While others were digesting this true story of a cat turning into a human, Dazai Osamu's fleeting surprise went unnoticed.

He turned his head and met the half-opened emerald eyes of the famous detective, whose expression was calm as expected. Dazai Osamu silently sent a questioning look, which was rewarded by Ranpo's meaningful smile.

During the conversation between the two, Oda briefly explained his identity.

Nakajima Atsushi murmured subconsciously: "It's actually a cat world... It's hard to imagine what Akutagawa would look like if he turned into a cat."

"Ah." Oda said calmly, "Actually, if they don't fight, Akutagawa is still very cute."

Nakajima Atsushi substituted Akutagawa from this world into his imagination, and then his face became dull: “…………”

Pushing up his glasses, Kunikida came back to his senses from the description of himself as a golden long-haired cat in the parallel world. He opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by Dazai Osamu who suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Hey, Odasaku," Dazai's eyes seemed to light up, "How long can you keep looking like this?"

Oda pondered for a moment and gave a safety figure: "About half an hour."

Dazai: “Eh——” He deliberately dragged out his voice, and with those eyes that seemed to be sparkling, he inexplicably showed some pitiful meaning.

Oda was already used to this scene. After all, Dazai the cat always looked like this every time he pulled him out of the water: "Don't you need to change clothes, Dazai?"

Dazai's sandy long windbreaker was soaked with water, and the heavy hem of his coat was lifted up by his movements, spilling water stains all over the floor. Kunikida's trouser legs, who happened to be standing behind Dazai, were also affected.

He waved his hands nonchalantly: "Well, this matter is not important."

Having said that, Dazai still didn't choose to believe it completely. He quietly approached Oda, shifted his weight towards her, and touched Oda's shoulder, intending to try again.

So the next second, the detective who was watching with snacks in his arms laughed out loud.

"No Longer Human" was indeed launched successfully, but it only turned Oda back into a cat. This accident caused Dazai Osamu to suddenly lose his balance and fall to the place where Oda was originally standing.

As he fell, he quickly twisted his waist and successfully threw himself into the soft sofa, but his waist seemed to make a crisp sound.

Dazai: “…………”

"It hurts, Odasaku." He looked up at the ceiling, feeling a dull pain in his waist.

Oda, who had expected Dazai not to believe him so easily, jumped to his side, calmly stretched out his cat paw and pressed Dazai's finger. This time there was no blue light.

"Eh?" Nakajima Atsushi scratched his head, finally coming back to his senses from the image of Akutagawa turning into a cat in his mind, "Does 'No Longer Human' have no effect?"

"No, Atsushi." Ranpo narrowed his eyes, his smile still not fading, "It's 'probability'."

He said the last sentence to Oda, and then the cat nodded twice.

Oda didn't care whether it was a human or a cat: "Ranpo-san is right." Then he turned to look at Dazai and said with a mysterious feeling: "It looks like a child, Dazai."

The children he adopted would also make surprise attacks, trying to scare Oda's usually calm heart, but they failed every time.

Now, Dazai's subtle test seemed to him like a child who was promised to go to the amusement park and was afraid that the adults would break the promise, so he would anxiously confirm the truth repeatedly with the adults.

But the word "fear" does not fit Dazai Osamu.

Oda reversed himself and Dazai in his mind. Anyone who saw a person with the face of a long-dead friend appearing before him would think it was an illusion and would not believe it instantly.

Dazai is especially cautious. He was "disqualified from being human" once to negate the ability of the psychic to transform into a cat. The second time was for safety reasons, because his body shape and appearance could be a trap set by another psychic.

It's just that the person did change, but not into another unfamiliar appearance, but because of the disqualification from the human world, a secondary probability was triggered, turning Oda back into a cat.

Dazai rubbed his waist and said, "...You are still the same, Odasaku."

Not knowing what he was thinking, he suddenly turned over and looked into Oda's eyes, his iris-colored pupils flashing with expectation: "Oda Saku must have seen that slug, it's a small one - what does he look like when he turns into a cat? It must be very ugly."

According to Dazai's description, Oda dug out a person from his memory, the Hong Kong black gravity user, Nakahara Chuuya.

He recalled the cat's appearance carefully. Although it was an adult cat, it was indeed smaller than a normal big cat. Its fur was a very soft citrus color. When Dazai was not around, its personality was quite good.

In the cat world, the Port Mafia and the Armed Detective Agency are in a temporary alliance.

The most frequently assigned black Hong Kong personnel to the detective agency are probably Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Chuuya Nakahara.

But almost every time, no matter what reason Chuuya Nakahara has for coming to the detective agency, it will inexplicably develop into Chuuya Nakahara getting so angry at Dazai that his fur explodes, and then the two cats, one big and one small, will fight with each other (to be precise, Dazai's cat gets beaten unilaterally), making the house full of cat hair of different colors flying everywhere.

——The fights with Akutagawa cat and Atsushi cat are even more intense.

But after all, he is an adult cat. After beating up the black cat and venting his anger, Chuuya will calm down and fix his hat that was pulled askew by Dazai, and then he will solve the problem neatly and leave.

Stopping the memory, Oda said matter-of-factly: "Not bad." She was even very popular, especially in terms of eye color. When Oda passed by a coffee shop on her way home, the customers inside would often talk about the gravity user in a low voice - after all, she was really good-looking.

Although I have never seen the Nakahara Chuuya here, I think he would not look bad.

Dazai didn't get the answer he wanted, and his expression became depressed for a moment, but this expression didn't last long before it disappeared completely.

Finally unable to bear it any longer, Kunikida rushed forward and picked up the man who was refusing to move from the sofa, veins popping out on the back of his hand: "You bastard - don't take this opportunity to slack off!"

Dazai Osamu said helplessly: "Just let Kunikida do this for me."

Kunikida: "...Don't leave your job to others, Dazai!"

"If you don't mind," Oda waited for Kunikida to finish before raising his paw, "I can help."

Kunikida stopped what he was doing, and he and Dazai both turned to look at him.

——You have a really good personality, Mr. Oda/Saku Oda.

"Mr. Nakahara."

The man in the standard black suit of Hong Kong style bowed his head respectfully and reported the mission in detail to the short man standing in front of him.

"Got it." Nakahara Chuuya lowered his hat brim and simply responded, jumping off the car that was crushed into scrap metal by gravity. A circle of red light surrounded his body, which disappeared in an instant.

He raised his hand and touched the tip of his slightly itchy nose. He scanned the two neat rows of people, but didn't find the person who should be there. He frowned and asked, "Where's Akutagawa?"

The subordinates looked at each other, apparently not noticing where the person who had been staying in the same place had gone.

"Ahem." Akutagawa Ryunosuke stepped out from the shadows, clenched his fists to his lips to suppress his coughs, and his shoes were stained with blood. "I noticed that there was a fish that slipped through the net, so I left there."

The mission was over, and Nakahara Chuuya asked his subordinates to return to Hong Kong on their own, leaving only the driver on standby in the car.

Without saying anything about this, Nakahara Chuuya turned around and walked to the car. Before opening the door and getting in, Nakahara Chuuya looked at Akutagawa who was two steps behind him.

"That guy has contacted you recently, right?" said Nakahara Chuuya.

Akutagawa understood who "that guy" was referring to, and he also understood the implication of Nakahara Chuuya's words.

Akutagawa was silent for two seconds: "Yes."

"Okay, get in the car." Nakahara Chuuya bent down and sat in the car. It was not appropriate to say the meaning hidden in the words directly. It would be best if Akutagawa could understand it directly.

When Tanizaki Junichiro and his sister Naomi returned to the detective agency, they saw a scene that was enough to make his pupils tremble.

"Mr. Kunikida." Tanizaki Junichiro pointed tremblingly at the cat reading a document on the table, "Who is that...?"

"You're a new member." Dazai Osamu said with a smile.

Kunikida nodded, "A new member."

Oda Sakunosuke, who had no idea how impressive it was that he was handling documents with a cat's body, raised his cat head from the pile of documents and said, "Good afternoon."

Tanizaki Junichiro: "..."

Tanizaki Junichiro: "Cat cat cat - the cat is talking?!"