At that moment, Tsunayoshi Sawada seemed to "see" a lot of things.
Countless overlapping time and space flashed through his mind: the bloody night, the black-haired young man standing on a tall building, the fluttering red scarf was the only bright color in the darkness, and the black-haired young man standing here...
Before he could see the other person's face clearly, the image disappeared from his mind.
Thousands of images flashed, and finally returned to the most authentic appearance - a page of white paper with a yellow edge.
"Hello!"
With a bang, Sawada Tsunayoshi was brought back to reality by this voice.
Dazai Osamu moved closer to look at him with a frown on his face, with a hint of worry between his eyebrows that he couldn't tell whether it was genuine or not... Of course, more of it was a kind of eagerness to try that he didn't know the reason for.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
Sawada Tsunayoshi looked at the other person carefully and shook his head.
So Dazai Osamu said "Oh" and sat back with a bit of disappointment.
While waiting for the next round of food to arrive, he looked out the window with a bored look.
Outside, a light drizzle began to fall, and the sky became gloomy at night.
The pedestrians on the street were all walking in a hurry, and no one enjoyed the pleasure of leisurely strolling in the rain.
"It's so boring." Dazai Osamu said.
Sawada Tsunayoshi didn't know how to answer him.
He also held his chin and looked out the window, nodding in response.
“Indeed.”
Dazai Osamu didn't expect that he would agree with him like this. The young man blinked, and a glimmer of light flashed in his iris-colored eyes.
"So do you want to do something fun with me?" He tilted his head and invited.
But this is not out of curiosity or excitement. As Dazai Osamu himself said, it is an invitation issued out of "boredom."
It's boring to sit here and wait for the food to be almost finished. It's also boring to look at the black sky and the hurried pedestrians outside the window. It's better to do something that might be interesting.
Sawada Tsunayoshi glanced at him, somewhat curious about what this kid could find "interesting".
After all, Dazai Osamu is a species completely different from anyone else he has ever met.
Although he looks no different from a normal boy - perhaps a little different from the crowd, Rambo actually went through a similar period, thinking that it was fun to have a gloomy face, as if this could prove that he had "become" an adult - but in fact, both Sawada Tsunayoshi and Dazai Osamu knew that he was clearly different from ordinary people.
Even if he was walking in a crowd, in a crowd of people who were in a hurry and had gloomy faces, the black-haired boy with a bandage on one eye was always the only one who formed an island in the crowd.
——His temperament is really too unique.
It was so unique that even though he looked like a cat with its belly spread out in front of Sawada Tsunayoshi, everyone knew it and he still didn't let down his guard even a little bit.
Whether it's smiling or being friendly, it's just about making yourself look like a normal human being.
And when the two of them entered into the "interesting" things he mentioned in parallel, the masks covering the young men faded away, revealing a little bit of the truth inside.
Dazai Osamu is a rising star in the port mafia.
After the death of the previous leader, Mori Ogai, who was once the previous leader's personal physician, became the witness of the Port Mafia according to the previous leader's will. He has a unique position in the Port Mafia.
And if that were all, he would be nothing more than a "hero" who helped the current leader to take the top position, and at most be an emotionless mascot in the organization.
But the boy possesses superhuman wisdom.
Just as he said, "boring". In fact, not only did he feel bored looking at the dark weather and the crowd in the restaurant, but even when he was carrying out the mission of the Port Mafia, pointing his gun at the frightened enemy, hunting down the members of the Port Mafia who were lured by other organizations, and other things that seemed very "exciting" in the eyes of ordinary people, Dazai Osamu's face always had a calm expression.
Perhaps in order to seek what he called "fun", the boy would even deliberately throw away his subordinates and weapons, exposing himself to the enemy, looking fragile and powerless.
But it was of no use.
He had seen through all the plots long ago. Even if he had left a loophole on purpose, all he got was a mild slap...even worse than the bite he got from the nasty dog when he was trying to attract the cat or tease the dog.
【Too boring】.
——When the boy turned his head, Sawada Tsunayoshi saw these words clearly written on his face.
【It's so boring. 】
——Though thinking this, the black-haired, ivy-eyed boy smiled at him.
"How is it?" he asked softly, "Are you satisfied with what you saw today?"
It makes him sound like a pervert, Tsunayoshi Sawada thought.
Then the Godfather seemed to ponder for a moment and shook his head.
"To be honest," he said, "it's no fun at all."
Dazai Osamu let out a long "eh" sound.
The black-haired boy finally seemed to be interested and rubbed against him like some small animal.
"So what do you think is interesting, Tsunayoshi?" He seemed to be thinking very hard, and blurted out some words that would have caused the police to handcuff him on the spot if they were there.
Sawada Tsunayoshi rejected his proposal with a dark look on his face.
So the black-haired boy turned his head and exclaimed, "Ahhhh."
"What a boring man, Sawada-kun."
It's really strange.
Since they met, the other party changed his name and called him "Tsuneyoshi-kun" affectionately. To be honest, Sawada Tsuneyoshi actually still had some psychological trauma about this title. After all, the last guy who called him like this in a familiar way from the beginning was called Shiran, and this guy was even more of a heavyweight. When he called him "Tsuneyoshi-kun" affectionately, it shot a bullet into his heart.
But now Dazai Osamu suddenly changed "Tsukichi-kun" to "Sawada-kun", and Sawada Tsukichi felt that the relationship between them was even closer than when the other party called him by his name affectionately.
Thinking of this, his expression became a little strange.
But Dazai Osamu has changed his face.
"So what do you find interesting?" He asked the question sincerely, like a student who dares to ask questions.
That's a really good question, Tsunayoshi Sawada thought.
After all, he doesn't really distinguish between "interesting" and "boring".
Because if you want to make this distinction, you must first divide things into interesting and boring times...but Mr. Godfather spends almost every day dealing with family affairs and on his way to deal with family affairs.
These family affairs are of course not just those on the desk. In fact, as the head of the Vongola family, Sawada Tsunayoshi has obligations to the family and is also responsible for the town he manages.
Therefore, there were always two days every month when he would be caught by the aunts and uncles in the town to judge right and wrong.
The old men in the town had a trust in the Vongola that they had cultivated since childhood. Although he was almost the same age as their grandchildren, whenever there was a dispute, as long as Tsunayoshi Sawada hesitated or made a decisive decision, one side would hold its head and mutter, "Since Decimo said so," while leaving.
These disputes, big and small, can sometimes be very interesting. Sawada Tsunayoshi remembers that he once encountered a black cat that ate a variety of dishes (?).
The black cat had smooth fur and a pleasant voice. The two elderly grandmothers each claimed that the cat was theirs. One said that the black cat would appear at her house every morning and eat her meals, and the other said that the cat would lie on her lap and rub her belly every afternoon. The black cat sitting between the two quarreling grandmothers lay down and slept obediently, while the stupid two-legged beasts were still arguing over their ownership.
Later, Sawada Tsunayoshi secretly avoided his official duties for a few days under the pretext of this incident. He tried hard to hide his presence and secretly followed the black cat for several days. He found that what the two grandmothers said was indeed true, but the cat would slip away from the second grandmother's home at night - taking with it the dried fish that the grandmother had fried for it.
Tsunayoshi Sawada followed the cat stealthily, watching it leisurely pass through the town and reach the edge of the town. It nimbly and nimbly opened the door of a wooden house, meowed in a coquettish voice, and offered the dried fish in its mouth to the little girl who ran out of the house.
My goodness, this is a magical cat who steals the fish that others feed him to feed his own two-legged beast.
Tsunayoshi Sawada has encountered many such things.
His halting Italian became increasingly fluent through his interactions with the townspeople.
From having to dance and gesture without respect for the Godfather in the beginning to asking questions with a smile and fluent English later on, the experience was enough to make the Godfather, who actually had no talent in this area, burst into tears.
Therefore, when he suddenly heard Dazai Osamu say that he wanted to see something "interesting", the first thing that came to Sawada Tsunayoshi's mind was his own town.
But they are not in this world now.
So the Godfather thought for a while, and took the young man who had finished today's task early, and sneaked into the streets of Yokohama.
Yokohama is still a chaotic city.
Although the most dangerous night has not yet arrived, when walking on the street and passing through some dark alleys, you can still hear the sound of guns colliding or weapons fighting.
The people of Yokohama, who have been in a chaotic situation for a long time, have an acquired intuition in this regard. When they encounter something wrong, they run away faster than mafia. Dazai Osamu considers them to be one of the most "boring" species.
But Tsunayoshi Sawada found them very interesting.
In the last world, as "Johnny Winner" and "Decimo", Tsunayoshi Sawada was actually very busy.
On weekdays, I have organizational missions and work in Italy, and my identity is not very convenient. Instead, I have fewer opportunities to interact with townspeople or other ordinary residents.
So when Dazai Osamu said this, Sawada Tsuneyoshi thought about it, and then took the boy, who became reluctant after hearing his plan, into the streets and alleys of Yokohama.
"What's the point of this?" Dazai Osamu already wanted to go back.
He shouldn't have asked Sawada Tsunayoshi this question, Dazai Osamu thought.
Although he looks about the same age as me, this little god who was born in the laboratory was actually born not long ago... maybe only about five or six years old.
He thought about it from another perspective, expecting a five or six-year-old human cub to tell him what "interesting" things are, and the other party would probably drag over his favorite little dinosaur.
In his eyes, Sawada Tsunayoshi's current behavior is no different from this behavior.
What a waste of time.
Dazai Osamu thought so.
He was just a five-year-old kid. What on earth did he expect this guy to give him?
But the die is cast. Although the little god's mental age is only five years old (wrong), his strength is enough to gather all the five-year-olds in the world to play whack-a-mole with them one by one.
In addition, the shrewd Mr. Mori knew that he had offended Tsunayoshi Sawada in the past, so he could only secretly "ask" him to gain Tsunayoshi Sawada's trust as much as possible for the development of the organization.
"We must become good friends." - said the boss of the port mafia who did not want to reveal his name.
Therefore, no matter how reluctant Dazai Osamu was, he could only wish his leader to die young in his heart, while letting Sawada Tsukichi drag him around Yokohama with an expressionless face.
As a five-year-old kid (not really), the world in Sawada Tsunayoshi's eyes was probably different from what he saw.
Dazai Osamu thought.
It was just the lives of ordinary people, but the brown-haired boy was able to watch them with great interest.
Sometimes when he encountered mafia threatening civilians, he would rush out excitedly. After ruining the "good deed" of the same group of people for the second time and being recognized by the other party as the guy who ruined his blackmail last time, he chased them for six blocks, then he learned his lesson and turned around to buy a Doraemon mask from a stall.
Dazai Osamu: ...
Doesn't this kid really think that as long as he wears Doraemon's mask, others won't be able to recognize him?
But the facts told him that yes, that was it.
When he met the same group of thugs for the third time, Tsunayoshi Sawada took out his Doraemon mask first... and no one recognized him.
Dazai Osamu was shocked.
Dazai Osamu began to wonder if the brown-haired boy was holding some kind of prop with supernatural powers, and even frowned and touched it furtively.
——His special ability "Disqualification from Humanity" can eliminate the special abilities of others.
However, the mask did not disappear, just like the flame that Sawada Tsunayoshi had just revealed, so Dazai Osamu could only take his hand back muttering, complaining that these gangsters were just a bunch of little goldfish.
Seeing Dazai Osamu's expression, Sawada Tsunayoshi recalled his actions and roughly understood what he was thinking, and smiled kindly (?).
Although he looks mature and smart, Dazai is still a child... You have to know that at his age, Rambo is in his rebellious middle school period. The idea of showing the reliable side of Rambo instead gave everyone a lot of headaches.
Once Dazai Osamu was equated with Rambo Bovino, Tsunayoshi Sawada felt that his already abundant patience had been further increased.
Dazai Osamu: ...
The young man with black hair and ivy-like eyes rubbed his arms and took two steps back, silently distancing himself from the seemingly not-so-smart little artificial idiot.
However, although he always hanged himself in the water and tried to commit suicide with a gas tank while hanging out with the artificial idiots in the streets, Dazai Osamu was still forced to come into contact with some joys of ordinary people that he had never been exposed to before.
That was something that Dazai Osamu rarely came into contact with in the past.
Dazai Osamu was born in a slum, a place where people could commit murder and robbery for just a little bit of survival information.
He was originally a very smart child, so during his days in the slums, he had an early glimpse into the "truth of the world" - it was nothing more than a group of lunatics who were easy to see through and entertaining themselves, nothing more than nothingness.
And when he left the slums, it was through the hands of the former leader of the port mafia who happened to patrol the slums.
He just showed a little bit of his "value", and the old man couldn't wait to bring him back to the organization.
After that, he hit it off with the ambitious Mori Ogai and became a witness to the other party's inheritance of the port mafia.
——If a senior author were to describe this experience alone, it would probably be enough to write a thrilling novel.
But Dazai Osamu still felt bored.
From the past to now, and from now to the future, he may always be bored.
His extraordinary talent, as a psychic, has the unique ability to restrain all psychics except himself, allowing him to isolate people from others.
And now, a boring artificial idiot has entered into the boring life.
Dazai Osamu thought this was really terrible.
But anyway, this world is so boring, it is better to follow the artificial idiot - if he can see the artificial idiot being gradually swallowed up by this world and gradually falling into a world of despair and boredom, that would be something worth laughing about.
…
And Sawada Tsunayoshi didn't yet know that his reputation in Dazai Osamu had fallen from "artificial god" to "artificial idiot". He just casually observed everything and everyone he met, just like when he was wandering... By the time he came to his senses and began to think about whether Dazai Osamu would find his behavior boring as a child (Dazai Osamu:?), a long time had passed.
When he turned around, the boy with black hair and ivy eyes showed an excited expression.
He looked at where the two people were, and cautiously took a step back, trying to block the rooftop behind him.
"If you jump off the building, your death will be very miserable." He "reminded" vigilantly, lest the black-haired boy take the leap of faith from here when he wasn't paying attention.
Dazai Osamu was in a good mood and tilted his eyes, nodding in agreement.
“That’s true.”
Seeing the black-haired boy being so easy to talk to, Sawada Tsunayoshi felt a little nervous.
...No, it doesn't matter. At least judging from the kid's appearance, he won't jump now.
But he was still very panicked, and even for a moment he had a hallucination of Yamamoto Takeshi sitting on the rooftop.
The Godfather observed the black-haired boy's expression and changed the subject without leaving a trace.
He knew that Dazai Osamu was "observing" him.
To be honest, even though he was once an ordinary boy, after ten years of training as a mafia leader, Tsunayoshi Sawada has become mature.
Dazai Osamu's almost undisguised gaze on his back made him feel uneasy for several days.
But from another perspective, it's also good to be able to keep Dazai's attention on him and to make this child at least have a little interest in the world.
Tsunayoshi Sawada had never encountered such a difficult type.
After all, whether it was him or his companions, even Hayato Jigokudera who had the biggest problem at the time, still had some love and attachment to this world.
The brown-haired Godfather turned his head slightly and looked at Dazai Osamu.
"I once had a friend who wanted to jump off a place like this," he said, trying to pull the cat back from the edge of the rooftop, whose curiosity didn't seem to have been quenched. "We asked him why, and he said he was abandoned by the god he believed in."
Dazai Osamu made a "Wow" sound.
"Did he jump?" he asked with interest.
Tsunayoshi Sawada paused and shook his head at the other party's expectant gaze.
Of course not.
Because when Yamamoto Takeshi wanted to jump, he tried hard to grab the other person.
Sawada Tsunayoshi shook his head: "No."
Dazai Osamu made a "tsk" sound with a look on his face saying "as expected".
Tsunayoshi Sawada tried to change the subject abruptly.
"But actually, it's okay to jump down," the Godfather, who thought he had trained himself to be very thick-skinned, rubbed his cheeks shyly and said to Dazai Osamu, "because I will hold him back."
——Although he said "he", the Godfather was actually looking at the black-haired boy.
Dazai Osamu had a vague feeling that the other party was talking to him in this way.
He tilted his head, his pupils still empty, but a certain kind of joyful light was dancing, igniting some dim flames.
"Will it?" he asked.
Sawada Tsunayoshi was a little shy, but still nodded.
"Yes."
He said so.
Dazai Osamu suddenly thought of the distant sky.
In his eyes, the little god who had only been in this world for five years was still pure and ignorant of the world. His brown eyes were clear and clean, like the gaze of someone who had never been exposed to darkness, or like he was still pure after seeing through all the darkness.
——But how is this possible?
After all, the other person was only five years old (not really), so when Dazai Osamu saw Sawada Tsunayoshi's appearance, the evil in his heart suddenly started to stir.
He lowered his head and a low whisper came out of his throat.
"Hey, I say, Sawada-kun." He put one hand on Sawada Tsunayoshi's shoulder, as if he was smiling, and covered half of his face with the other hand, and his shoulders began to shake.
Sawada Tsunayoshi: “?”
Dazai Osamu seemed to have thought of something funny, and after a while he spoke with shaking shoulders.
"I say, do you want to try it on behalf of Dr. Mori?" he said. "I am a little curious about what it would be like if Sawada-kun became the leader of the port mafia."
——He became a little curious, and Dazai Osamu wondered what would happen if he pulled this "sun" created with malicious intent completely into the dark world?
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