"It doesn't matter."

The black-haired girl stood there, her face becoming increasingly pale, but the corners of her mouth that were raised showed that she was in a good mood. However, the gradual collapse of her lower body and the blood that kept gushing out of the corners of her mouth formed a sharp contrast with her expression.

"Humans are just that kind of creatures. They will rush to grab any resource they can find and use it to their heart's content, even if it means squeezing it to the last drop of blood. They are ugly and scary creatures, but unfortunately, I am just that kind of creature."

"Since I'm going to die, why not maximize my profits?"

She looked at Dazai Osamu and asked back.

"Why can't I fulfill Chuuya's wish while saving Odasaku? Although there is a big risk of completing one task while completing another, isn't it going smoothly now?"

Dazai blinked and said, "No, I don't have any idea. Whether [Dazai] decides to sacrifice himself to save Odasaku or to exchange him for [Nakahara Chuuya], these are your choices and have nothing to do with me."

The black-haired girl laughed twice.

"Of course I know all this, otherwise..." she said.

She didn't finish.

But Dazai Osamu already knew what the girl had not finished saying.

Otherwise I wouldn’t let you know so much.

——I know you can't refuse such a development. A future where Odasaku is still alive is too important to you. If you really want to stop it, you have no right to do so, because it also involves [Nakahara Chuuya] from another world.

Dazai Osamu had no right to stop Dazai Osamu from saving Nakahara Chuuya.

He understands himself.

At the same time, because he knew himself, Dazai knew the result the moment the truth was revealed. However, he did not give the girl any help.

"It's almost over." The girl raised the corners of her lips.

Oda Sakunosuke, who had just gone outside to get food, slowly walked in. She didn't know what had suddenly happened at this moment, but she vaguely felt that something was wrong.

He raised his head and saw the crazy scene in the sky.

He reacted a little bit late: "This is..."

"It was me from another world who was saving that stupid dwarf." Dazai Osamu said.

At this time, Oda Sakunosuke noticed that the lower body of the girl was gradually disappearing. The black-haired girl standing there became gradually transparent, as if she would be blown away by the wind in the next second.

"【Dazai】?" Oda Sakunosuke's expression was a little hesitant.

"Ah, you're back, Odasaku." The girl waved her hand, narrowed her eyes and looked at Odasakunosuke and said, "Look, everything in the sky was made by me. Isn't it magnificent?"

The girl's boastful look caught Oda Sakunosuke's eyes. Oda Sakunosuke nodded and praised from the bottom of his heart: "You are amazing, Dazai."

Dazai Osamu shouted at the side: "It's all for that little slug. Odasaku, don't be sad, because the me in the other world planned to die like this."

Dazai Osamu said this with a hopeful expression.

"I wonder if dying this way will be painful."

Hearing the previous sentence, Oda Sakunosuke was stunned at first, but then he reacted. He looked into the black-haired girl's eyes and pursed his lips: "I'm sorry, Dazai..."

Black-haired girl: "What have you done to apologize for this, Odasaku..."

Oda Sakunosuke: "After all, that was my price. I should have died..."

"Oh." The girl's expression was calm. "That's not true. Even if I don't die now, I will die in the future."

Oda Sakunosuke said nothing and Dazai Osamu did not move.

The girl revealed a blue eye that was exactly the same as that of [Nakahara Chuuya]. This eye had always been wrapped in a bandage, so it could not be seen normally.

"This eye is a contract. It is the agreement between Chuuya and I."

"The agreed contents..."

The girl thought for a moment and said, "Maybe I want to be her only witch and help her become a human being, and she gave me the right to make a wish, and she won't refuse it."

Oda Sakunosuke: “…”

Dazai Osamu suddenly spoke up: "Even if Chuuya doesn't want to become a human now, Chuuya should accept it himself."

The girl was silent.

The relationship between Dazai Osamu and Nakahara Chuuya has always been bad.

They can start arguing at eight in the morning and continue arguing until the end of work or even the next day.

Dazai Osamu knew very well that he and Nakahara Chuuya were incompatible, and he couldn't control his mouth, so he had a fierce quarrel with Nakahara Chuuya.

He didn't think about the relationship between himself and Nakahara Chuuya in the other world.

It was really too strange. He looked at the scene in the sky in amazement. While suppressing the emotions in his heart, he smiled and said to Oda Sakunosuke: "Oda Sakunosuke, isn't it too strange? I can be sure that the dwarf has no intention of becoming a human being now--"

Oda Sakunosuke looked at the dark red in the sky in silence for a while, then turned his head away in confusion.

"But doesn't this wish come from you in another world, Dazai?"

Of course, the relationship between the two people in the other world is not very good.

They would mock each other whenever they met, and even if there was a festival, the shrine maidens would run away during the festival. They would not say anything but bully each other every day.

but--

No matter how much they quarreled on the surface, no matter how unwilling they were, no matter how much they said "Naka ​​is my dog" and "Dazai, you bastard, I'll kill you" every day, but in the end, their bond was deeper than anyone else's.

Just like flowers and butterflies.

It's like whales and the sea.

The way they get along is different from that of ordinary people. It is an emotion that cannot be felt but makes people cry. It is like a gust of wind or a ray of sunshine, which is so small but can swallow others in an instant.

I trust you.

That's why I brought you to another world, that's why I let you do whatever you want, and that's why I'm willing to pay any price for you.

Perhaps even [Nakahara Chuuya] himself did not know that [Dazai Osamu] would be so cruel to him because of how he made the decision.

——You want to be a human? What's good about being a human? Besides, those who come to make wishes are stupid and foolish, as far as I can see.

——Stupid, what's wrong with being a human? Do you think it's easy to be a god? Mackerel bastard.

crazy.

The sky has completely changed to a different color, just like the night before a typhoon that is about to erupt. The darkness is like a devil in the abyss, slowly crawling out from somewhere.

"Bang——"

First there was a flash of lightning followed by a roar of thunder. A violent wind gushed out from the hole in the sky, sweeping up the chaotic red light and completely enveloping the ochre-haired girl.

Atobe Nanako stood in the void.

After another alias expressed his wish and he agreed, the world suddenly changed dramatically as he had imagined.

This time, Nanako Atobe exploited a bug in the system.

Although the script this time was reviewed by the system, the [rules] have already been set. After understanding the rules, Nanako Atobe found loopholes that could be explored under the rules.

Atobe Nanako came up with this idea suddenly.

Since the scripts she writes are for the real world, and her existence can disturb this original world, does that mean her scripts can also disturb this world?

So Atobe Nanako decided to take a gamble.

The setting of [Nakahara Chuuya] is that people can trade with gods in exchange for a price, and as long as the gods agree and the price is exchanged for an equal value, then the wish will definitely come true.

Nanako Atobe exploited this setting bug that was bound to happen.

In the world of the script, [Nakahara Chuuya] has the absolute ability to fulfill other people's wishes. Then in this world, under the intervention of the rules, [Nakahara Chuuya] will also fulfill all wishes according to the plot.

This is when Dazai Osamu's settings come in handy.

--Book.

At the beginning, Nanako Atobe didn't know whether the book existed in this world, so she didn't know whether the task assigned by the system was reliable. When she asked the system where the "book" was, she didn't receive any response.

Obviously, the system is also unknown.

Then Nanako Atobe can only create miracles by herself, and she herself is the miracle.

Set [Dazai Osamu] as a being resurrected by a book, and through the setting of [Nakahara Chuuya] the god of the wilderness, another book is obtained through Dazai Osamu's wish.

crazy.

This is the system's judgment of Nanako Atobe.

Although I didn't know that Atobe Nanako had prepared such a script, I was still surprised after learning about the script.

The ochre-haired girl was in the center of the storm. Countless unidentified substances emerged from the cracks and brushed past the girl's outstretched arms until the girl opened her palms and a book slowly emerged in front of her.

The content is blank, nothing has been written on it, it is clean and just like an ordinary book.

Atobe Nanako looked at the book curiously and said, "This is the legendary book."

System: "After identification and confirmation, this is the mission target and there is no problem."

Nanako Atobe easily reached out and grasped the spine of the book. She exerted force with her thumb and a few fingers, and the open book was closed under the force. In the end, it stayed very peacefully in Nanako Atobe's hand.

"It's really interesting." Atobe Nanako weighed the book and said, "It can change the world. This book is quite powerful."

The system said: "Host, you are still capable. Do you want to put the book into the system and submit the task now?"

Atobe Nanako: “Yes.”

The book in my hand began to disappear, and soon it turned into a beam of light, like a code, which disappeared in an instant.

commonplace.

Nanako Atobe already knew the efficiency of the system in the previous worlds.

System: "OK, we are submitting the task for you and the settlement is in progress."

System: "Do you want to leave this world now?"

Atobe Nanako: “I won’t leave.”

System: "OK, please set the countdown time."

Through the filth on her side, Nanako Atobe could easily see the lower half of the black-haired girl standing on the ground gradually disappearing, turning into red chaotic matter and gradually disappearing from this world.

Then she noticed the expression on Oda Sakunosuke's face.

"Ten seconds." said Atobe Nanako.

She is not a devil. In fact, for her, this script is the best way to save Oda Sakunosuke and get the book. As an interpreter, she does not have a big impulse, but as a bystander, or from the perspective of Oda Sakunosuke.

Something seems to be wrong.

Atobe Nanako thought.

She touched her chin and then lowered her head.

But sorry, there's nothing she can do.

The chaos in the sky slowly faded away.

The wish comes from Dazai Osamu himself.

Dazai finally reacted.

It was not a matter of the contract, nor was it the will of [Nakahara Chuuya] that was forced upon him. It was a decision that he himself - Dazai Osamu - insisted on making.

"Is there no way to achieve immortality?" Oda Sakunosuke asked with a frown.

The black-haired girl shook her head: "This is the best solution."

The girl thought about it carefully and said, "But this time I have fulfilled my dream. I always feel like there is something I haven't done. Now... forget it. I don't have time."

Oda Sakunosuke: “…What do you mean?”

"Just let Odasaku live a good life and don't let me down!" The black-haired girl clapped her hands in response.

And at this time, the sky finally changed.

In Dazai Osamu's eyes, it happened in a flash.

The girl in the sky who transformed from a god into a human had a blank look in her eyes, but soon she became lively. Her emotions fluctuated more than at the beginning, as if she had a soul.

But at the same time, the girl's figure gradually disappeared, as if she was affected by something and forced to go offline.

"What's wrong with her...?" Looking at the appearance of the ochre-haired girl, Oda Sakunosuke was stunned at first and then asked.

"I have to go back because I have become a human being." said the black-haired girl.

Gods have the ability to control who comes to this world and stays in this world, but humans cannot.

The black-haired girl was also disappearing, but the difference was that she seemed to be melting, like a snowflake.

But at this moment, the almost disappearing [Nakahara Chuuya] seemed to have noticed something, and her blue eyes stared at the black-haired girl, as if she was staring at her enemy. Those eyes were filled with unknown emotions.

It was like friends who had known each other for hundreds of years, or like one good friend being angry at another good friend.

She opened her mouth and lip-synced through gritted teeth.

"Ha ha……"

The black-haired girl laughed.

"Why is she so stupid?" She started to cough. Actually, she couldn't say anything at this moment. She was panting heavily, and smiled as if to embarrass herself, "It's obvious that I'm stupid. I've already paid the price, but I'm still so familiar with this name..."

She was completely blurred.

He couldn't see the girl's face, and could hardly hear her voice. When Oda Sakunosuke looked over, he could only vaguely see a dark figure.

She didn't know what expression it was. Oda Sakunosuke couldn't see it, and didn't know what she meant. Oda Sakunosuke thought. Maybe she was happy about her own death, or maybe...

Maybe there are many possibilities.

But this time, it's really over.

The black-haired priestess wanted the god to sacrifice something to save her friend, and the god agreed.

The black-haired priestess once wanted to sacrifice herself, but was rejected by the god, who said no.

The witch asked why.

The gods said that we have been living like this for so many years, can’t we just continue like this?

But the witch had already discovered that the god was no longer like herself.

So she lied with a smile.

--OK.

So they offered sacrifices secretly to the gods.

"--goodbye."

Finally, Oda Sakunosuke heard a girl's voice.

It was a low, hoarse question, just like the one we asked when we first met.

A dark red light lit up, flickering like something swallowing something. It was like the sound of rain, or like ice and snow melting and everything growing.

It was as if nothing had happened.

By the time Dazai Osamu and Oda Sakunosuke reacted, the shrine beneath their feet had disappeared.

The mountains are covered with mist, which carries the fragrance of soil and plants, and the taste of life.

It's all in the past.