365 days of playing the knife

Wu Hutui slept very comfortably this time, as if he existed in his mother's body like an unborn baby, and his whole body felt warm as if soaked in warm water.

Then as soon as he woke up, he realized that something was wrong, after all—someone looked at you with complex eyes full of apology, self-blame, guilt, bewilderment, and doubt, and everyone could understand the abnormality.

"What, what's the matter...?" Wuhu Tui's voice was still a little hoarse, but it was a natural reaction after waking up.

He stepped back for a moment, subconsciously touched the place where he was injured, and found that it was not because of his perception error, but that there was really no pain, the wound no longer existed, and even the clothes on his body were intact.

When one finds something wrong, it is natural to discover other strange things later - for example, why did he have more spiritual power? ... No, or rather, it has returned to its heyday.

It's just that it's impossible, because part of him was given to Xiaohu.

Back then in Honmaru, the spiritual power provided to the "Five Tigers" was more than that of other short knives, because of the existence of Xiaohu.

——Of course, if the spiritual power is not sufficient, it is also possible to provide only a portion of spiritual power equal to that of other short knives.

It's just that this will make "Five Tigers Back" a little weaker than other short knives.But according to the personality of the "Five Tigers Retreat", this kind of problem is not big at all, and it will not be obvious.

But he never encountered this kind of problem, because he lived with swords since he was a child, and from the very beginning he needed the spiritual power to satisfy everyone, so gradually, a virtuous circle was formed.

When he first came to Honmaru, there were not many swords in Honmaru, and they were all left by his father.With his father's spiritual power remaining, he naturally didn't need a lot of spiritual power to allow everyone to live.

Afterwards, everyone became stronger and stronger, and a large part of their enhanced spiritual power was naturally repaid to him through the contract, which caused his spiritual power to be stronger than ordinary adults at a young age.

But now, there is no "spirit examiner" to give him spiritual power, so to make Xiaohu appear, he needs to come by himself.

...so, so.

Thinking of this, Wuhu Tui naturally thought of a question.

Where is Xiaohu?

According to Xiaohu's personality, it is impossible to let him be injured. Before he passed out, he saw Xiaohu - if it wasn't for this, he would never lose consciousness with confidence.

Atsushi Nakajima watched Wuhu sit up and blinked blankly, then immediately seemed to realize something, touched his abdomen, his eyes flashed with confusion.

"Tun, Mr. Dun..." Five Tigers asked Atsushi Nakajima, with a very obvious tremor in his voice, "That..."

"Have you seen Xiaohu?"

"..." Atsushi Nakajima didn't know how to answer.

After that fake bomb/bomb time, the detective agency has fully accepted him-specifically, the current meeting has allowed him to come and discuss together.

So of course, he also heard the question raised by the initiator of the meeting, Dr. Yosano, to Dazai.

Is "Little Tiger" a supernatural power or some other ability system, and is "Ji Guang Tui" a human being.

Yes, Dr. Yosano asked me so directly.

Nakajima Atsushi and Kunikida were stunned for an instant, did they both have stunned expressions on their faces? Tanizaki who was sitting on the other side also opened his eyes unexpectedly.

Seeing the stupid look on Kunikida's face, Osamu Dazai immediately laughed out loud, and was suppressed by Kunikida's force.

"Did something happen during the treatment?" Kunikida connected back and forth, and quickly responded to the problem with Dr. Yosano.

She nodded with Dr. Xie Ye, sat on the sofa with her legs crossed, and took a sip of her cup of coffee. "The tiger disappeared, and the wound on Tui's body healed."

"Is that so?" Kunikida didn't record anything habitually with the pen in his hand, he used the pen cover to tap twice on his notebook with a calm expression. "Dazai, didn't you say..."

"What I said at the time was—" Dazai Osamu took over, "Tiger Lord is not a supernatural power."

Those who were present at the scene could turn their minds a little faster, and they could understand the hidden meaning of Osamu Dazai's words.What he meant was that he said that Xiaohu is not a supernatural power, but he never said that Xiaohu is a real animal.

That's true.

But recalling the meaning of Osamu Dazai's deliberate guidance at that time, Kunikida immediately realized something. From then on, Osamu Dazai should have known something that they didn't know, and then deliberately concealed it.

"You bastard!" Kunikida frowned violently, trying to grab Dazai Osamu's collar.

At that time, no one was sure whether the Five Tigers were safe or not, but Osamu Dazai concealed information at that time.In case it is not good for the detective agency——

"Well, Tui-kun is a good boy anyway, isn't he." Dazai Osamu said with a smile.

Dazai's frivolous smile is what Kunikida hates the most, but knowing that this is a meeting, he restrained his movements very restrained.He asked the other party, "So what's going on!"

"I don't know." Hearing the question, Dazai replied like this.

"Are you kidding me!" Kunikida immediately became angry again.

"Nope——" Dazai dragged his voice, "Although Kunikida-kun, your reaction is always very funny, as if I witnessed your life shortened with my own eyes—but I won't lie about this kind of thing. "The man who has never been out of tune has a very serious expression at the moment.So Kunikida chose to believe after being dubious.

Looking at Kunikida who averted his eyes, Dazai put on his usual annoying (specifically someone) smile, "But, even if I say it, Kunikida-kun can't do anything except himself. Unplanned—a brain circuit that is almost barren to nothing, perhaps even simpler than that of a paramecium, can’t you understand it?”

So the brain that had just calmed down was once again filled with anger because of Osamu Dazai. "Go to hell! Dazai!"

When the two finally settled the matter between them, they chatted with Xie Ye in a boring way.

This is probably the so-called heavy thunder and little rain, no matter how hard Kunikida strangled Osamu Dazai's neck, Osamu Dazai would always recover after a few seconds by touching his neck.

(Of course, the most important reason is that although he really wants to kill himself as a partner who has been sabotaging his plan, Kunikida will not really do it himself.)

However, it cannot be denied that Dazai Osamu's vitality is simply frighteningly exuberant.

For example, he has indulged in and committed suicide for so many years, but he has never succeeded—whether he jumped off a building, fell into the water, or even got into a car accident or hanged himself, none of which could make Osamu Dazai lose the capital of being alive and kicking.

"Speaking of which, Ranpo-san hasn't come back yet?" Dazai took a sip of coffee to moisten his throat, obviously Kunikida's behavior just now had no effect on him.

"Mr. Ranpo?" Tanizaki explained, "I have notified him, but..."

"But Ranpo-san doesn't want to come back, does he?" Dazai said.

"Yes..." Tanizaki nodded.

No one in their detective agency can ask Mr. Ranpo to do boring things that are "obvious at a glance" to him without Mr. Ranpo's unwillingness. ——Except for the president.

"That's it, there's nothing we can do about it." Dazai sighed, his reaction was almost exactly the same as that of Dr. Yosano when he heard that Mr. Ranpo hadn't come back.

"Although I don't know as much as Mr. Ranpo, I can tell what I guessed." Osamu Dazai squeezed his chin, paused, and asked curiously, "By the way, with Dr. Yosano, if only Mr. Tiger disappeared, you wouldn't suspect Mr. Tui, would you? So specifically, what else happened?"

"You said that," Dr. Xie Ye did not deny it, "Isn't there a knife to retreat?"

"Well, I've seen it too." Kunikida nodded, and Nakajima Atsushi also nodded inwardly, remembering what happened just now.

"At the moment when the tiger disappeared, not only the wounds on Tui's body, but also the clothes recovered, as well as the knife. After being lit for a while, it became brand new."

"Is that so?" Osamu Dazai murmured, "Although I don't know the origin or purpose, I probably guessed the identity of Mr. Tui correctly."

"What identity?"

"A monster." Osamu Dazai said in a natural tone.

Silence permeated the room.

Osamu Dazai blinked innocently, as if he didn't understand why he was suddenly quiet.

"You really are playing tricks on me!" Kunikida reacted first, wanting to catch Osamu Dazai again.

But this time Osamu Dazai really expressed his innocence, and immediately moved aside, "I'm serious!"

But no one believed him—or, in other words, based on what Dr. Xie Ye had said, they had already turned to the side of "special powers", or powers other than powers. I also thought of the so-called "inhuman" that Dr. Yosano mentioned at the beginning.

But seeing Dazai Osamu's expression, they naturally and silently gave up the latter's explanation.

Because that expression was too similar to Dazai's feeling before he lied to others—especially when he lied to Kunikida, it was exactly the same.Even the monster's explanation unexpectedly sounds like the truth.

What should Osamu Dazai do? He is also very desperate.Although this is the atmosphere he deliberately created, but—"Your attitude really makes me sad!"

Atsushi Nakajima raised his hand weakly, "But...Xiao Tai has elders..."

"If it's a monster, it's impossible for Tsurumaru-san before..."

"It's also a monster..."

After saying this, Atsushi Nakajima suddenly felt a little cold behind his back.

"Bingo——!" Osamu Dazai had a smile on his face, but in the eyes of Atsushi Nakajima, it was scary no matter how you looked at it, "Atsushi-kun, you are the first to think of this."

"Then do you still remember? There was something special about Tsurumaru back then."

Both Atsushi Nakajima and Tanizaki immediately recalled that very conspicuous baseball bag.