We are on the way
We followed the wind and quickly found the elder sister's shop. Although the wind led the way, it still took us two hours.
It was still late at night and the store was closed.
I silently glanced at Tsushima… no, Dazai Osamu “What should I do?”
"It's closed. I didn't expect that. I thought all stores were open all day... Well, now I can only find a place to sleep."
He took me into a small alley, but due to his lack of common sense, he didn't realize that the place was already owned.
"Woof!"
A vicious dog rushed towards us. "Ah ...
Dazai Osamu quickly took me away, and the vicious dog chased us closely.
"Doesn't it get tired?"
We have been running for ten minutes. If we keep running, I will die from a heart rate overload due to the lack of exercise in years and the sudden intense exercise!
*
Dazai Osamu climbed up a wall first and handed me the handkerchief. “Hurry, hurry, it’s coming!”
He looked terrified, and even moisture could be seen in the corners of his eyes.
I was more scared than him. "Ah ...
We both felt like a cat that had met a dog, and the cat was even breathing at the dog. We were both so scared that tears were coming out of our eyes.
At the critical moment, Dazai Osamu managed to not lose the chain, and I was successfully pulled up by him.
Ah, thank Buddha, thank God, thank Allah, and thank all other gods.
The dog is still barking at us.
"Huh? Who do you think you are? Jump up if you can!"
Dazai Osamu has already started trash-talking that dog, well, trash-talking each other.
"Ugly thing!"
"Woof!"
"Hey, you're still talking back? You're so ugly and you don't allow others to say it?"
“Woof woof woof!”
"If you call this handsome, then Xiaohua must be a fairy!"
…
Xiaohua is the name of a dog in the Tsushima family.
I cannot judge Dazai Osamu's behavior. You say he is disrespectful to dogs, but he quarreled with dogs as if they were human beings. You say he is respectful, but he quarreled with dogs.
I sat on the wall, looking down on the dog from above and feeling hopeless psychologically.
They quarreled for a while, and I pulled Dazai Osamu's clothes, "Others still have to sleep, aren't you afraid that the Tsushima family will find out?"
Dazai Osamu was still angry, and only after hearing what I said did he puff up his cheeks unwillingly.
We tumbled over the other side, leaving the dog barking in its place.
"I've decided that I hate dogs from now on."
"Me too."
…
We found a small corner sheltered from the wind and spent the first night away from Tsushima's house there.
*
I woke up at daybreak. Although I had slept late, the novelty of wandering life still exceeded my previous limits.
After I stared blankly for a few seconds, I found Dazai Osamu.
He and I were both huddled in a corner, so I quickly saw the dark circles under his eyes.
His skin is fair and tender, so the dark blue spot is very noticeable at first glance.
——Didn’t he sleep yesterday?
When he saw me wake up, his lifeless eyes focused on me, as if a cold and indifferent god who had fallen into the human world suddenly possessed human emotions.
"Have you woken up yet? The store isn't open yet, so maybe we have to wait a little longer before we can get the money to buy breakfast."
I just woke up and my mind is not clear yet. To put it simply, I turned on the computer, but the page was not loaded.
"...Shuji, you'd better not stay up late."
He narrowed his eyes, smiled and said to me, "Call me brother."
...Loading completed.
"…What? What did you just say?"
His smile deepened a little, and he said to me loudly, "I said, if you are not used to calling me by my current name, just call me brother!"
I rubbed my ears expressionlessly and marveled at his impressive lung capacity.
"Hi, hi, hi, brother."
After a moment of silence, adhering to the principle of finding something to do even if you have nothing to do, I asked him, "Why did you let me call you brother?"
I mean the first time he told me he was going to take me away from the Tsushima family.
He said nothing, and just sat there motionless, like a stone statue.
"I guess you're not doing this for a prank?"
…
"You don't just want to hear me say the word 'brother'."
…
I felt like I was having a heart attack, he was really trying hard to piss me off.
I poked his head and asked, "If I wasn't your sister, you wouldn't take me with you?"
…
"You need to maintain your courage. What will you do if I am not with you?"
"No," he mumbled, "I just think it would be better to have a companion on the road..."
Thank you, please find another excuse. Your excuse seems perfunctory.
We seemed to see a leaf being blown away in front of us.
Ah, a kind person dropped a coin.
Dazai Osamu and I looked up at him at the same time. The kind-hearted man seemed to feel that he was being morally kidnapped, so he quickly rummaged through his wallet and took out another coin.
"...Thank you." "Thank you."
The kind-hearted man left, walking with an extra-quick pace, as if he were being scammed.
Dazai Osamu looked at his receding back and said, "We should change into clothes that are a little more worn out."
Yes, because we were wearing Tsushima family's clothes, the material of their clothes should be many times better than that of the kind-hearted man. No wonder the kind-hearted man felt that he was being cheated.
but
"Wake up, you were still the eldest master the day before. Don't lower your dignity so quickly," I reminded him.
"Wake up, we are penniless now. If you don't want to die of hunger, you should learn from others. After all, dying of hunger is definitely not a good look, right?"
"...Tsk." I picked up the two coins.
"Do you think these two coins are enough to buy breakfast for both of us?"
"Not enough, but I can give you some."
"Why don't I give you some?" I asked him back.
He stopped talking again, and I looked at the sky. Hmm, it's not time yet.
"How about we go get some breakfast first?"
He got up from the ground, patted his expensive kimono and said, "Let's go."
*
After buying breakfast, it was basically time for most small shops to open, so we walked towards the elder sister's shop together.
"The eldest lady sent someone to tell me this morning to prepare some clothes and cash for you, and also asked me to give you a few words."
"——If possible, please take care of your health as much as possible."
It's impossible. Considering the frequency with which Shuji Tsushima commits suicide, how could he possibly take care of his own body?
This old man must be someone that my eldest sister trusts, so he was sent by my eldest sister to pass on the message and prepare our luggage.
Although it was called luggage, we two didn't need anything at all because it would be almost impossible for us to come back once we left.
The old man gave us a few large bills and a handful of small coins, which he sewed onto our underwear with needle and thread.
"Please take good care of yourself. The eldest lady also said: staying at home is like staying in hell. Children should not be imprisoned in such a 'home'. Therefore, even though she knows how difficult the outside world is, she thinks that you can live better outside than in the Tsushima family."
*
We walked along the country road.
"…So, we set out on this journey with the blessing of our elder sister?"
My eyes were dull and I felt that the world was a little bit magical. I never expected to receive the blessing of leaving from the Tsushima family.
As the saying goes, if you share your pain with others, your own pain will be halved.
Dazai Osamu must have also felt confused about this matter, but in order to alleviate the sense of separation in my heart, I still put forward this fact that neither of us was willing to admit.
He swallowed and laughed dryly, "Ha, ha, this is really... exciting."
We were both bringing out emotions that neither of us wanted to acknowledge, which was a way of dealing with an enemy that hurt ourselves while hurting the enemy.
"You are sad."
"You too."
The eldest sister is stronger than the two of us put together. If it were me or Dazai... now I also call you Dazai, brother, after seeing the outside world, we would never want to come back and change the Tsushima family.
So, I dare to believe that Dazai...brother now has boundless admiration for his elder sister.
Alas, from now on I have to start learning how to be a beggar on the street.
"Are you scared?" I asked him.
"Are you afraid?" He threw the question back to me.
I recalled the dog from yesterday and said in a decisive tone, "Scared!"
His expression became speechless, but soon turned into a teasing "Ha, so from now on you will have to let your brother protect you?"
(_)
I frowned, not daring to imagine him standing in front of me.
"Forget it. I am a person with special abilities. I am definitely more useful than you."
If he stood in front of me, he would definitely be trembling all over, breaking out in cold sweats, and would look even more ferocious than me.
He took two steps forward, folded his hands behind his head, and turned to look at me. "Come to think of it, what exactly is the ability of Velvet? Can it be able to see the wind?"
Since we will be dependent on each other in the future, we still need to exchange basic information.
I shook my head.
"My ability is that I can hear the sound of the wind, and occasionally I can see the wind on other people - it seems to be a ribbon made up of different green colors. Haven't you seen this too?"
"Eh——Has that Fluff ever tried to communicate with the wind?"
"I have tried it. The wind can understand me, but they are just simple instructions, like asking them to help lift up a leaf or something."
"Is this the limit..." He muttered to himself, lost in thought.
Maybe I'm thinking about how to make the most of my special abilities.
I tugged at his shirt around his waist to remind him of the trench in front.
He is now 1.45 meters tall, while I am only 1.27 meters tall.
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