Chapter 248 The Third Player
Saikai Haruto's expression changed immediately.
"The Hong Kong gangsters are hunting you down? Why?"
“I don’t know.”
Dazai Osamu looked uninterested: "I have no idea why. I just went out today and ran into a guerrilla and was chased by them."
He raised his dark eyes that seemed to be without any light, and looked at Xi Hai Qing Dou with a slightly curved lip: "So, Mr. Mochizuki is still willing to take such a big risk to take me in?"
Being hunted down by the gangsters - the answer is certain, it should be the order issued by Dazai Osamu. The only person in the gangsters who can order the guerrillas to kill the "leader" is the leader.
Xihai Qingdou suddenly understood something.
Dazai Osamu, wanted to kill the "Dazai Osamu" in front of him.
If Dazai Osamu of this world had not seen the "book", what would the future of this if world be like?
Dazai Osamu and Odasaku have both joined the Port Mafia, Sakaguchi Ango is still an undercover agent; and "Mochizuki Kaoru" is most likely in the Special Powers Department.
But this will not affect their relationship, at least not before Sakaguchi Ango's undercover identity is exposed - with Mochizuki Kaoru's personality, he will not reveal Sakaguchi Ango's undercover identity to Dazai Osamu and Oda Saku, unless he wants to use their relationship to do something - Mochizuki Kaoru will definitely stop it.
To him, it doesn't matter whether it's the Special Forces or the Port Mafia, it's just a change of work location. To him, the most important thing is of course his friends.
And what would this player who suddenly appeared do? He must have done something to cause Dazai Osamu to choose to hunt him down without hesitation. And——that guy probably already discovered that the player was not the real [Dazai Osamu] from another world.
Xi Hai Qing Dou thought about it.
Wen Ye's timeline has never had a clear time, he can only roughly judge -
Dazai Osamu is not yet 17 years old, and there is still half a year before he officially turns 17, so he can still be considered within the 16-year-old range.
During this year and more, neither the "Assassination King Incident" nor the "Dragon War" occurred, and it passed almost "calmly" - the fuse of the former, Verlaine, is still in the Hong Kong underworld and spends almost every day with Nakahara Chuuya and Rimbaud. Saikai Haruto has met him several times, and the other party's attitude is surprisingly friendly; and the latter, the so-called "500 billion" tycoon has no news at all this time, not to mention the outbreak of a large-scale war, which led to the Supernatural Special Service Department luring the "White Unicorn" Shibuzawa Ryuhiko to Yokohama.
He is unable to judge when the events occur and end. In addition, he has also messed up the time when Sakaguchi Ango, Odasaku and Dazai Osamu met, so he has no way of judging when "Dazai Osamu" appeared in the original timeline of the "book" - is it before the Dragon War or after the Dragon War?
But Dazai Osamu must know.
It would be impossible for the Hong Kong underworld guerrillas to hunt down the "leader" for a long time, and he had never heard Sakaguchi Ango and Oda Sakunosuke mention it before.
On the one hand, it is estimated that Dazai Osamu kept this matter a secret - after all, no matter what, "Hong Kong gang members hunting down the leader" sounds strange, and people with ulterior motives will definitely find it strange, so the smaller the spread of this matter, the better; on the other hand, it is estimated that the time was too short and other people did not have time to know about it.
Because he had not joined the inner circle of the port mafia, he did not have close contact with Dazai Osamu, at least not as close as Sakaguchi Ango and Oda Saku, who could contact him every day. Sometimes they only met once a week. The last time they met was two days ago, and Dazai Osamu seemed to be fine.
That is to say, the Hong Kong gangsters' pursuit of "Dazai Osamu" should have happened in these two days. Dazai Osamu was able to confirm the time of "Dazai Osamu's" appearance, at least the approximate time, and the error would not be very large - that is to say, in the development of the "book", Dazai Osamu also knew about the existence of the other party not long after the player entered the game.
In other words, what Dazai Osamu originally planned to do was soon discovered by Dazai Osamu.
But Dazai Osamu was unable to confirm the most specific time and place for the player to appear - otherwise, according to his personality, he would definitely choose to wait there himself, and maybe he would kill the player the first second he appeared.
——We have to stop Dazai Osamu's actions first. No matter what his mission is, we can't let the player die so quickly at the hands of Dazai Osamu.
Nishimi Haruto blinked slowly, his gaze fixed on the "Dazai Osamu" in front of him - although this guy was indeed completely beyond his expectations, he might be able to become his "point-boosting weapon".
"Why not?" The thought only flashed through his mind for a second or two, and Xi Haiqing Dou answered his question calmly.
"Being hunted down by Hong Kong gangsters" - then of course he would choose to "kindly" take him in.
Maybe he sensed his "bad intentions", but Dazai Osamu sneezed immediately: "Ah--"
"Drink some hot water first." Xi Haiqingdou poured him a cup of hot water and pushed it to him. "Change your clothes later, and then take the cold medicine."
"Have you contacted other people? Could this be done by other people with special abilities who are enemies of the Hong Kong underworld?"
Saikai Haruto's eyes flickered twice, and he asked him, "Chasing down the leader for no reason... this sounds too strange. At least before today, I've never heard you or Odasaku mention it."
Some time ago, Odasaku also moved and moved next door to him, so they became neighbors again. Odasaku didn't mention it to him, which means he didn't know about it either.
"Dazai Osamu" was surprised again this time.
"Leader" - is he, that is, Dazai Osamu? But isn't the game "Bungo Isoku" following the main plot? How did Dazai Osamu become the leader? Where did Mori Ogai go? Could it be that a game bug caused him to fall into the BEAST line? But that's not right. According to "Mochizuki Kurumi", the relationship between Odasaku and Dazai Osamu has not changed, right?
Compared with this explosive news, the acquaintance between "Mochizuki Kurumi" and Oda Saku does not seem to be a particularly strange or important thing.
"What's wrong? Are you surprised?" Not missing any of his micro-expressions, Xi Hai Qing Dou curled his lips slightly.
Compared to when she was wearing glasses, Mochizuki Kaoru looked more casual and unrestrained, as well as more enchanting and dazzling, with her light grey indifferent pupils and the teardrop mole under her right eye particularly prominent, carrying a vague and intriguing danger.
"Dazai Osamu" came back to his senses instantly.
"Odasaku..." He repeated the title, as if he was in some kind of trance.
He looked at Saikai Haruto with a barely perceptible hint of defensive inquiry: "Why did Mr. Mochizuki suddenly mention Odasaku?"
Dazai Osamu only mentioned this title to Oda Sakunosuke tentatively for the first time before he jumped off the building, but he was rejected by the other party: "There is no reason to be called like this by the enemy" - that's what he said.
Except for "Dazai Osamu", no one would call Oda Sakunosuke like this. They usually call him "Oda" or directly call him "Sakunosuke". There is definitely no such strange way of calling him.
So his surprise was certainly justified and understandable.
"It seems that the phone was accidentally lost when it entered the water. Anyway, there is probably no way to contact other people for the time being." He said this, but there was no sign of regret on his face.
...quite a good actor.
Xi Haiqing Dou snorted inwardly.
Even though they had only just met, Xi Haiqing Dou had already determined that this guy was the best actor among all the players he had met.
Then he will act with him.
"Have you forgotten? Odasaku lives next door to me. Such a big incident happened in Hong Kong underworld, but neither you nor Odasaku has been able to get any information until now. Isn't it strange?"
Saikai Haruto asked him back in surprise.
Odasaku is next door? So "Mochizuki Kurumi" and Odasaku are neighbors - that's not right, Odasaku should live near the Armed Detective Agency, and he has adopted so many children, he definitely doesn't live here - the place that "Dazai Osamu" saw in the leader's memory is definitely not here.
Moreover, Odasaku is now in the Armed Detective Agency, and both he and the Port Mafia are "enemies". Even if they are mentioned, it should not be such a calm and matter-of-fact attitude - it is as if they are "friends" rather than "enemies".
"Dazai Osamu" quickly made a "reasonable" judgment - "Mochizuki Kurumi" was lying to test him?
He blinked.
"So - Mr. Mochizuki, are you going to take me here and wait until Odasaku gets home from get off work?"
"But there shouldn't be any other people with special abilities involved in this matter. They didn't react to my special abilities, so the possibility of other people with special abilities being the cause can be ruled out."
He said, "So, are we going to wait here any longer?"
"You look weird today."
Saikai Haruto looked at him intently—a kind of concentration without any emotion. The young man's lips were naturally slightly upturned, and even if there was no expression on his face, he still looked like he was smiling. He said, "Dazai,...are you really Dazai?"