Chapter 7: The Literary Master Who Gave Up Literature and Turned to Martial Arts



Almost at the same time that Inoue Sakurako used her special ability, Dazai Osamu noticed something was wrong and quickly grabbed her wrist. However, the activation of "Disqualified from Humanity" seemed to be blocked by something for a second.

In that split second, Oda Saku disappeared without a trace beside him.

"Ms. Inoue has a lot of secrets." He sighed. The place where the big cat had slumped still had residual warmth. Dazai quickly released the slender wrist, and then slowly took out a piece of paper soaked in water, with the words on it so wrinkled that it was almost impossible to see clearly, from his windbreaker pocket.

The paper unfolded a little bit as Inoue Sakurako suddenly understood something, and the creases were particularly obvious in the process of getting wet and dry.

Dazai turned the paper over and gently placed it at a distance where Inoue Sakurako could clearly make out the words on it.

It was a letter written by Inoue Sakurako herself, saying that her "mother was hospitalized due to illness," and asked her "missing" father to deliver it to the detective agency - just one hour before Inoue Sakurako appeared at the detective agency.

"I'm very sorry to leave you a request under such circumstances." Dazai read out the last two sentences of the letter word by word, "My daughter Sakura is the person I want the detective agency to find."

He deliberately raised the last syllable of his voice, giving his words a hint of doubt.

"Isn't it strange?"

He let the letter be snatched away by Inoue Sakurako and sat in a casual posture, as if he didn't notice the frightened look of the girl opposite him.

"Sakurako Inoue was standing right here, why did that lady send the letter to you instead of you?"

Oda sighed in the darkness.

The instructions state that you should be careful about violating the system, which is not so easy to solve.

But even if Oda has been alert and paying attention at all times, he is still no match for the other party who is much higher in level than him and can use some abilities that are hard to defend against.

As for why Oda was teleported away by Inoue Sakurako and was able to reach this place that can probably be called a 'gap' - thanks to the help of the world consciousness, otherwise I'm afraid how many intact parts of Oda can be left will depend on whether the chaos of time and space is gentle.

Inoue Sakurako's ability does not have the ability to drive people out of the world. Teleporting people two meters away from Yokohama can be said to be the best state, so the illegal system must have contributed a lot behind the scenes.

I'm afraid that a lot of the energy accumulated before has been consumed.

But the offending system probably didn't expect that the world consciousness would get involved. Although it was impossible to force Oda to stay in the world, short-term protection was still possible.

Oda thanked the existence in the void and ran towards a faint light in the distance. When he got closer, he found that it was a door that appeared out of nowhere.

Oda fell into deep thought, wondering where this door would take him. This protected space obviously couldn't hold out for much longer, and there was already a faint tremor coming from it, indicating that the space was beginning to collapse.

"Wish myself good luck..." Oda said to himself, taking a few steps towards the door and jumping down lightly. The last bit of his voice was lost in the air. "That's what I should say."

The special ability "Flawless" allows him to predict what will happen in the next five seconds.

Oda was lying on his back, his face expressionless. The sky, which was almost dusk, was gradually moving away from him. The twinkling stars hidden in the sunny day gradually emerged, and the sound of the wind whistled past his ears.

——He is falling.

The special ability was activated silently, and Oda foresaw a person walking somewhere alone, and he would fall two steps in front of him.

In this situation, Oda wanted to take in the person's appearance and clothes, and put off the consequences of falling.

But he couldn't see it. The cat's vision was still limited. He had to look up hard to see a little bit of the suit fabric.

Oda gave up the idea and tried to concentrate on what would happen if he fell, but he felt the wind supporting his back, slowing down his descent and making him float down to the solid ground like a dandelion seed.

He came back to his senses from the thought of being saved by the consciousness of a strange world, and a pair of black leather shoes stopped in front of him. Oda raised his head consciously, wanting to look up at the man's face.

——“□□?”

The syllables he uttered were blurred into low meows, and his ability to speak was silently stripped away. Except for possessing human thoughts, he became a complete cat.

Inside the detective agency.

Inoue Sakurako sat trembling in the center, on her left was Nakajima Atsushi, who had received the order and was watching her carefully to prevent her from escaping, and on her right was Yosano Akiko, who was gently wiping the sharp machete.

Dazai Osamu, who brought her back to the detective agency, nestled on the sofa and looked at the famous detective for a moment. He seemed to notice something and turned his head slightly. Inoue Sakurako immediately withdrew her gaze.

With her hands tightly grasping the hem of her skirt, Inoue Sakurako lowered her head, silently resisting the pressure.

Edogawa Ranpo put down the bag, his mood slightly down, "Asking her will not yield any results. That ability does not belong to her at all."

"My special ability——" Inoue Sakurako wanted to retort, but her voice stopped halfway. She did not have any special ability when she traveled through time. It was given to her by the system in the name of mission reward.

She opened her mouth, not knowing what to say.

Everything in this other world does not really belong to her. Her original name was not Inoue Sakurako, and after signing the contract, that name disappeared completely along with her vague memories of the past. But she is an outsider after all, but she is lucky. With the help of the system, she took over the body of a dying girl and took over the parents of "Inoue Sakurako" for herself.

——The original owner of this body hated her.

She was clearly aware of this.

The system can drive away the original Inoue Sakurako, but it cannot directly break up the pale and weak souls of innocent people.

Because of this, she sees the soul of "Sakurako Inoue" bound in the house every day. She can hear those hateful words and wake up from nightmares at night.

At first, she thought about whether she could return her body to Inoue Sakurako, but after staying there for only a short time, she began to feel reluctant to leave.

Here are her loving parents, so when she returns home she will no longer find an empty house.

So she listened to the system and rejected the soul of 'Inoue Sakurako' that wanted to return to her body, making it weaker day by day, until the thin and fragile soul could only make whimpering sounds that no one could hear.

But she underestimated the love that Mr. and Mrs. Inoue had for their daughter.

It was probably the third day that she occupied Inoue Sakurako's body that Mrs. Inoue vaguely felt that something was wrong with her daughter. Even though some small movements matched, she still had an inexplicable intuition - this was not the daughter she had raised since childhood.

Mrs. Inoue did not say much, fearing that she had misunderstood. She only asked some questions tentatively from time to time. As time went on, Mrs. Inoue became more and more certain that her daughter had disappeared overnight and that this person was just a stranger.

Inoue Sakurako suddenly wanted to return to her original world. Everything here was rejecting her, as if telling her in her ear: You shouldn't be here.

The words she was about to say were stopped when she remembered the existence of the system.

——She couldn't say anything about the existence of the system or anything related to it.

The cell phone on the table was buzzing and vibrating, but its owner was trying to avoid it and moved his chair half a meter away from the table.

"That guy is contacting you again."

The orange-haired man wearing a hat walked into the office. It was Chuuya Nakahara, one of the five major leaders of the Port Mafia.

Gravity caused the cold eyes to sweep over the familiar number. The unknown being who made the call seemed to know that a third person was coming, and the call was hung up the next moment.

Nakahara Chuuya picked up his phone and read messages one after another at a crazy speed, with love evident between the lines.

Is he crazy? Nakahara Chuuya frowned. This person has been sending strange messages to Akutagawa Ryunosuke since a week ago.

At first, Akutagawa wanted to find out the identity and location of this person and kill him directly, but after a few days, he caught so many "real owners of the number". The person hiding somewhere was still sending these strange messages from the same number, and the phone calls were every few minutes.

Even when Akutagawa was on a mission, that person seemed to know his itinerary and would not harass him during the period. He would just make a few ambiguous compliments that made people feel disgusted.

This has also led to Akutagawa being particularly efficient in carrying out missions recently, and he has taken on all the tasks he can.

Putting it back on the table, Nakahara Chuuya carefully observed Akutagawa's expression.

The latter obviously has not slept well recently, and such calls come in in the middle of the night, and even blocking and deleting the calls does not work.

With such determination and degree of perversion, even Nakahara Chuuya would feel a little creepy, not to mention Akutagawa who suffered greatly from it.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke covered his mouth and coughed lightly, then opened the drawer and showed the contents to Nakahara Chuuya: "When I came down, this was filled with medicine and a separately packaged lunch box."

"I checked the instructions on the medicines and they are harmless drugs. The food in the lunch box is what I often eat recently. There is a number on it, and it is the same one."

"This guy... has become even more powerful." Nakahara Chuuya reached out and flipped through it, and the note was clearly stuck on the top medicine box.

"I tried to throw it away," Akutagawa said, "but it would reappear in the drawer within two hours, along with the note."

Nakahara Chuuya: “…………”

It must be hard to be targeted by such a person, Akutagawa.

In fact, there was no need for Inoue Sakurako to say anything. Edogawa Ranpo could tell the general situation from the fact that she did not know how to hide anything.

"She's not the only one." The detective said, turning to look at Nakajima Atsushi who was not aware of the situation. "The message on Atsushi's phone was from another person."

Nakajima Atsushi found his phone and found the message Ranpo mentioned was one he received a week ago. The threatening words kept him on guard for two days, but he hadn't noticed any actual actions from the other party until now, so if Ranpo hadn't mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten about it.

"Found it." Dun retrieved the message from his inbox.

The content of the message shocked even Inoue Sakurako, an outsider. She felt that the person who sent the message was either a pervert or a lunatic, or both.

Then, everyone looked at one of the rows at the same time, and then looked at Nakajima Atsushi, who was suddenly being stared at and was sitting there at a loss as to what to do.

——This is the information necessary for declaring war on your enemy, Dun.


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