"bite--"
When Nakahara Chuuya received the text message, he had just smashed the traitor's jaw and was about to shoot him three more times.
If it was a normal text message, Chuuya would certainly not be distracted at this time, but the leader and sister Hongye had special reminder sounds for him.
Why would Sister Hongye suddenly send him a message at this time?
Several thoughts flashed through Nakahara Chuuya's mind, such as someone attacking the Hong Kong triads, or another "Whale" about to fall into Yokohama.
But when he opened the text message, everything turned into question marks.
To this day, Nakahara Chuuya is completely unable to extract the full meaning of Sister Momiji from her poetic and obscure words, but he did extract a few key words.
In other words, these few key words were enough for him to infer the truth.
"Dazai Osamu", "Hotel", "His bill".
Nakahara Chuuya replenished three shots with one hand and used his mobile phone with the other to pull up the consumption details - this is an internal procedure of the Hong Kong underworld, used to check the specific details of the accounts receivable.
The long list of consumption at the top that would make ordinary people dumbfounded made Nakahara Chuuya angry.
Not only were there expenses on clothes, alcohol, restaurants, and electronic equipment, there was even a high-rise suite in the hotel - a suite that was extremely private, only available to high-ranking members of the mafia, and the costs were outrageously high.
Moreover, this is the family that Sister Hongye has taken over.
No wonder Sister Hongye sent a message to mention it.
Too! Kill! Rule!
Nakahara Chuuya almost crushed the name in his mouth before spitting it out.
Since they dared to provoke him in this way, and appeared clearly on the territory of the port mafia.
What does this mean? Just because there was a little cooperation before, they are now riding on the head of the Hong Kong underworld, not taking the leader seriously at all?
The more you take a step back, the angrier you will be; the more you endure, the more you will feel wronged!
Chuuya picked up the phone and called over, firing a barrage of verbal attacks at Dazai Osamu.
There was a rare silence for a long time - generally speaking, Dazai Osamu must have expected his call and would have refuted every word he said after answering the phone. After all, this was not the first time something like this had happened.
But this time, Dazai Osamu seemed to have lost his temper and waited for a long time before starting to mock in reverse.
This is not right. There must be something wrong with this.
Nakahara Chuuya was in deep thought.
This was a message from Hongye. If it was just a trivial matter, I believe she would not make a big deal out of it. I believe there must be something more serious going on in the hotel, but she did not say it clearly.
Thinking of this, Chuuya couldn't stay any longer. Things in Italy were almost resolved, so he might as well go back and see what tricks Dazai Osamu was playing.
Apart from anything else, if anyone dares to mess with the head of the port mafia, he will definitely give Dazai Osamu a good beating - ah, you ask about money?
Nakahara Chuuya was used to it. If it was just a small amount of money, he would have been too lazy to change the card password a few years ago. Changing it over and over again was just for Dazai Osamu's amusement.
Moreover, Dazai Osamu always steps on other people's minefields, but he is also very clear about other people's bottom line, so in most cases, he will not really cross the line.
Regarding this point, Zhongyuan Zhongya is relieved.
The flight application was too slow, and the fastest flight back home took at least 15 hours. It was not as fast as his own flight.
So he handed over some follow-up work to his trusted subordinates, and took advantage of the daylight to fly to Yokohama using gravity.
Even if it was a gravity user, it would take enough time to travel on a route with an absolute distance of over 10,000 kilometers. And this time was enough to turn Yokohama from day to night.
Nakahara Chuuya went straight to his target and landed on the rooftop of the hotel.
He gestured towards the surveillance camera on the roof, and the hotel security was instantly triggered. He also successfully entered the hotel from the rooftop.
Looking at the room number in front of him, he clearly felt a smell of slaughter - or rather, the smell of mackerel. Dazai Osamu must be in there!
Nakahara Chuuya didn't even think about going downstairs to get the room card. He just kicked two doors in a row, and said with a deep breath, "Tai-zai--"
Since you have the guts to come here, you must be prepared to endure his wrath...
What is this scene?
Nakahara Chuuya swallowed the second half of the sentence back into his stomach. The scene in front of him made his brain lose the ability to think instantly.
Of course he knew that Dazai Osamu was a very weird person. Whether it was in his work or in his life, Dazai Osamu had always brought "shocking" to people, but this——
He was seen pressing another person's waist on the bed, with his right hand twisted behind his back, and his aura looked subtle and gloomy - and the person under him had his clothes in disarray, his body sunken on the soft, clothes-strewn mattress, half of his face looking at him was flushed, and there seemed to be a few tears hanging from the corners of his eyes.
A short “ying” sound came out from a voice that sounded very similar to his.
Although I have always known that Dazai Osamu is a scumbag, and even though I know that he was once a member of the mafia, this is too much.
Life is really getting more and more uncertain.
"Tai, Dazai--" Thanks to Nakahara Chuuya, he still thought that he was a man with bottom line and sense of propriety.
Seeing Chuuya's expression, Dazai jumped up in panic, "Wait, Chuuya - I can explain..."
Explain what?
Chuuya looked at the face that looked exactly like his own, and the vest and choker on the bed that looked exactly like the one he was wearing now.
Although Nakahara Chuuya never reads any melodramatic novels, his current secretary is very interested in them. Because Chuuya has always had a close relationship with his subordinates, the secretary has instilled a lot of similar plots into him.
Substitute, substitute?
It’s hard. Nakahara Chuuya’s fist is hard.
The person on the bed got up, wrapped his messy clothes tightly, and hugged himself. His face, which looked exactly like Nakahara Chuuya's, was filled with shame, anger, and helplessness.
Chuuya's rationality suddenly broke.
Although he knew that things were not that simple, because the moment he entered, his special ability was suddenly lifted. He was very familiar with "Disqualified from the Human World" and naturally knew this feeling.
However, this did not prevent him from beating up Dazai first and then thinking about the situation. Anyway, it seemed that there was nothing urgent that required his attention.
There is no need to use supernatural powers, Dazai Osamu was beaten so hard that he covered his head and trembled.
While making out, he was also putting the blame on the person on the bed.
Chuuya grabbed the back of Dazai's neck - of course Dazai was bending down because Chuuya hit him on the waist.
It was rare that when Chuuya was so furious, Dazai Jiro knelt calmly on the bed, and another person also knelt over to him very tactfully.
Nakahara Chuuya pulled up a chair and waited for an explanation.
This interpretation will determine who will be unlucky next.
The subsequent developments were all logical, with an explanation followed by a quarrel, and he and Dazai Osamu temporarily hid the child. However, soon because of the relationship between the two leaders, they had to use their special features.
Later still, the Armed Detective Agency appeared on the evening news as the villains who destroyed the world.
Nakahara Chuuya heard this from the chief of the guards who were escorting them on the way to the military police center.
This is impossible——Chuuya frowned slightly.
No one knows their old rival, the Armed Detective Agency, better than them. Anyone could do those things, but not the people in the Detective Agency.
Even if we take a step back and assume that the detective agency really had such an intention, with that bastard Dazai around and a "kid" named Edogawa Ranpo, how could they be discovered and leave behind such irrefutable evidence?
It was obvious that someone had framed them.
But this doesn't seem to make sense. Not to mention the detective agency, even if it was their port mafia that suddenly murdered a government official on live broadcast, there would be people questioning the authenticity of such a video.
Because no one would be so stupid as to suddenly challenge the power system. This is especially true for the detective agency. How could the connections they have accumulated over the years seem to have completely failed at this moment?
And Dazai Osamu, who was captured by the special police force "Hounds" and taken to Meursault.
Nakahara Chuuya rubbed his forehead, not figuring out what that guy was doing.
But since even the leader looked so confident, he naturally wouldn't say anything more.
But what exactly is this feeling of disharmony, this feeling of disharmony hidden in every breath.
The few short days of interrogation went quite well. The military and police did not dare to really do anything to the leaders of the Hong Kong underworld. They were treated preferentially and the responsible persons were also quite polite.
Apart from temporarily cutting them off from the outside world, nothing seemed to have changed.
Until a document signed by Liyuan Daozao came and took him and the leader away.
Nakahara Chuuya slowly typed a question mark.
Of course, he couldn't remember all the members of the Port Mafia, but Tachihara of the Black Lizard was an exception. After all, when he visited the Black Lizard once, Tachihara actually said something like "Didn't you see Mr. Chuuya? He's not that small, is he?" when he was complaining about Higuchi Ichiyo.
This made Nakahara Chuuya remember the Black Lizard immediately.
A leader of ten black lizards has now become one of the five members of the special force "Hounds". Should we say he is well hidden or stable?
Chuuya glanced at Mori Ogai's expression, but the other person just took out his cell phone and called someone unknown.
"Yes, I have prepared it in advance. Remember to send it to Meursault."
The leader didn't seem to care about Tachihara's matter, or perhaps he had expected it, just like Ango did back then.
The opening and closing of a play seemed to have little to do with him. Sometimes Chuuya would wonder, whenever something happened in Yokohama, all the forces seemed to be trying to get rid of him without any prior agreement. He had gotten used to it.
Chuuya was relieved, and the only thing that was a little bit concerned was "that child". Maybe this name was not so appropriate, but he always felt that the other party was like a child.
No matter how well he performed, Nakahara Chuuya still had this lingering feeling, so he almost always granted the child's requests.
Except for meeting.
It's strange to say, he and the child had only met a few times. The child was obviously living with him, but he rarely went back.
It’s not that I don’t have time, it’s just that I’m a little afraid to face it.
Unlike Dazai Osamu who tested and then confirmed the information, Nakahara Chuuya should have been the first person to confirm the identity of the child, even before Dazai Osamu.
There was no process of investigation, guessing, or verification; Zhong Yuanzhong simply believed in his first instinct.
Beast-like intuition: When he first saw the child, he could feel very strongly that this person was just like him in another story.
He could even feel the same power in the other person, the resonance of "Arabato".
So he couldn't help wondering what would happen in another world. Or what happened in another time. Was that him in a parallel world, or him in the future?
But no matter which explanation is given, it seems to be accompanied by a strong sense of disharmony, but the former seems more credible.
When the child looked at him with extremely bright eyes, he seemed to read a bit of the same feeling as himself in the past from that look.
The child was craving for his own recognition.
Nakahara Chuuya thought that the child really wanted to gain his affirmation - and the content of this affirmation was the degree of similarity between the child and himself.
It seemed like he had become a role model for the other party in some aspects, and he had become a role model for himself. This was very strange, so Nakahara Chuuya had always been confused by this sense of incongruity.
However, this sense of disharmony did not disappear with the decomposition of the "book", but instead became increasingly intense.
This sense of disharmony also made Chuuya put down a business trip he was supposed to do and stay in Yokohama. Coincidentally, the leader also wanted to open the page of the "book" that Fukuchi Sakura had hidden.
And, he found it.
The intelligence came from an inconspicuous intelligence point of the Hong Kong underworld, who was previously under the command of cadre A. After A's death, he was temporarily incorporated into his team for unified management.
Because the matter is of great importance, Chuuya personally went to Yokohama Outer Harbor. According to intelligence, special forces were detected in the seabed, and there were similar fluctuations to the two days when Yokohama was controlled by the "Book" not long ago. The Special Powers Division once sent people to negotiate with the Hong Kong Black, hoping to investigate this area of the sea because it is the sphere of influence of the Hong Kong Black.
But Mr. Mori did not agree. Before the Hong Kong blacks themselves figured out what was going on, they would not hand over the initiative to other forces.
It is precisely because some equipment has been deployed to conduct wide-area monitoring of the nearby waters that Chuuya was able to receive the news first.
Chuuya was not afraid of the pressure on the seabed when he went into the sea. The deeper he swam, the darker the environment became. Until he reached the bottom, there was no sign of life in the area.
Chuuya used the light he brought down to feel the thick silt on the seafloor. Suddenly, a sharp pain came from his fingertips, as if something had stabbed him.
He frowned. He had been using his special ability at the bottom of the sea, so he didn't feel the gravity being broken just now. He rubbed his fingertips wrapped in gloves, and the tingling sensation just now seemed like an illusion.
Nakahara Chuuya turned over the silt and there seemed to be some faint black spots underneath, but in the already dark environment, this seemed like an illusion.
The sea water with gravity spontaneously drilled through the silt, and Chuuya finally saw the thin piece of paper hidden underneath.
It’s “book”!
Chuuya's hand touched the page, but gravity had no effect on it. It seemed that special things were indeed special.
Everything seemed normal up to this point, but he didn't notice that in the darkness, a drop of blood was seeping down through the mud.
This "book" filled with words was not left with Chuuya. As soon as he returned, he went to the leader's office in person to hand it in.
It was from this time that Chuuya clearly felt that something was wrong with his condition. His body temperature was rising and he looked a little dazed.
"Chuye-kun, have you been working too hard lately?" Mori Ogai asked, "Everything is going well lately, why don't you go back and take a rest?"
"Hmm..." Chuuya pressed his chest, feeling like something was about to break out of the ground.
He did not go home. When he was busy, he would often stay in Honghei to rest. He also had a fully decorated room in the building where he lived.
He finished the remaining report and then had his customary drink.
He thought that he had to go back tonight. After procrastinating for so long, there was actually no need for him to avoid the child's gaze.
But that strange feeling of anxiety just kept rising, and then he felt a strong sense of drowsiness coming over him.
He lay down on the table and planned to take a nap.
Rarely, he had a dream.
He had had this dream for a long time since he came to Hong Kong.
When he woke up from darkness, it was like a blank sheet of paper, with nothing in it.
The memories were transmitted to him through dreams, and of course there were only scattered fragments, which hinted at key information one by one, such as his name, his abilities, and his characteristics.
He always wakes up and then knows something about himself, but he never knows how this information comes from, just like people often cannot remember their dreams.
But this time was different. He clearly saw Yokohama City like a small black dot embedded in the tip of a powerful spear.
And he himself appears to be holding the gun.
This is very abstract and magical, and then Nakahara Chuuya felt like he was experiencing a "sleep paralysis". He seemed to be standing in the perspective of a viewer looking at everything in front of him, the screen was his pupil, and he was now sitting behind this pupil.
Looking at all this, I couldn't control myself at all.
He watched Akutagawa and Nakajima attack him, he watched himself trample them under his feet, he watched Dazai Osamu come and go, he watched... the child met the lightning, and then struggled to separate a chain that was strong enough to lock him.
He watched the seawater backflow and the gloomy sky merge together. There were only waves on the sea. Under the gloomy sky, the waves were biting like crazy, as if there were countless mouths, roaring curses from the depths of the sea towards the gloomy sky day and night. *
He watched as the true form of the "Doujian Arahat" sleeping on the bottom of the sea shot through the gloomy air like an arrow and pressed down on Yokohama. He watched as the child used his body to stop the artifact from falling. He watched countless lives perish.
Then he discovered that this was not a dream.
The rainstorm has just begun, the cold wind has come, I welcome death in my dreams, the pain and panic are all hidden in the bleak dusk. *——What is destroyed is my heart; what is destroyed is my dream; the so-called memory seems to be gone; walking on the road, I can't help but feel dizzy. *
Nakahara Chuuya knelt on the ground. The moment he woke up, the white chain washed along the lines on his body, turning the originally dirty black and red lines into white.
"No Longer Human" has always been the chain of "Doujian Huangbatu". Its existence can prolong his life, but in the final analysis, the relationship between the two is that of a caretaker and the cared for.
The hearts and emotions of the two abilities directly affect the effectiveness of the seal.
If the two people are distantly related and cannot recognize each other, then the chain will seal any possible leaks of "Fighting Arabida"'s abilities; but if the two recognize each other, "Disqualification from the Human World" will become a controllable switch that will only work on "Fighting Arabida", while reasonably controlling its range of destruction without eroding the container's will.
With a clang, the gun landed in front of Zhongyuan Chuuya's eyes, and a black hat slowly hung on it. This was not his hat, but the hat of the child before, which just rolled over and fell into his hands.
Nakahara Chuuya looked up and saw a beam of light sliding down over the child's head, isolating the child from the world of light.
His transparent body seemed to be standing on the divine spear. When he looked at Chuuya, his eyes seemed to be confused for a moment, and then the child seemed to realize that his will was about to disappear, and suddenly laughed.
They are clearly two identical faces, but they look so different when they smile.
Chuuya looked closely at the face that looked like a mirror. If he was told that this was his half, he would be suspicious. But if he was told that this was his and Dazai Osamu's son, he would not even have any doubts. He did not believe it.
It's not about love, it's just impossible.
Putting aside their current opposing positions, let's talk about Huang Batu's characteristics. Many people don't know that he actually does not have the ability to reproduce.
The container of "Arabato" was chosen by "Arabato" itself, and it was even chosen before the "container" was born.
Just like the messengers of God who have to dedicate their lives to God and are not allowed to marry, when Nakahara Chuuya carries the "Arabatu", all his growth states will be accompanied by the "Arabatu". Although he sometimes cares about his height and thinks about growing up in the future when he was young, he is also very clear that this is not the will of Yita.
The methods that are effective for ordinary people have no effect on him.
Dazai Osamu would laugh at Chuuya for this, but this kind of laughter actually acknowledged that Chuuya would not grow because of his genes. That child was taller than him, which meant that his ability of "Arabatu" would mature later.
When the power of "Arabato" reaches maturity, the body of the vessel is locked at the moment of maturity. He will not grow old, but will only weaken until one day he can no longer bear this power and then die.
Then "Arabato" will go looking for another host.
In this world, only Chuuya Nakahara knows these things, and he has never told anyone. He has never said that just like he came into this world alone, he will leave alone one day.
Zhongyuan Zhongya doesn't want anyone to know his secret. He doesn't want anyone - especially the people he loves - to know that he will not have an ordinary life, and will not have a normal lifespan.
Every time he uses Filth, his life span is shortened, but due to the nature of Arakawa's Tutu, his body won't show signs of weakening before it's truly weakened.
His relationship with this world is shallow, which does not come from his heart but from his life experience. That is why he cares so much about his connection with this world and he needs a place to stay.
Just like a god without believers will disappear, he needs some chains connected to this world to hold him back.
He cherishes every day that passes, so whenever he sees Dazai Osamu not cherishing his life, he gets angry.
He clearly has something that is beyond his reach, but he never takes it to heart.
Young Nakahara Chuuya never mentioned to anyone his jealousy towards Dazai Osamu.
He always took out his jealousy as a way to vent his energy - of course, usually on Dazai Osamu, such as by beating him up.
He envied Dazai Osamu's ability to lift everything up lightly and put it down low; he envied Dazai Osamu's ability to control his own life, and no matter how suicidal he was, his vigorous vitality seemed to never dry up; he envied Dazai Osamu's ability to live so selfishly and not care about anyone's thoughts.
Even the internal publication "Chuuya the Unyielding Chuuya" which Dazai Osamu created to humiliate him made Chuuya feel different.
Chuuya Nakahara is never soft-hearted when it comes to hitting and scolding, but in fact, every episode of "Chuuya the Unyielding" is left behind, which makes him feel alive. It's strange to say that when he was a "sheep", his strong sense of responsibility came from the recognition he wanted, and Dazai Osamu's determination to win him just satisfied this feeling.
Zhongyuan Zhongye is a strong man, like a sharp sword without a sheath. In the winter night, it is cold and cold, and then it is rubbed and produces mottled purple rust. He hides himself behind the hard door, like a pile of dead firewood. *
He is so bright because he is burning himself.
But now, he felt very sad because he knew that the person in front of him was burning himself to pave the way for him.
Zhong Yuanzhong couldn't accept it because when he looked at the person in front of him, it was like he was looking at himself.
He was pushed out of the abyss by another self.
And he, it seemed as if he would never have the chance to pull him up again.
The white lines on Nakahara Chuuya's body suddenly felt like an electric current running through his body. The sunlight spots on his body felt slightly hot, as if he was being embraced by another invisible self.
It was like finding eternity again, the sea shining with the sun. *The child's soul disappeared from sight here, but was buried in my heart along with the white light, like a chain.
Never fall.