Chapter 232 The Third Player

Of course Dazai Osamu did not refuse again - or rather, he did not really want to refuse in the first place.

So the two of them walked back like this.

Such a combination would be strange no matter where they were, and would also attract a lot of attention, but fortunately this is Yokohama, where there are always many strange people, so not many people noticed them along the way.

"Do you mind if I smoke?" Xi Haiqing Dou suddenly asked on the way.

Dazai Osamu was stunned for a moment: "I don't mind."

"…Forget it." Xi Hai Qing Dou glanced at him and retracted his fingers that were about to move.

Unlike "Igarashi Yuuki" who doesn't smoke or drink, and "Yuen Chiaki" who only smokes and drinks occasionally due to various physical reasons, the "Mochizuki Kaoru" is a smoker and a drinker, and does so frequently.

But...if there are minors around, you should try to be patient.

——The suddenly "strange" Mochizuki Kaoru seemed to be just an illusion of Dazai Osamu, and the young man beside him returned to his original appearance in an instant.

After a brief conversation, there was silence all the way.

Saikai Haruto brought Dazai Osamu back to the outside of a villa.

Dazai Osamu was silent for a moment, then smiled without surprise: "Is this Mr. Mochizuki's home?"

"Temporary residence."

Saikai Haruto said succinctly. He said as a matter of course: "After all, Dazai-kun, it is said that you killed the former leader of the Port Mafia. I have no plans to move to a new house or demolish it, so I dare not bring you directly into the house like this."

He thought he would bring him back home... It seems his hope was dashed. He didn't expect that he would bring him here.

Dazai Osamu had some inexplicable regrets.

Xi Haiqingdou used a piece of wire that he had found from nowhere to open the iron fence outside the villa. After pushing it open, there were two combination locks at the door. After entering the password and pushing the door open, the villa was clean and tidy, even a little empty, as if no one had lived there for a long time.

"Teacher Mochizuki doesn't have the key here either? Then does this count as 'breaking into a private house'?" Dazai Osamu asked curiously.

"This is my house too, and everything is there. I just don't live here on a regular basis, so I don't carry the key with me. It's easier and more convenient to open the door this way, but I don't recommend that you learn from me, Dazai-kun."

Saikai Haruto explained, looking at Dazai Osamu with a half-smile: "Dazai-kun, have you ever been here?"

Dazai Osamu shook his head innocently.

"Of course not. I just think this doesn't look like Mr. Mochizuki's home."

"Is that so? I wonder what Dazai-kun thinks my home should be like."

Dazai Osamu lowered his eyes, smiled and guessed casually: "Maybe there will be a lot of books everywhere?"

Saikai Haruto was noncommittal about his answer: "After all, I am a writer who makes a living by writing."

Fortunately, he didn't ask any more questions. Dazai heaved a sigh of relief.

Of course he had been to Mochizuki Kaoru's home, and not just once or twice, but many times. Naturally, he knew his home very well - in the "book" he saw.

But that is all in the "book".

——The reality is, without the owner's invitation and permission, he has never been to Mochizuki Kaoru's house.

However, it is normal for him to choose to do so.

Dazai Osamu thought, after all, he was the gang member who killed the leader of the Port Mafia. Any common-sense person would know that bringing such a dangerous person home without knowing the reason would only bring him endless troubles.

Therefore, bringing him to this "temporary residence" was of course the most correct choice.

It was his initial expectation that was wrong.

Dazai Osamu followed Saikai Haruto's footsteps and stepped into the villa.

This was also the villa where "Yuen Chiaki" and Furugaya Rei lived last year. It was located in a somewhat remote residential area. It didn't look very eye-catching from the outside and it was well hidden, making it a backup "safe house".

Few people know that this house is uninhabited all year round, but someone comes to clean it on time every once in a while. It is the private villa of "Mochizuki Kaoru", which is one of the reasons why Saikai Haruto brought Dazai Osamu here.

Haruto Saikai could roughly guess that Dazai chose to kill Morio at this time probably to take advantage of the sudden rumor about the "resurrection of the previous leader", but he could not confirm whether there was anyone else in the Hong Kong underworld who knew about this besides him, Nakahara Chuuya and Rimbaud.

Or, in other words, how many people in the current Hong Kong underworld want to find Dazai Osamu and kill him.

The main reason why Saikai Haruto brought him to his side, besides for the chance to appear in the comics, was to solve problems, not to create them. Bringing him to his house at this time was not a wise move no matter how you looked at it.

The villa is a simple two-story structure, with three bedrooms and a living room on the lower floor. Saikai Haruto took Dazai Osamu to the study and soon found a large medical kit from the secret compartment of the study. After opening it, you can see that there are all kinds of scissors, scalpels, tweezers, sutures, medical bandages, alcohol, anti-inflammatory drugs, hemostatic drugs, etc. It looks like the equipment is very complete.

"Can you handle it yourself first?" Xihai Qingdou asked him, but there was no doubt in his eyes.

Dazai Osamu nodded.

They both knew each other well - Dazai's injuries were neither light nor serious, at least not to the extent of "severely injured and about to die" as Dazai had shown before.

All the things that happened before were just Saikai Haruto's tacit attitude. One was willing to fight and the other was willing to be beaten.

After Saikai Haruto opened the door of the study and went out, Dazai Osamu silently treated his wounds in the study.

The space in the study is very large, and an entire wall of bookshelves is neatly filled with books, but Dazai Osamu knows that most of the books here are just for display, and Mochizuki Kaoru has hardly ever read them - the books he has read are definitely not placed like this, but are placed here and there, looking messy - except for himself, no one can understand in what order he puts them, but he himself can tell which book is placed where and where he has read just by looking at it.

There was almost no sign of anyone living in this room. After Saikai Haruto left, it suddenly became eerily quiet—as if he was the only one left in the house.

Dazai Osamu was distracted for a moment. While cleaning his wound, he couldn't help but think about what Saikai Haruto was doing now.

I almost hurt myself more.

So far, everything has been going well. But... "Mochizuki Kaoru" is different from what he knew before, Dazai thought.

This deviation made him subtly uneasy, and he was even reluctant to determine the reason for it...but it also made him subtly think of some of the interactions between "Dazai Osamu" and "Mochizuki Kaoru" that he had read in the "book".

"Mochizuki Kaoru" also told "him" the reason why she reached out to him and saved him.

"On the issue of "saving Dazai Osamu". One day, a purple-haired young man and a black-haired boy had a boring conversation.

"Mr. Mochizuki, you know that I wouldn't have died if you hadn't rescued me right away."

At the bar counter, the black-haired boy asked curiously, "Then why did you save me?"

"Because you asked me for help, Dazai, that's it." The purple-haired young man replied without moving his eyebrows: "Didn't you know this a long time ago?"

The black-haired boy was bored and continued to ask, "So Mr. Mochizuki will never regret it?"

But the young man said, "Yes."

He picked up the glass on the bar and answered the boy: "Every time."

The boy widened his eyes in surprise.

"So, you can think of me as a good person now." The young man drank the wine in the glass, then put down the glass and glanced at the boy beside him, with a slight smile on his lips.

The wounds on his body were soaked with alcohol, and they only gave him a burning pain. Endless pain. Dazai Osamu was upset.

"...Hasn't it been dealt with yet?"

Xi Hai Qing Dou got a set of clothes from outside, brought back a basin of water, and opened the study door again.

He looked towards Dazai Osamu with confusion in his eyes - how to put it, his wounds were now a bloody mess, with clear alcohol and diluted red blood dripping onto the floor, it was simply horrible to look at.

As if he hadn't expected him to suddenly appear, Dazai blinked unexpectedly, with a rare look of embarrassment on his face.

"Sorry..." Even his tone became dry, as if he didn't know what to say.

Xi Hai Qing Dou couldn't help but sigh deeply.

Facing Dazai Osamu's surprised eyes, he walked forward, put the clean water aside, and put the clothes in his arms aside. Then he took the alcohol and scissors in his hands.

"Forget it, I'll take care of it. Also, these are some spare clothes. They're my size, so they're probably a little too big. Anyway, Dazai-kun, you should try to fit them in first."

"Huh?"

"I say, Dazai-kun, don't you feel any pain?"

"Of course not." Dazai blinked quickly.

"It hurts, it hurts so much... I'm almost dying in pain. I hate pain." He complained to Xihai Qingdou.

Dazai Osamu lowered his head slightly and looked at Saikai Haruto who was carefully treating his wounds.

The young man with beautiful purple medium-length hair looked focused and serious, as if he was concentrating on his wound. His movements were clean, neat and fast, as if he was very skilled. Dazai first compared him with Mori Ogai, and then quickly dismissed this meaningless comparison in his mind - there was absolutely no comparison. Mr. Mori was a complete quack. Mr. Mochizuki completely defeated him.

He didn't even feel much pain from the wound.

——Without even needing any other evidence, Dazai Osamu instantly noticed that Saikai Haruto's attitude towards him had changed again.

Although he didn't know why Saikai Haruto's attitude towards him suddenly softened, Dazai Osamu was always a person who knew how to seize opportunities. He immediately reached out and grabbed Saikai Haruto's clothes, with a genuine, painful expression on his face, and his chubby cheeks wrinkled into a ball.

"What about now?" Xi Hai Qing Dou paused for a moment and his hands moved more gently.

Dazai Osamu moved closer to him and blinked, "It's much better than before. As expected, Mr. Mochizuki handled it much better than I did."

Regardless of what he feels inside, this guy does have an overly delicate and pretty face. When he wants to please someone or get closer to them, it is difficult for anyone to feel any dislike for a face like his.

Dazai Osamu was well aware of this, and most of the time he was happy to use this face to achieve his own goals.

Just like now.

Xi Haiqingdou raised his eyelids and glanced at him, then stepped back a little: "Oh, maybe the local anesthesia is finally taking effect now."

Dazai Osamu choked.

It took a long time to finally treat all the wounds on Dazai Osamu's body. The clean water that was originally brought had already turned into turbid sewage.

After Dazai Osamu changed his clothes, Saikai Haruto took him out of the study and led him to the second floor.

The single bedrooms on the second floor have been expanded from two to four since "Yu Yuan Qian Qiu" brought people here. The two originally empty rooms have been converted into bedrooms, leaving only a storage room for miscellaneous items that has not been changed.

Saikai Haruto: "This is my private bedroom. The other three bedrooms are empty. You can choose any one of them, Dazai-kun."

Dazai Osamu had a strange expression on his face: "So Mr. Mochizuki was preparing clothes for me and tidying up my bedroom just now?"

Xi Haiqing Dou seemed a little puzzled: "Do I look like the kind of person who would let the injured person wear their original worn-out clothes and clean up the house or sleep on the sofa by themselves?"

"I want to live in this room, is that okay? It's right next to Mr. Mochizuki."

Dazai Osamu pointed to the room with a smile - whether it was a coincidence or intentional, it was the same room that Chiaki Yuzen stayed in the last time she came.

"Of course." Xi Hai Qing Dou naturally chose to agree.

Then I felt that Dazai Osamu was in a much better mood than when he came. It was very obvious.

——Confirmed. It seems that the relationship between him and Dazai Osamu in the "book" should be really good, and not just ordinary good. To the extent that his emotions are affected by him to this extent.

Xihai Qingdou blinked quietly, pushed the frame of her glasses, and drooped her long eyelashes slightly, hiding the thoughtful look in her eyes.

...And, this Dazai Osamu was indeed different from what he had initially thought.

Things seem to be getting a little easier?