I couldn't continue thinking, especially in front of Mr. Tuo. I didn't want to reveal too many flaws, so I could only postpone all my questions for the time being.
But the words that were spoken could not be taken back.
"Oh, isn't it the second time?" Mr. Tuo crossed his hands on his knees, and was very interested in the topic I brought up. "Is there another time that I don't know about?"
"How could there be something you don't know?" I didn't want to answer him, so I started to avoid the question and just made sarcastic remarks to him.
"Or is it that only the 'I' in this world doesn't know?" Mr. Tuo said to himself.
My limbs and neck were bound, and I couldn't even lower my head to escape.
"You should know exactly what an ordinary person like me thinks every day. Why do you have to ask me? Don't you think it's cheap?"
"How could that be? I gain a lot from every conversation with you."
You have gained a lot, but my affairs have become more and more troublesome.
It's very annoying.
"People's self-confidence is really an ambiguous thing." I looked at Mr. Tuo's blurred inorganic pupils, "Did you really get what you wanted from me?"
"I got a part of it, but what I want more is you." Mr. Tuo stood up and walked in front of me.
After all, he had a tall body standing in front of me, and I was forced to look directly at his flat belly.
Immediately afterwards, Mr. Tuo's hand slowly slid down from my ear to my artery, as if he was feeling the beating of my blood.
"I?"
"It's you." Mr. Tuo seemed to be unable to stand still and circled behind me again. "Compared to what you know, you are more valuable."
I laughed at myself, "How could I deserve your attention?"
"You are special. It is because of your existence that I see another possibility."
Another possibility?
In other words, my presence made him disrupt his original plan.
His original plan -
The biggest difference between the current situation and his original plan was probably the position he was in. He was not in Meursault, face to face with Dazai-sama.
If it is Master Tou and Master Dazai, they will obtain intelligence about each other in their own way. But the ultimate purpose of the intelligence is to achieve their own goals.
The purpose of Tuo Zong is naturally to clean up what he calls "evil", or to bring "punishment" to the "evil" special ability users. Ultimately, he wants to build a world without special ability users.
Of course, these purposes are the result of not considering the five decays of the gods as a whole, but only taking Tuozong as the object of thinking.
In fact, it should be so, because Mr. Tuo relied on the power of Agency No. 7, not the Five Degenerations of Heaven or the Rat of the Dead House.
This means that he consciously wanted to avoid others and single me out.
There is another point in which Dazai-sama and I are similar.
"Disqualified from the human world." I replied, "You want this 'anti-supernatural ability' to achieve your goal."
A crisp laugh came from behind.
Although I have reservations about Mr. Tuo's character, his face and voice seem to be able to bewitch people.
"That would be true if you failed the test. But right now, your worth is greater than your powers themselves."
As Mr. Tuo spoke, the buckle on my neck made a "click" sound, and the pressure that was originally exerted on my neck disappeared completely.
"My value to you has never been determined by your perception, but by my cognition." I shook my neck back and forth to ease the tension. "I don't think I can have any effect on you now."
Don't think that what I said is metaphysical or philosophical. In fact, it is just another way of expressing my non-cooperation. My attitude is very negative.
Of course, it would be great if we could get a more detailed plan from Mr. Tuo, but we can't do it in a crude and simplistic way.
Whenever such a confrontation is about to happen, I can't suppress my excitement.
Mr. Tuo kept talking, "In fact, we are the same kind of people. As long as we can achieve our goals, it doesn't matter what means we use or who we cooperate with, right?"
He pressed some button to untie the restraints on my limbs, and when my hands left the armrests of the chair, he sat on my left side.
As the safe distance keeps shrinking, the pressure in that kind of interaction is also increasing.
"Indeed, your methods are always unexpected." I curled my lips.
But what I was really thinking in my heart was, what exactly is my own purpose?
It seems that he just doesn't want to disappoint Dazai-sama's expectations and trust?
No, more than that, but I can’t quite put it into words.
"You, you don't fully realize it yourself, right?" Mr. Tuo held my right shoulder with his right hand.
This posture is somewhat intimate, but my focus is different. He is holding me, is it because the armrests of the chair are too narrow and he can't sit steadily?
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Mr. Tuo suddenly leaned down and looked me in the eye. His deep pupils were like an abyss, and seemed to suck me in the moment they met my eyes.
It deeply explains what it means that "when you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you."
"You don't have to be cautious and there's no need to test me. I want you to be honest." Mr. Tuo said something extremely ambiguous, which made me a little at a loss.
But if you want me to be honest, you should do this first.
"When...did you arrive in this world?" asked Mr. Tuo.
? !
Even though we were face to face, even though I kept telling myself to hold myself together and not show any flaws, my physical reaction to these words was beyond my control.
The slightly shrunken pupils did not escape Tuo's observation.
"Your goal is actually very simple, but the simpler the goal, the more difficult it is to achieve." Mr. Tuo had already seen the reaction he wanted to see from me, so he sat back in the chair he sat in at the beginning.
Sit facing me.
"I have already read the identification that Dazai-kun made for you. Both the one that was compared with Dazai-kun and the one that was compared with Nakahara-kun are not true. It's just that the purpose of each one is different. The former is to be left with the Port Mafia for Mori Ogai to see; the latter is to be taken back to the Armed Detective Agency for the military and police to search for it."
"But both copies were made by Dazai-kun. The real copy has only been seen by two people. One is Dazai-kun himself who did the test himself, and the other is you - you who don't have an identity or a name yet."
I can tolerate being told that I don’t have a name, but isn’t my identity known to everyone as “Dazai-sama’s good son”?
"Dazai-kun has indeed put a lot of effort into your 'identity'. People from the detective agency, the port mafia, the group, the 'hounds', and even me are included. Whether they are enemies or friends, he has included them in the scope of people he needs to know. But this method is too slow. Can you really hold on until the moment his plan is completed?" Mr. Tuo asked me with a smile.
I can't answer that.
It's not that I can't answer this question, but his series of words made me unable to react. I couldn't help but think -
Am I missing something? How come the answer is suddenly easy, just like a math problem?
Is it easy to get?!
"However, even the most ingenious person cannot control unknown events. All his plans are based on his own hypotheses. I don't need to say more about the success rate, right?"
I moved my hips and crossed my legs. "The same goes for you. My existence is also 'special' to you, isn't it?"
"It's 'the most special'," he said without denying what I said, "but it's not 'the first'. You should also know about the child named Sigma."
"Of course I know. You even created a 'SkyCasino' for him as a reward for his existence. It's really not a waste at all."
Sky Casino, as a manufacturing and distribution site for filling currency with □□, will be a key location to trigger an important stage in the future of the Heavenly Five Decay Plan - a literal currency crisis. If even the concrete money in hand is not safe, people will become uneasy and the government's credibility will decline. At this time, as long as it is guided, it will cause chaos worldwide.
—A perfect, worldwide terrorist attack.
Sigma is just a recycled part, a waste product used to run SkyCasino.
For Sigma himself, without any memory of the past and without a past world, the whole meaning of life naturally lies in the Sky Casino.
It truly achieves "recycling" - it doesn't seem like Tianren Wuxu is actually an "environmental protection" organization.
But Sigma is also in my plan. Sigma is easier to get than Tachihara. That child - a child in the literal sense, is too ordinary among a group of perverts.
Although it cannot be considered a natural life form, it is more humane than many other "people".
The human heart is hard to predict, but human nature is easy to predict.
"Of course, the leader of the Five Degenerates doesn't like waste." Tuo Zong did not deny it.
I held my chin in my hand. "It's 'the leader of the five degenerates' - not 'your leader'?"
Are you challenging me?
"So I just said that for people like us, it doesn't matter who we cooperate with or what means we use. What matters is our own goal." Mr. Tuo was indeed "honest" enough. "If you have no value to me, I won't sit here. Conversely, if I have no value to you, you won't sit here either, right?"
"You really discovered it." When I realized that Mr. Tuo was the person I wanted to kidnap, I realized how careless I had been.
My methods are still too immature.
"Of course, you were brought here on purpose."