Chapter 225 The Third Player

Ah, is Passetto still alive?

There was a glimmer of surprise in Xi Haiqing Dou's eyes. As expected, this was the real sake brewery that had been able to infiltrate Yokohama and work undercover for more than three years without being exposed. This guy was really strong.

No matter how you think about it, it has only been a few months, and Mori Ougai's position as the leader is not necessarily secure. His survival is probably the result of multi-party bargaining. I don't know if Mori Ougai or Dazai Osamu had any hand in this.

After that, it is still from Dazai Osamu's perspective.

The mutual testing between Mori Ogai and Dazai Osamu ended. After get off work, the boy was bored and chose to... wander around the street, and then successfully got the second part of "The Nameless Wax Museum" that he had reserved in advance in the bookstore.

As luck would have it, that book was the last one in stock in the bookstore - because this work, which was published last year, has suddenly become a hot seller in the past two days, and there are not many bookstores around, so all the books in stock were sold out at once... The only remaining copy was the one that Dazai Osamu had reserved a week ago.

It also brings up the recent copycat murders surrounding the novel "The Nameless Wax Museum" and its author "Mochizuki Kurumi", as well as the new female character who appears and paradoxically wants to buy the novel in Dazai Osamu's hands while deliberately slandering it.

Of course, the result was that Dazai Osamu easily rejected her, and he also angered the young woman.

The boy regarded this incident as an insignificant episode and quickly put it behind his mind. He then went to find a suitable place to read a book.

"It's the same as what I saw in the book." said the boy.

[Did my friends see anything? This shows that Dazai really loves reading! I am in tears.]

[The passerby sister is also very beautiful... But since she appears here, I have to blindly guess that there is a conspiracy! This is all a routine, I have seen through it! ]

[I understand. There are problems with the book and the passers-by. There are problems with Zai and the book. Maybe there are problems with the author as well.]

[What kind of nonsense literature are you talking about above? Look up and take a look at the title of this episode.]

[I think Jae already knew this was Gwendoline at this point, right? His expression of no surprise, and he took the book on purpose... You guys must have been planning this for a long time, you are the real deal, a game within a game]

[All the spoilers above please get out of here! ! Spoiler dogs will not be allowed in the house]

"Gwendoline Riemann", the mastermind behind these cases.

The "passerby woman" who appears in the comics has black hair, a tall figure, and a soft face that is unique to East Asians. Although her face does not resemble her at all, Saikai Haruto now understands that it must be the disguised "Gwendolyn Riemann".

Dazai Osamu, this guy, he really has been planning for a long time, right? Whether it is buying books in the bookstore or talking with Gwendolyn, it is probably all preparation for today's seemingly coincidental "kidnapping"... As expected, when coincidences come together, it becomes "inevitable". This guy has already quietly entered the game before he noticed it.

Xihai Qingdou felt a toothache, but it was really not his fault that he didn't notice it. This guy had all the scripts in his hands, so he couldn't defend himself even if he wanted to.

Maybe he should thank... or thank himself, because the script prepared for "Mochizuki Kaoru" didn't have her be an "undercover agent unknown to anyone" like "Yuen Chiaki", nor was she like Solomon who was both good and evil and looked like a villain most of the time, but tried hard to lean towards a harmless image.

It is estimated that the him that Dazai Osamu saw in the "book" should have a good relationship with him... This barely gave Saikai Haruto a little psychological comfort, indicating that the him in the "book" performed well in the previous round, and at least Dazai Osamu should not have doubted him.

Through the novel "The Nameless Wax Museum" and the related cases, the perspective of the comics shifted from Dazai Osamu to the media reports, then to the anxious investigation of the Special Powers Division, and then to another key figure in the incident, "Mochizuki Kaoru", and then fixed on "Mochizuki Kaoru".

After three transitions, what appeared in the comic was the extremely clear case-related data projected on the computer screen, while outside the computer screen was a young man with medium-length hair and glasses wearing a light-colored kimono.

The young man looked to be around 24 or 25 years old, with a pair of standard beautiful peach blossom eyes hidden behind his glasses, long eyebrows slightly raised, and thin lips pursed. His appearance was obviously gorgeous and noble, but it was forcibly suppressed by the elegant and upright temperament around him, giving him a sense of contradictory harmony.

——It was “Mochizuki Kaoru” who was in the study two days ago in the morning.

From the moment he woke up that morning, to the time he picked up his coat and went out, to the phone call with "Chiaki Uehara" on the way, to the time he met Dazai Osamu at the crime scene of the second case...except for the phone call with Sakaguchi Bōgo which was hidden, almost everything he did was presented in the manga.

There are also several monologues in black text introducing the identity.

It is worth mentioning that there is a slight change - when he met Dazai Osamu, he just looked at him one-sidedly for a few seconds, but in the comics, when he was about to retract his gaze, there was an additional scene where Dazai Osamu turned his head to look at him - so it became a "eye contact" that was just missed by coincidence.

Then he looked away and continued walking forward. Dazai turned and left. The two of them walked in opposite directions. The composition seemed to have a feeling of "intersection of destinies".

Xi Haiqingdou's heart skipped a beat and he almost fainted: Fortunately, his acting skills have been engraved into his DNA, and even in his daily life, there is no place where his character is broken. So suspenseful! His image is saved! !

[I was wrong. It turns out that your name is not Mochizuki Kurumi but Mochizuki Kaoru... Ahhhh, fishing style! This must be the fishing style!! The tear mole is so beautiful and so tempting. I admit that your little trick worked and I was caught by you!! Husband kiss~]

[Is our little wild dog really going to have a writer? Tears welled up in my eyes! Please pray that a beautiful Kaoru-chan doesn’t get killed by “X”! This face must not be a passerby who died in one episode, right? ]

[This Jae seems a bit strange. Are Jae and the writer acquaintances? Why does the writer seem to not know him? But the writer is also very perceptive. He guessed that Jae is a Hong Kong gangster after just one look.]

[Who is the person who called the writer? Who is the dead soul? Is the writer a good person or a bad person? Why do they seem to be so close and gay? I feel disgusted by the overlapping words.]

...Fortunately, the image is good and stable, and the reputation is not distorted...right? Saikai Haruto felt slightly relieved.

Xi Haiqingdou quickly flipped through the subsequent content, half of which was from the perspective of "Mochizuki Kaoru", investigating and searching for traces of "X" all the way, but the strange thing is... there seems to be someone else blocking something.

Two days had passed since the fourth case, but on Sunday, which was supposed to be the day when "X" was going to kill again, nothing happened. "Mochizuki Kaoru" seemed not surprised and went to the church to try to find "X". However, although she met Rimbaud who also went to the church by coincidence, she was unable to find "X".

On the third day, "Yu Yuan Chiaki" passed the data to "Mochizuki Kaoru". The young man followed the clues collected in the past few days, eliminated all the interference smoke bombs, and finally deduced the location of "X". However, he met Sakurai, a member of the Special Agent Department, on the way and was unable to get rid of him, which delayed him for a long time. He also met a member of the Port Mafia on a mission and was slightly involved in it, which delayed him for a long time...

When they finally arrived near "X's" whereabouts, they heard gunshots before they could get in.

The second half is from Dazai Osamu's perspective.

From his perspective, all of Saikai Haruto's questions were answered.

Rimbaud, who "coincidentally" arrived at the church, was guided there by Dazai Osamu; Sakurai was guided there by Dazai Osamu; it was no coincidence that they met members of the port mafia on their mission on the way, who were also guided there by Dazai Osamu... All of these were to stop the footsteps of "Mochizuki Kaoru" and make him arrive at such a late hour in the evening.

The young man set up the chess game casually and arranged everything according to his own plan.

The black-haired woman he bumped into in the bookstore before "accidentally" learned that he was related to the Mafia, and regarded him as the protagonist of the fifth case. Then, as expected, he was killed by Dazai Osamu as expected.

Looking at the scene in the comic where Dazai Osamu smiled and questioned Gwendoline, Saikai Haruto's mood suddenly became extremely complicated: Well... how should I put it, he is worthy of being him. If he were not himself, he would not be able to help but start the question of "Is Mochizuki Kaoru a dead soul?"

[Damn, damn, damn, I knew everything was under your control... But this time it's really a bit of a bug, right? This is no longer the script, so it makes sense, right? You're always one step ahead of everyone else in everything, it's incredible]

[Kill him because he has a high IQ? Don’t blame the paper man for being too smart if you don’t have a good brain]

[I was shocked, who knows... I was also confused by Zai's questions, so the writer is not a dead soul? Then who is the dead soul? Why did Zai help him? ]

[I'm confused. This doesn't seem like something Dazai would do... Is this his personality? Not sure. Let's wait and see.]

Fortunately, the "explanation" in the comics came quickly.

After parting with "Mochizuki Kaoru", Dazai returned to Hong Kong alone. After avoiding the questioning of Rimbaud and Mori Ogai, Dazai, who was walking alone on the deserted black street with his hands in his pockets, recalled what happened a month ago, probably in a "flashback" or "inner monologue".

A "book" suddenly appeared in front of him.

In the "book", the boy saw a series of flashbacks - the scene of three people sitting around drinking in a bar, the scene of the red-haired young man falling dead in the boy's arms, the scene of a group of people in the Armed Detective Agency smiling and greeting each other, the scene of the purple-haired young man, the red-haired young man and the black-haired young man facing each other coldly, and the scene of the young man with a hat calling the black-haired young man with a red scarf "leader"...

There is even a thoughtful Dazai Osamu's inner narration next to it, explaining what all this means -

When Dazai Osamu picked up the "book", the "possibilities" of the world appeared before his eyes, that is to say, he saw the "future".

The barrage of comments suddenly became so dense that it completely covered the comics.

Saikai Haruto: Oh wow.

...So what exactly did he see in the "book" about the future of this world, and what kind of script did he have? He still hasn't said it! !