It is really tiring to talk to Mr. Tuo. I have to break each sentence into three parts to understand it, and I have to control my facial expressions and eyes, and even any possible micro-movements.

I am still far from being as good as Dazai-sama.

"Ah - this is so disgusting," I stretched my waist like a slobbery, and said, "You guys who play with the script have dirty hearts!"

"Playing with the script? That's an interesting description."

I feel like President Tuo is looking at me as if he is his own child - no, he should be thinking of me as someone else's cabbage, and now he wants to take me for himself.

Especially since he snatched someone from Dazai-sama, he must have felt a great sense of accomplishment.

"With Sigma's example, are you still worried?"

"Isn't it because of Sigma's example that I'm even more worried?" You want me to be your pawn like Sigma?

Go and fulfill your beautiful dream of spring and autumn.

"You clearly know the difference between you and Sigma. And, if you need, we can do an experiment with Sigma first. Before he collapses, he still has some value."

"No, Sigma is no longer useful. His cognition and other people's cognition of him are already complete." I was really crossing the river by feeling the stones. I had to guess what Tuo was thinking while guessing my own problems.

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"It's not difficult to reformat it. All you have to do is add a little to the original story." Mr. Tuo took out a blank piece of paper from his pocket without hesitation, but this piece of paper was missing an irregular page corner.

——"Book", and it was the page that Tuo had torn off to test me.

This is strange. If the five decays of the celestial beings have already used the pages of the "book", how is it possible that there is still a complete, unused "book" left?

"'The Five Decays of Heaven' and 'I' are two different entities. Although the 'story' was also written by me, my purpose is the same." Tuo Zong held the page of the "book" between his fingers. "This one was taken from Chief Taneda of the Special Powers Division."

This one was obtained from the farming chief, so what about the other one?

There are more pages of the book that are missing than I initially expected. There are so many things that can be done with this whole extra page.

The situation is worse than we imagined - much worse.

etc--

"After you used Sigma's special ability to exchange this information with Chief Taneda, how could Chief Taneda be so obedient?" I thought quickly, "Unless he is in a state of being unable to move."

But, the news about Sister Hongye...

"That's right. But, that Sakaguchi-kun is really quite capable. He kept the news secret and deceived everyone, not even himself." Tuo Zong hinted, "People who have been in contact with supernatural powers for many years have formed a fixed way of thinking and have forgotten the skills of ordinary people."

Ordinary people's skills

"...Disguise." I laughed. It was still a dark place under the lamp. I was afraid that even the deputy captain did not expect that it would be such a simple method.

A light bulb went off in my head.

Mr. Tuo's plan is for himself, so the matter of the page of the "book" possessed by Chief Taneda must not be exposed to other people in the Five Degenerations of Heaven and Earth - Sigma is an exception, that little guy is very simple, and it is too easy to shut him up.

The problem is the undercover agent in "Hunter Dog". If Chief Taneda has been in trouble and everything happened under the personal plan of General Tuo, then Okura Yezi's suspicion will be cleared.

President Tuo would not let the "undercover" get close to Chief Taneda whose identity was flawed.

Fukuchi Sakurachi - He is the undercover agent in "Hunter Dog" and he is a member of the Five Degenerations of the Celestial Beings.

Oh, it was really an interesting thing. In the end, the existence of the special unit "Hounds" became a joke.

I thought of Caiju and Tieju, two people who had complete faith in their own understanding and in their own "righteousness".

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"Dazai-kun is indeed very powerful. Even I didn't expect that he would use the power of the 'book' to send himself to Meursault. It really disrupted my plan. That prison that is known as an iron wall is difficult for even me to reach into." Mr. Tuo stroked the tear in the page of the "book" with his fingers. "But I didn't expect him to use the 'book' to do this. I thought he would use this fragment to help the detective agency, or - help you."

Dazai-sama wrote himself into Meursault?

I had doubts about this matter in my mind. I didn't see the contents of the "book" page fragments clearly at that time, but as long as it came from Mr. Tuo's mouth, I had to evaluate its credibility.

"But you still respect him very much. Why?"

"He is my 'mother' - or 'father', this cannot be changed, and respect for him is natural."

"Pfft——hahahaha," Mr. Tuo laughed wildly as if he had heard something funny, and my eyes twitched.

What's wrong? Am I telling a joke without realizing it?

The iron idiot is actually me?!

"That's why I said you are really amazing. To make a lie come true, you must first deceive yourself. I have used this trick countless times and it always works. But in my heart, I know very well that a lie is a lie. It is easy to perfectly deceive others, but it is impossible to perfectly deceive yourself, or even deceive your subconscious mind." Mr. Tuo used himself as an example, "But you did it."

I... deceived myself?

This proposition is meaningless to me. If I can detect it myself, then it is not the perfect lie that Tuo Zong told. But if it is a perfect lie, I naturally cannot detect it.

But I have to say, my heart was confused for a moment.

"Then tell me, how did I deceive myself?"

Mr. Tuo started to fold paper airplanes with the "book" in his hand, and dropped a bombshell on me in a seemingly casual tone.

"You are not the child of Dazai-kun and Nakahara-kun at all."

My eyes darkened and my tone turned cold unconsciously, "Look at my face and say it again?"

And as for my special ability, I should have had a clear feeling when he touched me just now.

Can't even being disqualified from being a human being prove my identity?

"Your face, your special abilities, none of them belong to you."

Listen to what you say. Don't you think it's contradictory?

My things don't belong to me?

My face doesn't belong to me anymore, so who does it belong to?

"Your body data belongs to the port mafia member, Nakahara Chuuya. He identifies with you much more than Dazai-kun because the two of you have great similarities."

No, no way?

I frowned and looked at Mr. Tuo.

"You must have felt it yourself, especially during the battle with Jouno-kun and Suehiro-kun. This feeling was probably the strongest. Although I didn't have a trained body, I was able to keep up with their physical qualities. Although I was short-sighted, I was able to use my dynamic vision to keep up with their well-trained fighting postures. Although the blade pierced my body, I still didn't feel it. Although it was an extremely dangerous situation, I didn't have any emotional ups and downs and could think calmly."

My goodness, you watched our fight up close, and Tiao Ye Cai Ju didn’t notice you?

Or is it one of them... No, it can't be either of them.

Is there some hidden machine that can see there?

Since Fukuchi Sakurachi is a member of the Five Degenerates of Heaven, it is not surprising that Tieju and Caiju have something that can be observed from a distance.

But how do you know I am nearsighted?

As I was thinking this, I saw him pull a small box out of his pocket. He opened it and showed me -

"It's better not to throw such things into the sacred vessel." Tuo Zong said, closing the box and throwing it to me.

I slapped it away with one hand.

It's already lost, do you still want me to wear it again?

It was really scary, as if he had control over all my movements. At the time, I just thought the dust there wasn't real enough, and I thought it was something that Dazai-sama had done when he came in to put something away, but now it seems that may not be the case.

Fortunately, I checked everything in the chamber carefully and found that no one had ever been in. The "Black Cat of the Rue Morgue" also did not look like it had been opened or used.

I am sure of this.

Fortunately, I kept the fragments of the "book" page "close to my body" at that time, otherwise -

Mr. Tuo might have the opportunity to confirm the above content.

"Nakahara-kun's body is very special. His body is designed to be far superior to that of an ordinary person even without any training. His taijutsu is innate, because if he is not strong, he will not be able to become a safety device for the natural disaster 'Arabato'."

Don't say it, I don't want to hear it anymore.

"Yes, you were also created as the next safety device. In principle, you are a being that can be mass-produced with infinite pages of the "book"."

Tuo's words are really the whispers of the devil. His words will guide you to follow his thoughts, because the amount of information is always huge, so you need to work hard to keep up.

The harder you work, the more you'll get into his rhythm.

Once you enter his mind, everything will be controlled by him as if it were a perfect fit.

The violent tremor that just shook my heart was proof of the power of his words.

"I am not."

"There's no need for a smart person like you to deceive yourself. Why do you always pinch yourself and then look relieved? " asked Mr. Tuo.

I was trying to make sure it was safe—to make sure…

Confirm the safety of what?

I tried hard to recall, but it was as if this memory was deliberately blurred.

It's the same feeling I had when I didn't know why I gave Dazai-sama the nickname "Zaizi".

I just came to a conclusion, using pain to confirm safety.

But the process in between seemed to be erased by something.

"Even if you don't know it, you are still using pain to confirm your existence." Mr. Tuo looked at my changing expression with great satisfaction, "Just like Zhongyuan Jun, containers don't need to have feelings, and safety devices don't need them either, but 'people' are different."

“The moment you can feel pain, you gain the qualification of being a ‘human’ and obtain the key to the door to the human world.”

"That's why you keep confirming, keep trying, keep hurting yourself - but it's a pity that Dazai-kun didn't fulfill your wish, even though you got the fragment of the 'book' -"

"He still hasn't used you."

"To Dazai-kun, you are just a chess piece."