Oda slowly opened his eyes and saw the bench he had visited many times before, as if this place had become some kind of fixed place.

If there were other people here, they would probably be startled by this person appearing out of nowhere, but this place is remote and there is no other human being besides Oda.

He still maintains his human form and has not turned back into a cat because of the change in the world.

"Well, let's go back to the detective agency first."

Oda muttered to himself and walked towards the detective agency step by step.

This place is not far from the location of the detective agency, but it is not close either. As he walked, the scene in his mind was still the scene of Dazai Osamu falling in front of him in the parallel world, with the red scarf loosely wrapped around Dazai's neck, and when it was blown by the wind, it looked like a rope for hanging.

Boom, boom.

The regular knocks on the door broke the silence of the detective agency. After two knocks, the person knocking on the door stopped moving. He gripped the door handle and turned it downwards, making a small sound, and the door was pushed open from the outside to the inside.

It was Oda Sakunosuke who had disappeared for a day.

Dazai Osamu lay on the sofa, adjusting the bandages on his arms, and then wrapped them around his arms again.

The unknown spirit that occupied Inoue Sakurako's body left with Kunikida Doppo and the others. No one present had ever dealt with such things as "exorcism", so Ranpo concluded that "she was not a psychic", so they had to leave it alone for the time being.

"I'm back."

Oda's tone was as calm as ever, as if he was not transported by Inoue Sakurako to a time-space chaos where he almost died, but just went to travel somewhere for a day. Not all the detectives were there, except for Edogawa Ranpo and Dazai Osamu, no one else was seen.

"Welcome back, Odasaku." Dazai Osamu sat up from the sofa and tied a knot on the last piece of bandage to prevent it from unravelling like before.

He saw Oda's confusion and came over with a smile: "Kunikida and Atsushi went to the Inoue family to investigate."

"By the way, Odasaku knows about Ms. Inoue's affairs, right?"

“…Ah, I probably know a little bit.”

Oda had no intention of hiding this. Rather, when he received the mission to "expel the invaders," he knew clearly that he could not hide it from the detective agency, and during the past two days he was just trying to play the role of "Oda Sakunosuke."

Oda has never concealed the information he knows about Inoue Sakurako and her system.

But even though he thought so, he couldn't just say that Inoue Sakurako brought the system with her, for fear that he would lose his reputation if he told others about it.

Oda was ready to tell the detectives the information, but Dazai did not ask any further questions, as if he just wanted an answer.

Dazai suddenly changed the subject: "By the way, Atsushi received a threatening text message from his love rival."

...Love rival?

The question mark above Oda's head is almost materializing.

So Dun already has someone he likes now?

"Pfft." Dazai couldn't help laughing, and after attracting Oda's attention, he quickly changed his tone and said seriously, "It's true. That rival in love, who I don't know whether he is a man or a woman, wrote a sentence to Atsushi, saying 'Stay as far away from Akutagawa Ryunosuke as possible'. Other people in the detective agency also saw it."

"Mr. Dazai?!"

Atsushi, whose five senses were acute due to his tiger transformation ability, heard Dazai Osamu talking about this matter with Oda before he even opened the door. Nakajima Atsushi felt that his reputation was seriously damaged and his ears were red with anger.

"Although Akutagawa was mentioned, they were definitely not rivals." Nakajima Atsushi quickly responded, "Mr. Dazai, please don't tell Mr. Oda weird things."

Dazai threw up his hands innocently: "I told the truth, that sentence is indeed in the text message."

Nakajima Atsushi: “…Even if that’s the case…” His tone was weak, and he couldn’t find anything to deny.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke is in a very bad mood now.

The person who had been texting and calling him non-stop would have stopped calling him temporarily while he was on a mission, but now that he had just rushed into the enemy organization's base, his phone was buzzing non-stop.

Akutagawa had no choice but to take out his phone and throw it away to avoid distraction, but the low noise followed him in his ears like a shadow.

"A trick of the psychic..." Akutagawa gritted his teeth and squeezed out these words. The black beast released a strong rage according to its master's mood and killed all the enemies around it.

This place was just the headquarters of a small and unknown organization, and there was no need for Akutagawa to go out. However, he was really annoyed by the person hiding in the dark, so he took the task and brought a few people to carry out the cleanup.

There were no signs of any surviving enemies as far as the eye could see, and "Rashomon" turned into a black beast and retreated. Akutagawa turned around and left, but he didn't expect to see a familiar person nearby.

"Human-tiger?" Akutagawa stopped. His men who were supposed to be waiting nearby for him to come out were nowhere to be seen. Nakajima Atsushi, who was standing on the river bank, exuded a strange sense of incongruity.

Nakajima Atsushi gave him a look that contained no malice, but was far more disgusting than pure malice.

This kind of vision...

"Rashomon!"

The black beast followed Akutagawa's order and attacked Nakajima Atsushi. Just before reaching him, the figure disappeared like a bubble. The space around him showed traces of distortion - a space-based esper?

The space behind him suddenly shattered, and a strong suction force tried to drag him into the darkness. "Rashomon" became an "anchor" that fixed him to the ground, and quickly split off another one to sweep around - nothing.

The suction force became stronger and stronger, and the 'anchor' left deep scratches on the ground, making it impossible for Akutagawa Ryunosuke to escape.

Akutagawa started coughing uncontrollably, and the first thing he thought of was the look in Nakajima Atsushi's eyes - an extremely blatant obsessive love.

"It must be that guy," Akutagawa thought. It must be the hidden psychic who filled his phone with spam text messages and endless one-sided calls.

The 'anchor' completely disappeared, and Akutagawa saw a void somewhere in space, and a figure appeared there.

——"Mr. Dazai?!"

"Akutagawa is missing."

This was the first sentence that Chuuya Nakahara said when he arrived at the detective agency. Gravity made him feel irritable. He followed the leader's instructions and went to the detective agency to find the detective. However, when he looked inside the detective agency, he was shocked.

"Oda Sakunosuke?" Nakahara Chuuya looked suspicious. He didn't know this name at first. Later, he accidentally learned that it was related to Dazai Osamu, so he paid attention and looked it up, and learned the general situation.

But no matter what, 'Oda Sakunosuke' should be a completely dead man, but now he is standing in the detective agency.

Nakahara Chuuya was certain that he had never seen this person before when he came to the detective agency. With Dazai Osamu present, he could directly rule out the possibility that he was a psychic in disguise.

He put that doubt aside for the moment. The most important thing now was to find Akutagawa.

"It'll be fine for now." Ranbu opened his eyes completely, his emerald green pupils concealing all emotions behind his glasses, and he clicked his tongue.

"Extreme self-love...as expected."

"Is it related to the recent harassment of Akutagawa?" Nakahara Chuuya immediately grasped the key point, thinking back to the phone that disappeared with Akutagawa, "I didn't think of this at all for a moment..."

"So, Chuya is a stupid slug." Dazai Osamu suddenly spoke up, earning a vicious remark from Nakahara Chuuya, "Want to fight, you bastard mackerel!" He then felt bored and turned his head away with a short "tsk".

Nakahara Chuuya: ...It’s hard, my fist is hard.

Edogawa Ranpo suddenly looked at Oda standing beside him, seemingly glancing at him without pointing it out directly. He took off his glasses and said, "It's not that I didn't expect it, it's that I was disturbed."

"Many people?"

"The Hat's answer is wrong. There was only one person from the beginning to the end."

"Could it be a psychic? This is getting tricky."

"Even though she is just an ordinary person without any special abilities, Chuya is really stupid." Dazai Osamu mocked her for the second time, not forgetting to mention Oda, "You are right, Oda Saku."

“Huh?!” Nakahara Chuuya clenched his fists and resisted the urge to punch Dazai into the ground. “I was just about to ask, who is this guy? You didn’t have this guy in your detective agency a few days ago.”

Oda: “I joined not long ago.”

Nakahara Chuuya: "...You answer all my questions."

"But being able to disturb people's minds is something that an ordinary person without supernatural powers cannot do."

"I'll leave this matter to Sakunosuke to explain." Edogawa Ranpo sighed, "The famous detective was also disturbed - although it was not the same."

"Ah," Odashita responded subconsciously, and then began to think of words: "It might be a little troublesome to explain, and it has something to do with why I came here."

madman.

This word popped up when Akutagawa saw the walls of this room were covered with his photos, arranged in a somewhat messy order. There were even photos of him when he was working in the Hong Kong Black Office. From the angle, it seemed as if they were right in front of him. One after another, the walls were covered with creepy photos.

Akutagawa was the only one in the room, and there were no windows or doors, which gave people a sense of crampedness for no reason. He tried to break the wall with "Rashomon", but all the damage was returned to himself.

He was trapped.

The truth was obvious. Unable to find a way to leave, Akutagawa could only look for clues around the room. It was empty and there was no table. Perhaps its owner did not live there permanently.

Or maybe it's a space created by a superpower.

As this thought came to his mind, a scene emerged of himself being dragged in here without any resistance. Akutagawa Ryunosuke's eyes turned fierce, and he was determined to catch this hiding guy and kill him.

Dust flew up from somewhere and drilled into his mouth and nose. Akutagawa couldn't help coughing, and his cheeks turned red from coughing.

A sense of voyeurism appeared at this moment, and Akutagawa was like a bird imprisoned in a cage, being watched by everyone.

"It's extremely disgusting."

As he made this comment, the sense of surveillance that was everywhere was instantly retracted. As if angered by his words, a silver chain suddenly extended from the corner of the wall and attacked flexibly like a whip.

"Rashomon" constructed a barrier in front of him to block the incoming attack, and then the barrier receded like the tide, and the controlled chain also disappeared.

Once again, only Akutagawa and the silence were left here.