"Dun——"

"Atsushi-kun——"

Two identical voices sounded from different directions at the same time. Nakajima Atsushi stood in the middle in a daze. He looked to the left and saw that it was Mr. Dazai from the detective agency. He looked to the right and saw that it was Mr. Ranpo who was talking about Mr. Dazai from the parallel world.

Nakajima Atsushi took a step back, not knowing who to hand the two cups of coffee to first.

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"Dazai Osamu" pouted, unceremoniously occupied the sofa of a peer, and put his hands behind his head. He casually opened the notebook and covered his face with it, and placed the signed cover in a direction where Dazai Osamu could definitely see it, then he closed his eyes and took a nap.

Takeyama Masakazu was extremely good at urging people to submit manuscripts, especially since he knew the movements and whereabouts of "Dazai Osamu". This editor could even calmly wait by the river with a large net, waiting for "Dazai Osamu" to float down the river and pick him up.

As I recall, Dazai Osamu at that time really didn't expect this to happen. It was not until he was picked up by Takeyama Masahiro along with the dry branch that had gotten caught on his clothes that he still had the energy to praise Takeyama's arm strength.

Takeyama Masakazu: “…………”

With a kind smile on his face, he carried the net on his shoulders and took the big, dripping "fish" directly back to Dazai Osamu's residence to urge him to finish the last bit of writing.

After a brief recollection, "Dazai Osamu" felt the mask on his face being taken away. He opened his eyes and saw that it was the Dazai Osamu of this world. He immediately yawned.

"It was indeed signed by Oda Saku himself."

Although it was just a matter of convenience for Oda Sakunosuke in that world, he signed the names of all the readers present after the exchange meeting. "Dazai Osamu" wore a hat with a wide brim and even a mask, and I was always worried that Oda Sakunosuke would recognize me.

Fortunately, Oda Sakunosuke just stared at him for a while, then skillfully signed his name on the cover. In order to avoid being accidentally erased, "Dazai Osamu" even found a way to keep the signature longer.

But Dazai Osamu would not know about this.

He adjusted himself to a more comfortable position and closed his eyes.

"This is the art of language." Dazai Osamu said in his heart.

Dazai Osamu, who was 'cheated', actually had some doubts about his words, but he recognized Oda Saku's handwriting. Although it is not impossible to forge the handwriting...this guy will not waste his energy on useless work.

Dazai Osamu's eyes fell, and his fingertips vaguely brushed across the line of words, but he remembered that Oda Neko had promised to show him his newly written novel. However, before this promise was fulfilled, the big cat had already left.

"Akutagawa." Nakahara Chuuya frowned slightly as he looked at Akutagawa Ryunosuke walking out of the interrogation room. It wasn't that he thought Akutagawa's methods were too extreme, but it seemed that this not-so-easy-to-care-about subordinate was hiding something from him.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke greeted Nakahara Chuuya in a low voice. His graying hair was slightly wet with sweat, and a few strands of hair had broken away from the majority and stuck to his cheeks, making his hair look a little messy.

Nakahara Chuuya leaned against the wall, lightly hooked his fingers around the leather on his palm and pulled it down, making the glove fit his palm completely. His aura seemed to have a real sense of oppression, and he raised his eyes, his blue eyes were particularly bright in the dim light: "Is there anything else you haven't said?"

As the top of the Port Mafia, Dazai Osamu would be mocked for not thinking before he defected and even now. Although Nakahara Chuuya is not as smart as Mori Ogai or Dazai Osamu, he is much better than ordinary people.

In fact, Akutagawa Ryunosuke's secret was not taken seriously. Just based on his performance when he came back, Nakahara Chuuya could guess roughly - it must be related to Dazai Osamu again.

There was no one else around, and Nakahara Chuuya stared at Akutagawa Ryunosuke, waiting for him to choose whether to speak out or continue to hide.

After a while, Akutagawa Ryunosuke sorted out his words.

He was initially suspicious of Dazai Osamu who appeared nearby at that time. After all, Fujino had pretended to be Nakajima Atsushi before, and it was possible that the Dazai Osamu was also someone he had deliberately changed into.

During the interrogation just now, Akutagawa Ryunosuke asked Fujino this question, and the latter's response showed that he had no idea that there was another Dazai Osamu at that time - this shows that that Dazai Osamu was indeed real.

"Before I was imprisoned," Akutagawa Ryunosuke mentioned this incident, with a lingering shadow between his eyebrows. He chose to tell the truth: "I met Mr. Dazai."

"Impossible." Nakahara Chuuya quickly rejected it.

Almost immediately after Ryunosuke Akutagawa disappeared, Mr. Mori sent him a message asking him to go directly to the famous detective Edogawa Ranpo of the Armed Detective Agency. His speed was naturally not slow at all, and when he arrived at the detective agency, it was not long before he learned about Akutagawa's disappearance. The bluefish was walking back and forth between the two places.

If that bluefin tuna had left the detective agency, the other members would have known about it. Nakahara Chuuya snorted in dissatisfaction, feeling a little annoyed that Dazai Osamu's shadow was everywhere in this matter.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke continued: "In fact, the Mr. Dazai I met was a little different."

Nakahara Chuuya looked at him and asked, "What's the difference?"

"It's clothes." Akutagawa Ryunosuke recalled the figure of Dazai Osamu he saw. There was no bandage on the arms exposed under the light gray windbreaker and the long sleeves that were roughly folded up. Given the situation at the time, this was all Akutagawa Ryunosuke could see.

Nakahara Chuuya listened to his description in silence, and inexplicably felt that something troublesome had happened. He remembered that Oda Sakunosuke, who had been confirmed dead long ago, appeared alive in the Armed Detective Agency - although the latter said that he was a cat from another world...

This word made Nakahara Chuuya's expression strange for a moment, but it quickly returned to normal.

He signaled Akutagawa Ryunosuke to leave first, and then he looked at Fujino, who was breathing more than he breathed in in the interrogation room. He raised his hand and lowered the brim of his hat, intending to go find the leader to report the matter.

Nakahara Chuuya arrived outside the chief's office, and the tightly closed door opened to him, and then closed tightly the next second. He lowered his eyes slightly, and heard a familiar scene in his ears, as if it was a scene that could send the chief directly to the police station for a day trip.

"Chief." Nakahara Chuuya interrupted before the situation became serious.

Mori Ou returned to his serious look, and the blonde humanoid in the image of a little girl spread out a piece of white drawing paper on the ground next to him and left simple lines on the paper with a black crayon.

"Chuya-kun, what's going on?"

"It's so--boring." "Dazai Osamu" rolled off the sofa to the ground, his body swaying up and down like waves. Kunikida Dopo, who was sitting in an office nearby, clenched his fists in silence, feeling that having twice as many Dazais in the detective agency meant twice as much noise.

Edogawa paced randomly and counted the snacks he had left in stock. He shook the soda bottle gently in his hand from time to time. The glass beads were still inside and had not been taken out. As he moved, they hit the bottle, making a clinking sound.

"You haven't finished writing the manuscript yet." Edogawa Ranbu stared at the "Dazai Osamu" rolling on the ground. He pushed a candy from the left to the right in his mouth with the tip of his tongue, and a small bulge was raised on his cheek by the hard candy that had not melted much.

"Dazai Osamu" stopped moving, lying quietly on the ground with his face facing the ceiling, his eyes briefly showed a dead silence: "Ah, as expected of Mr. Ranpo, you reminded me of my nightmare."

Edogawa Ranpo: "..."

"You've obviously finished most of it." He said so, with a hint of curiosity in his eyes. This was something he couldn't see through, something hidden: "The rest is almost done, too. I've found a rough ending in my conception."

Dazai Osamu, who found a chair from somewhere and sat next to the sofa, saw him rolling to the ground, and immediately threw himself into the arms of the sofa and lay down in a comfortable position. Hearing this, he just glanced at "Dazai Osamu".

When he first learned that the "Dazai Osamu" in the other world was a famous writer, and that even the dark-skinned dwarf who loved to wear a hat had become a poet, Dazai Osamu was so shocked that he almost wrote the words "happy in misfortune" on his face. As the ceiling of military power, Nakahara Chuuya did not serve in the Hong Kong Black vs. Mori Owl, but instead went to be a poet.

Dazai Osamu couldn't help laughing out loud.

Even Kunikida Doppo almost broke his glasses when he heard these words, not to mention the expressions of the Tanizaki siblings and Nakajima Atsushi. Akiko Yono was only surprised for a moment and returned to the infirmary without much interest. Izumi Kyoka also showed the same reaction.

Dazai Osamu himself also looked nonchalant, except that when "Dazai Osamu" mentioned the release of Oda Sakunosuke's new book and that he had the complete book, he had the idea of ​​murdering this homologue (mistakenly).

He had never read a single word of Oda Saku's book, Dazai Osamu thought, staring at the cover of the red-covered notebook in his hand. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that the other self was a bit of an eyesore.

But then again, as a homologue in another world, Dazai Osamu could more or less list 123 various guesses about the second half of "Dazai Osamu" that he stopped writing. However, without specific information, he was not sure which one could be attributed to the correct one.

Whether or not this is confirmed is actually irrelevant.

The notebook was snatched from my hand, and it was "Dazai Osamu" who got up from the ground.

He had put on that light grey windbreaker not long ago. No one knew why he had to go through the trouble of taking it off and putting it on again - it was just crumpled on the floor, not at all neat and tidy.

"Dazai Osamu" sat down on the last empty spot on the sofa, and a little to the side, he almost got his head hit, not sure if it was intentional or unintentional - Dazai Osamu tended to be the latter.

“I just felt the ending wasn’t good enough.”

He answered Edogawa Ranpo's question in a calm voice.

The detective stared at him for a while again, then looked away after realizing something.

"You're the coward." Edogawa Ranpo pointed at the two people and said nothing more. The candy was crushed and swallowed. The detective frowned, as the candy seemed to be so greasy and bitter.

The author has something to say: When I was planning to write something in the preface, I suddenly forgot what I was going to write... I will add it in the next chapter if I can remember it.

This time he plays the role of "Dazai Osamu", who is not very close to Oda Saku in the setting. Their relationship is rather dull, and he unilaterally knows how the two of them should get along with each other, but if the balance is broken, everything will end up similar to Beast.

So these chapters are actually about the two Dazais stabbing each other in the back.

I have to add one more thing (although I don't know if anyone noticed it). In Chapter 8, the place where the beast leader Zai came out was Lupin, and the time point was just when he was pointed at by Oda with a gun and said goodbye, and then the next second, Oda the cat was pointed at by the leader Zai as an enemy. (Mysterious reincarnation)

I'm crazy! (No)