Chapter 85

The black windbreaker fluttered behind him, and the fresh wind kept blowing past his ears. This free fall journey seemed too long. Dazai Osamu stretched out his arms naturally, as if he had become a free bird.

It is said that before a person dies, he will see a revolving lantern, which allows him to review his life experiences. Not long ago, Dazai Osamu shared the life of another Dazai Osamu in a strange way. Although strictly speaking, that life did not belong to him completely, those pictures unconsciously rotated in his mind, and he suddenly felt much brighter, just like light breaking through the dark clouds and shining on the dark soil, awakening the seeds buried deep in the soil...

Even if I leave like this, it won't be a pity, Dazai Osamu couldn't help thinking...

Behind him was the port mafia building that he had left far behind. On the rooftop of the building were two surprised teenagers - Nakajima Atsushi and Akutagawa Ryunosuke. The two had previously heard Dazai Osamu tell them the truth about this world, and before they could react, the leader, who seemed to be in a thick fog that was impossible to see or understand, leaped down.

After recovering from the impact, Nakajima Atsushi instantly activated his supernatural power and transformed into a white tiger. He used the force to step on the edge of the building and ran down after Dazai Osamu's figure.

Unlike Dazai Osamu's floating state, Nakajima Atsushi ran all the way on the outer wall of the port mafia building. He wanted to catch up with the falling figure and catch him before he hit the ground.

The sturdy white tiger almost turned into a streak of white light, but it was too late for him to catch up. Even though he had tried his best to close the distance between the two sides, it was still not enough. In his eyes, the leader still fell mercilessly to the ground.

Nakajima Atsushi was filled with despair. He closed his eyes helplessly and let out a long, sorrowful sigh, but because of this he missed the scene below...

Ryunosuke Akutagawa of the Armed Detective Agency has been looking for his sister, and recently he finally found his own clues. It turns out that his sister Akutagawa Gin is in the port mafia.

After learning the truth, Akutagawa Ryunosuke came to kill the port mafia, and Kunikida Doppo and Miyazawa Kenji of the Armed Detective Agency came to support them. After that, Oda Sakunosuke, who had met the mafia leader, also followed out of concern.

When Oda Sakunosuke saw Kunikida Doppo, the first thing he wanted to do was to rush into the Black Hand Gang to rescue Akutagawa Ryunosuke. However, just as he arrived at the door of the Black Hand Gang's building, Oda Sakunosuke suddenly stopped Kunikida Doppo who wanted to move forward.

"Give me a roll of steel wire." Oda Sakunosuke suddenly spoke.

Kunikida Doppo was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted. Although he didn't understand why Oda Sakunosuke suddenly wanted the steel rope, he understood Oda Sakunosuke's special ability and cooperated almost instinctively. He took out his notebook and activated his special ability "Doppo Ginka", and a roll of steel rope was handed to Oda Sakunosuke.

The moment he took it, Oda Sakunosuke threw one end of the cable out, and it just happened to hook a passing truck. The truck deviated under his pulling. The driver didn't know what was going on. Seeing that the truck was about to rush into the building of the port mafia, he stepped on the brakes quickly. The tires rubbed against the ground, making a harsh sound, accompanied by a strange muffled sound. Anyway, after a period of chaos, the truck just stopped in front of the building of the port mafia...

All this happened in a very short period of time. Kunikida Dopo stood there stunned. He already knew why Oda Sakunosuke suddenly asked him for the steel cable, because just now, a figure suddenly fell from the top of the port mafia building and happened to fall into the truck pulled by Oda Sakunosuke. At this time, the back of the truck was loaded with various plush dolls, which could provide a lot of cushioning. That person should be okay, right?

Kunikida Dopo wanted to go forward to check, but at this moment, a white shadow rushed down from above the Port Mafia again, causing him to stop subconsciously and look up. This time, he found another figure on the roof of the Port Mafia building, and that person was sticking his head out to observe the situation below.

Kunikida Dopo adjusted his glasses and looked carefully. He found that the figure looked familiar. It seemed to be Akutagawa Ryunosuke, a member of the Armed Detective Agency...

One person was on the top of the building and two people fell down. This situation made Kunikida Dobu have a bad association. Could it be that the two people who fell down were pushed down by Akutagawa Ryunosuke?

Thinking of this, Kunikida Dopo quickly looked to the side.

After Nakajima Atsushi landed on the ground, he looked around blankly. Instead of the bloody scene he had expected, there was a truck parked there, and the driver inside was looking at him in horror...

Nakajima Atsushi returned to his adult form and rushed towards the truck full of dolls: "Chief Dazai..."

Hearing Nakajima Atsushi's call, Kunikida Doppo and Oda Sakunosuke looked at each other. They both understood Akutagawa Ryunosuke's desire to find his sister, but they also understood that if the leader of the port mafia suddenly died, it might not be a good thing for Yokohama.

Especially Oda Sakunosuke. He had met the leader of the Mafia in a bar before. At that time, the other party called him "Oda Sakunosuke" very familiarly and said some strange things. He knew that Akutagawa's behavior would definitely be hunted down by the Mafia. In order to force the leader of the Mafia to give up the pursuit of Akutagawa, he threatened with a gun. At that time, the leader seemed very sad and begged him not to shoot him in the bar no matter what.

As a notorious leader of the mafia, Oda Sakunosuke felt that his scheming and methods were no match for him, but when he met those deep and heavy iris-colored eyes that seemed to be filled with suffocating sorrow, he put away his gun. He let the mafia leader leave, and at the same time, because he was worried about Akutagawa's safety, he chased after him, and met up with Kunikida Dopo who had arrived here earlier.

Oda Sakunosuke's special ability "Seamless Clothes" can predict what will happen in the next few seconds. He predicted that someone would fall from the building, which is why he did the previous series of actions. He never thought that the person he saved this time was the leader who he had threatened with a gun not long ago. He felt a little complicated for a while...

“Captain Dazai…” Nakajima Atsushi dove into the cart full of stuffed dolls, searching through them until he finally grabbed a leg…

It was warm. Somehow, he could sense the temperature of his subordinates. Nakajima Atsushi was a little stunned. It turned out that the powerful leader who controlled the entire black/hand/gang in his hands was also a person with flesh and blood...

Nakajima Atsushi seemed to have just realized this, because the leader usually gave people the feeling of a tireless machine. He squeezed his life and energy as if he was completing some task that had to be completed.

The previous conversation in the Black Hand building made him understand the leader's purpose. The leader arranged everything and handed the task of protecting the world to him and Akutagawa of the detective agency, and then destroyed himself like a machine that had reached the end of its service life.

At the moment when the leader fell from the roof, Nakajima Atsushi suddenly felt a great panic in his heart. Although the leader had explained everything, he still couldn't believe it. Could he really take on such a heavy responsibility to protect the world? He felt like a confused child who suddenly lost his parents.

With this uncontrollable panic, he chased after him without hesitation. Fortunately, although he didn't catch up in time, the leader was saved, and he seemed to have been saved from the fear of extinction...

Nakajima Atsushi didn't dare to pull hard. He pushed aside the surrounding dolls and carefully dug out the leader.

The leader seemed to have not recovered from the huge impact. He lay on his back on a pile of dolls, staring at the distant sky without blinking. Perhaps because he was surrounded by dolls full of childlike fun, at this moment, Nakajima Atsushi suddenly felt that the leader, the ruler of the Yokohama Dark Order, suddenly had a childishness, especially his iris-colored eyes reflecting the blue sky, which contained a pure and hot light that he had never seen before.

Kunikida was comforting the frightened truck driver, while Oda Sakunosuke came over to check on Dazai Osamu. The leader, who had been staring blankly into the sky, seemed to notice his gaze, moved his head slightly, and turned to look back.

The two people's eyes met in mid-air, and Oda Sakunosuke could not help but be surprised. It had been less than half a day since they last met, but the leader in front of him seemed to have been reborn. His temperament had changed a lot, as if he had suddenly broken through a shaky and disintegrating state and was reborn.

Oda Sakunosuke was confused. He had no idea what caused this change. He didn't have time to think about it. Akutagawa Ryunosuke rushed down from the building of the Port Mafia and joined him and Kunikida Dopo. However, due to the series of events just now, many people rushed out of the Port Mafia and surrounded them...

The current situation is a bit tricky. After all, they are in the base camp of the Black Hand Gang at the port. If they really want to take action, they have no advantage. However, if they want to explain, the leader of the Black Hand Gang did fall from the roof. The most important thing is that Akutagawa from the Detective Agency was on the roof at that time. Although he happened to save the leader of the Black Hand Gang, he doesn't think that the people of the Black Hand Gang can calmly talk to them now...

"From now on, no one from the Black Hand gang will lay a hand on anyone from the Detective Agency."

A refreshing voice suddenly came over, and Oda Sakunosuke looked over subconsciously. The leader of the black hand gang walked down from the truck full of dolls with the help of Nakajima Atsushi. The black hand gang subordinates who originally surrounded them may not have fully understood the meaning of this sentence, but they had automatically made way for their leader.

The leader walked over without any hindrance, and stopped when he was still some distance away from them. He looked over with his iris-colored eyes and a sincere smile: "It's nice to see you again, Odasaku."

When they met in the bar before, the leader had called him like this. At that time, he refused with a tough attitude and even threatened the leader with a gun because Akutagawa might be hunted by the mafia. But this time, the leader gave the order in person in front of him and greeted him sincerely again, which made him think again about what the other party had said - they were good friends in another world.

Could such an absurd thing happen? Oda Sakunosuke had no way to verify it, but the leader seemed to have the magic to seduce people. Just like before, when the other party asked him not to shoot in the bar, he took back the gun. At this time, he met the other party's eyes again and was moved again. Even if he might find out that everything was just a lie and a joke in the future, he was willing to believe it once...

Oda Sakunosuke nodded slightly and responded to the young man with black hair and ivy eyes.

The smile on the face of the black-haired young man with iris eyes widened a little. He stretched out his left hand and made an inviting gesture: "Would you like to come in and sit down?"

Oda Sakunosuke's gaze fell on Dazai Osamu's right hand, which was hanging unnaturally at his side. Falling from such a height, even with the cushioning of a plush doll, he would inevitably be injured. Thinking of this, Oda Sakunosuke looked at Akutagawa Ryunosuke again. Akutagawa Ryunosuke had a big battle with Nakajima Atsushi before and was also injured.

"Thank you for your kindness, Mr. Chief. We have other things to deal with, so I'm afraid we have to leave first." Oda Sakunosuke politely declined Dazai Osamu.

Dazai Osamu did not force her to stay, but before she left, he said, "Next time we meet, Oda Saku can just call me by my first name."

Oda Sakunosuke paused for a moment as he was leaving. He raised his eyes and met Dazai Osamu's gaze again. It was an almost childish persistence and expectation in his expression, and it was impossible to associate such an expression with his identity.

...

After returning to the Armed Detective Agency, Akutagawa Ryunosuke has recovered after treatment with Yosano Akiko, and everyone in the detective agency has heard about his gains from breaking into the port mafia.

"Gin stayed there voluntarily." Akutagawa Ryunosuke felt powerless when he said this. Dazai Osamu said that if the truth about the world was known by more than three people at the same time, the world might be destroyed. Especially after the other party told him these things, he jumped down from the roof so decisively, which increased the weight of these words. Therefore, he did not dare to reveal this part of the content. In the end, he only said, "That leader... doesn't seem to be what I once thought..."

After listening to Akutagawa Ryunosuke's story, Oda Sakunosuke couldn't help but think deeply. Although it was indeed the leader who was in charge, his purpose might not be as bad as they guessed, so he did misunderstand the leader. Thinking of this, Oda Sakunosuke remembered Dazai Osamu's injured arm, and he didn't know if he had any other injuries. Maybe he should go to visit him, but as the leader of the port mafia, he must have his own exclusive doctor, and he should also stay in the heavily guarded mafia to recuperate. As members of the detective agency, it might not be so easy for them to see each other again...

Oda Sakunosuke guessed so, but he didn't know that Dazai Osamu, who he thought was recuperating in the port mafia, was currently staying in Yokohama's Central Hospital, and he had his own doctor.

"Don't tell me that the rope broke while you were bungee jumping." Mori Ogai asked while putting plaster on Dazai Osamu's broken arm. His expression was gentle and there was a faint smile on his face, but the words he said always made people feel chilly.

"I thought Mr. Mori had heard it before he came here." Dazai Osamu was not affected at all. He smiled and said, "I forgot to tie the rope when I was bungee jumping..."

"Hiss...Mr. Mori, can you be a little gentler? I feel like I'm about to collapse on the bed."

"In addition to your fractured right hand, you also have multiple cartilage contusions. If you don't want to experience pain all over your body every time it rains, I advise you to take good care of your injuries during this period." Mori Ou took out a neck brace and looked at Dazai Osamu with great disapproval.

When Dazai heard what Mori Ogai said, he lay quietly on the bed and let Mori Ogai put a neck brace on him. He replied very obediently, "I understand, Doctor Mori."

However, Dr. Mori was not satisfied with this answer. He stared at Dazai Osamu with a serious and dignified look: "If you really think so, you should stay in the Black Hand Gang to recuperate."

Instead of staying in this mixed hospital.

As the leader of the port mafia, while enjoying power, he also needs to bear corresponding risks. If the outside world knows that the leader of the mafia is injured and is staying in the city center hospital, it is difficult to guarantee that no enemies will take the opportunity to visit him.

Dazai Osamu understood the deeper meaning of Mori Ogai's words, but he did not intend to change his mind, because only by staying here would he have the chance to wait for Odasaku to come visit him.

It was several days later that Oda Sakunosuke heard that Dazai Osamu was recuperating in the city center hospital, and he heard it from someone in the Special Powers Department.

Previously, there was a sudden conflict between the Armed Detective Agency and the Port Mafia, and then it was inexplicably settled. It seemed that both sides had lost their memories at the same time and completely forgot about the conflict. The whole of Yokohama suddenly fell into a strange silence.

As an official supernatural organization, they made many speculations about this anomaly. After all, the Port Black Hand Party and the Armed Detective Agency are two major supernatural organizations alongside the Supernatural Special Service Department. If any accidents occur, it will affect the peace and stability of the entire Yokohama.

In order to investigate the cause and effect of the incident, the Special Powers Agent Department sent out Ango Sakaguchi. Long before, the Special Powers Agent Department wanted to send Ango to the port mafia as an undercover agent, but when he met Ango for the first time, the then mafia leader Dazai Osamu revealed his identity and purpose, and the undercover failed. However, after that, Ango had several contacts with Oda Sakunosuke of the Armed Detective Agency, so when he received the investigation mission, he contacted Oda Sakunosuke first.

"We have received intelligence that the leader of the Port Mafia has been in Yokohama Central Hospital recently." Sakaguchi Ango expressed his suspicions. In his opinion, there might be some conspiracy behind this obviously abnormal behavior. The leader of the Port Mafia might be planning to do something big.

Oda Sakunosuke was very surprised to hear this, because Dazai Osamu's behavior was indeed very unreasonable. Could it be that because his injuries were so serious, he had to be hospitalized?

Oda Sakunosuke couldn't help but think so, but in response to Sakaguchi Ango's question, he just said, "It was just some minor misunderstandings, and they have been resolved."

He and Sakaguchi Ango have met several times and once cooperated with each other because of a commission. However, due to their different positions, they did not have more interactions after that. He knew what Sakaguchi Ango was suspicious of, but he was not in a position to disclose the internal affairs of the detective agency. He could only tell the other party that if the Black Hand had any actions next, it should have nothing to do with the detective agency.

After Sakaguchi Ango left, Oda Sakunosuke thought about it and finally decided to go to the hospital to visit him. If Dazai Osamu was really hospitalized because of serious injuries, their detective agency might be able to help with treatment. After all, the other party's injury could not be said to be unrelated to the detective agency.

Considering that he was visiting a patient, Oda Sakunosuke bought some fruits. On the way to the hospital, he was still thinking about how to find out which ward Dazai Osamu was in. Unexpectedly, he met Nakajima Atsushi and Izumi Keika as soon as he entered the hospital.

The two of them looked at the fruit in his hand, and Nakajima Atsushi suddenly asked, "Mr. Oda, are you here to visit Chief Dazai?"

"Yes..." Oda Sakunosuke felt that the two looked a little strange. He hesitated for a moment and said, "If it is not convenient for me to visit, I would like to ask you to tell him that the detective agency will be responsible for the chief's injuries."

Unexpectedly, Nakajima Atsushi and the other man seemed to have come to greet him, and they said directly, "It's not inconvenient, Mr. Oda, please follow us."

Oda Sakunosuke was confused and followed Nakajima Atsushi and Izumi Keika all the way to the intensive care unit.

"Are the chief's injuries serious?" Oda Sakunosuke couldn't help but ask.

This time, the two mafia members suddenly fell silent, and Oda Sakunosuke's expression became serious. Could the injury be really serious? Just as he couldn't help wondering, a voice suddenly came from the ward in front of him. The person who spoke was obviously a little excited and didn't control the volume well, so they all heard it standing outside the door.

"You've gotten yourself into this state when I'm not around?"

"If you can't be the leader, let me take over."

Are you no longer qualified to be the leader? Oda Sakunosuke frowned. He had never thought that the last incident would lead to such serious consequences.

Oda Sakunosuke looked solemn. He raised his hand and prepared to knock on the door. However, at this moment, another voice came from inside the door. It could be distinguished that it was Dazai Osamu who was speaking this time.

"Sure." Dazai Osamu seemed to be answering the person who spoke earlier.

"You... um? ...what did you just say?"

"I said yes, the position of leader will be left to Chuuya." Dazai Osamu said, "It just so happens that I want to become the president of the detective agency recently."

Nakahara Chuuya: “???…”

Oda Sakunosuke outside the door: “……???”

Nakajima Atsushi coughed awkwardly twice, then raised his hand and knocked on the door: "Captain Dazai, Mr. Oda is here."

The door of the ward was opened, and Oda Sakunosuke finally saw the situation inside clearly. The injured Dazai Osamu was sitting on the hospital bed, his neck was fixed in a neck brace, one hand was in a plaster cast, and the other hand was holding a book, which he seemed to be reading. Hearing the movement at the door, he turned around and looked over, and when he saw him, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Odasaku, you're here."

It was another very familiar tone. Oda Sakunosuke met those iris-colored eyes, sighed helplessly, and walked into the ward.

When he got closer, he realized that the book in Dazai Osamu's hand was actually a work he had published not long ago. Somehow, when he saw the black-haired young man's pale fingers on the pages of the book, he suddenly felt an inexplicable emotion in his heart, as if he had written the novel just for this moment, just to wait for such a reader...

"What do you think?" Oda Sakunosuke couldn't help but ask.

Dazai Osamu looked at the book in his hand and said, "Of course, all of Oda Saku's works are excellent."

“Have you seen my other works?”

"Um."

“What kind of work is it?”

“It’s a book called The World of Governance.”

"'The world of rule'?" Oda Sakunosuke repeated these words. Seeing the black-haired young man's nostalgic look, he couldn't help but ask again, "Can you tell me what it was about?"

"Of course……"