Dazai Osamu was humming a song as he walked in the corridor inside the Port Mafia. He was planning to find Kiyohara Jun to share a very interesting suicide method he had discovered today.

By the way, Dazai Osamu only thought that this was a convenient thing to do. He wanted to stay with Kiyohara Jun to prevent Kiyohara Jun from being involved in his and Mr. Mori's plan because of Nakahara Chuuya's request for help (although the possibility was very small) or other accidents.

"Knock, knock, knock." Dazai Osamu reached out and knocked on the door of Kiyohara Jun's office. Then, without waiting for the person inside to come out and open the door, he opened the office door very skillfully. It was obvious that he had done this more than once or twice.

"Jun-kun..." Dazai Osamu said in a long voice, "Let me tell you, today I..." Then when he saw that Kiyohara Jun's seat in the office was empty, he suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart and looked at Takuto Kogu and Hikaru Midorikawa who were looking up at him as if they were used to it.

"Where is Jun-kun?" Dazai Osamu asked briefly and quickly with a cold face.

"Lord Kiyohara has been invited by several members of the Flag Association to attend the celebration of Lord Chuuya's joining the Port Mafia for one year." Takuto Kogu put down the documents in his hand, stood up and said respectfully, "If you want to find Lord Kiyohara, he is now at the Old World Bar."

When hearing what Takuto Koguchi said, Dazai Osamu's eyes widened in disbelief. At this moment, many thoughts flashed through Dazai Osamu's mind.

so it is.

When he was handing over the information to Verlaine a few days ago, he finally found out the reason why Verlaine said to him without any context, "I hate being deceived."

Weierlaan, knows the existence and information of Jun Kiyohara.

When Mr. Mori gave him the task of luring Verlaine, he deliberately concealed the fact that Jun-kun was a close friend of Chuuya out of selfish motives that he himself was unwilling to admit. And Mr. Mori also said, intentionally or unintentionally, that this plan would never involve Jun-kun.

But now, not only did Weilun know about Chunjun's existence, but Chunjun also showed up at the flag society gathering where he shouldn't have been.

After thinking it over, Dazai Osamu never expected that Mori Ogai was so jealous of Kiyohara Jun that he wanted to get rid of him.

That's right, he, Chuuya, Hatakai, the colonel, the first unit, the third unit, the fifth unit, and the sixth unit led by Jun-kun are all Jun-kun's relatives. In this case, how can Mr. Mori be assured that Jun-kun will stay safely in the Port Mafia?

Without hesitation, Dazai Osamu turned around and ran towards the elevator, while taking out his cell phone and calling Kiyohara Jun.

At this moment, Kiyohara Jun, who was watching the fight between Verlaine and Nakahara Chuuya, received a communication request from Dazai Osamu.

Looking at Dazai Osamu's name on the mobile phone screen, Kiyohara Jun, who had just learned that the news about the Flag Society might have been revealed by Dazai Osamu, lowered his eyes.

For a moment, Jun Kiyohara didn't know how to face Dazai Osamu, so he paused and chose to ignore the call.

While running, Dazai Osamu called Kiyohara Jun again and again, but the phone was busy again and again.

Jun Jun...

Dazai Osamu stopped a car belonging to the Port Mafia at random under the Port Mafia building. He drove everyone in the car out and drove to the Old World Bar without hesitation.

After calling Kiyohara Jun many times and no one answered, Dazai Osamu gritted his teeth and started calling Nakahara Chuuya.

"? Why is that bastard Dazai calling me?" Nakahara Chuuya's phone rang for a few seconds, and when he saw that the caller was Dazai Osamu, he hung up without hesitation.

Watching Verlaine's application of gravity is worth far more than taking a call from that jerk Dazai Osamu.

After a busy tone came from Nakahara Chuuya's phone, Dazai Osamu's hand on the steering wheel couldn't help but slowly tighten.

Just then, a news report came over the car radio.

"An armed fight broke out in a bar in the xx district. According to on-site observations, it is suspected that it was caused by a person with special abilities. A total of six people died. According to investigations, they were all members of a mafia organization in Yokohama. The xx district has been blocked. Citizens are requested to avoid it."

Dazai Osamu expressionlessly punched the radio to turn it off, and continued to steer the car as if he hadn't heard the broadcast.

Just then, Dazai Osamu's cell phone rang. He answered the call without hesitation without even checking the caller ID.

"Dazai-sama." A subordinate's voice came over the phone. "The person in the basement seemed to have received some news. He left the basement with a heavy expression. The news seemed to be related to Jun-Gang Kiyohara. I heard Jun-Gang Kiyohara's name."

After receiving the news about Jun-kun, Rimbaud left with a heavy expression.

Dazai Osamu's foot gradually reduced the force on the accelerator, and the car was going slower and slower.

If you can avoid intense joy, you won't be sad. For some reason, this sentence appeared in Dazai Osamu's mind.

The direction of the car began to deviate from the original route involuntarily, and when passing a sparkling river, Dazai Osamu stepped on the brakes.

"Ah, the weather is really nice today." Dazai Osamu whispered. He opened the car door and walked lightly. "Why don't we try to commit suicide by jumping into the water?"

After looking at the crystal clear river for a while, Dazai Osamu chose to relax himself without hesitation and slowly fell into the river.

Plop.

After floating on the river for a while, under Dazai Osamu's indulgence, his body began to sink, the river water kept rushing into Dazai Osamu's nasal cavity, and the familiar feeling of suffocation came again.

Dazai Osamu closed his eyes and let himself sink further and further without any struggle.

Suddenly, Dazai felt his hand touched something that felt like paper.

Dazai Osamu didn't care what it was, but suddenly, something rushed into his brain along the contact between his hand and the thing.

The self who reached out to grab Oda Saku but failed, the self who laughed in the Armed Detective Agency, the self who was quietly thinking in the port mafia leader's room, the self who jumped down from the building, countless plots and possibilities appeared in Dazai Osamu's mind.

That is the memory of a parallel world.

Dazai Osamu, who had closed his eyes and allowed himself to sink, suddenly opened his eyes. He grasped the thing - the book - without hesitation. All the will to survive that he had lost seemed to return to his body at this moment.

Climbing up the shore wetly, Dazai Osamu coughed up two mouthfuls of water and then looked down at the book he was holding tightly in his hand.

The book with a blank cover showed no signs of having been soaked in river water and looked extremely dry.

Junjun, Odasaku.

Dazai Osamu laughed softly when he realized that he was the only one in all the parallel worlds who had Kiyohara Jun, a variable that shouldn't exist.

Even if he had it, he had lost it now...

At this moment, Dazai's cell phone rang. Dazai didn't want to answer this untimely call, but an inexplicable feeling made him take out his cell phone.

The incoming call display on the phone screen made Dazai Osamu's pupils tremble slightly.

"Dazai." The voice of Kiyohara Jun came from the receiver. For some reason, Dazai Osamu suddenly laughed softly when he heard Kiyohara Jun's voice.

Jun Kiyohara listened to Dazai Osamu's laughter coming from the other end of the phone with a confused look on his face. After the battle between Rimbaud and Verlaine ended, Jun Kiyohara hesitated for a while, looked at the dozen missed calls on his mobile phone, and finally chose to call Dazai Osamu. After the call was connected, Dazai Osamu was actually laughing there.

"Jun-kun." After a low laugh, Dazai Osamu said softly, "Do you have anything you want to ask me?"

When he learned that Kiyohara Jun had successfully survived, Dazai Osamu already understood that Kiyohara Jun must have seen through the plan and broke the deadlock ahead of time.

After hearing what Dazai said, Kiyohara Jun was silent for a while, and then asked, "Can you speak?"

"I will." Dazai Osamu said without hesitation. This was the first time he faced other people so honestly.

"Old World Bar." Kiyohara Jun whispered, "Me, Chuuya, the pianist, Rimbaud and Verlaine are all here."

"Okay." Dazai Osamu hung up the phone, and his mood returned to the time when he first wanted to find Kiyohara Jun to share his newly discovered suicide method. With water dripping from his body, he hummed a song, put the book in his arms, and then skipped off to drive.

"I want to stay in the Port Mafia." After the battle that razed the entire street to the ground, Verlaine, who had already reached a reconciliation with Rimbaud and finally understood human nature, said to Nakahara Chuuya, who looked disgusted.

"It's up to you." Nakahara Chuuya turned his head away and said awkwardly, "Even if you go back to France with Brother Rimbaud, it has nothing to do with me."

"You should call me brother, not Arthur." Hearing that Nakahara Chuuya would rather call Rimbaud 'Big Brother' than call him brother, Verlaine tried to correct Nakahara Chuuya's way of addressing him with a serious face.

Nakahara Chuuya once again looked at Weilan with disdain. He didn't want to call this guy his brother, who was going to kill all his close relatives in order to take him away.

"Dazai will be here soon." Kiyohara Jun, who had just finished talking to Dazai, approached the group and whispered, "He said he would tell me what I want to ask."

"Dazai?" Weilun interrupted. "That guy was pretty nice to you. He hid your existence from me. If I hadn't found another information dealer, I would have been fooled by him."

When Jun Kiyohara heard what Weilun said, his heart, which had sank, began to move.

Dazai, didn't betray him?

"If that guy can't explain anything when he comes, I'll kill him." Thinking that if it weren't for Kiyohara Jun discovering the truth, the flag society would have almost died, Nakahara Naka couldn't help but want to kill Dazai.

Finally, as everyone waited, Dazai Osamu, soaking wet like a water ghost, appeared humming a song.