Chapter 44 About Healing
Wow……
This was the first time Dazai Osamu had seen Algaria take action outside. Last time at the Port Mafia, he and Gin were teleported away and basically didn't see anything.
As for the company... everyone gets pretty crazy when they get down to business.
The bodies, their fate unknown, are scattered by the roadside. Soon, companions or other people will come to treat or collect these still useful materials, and they will not be left to bask in the sun here.
Having witnessed Algaria's skills, the two lambs arbitrarily labeled him a powerful ability user, and became even more cautious in their behavior. After leading the group to the base, they asked the other companions who stayed there to temporarily entertain them, while Shirase and Yuzu rushed into Nakahara Chuuya's room.
Chuuya Nakahara emerged from the room with a wary expression. He needed to check first; these were supposedly the people who had come to pick up the man.
He noticed the "doctor" in the trio immediately; it seemed they really cared about Li Xiang's condition.
"Doctor, may I ask you to come up first? Did you bring any medication with you?"
Although this doctor is very young, he must have some extraordinary abilities to be hired by an organization that offers such a large bounty.
While waiting, Dazai Osamu, who had somehow built a good relationship with the employees in the lower departments, especially Angelica, took out a game console from Algaria's dimensional bag.
X was watching Dazai Osamu play video games, his head tilted to the side. This kid's gaming skills were far superior to his supervisor's, when he heard a commotion upstairs.
A doctor? Where did this doctor come from?
Noticing the white coat on her body, oh, it was referring to herself. The problem is, this coat is A's mark as a researcher. Neither X nor A is a doctor.
Nakahara Chuuya's little head obviously didn't know that besides doctors, there were other professions that also wore white coats; he just looked down at X with a relieved expression.
"I want to go too."
Dazai Osamu put down his game console and followed behind his manager. After being baptized by Lobotomy Corporation, he was no longer the literary-type ability user he once was. He could now take on ten of his former selves with one hand.
Angela made sure he brought the Holy Proclamation with him before he left, and the two pistols were also good for hiding, especially since he looked so harmless.
When Chuuya saw that the powerful ability user Shirase had mentioned was still standing there, with only a boy about his height following the doctor, he didn't pay any attention to him and simply stepped aside to let the doctor in.
Li Xiang's pale face was flushed with an unnatural redness, which caught X's golden eyes. He was still wearing the LCB uniform shirt, and it seemed as if the words "I'm going to die of illness" were written all over his body.
It really is you! Why are you dying?
Li Xiang, who was leaning against the headboard, also saw the newcomer.
"Dante...?"
His voice was so low and hoarse that it was almost inaudible. If X hadn't learned the details from Sinclair, he probably wouldn't have been able to understand what Li Xiang was saying.
Chuuya Nakahara was completely relieved. Li Xiang's reaction proved that the young doctor was an acquaintance of his. The syllables just now were probably his name.
"Could we be alone with him for a while?"
The doctor with the golden eyes remained calm, but although he spoke as if it were a discussion, they couldn't detect a trace of discussion in his words; it was clearly an order.
The orange-haired boy wanted to say something, but his companions pushed him out.
Dazai Osamu originally wanted to go out with them, but then he realized that the supervisor had just used "we" as the subject, so he sat down on Nakahara Chuuya's stool, intending to see what the supervisor was up to.
Dazai Osamu admitted that he had thought of many things his superiors might ask him to do, but this was definitely not one of them.
"Use the sacred declaration on him?"
"Use a black gun."
Unlike his own unconscious reversal of the clock every night in his sleep, which would only keep him alive, it would be faster to just carry him away and bring him back to life. X was already mentally prepared; at worst, it would just hurt!
As for the healing bullets, for some reason, Angela looked at them like they were treasures; he couldn't even pick one up casually.
Li Xiang also understood Dante's changed meaning. He smiled at Dazai Osamu, who had already taken out his weapon, and then closed his eyes, appearing completely obedient, just like the employees in the company when they received orders from their supervisors.
If Dazai Osamu hadn't confirmed that it was their first meeting, he would have thought that these were employees of the company who had run away.
A crisp but strange sound suddenly came from inside the room, somewhat like a gunshot. However, even in Leibo Street, where gunshots were heard every day, Nakahara Chuuya had never heard a similar sound before.
Something must have happened. He wanted to go see what had happened, but Shirase and Yuzuki held his arms tightly on either side. He could break free, but they would definitely get hurt.
Just as he was about to smash the door open with his head, it was opened from the inside, and Li Xiang, now fully recovered and wearing a coat, opened the door.
Could it be... that the sound just now was the sound of a supernatural power taking effect?
Shirase and Yuzu stared blankly at the still-alive Riko, assuming from the sounds inside the house that he must have been killed.
"Thank you, Mr. Nakahara, for taking me in during this time."
With his body recovering, the number one sinner, who had been silenced for a week, was finally able to speak like a normal person, although his complexion still didn't look good in Chuuya's eyes.
"I just did what I wanted to do, and... your acquaintance paid for it, so it's already a transaction and he doesn't deserve to thank me anymore."
"Oh, right, your things."
Chuuya Nakahara took out a packaged item from the room, which contained some small items from his suitcase and even a name tag with his photo on it.
He left these things behind Shirase's back; otherwise, he would have taken the knife inside.
The doctor, whom Dazai Osamu helped out, looked even worse than Li Xiang. Is this the price of healing abilities?
He sat down next to a man with long, fluffy white hair like a sheep and casually reached into his pocket.
"Here you go, your payment."
To Yang's surprise, the young man in the white coat casually stuffed the card containing an astronomical sum into his outer pocket, handing it over without the slightest reluctance, quite decisively.
"You can check the balance in the card first. Once you've confirmed it's correct, I'll take him away."
I still have to go to work tomorrow, so I don't have much time to wander around outside.
"No need, I trust you, you can leave now."
Instead of happily accepting the card, the two planned to go to a bank or similar place to check it out, but Chuuya Nakahara remained very calm.
He stopped the two who wanted to say something more and planned to see them off at Leibo Street. However, Youxing insisted on coming along. He couldn't persuade the girl otherwise, so he had no choice but to take her with him. He didn't understand why she insisted on coming along when he was just seeing someone off.
The pink-haired girl didn't stick to his side; she just followed silently, which made Chuuya Nakahara feel increasingly strange.
Dazai Osamu tugged at the strap of the Algaria Dimensional Bag, which made him cast a questioning look at his sister's new friend, who was much shorter than him.
He was friendly to his sister's friends other than Roland, and he knew that the child was not a well-behaved person. Dazai Osamu obviously had something to say to his supervisor but did not want others, especially that girl, to hear it.
The tall, white-haired man quietly slowed his pace, finally trailing behind, and walked beside the girl.
"manager."
A small, fluffy, iris-colored head suddenly popped out between X and Li Xiang, interrupting Li Xiang, who was trying to tell his supervisor a joke before he could even finish his pun...
"Do you still want new employees?"
It's infuriating that he's working himself to the bone at Lobotomy Corporation while Chuuya is happily slacking off. The Port Mafia probably won't be able to make any big moves in the short term.
It would be too tragic for him to be silently taken away by Mr. Lantang or betrayed. It would be better to go to work overtime with him.
Yes, this is for his own good, not because he's working himself to the bone and wants to drag others down with him.
"What employees? We have enough staff now."
With the influx of criminals, Lobotomy Corporation is now overflowing with employees.
"Didn't you say before that you wanted to recruit new clerical staff?"
Did I say that?
Oh no, this confused-looking person has amnesia.
"Dante, didn't you say you had amnesia?"
Li Xiang, seeing that Dazai Osamu had choked for a moment, came to his rescue.
"When you get back to the company, remember to call me X, or Angela might give you trouble."
The executive manager, who possesses a human mind, issues a warning to his number one culprit.
Do you have any recommendations?
As a manager who takes responsibility for his words, X decides to listen to Dazai Osamu's suggestion.
"What do you think of that short, orange guy up ahead?"
Putting aside whether calling someone "little guy" is polite, the problem is...
The supervisor glanced at Dazai Osamu's height, then at the orange-haired boy walking ahead, and asked a question:
"Why do I feel like... you're not even as tall as other people?"
"Besides, my family doesn't hire child labor...? By the way, why are you at the company? Are you an adult?"
If it sounds familiar, Dazai Osamu is depressed; why can't he grasp the key point?
"I was recruited by you before you lost your memory."
Li Xiang always felt that Dazai Osamu's words had a hidden meaning. Although they had only spent a short time together, he was definitely not the kind of person who would be so enthusiastic or outgoing as to introduce a job to someone he had just met.
"Does Dazai-kun feel that something is amiss?"
Since it concerned his savior, and he was truly an impeccable good kid in every way, Li Xiang's heart was in his throat. His perception of people's hearts was never as good as others', and he could only see that Zhongyuan Zhongye had been "kidnapped" by his companions.
"That girl probably followed us because she was afraid he would just leave with us."
“The word ‘sheep’ gives me a strange feeling.”
Even though Li Xiang only stayed there for a short time and was mostly in a semi-conscious state, he still sensed the deformity of the "sheep".
They kept claiming he was the leader, even though Chuuya Nakahara kept denying it, saying everyone was equal. But the ordinary lambs were a layer away from him, while the two people closer to him kept telling him, openly and secretly, about his debts to them, using that to drive him.
He also wanted to take Nakahara Chuuya with him, but the problem was that even if Dante didn't allow it, and X permitted it, Nakahara Chuuya wouldn't abandon his companions and leave with him.
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