He must be disgusting me (I'm sure of it).

I know the answer to this question!

[Just some unimportant memories (whisper)]

[Akutagawa, tell us quickly!]

[Dazai...a real man should bravely face his dark past!]

Have you figured out how to face Chuuya yet? So sweet!

The barrage of comments reminded him that the root of all evil was this bastard! Thinking this, Chuuya's gaze shot out like a sharp sword almost instantly.

The moment Dazai finished asking the question, he caught a glimpse of Akutagawa's complex and unspeakable expression. Dazai had rarely, if ever, seen Akutagawa with that expression. Chuuya's expression next to him also started to look off, and a sense of foreboding washed over him.

"Wait! I don't think I am..."

But it was too late. Almost simultaneously, Akutagawa began to explain. Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! Almost from a sixth sense, Dazai felt that staying any longer would be bad and prepared to run away.

A tremendous force came from the collar, causing Dazai, who was originally preparing to run away, to exert all his strength and not move an inch.

"Don't go! I'm curious why too."

Dazai turned around and saw that the man in the collar who had grabbed the back of his neck was also looking at him with a playful expression.

How dare that little dog, Chuuya, treat him like this? Even if the owner wanted to run away, he should have cleaned up all the trouble in the room, instead of holding onto him like this!

"It was obtained together with the tiger. He had approached me privately beforehand and said..."

At this point, Akutagawa paused suspiciously for a moment, then glanced at Dazai, who stood frozen in place, his face ashen.

"Go on, I'm very curious about the reason."

Mori Ougai spoke up; he would not refuse his leader's order. Akutagawa took a deep breath and continued.

"They said that Dazai-san's suicide attempts increased after he lost his memory, and that what he lost were only unimportant memories. They said that if the book were given to Dazai-san, he might use it for other things. So, in the end, Hitoh insisted that we use the 'Book' ourselves."

"Is that so, Dazai-kun?"

Mori Ougai looked at Dazai with a playful smile. Dazai had already covered his ears with his hands, refusing to accept reality.

"In the end, this is just a guess from Atsushi-kun. There is no basis at all. He committed suicide those days simply because he felt disgusted and wanted to die when he saw Mori-san."

Although he covered his ears with his hands, Dazai could still hear the other people's voices clearly. He ruthlessly refuted Mori Ougai's obviously wicked words, and Dazai did not react to his amnesiac statement.

Although he would have loudly refuted and affirmed this statement in the past, the facts have proven that it was not a trivial memory. He did not want to admit it or face it, always feeling that something terrible would happen if he really delved into it, so he chose to play dumb. He was just a good person who loved suicide.

Mori Ōgai: "Then I will really be very sad, Dazai-kun."

"Huh! I'm skeptical that Mori-san really feels sadness. Isn't Chuuya's true form a violent little gorilla?"

"ha?"

When Dazai realized he couldn't escape, he gave up struggling. Chuuya took the opportunity to release him. While straightening his collar and scolding Mori Ougai, he didn't forget to chirp Chuuya, successfully provoking Chuuya's anger.

Even if you're Dazai Osamu, Chuuya's true form is still a hat!

[The main body must be a hat, and the prototype can be a gorilla.]

[Chuuya can't possibly be that kind of violent gorilla! Dazai, take a closer look! Chuuya-sama is a famously cute kitten!]

So this is the bottom line? Whether it's a dog sculpture, a cat sculpture, or even that gorilla sculpture, they're all weird! I feel like I've become the one making the sarcastic remarks.

"But it's not actually because it's logically written, but because it just happens to be the same one, right?"

A thoughtful look flashed in Dazai's eyes, and Mori Ougai also propped his chin up with his hand, pretending to be thinking.

"So what was given to Akutagawa probably wasn't very big, or it was just the one they had cut out. Because the content was contradictory, the effect was lost, so it created this illusion that it was successful?"

So Akutagawa and the others stumbled upon this by accident?

[Their initial preparations for the operation were so intense, I almost thought they were really skilled.]

[But with just that little bit of paper, it's a miracle they were willing to try anything. If it were me, I would have thought they were provoking me.]

"That's quite possible~ I'll hand Chuuya over to the Special Ability Task Force. You can go visit him if you're sad to see him go~"

After a brief analysis by the two intellectuals, Dazai said playfully to Chuuya, winking as Chuuya turned his head.

Zhong hadn't expected the truth to be like this. He blinked blankly for a moment, and when he came to his senses, he saw what could only be described as "greasy".

This action doesn't look greasy on Dazai; it even looks somewhat cool. However, the person opposite him is Chuuya, who has been outwitting Dazai for years. Chuuya has long had his own judgment on Dazai's behavior. Seeing through the surface, he knows that this bastard is definitely motivated by the desire to disgust him (he's sure of it).

...So, my liking for him must have been a delusion, right? Did I really not have any superpowers back then?

However, there was something else important. Chuuya remembered the comments he had seen earlier and straightened his expression.

"They should have a special place to store these bombs and gunpowder, and it should be related to that person."

"Okay~ Thanks for the information, Chuuya."

Dazai blinked and replied slowly, once again, he didn't even react to his own deliberate disgust (provocation). He felt something was wrong, but it seemed like it was all just an illusion.

"Your memories have returned? This is troublesome~ Let's wake up together in the new world!"

In a confined space, a communicator lay to one side, beeping with electrical current. While complaining, Tuosi carefully wrote something on a piece of paper.

Dazai lay on the sofa, sensing that a storm was brewing, but what really concerned him was Chuuya.

"Chuuya, I will definitely find out your secret!"

Dazai covered his lips with his hand, buried his head in the pillow, and his whole body began to tremble. A suppressed laugh came from the quiet room. If someone were to look at Dazai through the pillow now, they could see the undisguised obsession and excitement in his iris-colored eyes.

Meanwhile, in a villa in the distant suburbs, Chuuya, who had already fallen asleep, trembled slightly, as if sensing something, before returning to calm.

But in this darkness, some changes have already quietly begun.