Special investigation report from Yokohama

"Surrender yourself...?" Atsushi Nakajima was surprised.

"Yes." Quan Jinghua nodded obediently, "This is my own decision."

Atsushi Nakajima remained silent.Starting from his personal feelings, he certainly didn't want Quan Jinghua to be imprisoned, but the person who died at the hands of "Yasha Baixue" couldn't be false. For Jinghua, this is also the responsibility she must take.

Atsushi Nakajima hesitated for a long time before speaking softly: "But your sentencing..."

"It's okay." Quan Jinghua whispered.There was a moment of silence in the office, and the girl was also silent for a long time before she hesitated to tell her whereabouts these past few days: "Miss Hongyao... took me to many places."

Actually a lot of families.

Families who have lost their children, families whose children have lost their parents, families who have lost their lovers... and the family of three in the cemetery where only three cold tombstones clinging to each other are left in the massacre.

It was a police officer. Because the husband and wife were investigating the disappearance of children, they were killed by the port Mafia together with their youngest daughter. There were no photos and names on the tombstone. The relatives who are still alive can only be wronged to sleep namelessly.

Hong Yao took her to families destroyed by "Yasha Baixue".

In the port mafia, Quan Jinghua has seen every tragedy caused by "Yasha Baixue".She knows how Yasha will mercilessly chop up every mission target, whether it is an old man who is too old to see Yasha's knife or a child who can't even speak, and no matter how close and close people are around them Witness it all.

In this short period of seven days, Quan Jinghua witnessed the endless tragedies after these tragedies.Regardless of whether the deceased were good or evil, fortunate or unfortunate, after their death, all they bring to their relatives and friends is endless pain.

If she was alone, maybe in the middle... No, maybe at the beginning, when the decent and refined lady cried and cursed after learning about their coming, she couldn't hold on anymore.But Hong Yao took Yin and refused the company of everyone else, and led her to visit each family to make amends and apologize.

"Miss Hongyao brought me... a lot of letters of understanding are coming." The girl was holding a rather heavy document bag in her hand, and her blue eyes were full of sadness and guilt, as well as a loss of not knowing where to go.

A person may not be able to bow their heads so many times and bend their waists so many times in a lifetime.If it wasn't for the commutation of her sentence, Hong Yao would not have suffered those grievances in this life, let alone being scolded bloody and humbly going to the door over and over again, standing in front of her again and again to face those cold eyes and humiliation.

She was a murderer, and if her life could comfort the anger and grief of the family members, she should have been generous.But even if she's a murderer, someone wants her to live.

She killed people, but if she died, there would be people who would grieve as much as the families of those who were killed.

She killed people, but the family members of those who were killed were willing to endure great grief and give her a letter of understanding so that she could live.

"The pain of being a human being is a thousand times more painful than the pain of being a tool for killing." The purple-clothed boy who brought her to Miss Hongyao said to her, "But even so, we are still living as human beings."

"What should I do?" Quan Jinghua asked him.

Fudo Xingguang handed her the document bag containing the letter of understanding, and don't start: "The master has already told you about that kind of thing."

After a pause, he reluctantly added: "If you still can't figure it out, I'll take you to a detective agency...don't forget where you started from—that's what the master said."

Although his tone was not very good, the boy still stretched out his armored hand to her: "Let's go?"

So Quan Jinghua is now standing in the office of the detective agency, bewilderedly asking the boy who pulled her out of the darkness at first: "What should I do?"

Atsushi Nakajima was also at a loss for a moment.He is also just a newcomer to society, and this kind of grand thinking about sin and redemption, life and justice is too embarrassing for this young boy who was extravagant to have a full meal not long ago.

But now he couldn't show his panic.If he insisted on bringing Xiao Jinghua out of the port mafia, then he must take responsibility.If even he doesn't know what to do, then Jinghua will be even more afraid.

"Xiao Jinghua can just do what you want." Atsushi Nakajima said.

Seeing Quan Jinghua look over, he scratched the back of his head: "I guess the reason why Miss Hongyao handed over the letter of understanding to you is also the meaning... These are Xiao Jinghua's 'past', how to face it, Hongyao Miss also hopes that Xiao Jinghua can follow her inner choice."

"Let yourself make a choice that you won't regret in the future... I think Miss Hongyao thinks so." As he spoke, the boy himself felt embarrassed, "Actually, I also guessed that way... because I That's the hope."

"In the future..." Quan Jinghua murmured.

She always felt that a person like herself would never have a future.But whether it is Dun or Miss Hongyao, they all firmly believe in her "future".She hugged the document bag in her hand a little tighter, remembering what Koyaku had said to her when she finally returned to the shrine.

"Many people have said to you 'Killing for life', and I cannot deny their grief. But Jinghua, I made the decision to take you on this trip, knowing that it will change your perception of your past. awareness, and the myriad options for your future."

"Don't understand?" She smiled lightly, and quickly became serious again, "If it's natural to say that 'killing people pays for their lives', then I, who hope you live, will always bear the lives of 35 people with you."

"I understand." The girl's eyes gradually changed from confusion to firmness.She took a step back and bowed deeply to everyone in the detective agency: "I'm going back."

"I'll see you off." Nakajima Atsushi also stood up.

Fudo Xingguang moved sideways to open the door, and after the boys and girls went out, he also bowed goodbye to everyone in the detective agency.The office door was closed again, and Yosano Akiko sighed in a complicated mood: "I can't tell, Hongyao is quite ruthless."

She knows best how difficult it is to face the past. If things really go as she wishes, then Quan Jinghua will undoubtedly be reborn; but if there is a slight mistake, the child may also be devastated.With Hong Yao's emphasis on Quan Jinghua, Yu Xie Ye originally thought that she would take more gentle measures.

"It was because of worrying about Kyoka that Ms. Hongyao hinted that she came to find Ton-kun." Tanizaki Naomi looked out of the window, and the backs of the boys and girls left side by side, "To Kyoka, Ton-kun is a very important person. .Just like my brother did to me."

While talking, the girl stuck behind the orange-haired boy who was concentrating on his work: "Is that right? Isn't that right, brother?"

Everyone in the detective agency turned their eyes away as usual, leaving this ambiguous corner to their brothers and sisters to play freely.Oda Sakunosuke looked at the direction in which Izumi Kyoka left, wondering whether it was necessary for him to talk to her.

Although Hong Yao asked for it, it's not very good to go and talk, but Quan Jinghua's mental state is not bad, so he shouldn't be needed, right?Furthermore, his situation is very different from that of Quan Jinghua: he is a free killer, he can choose whether it is the way of killing or saving people.But Quan Jinghua couldn't do it, she was forced to take this path. When she killed her, her heart was not completely covered by darkness, and it was even more difficult to let go when she embraced the light again.

"Oda? Oda!"

"Ah... Kunikida." Oda Sakunosuke came back to his senses, "What's wrong?"

"I should have asked you what's wrong, but you didn't respond after calling several times—you should hand in the report." Kunikida Doppo took the report from his desk and asked, "Are you okay?"

"It's okay." Oda Sakunosuke replied calmly, "I just remembered something from the past, and my mind was a little distracted."

Having said that, Kunikida Doppo couldn't ask any more questions.But Yosano Akiko remembered something, and turned to confirm: "Oda, I remember you and Hong Yao have known each other for a long time, right?"

Oda Sakunosuke nodded.

Early acquaintance doesn't mean anything. You can get a lot of information by looking at the boss's secretive attitude. The detective agency is full of smart people, so naturally they don't ask too much, and at most they make a few jokes.It just so happened that Atsushi Nakajima sent Quan Jinghua back, and the topic was just like that.

However, at night, sitting in a familiar bar, topics that are not easy to talk about in public are not taboo among friends.

"Red medicine..." Oda Sakunosuke sighed softly.

When the two were drinking and chatting, they accidentally talked about their first encounter with Koyaku. Osamu Dazai jokingly mentioned the invitation to die in Tokyo that eventually turned into a fire escape. Oda Sakunosuke hadn’t decided whether to tell Dazai that it might not be theirs. The first encounter—and she will definitely be more angry if she uses this routine to deal with Hongyao—was interrupted by Osamu Dazai’s question: "Have Oda Saku and Miss Hongyao known each other for a long time? What was she at that time?" like?"

It's been a long time indeed.Counting that the city of Yokohama has gone through four springs, summers, autumns and winters, time always flies by inadvertently, and now thinking about the first encounter between the two in the curry shop, it has faded like a gradually blurred shadow in the setting sun .

But no matter how vague the memory is, some things will never be forgotten.Thinking about her now, Oda Sakunosuke couldn't believe that he commented on Hongyao at that time: "At that time, I thought she would die at any time."

Dazai's eyes widened slightly.

Odasaku didn't pay attention to his friend's expression.He has been completely immersed in the memory.

It was precisely because of this kind of worry that he wrote down the number of the red medicine—by mistake, he saved the lives of himself and his children.This kind of thing was extremely critical at the time, and now it’s just a knowing smile. Oda Sakunosuke took a sip of wine and added: “If something happened to the children at that time, I would probably be like her—that’s the loss of life. The expression of all the fetters in the world."

This is another side of red medicine that Osamu Dazai has never seen.The young man put down his wine glass and listened intently.

"After Ango left, I met her the night we met here. At that time, she was injured and she was in a precarious state, but the first thing I did was to inform me to be vigilant to Chief Mori."

Noticing that his friend's fingers pinching the rim of the cup were slightly stiff, Oda Sakunosuke patted Osamu Dazai's shoulder comfortingly, and recalled the conversation that night in a peaceful tone: "She wanted me to take the children away, for this reason She doesn't hesitate to expose herself. Maybe she's projecting guilt towards someone onto me, but that's the first time in my life I've seen someone willing to risk everything for a stranger—or even hostile—to them: not Out of a moment of valor, but a deliberate devotion."

Oda Sakunosuke’s memory didn’t last long, he thought for a while, and finally said this: “‘Man is born to save himself’——I always think so. But she acts to save others , not out of saving my own soul, but simply 'wanting to do this'."

Oda Sakunosuke was very curious about what motivated her actions. You must know that self-interest is the instinct of all life. Actions like hers must be supported by very strong beliefs.And when she faced Gide at that time, even he, a bystander, could feel the feeling of almost losing all hope, which really made people feel contradictory.

But now there is no need to ask.He thought about it, but found that his friend hadn't made a sound for a long time.

——Speaking of which, the sudden mention of this topic today also made him feel a little strange: "Dazai, are you..."

"Ok?"

The young man raised his iris-colored eyes to look at him, and at some point, he was used to Dazai standing shoulder to shoulder with him.

Oda Sakunosuke thought for a while, and swallowed the rest of the words.

If Dazai recovered his memory, he would definitely take the initiative to find Hongyao to apologize.Odasaku thought rather optimistically.Hongyao has always been lenient towards her friends, and Dazai can't decide things like amnesia, she will definitely not take the blame, and Dazai must be aware of this.

So he changed the subject: "Why did you bring this up suddenly? Is something wrong?"