Chapter 288 The Third Player

The manga does not show what happened when Dazai Osamu first arrived in that world. However, in the manga, when Dazai Osamu first met the player, it was at Odasaku's house. Dazai Osamu had nowhere to go, so he stayed at Odasaku's house temporarily.

Saikai Haruto suddenly remembered that half a year ago, Odasaku was suddenly tricked by Dazai Osamu into moving next door to him. Now that he thought about it, it could be that Dazai Osamu wanted Odasaku to avoid the appearance of players?

The Dazai Osamu in the comics obviously didn't understand the reason for the situation - without the "book" to see the "future", although Dazai Osamu and Odasaku were good friends, they sometimes paid attention to the distance between each other in daily interactions. In short, Dazai Osamu, who was still a teenager at the time, found it difficult to understand why the "him in the parallel world" would choose to live in Odasaku's house without hesitation instead of his own territory.

Unlike this future, the Dazai Osamu of "First Act" is not so suspicious of "Dazai Osamu". To some extent, it is also because of his confidence in himself - it is easy to imitate other people, but it is never an easy task to imitate his human disqualification and imitate Dazai Osamu. Dazai Osamu does not believe that anyone can do it.

As for some of the differences from himself - since they are all him in a "parallel world", it is reasonable that there would be some differences.

What's more, the difference between "Dazai Osamu" and "Dazai Osamu" can be seen clearly with the naked eye, but this is actually a situation that is more difficult to fake.

However, there are some similarities, for example, Dazai Osamu and "Dazai Osamu" dislike each other - which is easy to understand, after all, he is Dazai Osamu, it is normal for him to "hate" another self, right?

I don’t know if it’s because of the short length of the comics, but the “Dazai Osamu” in the comics seems to be more at ease than the one seen in Saikai Haruto, and it’s even harder to tell the difference between him and “Leader Zai”.

Xi Haiqing Dou thought about it and soon figured it out - the reason is not difficult to understand. The player's two encounters in this world are different. One is that he is well prepared and everything is as planned, so of course he can smoothly follow his own script; while the other is that he just appeared in this world and was caught off guard by the pursuit sent by Dazai Osamu. He encountered a "special bug" at the beginning and even faced life-threatening danger at one point... It is normal to lose your composure and make obvious mistakes and mistakes in this situation.

After all, in the "first week", "Dazai Osamu" does not need to bother making up more lies to deceive Dazai Osamu, he just needs to follow the script of the leader step by step.

The "Dazai Osamu" in this future only took three or four days from his appearance to his offline... It can even be said that he is almost the fastest player to offline that Xi Haiqing Dou has ever seen. In such a short time, he experienced so many things without any preparation. If he can still play the role of the leader without making any mistakes, then he is not a player but the leader himself.

After figuring out the problem, Xi Hai Qing Dou continued to look down.

The player's acting from Dazai Osamu's perspective is much better. Of course, it could also be due to the buff he has... Anyway, Dazai Osamu's suspicion of him faded a lot after a while.

The first meeting between "Mochizuki Kaoru" and the two Dazai Osamu was still at the Lupin Bar.

In the comics, the player did not choose to reveal the whole story of Leader Zai. I don’t know whether he really didn’t say it or it was not drawn in the comics... But his concern for "Mochizuki Kaoru" is obvious, and he has never concealed the reason.

"In my world, I have never heard of Mochizuki-kun's name, including the dead souls." "Dazai Osamu" put on a mask-like smile: "So, I am a little curious about Mochizuki-kun. "

"Mochizuki Xun" had a dull expression, making it hard to tell what he was thinking.

Later, "Dazai Osamu" joined the Special Power Division. From Dazai Osamu's perspective, he was not particularly clear about the reason, but he was able to succeed, which was certain to be related to Shibuzawa Ryuhiko - because "Dazai Osamu" brought Shibuzawa Ryuhiko with him into the Special Power Division - or to be more precise, it was "arrest"?

In short, when they met again, "Dazai Osamu" had transformed himself into a member of the Special Powers Division - and he also kidnapped Nakajima Atsushi and stuffed him into the Special Powers Division.

[Kurojizai, Wusaizai, BEzai, now there is another special agent, right? This time he and Ango become colleagues again, the omnivorous party hits again. Okay, okay, let's do it again. This time I want everyone to join the special agent department! 】

[Shibuzawa Ryuhiko, you… now you can be considered successful in meeting the tiger every day, right? You are happy again, bro.]

[So is No. 2 Zai the real Zai or the fake Zai? dbq I am dizzy again...but this is really important to me! ]

[Why does it feel like No. 2 Zai's attitude towards Mr. Mochizuki is weird here... Am I overthinking it? But I haven't seen him treat Mr. Mochizuki like this in this round? ]

[No matter what, it’s more important than anything else that you guys live a good life together]

At that time, Shibuzawa Ryuhiko must have been a supernatural being who had lost his memory. Saikai Haruto thought.

In the comic, Nakajima Atsushi was picked up by Dazai Osamu and taken to the Special Powers Department in advance, while Dazai Osamu, Mochizuki Kaoru and even Oda Saku picked up Akutagawa Ryunosuke on the side of the road in advance.

The boy has a stubborn character, and is decisive in doing things regardless of the consequences. Dazai Osamu is troubled by his character and cannot get used to it, so the task of "raising a child" falls on Mochizuki Kaoru and Oda Saku again.

For various reasons, in the end, Ryunosuke Akutagawa moved into Mochizuki Kaoru's house.

"Mochizuki Kaoru" thought about it, and followed the operation of "Dazai Osamu", and threw Akutagawa Ryunosuke into the Special Powers Department - of course, what he said was that he would bring him to learn by his side and train him as a capable assistant, which would also allow Akutagawa Ryunosuke to be "self-reliant" in disguise and make people feel more secure.

In fact, what Akutagawa's assistant Ryunosuke has to do... includes but is not limited to copying notes for Mochizuki Kaoru, writing mission summaries, typing mission reports, recording novel inspiration... oh, not recording the complete content of the event, transcribing manuscripts... and a series of trivial things.

Sometimes I also have to act as a thug.

——It was euphemistically claimed that it was to train Assistant Akutagawa's attentiveness and patience, as well as his observation, writing skills, summarizing ability, skills, and even literary accomplishment and political perspective.

There is even a vague feeling that he is bringing Ryunosuke Akutagawa onto the path of literature.

...It certainly seems like something he would do using the pseudonym "Mochizuki Kaoru".

Xi Hai Qing Dou stroked his chin and thought about it.

Given his personality, he was not as disgusted with Akutagawa Ryunosuke's character as Dazai was, but he and Dazai Osamu had the same hobby - they liked to keep people around and teach students by example through their own actions.

And it's so rare to find a tool who is so easy to please.

Although exploiting child laborers makes people feel guilty, the "child laborers" themselves are willing to be exploited, so he does not have enough conscience to let them go.

...Thinking of this, he even felt a little regretful that he didn't pick Akutagawa up before.

Of course, since Akutagawa Ryunosuke and Nakajima Atsushi are both in the Special Power Division, they will naturally come into contact with other people... So a weird scene appeared in the comics -

Akutagawa Ryunosuke has respect for Dazai Osamu, but he is quite hostile towards "Dazai Osamu", and he also looks down on Nakajima Atsushi; Nakajima Atsushi was picked up by "Dazai Osamu", and although he seems to be a little timid, he does not have much fear or affection for Akutagawa Ryunosuke who is not used to "Dazai Osamu", but his relationship with "Mochizuki Kaoru", a cold-tempered older senior, is not bad.

This in turn caused the relationship between him and Akutagawa Ryunosuke to become even worse.

The relationship between the two of them is like this, and the relationship between "Dazai Osamu" and "Mochizuki Kaoru" is also very indifferent. It is completely different from the friendly relationship between them and others such as Dazai Osamu and Oda Saku... It looks more and more weird.

[Okay, okay, you're picking up the kids in and out of the book, right? You don't want Akutagawa anymore, you're picking up Atsushi again, their relationship is still as bad as ever... Isn't this also a main plot?]

[Akutagawa-san is really a toxic fan. His personality is as solid as a rock and will never fall. Mochizuki-sensei is so good at fooling me that I am dying of laughter. Now Akutagawa-san is heading in two directions.]

【Looking at it this way, the relationship between the book and the outside world has changed a lot. Good guys, I just kept calling them good guys. Suddenly I understand the name of the if chapter "Butterfly Effect" better. Anyway, the supernatural secret service department in the book is ecstatic (? 】

[I declare that this is truly the episode with the most and most abundant staff in the Special Agents Department. The special agents are in tears, and the main special agents are drooling with envy.]

After that, Dazai Osamu met "Dazai Osamu" less and less frequently, but his relationship with "Mochizuki Kaoru" did not change. It was still the same as before. The few of them usually focused on their work and life, and occasionally gathered in the Lupin bar to drink together.

This kind of "daily life" should have continued for quite some time. When the comic turned to the next frame, the time jumped directly to the news about the "European supernatural organization Mimic" appearing in the Supernatural Agent Department.

——Mimic’s people are about to enter Yokohama.

"Dazai Osamu" did not choose to block them outside Yokohama, but chose to let them in, and made preparations beside Odasaku; however, unexpectedly, the people from Mimic did not go to the port mafia first, but went to Mochizuki Kaoru.

Outside of the comics, there are no surprises about Saikai Haruto.

With players around, he certainly wouldn't take the initiative to do something to Mimic in advance, nor would he take the initiative to change the main plot in advance. Instead, he would most likely choose to do something beyond the players' understanding of the "game plot" - for example, the rumor that the famous "Dead Souls", a former famous intelligence dealer who was rumored to have died a decade ago, has come back to life and appeared in a small country in East Asia, which sounds interesting, doesn't it?

Of course, there is no relationship or connection between the "Dead Souls" and the "Mimic" people, but if the gossip is that this intelligence dealer has come back to life, and that he died because he had access to the secrets of many European countries, and that he can give the client any intelligence they want as long as they can afford it... then the two may be related.

Rumors are a mixture of truth and falsehood, making it difficult to distinguish the truth from the false. Therefore, no matter how outrageous the rumor is, it will not appear out of place. However, there are always people who hold out hope and want to give it a try.

Dazai Osamu's sight was limited to the land of Yokohama by the "plot". Europe is separated from Japan by several oceans, and the news circulating in Europe naturally could not reach the ears of Dazai Osamu in Yokohama. Therefore, it became the best and most convenient opportunity for Mochizuki Kaoru to take action.

In fact, the development of things was not much different from what he expected. Andre Gide did a series of things in Yokohama. This time the Port Mafia became a smokescreen, and his goal changed to finding the Dead Soul. Of course, the purpose was to find a way to free all the people in Mimic - it didn't matter if they died at the hands of the "Dead Soul". After all, in addition to the identity of "intelligence dealer", the "Dead Soul" also had an equally useful identity as a "killer" in Europe many years ago.

I can see their intention, and therefore the "Mochizuki Kaoru" in the comics is quite stable.

When Andre Gide approached him, the purple-haired young man still wore glasses and smiled, temptingly proposing another possibility -

"Would you like to give it a try, wash off the dirt on your body, and let Mimic stand in front of people again with integrity?"

"Andre, you are not the ones who are wrong. Do you really not want to return to your motherland with integrity? Ordinary people are blinded by the people above them and cannot see the truth, but your eyes are not blinded. You know everything but are forced to keep silent. Do you really have no complaints at all?"

In the sunlight, the teardrop mole under the right eye of the young man with gray-blue phoenix eyes was slightly dazzling.

Andre Gide's breathing hitched.

"This is a joke, dead soul."

The white-haired man said coldly: "I think you are only looking for death. Are you looking for my joke?"

"How could that be?" The man standing opposite said innocently, with a nonchalant expression, "I never joke with people I don't know well."

Obviously, the purple-haired young man is a little older, but one has been running around for many years and has experienced many hardships, while the other has been leisurely all day long. "Mochizuki Kaoru" still looks like a young man in his twenties, in the prime of life, while Andre Gide looks several times older, and seems to be nearly ten years older than Mochizuki Kaoru.

When the two people stood opposite each other, the contrast seemed even more striking.

Mochizuki Kaoru smiled, her voice was calm, her expression was calm, but she still seemed to be carrying a poisonous aura that was tempting people: "The evidence you have is insufficient, and it cannot be sent out, and no one believes it, but that doesn't mean I have no way. Andre, do you want to try? Anyway, even if it still doesn't work, you have nothing to lose, right?"

"Plop"

Jide could clearly hear his own heartbeat.