"We're here, Odasaku."

Dazai stopped in front of the cafe, holding the heavy cat. He looked inside, but there was no one there, and he couldn't find the lady in the photo.

The previous 'trip' in the river ended with Dazai changing direction on his own and reaching the shore, narrowly brushing past the boulder on the way and arriving safely.

When the man and the cat were walking on the street, the rate of turning heads was quite high. The ground was left with water stains ranging from deep to shallow as they walked along the way. Dazai's windbreaker, which was wrinkled after being soaked in water, was the worst affected.

The time it took to walk from the river to the cafe was just enough for Dazai's wet clothes to look normal from the outside, as the river water was completely wrapped inside. But as long as Dazai didn't squeeze them too hard, it would probably be no big deal.

Oda's fur dried very quickly, and when she got ashore, she shook off all the water droplets on her body. Although Dazai held her in his arms as a hand warmer on the way, the fur on the side that was not blocked from the sunlight was dry and crisp.

Now that they had arrived, Oda found a place to stay and planned to return to the ground.

As soon as he stood up straight, Dazai suddenly took out a hand and stroked his back, rubbing something between his two fingers, his tone was surprised.

"Odasaku, you've already reached the molting period?"

Oda was stunned for two seconds: "No, my molting period is next month."

Oda forgot what she was going to do for a moment, and tilted her head back and squinted to look at what Dazai was holding. In the sunlight, the cat's fur was brighter, and it stood out between Dazai's fingers.

That was a big tuft of cat hair on his body.

This was the first time Oda saw the true extent of his hair loss. No other cat had ever reminded him how much hair he had lost before, so he was a little confused: "Could hair loss... be so serious?"

Dazai said seriously, "Yes, I will lose a patch of hair in two days."

Oda: …

I don't remember any other cats going through a molting period. Even Dazai, the cat I often worked with, would lie in one place and not move during his molting period. He said that he felt that shedding all the time would hinder him from finding a beautiful girl to commit suicide for love.

But in reality, when the gravity user from Hong Kong arrives, the black cat who just said that he couldn't let others see his hair loss will quickly rush over and rub all his loose hair onto the orange cat. Rubbing would be fine, but Dazai would often make a few mildly mocking remarks, which would cause Nakahara Chuuya to run out of patience and swear at him and beat him up.

But think about the black hair that was flying everywhere in the detective agency during that time.

Oda looked at the tuft of hair in Dazai's hand again and felt that hair loss could indeed be that serious. She couldn't help but imagine what she would look like if she lost all her hair to the point of being completely bald.

Oda: ………

Oda turned around with a serious face and said, "I see."

Inoue Sakurako had been waiting for this meeting for a long time. Urged by the mechanical voice, she changed into her newly bought light-colored long dress, put on some light makeup, and then walked to the agreed location.

The door clicked shut, blocking out a hollow groan, but the source could not be heard clearly.

In her left hand, she held a few pieces of paper covered with handwriting. Not far away was the address her 'mother' had left for her. Standing nearby was a black-haired man holding a large dark red cat in his arms.

"Sorry, I'm late." She smiled, her long hair was blown up by the wind, and she raised her hand holding the paper slightly, intending to hand it to the other party, but was politely rejected by the latter.

"I've already seen the information." He narrowed his eyes, his iris-colored pupils appearing to be quite soft. "I didn't expect it to be a beautiful lady, the lady who came to publish the commission..."

"It's my mother." Inoue Sakura replied hastily, "She's been sick and in the hospital lately, and she's worried about her, so she asked me to continue the commission."

During the conversation, Oda recognized the person in front of him as the girl who was carrying the illegal system and appeared downstairs of the detective agency last night.

There was an unconcealable gleam in Inoue Sakurako's eyes, and it was obvious that just having a conversation with Dazai Osamu made her happy enough.

If that's the case, then her mission is to capture Dazai?

After thinking it through, Oda uttered a short, low "meow", interrupting the conversation between the two, or rather, Inoue Sakurako's one-sided conversation.

Inoue Sakurako's attention shifted to the cat that Dazai was holding. She felt that it looked familiar, and asked hesitantly, "Who is this cat...?"

"I just happened to meet her when I was out. She's quite clingy." Dazai evaded the question and said, "If Ms. Inoue doesn't mind, why don't we go into the cafe and talk in detail."

A waiter in the cafe noticed the two people and the cat who had just come in, and immediately led them to an empty seat. The seats were double sofas connected together, and after Dazai and Inoue Sakurako sat down, Oda quietly jumped to lie down next to him, closing his eyes, as cats usually do.

At this moment, Inoue Sakurako didn't care about the cat that looked very familiar, and her attention was all on Dazai Osamu sitting opposite her.

"So, you suspect there's something fishy about Mr. Inoue's disappearance?" Dazai spoke after hearing what Inoue Sakurako said. The girl's clumsy emotions were hidden in front of him like a blank.

Inoue Sakurako looked directly into those eyes, and a sense of crisis inexplicably arose in her heart. This came from her intuition, which was so sensitive to a certain level before she traveled through time, and it warned her to pay attention to the person in front of her.

She choked on the words she was about to say and swallowed unconsciously before she realized that this person was not the harmless paper figure she had thought.

Inoue Sakurako tried hard to think of the words, lowered her eyes and frantically called out to the system in her mind, but the system that was supposed to help her said nothing, and had completely lost the anxiety that had urged her to keep the appointment.

"That's right." Having no other choice, Inoue Sakurako forced herself to remain calm. Having lost the system she had always relied on, she felt uneasy, and her fingertips that were holding the coffee cup began to tremble slightly.

Dazai stared at Inoue Sakurako and suddenly smiled: "There should be nothing on my face. Miss Inoue seems to be afraid of me?"

After the words fell, Inoue Sakurako was slow to respond, her long hair falling along her shoulders, covering her lowered face.

She hid one hand under the table and clenched it into a fist. The look from Dazai Osamu just now seemed to have seen through all her forced disguises, and the truth that she tried to hide was completely exposed in front of him.

——It's not impossible.

Before this time travel, Inoue Sakurako was just an ordinary person. Her only hobby was staying at home watching TV series and comics, and she rarely went out to socialize. When the system appeared and wanted to take her to the "second dimension" to fall in love with her favorite character, she agreed immediately.

But when those people whom she fantasized about as her love objects appeared in reality, Inoue Sakurako's love for them immediately disappeared, and her brain clearly reminded her what kind of personalities these people were.

[“Use your powers on that cat.”]

The system finally spoke, leaving behind a few words before disappearing again. Inoue Sakurako raised her eyes and met Dazai Osamu's gaze. The cat the system was talking about was right next to him, seemingly in a deep sleep.

Inoue Sakurako's special ability is a gift from the system after completing the side quest. It is of no use under normal circumstances. It is the ability to transfer a single person within the field of vision. Inoue Sakurako herself cannot control where that person will be sent.

I wonder if it will work on cats. Inoue Sakurako thought, between pretending nothing happened and leaving after solving the request and trusting the system, the latter had the upper hand.

She tried her best to appear harmless: "I was just a little worried that my father might be in danger after being missing for so long. I didn't expect that Mr. Dazai would misunderstand me."

As she spoke, her eyes turned to the big cat, which had opened its eyes at some point.

"But Mr. Dazai, I think I've seen this cat somewhere before."