading to the halfway up the mountain, as if realizing that Hiiragi Eiji hadn't followed, he turned his head and looked at the light-haired boy who was still standing at the bottom of the stairs.

Just when Hiiragi was still in a daze, a hand wearing a black silk glove was stretched out in front of him, Hiiragi slowly looked up along the hand, and then saw the smile on the face of the red-haired boy , the frustration and annoyance just now have been swept away.

After meeting Kami Eiji's gaze, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Didn't you say that you returned to the human world today? Then, as a celebration of your return to the human world, I will take you to see a good thing, come?" His youthful spirit was completely unbearable.

Hiiragi Eiji slightly opened his eyes wide, staring at this person bathed in the starlight, only felt that at this moment, Chuya's whole body was shining brightly.

Without any hesitation, he took Chuuya's hand.

All along, he seems to be a complete pessimist in his own affairs. He is an existence that will not have a long life, no matter whether he is nostalgic for the world or not.As Osamu Dazai said, in this regard, the two of them really have many similarities.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that he is unwilling to leave too many traces of himself in these worlds.

But it wasn't until he held the warm hand in front of him that he felt that he was truly in this world.Osamu Dazai is the key to his landing, and the person in front of him is undoubtedly the landmark for him to land smoothly.

Hiiragi Eiji's desire to work hard to live became more profound at this time.

I don't want to be a tool man who has to leave these fetters due to death after completing the task, but an ordinary and ordinary human being who truly belongs to this world.

Wait until this full and long life is over, and then let him leave here to fulfill his last wish.

Perhaps because of the change in mood, Eiji Hiiragi feels that the whole world has taken on a new look, even in the dark night, his entire field of vision is still bright.

And the one who felt the same was Nakaya who was standing opposite Hiiragi Eiji. He saw the transformation process of the person in front of him. He didn't know what happened to Eiji in this short period of time, but However, there were obvious changes in him that even Zhong couldn't describe.

Eiji seemed to be more alive, and something invisible was also crushed by this change.

The touch of the palm is so real, no touch is more vivid and more realistic than this moment.

Just like driving Eiji on the coastline for the first time, he narrowed the distance with Eiji again.

Zhong also knew that he was laughing, it was an expression that was completely uncontrollable and revealed by the joy in his heart.

Hiiragi Eiji was also infected by him, and put on a silly smile.

"...You laugh so silly." Zhongya said.

"You too!"

Chuya's frank, expressionless smile, don't laugh at him here!

[Bond achieved]

[Congratulations to NPC Hiiragi Eiji for successfully conquering the main character Chuya Nakahara]