Chapter 267 The Third Player

Comic update? Is that a coincidence?

With a thought in mind, Xi Haiqing Dou stopped flipping through the pages and turned back to open the comic.

——It has indeed been updated.

The first page of the newly updated comic is the color page that Saikai Haruto saw in the forum, which was commented by the forum audience as "very peaceful, full of atmosphere" and "very warm".

This is the scene of "Mochizuki Xun" watering flowers at home.

It looked a bit like the scene when he just came home yesterday, and a bit like the scene when he watered the flowers before leaving today... After all, it was in the afternoon, and the sunsets on both days were also very good. However, based on the dark blue kimono he was wearing, Saikai Haruto still judged that the painting was of today... To be more precise, it was about half an hour ago.

But just as the forum said, the picture on the cover of this episode is indeed very beautiful - the colors used are very bright and warm. "Mochizuki Kaoru" is standing in front of rows of flower pots, holding a spray bottle in her hand, and is slightly bending over to water a pot of roses. Only her side face is exposed. She is wearing a dark blue kimono and her hair is a deep purple-black. But with a layer of light golden sunset, the whole person becomes very soft, as if wearing a layer of soft light filter, and even the light gray pupils seem to be dyed light gold.

Fresh flowers and green grass, warm golden sunlight, a handsome and gentle young man in a kimono, and a well-behaved white-haired boy with sparkling eyes following him closely...

Well, it is indeed peaceful, warm, and artistic, giving people a particularly comfortable atmosphere... That is if you don't know that he went out without hesitation after watering the flowers.

Apparently the comments share the same feeling. Although we don't understand the "premise" or "afterwards" yet, the previous episode had a tense atmosphere, but the cover of the next episode suddenly switches to a calm and relaxed atmosphere. It also feels wrong no matter how we look at it, and we're already starting to wonder if there's going to be a "sudden reversal."

The comic begins where the previous chapter ended. In the dimly lit office of the leader, Dazai Osamu asked Odasaku behind him without turning his head: "Odasaku, am I doing this right?"

"I don't know." Odasaku said, "Captain, what do you mean?"

Dazai Osamu was silent.

What follows is a short memory - Dazai Osamu found a reason in advance to send Nakahara Chuuya abroad, and when facing Rimbaud, he simply said, "No matter what happens next, no matter what he is going to do, I hope he (Rimbaud) will remain silent and do nothing." As for Verlaine... Verlaine was so willful that he followed Nakahara Chuuya abroad.

In addition, he transferred Oda Saku to his side and has been inseparable from her for the past two days. He also used his "inspiration" to just the right extent to entice Mochizuki Kaoru to "seclude herself" at home to write novels, and Nakajima Atsushi was also watching them...but what was he still feeling uneasy in his heart?

——Dazai Osamu received a call and inquiry from "Mochizuki Kaoru".

"Are you going to kill him?"

"He cannot exist in this world."

"Because he asked me for help. By the way, Dazai, do you know the word 'book'?"

"Don't believe anything he says. No matter what... please believe this. He is not 'me'."

"I also have things I want to explore. I hope both you and I can achieve our wishes."

After the call was hung up, Dazai Osamu fell silent again.

After sitting in the chief's office for a whole day, even Odasaku couldn't help asking him, "It's safe here now, don't you really need to rest?" Dazai just shook his head and said, "It's not time to relax yet."

It was not until the window glass in the leader's office turned from dark to bright and it was past dawn the next day that Dazai Osamu found Sakaguchi Ango and calmly, even with some indifference, completely overturned the order he had given two days ago.

In the middle, there are also some quietly emerging chaos in the lower levels of the Two Grid Port Mafia - because of the hunt order issued by the leader at the top, most of the members who do not know the truth, including those who actually participated in the attack on the other "Dazai Osamu", are mostly confused and uneasy, and their minds gradually become confused. They gather in twos and threes and discuss in low voices, but are reprimanded and suppressed by the passing Black Lizard's centurion Guangjin Liulang.

These are things that Dazai Osamu did not notice - or did not care about.

Then, Hirotsu Liulang reported to Dazai Osamu that he met "Mochizuki Kaoru" who was out with vegetables in her hands. After a conversation, Hirotsu Liulang told Dazai Osamu what "Mochizuki Kaoru" had said to Dazai Osamu: "What he (Dazai Osamu) wants to find is with him (Mochizuki Kaoru)."

The expression of Dazai Osamu in the comic seemed very silent, and Hirotsu Ryuro kept his head down, as if he didn't dare to look up and make eye contact with Dazai Osamu.

Dazai Osamu: “I understand.”

[Help me, I’m really going to die, it’s exactly the same reason… Mr. Mochizuki, how can you be so cruel! ! ]

[It’s so suffocating. I can’t bear to look at Zai’s expression… My heart is about to break. I can’t bear to think about how uncomfortable he is. Teacher Mochizuki, you know how to stab (inhale oxygen). Is this how you play with the spinning knife? Oh my god, I really don’t dare to watch it.]

[How did Mr. Mochizuki know about the word "book"? Did No. 2 Dazai tell him? Dazai, why don't you explain? I'm in a hurry.]

[Old thief, please don’t go too far!! Okay, today’s comic ends here - I won’t get stabbed if I don’t read on -]

[Even Odasaku... yelled to the leader... "Why...?" Why did I get stabbed again? Doesn't my life count? ? ]

The dense barrage of comments made people dizzy. Discussions about the plot were interspersed between the numerous barrages, and one could easily miss them if one was not careful. Among the audience who were very willing to "take the knife" on their own initiative, even Odasaku was mentioned.

…But if Odasaku doesn’t call Dazai Osamu “Boss” during work hours, what should he call him?

Saikai Haruto was lost in thought for a second.

However, if Chuuya Nakahara and Verlaine were both abroad and Rimbaud did not interfere...this matter would seem to be much simpler.

What is this called, a tacit understanding? ...I don't think it's used like this?

The comic camera turns again to the conversation between "Mochizuki Kaoru" and another "Dazai Osamu" when he is talking to Dazai Osamu on the phone.

——And it is quite contrasting, releasing the words "help" that the player said to him at that time.

"Dazai Osamu" looked innocent: "Mochizuki-kun wouldn't just stand by and watch someone die, right?"

The expression of "Mochizuki Kaoru" in the comic is so subtle that one can see it at a glance: "Dazai-kun, should I say it's you who is worthy of it?"

For a moment, from a certain angle, the "Dazai Osamu" in the comics seemed to overlap for a moment with the face of Dazai Osamu who appeared in front of Rimbaud's house and in front of Mochizuki Kaoru two years ago.

——When there is a request for help, there will be a response. She never cares about stance or good or evil. This is indeed how "Mochizuki Kaoru" always behaves.

[I dried up the silence... I can't tell, I really can't tell... Dazai Osamu, the other you is still you, the real you...]

[Zai Tui immediately changed his stance. Now I am Mochizuki-sensei! Okay, okay, help, help, both Zais must be fine! ]

[Help, I just came out of Zai's place and was dazzled by Zai again.jpg. I will just quietly watch you two playing tricks]

Then, the next morning, "Mochizuki Kaoru" brought "Dazai Osamu" whose appearance had been simply changed all the way to the orphanage, and met Mori Gugai. After a conversation, "Dazai Osamu" stayed. The comic also showed a scene of Mori Gugai "seeing him off", but the conversation between him and Mori Gugai was omitted... A short scene of the Superpower Secret Service was interspersed, and Sakaguchi Ango appeared again, delivering the orders that Dazai Osamu had issued and withdrawn twice before in the Hong Kong underworld. Combined with the questions about "books" that "Mochizuki Kaoru" had sent to the Superpower Secret Service before, it is hard not to think of the relationship between them.

However, when Tsujimura Fuyuki asked him if he wanted to be the person who met Mochizuki Kaoru, Sakaguchi Ango still refused with a wry smile.

...Ango is as awkward and tangled as ever. Obviously, both he and himself know that he is an undercover agent planted by the Special Powers Special Agents Department in the port mafia, but they just didn't say it directly, right?

I don't know how much of his refusal was just self-deception.

Xihai Qingdou shook his head slightly in his heart.

It's a pity that people who doubt too much will always end up getting deeper and deeper into repeated doubts and entanglements, making more mistakes and ending up getting more hurt in the end.

On this point, both Saikai Haruto and Danmaku see it much more clearly than Sakaguchi Ango himself. Danmaku even has a bit more of the meaning of "the regret that one cannot become a good person" than Saikai Haruto.

The contents of the "book" and the world where the leader Zai lived that the player had tried to trick Saikai Haruto into revealing before were revealed one by one in the comics when "Mochizuki Kaoru" talked to Tsujimura Fuzuki through flashbacks.

Xi Hai Qing Dou raised his glasses slightly.

Well... everything else is good, but after reading this part of the comic, it's really hard not to think that all the things he did were for the players - the "Dazai Osamu" in another world seems to have left the Dazai Osamu of this world behind.

It was hard for Xi Haiqing Dou not to suspect that the comic was intentional - he clicked on the pop-up screen and took a few more glances, and sure enough, it was just as he thought, with a lot of quarreling sounds.

After reading it, he quickly closed it again.

He continued to look back.

When "Mochizuki Kaoru" returned home and met Nakajima Atsushi, and everything seemed "peaceful and peaceful", the scene suddenly changed and Shibuzawa Tatsuhiko "accidentally" learned about the "two Dazai Osamu" and "book" that appeared in Yokohama.

——After all, before the outbreak of the Dragon War and in the early and middle stages, Shibuzawa Ryuhiko was also considered a researcher in the Special Powers Department, which makes sense.

So the man who originally looked bored, as if everything in the world was boring and uninteresting, suddenly brightened up his eyes.

Did he find something that was beyond his expectations?

In the comic, the scene where Shibuzawa Tatsuhiko learned the news only flashed for a moment, and in the next frame, Shibuzawa Tatsuhiko was deliberately looking for members of the Hong Kong underworld in Yokohama and using the "Tatsuhiko-no-Ma" to create fog.

Such an action is of course to find Dazai Osamu...so the scene turns to the two "Dazai Osamu" the next moment.

The "Leader Zai" played by the player is trying to fool Mori Gugai in the orphanage... He didn't mention the "book", but he revealed some of the things that happened in the Leader Zai world to Mori Gugai intentionally or unintentionally. In addition to his narration, a part of his "inner memories" is also placed next to the comics - as expected, it is still about the real, another world "Hong Kong underworld leader Dazai Osamu".

Different from before, the "memories" in the comics seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, hazy and unclear, as if they had some other meaning.

Although Mori Ogumi appears to be very cold, he is still listening very seriously... However, Mori Ogumi's personality has always been very foxy, and it is difficult to tell whether he believes what "Dazai Osamu" says.

The two people seemed to be in harmony on the surface, but in fact, after temporarily separating, "Dazai Osamu" turned around and ran away from the orphanage alone; and after he left, Mori Ogai also looked in the direction he left without saying a word, and sent a notification message to Mochizuki Kaoru.

After leaving, Dazai quietly took out a small locator from his body... It was supposed to also function as a "monitor", but Dazai accidentally disabled the monitoring function.

He threw the locator onto a wild dog passing by on the roadside.

Seeing this, Saikai Haruto did not sigh. He had expected this in his heart. He had placed a monitoring device and a locator on "Dazai Osamu" just in case it worked, and he did not hold much hope. Now that he saw the content of the comic, he could give up the locator.

——So in the end, it’s still Yu Yuan Qian Qiu who is not good enough! The equipment he made is too rubbish! That’s why it’s so easy to be discovered by the player wearing the “Boss Killer” shell.

Relying on the fact that "Yuyuan Qianqiu" was now far away in another ocean and had fallen asleep at this time, he skillfully used the "Mochizuki Xun" vest to justifiably pass the blame to the other vest in his heart.

Who said that thing was made by "Yu Yuan Qian Qiu"?

Or was it the "Mechanical God" skill card that was equipped? That's it? Bad review!

——Well, as for pushing the pot, isn’t the other person who pushed the pot to himself also himself? Can pushing the pot to oneself be called pushing the pot? Of course not!

As for the bullet screen... Nishimi Haruto opened it and took a few more glances, because the comic did not show the scene where "Mochizuki Kaoru" had placed a surveillance locator on him before, and sure enough, almost all the bullet screens thought that the locator was placed by Mori Ougai.

...Isn't this probably because Mori Ouwai took the blame for him?

Xihai Qingdou quietly and carefully hid himself in depth.

As for Dazai Osamu, the Hong Kong gangsters were not slow to get the news. Dazai Osamu soon learned the news and sent a message to "Mochizuki Kaoru" without thinking.

——"Mr. Mochizuki, can you please not go out recently?"

——"If it's convenient, please try to take care of Atsushi-kun for me."

Those messages are fully displayed in the comics.

In the next frame, the scene shifts, and both Dazai Osamu appear in the thick fog rising from Yokohama when Shibuzawa Ryuhiko rises; and "Mochizuki Kaoru" also goes out without hesitation when Nakajima Atsushi calls her.

[Okay, okay, a bunch of Mystery Whisperers are talking in coded form. I, as a member, am not worthy of understanding them, right? Can you all make your words clear? I hate Mystery Whisperers the most in my life, you scriptwriters!!]

[Mr. Mochizuki - don't set a flag - I just said that I have a bad feeling... Based on this conversation, is Mr. Mochizuki going to get into trouble too? I really don't dare to read on! ]

[Help, what is the relationship between Dean Mori and Teacher Mochizuki? What's going on? ? What's going on between Dean Mori and No. 2 Zai? ? What's going on between Teacher Mochizuki and Dazai? ? ? Oh my god, my CPU is going to burn out... If you want my brain to become stupid, just say it! ! ]

[No, you three? ? Don’t get into trouble, don’t get into trouble, don’t get into trouble! ! Protect, protect, protect, protect!]

Nothing will happen... that's of course impossible.

The story content in the comics does not shift or change according to the wishes of the bullet screen.

Shibuzawa Ryuhiko in the mist seemed like a "god" who controlled everything, and soon he found Dazai Osamu.

Perhaps it was for the sake of watching a show, or perhaps it was just for the sake of "fun", but it didn't take much effort for Dazai Osamu to convince Shibuzawa Ryuhiko to help him find another Dazai Osamu.

There are two Dazai Osamu in the mist, and it is even more difficult to tell which "Dazai Osamu" is which.

In the last page, the two "Dazai Osamu" and Shibuzawa Ryuhiko finally met in the white fog.

On the other side——

At this time, Oda left the headquarters building of Gangkuro in a hurry to find Dazai Osamu who suddenly "disappeared" without leaving any words, trying to find where Dazai Osamu was... Then on the road, at the edge of the white mist, she met a thin boy with short black hair wearing a black jacket, with vigilant and hostile eyes.

It was Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

As for "Mochizuki Xun" - in a small frame next to him, his figure is about to step into the white fog in the next moment.

The last line of the comic is two exceptionally concise words: To be continued.

【？ ？ Stop here for me？ ？ 】

[Okay, stop, stop! As long as I stop here, nothing will happen to any of them! (Smiling with sunglasses.jpg)]

[Ah? ? You are quite smart upstairs.]

[The plot is so good that it makes my brain spin out of the universe... You damn bastard, you are so good at getting stuck, are you going to die?! ]

[Is there anyone who can save me... wuwuwu. For example, can I dream of a Chuuya falling from the sky——]

[Rambo is fine, please save him! I’m not picky (?)]

Saikai Haruto no longer sees these bullet screens.

Unlike the bullet screen prediction that he would walk into the white mist and get into trouble the next second, before stepping into Shibuzawa Ryuhiko's "Ryuhiko's Room", Saikai Haruto's steps paused because of another person who unexpectedly appeared nearby.

"Hey, you man with glasses over there! Can you help me see what's wrong with this vending machine over here?"

A fresh and lively young man's voice rang out, and Xi Haiqingdou turned his head in surprise. The young man, who was wearing a vest and a brown hooded jacket, and whose messy black hair was held down by a newsboy cap of the same color as the jacket, waved to him, and his emerald green eyes curved into a smiling arc.