[? Chun, did this mean that the book was with him?]
【Why did Jun Kiyohara admit that the book was with him?】
[I have a guess. Could it be that Jun accepted the book in order to protect Dazai? After all, although Dazai is the script team, his own taijutsu is only at the lower-middle level of the Port Mafia, and he can only rely on taijutsu in battle.]
[…I don’t know what to say for a moment. Jun really treats Dazai as a friend.]
[If Dazai knew this, he would definitely be touched. Unbeknownst to him, Jun is protecting him.]
[As expected of Atsushi Kiyohara, I really like him more and more]
【Tai Chun's friendship lasts forever (heartbreaking)】
【Wuwuwu, Taichun is so real qaq】
Qingyuan Jun didn't care that Danmu had successfully guessed his intentions. After all, in his eyes, Danmu had always been a resourceful person except that he would occasionally misunderstand him about some things.
"Then I'll take my leave now." Kiyohara Jun took a last look at the ice ball left in the wine glass. Because the ice ball was melting, a thin layer of ice water made of the melted ice ball appeared in the wine glass that had just been emptied. Then he said goodbye to Natsume Soseki.
"Yeah." Natsume Soseki poured himself another glass of sake and nodded slightly, "Be careful on the road."
After hearing Natsume Soseki's response, Kiyohara Jun immediately stood up from his seat and walked towards Lupin's door. When Kiyohara Jun was about to walk out of Lupin's door, he heard Natsume Soseki say something abruptly.
"Be careful of the Dazai Osamu next to you."
After hearing what Natsume Soseki said, Kiyohara Jun paused for a moment as he was about to walk out the door. He said in a calm voice, "Dazai is my friend. I don't need to be on guard against him, and I will never be on guard against him."
In a place that Jun Kiyohara couldn't see, in an inconspicuous place inside the Lupin bar, a eavesdropping device that had been glued there in advance was working diligently, delivering the message that its owner wanted to hear.
After Kiyohara Jun left Lupin without looking back, Natsume Soseki, who was drinking alone, suddenly spoke again.
"Did you hear that?" Natsume Soseki said in a faint voice. At this moment, the gentleness he showed to Kiyohara Jun disappeared. His voice echoed in the empty Lupin, "He believes in you. Don't let him down."
Then Natsume Soseki stood up and walked towards the bar, accurately found the eavesdropping device stuck to the inside of the bar, and crushed it with his hands.
[Fuck, a bug?]
【! It's Dazai! Dazai heard what Jun said! 】
[I wonder why Natsume-sensei suddenly asked Jun to be on guard against Dazai]
At the same time, in a coffee shop not far from the bar, Dazai Osamu, with headphones on his ears, stood still while listening to the noise in his ears.
Jun Jun...
He could not imagine that Kiyohara Jun would be willing to take the risk of someone stealing his books for him.
It should be said that even if Dazai Osamu believed that Kiyohara Jun treated him as a friend, he did not have the confidence that Kiyohara Jun was willing to pay for him.
When Natsume Soseki asked about the book, Dazai Osamu actually wanted to take off his headphones, because as long as he took off his headphones, he would not have to hear Kiyohara Jun telling Natsume Soseki that the book was in his hands.
However, Dazai Osamu continued to listen with a smile, but he heard an answer that frightened him even more than when Kiyora Jun told him that Natsume Soseki's book was with him.
Kiyohara Jun tacitly acknowledged that the book was with him.
Dazai Osamu could not describe his emotions when he heard that Kiyohara Jun's tacit consent was in his hands. He was drinking coffee with a smile on his face when he accidentally spilled the coffee in his hand. When the coffee shop clerk rushed up to help him wipe the table and asked if he was burned, Dazai Osamu just stared blankly ahead and did not answer no matter how the clerk asked.
It was not until the clerk was about to cry and wanted to call an ambulance that Dazai finally came to his senses. In a mysterious state, he comforted the clerk and ordered another cup of coffee.
Although he had just finished drinking the freshly brewed coffee, he still had no idea what it tasted like.
Finally, when he heard Natsume Soseki admonishing Kiyohara Jun to be careful of him, but Kiyohara Jun said, "Dazai is my friend, I don't need to be on guard against him, and I will never be on guard against him," Dazai Osamu looked even more silent.
When Dazai Osamu heard Natsume Soseki's words in the earphone, "He believes in you, don't let him down," his eyes sank slightly.
Jun Jun...
Dazai Osamu lowered his eyes and looked at the cup of coffee on the table, which he had drunk halfway but had no taste at all, and thoughts raced through his mind.
After Jun Kiyohara became the leader, Dazai, who had become friends with Jun Kiyohara, wanted to retreat back into his shell, but Jun Kiyohara called him back by saying "We are friends".
And now, the fact that Kiyohara Jun took the risk of holding the book for him made Dazai Osamu want to shrink back into his shell again, but he was forcibly pulled out again.
Dazai Osamu lowered his eyes slightly. He listened to the extremely harsh crackling sound coming from the headphones due to the destruction of the eavesdropping device. Even though his eardrums hurt because of the sound, he did not take off the headphones.
Jun Jun...
Dazai Osamu just kept his eyes downcast and looked at the cup of coffee on the table. The coffee shop clerk looked at him several times with some worry, but because of Dazai Osamu's aura and the black suit he was wearing, they didn't dare to come over to disturb him.
【Dazai woosh woosh】
【Feeling sorry for Dazai qaq】
[A coward is afraid of even happiness and will get hurt if he touches cotton. It's so true. Isn't this what Dazai looks like now?]
[Mommy loves you so much, please don’t show such a heartbreaking expression qaq]
It seemed like a moment had passed, but also like a long time had passed, when Dazai Osamu's cell phone rang.
Originally, Dazai Osamu didn't want to answer this call which seemed very inappropriate at this moment, but he suddenly thought of something and took out his mobile phone from his pocket.
As he expected, the name Jun Kiyohara appeared on the phone screen.
Chun Jun.
A glimmer of light appeared in Dazai Osamu's originally empty eyes. He pursed his lips slightly and finally chose to answer the call.
【The light is coming】
[At this moment, Dazai feels as if he has seen the light]
[If there is no Jun, Dazai will be the leader of the beasts. Jun is indeed the light to Dazai.]
[The leader of the beasts, Zai, once said that Jun in Dazai's world is the only miracle among the eight trillion parallel worlds. Even he is a little jealous of Dazai in this world.]
[That's why Dazai is so careful with Jun, because Jun is the only miracle.]
[To me, you are the only miracle in the eight trillion parallel worlds] ×N
…
[Wuwuwu, I’m hit so hard. Whether it’s friendship or love, I’m fine with it.]
When Jun Kiyohara walked out of Lupin Bar, he looked up at the dark night sky.
Passing the top of the narrow alley, Kiyohara Jun saw the sky with a crescent moon and scattered stars. There were fewer stars in the night sky than when he saw them on the street when he came here. It was probably because this was already the center of Yokohama City, so the stars seemed particularly scarce.
After standing there and looking at the night sky for a while, Qingyuan Jun slowly raised his feet and walked out of the alley.
In the red sports car outside the alley, Nakahara Chuuya, who was anxiously waiting for Kiyohara Jun, finally experienced what it felt like to live every day like a year.
"Why hasn't he come out yet?" Nakahara Chuuya looked at the time every few minutes. He was afraid that Kiyohara Jun had been troubled by Natsume Soseki when he wasn't noticing, or that Natsume Soseki covered up the sound and attacked Kiyohara Jun.
As time passed, Nakahara Chuuya had the urge several times to get off the car and rush into Lupin to see if Kiyohara Jun was okay, but when he remembered Kiyohara Jun's instructions, he tried his best to suppress these urges.
Finally, when Nakahara Chuuya looked at the screen showing the time on the sports car again, and then looked at the alley again, a figure finally appeared at the entrance of the alley not far away.
That figure was the person that Nakahara Chuuya was waiting for.
Nakahara Chuuya's eyes lit up when he saw Kiyohara Jun finally appear.
Jun Kiyohara walked slowly towards the red sports car parked on the side of the road waiting for him, and then after approaching the sports car, he opened the door and got in.
Nakahara Chuuya turned his head and looked up and down at Kiyohara Jun who was fastening his seat belt. After seeing that Kiyohara Jun looked exactly the same as when he came, with no signs of a fight on his hands or clothes, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He did not tell Kiyohara Jun how worried he was about him. He just started the car silently after confirming that Kiyohara Jun was safe.
"Go back to the port mafia building?" Nakahara Chuuya asked.
After successfully fastening his seat belt, Jun Kiyohara said "hmm" and took out his cell phone without saying much to Nakahara Chuuya.
His finger slid down the address book until he finally selected a phone number marked "Dazai". Without hesitation, he dialed the number.
The cell phone rang. The person he called seemed to be busy with something and did not answer the call immediately. Instead, he slowly answered the call after the cell phone rang for a while.
After the call was answered, neither of them spoke, and only the sound of each other's breathing could be heard on the phone.
In the end, it seemed that Dazai Osamu chose to give up this game of silence, and it was Dazai Osamu who spoke first.
"Jun-kun." Dazai Osamu called Kiyohara Jun's name softly. He looked at the cup of coffee in front of him, as if there was something very attractive about that cup of coffee.
After calling out Kiyohara Jun's name, Dazai Osamu chose to remain silent.
"Go back to the port mafia building, I have something to tell you." Kiyohara Jun didn't care about Dazai Osamu's seemingly weird attitude and said directly.