Chapter 263 The Third Player
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There aren't many scenes in the manga where Verlaine, Nakahara Chuuya, and Rimbaud spend time with each other. Saikai Haruto briefly sorted them out, and if we follow the chronological order in reality...what follows can still be considered "the daily life of the Mochizuki family."
It is nothing more than the scene of a few people gathering at the home of "Mochizuki Kaoru". However, it is very rare that not only Dazai Osamu, Odasaku and Sakaguchi Ango appear, but also Nakahara Chuuya, Rimbaud and Verlaine.
...It was as if that gathering had turned into a gathering of high-ranking leaders of the Port Mafia.
In one of the frames, he took out a seemingly inconspicuous notebook and wrote and drew on it, while Dazai Osamu, who was sitting next to him, suddenly stopped smiling.
It was just a picture that was not particularly eye-catching, at least in the previous and following frames, it was easy to be overlooked. Even neither "Mochizuki Kaoru" nor Dazai Osamu had any lines. But Saikai Haruto recognized it sharply - it was "Good Bye", his book that had not been completed and even had not been named at that time.
However, the comic's bullet screen hadn't noticed that little anomaly at that moment.
[At the gathering at Teacher Mochizuki's house, there was only one person present who was not a member of the Hong Kong underworld. Teacher Mochizuki, who do you think it was? ]
[I am dying of laughter. I don’t understand. Is this the site of the Hong Kong Black’s year-end presentation meeting? Congratulations to Teacher Xiaomei’s house for becoming the sixth building of Hong Kong Black (it’s not), the main branch of Hong Kong Black! (It’s really not)]
[It’s rare that Rimbaud is next to Teacher Xiaomei… Woohoo, I’m alone here taking a sip of kanran, no one will notice, right? Staying in the Arctic Circle is my destiny.]
[Did Dazai's expression change here? I wonder what he saw that made his smile disappear 2333]
Next, after Dazai Osamu gave the Dragon War to Butterfly, he and Oda Saku went to the orphanage because they "accidentally" heard Dazai Osamu's suggestion. After hearing Nakajima Atsushi's "cry for help", they quickly brought Nakajima Atsushi back home.
Perhaps it was because of the chick effect that Nakajima Atsushi became particularly dependent on "Mochizuki Kaoru" at the beginning. In addition, Odasaku's family had unknowingly raised several orphans, so Saikai Haruto, who did not realize the seriousness of the problem at the time, took Nakajima Atsushi back to his home without much hesitation.
Unfortunately, as "Mochizuki Kaoru", he knew almost nothing about "raising a child" and became unusually flustered...so in the end, he and Oda Saku raised Nakajima Atsushi together.
Sometimes, as the eldest child, Nakajima Atsushi would even take the initiative to help Odasaku take care of the other children adopted by his family.
Looking at the child in the comic who looked particularly pitiful and thin at the beginning, who was cautious in everything he did, even afraid that he was dreaming when he was sleeping, and would wake up in the middle of the night because of nightmares, and then thinking about Nakajima Atsushi who has not only grown taller and fatter, but also more lively than when I first met him, I have to say that Saikai Haruto still has a sense of accomplishment - it turns out that no matter which alias he is, he is very good at raising children!
In the middle of the comic, there is also a slightly perfunctory silhouette of Mori Oo - when Dazai casually mentioned that the orphanage had a new director, there was the silhouette of the new director.
[Ah... Such a warm and lovely daily life, it made me smile all the time... I even suddenly felt a little regretful, because in the main story, Atsushi Atsushi actually grew up in an orphanage until he was kicked out at the age of 18 and never met Kaoru and Odasaku.]
【??? My smile suddenly disappeared... You upstairs kid, you are so stubborn? Fine, fine, I give out candy in the comics and you give out knives, is that how you play?】
[Is this new dean a new character? There's even a silhouette... He looks a little familiar.]
[I am always curious about how many children Oda has raised... By the way, can Atsushi be counted as a child raised by Mochizuki-sensei and Oda Saku? Does that mean he has two fathers at once? Is this a new type of reconstituted family? (No)]
【……】
The comic page turned quickly and reached the last page.
The originally bright atmosphere suddenly took a turn for the worse.
——At the entrance of the alley, members of the port mafia lined up in a row and raised their guns expressionlessly towards a thin young man in a black coat, with a long red scarf around his neck and a bandage covering his left eye.
As if he hadn't figured out the situation yet, the expression on the young man's face froze for a moment.
The penultimate frame of the comic is a scene where a member of the Hong Kong underworld is firing a gun. Onomatopeia for firing a gun appears in the blank space of the picture, but the situation of the black-haired young man is not shown... and the last frame is a completely black frame.
There are two more words next to it - To be continued.
Xi Hai Qing Dou touched his chin, clicked on the barrage and opened his eyes. As expected, the barrage exploded with people screaming, asking questions, and reading spoilers... In short, there was everything.
[Too——kill——wait a minute, I don’t believe it, is this bitch going to do something new? ? ]
[Oh my god, I was suddenly startled. What happened? Is it possible that someone from the Hong Kong underworld is trying to usurp the throne again? Leader, do you dare to do it, sir? ]
[The person upstairs is messing around, get out! This is the Mafia, not your Hong Kong police and gangster drama]
[Check in! The first appearance of No. 2 Zai! Watch it again. This move made our leader Zai from another world confused 23333]
【Please remove the spoilers above!!】
Xi Hai Qing Dou continued to flip to the next chapter.
It begins with Dazai Osamu falling into the river and floating in the water, and then being picked up by "Mochizuki Kaoru" who is passing by.
I learned from the other party that he took the person back to another villa after being chased.
Then, both sides made seemingly casual verbal tests... and then obtained new information with different perceptions from each other.
——"You are really weird today." In the comic, "Mochizuki Kaoru" stared at "Dazai Osamu" in front of her and suddenly said, "Dazai,...are you really Dazai?"
"...Everything is broken, Mr. Unknown."
The black-haired young man said, "After all, I have never met Mochizuki-kun. There is nothing I can do about it, right?"
[Okay, Dazai checks in for daily swimming (1/1), and Mochizuki-sensei checks in for daily fishing (1/1)]
[I am now curious about how many "temporary residences" Mr. Mochizuki has... Damn, can't there be one more rich person like me in this world? Is writing novels such a profitable way? ]
[Wait a minute... What is Dazai looking for in Mochizuki-sensei's study? Is the cat occupying its territory?]
[Wow, Teacher Mochizuki took off her glasses? Woohoo! Teacher Mochizuki without her glasses is so pretty, her eyes are so charming... Husband! I'm going to kiss her hard! Kiss her on her tear mole!!]
[…Ah? Ah? Ah? Wait, isn’t this Dazai?! Huh? Were you two testing each other just now? It was actually a test? I don’t believe I was the only one who didn’t see that?!]
So handsome, worthy of being "me".
Saikai Haruto admired the "Mochizuki Kaoru" in the comics a little more.
Her dark medium-length hair had not been trimmed, so some of it fell on her shoulders and the kimono, then slid down to her neck and in front of her body. Her lips were still slightly raised as usual, as if she was smiling even when she wasn't smiling. But because she had removed the gold-rimmed glasses, the teardrop mole under her right eye became more noticeable, and even her eyebrows and eyes had some subtle changes, with a more casual and unrestrained look and a vague sense of enchantment, making her already gorgeous appearance even more compelling.
——In short, although he seems to have a bit more of a weird aura, his appearance cannot be changed, but people can still tell that he is an imposing general.
Xi Haiqing Dou was still very satisfied.
Especially in the next page of the comic, when "he" shoots directly at the player, the smile on his face is faint, and the contrasting sense of oppression is maximized, making him look a little more handsome.
Of course, in addition to the scene where he shoots at the player, there is also the scene where the two of them talk at cross purposes and finally discover that this "Dazai Osamu" and that "Dazai Osamu" are in different worlds, and even that the time periods of the two are different, as well as the message that the player mentioned the "book" to him...all of these appear in the comics one by one.
It's just that the latter part is missing, where the player tells him all those lies about the "book". The comic goes straight to the end of the conversation, when "Mochizuki Kaoru" is about to call Dazai Osamu in this world.
I wonder if the comic will find a suitable place to release the middle dialogue later? ...I think it will, right?
[Wait a minute, my brain is confused... How did the direction of "BE" become what it is now? ? Did zw drink fake wine? ? Dazai is not Dazai, Dazai is still Dazai? Or is Dazai going to kill Dazai? ? ]
[Dazai is still Dazai, but not the Dazai of this world... Mr. Mochizuki is so good that he recognized it so quickly. This Dazai is not his Dazai!! Mr. Mochizuki is so handsome, I support you.]
[Just shoot to confirm whether it is a kill or not... wyx, you are worthy of being you, shooting is so cool, I screamed! There was a sharp explosion!! Teacher shot me in the chest, it was hard work, oooooooo]
[I burst out laughing when I recognized him based on his height...Aaaaaah, why is this so funny? The 22-year-old Dazai is 7 centimeters taller than the 18-year-old Dazai! ]
[My friends are so enchanted, so Dazai's "book" can't be the "book" of this leader Zai, right? No wonder the beginning of the "BE" chapter didn't mention where Usagi Zaiji's "book" came from... But why did this Zai say that there is no teacher Mochizuki in other worlds? Is it also related to BE Zai? ]
[Dun Dun, am I the only one who noticed this? Our Dun Dun has made it. In the other world, he didn’t go to the military investigation, nor was he picked up by Kaoru and Odasaku. Instead, he went to the Hong Kong underworld? The White Grim Reaper is such a chuunibyou title. Well, well, well, our Dun Dun has finally made it! (wiping tears)]
After "Mochizuki Kaoru" and "Dazai Osamu" almost simultaneously guessed that the person who gave the order to "hunt down Dazai Osamu" to the Port Mafia should be Dazai Osamu of this world, the story then shifted to the perspective of Dazai Osamu, the leader of the Port Mafia in this world, in the leader's office on the top floor of the Port Mafia headquarters building.
In a large double-page spread that almost takes up two pages of the comic, a black shadow is rendered in a misty manner from the upper edge of the screen and gradually becomes lighter as it moves downward. Dazai Osamu stands in the middle of the bottom of the screen, also shrouded in the gray-black shadow, making the entire picture look quite gloomy and dark, with almost no bright colors.
Of course, there is more than one Dazai Osamu occupying such a large area of the screen...even the figure of Dazai Osamu at the bottom of the screen appears very small. Behind Dazai Osamu, occupying most of the comic grid, are pictures that look a little unreal, like pages of a book - and the "protagonists" in the pictures are mostly "Mochizuki Kaoru" and "Dazai Osamu".
The borders of this frame are all painted black, which means that this frame is a "memory" or "past" frame.
And in the picture in the grid below it, Dazai Osamu issued the order printed on the "Silver Oracle" to the Hong Kong gang without hesitation - "hunt down Dazai Osamu."
Therefore, the picture above is most likely the reason why Dazai Osamu issued this order, the original future of this world that he "saw" in the "book"... ?
Saikai Haruto paused for a moment, then turned off the bullet screen without hesitation and zoomed in on the scene in the comic again.