Chapter 128 Extra Chapter: Ye Yihe in the Original Novel (11): It's better if you don't delve too deeply into this.
The next day, at the Armed Detective Agency.
"Dazai-san hasn't returned yet, has something happened to him...?"
Atsushi Nakajima paced back and forth in the office, carrying several stacks of documents, looking dejected and clearly worried.
"How could that guy possibly get into trouble? His vitality is so strong that even I am amazed [Does Death hate him?]".
Kunikida Doppo, engrossed in writing his report, didn't even look up, completely oblivious to the fact that Dazai's disappearance for a day was no big deal.
"Besides, didn't Tanizaki also get called away by Dazai to help out? I heard he was busy until late at night and is currently catching up on sleep in his apartment."
"You can ask Dazai where he went after he wakes up."
As Kunikida Doppo, who admires diligent work, spoke, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
"You haven't been with the detective agency long, so you don't know how many times Dazai has skipped work and how many times he has attempted suicide... Ha, just the number of times I've pulled him out of the river is more than you can count on both hands."
Atsushi Nakajima blinked. "I-I see... What if Dazai-san secretly committed suicide somewhere we didn't know, and we couldn't save him?"
"There's no need to worry about that."
Kunikida Doppo adjusted his glasses, looked up from his computer, and when he spoke again, you could almost hear a cold laugh.
"Given that guy's long history of not taking his work seriously, we're not without a solution for Dazai."
Atsushi Nakajima's eyes lit up. "Really!"
"Of course, how could I let this guy keep ruining my plans without even being able to find him?"
Kunikida Doppo's eyes sharpened instantly, and he called over Tanizaki Naomi, the younger sister of Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, who was also an employee of the detective agency.
"Naomi, have you found the transmitter's signal? That guy lost it once before. Seriously, I told him repeatedly not to lose it!"
Dazai is so carefree that he could make your blood vessels burst at any moment. Even during investigations, he'll suddenly say something like, "This river looks really nice—", then hang up and jump in, leaving you to search up and down the riverbank.
To this end, he specially commissioned a coin-shaped transmitter and specifically instructed that suicidal idiot to keep it safe in his wallet and never spend or lose it.
...Although the wallet had fallen off Dazai and been swept away by the river before Atsushi found it in the river last time, forcing him to run to the riverbank during his work break to look for that idiot, worried that something might have happened to him.
But this time Dazai was just going out with Fyodor, who he seemed to have a good relationship with. Surely there wouldn't be another incident where he went into the water without permission and the transmitter was washed away.
“Okay, Mr. Kunikida, let me confirm.”
Naomi Tanizaki smiled and unfolded the map, comparing it with the distance and direction displayed on the transmitter.
"If we're talking about transmitters, then the distance we'd need to calculate is... um... wait a minute?"
The calculated result seemed too incredible, and Naomi Tanizaki blinked a few times in a daze, comparing the red dot on the transmitter with the map.
"Where is it?" Kunikida Doppo's brows furrowed.
Could it be some weird location like a sewer or a garbage dump again? Did that idiot lose the transmitter again without paying attention? Or did he accidentally spend it while shopping?
"Mr. Dazai is... well, at the Mafia headquarters building in the port."
Naomi Tanizaki spoke softly.
In an instant, all the members of the agency turned their attention to this place.
"ha!?"
"Why did you go there? Did you get arrested?!"
"Speaking of which, Mr. Dazai was arrested once before..."
"But that was just a Mafia tactic to infiltrate the port, right? To help Dun find the buyer who had offered the bounty for him."
"...Could it be because Xiao Jinghua joined the detective club that they're also dissatisfied and want to replace her?"
"I'll go kill them right now."
With a clang, the dagger was drawn instantly.
"Wait, little mirror flower, don't rush—"
Atsushi Nakajima was chasing after Kyoka Izumi as he stepped out of the detective agency's office when he was startled by the sight before him and let out an even louder scream, nearly taking off on the spot.
"Two Dazai-sensei!?"
Now, no one in the detective agency could concentrate on their work, and they all started craning their necks out from their seats.
They had to see what was going on with the two Dazai... They were so curious.
"Oh, it's Dun."
Atsushi Nakajima looked around in shock and noticed that one of the Dazai-sans was significantly younger... probably around his age?
The person who greeted him was another Mr. Dazai, wearing a pure black long-sleeved jacket, who was smiling and raising his hand to greet him.
Even though he seemed to be smiling kindly, his demeanor always gave Atsushi Nakajima a feeling of...
"You...you're not Mr. Dazai, are you?"
Atsushi Nakajima swallowed hard. "At least, it's not the Dazai-san I know."
Kunikida Doppo immediately pulled out a notebook with the word "[Ideal]" written on the cover. "What's going on? Is it an enemy in disguise?"
Compared to Atsushi Nakajima, who stood there stunned, Kyoka Izumi reacted more directly upon hearing his assessment, exclaiming, "[Yasha Shirayuki]!"
She immediately activated her supernatural power, and the enormous female spirit that appeared in response swung her long blade and slashed at the necks of the two Dazai Osamu without the slightest hesitation.
Wow.
As the knife fell, the boy-like Osamu Dazai showed no fear and even let out a cryptic sigh.
His only action was to raise his hand, his fingertips touching the sharp katana—and then, his entire spirit disintegrated into tiny, fluorescent fragments, vanishing without a trace.
"What...[No Longer Human]?!"
Atsushi Nakajima's eyes widened in disbelief that his beloved Dazai-san had shrunk... no, not shrunk, there was now a dangerous-looking Dazai-san standing next to him...
"...You are all really Dazai-san?"
"This spirit can even float in the air, that's really great, it's perfect for working in a haunted house."
The young Dazai first stroked his chin and gave a comment on the spot where [Yasha Shirayuki] had just been before his gaze moved down and landed on Nakajima Atsushi.
“I am Osamu Dazai. So was he.”
He smiled and pointed to himself and Dazai beside him before walking past Nakajima Atsushi and into the office.
"They really are two Grand Eunuchs..."
Upon seeing two identical faces appear, Kunikida Doppo felt a wave of dizziness wash over him, as if he were about to suffer a heart attack and die on the spot.
One Dazai wasn't enough to torment him, so two... actually, two Dazai came...
"Huh... but the transmitter's location is still showing up at the Mafia building in the port?" Naomi Tanizaki looked at Mr. Dazai in front of her, puzzled.
"Oh, Dazai is indeed at the port mafia. He just became the new leader's teacher and is busy with things."
The young Dazai shook his hand and casually explained the events of the previous night to the members of the detective club.
“We are Dazai from another world. He asked us to come here to look after you in order to prevent Fyodor from this world from attacking the Detective Agency.”
Everyone: "…???"
This explanation is way too mind-bending!
"So, Dazai-san can summon me from another world to help him?"
While everyone's brains were still racing, Kenji Miyazawa, who had been recruited into the detective agency from the countryside by the president, was the first to clap his hands in amazement, his eyes sparkling with admiration as he looked at Dazai.
"City people are so great..."
Atsushi Nakajima instinctively retorted, "No, I don't think any city dweller could do that..."
As expected of Mr. Dazai, he can even do something like this!
"What's the story with the new leader's teacher?" the president asked.
“He’s the new leader’s teacher,” the young Dazai spread his hands and briefly recounted the whole story. “The support of the others was easy to resolve, but the scene of him persuading Chuuya was truly intense, leaving several skylights in the headquarters building.”
"But he himself is fine. In any case, we also helped take some measures to control Fyodor in this world."
"But based on your previous experience fighting the [Combination], and with Fyodor's analysis from our world, we can roughly deduce that things are not over so simply. The Armed Detective Agency and the Port Mafia may still be attacked."
After finishing the first half of his sentence, the young Dazai paused for a moment, tilted his head, and added another sentence.
"—Is it possible that it might not?"
After all, according to Dazai, the leader who knows the anchor plot of this world, the next thing to happen should be the start of the [Co-devouring] event... Hmm, but Mori Ougai and the [Demons] of this world are gone, can this [Co-devouring] really still start?
The young Dazai was deep in thought, but after hearing his words, the members of the detective agency became visibly tense, thinking that they might face dangers similar to the [Moby-Dick] incident.
The atmosphere froze for a moment.
"Tell me," Kunikida Doppo began cautiously, "how does Fyodor control this world...?"
“Ah, about that question.” The young Dazai blinked.
"It's better if you don't investigate further."
“…”
"Feijia...it's tied a bit too tightly here."
Ye Yihe tried to rotate his wrist, but he couldn't move it at all, and he even felt that his blood wasn't flowing.
He was in a hotel room, sitting in an exceptionally sturdy chair, with only Fyodor beside him.
Following the shape of the chair, he straightened his upper body against the backrest, placed his hands on the armrests, and let Fyodor use his nimble fingers to pick up a long rope and tightly bind his body to the chair, making it impossible for him to break free.
You could even say that he was tied up more securely than when he was escorted away a few days ago.
"Excuse me, how about this?"
Upon hearing Ye Yihe's feedback, Fyodor paused slightly in the knot he was tying at Ye Yihe's lower back, then leaned down from behind him, placing his hands on Ye Yihe's left wrist, which was tightly bound by the rope, and loosened the knot a little.
From an outsider's perspective, it looked as if Fyodor, standing, was hugging Ye Yihe from behind in an intimate manner.
"I'm feeling better."
Ye Yihe moved his wrist slightly and noticed Fyodor's expression as he nodded—his lips were slightly pursed and his lip line was tight, which could be described as an unpleasant expression.
Feyia usually behaved obediently and well-behavedly in his presence, with a smile always on her lips. Even on certain special occasions, her expression, with tears welling up but not falling, carried a captivating sense of bewilderment and vulnerability.
It was quite rare for Fedia to show such obvious frustration at this moment.
"What's wrong, Fei Jia?" Ye Yihe asked with concern.
This was Ye Yihe's own suggestion. After he finally realized last night that the body he was using was not his own, he proposed to Fyodor the idea of tying him up with ropes.
As for why he didn't use shackles, it was because he had learned lock-picking skills from Oda Sakunosuke—what if Fyodor knew them too? It would be safer to use ropes.
Because he wasn't sure when he would switch back with Fyodor from the other world. If the timing wasn't right, who knew what kind of trouble might arise.
Moreover, now that they're tied up securely, once they're switched back, they can simply call the Special Abilities Division with military and police to deal with this [demon] who's wanted in Europe, without needing to subdue him again.
However, Fei Jia's reaction made Ye Yihe a little worried.
"..."
Fyodor, who was tying a knot, remained silent, his dark red eyes, which were tinged with purplish-red, fixed intently on Ye Yihe. Only after a long while did he finally open his mouth and utter a few slow syllables.
"This body... is not yours."
“…”
"Well, how about we wait until we get back..."
"good."
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