Chapter 58

"Ah..." It turned out to be Dazai. No wonder this model of locator looked familiar to him.

Oda Sakunosuke silently swallowed the rest of his words.

It's not like he should talk too much about his private relationship with his friend in front of his colleagues in the port mafia, especially in front of his direct superior. It's not that his friendship with Dazai is a secret that cannot be told, but this way he can avoid unnecessary trouble.

After all, for an ordinary grassroots member like him to have close contact with a popular cadre candidate was indeed something that would easily attract attention and was too high-profile.

This is what Oda Sakunosuke, an ordinary (?) bottom-level member, thought.

However, Oda Sakunosuke was obviously worrying too much, because his beautiful friendship with Dazai Osamu and Sakaguchi Ango is very famous in the three-dimensional world. They are the rogue trio.

Douma, who came from the three-dimensional world, was completely unaware that Oda Sakunosuke was pretending to be unfamiliar with Dazai Osamu in front of him, and subconsciously accepted that their friend setting was known to everyone.

After taking a few deep breaths, Douma calmed down and took the locator to check it carefully, confirming that it only had a simple positioning function and could not serve as a monitor.

After confirming that the news about the 'book' was not accidentally leaked to Dazai Osamu, Douma couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: That's great, that black mud spirit doesn't know about the existence of the 'book' yet.

Douma felt dazed when he thought about what would happen if he accidentally let Dazai Osamu know the information about the "book" in advance and the future of this world would be like the leader of the if line.

Wait, he doesn't seem to be a human, he can't be bald at all.

Douma: Oh, that’s okay.

Throwing the horrible fantasy behind him, Douma threw the locator back into Oda Sakunosuke's hands with disgust: "Oda Sakunosuke, please return this to Dazai."

"Odasaku...?" Odasakunosuke looked at Douma with surprise. The nickname 'Odasaku' was given to him by Dazai, and only a few people closest to him knew about it. So how did Lord Douma know about it?

Douma, who didn't realize he had let the cat out of the bag, asked, "I heard that Dazai always calls you that. It's quite catchy. Do you mind if I call you that, too?"

Oda Sakunosuke, who slowly changed from 'Oda' to 'Odasaku', was somewhat amused, but nodded good-naturedly: "It's okay, I don't mind."

Unlike Dazai Osamu and Sakaguchi Ango who were more thoughtful, Oda Sakunosuke's natural attributes made him naturally attribute the fact that Douma knew about this matter to Dazai Osamu. Although from the rumors within the Port Mafia, the two of them did not seem to have any special friendship, perhaps they had some intersections in private.

Since his friendship with Dazai was made clear by Douma, Oda Sakunosuke had no intention of hiding it any further. He put the locator in his pocket and kept it safe: "I will give this to Dazai next time we drink."

Asking someone to do something without getting any corresponding reward didn't seem right, so Douma thought about it and asked casually, "You have adopted several children at the same time. Will it be difficult to raise them?"

It is absolutely slander to say that the wages of port mafia are low. After all, it is a high-risk job that requires you to put your head on the belt. In Yokohama, the salary level of port mafia is relatively high.

The high salary is enough for even the lowest-level members to live a fulfilling life in Yokohama, but there is a big premise here, that is, this lowest-level member is the type who can feed the whole family with just one person, and it is indeed not enough to support a large family.

As we all know, raising children is the most expensive and energy-consuming, so it is very reasonable and not abrupt for Douma to ask this question.

Oda Sakunosuke didn't think there was anything wrong with this question. He smiled nonchalantly and didn't feel embarrassed when talking about his recent predicament. "Raising several children at the same time is very difficult, but I can barely get by. I entrusted the children to people I trust."

At this point, Oda Sakunosuke smiled with gratitude: "The boss is a good man. He only charges a little rent and food expenses every month, and he helps me take care of the children when he is free."

Douma already knew everything that Oda Sakunosuke said through the original story.

In the original work, all the children and the kind curry shop owner were killed by Mimic. As a result, Oda Sakunosuke was completely desperate and broke his vow not to kill again. Not only did he kill all the ordinary members of Mimic by himself, but he also died together with the Mimic leader Kid.

Douma doesn't want to see such a tragedy happen in front of him, but it's not realistic to keep an eye on Mimic all the time. There's no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days, especially when the person behind this is Mori Ougai, who is as cunning as a fox and hard to guard against.

The reason why the children were so easily captured and then blown to death in front of Oda Sakunosuke was that they lacked defense. Ordinary people were powerless against the invasion of Mimics.

If the children no longer lived secretly above the curry shop, but were placed in the Hong Kong underworld building, when the plot happened, the kind-hearted boss would not die and the children would not be killed.

Douma doesn't believe that Mimic dares to blatantly break into the Port Mafia. No matter how secretly Mori Ougai contacts Mimic to cause trouble, he can't allow Mimic to really invade the Port Mafia. Wouldn't that be a slap in his own face?

Even if Mimic temporarily turns against Morio, as long as Douma places the children in the Ganghei building, everything will be solved.

Because in the original work, the strength of Mimic lies in their fearless spirit and rich combat experience, they blend into Yokohama like a drop of water, firing a gun and moving to another place. They are said to be living ghosts longing for the relief that death brings. In fact, their combat method is very cunning, and they never fight the Port Mafia head-on, otherwise they would have been solved by the Port Mafia fighting at home long ago.

The best part is that Douma is now one of the five top cadres of the Port Mafia and owns one of the five Port Black Buildings. No one can stop him from doing this, not even the leader Mori Ogai.

Everyone is responsible for ruining Mori Ugai's plan. Douma happily invites Oda Sakunosuke, who knows nothing about the tragic future: "This is too inconvenient. Why don't you move to the Honghei Building? I will assign you the largest dormitory so that you can live with the children."

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Upon hearing that he could be assigned a dormitory, Oda Sakunosuke was stunned, because according to regulations, it was impossible for low-level members of the Port Mafia to be assigned dormitories in the Port Black Building. At least they had to be middle-level or above.

Oda Sakunosuke's eyes fell on Yumeno Hisasaku and Nakajima Atsushi who were playing obediently beside him. He guessed that maybe Douma-sama was willing to help him because he also had a child, so he opened the door after hearing about his story. However, this made him too embarrassed, so he said: "No, this won't do..."

Douma interrupted Oda Sakunosuke's refusal and advised: "It's okay. It's too unsafe to let children who can't protect themselves live outside. You are a member of the port mafia. If someone wants to retaliate against you and finds out where the children are, then..."

Douma stopped just enough, but the meaning behind his words made Oda Sakunosuke tense up uncontrollably. It took him a while to control himself and loosen his clenched fist, revealing his palm with a deep crescent mark on it.

The slight tingling in his palm made Oda Sakunosuke's mind clearer, and he deeply realized that what Douma said just now was not an exaggeration, but something that was very likely to happen.

It is not uncommon for members of the inner world who work outside to return home to see the mutilated bodies of their wives and children who have been avenged. It is for this reason that the old killer who taught Oda Sakunosuke never tired of reminding him not to have unnecessary concerns, otherwise it would be easy to fall into an irreparable situation.

Thinking of this, Oda Sakunosuke could no longer say anything to refuse. He looked up at his boss who was always wearing a mask and was also smiling falsely at this moment, and thanked him sincerely: "Thank you, I will take the children over tonight."

After the invisible crisis was exposed, Oda Sakunosuke was afraid that something might happen to the children if he waited one more day, so naturally he could no longer care about his dignity.

Douma, who had unknowingly received a good guy card, gently supported Yumeno Hisaku's calf to prevent the kid on his shoulder from accidentally falling off, and said in a very good mood: "Very good, when your adopted children come, it will be a good opportunity for them to keep Hisaku and Atsushi company. I will also help you solve the problem of schooling."

Of course he would tear up other people's umbrellas as well since he had been caught in the rain. Douma sneered and thought: If it weren't for the fact that Hisasaku's special ability made it inconvenient for him to go to crowded places and he could only study at home, he would have sent this naughty kid Hisasaku to school long ago.

Douma: Haha, it’s impossible not to go to school. Children must go through the beating (scratching) of learning. There’s no such thing as a happy life of playing crazy at home every day. Get out of here and go to school!

Oda Sakunosuke knew nothing about Douma's childish (crossed out) rich mental activities. He looked thoughtfully at Douma, who let Hisasaku Yumeno climb onto his shoulders and sat down, and thought: Even so, Douma-sama seems to be a good person.

Oda Sakunosuke hides a sharp heart beneath his somewhat dull appearance. Otherwise, how could such a dull person become a friend recognized by the sensitive Dazai Osamu and the suspicious Sakaguchi Ango?

Birds of a feather flock together, and this is an eternal truth.

Having solved a worry and successfully added trouble to the future Mori Owl, Douma happily looked at the super dad he had found for his kid, thinking in his heart that he must arrange Odasaku's dormitory next to Hisasaku and Atsushi. As for big and small problems, the two rooms can be connected. Any problem that can be solved with money is not a problem.

When I think of Odasaku, who used to work only eight hours a day, after he moved to the Hong Kong Black Building with his family, he became a full-time nanny working 24 hours a day, all year round.

The conscienceless Douma couldn't help but silently give a thumbs up to his clever self. It was such a perfect arrangement that would make capitalists cry and even Zhou Paopi feel ashamed of himself.