Chapter 348 Bungo Stray Dogs and a Joke
Apparently, Sharon and Furuya were not the only ones curious about the contents of the letter. After they left, Mori Ougai's expression began to show a bit of solemnity.
The content of the letter is simple, even just one sentence and a signature.
What made Sen Ouwai feel uneasy was not just this seemingly simple sentence. In fact, more attention was paid to the signature at the end.
In the past week, whether in the organization or out and about, I would always inadvertently see this unique cursive letter A. Sometimes it was in advertisements on street ED screens, sometimes on the signs of shops in the commercial street, sometimes in flyers handed to me, and once I even saw such a cursive label on Alice's dress that was delivered to the leader's office.
Although the number of occurrences was indeed large, the time and location were scattered, and it was only mixed in with other information, not appearing as the letter A alone, so it did not cause any alarm.
Until he saw this single cursive letter again in this special place, all the memories related to it in Sen Ou's mind in the past week were evoked at once, and he suddenly became alert.
Is this a coincidence? But I don’t believe there are really coincidences in the world. All coincidences are man-made calculations.
This letter now appears as a signature, and its meaning is intriguing.
For example, if all of this was arranged by the boss of the secret organization, then how did he know the itinerary of each trip?
As the leader, Mori Ou's whereabouts are kept secret. He dresses up as a down-and-out doctor when he goes out. To achieve this, he must be well prepared every time he goes out.
This alone may lead to other possibilities, but when combined with the previous sentence, the meaning becomes different.
The relationship between Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki is little known. Apart from Fukuzawa Yukichi who knew everything, only a few people speculated about it, but this A directly pointed out the title "Natsume Sensei".
In this case, this signature will naturally become a hint to Mori Owl, allowing A to know more, thus confirming the previous guess, as if A is sure that "I did it before".
Since I can send the folder into the skirt to the chief's office, is there anything else I can do?
Since you know about the relationship with Teacher Natsume, do you know any other secrets?
Mori Ougai is a smart man, and only a smart man can see so many possibilities through this sentence and that signature, which means that he has truly begun to fear the secret organization boss - A.
This is also the source of Akae Nazuki's intimidation of Furuya Reisaku. At the same time, as Akae Nazuki expected, such intimidation will only cause a little jealousy in Morioh, or even jealousy directed at person A. It has nothing to do with this organization or Bourbon, so Bourbon will not show mercy.
Leaving the banquet hall unscathed was the biggest concession the Mori Owl Club could make.
Because the boss of the organization was mentally prepared in advance, when Mori Ogai received the news from Akutagawa and learned that he had successfully escaped from the Bourbon, he was only a little disappointed and did not take it too seriously.
After all, it seems that Sen Ou will not remain silent for long. There will definitely be another action. Then we can find out whether that person is targeting the Mafia or... some other purpose.
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Rei Furutani changed cars several times along the way, and it took him some time to finally park the car in an alley with Sharon.
After getting off the bus, we walked along the alley for a while before we successfully arrived at an open space.
There are a lot of abandoned building materials piled up here, but that's not important. What's important is that the person we are looking for is sitting on top of the abandoned building materials.
——He was a young man in black clothes and black hair, who was playing a video game console fiercely. He even had a lollipop in his mouth, and the white paper stick twitched with his movements.
"Hmm? I'm back." The boy didn't even look up. "Wait a minute, I'm almost done with this level!"
About half a minute later, cheerful music for the game's ending rang out in the air. The boy cheered and then jumped down from the top of the building materials, holding the game console.
He did not fall to the ground, nor did he land safely on his own. Instead, he was caught by a pair of hands on the way down, and then landed safely in the man's arms.
Akae Nayue raised her head and came into sight of Kurosawa Jin, who looked even more gloomy and unhappy with his back to the light.
"Hey, Qin-chan!" Gan Cui calmly lay in his arms, raised his hand and greeted him with a smile, "I knew you would catch me. It's really touching."
The latter's eyes twitched, and he almost revealed an expression of disgust, but he was completely unable to say anything to resist. His eyes only became more ferocious, but he carefully put the boy he had caught to the ground.
After standing firm, Akajinazuki patted his trouser legs and looked at Kurosawa Jin with a subtle and somewhat disgusting expression: "…Disgusting, I will remember to try a different approach next time."
After the organization was destroyed, Akae Nazuki sent both Gin and teacher Kasaram to Chuuya Nakahara, asking the Mafia to keep a close eye on the former and Li, while asking Chuuya Nakahara to take care of the latter.
Before Akae came to this world that month, Dazai Osamu had reached some kind of agreement with Nakahara Chuuya, and he just handed over Kurosawa Jin, who might become a leader of the Port Mafia in the future, to him, and gave it the euphemistic name of "helping you expand the organization's combat power."
If Dazai Osamu hadn't said that he had agreed with Nakahara Chuuya to add several restrictions to the Kurosawa formation, such as being unable to cause harm, Akae Nazuki would not have taken this guy to another world at all.
It's not that I'm afraid of a fight, I'm just too lazy to get along with this guy. After all, we have a huge grudge against each other.
Knowing that Gin was unhappy, Akae Nayue was happy.
"Don't jump down directly next time, Boss." Three people, young and old, came out from the corner. The only adult among them sighed, and his eyes under the blue hood were full of helplessness. "I know you are capable, but this will corrupt the children."
Chijiang Nayue: "...Huh?"
Her face was full of "Are you serious?". After all, the only one who could be called a child, Haibara Ai, was actually a beautiful girl who was almost twenty years old.
Zhu Fu Jingguang put his fist to his lips and couldn't help but smile: "Sorry."
It's not surprising. It's only natural to tease your friend after seeing him return to a teenage body shape, right?
After the casual chat, Chijiang Nayue put away the game console and glanced at the people around him.
This mission was really exciting.
But it's fun to have some fun occasionally!
They don't belong to this world. The reason they are here is a long story. To make a long story short, it's to hunt down the 'fugitive'.
The Special Powers Department has a first-class dangerous superpower who has been housed for several years. The name of his superpower is [Flowers Bloomed Last Night] - but Chijiang Nayue prefers to simply and crudely call it parasitism.
This ability can plant seeds inside the body through physical contact. Once the seeds are planted, once evil thoughts arise in the mind, the seeds will receive nutrients until the evil thoughts water the seeds and they grow, and then they will break through the soil... literally break through the soil, since the seeds are planted inside the body, then it should be obvious what the soil is.
But in reality, once the seeds begin to germinate, the person in whom the seeds are planted will meet their doom. Their brains are often the first to be parasitized, so even if there is a way to eliminate the seeds, the person will die on the spot.
In other words, when the seed first parasitizes the human body, it can be removed, but once it is maliciously injected, it means that the person has become a living dead, and even Dazai Osamu, who has the ability to eliminate supernatural powers, cannot save him.
This psychic once killed 23 people with his supernatural powers, but because his abilities were worth researching, he was later imprisoned in the Supernatural Special Affairs Department and placed under surveillance.
Of course, the reason they dare to do this is that this ability has a big flaw - the number of seeds is limited, and new ones will only split after breaking through the soil.
Once the seed is planted, it is no longer under the control of the psychic until it breaks out of the soil, at which point it can continue to look for the next target to parasitize. So in theory, as long as all the people in whom the seed is planted do not have any evil thoughts, the psychic power is equivalent to being sealed.
The Secret Service Department took great efforts to control this psychic. They planted all the seeds in the bodies of death row prisoners and told them the conditions for the seeds to break through the soil. In this way, as long as they were still alive, they would definitely try hard to control their evil thoughts.
However, this approach recently encountered a "small accident". When Chi Jiang Na Yue received the mission, he learned that the carrier of the seeds suddenly disappeared from the prison.
At the same time, [Book] hurriedly told me that there was a crack in the outer layer of the world. Although He soon repaired it, he didn't know if anything fell out.
Chijiang Nayue: ...
Not only did it fall out, but it was a killer weapon.
After chasing the criminal's breath and the [book] for a long time, they finally found out that the man somehow managed to fall directly into the main world where Yokohama once belonged, the 'real world outside the book'!
Since I was going on a business trip anyway, and the one I was going to was another Yokohama, Akae that month, I decided to bring my kids along.
Now that I have brought the children, it’s okay to bring an adult (Morobushi Kagemitsu) too, right?
I've already brought Morofushi Kagemitsu, so it's okay to bring Furuya Rei as well, right?
After that, Dazai Osamu gave Kurosawa Jin to us...Since we've already brought Kurosawa Jin, it would be okay to bring teacher Sharon as well, right?
...In short, we have become the wonderful team we are today.
Taking the convenience of action into consideration, and the fact that the content of the wine bottles in their group exceeded the standard, Akae Nayue happily decided on the script - to go to the winery of the secret organization in Yokohama!
That's right, they are the five main members - Gin, Bermode, Bourbon, Scotch and Shirley! And the future successor of the boss (ps. code name is not yet determined) Kudo Shinichi! And the boss himself, Kaluuya, who is only 15 years old!
As for why this age was chosen, that is another secret, and Chijiang Nayue plans to keep it secret for the time being.
For Chijiang that month, catching the fugitive and dealing with the seeds caused by his death was a simple matter of one plus one. Except for the time difference, when they arrived in Yokohama, the seeds had already broken through the soil and split into pieces. Everything else was a piece of cake.
Now, we have dealt with three seed carriers. As long as we kill the carrier before the next seed breaks through the soil, the seeds will no longer parasitize humans and the mission will be completed.
Therefore, compared to such a simple mission, Akae Nazuki was more interested in acting in front of those "acquaintances" in Yokohama.
It's not easy to come to this world, it would be a big loss if you don't have fun!
Chi Jiang Na Yue walked towards Sharon with brisk steps: "You guys acted according to the 'script', what do you think?"
Smiling, he said, "Does Mr. Dazai look like the one in my memory? Interesting, isn't it?"
Sharon recalled and couldn't help but nodded again.
...They are not quite similar. Although they don't look alike in any way, even Dazai Osamu in our world is dressed like that and has a bright smile. They are different.
"Is that so?" Akae Nazuki stretched out her voice and suddenly reached behind Sharon's ear, "But Mr. Dazai seems to find it interesting too."
——Sharon took out a black eavesdropping device from under her collar.
Everyone around looked over, but Chijiang Nayue remained calm and moved closer to the eavesdropping device.
"Hello? Listen, Mr. Dazai." The black-haired boy said cheerfully, "Don't be nervous, I was just joking with you. I hope you like my jokes."
Lowering his eyes: "Otherwise, I will be sad, okay?"
Anyone who is familiar with Dazai Osamu will find something incredible at this point - because the boy's last words turned into Dazai Osamu's own voice, only more childish, like a young Dazai Osamu.