"Stray dog..."

On the other side, the conversation between two people in the bar continued.

After the explosion, Dazai watched the girl raise her hand and gently touch the wine glass in front of him. After the words "For the stray dogs" kept lingering in his mind, he finally reacted.

"Odasaku..."

Dazai Osamu realized something and slowly raised his head.

"What happened?"

The girl asked back: "Don't you already know clearly?"

But Dazai Osamu's expression was calm, as if he knew what would happen next: "Chuuya saved Odasaku, didn't he?"

The black-haired girl blinked. “That’s true.”

Dazai Osamu: "Is this what I came to this world for?"

The girl said nothing.

Dazai Osamu stood up and walked out.

"I'll go talk to the leader first."

The black-haired girl stared at Dazai Osamu's back, watching him gradually walk away and disappear from her sight.

[System: Only 40 hours of physical use time left. ]

"Are you still going?"

After arranging accommodation for the children, Oda Sakunosuke slowly stood up. It had been a long time since they came out of the shrine, but they followed the boss who was rescued with the children to the boss's other small residence in the city and quickly settled down.

"Thank you." Oda Sakunosuke bowed to the boss.

The boss sighed and said, "Oda, although there are some things I don't understand, I always feel that you are going to do something big again. There are some things that need to be let go. Didn't you say that you still want to accompany the children to grow up, and will you still write novels in the near future?"

Oda Sakunosuke said nothing. The children had fallen asleep after the shock. They had only drunk water and had not eaten lunch. So Oda Sakunosuke raised his head and looked at the boss sincerely, "Please help the boss make a meal for the children."

The boss's brows wrinkled.

He didn't know if the young man in front of him understood what he said. He only saw a heavy feeling from the young man that he was about to do something big. Maybe this matter was not heavy for him, judging from the expression on his face.

But the boss wanted to stop him.

The boss could have continued to persuade him, but he knew that it would be of no use to Oda Sakunosuke.

Oda Sakunosuke had made up his mind.

He slowly picked up the entrance key, took a look at it, and put it back into the cabinet beside him. He bent down to put on his shoes, and finally opened the door and walked out.

Then he closed the door and left the light on that side.

While looking for the way, he met another young man.

The childish boy narrowed his eyes and stared at Oda Sakunosuke for a long time, and finally sighed as if he had seen something incredible.

"Oh God..." he murmured.

Perhaps because the voice was too quiet, Oda Sakunosuke did not hear clearly, and Oda Sakunosuke showed a puzzled expression. The boy's narrowed eyes had opened a little, and when he looked at Oda Sakunosuke, he was a little hesitant.

Oda Sakunosuke: “?”

"They will die." He looked at Oda Sakunosuke seriously and said, "If this continues, someone will definitely die."

Oda Sakunosuke: “…”

Jide is very strong, and he also knows that he will have a narrow escape when facing that organization. He already has a death mentality and doesn't care whether he dies or not.

But the black-haired boy frowned: "Do you know what I mean?"

Oda Sakunosuke: “???”

Looking at Oda Sakunosuke's expression, the black-haired boy sighed. He didn't know how to deal with this matter. The person in front of him was the protagonist of this matter, which was basically an unsolvable existence.

He will definitely go.

The childish boy thought so.

In that case, that person will definitely die.

They are all idiots, idiots.

He thought angrily as he looked at Oda Sakunosuke's leaving back.

But--

The moment Oda Sakunosuke stepped into the factory, it was as if time had been paused for a moment, and everything was so quiet.

The person in his memory was lying on the ground, his expression peaceful at this moment, while the person in black clothes was staggering around, as if he had been beaten up by some violent means.

"…What's going on…" He looked at everything with some suspicion.

And the gate on the other side of the factory was pushed open.

A girl walked out slowly from behind the door. Her steps did not slow down at all, but her face was as pale as a piece of white paper. However, she did not seem to care much.

"ah……"

The black-haired girl squatted down boredly and looked at the hot weapons on the ground. The guns were scattered all over the ground, leaving only Oda Sakunosuke standing there in a daze. The man's expression seemed a little dazed, and he didn't even react when he saw the girl.

Until the girl waved angrily in front of Oda Sakunosuke.

"Odasaku, Odasaku." She shouted twice at the top of her voice beside Odasakunosuke.

Oda Sakunosuke came back to his senses, hesitantly said: "T-Dazai...?"

He looked at the scattered guns on the ground, raised his head, and finally looked at the girl with some curiosity: "Dazai did all this?"

Of course, I am referring to the people lying on the ground.

Girl: “It’s Chuuya.”

She said, "After all, it's just a brainless slug."

Oda Sakunosuke immediately thought of Nakahara Chuuya who had suddenly disappeared after coming down the mountain, and he probably came to deal with this matter.

Can [God] actually do this?

Dazai Osamu walked forward slowly, jumping over the dead bodies with light movements, obviously not caring about the scene at all.

"Odasaku—" he shouted.

Oda Sakunosuke raised his head and showed an understanding expression: "Ah, it's another Dazai."

"Is everything over?" He walked around looking at everything and finally spoke with a smile.

It is indeed over.

The leader on the ground, the man who possessed similar supernatural powers to Oda Sakunosuke, or in other words, the man who could only be killed by Oda Sakunosuke, seemed to have stopped breathing.

After talking to the girl, Dazai Osamu went to find Mori Ogai. Everything was exactly as he thought. The only differences were probably the black-haired girl and the god [Nakahara Chuuya].

They saved Oda Sakunosuke.

There is no doubt about it.

But why would they do this?

"They were all killed..." he sighed.

"After all, there is no time left. This is the fastest way..."

"No time?"

The girl had no intention of answering Dazai Osamu. She turned her eyes away as if to divert her attention.

She bent over and picked up some weapons on the ground, as if looking at the guns on the ground. She picked up a small pistol and said, "It's over now. It's still possible to do it at this level."

Oda Sakunosuke was about to raise his head to answer.

His pupils suddenly contracted, and everything that happened before his eyes was reflected in his eyes.

The girl's fingertips were hooked on the pistol she had just picked up from the ground. With the safety pin off, her index finger pressed lightly on the trigger, as if the pistol would go off in the next second, and a ray of death light would burst out from the dark hole.

At this time, the muzzle of the gun was against Dazai Osamu's head.

Her eyes were unfocused, as if the movements of her hands had nothing to do with her. But the tense atmosphere began to spread between the two of them, until it filled every corner of the room.

There seemed to be nothing in the girl's iris-colored eyes, and the darkness in them matched the feeling she gave people as a whole. Finally, the darkness slowly faded away.

Her face was frighteningly pale, but her hands did not tremble at all, and the muzzle of the gun was firmly pressed against the opening of Dazai Osamu's temple.

"Dazai-kun." Her voice was sticky and didn't sound like someone calling her own name at all. Perhaps because she was thick-skinned, she didn't seem shy at all.

"Are you willing to die for Odasaku?"

Her face was paler than before, but she still laughed softly. Her breathing was unstable and her laughter sounded a little bit hoarse.

But I also felt that the gun in my hand could go off accidentally at any time.

As if he was serious.

Dazai Osamu's expression did not change at all, and his expression was naturally a little casual.

"Death... that's what I long for." His tone was nonchalant, as if the pistol was not pointed at his head, but at someone else's head.

Dazai Osamu seemed to be tempting.

"You can shoot. Just pull the trigger and you can shoot. Now I can be truly free from facing death."

The girl sighed with some regret: "Is that so..."

The pistol spun quickly in his palm. The girl slowly withdrew her pistol and winked at Oda Sakunosuke.

"Just kidding."

She laughed.

The dead silent water finally began to ripple, like a ray of light shining up and illuminating the pair of iris-colored eyes.

The girl's eyes were clean and beautiful when she smiled. Normally, she looked very deceptive when she smiled, but now with her eyebrows curved and wearing a shrine maiden's outfit, she finally looked a bit like a divine shrine maiden.

Oda Sakunosuke's expression gradually relaxed, and he sighed, "Dazai, guns are not toys."

Oda Sakunosuke's tone contained some advice, and it sounded like an elder speaking with great earnestness.

The black-haired girl blinked and said, "Oda, be serious."

Oda Sakunosuke asked in confusion, "Huh?"

"But congratulations anyway."

"Congratulations..." Oda Sakunosuke was a little hesitant.

"Congratulations." said the girl.

It was as if some flame suddenly expanded in an instant, brilliant and beautiful.

The black-haired girl stood there. She looked different from when we first met, and her complexion was even uglier than when we first met, like a candle that was about to burn out.

She was smiling, but Oda Sakunosuke felt that she was not smiling.

"Odasaku."

"I really want to see the ending of your novel."

Dazai Osamu spoke softly, as if sighing.

With regret.