Two or three things about having a crush on Mr. Dazai

Akira Takeshita did not respond.

Probably because he was injured too badly before and was still in a coma.

They think so.

Junichiro Tanizaki and Akiko Yosano saw a lot of the intimacy between Dazai and Aki in the Buteisha, so at the moment, they didn't have much thought except for what happened to Aki Takeshita.

But there was one person I hadn't seen.

It is rare for Akutagawa to see Osamu Dazai's warm side.

This man was the one who brought him out of the bottom of the most unexamined slums. The word "teacher" has never changed its status and importance from before Osamu Dazai's defection to after his defection, no matter how much Akutagawa Ryunosuke's apparent attitude has changed.

He once thought that this man had no one in his eyes, and that he and Akira Takeshita might not be able to be seen by him for the rest of their lives.

Even if he used Rashomon to slaughter all the enemies in the world, even if Takeshita Aki pitifully gave everything to him again and again.

However, things have changed many years later.

After the white whale sank, Osamu Dazai recognized him, and he smiled and said to him, "I've become stronger."

When walking towards the confinement room, Osamu Dazai's footsteps will also become eager, and his movements towards Aki Takeshita are so gentle.

It turns out that the man named "Osamu Dazai" is not always as compassionate and indifferent as a god.

Akutagawa even felt that it was a bit pitiful for him to crouch and hold a comatose person while talking.

Something is tearing Akutagawa's cognition, so that when Osamu Dazai picked up Aki Takeshita on his back and wanted to leave, he remained silent and did not stop him.

Osamu Dazai saw Akutagawa's hesitation, turned his head and smiled, "Thank you, Akutagawa-kun."

Akutagawa nodded at him.

Yosano and Tanizaki were surprised by Akutagawa Ryunosuke's cooperation all the way, but they didn't say much.

It is important to bring Qiu back to the Butei Club.

Akutagawa watched their figures be hidden by "Xiyuki", and also took steps to sink into the depths of the winding underground corridor alone.

Hearing the mafia guarding the door unconsciously discussing the news of the death of the cadre, he finally realized that this feeling of loneliness came from the disappearance of his opponent who had long belonged to the same camp, and also from the loss of the "godhead" he had long pursued and longed for.

He finally saw Osamu Dazai's soft heart.

I don't know whether such a tragic Takeshita Qiu was a crushing defeat or a triumphant victory.

Akira Takeshita is being brought back to Buteisha.

When Tanizaki Junichiro informed the agency that the operation was smooth and that they had left Hong Kong and Heilongjiang and were returning, the entire armed detective agency looked forward to it.

Oh no.One person visibly became anxious—Kunikida Doppo began to look at his watch frequently, and snorted every time he looked at it.From time to time, he asked the clerk if he had received any new commissions, and he seemed to want to go out to escape from the next scene.

Edogawa Ranpo: "..."

Sighing: "Did Tanizaki-kun talk about Qiu's state?"

Atsushi Nakajima was taken aback, and replied, "No."

Edogawa Rampo held up the newspaper on the ground: "Kunikida-kun is too worried."

It is not so fast to communicate directly in person.

As he expected, what Dazai and others brought back from the port mafia was the comatose Takeshita Akira.

"Mr. Dazai, Yosano Akiko, Tanizaki-kun!"

"Ah, back."

"Mr. Qiu, he..."

"Qiu has been treated by Dr. Yosano, but she hasn't woken up yet."

Takeshita Akira was temporarily placed in the lounge of the Armed Detective Agency office, with his eyes closed, lethargic and weak.

While Dazai was taking care of him, Kunikida Doppo followed everyone in and walked around awkwardly.

Dazai folded up the long sleeves of Akira Takeshita's hospital gown, and was about to remove the plaster and bandages with long scissors.

Bandages scattered.

After the treatment with Akiko Yosano, all of Akira Takeshita's traumas have been healed, but "Please Don't Die" will not heal the old scars of the past, nor will it erase the blood on people's bodies.

The large amount of blood stained on the inside of the bandage and the mottled scar on Akira Takeshita's arm, he didn't know which was more shocking.

The blood is naturally his recent injury, and the scar is his old injury for many years.Just half an arm is enough to show that the name of the ghost assassin as the number one killer is not without cost.

For more than two years, he hid these injuries under bandages and long sleeves of a sweater, and smiled at them gently and appropriately, so no one in the detective agency noticed.

Kunikida Doppo has mixed feelings.

Atsushi Nakajima murmured: "A lot of blood..."

Dazai said lightly: "Of course. That is a severe punishment enough to abolish his whole body's ability to move."

As he spoke, he removed the plaster cast on one arm of Akira Takeshita.

This sentence shocked Kunikida's heart again.

"Eh...why?"

The simple newcomers of the Butei Club don't quite understand the reason why Takeshita Akira was tortured.

Dazai didn't answer this time.

He threw everyone out: "Okay, okay~ Let Qiu take a good rest. Please leave work to Kunikida-kun, who is hardworking and capable. Call me when the president comes."

Driven by Dazai, a group of people filed out of the lounge.

"What's wrong with Kunikida-kun? You look so ugly?"

"No, nothing."

"Qiu has been treated by Dr. Xie Ye, and he should be able to wake up soon, so don't worry too much."

"Ah, I finally brought Qiu back."

"Tanizaki-kun is really amazing, you can escape Mafia's heavy guards!"

"No, no, it's mainly Mr. Dazai leading the way, and we met Akutagawa Ryunosuke on the way..."

……

The atmosphere outside the lounge was gradually active, and no one knew that inside the lounge, Osamu Dazai sat on the edge of the bed, looking at the peaceful face of the young man on the bed, his smile gradually disappeared until it disappeared completely.

He brought Aki Takeshita back.

But has his autumn really come back?

Osamu Dazai watched Takeshita Aki in the lounge until Fukuzawa Yukichi arrived.

Fukuzawa Yukichi explained the situation to everyone: "Takeshita has given up his identity in Mafia, and he will no longer kill people as an assassin. When he wakes up, I will give him a chance to join the detective agency."

Whether he can enter or not depends on how he accepts the entrance test.

Everyone has no objection.

Kunikida Doppo, who was most disgusted with Shu's identity before, also didn't speak out.

Quan Jinghua, who successfully escaped from the port mafia and joined the detective agency, pursed her lips, her eyes were bright, and she looked forward to it.

Atsushi Nakajima couldn't help laughing when he saw her, touched her head, and let out a sigh: "That's great."

Everything seems to be going in a good direction.

The war ended, the group was disbanded, the leader of the group disappeared, the remnants withdrew from Yokohama in disgrace, the armed detective agency and the port mafia stopped hostilities, and returned to a relationship that had nothing to do with each other.

All are alive.Jinghua passed the test and joined the detective agency. Mr. Qiu was also rescued by Mr. Dazai and escaped from the port mafia, only to wake up and reunite with everyone.

but……

Except for Dazai Osamu and Edogawa Ranpo, the others never expected that the key lies in this step, "waking up".

The problem is big.

Takeshita Qiu didn't wake up for three days, and Buteisha had to send him to the hospital for examination on the third day.

The third day, the fifth day, the seventh day.

After going to several big hospitals and exhausting conventional medical methods, Takeshita Qiu couldn't be woken up.

The results of the examination showed that there was no abnormality in Akira Takeshita's body, and the nerves in his brain were not particularly damaged, but the frequency of brain activity was far lower than that of a sober normal person.

Moreover, there is a tendency towards growing mental weakness.

It has been seven days since he was rescued, and Aki Takeshita has not opened his eyes once, just lying on the hospital bed quietly, just like when he was brought back to Buteisha by Dazai.

They suddenly realized that the unimpeded way to break into the confinement room was because Takeshita Akira had been given up.

The port mafia already knew he wouldn't wake up.

The port mafia gave up and their armed detective agency couldn't give up.Not only for the simple purpose of saving a life, but also for their friend Akira Takeshita who has been with them for two years.

Everyone in the Butei Club is worried and actively looking for a solution.

Tanizaki Junichiro turned his laptop to the others: "The neurology department of this hospital is also very famous. Shall we try it?"

Atsushi Nakajima was holding a pile of brain-related medical books, his eyes were like mosquito coils and he nodded indiscriminately: "Yes, let's try it."

Beside him, Quan Jinghua poked her purple head out of the tall and thick books, and said in a flat tone, "No, I think the results of the tests are similar, and it would be a waste of existing medical resources to do another test."

Tanizaki Naomi stretched her waist and stretched her body, and said distressedly: "But what else can I do?"

"Aki's situation is beyond the scope of ordinary medical treatment. Kunikida-kun, can you contact the Supernatural Secret Service Division and look for people with spiritual superpowers across the country?"

Yosano Akiko's proposal caught everyone's eyes.

Kunikida said, "Dazai has already contacted you."

He pushed his glasses, hiding the disappointment and pain in his eyes in front of everyone.

"...It's useless."

And these days when Akira Takeshita was in a coma, Osamu Dazai went out early and returned late to search for information, and he seemed to be able to handle it with ease.

Osamu Dazai's connections and methods are unimaginable for the Armed Detective Agency.He has tried many methods.

He found the doctors and nurses who had treated Takeshita Qiu in the port mafia four years ago, and asked them about Takeshita Qiu's condition at that time.

"Takeshita-kun was extremely weak physically and mentally at the time, but he had no response to the outside world with his eyes open, and he had the will to die. It was another Mafia who spoke to him when he came to visit that aroused his will to survive."

An old doctor who has retired from Hong Kong and Black Hospital said.

"What did that Mafia say?"

"He says……"

According to the memories of several people, Osamu Dazai pieced together and restored what Akutagawa Ryunosuke said to stimulate Aki Takeshita at that time: "Your love for Mr. Dazai is nothing more than that."

"It's ridiculous for you to seek death and life just to hear that he is missing!"

"I know that living only for the sake of living is painful and tormenting."

"If your humble and despised love can't even survive this situation, it will be even more despised."

Probably so.

While exploring Takeshita Akira's past illnesses and treatment methods, Dazai incidentally recalled the situation many years ago.

After four years, Dazai finally clearly realized that the love that Aki Takeshita depended on for him back then was known by everyone around them—he was cast aside.

Akira Takeshita grew up tenaciously in such uncomprehensible pain, and finally became so good that he looked sideways and admired him.

But how much did you sympathize with the pain?

One cannot fully understand another, but one can pretend to understand.With Dazai's extraordinary level of intelligence and grasp of people's hearts, it's not a problem to pretend to understand Aki Takeshita.

But it's just "pretend" after all.

He is absolutely strong in this relationship, and Akira Takeshita's feelings come entirely from his giving, and it is impossible for him to condescend to experience how humble the recipient is.

Osamu Dazai was so resistant to the bad world that he projected it on Aki Takeshita, and it was conveyed to himself in an extremely cruel and direct way many years later.

It is true that he, Osamu Dazai, used the most disgusting way to ignore and trample on that precious heart countless times.

But his autumn.

After all these years, I never felt any resentment at all.

So he should wake him up and make amends with a good apology.

Comparing the physical data recorded in Akira Takeshita's hospitalization back then and the present, Osamu Dazai came to the conclusion that Akira Takeshita who was in a coma may not be unconscious.

He went to the Supernatural Secret Service Section to ask out his former friend, Ango Sakaguchi, who is now cold-eyed.Last time it was for the Armed Detective Agency, this time it was only for Aki Takeshita.

Ango Sakaguchi showed great regret for the fact that Akira Takeshita was mentally damaged and unconscious by the port mafia.

"It's beyond my expectation that you care so much about him, Dazai-kun." Sakaguchi Ango said, "Did he confess successfully?"

Dazai: "Hey, you are more interested in the relationship between me and Qiu than I expected. Why do you ask?"

Ango Sakaguchi was silent for a while: "It's nothing, just a congratulatory speech. Did he succeed?"

"Half the success...it's too much."

"What about the remaining half?"

"It depends on the ability of your special agent department."

Ango Sakaguchi shook his head, pinching the tired brow between his fingers after staying up all night: "I can't guarantee that. People with psychic powers are extremely rare. As far as I know, there are no registered supernatural powers for mental healing in Japan. Even if it is expanded to the whole world, it is hard to say.”

"..."

"Q's Brain Hell is highly controlling and has an extremely wide range of radiation, but as long as it is released in time, the controlled person will not have much sequelae even if he is an ordinary person. In Takeshita-kun's case, it is more likely that an old injury was induced."

Ango Sakaguchi paused, "After all, I haven't seen a case of using psychic powers to induce aggression and at the same time destroying people so thoroughly-to be honest, Takeshita-kun didn't collapse physically and mentally at the time, I think Already very lucky.”

"It's hard to say about spiritual things."

"..."

"Facing the brain hell, if you don't fight, your spirit will perish, and you will become a walking corpse; if you fight, you have to use your already broken spirit to swallow the crazy factor in the supernatural power, which is also a dead end. It's normal to be mentally weak now."

Ango Sakaguchi twitched the corners of his mouth as he spoke: "Mr. Mori, he is really..."

Ango Sakaguchi did not continue, but looked at the brown-haired man in beige long clothes and a slender body.Even if he has a faint cyan color under his eyes due to running around for days, his handsome appearance will not be diminished by half.

Dazai crossed his arms in front of his chest, leaned against a certain pillar of the warehouse, looked up at the blue sky, his face was calm and expressionless.

No matter what Dazai was thinking, Ango Sakaguchi knew that he was extremely rational and never lost control.

Dazai Osamu may not have guessed what he said just now before looking for him.

Perhaps what Dazai needs is not information, but him, who has known Osamu Dazai and Aki Takeshita for many years, to accompany him for a drink, and then to help them complain about the cruel and ruthless Mori Ogai.

Unfortunately, they parted ways four years ago.

"If possible, I would also like to see him."

He hadn't seen a ghost assassin for a long time.His memory still stays in that night, the boy who was sitting in the corner of Lupine ordering milk, the boy who would hold a dagger to his waist and said wrongly that Mr. Dazai ignored him, the boy who hiccupped and cried, "But I love Him" boy.

The name "ghost" is so terrifying. Ango Sakaguchi only found out the list of suspects through the sudden death of the deceased in the government's pending case to see how many assassinations he had done.

The ghost assassins with the supernatural power of "nothingness" are the confidants of the supernatural secret service department. They are unwilling to be enemies with the port mafia. The fear of ghost assassins is definitely a heavy reason.

Sakaguchi Ango wasn't too scared.

Because he remembered that they clinked glasses one night, the ghost assassin who would cry for Dazai was not so scary.

Those rare and rare scenes, Oda Sakunosuke is gone, he still remembers.

Regarding Ango Sakaguchi's wish to visit Aki Takeshita, Dazai nodded, and was about to answer when the phone rang.

The voice on the other end of the phone could not restrain the panic: "Qiu's situation has changed. The hospital recorder showed that Qiu's record was broken for a few seconds! During those few seconds, we found that Qiu's body completely disappeared on the hospital bed... ..."

Terrified everyone.

"I see."

Ango Sakaguchi heard Dazai Osamu's tone calm and authentic.

"Mr. Dazai, why is this happening?"

"That's Qiu's superpower."

nothingness.

"How many times has Qiu disappeared?"

"Currently known three times. There are only a few seconds of record gaps."

"Has he woke up?"

"……No."

time is limited.

This time it disappeared for a few seconds, the next time it disappeared for a few minutes, the next time it disappeared for a few hours, and the next time it disappeared for a few days.next time...

"Ango-kun, excessive loss of mental power leads to loss of control of supernatural powers. Has there ever been such a case in Japan?"

After hanging up the phone, Dazai asked.

Sakaguchi Ango said: "Yes."

"I have a dangerous method."

"what?"

"Did you just say that as long as Q's brain hell is lifted in time, even if the person controlled is an ordinary person, the sequelae will not be serious."

"Yes."

Reliable results of personal experiments with one-tenth of Yokohama's population.

"This is the only way for Qiu to wake up before 'Nothingness' completely gets out of control."

Use Q's brain hell again to control Aki Takeshita's spirit or stimulate his spirit.

Let him open his eyes and look at him again.

……

Qiu, didn't you say that you were born for me?

I'm still here, how can you be willing to go back to that world of nothingness by yourself.