Chapter 22 It is better to wear a raincoat on rainy days, otherwise the umbrella will be blown away with only the handle left.
Qian Jianmu is quite familiar with taking care of others.
When getting along with friends, there will often be unexpected care between each other. In fact, there is no reason or emotion at all, everyone is just "anthropomorphizing". Neither of them cares about this, and some may even casually comment that their skills have improved.
So when he took Dazai Osamu as his companion and saw that Dazai Osamu was covered in water, his DNA moved.
Dazai Osamu peeked out his round eyes from under the towel and stared at him blankly like a kitten with the towel against his head. Qian Jianmu was a little confused, but he didn't care. He just rubbed the cat's head a few more times, turned the towel over and put it on, then walked back and sat down very naturally.
“You…you are…”
Dazai Osamu's mind went blank.
His ability was invalidated. It was actually invalidated.
Not a superpower? Who are you? How come you look so much like an old friend of mine?
But except for him who had never seen an adult form, everyone was used to it. Qian Jianmu frowned slightly as he looked at the man with blood still dripping from his body.
"Where are you going after this?"
Shen Shanxiu blinked in confusion.
"I'm not... by you?"
"No, just find a place and live peacefully." Chijianmu sat on the tatami. Her sitting posture was not standard, but very beautiful.
"Speaking of which, eloping with a 15-year-old girl...?"
"No! It's not that kind of feeling. I'm 22 years old. How could I possibly?!"
Shen Shanxiu showed a horrible expression, and he tried his best to defend himself:
"Xiao Hongye has been raised in the mafia since she was a child. She was only taught how to guide and control the love of others. She is too lonely and doesn't know what family love and friendship are. ... I'm sorry, I should have explained it to her more clearly."
"Then why did you run away with her?"
"I just don't want to see her suffer anymore. She's just a girl." Shen Shanxiu's face was terribly pale. He was really stabbed, but the wound didn't hit any vital parts. He laughed bitterly:
"But, in the final analysis, this behavior is also full of mistakes."
I just wanted to take her away and make her happy.
His life was so worthless that even if he died he would just be adding to the garbage. He had no family or lovers, no friends or goals, and lived without knowing or feeling. But if he couldn't even save the people he wanted to try to save, then even if he died he would be full of regrets.
He no longer knew why he should live, so he decided to use his life to light a torch for the girl.
It's just such a despicable reason.
"Self-admiring." Dazai Osamu had passed the panic stage. He took off his wet coat, untied the bandages wrapped around his body, hid behind the Sengenmaku, and occasionally touched his exposed skin with his hands. "If you die, you will become a shadow in her life."
The young man's face turned even paler.
"You're not a copper smelting pervert. That's great. Otherwise, it would be a bit difficult to kill you." After Qian Jianmu understood the situation, he also became indifferent.
He looked down at the wet little boy and met his iris-colored eyes. The height difference allowed him to see the top of the boy's head easily. He reached out and rubbed the slightly curly black-brown short hair, feeling the warm body under his hands suddenly stiffen.
"Don't die." He said, "Your survival may be useless, but at least, you can see her again and say goodbye properly."
"…What is your purpose? What did she sacrifice to save me?"
Because of the blood loss, the young man's body was shaking and his eyes were black. In his weakness, he asked persistently:
"Soul and future, that's what she said, but actually..."
"I'll take her place."
The young man showed a painful expression. He knelt on the tatami, pressed his forehead against the ground, and showed an extremely humble look of submission. Enduring the pain, he whispered:
"I know I'm incompetent. I don't have any special powers. My abilities are mediocre. But, but, I want to use everything I have, whether it's my life, my abilities, or my future, to redeem her soul."
"Please let her be free, at least relatively free. This is the only way I can compensate her."
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"I've been cheated, isn't this love?"
After taking off his wet clothes, Dazai Osamu put on the spare shirt given by his boss. The shirt, which was slightly too big for a young man, made him look like a child who had stolen adult clothes.
"He just doesn't know how to live, so he just relies on someone. What do you think?"
Chiganemaku leaned against the window, watching Endo's back as he took the young man away for medical treatment. Nakai left with them, probably to contact Mafia in advance to get the latest information.
"Boring, stupid, uninteresting."
"That's true."
"Speaking of you, what's wrong with you? You scared me."
Suddenly seeing someone younger than you suddenly become an adult is like a horror movie.
"Oh, this?" Qian Jianmu looked at his body.
"It's just that the appearance of a child is not convenient, so I simulated the shell a little bit."
The Thousand Curtains were lifted, and the outermost layer of the illusory shell dissipated, revealing the young boy wearing a shirt on the innermost layer. He was a little shorter than Dazai Osamu at this time. The sudden change in his sight angle made him blink, and a well-behaved smile appeared on his childish face.
“It will be more convenient.”
"You are avoiding the topic." Dazai Osamu shouted, and he pointed out loudly: "You! This is not a supernatural power at all."
"Just think of it as a gift from God. How can it not be called a kind of supernatural power?" Qianjianmu blinked.
"You must be kidding! Whose god is this?"
"It's an evil god. Anyone who prays to him will be taken into nothingness."
Chigenmaku transformed herself into an adult again, combed her slightly messy long hair behind her ears, stood up, picked up the umbrella in the corner, and extended her hand to Dazai Osamu.
"It's time to go back."
Dazai Osamu stared at him blankly for a while, then came to his senses. He did not hold the hand, but followed the young man into the small empty and dry area under the umbrella.
So, does he have a place to go back to?
He wanted to laugh again, but he couldn't.
(Although we have some similarities, I will never be able to become someone like you.)
No need for understanding, no need for care, no need for any emotional charity.
What a real and strange group of people.
She turned a blind eye to his suicidal behavior and sometimes even showed a look of watching the fun. She would not say much about his wounds but would prepare clean bandages. She was completely laissez-faire about his behavior but was not without restraint. She would not express her love and care to him but would take him home when it rained.
It's really... terrifying.
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The president is currently looking for a new location to open the Armed Detective Agency.
No matter what, Wan Xiang Tang is not a suitable place for an agency. This is just a classroom abandoned due to the war. No matter what, the Armed Detective Agency is there to serve the public, so finding a suitable location is very necessary.
Yosano Akiko sat quietly in the corner. She didn't talk much. Although she tried hard to act normal, that look was by no means normal.
Edogawa Ranpo leaned lazily in his chair, put his hat on his face, and shook it back and forth in boredom.
"Ms. Yosano, have you finished reading?"
In order to take care of the girl's mental breakdown, the detective agency did not arrange any work for her immediately. She only needed to read a book and sit in Wanxiang Hall on a daily basis. She even tried to push back Ranpo's work. Although the president didn't say it explicitly, he also meant for Ranpo to accompany her.
So Ranpo directly threw the book written by Sengenmaku to her to read.
“It’s so sad to write…”
"Eh? Do you feel sad?"
Yosano Akiko raised her head, and the girl's golden butterfly hairpin was faintly shining with golden light.
“…So sad.”
"Okay, okay. Everyone has different ideas, right?" Edogawa Ranpo put on his hat, and his handsome eyebrows and eyes were very beautiful without the glasses covering them. "I'm so bored. I want to eat some snacks..."
As he said this, he lazily leaned aside, his eyes fixed on the gloomy sky.
"You can't eat anymore today. The president specifically told you that when he left." Yosano Akiko stood up and looked at the weather outside. "Ah, it's going to rain."
"Hey...are you going back?"
"Yes, because there are no cases today and the new house has not been cleaned up yet."
"Go back, go back. It's okay to be lazy for a while before the detective agency finds the address."
"Haha, only you would say that, Mr. Ranpo."
The girl opened the door and the sound of her footsteps gradually faded away in the empty corridor.
Edogawa Ranpo came back to his senses and looked at a certain point in the void in confusion.
"Idiot, it's really okay. But even words like that are hard to convey."
Even Ranpo-sama can't solve all the problems in life.
Ah, so boring, but...
His eyes fell on the latest sample issue, and gradually became sharper.
Come to think of it, Nakai didn't come to collect the sample issue, so that's the only possibility, right?
Finally caught you!
The president is not here, and Yosano Akiko is gone too, so...
"Hey!" Edogawa Ranpo jumped off the chair, picked up the sample magazine, rolled it up and knocked on the brim of his hat.
"Hehe, Ranpo-sama, I'm here to see you!"
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Yokohama, summer, heavy rain.
The rain curtain slices different people into different situations.
People who will intersect with each other in the future for one reason or another are still living their lives in an orderly manner but without any knowledge at this moment.
Oda Sakunosuke resting against the wall, Nakai Hideo hanging up the phone, Kamiyama Osamu stitching his wounds, Ozaki Kouyo being tortured in the punishment room, Yosano Akiko staring at the rain in a daze, Fukuzawa Yukichi running around in downtown Yokohama, Mori Ogai bowing respectfully at the top level of the port mafia.
Nakahara Chuuya, who is smiling but a little melancholy among the sheep, and Randou, who goes in and out of underground places to collect intelligence. Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who was hastily hiding from the rain while holding his sister, stood at the small window and looked at Nakajima Atsushi in the distance.
The calico kitten sleeping in the coffee shop opened its eyes in a daze, and the reflection of Dazai Osamu was following closely behind Chimamoto.
besides--
Edogawa Ranpo getting caught in the rain at the entrance of the shrine.
Damn it, I just got a little lost, and why is it raining so hard today!
Only the handle of the umbrella he brought was left!
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