Fortunately, the mission here has come to an end.

Nakahara Chuuya thought so as he hurriedly bought a ticket and headed back to Yokohama.

Otherwise, when he received the news, he might have lost all desire to complete the mission and only wanted to return to Yokohama.

On the way back to Yokohama, Nakahara Chuuya went over in his mind what happened the last time he was with Dazai Osamu.

Those past events that had already passed passed through his mind again and again, and he tried to find a different point in those past events.

In all those past events, Dazai Osamu appeared in front of Chuuya Nakahara in a very normal state, at least in Chuuya Nakahara's eyes. The only difference was...

This was a joke that Dazai Osamu once played on Nakahara Chuuya.

Because he did a good job that time, he had a relatively long vacation.

It is undeniable that when he saw Dazai Osamu for the first time after returning, he was indeed a little surprised, because Dazai Osamu had become much gloomier. When no one was around, he sat quietly on a high floor, looking down with an expressionless face.

In front of him was a row of men in black kneeling in unison, and the one kneeling at the leader was Akutagawa Ryunosuke.

Nakahara Chuuya, who could almost imagine what Dazai Osamu would do next, immediately broke the silence. He opened the door and said directly: "Dazai, the leader wants to see you."

Dazai Osamu seemed to be a little slow to respond when he heard his voice. After a long pause, he raised his head and looked at Nakahara Chuuya in silence. It seemed that there was real color in his eyes at this moment. He nodded to Nakahara Chuuya and said, "Okay."

Then he stood up and walked towards Nakahara Chuuya.

It seemed that Nakahara Chuuya's vision was infinitely extended by him. During the time they separated, Dazai Osamu had grown a lot taller.

Before, she was just a little taller than him, but now it seemed like she was a head taller than him.

Zhongyuan Zhongye had to look up at him slightly, and Zhongyuan Zhongye frowned in dissatisfaction.

Dazai Osamu couldn't help but smile a little bit because of Chuuya Nakahara's dissatisfaction. He smiled and said, "Chuuya, have you become shorter?"

"..." Nakahara Chuuya, who hadn't grown at all, couldn't help but tut, "Do you want a beating?"

Dazai Osamu nodded happily: "Ah, it turns out that I have grown taller."

Nakahara Chuuya could no longer bear it, he kicked Dazai Osamu and said, "You bastard, shut up!"

Dazai Osamu dodged flexibly, not minding being humiliated by Nakahara Chuuya in front of so many people, and said with a smile: "Chuuya is so angry, it seems that I was right, and it won't be the same outside. Look up at others, shorty?"

Dazai Osamu said these last three words in a very intimate and light voice, as if they would fly away with the wind.

But Nakahara Chuuya still heard it clearly.

Nakahara Chuuya clicked his tongue, adjusted his windbreaker, and said unhappily, "In this world, who else besides you dares to provoke me?"

Anyone who dared to provoke Dazai Osamu like teasing a cat is either dead or thrown into the river to feed the fish.

Dazai Osamu is absolutely unique. After all... Nakahara Chuuya strangely discovered that no matter how he beat Dazai Osamu, after spending a long time with him, Dazai Osamu, as his partner, had an absolute understanding of him.

Dazai Osamu also obviously noticed this. He smiled and came over, bending over and said to Nakahara Chuuya: "So, I am a very important person to Chuuya, right?"

Nakahara Chuuya glanced at him and said, "No, it's just that I can't kill you at all."

After hearing what he said, Dazai nodded in understanding: "If Chuuya can't do it, I can help Chuuya."

After saying this, Nakahara Chuuya stopped walking and looked at Dazai Osamu: "What do you mean?"

Dazai Osamu said: "If Chuuya wants to kill me, I can help Chuuya kill me."

His tone was light, as if he was talking about someone else's life and it had nothing to do with his own.

Nakahara Chuuya frowned.

This Dazai Osamu was exactly the same as the Dazai Osamu he first knew, with a dull look in his eyes, as if he could give up his life and leave this world at any time.

Nakahara Chuuya said: "Then why did you choose to be killed by me? You know very well that I will not watch you die in silence."

As Mr. Mori's designated partner for Dazai Osamu, Nakahara Chuuya must not betray Mr. Mori and kill Dazai Osamu under any circumstances, unless he has already decided to defect from the Mafia.

And it is obvious that Zhongyuan Chuya did not mean this.

"Besides." Nakahara Chuuya raised his eyes and looked at Dazai Osamu, "Why do you have to let me kill you? If you want to die, you can decide your own life at any moment when I'm not around, right?"

As long as Nakahara Chuuya is there, as long as he sees Dazai Osamu trying to commit suicide, Nakahara Chuuya will definitely hold Dazai Osamu's hand.

At the beginning, it was because of Mr. Mori's order.

And now, whether the reason was due to public or private reasons, Zhongyuan Zhongye no longer wanted to discuss it.

When he met Nakahara Chuuya's eyes, Dazai Osamu put away the smile on his face, and he seemed to have calmed down.

The sunlight outside the window fell beautifully on Dazai Osamu's dark hair, casting a layer of beautiful light on his face. He said softly, "Because it seems boring to die alone, if I am killed by Chuuya, it must be a very interesting thing, right?"

"..." Nakahara Chuuya said, "That's really a pity. I don't want to be a laughing stock for you."

Dazai Osamu shrugged in boredom and said, "That's really a pity."

The two walked side by side towards Mr. Mori's office. Dazai Osamu said, "Chūya must have lied to me just now. Mr. Mori didn't even want me to go to his office."

Zhongyuan Zhong was a little surprised: "How did you know that?"

Dazai Osamu said, "Because during the time when Chuuya was away, Mr. Mori never came to see me once."

Nakahara Chuuya nodded in realization: "That's true. When I'm not around, you won't be able to slack off on writing reports anymore, right?"

Dazai said confidently, "No, after Chung-ya left, I told Mr. Mori that I didn't want to write reports anymore."

Nakahara Chuuya believed that Dazai Osamu would definitely do such a thing. He imagined Mr. Mori's expression when he heard Dazai Osamu's words, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch: "Mr. Mori must have been very angry at that time."

Dazai Osamu curled his lips in boredom: "No, he just told me to do what I want, and he won't interfere in my affairs."

Nakahara Chuuya said: "Mr. Mori seems to have always been very tolerant of you."

When Dazai Osamu heard this, he suddenly changed the subject and looked at Nakahara Chuuya suspiciously: "So, Chuuya just called me out because of Akutagawa, right? Chuuya is surprisingly tolerant of Akutagawa, even though he is not a person who likes to use his brain."

The more he talked, the more he felt that this was the case. He turned his head and looked at Nakahara Chuuya with dissatisfaction: "Chuuya is obviously my partner, and I picked up Akutagawa, so why does Chuuya know Akutagawa so well?"

Nakahara Chuuya pushed Dazai Osamu's head away and said, "If you teach him a lesson in a gentler way, I won't look at him with such disdain."

Dazai Osamu leaned casually on the palm of Nakahara Chuuya's hand, letting Nakahara Chuuya push his head away, and said lazily: "But in a place like the Mafia where people are eaten without leaving bones, if he doesn't change, he will get into trouble sooner or later."

Nakahara Chuuya thought about what Akutagawa Ryunosuke usually did. Although he did not agree with Dazai Osamu's method, he had to admit that what Dazai Osamu said was indeed correct.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke relied too much on his own supernatural powers. Whenever he encountered a supernatural power like Dazai Osamu's, it was basically like he had no chance to play and was directly controlled by Dazai Osamu.

However, Nakahara Chuuya said, "Don't you still have a long time to teach him?"

He heard Dazai Osamu's chuckle. Dazai Osamu said lazily, "What if... I say I don't want to?"

Nakahara Chuuya's pupils shrank slightly, and he narrowed his eyes and looked at Dazai Osamu.

It just happened to meet Dazai Osamu's smiling eyes.

Dazai Osamu said: "If I don't want to continue teaching him, what should I do?"

At that time, Nakahara Chuuya probably just felt that Dazai Osamu was a little unhappy because Akutagawa Ryunosuke relied too much on his supernatural powers, but when Dazai Osamu actually said the word "defection" to him, he suddenly realized.

What did Dazai Osamu mean was that he didn't want to teach Akutagawa Ryunosuke anymore, or that he didn't want to stay in the Port Mafia anymore?

Had he made up his mind at that time?

The plane flew over the ocean coast and finally landed on the land of Yokohama.

Nakahara Chuuya hurried off the plane and saw Akutagawa Ryunosuke kneeling outside the plane. It had been 12 hours since he received the call from Dazai Osamu.

It was obvious that Akutagawa Ryunosuke had not rested for the past 12 hours. His eyes were already bloodshot, but he still bowed his head obediently to Nakahara Chuuya and said, "The leader sent me to take you back."

Nakahara Chuuya made a move. After he got off the plane, he had no intention of meeting the leader.

He said to Akutagawa Ryunosuke, "I will handle the matter with the leader. First, Akutagawa, tell me where Dazai Osamu was last seen."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke's originally dim eyes gradually brightened up again. It was obvious that he had been looking for Dazai Osamu for a long time before Nakahara Chuuya came back, but there was no news. Then, halfway through the search for Dazai Osamu, he was called back by Mr. Mori.

He said swiftly, "I last saw him in Mr. Dazai's apartment."

As he was speaking, Nakahara Chuuya's cell phone rang.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke looked at Nakahara Chuuya's phone and saw the two leaders flashing on it. He shut his mouth wisely. Nakahara Chuuya glanced at him and said to him before answering the call: "Drive the car over first, and let's go to his apartment to take a look."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke nodded directly, turned around and walked towards a place not far away. Even the fluttering corners of his clothes showed his happiness. Thinking of what Dazai Osamu had told him before about Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Nakahara Chuuya couldn't help but bend his eyes, which were then quickly smoothed away by him.

He followed Ryunosuke Akutagawa's back and walked slowly over to answer Mr. Mori's call.

"Hello, Chief." Nakahara Chuuya said respectfully, "I have returned to Yokohama."

Mr. Mori on the other end of the phone said in a rare serious tone: "Nakahara-kun, I guess you have also received the news that Dazai has defected, right?"

Nakahara Chuuya nodded: "Yes, Chief."

Not only did he learn about Dazai Osamu's news, but he also received Dazai Osamu's request to defect with him.

Mr. Mori said, "I know you have a good relationship with Dazai, but Chuuya-kun, you should know that before Dazai defected, he burned down a commercial building of the Port Mafia. Usually, anyone who defected from the Port Mafia..."

Nakahara Chuuya smoothly said the second half of his sentence: "They are all enemies of the port mafia."

Mr. Mori then smiled and said, "Okay, then I will leave everything to you, Nakahara-kun."

Nakahara Chuuya said, "Don't worry, leader."

When he said this, Akutagawa Ryunosuke just drove the car next to him. When he heard this, Akutagawa Ryunosuke lowered the window, looked up at Nakahara Chuuya while sitting in the car. He stood in the deep twilight, his whole body seemed to be burning as if the only bright color, but his eyes gradually darkened.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke said, "Do you want to get in the car?"

Nakahara Chuuya sat in the back seat, took out another mobile phone he carried with him, and started dialing Dazai Osamu's phone number.

This was a cell phone they had agreed on, and it would never be turned off. In the beginning, they bought it when they were on missions. At that time, the Port Mafia was on the verge of collapse. As the only trump card the Port Mafia could play, Dazai Osamu and Nakahara Chuuya were in danger almost all day long. In order to be able to find each other, they made a lot of effort to maintain their relationship.

The phone rang for a long time, but no one answered it. However, Nakahara Chuuya did not hang up. He just put on one earphone and asked Akutagawa Ryunosuke: "Continue what you told me before."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke said: "When I saw Mr. Dazai, he was in the yard. There was a fire in the yard, and in the fire, several clothes were burning, and the shape of them was almost unrecognizable. The most conspicuous one was the black coat that Mr. Mori gave to Mr. Dazai when he was promoted to an officer."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke spoke very carefully, and Nakahara Chuuya analyzed while listening to the busy tone on the phone.

Even the token of love was burned. Dazai Osamu had really made up his mind to leave.

He did not ask Akutagawa Ryunosuke why he did not ask Dazai what happened. He asked: "Has anything big happened to the port mafia recently?"

"Big news?" Akutagawa Ryunosuke thought for a moment, "Recently, an organization came from overseas, but that organization did not have any particularly big impact on the port mafia."

"Organization?" Nakahara Chuuya frowned slightly. His subconscious told him that this might be the key point, so he asked calmly, "What kind of organization is it?"

Akutagawa Ryunosuke shook his head: "I don't know the details, because Mr. Mori did not order a thorough investigation of the organization. I heard about this because when I was on a mission, I occasionally heard a word or two about him from Mr. Dazai."

"According to intelligence, they are ghost troops from France."

As expected, it is related to Dazai Osamu. Nakahara Chuuya hung up the phone. It had been ten minutes since he called.

I think if Dazai Osamu didn't even answer this call, he must have been burned together with the black coat.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke's car stopped outside Dazai Osamu's apartment.

Nakahara Chuuya got out of the car and walked straight towards the apartment. Halfway there, he suddenly remembered something and turned back.

As expected, he saw Akutagawa Ryunosuke following him out of the car, and he said to Akutagawa Ryunosuke, "I'll go alone."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke was obviously unwilling: "But..."

Nakahara Chuuya replied calmly: "In the Port Mafia, I think, apart from the two of us, no one else would want to find Dazai Osamu more."

Although Akutagawa Ryunosuke didn't know why Nakahara Chuuya said this, he nodded.

After all, Dazai Osamu was notorious for his brutality in the port mafia. Although everyone had received Mr. Mori's orders, no one was willing to face Dazai Osamu directly, which was tantamount to facing the god of death directly.

Nakahara Chuuya said: "So, if we can't find any trace of Dazai Osamu here, wouldn't it be a waste of time?"

"Go look somewhere else, somewhere else where you think you might find Dazai Osamu."

After hearing this, Akutagawa Ryunosuke looked at Nakahara Chuuya hesitantly.

He nodded, turned and walked towards the car.

Then the whole world became quiet, and Nakahara Chuuya walked to the door of Dazai Osamu's apartment, took out the key from his pocket, and opened the door cleanly and neatly.

No one has ever searched Dazai Osamu's apartment, probably because they don't dare to do so.

Nakahara Chuuya turned on the light at the entrance, and a cold white light came down. He locked the door and walked directly towards Dazai Osamu's room.

The room was in a mess as expected. Nakahara Chuuya walked towards the balcony without any mercy and pushed open the door on the left balcony.

A narrow passage was revealed.

He took down a dim light from the entrance of the passage and walked up the passage.

At the end of the passage is a wide roof.

The person who had been searched almost all over Yokohama but couldn't be found was standing at the end of the rooftop, tossing the coins in his hand boredly.

Hearing footsteps, Dazai Osamu turned around. When he saw that the person coming was Chuuya Nakahara, he couldn't help but smile: "Chuuya, why are you here?"

These words sounded like a greeting between two people who hadn't seen each other for a long time.

Nakahara Chuuya glanced at him and rubbed his brows: "Didn't you tell me the address? And you even called me specially."

He really felt a little bit disturbed, but when he saw Dazai standing in front of him and making a phone call, he felt relieved. He asked Dazai, "What are you disturbed about?"

Even if he wanted to defect, Nakahara Chuuya felt that Dazai Osamu could leave quietly.

Instead of making such a big fuss like this, as if he was challenging someone to a duel, and trying to determine who would win or lose, this would directly offend Mr. Mori and is totally not like Dazai Osamu's style.

Dazai Osamu just looked at him and smiled. He gently said to Nakahara Chuuya, "Chuuya, do you want to hear a ghost story?"

“…You tell me.” Nakahara Chuuya choked in his throat. A ghost story?

Is this another twist that he is unaware of?

"Oda is courting death," Dazai said lightly. "On the night of the decisive battle with the Mimic leader three days ago, I witnessed his death with my own eyes. I watched him slowly die in front of me."

Nakahara Chuuya was stunned. He said, "What did you say? Oda is asking for trouble?"

Odasaku was not only a friend of Dazai Osamu, but also a friend of Nakahara Chuuya.

Nakahara Chuuya looked at Dazai's relaxed expression, but suddenly felt that Dazai must be very sad at this moment. He said, "...You buried him?"

Dazai shook his head: "I don't have any."

"?" Nakahara Chuuya frowned, "What do you mean?"

"I brought a doctor with me at that time," Dazai Osamu said, resting his hand on his chin.

"Chuuya should have heard of her name, along with Yosano Akiko, the legendary war angel who has the ability to bring the dead back to life."

"At that time, it was as if I had foreseen Odasaku's death, and when I went to his side, I forcibly went to the Armed Detective Agency to bring her back."

"And then, do you know what happened?"

Perhaps the wind blowing from behind was a little cold, and Nakahara Chuuya felt himself getting cold from the bottom of his heart.

Or maybe it was because Dazai Osamu's eyes were too penetrating, so penetrating that he guessed something unbelievable.

"And then?" Nakahara Chuuya said with difficulty.

"And then." Dazai Osamu recalled that day again.

"Then, her powers wore off, and that afternoon, I watched her rescue Odasaku."

"I had clearly already started to breathe, but in the blink of an eye, time overlapped to five minutes ago."

Dazai Osamu still remembers that he had clearly rushed into the church.

But time once again overlaps with the past.

The fire outside the church was weeping and a deafening gunshot was heard from inside the church.

And Yoseno Akiko, who was standing beside him, looked up at him.

"Where are you taking me?"

The author has something to say: Thank you for watching~

To be honest, I like this one best among the three.