Chapter 142 Viewing Experience (Part 6): When Those Past Events Are Bringed to the Screen
In order to eliminate the [Port Mafia], the alternate personality Fyodor asked Oda Sakunosuke to help him find information about Edogawa Ranpo by finding an intelligence merchant. As a result, he unexpectedly pulled Dazai Osamu out of the river and knocked him unconscious with a karate chop, and took him back to the small building.
After waking up, Dazai Osamu told them the truth that he had saved the wrong person, but he was still forced to stay in the small building by his alternate personality, Fyodor.
That day, he also received a warm and hospitable curry treat from Oda Sakunosuke.
He'd never even tasted the curry that Oda Sakunosuke himself made!
On the surface, they remained calm, but the three adult Dazai couldn't help but grit their teeth and complain—even selectively ignoring the fact that the curry would make them cry from the spiciness.
"Do I even need to find out where I am? I'm super, super famous, okay?!"
Ranpo, puffing out his cheeks, pounded on the handrail. "Go read the newspaper! Go read the newspaper! There's a front-page headline about the famous detective there! Or you can just ask any military or police officer!"
"..." The president lowered his voice and reminded, "Hey Ranpo, don't disturb the others watching the movie."
"No, actually I also have a bit to complain about... Does this count as my subordinate being intercepted halfway?"
The composed, detached smile on Mori Ōgai's face slowly disappeared.
But it shifted to the face of the Armed Detective Dazai.
"You dare to say that? It was Chief Mori who kicked me out back then, just four years earlier. It doesn't really matter, does it?"
Dazai Armed Detective's voice rose, brimming with a cheerful, sarcastic tone.
Upon hearing this, Dazai, an official, was taken aback. "You want me to leave?"
Mori Ōgai: "Wait, Dazai-kun..."
"Oh dear, I almost forgot, there's also me, at eighteen years old, here as an audience member—"
Armed Detective Dazai turned his gaze away, completely ignoring Mori Ōgai's attempt to interrupt.
The chief minister smiled slightly, his ten fingers interlaced on his thighs, showing no intention of offering any advice.
"You're getting quite close to Oda Sakunosuke now, right? Well, I'd like to advise you to cherish him a bit, because in your timeline, Chief Mori is about to secretly extradite [Mimic] to Japan and slaughter the five children Oda Sakunosuke adopted—what, you want to know why? Ha, of course, it's to force the unequal-killing Oda Sakunosuke to fight the other chief to the death."
When he uttered these words in one breath, a sense of unbridled joy, which was faintly visible in his handsome features, was about completely disregarding everything else.
Even though his voice remained light and cheerful when he spoke, as if he were merely making a teasing joke, anyone who truly understood Dazai could hear the chilling anger behind every single word.
"And then what? Do you know what Chief Mori wanted after all this scheming? Wow, you might be shocked when I tell you—it was all to get a [license to practice supernatural abilities] from the government!"
He will never accept everything Mori Ōgai has done for this.
In the studio, the long silence seemed to freeze the air.
Only the film's runtime remained undisturbed, steadily playing the content of [Port Mafia]'s demise within two days under the instructions of its alternate personality, Fyodor.
Upon hearing Dazai's revelation of the future, Dazai's eyes gradually turned cold, as if a piece of cold jade had been sunk to the bottom of the sea.
He first glanced at Mori Ougai, whose plot had been exposed in public years ago, and then looked at Oda Sakunosuke beside him—who also showed a rare and obvious negative emotion.
It was a feeling of discovering one is about to be abandoned, of knowing nothing about leading children to hell.
"I will not deny what I have done, after all, Natsume-sensei's [Three-Part Concept] is indispensable."
Mori Ōgai sighed, but his tone remained firm.
"The so-called [leader] is both the one who stands at the top of the organization and the slave of the organization. As long as the [Port Mafia] can continue to exist, I am willing to put myself in all the filth."
"To this end, I must constantly weaken the enemy and maximize the value of every member. As long as the organization can develop, I will gladly execute any plan that may be as brutal as the [optimal solution] may be."
"Because I love this city called Yokohama."
"is that so?"
Dazai Osamu of the Armed Detective Agency let out a low laugh.
Gradually, the laughter grew louder, almost turning into a clearly mocking laugh.
"I say, Chief Mori, your sweet talk is always so good at fooling people!"
Armed Detective Dazai raised his hand and pointed to the screen that was still playing, but his eyes were fixed on Mori Ougai—a smug and unrestrained smile was on his lips, as if he had never been so happy before.
“But did you hear what that Fyodor said? He said, when he could easily control half the darkness of this city, ‘Why should I be the leader?’”
Armed Detective Dazai enunciated each syllable carefully as he repeated the words that had just resounded throughout the studio.
"He's saying, '[How can anyone take over an illegal organization full of villains?' You can say you love Yokohama, Boss Mori, but your interests are still based on your [Port Mafia], and you're still considering the organization's interests. How can you have the nerve to say you're doing this for Yokohama?"
“Now there is someone who truly understands the perspective of the people of Yokohama, Chief Mori. There is someone who has faced power that is within his grasp but chose to give it up, saying, ‘The evil in this city must be eradicated.’”
Dazai, the armed detective, slightly raised his chin.
"Humanity is always full of sin and decay, and even though I have now come to the side of light, this essence is still deeply rooted in darkness—after all, the world we live in has never changed, only I have been changed."
"But I'm very happy now, Chief Mori. Because on the screen, there's someone whose ideals are completely opposite to yours. He neither loves Yokohama nor advocates for the optimal solution; every choice he makes is only for the sake of the masses who can live peacefully in this world."
"He is the one who is truly walking on the path that is worth following."
"Dazai-kun, how could you be so disrespectful to the leader..."
In the tense, deathly silence, Ozaki Koyo had no choice but to speak up and dissuade him.
"Oh dear, what is there about him that I should respect?"
With one hand raised, Dazai of the Armed Detective Agency spoke with disdain and made a blunt assertion.
"Let's continue and see if Yokohama is better when all illegal organizations are eradicated, or when countless illegal organizations exist."
"I also look forward to the ending." Mori Ougai only said this one sentence.
Compared to Dazai, his voice was devoid of any emotion.
In this sharp exchange of contradictions, Atsushi Nakajima, sitting next to Dazai Osamu, didn't dare to utter a sound, curling up in a ball on the sofa with his legs tucked in.
This is the first time I've ever seen Dazai-san get so angry... He really hates that Mori-sensei leader.
However, he was actually quite envious of the small building on the screen.
If only the orphanage he used to live in was as warm and happy as this.
If he could really move in, he'd be willing to go and fight some powerful illegal organization...
As for Pushkin, who played a major role in the destruction of the [Port Mafia], he was completely dumbfounded, exclaiming, "So my superpower is this amazing?!"
He immediately turned to Fyodor with great interest, "Boss, let's do the same..."
"Shh," Fyodor said, silencing Pushkin's words.
That's not our goal.
He kept his eyes on the screen as he said this.
That was another self, born from [sin], yet refusing to become [sin] himself—he was special and pure, being subtly and gradually seduced by [sin], unaware that he was walking into the trap.
At this moment, Fyodor couldn't wait to see how the alternate personality would react when it discovered it had been deceived.
The plan to eliminate the Port Mafia was progressing smoothly thanks to the personnel information provided by Ranpo in private, and the idea of the vice-personality Fyodor to further crack down on organized crime in Yokohama was also supported by everyone.
Dazai was even more motivated and began to work on a plan to eliminate the next illegal organization.
Midway through, Ranpo rescued the seriously injured Rimbaud and invited him to join the Armed Detective Agency.
The president's voice trembled, "Ranpo, you..."
In that film, Ranpo was the one who ruined the "Sankoku Project"!
Furthermore, they even brought back a foreign intelligence agent of superhuman level to the detective agency...
"ah?"
Ranpo turned his head innocently, but his voice sounded exceptionally happy, showing no remorse or guilt towards his on-screen persona.
"What does this have to do with me?"
Reflection is absolutely out of the question; in fact, he seems to prefer this timeline. "The Great Detective is Omnipotent"—hmph, he looked incredibly cool typing that line into the data!
"Besides, didn't the company president in the movie not object?"
President: "..."
Absolutely irrefutable.
When Verlaine, sitting in the back, saw Rimbaud appear, he didn't even have a chance to speak. He just stared wide-eyed at Rimbaud's light-colored figure, not blinking an eye as he etched it into his mind.
This was a dear friend he would never see again in his world.
However, the film did not heed his wishes, and after showing this part of the story, it smoothly transitioned to the next event.
Following instructions from his master, Fyodor, Gogol, who possesses powerful supernatural abilities, also came to the small building, volunteering to help realize the alternate personality's ideas.
After the successive collapses of illegal organizations, the name "Rats in the House of the Dead" spread throughout the underworld through Gogol's words.
In order to deal with the villain who has committed numerous murders and is now targeting the alternate personality Fyodor, the Special Abilities Division commissions a detective to work with the alternate personality Fyodor.
—Ayatsuji Yukito, a top-tier dangerous ability user and [murder detective].
Mizuki Tsujimura: "What?! There's even a scene with Ayatsuji-sensei!"
"Um?"
With no cigarettes to smoke, no books to read, and not even a doll at hand, Ayatsuji Yukito, who had been sitting there impatiently for a while, suddenly raised an eyebrow, slightly surprised.
"What an interesting world. Do I even have any connection with it?"
He shifted to a more comfortable position on the sofa, lazily propping his head up with his hand.
"Then let me see what I'll become in that other world."
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