Third Dad
The boy, with a mischievous glint in his eye, poked Xiao Luo's arm, his mind racing with thoughts.
The little girl didn't seem to know much, nor did she show any signs of training. A young spatial ability user could indeed easily get lost without supervision.
That's not the point. Dazai Osamu could easily capture and figure out how a mere spatial ability user came to Yokohama, and then hand him over to Mori Ougai as a big surprise.
But this child somehow got involved with him. Just based on that face, no one wouldn't suspect their relationship, especially since Mori Ougai was such a suspicious old fox.
The child, who claimed to have come to Yokohama to find his father, brought gifts that looked remarkably like his father's, but did not recognize him.
interesting.
Dazai Osamu curiously turned the child back: "What's your father's name? Maybe we know each other."
Let me think... Armed Detective Agency! That sounds familiar... Who's your father in there?
Xiao Luo pouted, glared at Dazai Osamu unhappily, and said angrily, "My dad is really amazing, he'll scare you to death if I told you!"
"Really Dudu or fake Dudu?" Dazai Osamu feigned surprise.
"Fake Du"—the child's eyes clearly revealed those two words.
Little Luo had no idea how formidable Dazai Osamu was, but she still boasted about it.
The boy dared to ask, and the little girl dared to make a fuss.
The little girl started bragging: "My dad is amazing! He works at a detective agency. First of all, do you know what a detective agency is? My dad is a detective."
Secondly!
"Mmm, keep going!" Under Dazai Osamu's bright gaze, Xiao Luo hesitated for a moment, racked her brains, and continued blowing.
"My dad is also a professional level 10 swimmer. He tries to get into the water every day. Do you know what getting into the water means? So, my dad is also a lifeguard!"
Dazai Osamu... Dazai Osamu was disgusted to hear that suicide could be tied to a lifeguard.
He looked at the little girl in disbelief. Did this brat even know what it meant to go into the water?
You dare to spout nonsense without knowing anything? Don't you have any self-awareness about whether you're illiterate or not?
Furthermore, his relaxed expression suddenly vanished, and the boy's eyes darkened.
Why could she say something like "entering the water"? You should know that the word "entering the water" was coined by Osamu Dazai himself when he was bored.
What is your father's name?
Dazai Osamu's eyes instantly turned icy cold. His face was grim, and his dark gaze was almost tangible. The young man asked in a low voice.
Looking at Dazai Osamu, Xiao Luo showed no fear whatsoever and continued to ignore his words. The little girl happily exclaimed, "Brother, you look just like my dad! Xiao Luo has always had a small wish: to have Daddy be my brother for once. Why don't you be my daddy and I'll be his brother!"
Of course, it's not that I look down on you, brother. It's just that you're too young. If you were a little older, you could definitely be my brother.
"..."
In the silence, Oda Sakunosuke, sitting on the other side, heard the little girl's words, thought for a moment, and nodded in affirmation: "Very insightful."
How could I not have my own thoughts?
In the whole world, there's only one person who wants her dad to be her brother and her brother to be her dad.
Dazai Osamu was already speechless after hearing the little girl's words, and he was even more speechless after hearing Oda Sakunosuke's reply.
He clicked his tongue lightly and glanced at the little one with some disdain.
Playing the fool, kids are such a hassle. It's hard to get information out of them using ordinary methods. But Dazai Osamu felt a little ashamed to use other methods he'd learned on a child.
The boy didn't want to talk to Xiao Luo anymore; in any case, he had already ordered his men to investigate the detective agency while he was talking to the girl.
He turned to Oda Sakunosuke lazily and asked, "How did you manage to raise five children? Such troublesome creatures, and you actually raised five of them!"
Before Oda Sakunosuke could even speak, Koro approached him.
Xiao Luo is just that magical. She ignores you when you talk to her, but when you don't talk to her and she's bored, she starts clinging to you again.
“Brother, you’re wrong. Children should use ‘个’ (ge).” The little girl came over excitedly to correct him. “Brother, are you like my dad, someone who never went to school?”
Brother, don't worry, I won't look down on you.
elder brother……"
Dazai Osamu felt like there were ten little chicks clucking and chattering nonsense in his ears.
Thankfully, the curry rice from the boss arrived, otherwise Dazai Osamu would have been ready to run away.
As they straightened up, they saw two large and two small bowls of bright red curry rice in front of them, and a hint of suspicion arose in their minds.
It looks really spicy.
Xiao Luo was very clever. The little girl thoughtfully took the spoon from Dazai Osamu's bowl and carefully scooped a spoonful from her own bowl and held it to Dazai Osamu's mouth: "Brother, eat!"
Dazai Osamu was already preparing to eat. He had heard Oda Sakunosuke say that curry rice was very delicious, but it seemed that many people could not handle the spiciness.
Therefore, Osamu Dazai became curious about extra spicy curry rice, and one of the purposes of his visit was to try the taste of extra spicy curry.
But the girl's purpose was far too obvious, and her scheme was so ugly that even Dazai Osamu didn't know what to say. Dazai Osamu was even unwilling to admit that this thing's idea was strategy.
Seeing the childish face on which was clearly showing that he was being used as a guinea pig, Dazai Osamu suddenly stopped eating.
He lazily turned over and leaned against the bar like a boneless black cat. "Oh dear, I don't think I'm hungry at all. You should eat first."
The little girl was surprised that Dazai Osamu would suddenly not want to eat anymore. The child scratched her head in confusion, wondering what to do next. Didn't her brother teach her?
"I made a mistake," Xiao Luo thought to herself, glancing at Oda Sakunosuke eating heartily in the distance, then at Dazai Osamu sitting lazily and indifferently beside her, and finally at the almost entirely red curry rice in front of her.
In the end, the little girl let the demon in her heart break free of its shackles, and the child, who had no one to test the poison, couldn't resist feeding herself with the spoon.
She'd only take a tiny bite. Little Luo assured her, and then…
And that was it; the child cried from the spiciness.
The little girl cried loudly because of the spiciness. She was wrong; she shouldn't have disobeyed her brother.
Food without taste testers is definitely poisonous!
Dazai Osamu watched helplessly as the child suddenly burst into tears, his gaze vacant.
Are you that fragile? You cried from the spiciness so easily?
Dazai Osamu hesitated, pondered, and then shoved his extra-spicy curry rice into his mouth.
Then one more person was brought to tears by the spiciness.
Why is this so spicy? Dazai Osamu gasped for breath and looked for water, utterly incredulous.
The little girl, still crying loudly, was also incredulous at Dazai Osamu's amazing actions.
The little girl rubbed her eyes, sobbing. How could there be such a stupid person in the world? How did he live to be so old?
I was almost dying from the spiciness, and this older brother still dared to feed me the food.
Dazai Osamu grabbed the hand that was about to rub his eyes. The boy gasped and looked at her, his eyes brimming with tears: "Why didn't you say it was so hot!"
Xiao Luo hadn't even blamed Dazai Osamu for not testing the poison first, but unexpectedly, he turned the tables on her. The little girl, also sobbing, retorted with teary eyes, "Xiao Luo, it's already so spicy I can't speak. Brother is stupid, blind."
Oda Sakunosuke finally finished eating and looked at the two people next to him, one big and one small, arguing. Both of them had red faces and teary eyes from the spiciness.
"It really does look like it," Oda Sakunosuke thought seriously.
Looking at the greasy residue on the small hand that Dazai Osamu was holding, he sighed, "Dazai really likes her."
Dazai Osamu was startled and immediately let go of the little girl's hand with great disgust.
"Ew—! Oda Sakunosuke, please don't tell scary stories!!"
"Really? Brother likes Xiao Luo!" Dazai Osamu didn't believe what Oda Sakunosuke said, but Xiao Luo, who overheard it, did. She generously didn't argue with Dazai Osamu. "Brother, don't be shy. Xiao Luo knows that everyone loves her, and it's perfectly normal for someone to like Xiao Luo."
Dazai Osamu:......
Whose kid is this? He's been taught to be so shameless.
When Xiao Luo didn't hear Dazai Osamu's reply and saw that Oda Sakunosuke next to her had finished eating, the little girl happily jumped off her chair and said excitedly, "Uncle! You're finished eating, so shouldn't we go find Dad now?"
Looking into the little girl's sparkling eyes, Oda Sakunosuke was interrupted by Dazai Osamu before he could even nod.
The boy wiped away the tears from the spiciness with a tissue, took another big bite, and mumbled through his breath, "No way! Oda has something to do."
Xiao Luo looked in the direction of the sound and saw Dazai Osamu's behavior: drinking water because the food was spicy, wiping away tears after drinking the water, and then taking another bite after wiping away the tears, repeating the cycle.
The little girl stared at Dazai Osamu with the look of someone who thought he was mentally challenged, scratched her cheek, and sighed in distress.
He climbed back onto the chair, took the curry rice from in front of Dazai Osamu, and coaxed him affectionately, "Brother, be good, this doesn't taste good, we won't eat it! Don't worry, Xiaoluo and Uncle will take you with them when they leave, so you don't have to be scared alone."
Dazai Osamu was already speechless from the spiciness, and now he was choked by the child's words of coaxing the mentally challenged, leaving him unable to utter a single word.
The boy's eyes were complicated as he stared at Xiao Luo with the look of someone looking at an idiot. Could this moron really be his relative? The Tsushima family is getting more and more useless.
Oda Sakunosuke looked at the two of them staring at each other and nodded again in affirmation.
They have such a good relationship!
However, the man broke the silence, and Oda Sakunosuke tilted his head with a puzzled expression: "So, Dazai, what's the matter?"
Dazai Osamu snapped out of his daze and calmly stood up from his chair. "Ah, it's nothing. We just found Ango, who was missing."
Upon hearing the news from his friend, Oda Sakunosuke's expression immediately turned serious. "Is he alright?"
Dazai Osamu lazily replied, "I don't know, but judging from the way he leaked the armory's code, he's probably not doing well."
Oda Sakunosuke paused for a moment, then his expression turned serious. "Dazai, I want to go and see."
“I came here to ask for your help.” Dazai Osamu shrugged and gestured to leave.
But Oda Sakunosuke still didn't move. The man looked down at the little girl sitting in the chair, his gaze hesitant. "I promised you I would take you to find your father after dinner. But I'm sorry, I have urgent business to attend to right now."
Can I take a taxi to send you home?
"Sure!" Xiao Luo said generously. She just didn't know the way, so it didn't matter whether Oda Sakunosuke gave her a ride or not.
Dazai Osamu, however, offered a different opinion: "There are so many bad people these days! I should send someone to take her to her father."
Actually, Dazai Osamu felt that the father described by the child seemed somewhat familiar, and since his subordinates hadn't replied yet, he decided to investigate through Koro first.
*
The boy and Oda Sakunosuke walked out calmly, then, as if remembering something, he suddenly turned back and asked again, "What's your father's name?"
Xiao Luo finally noticed this time, and she blurted out, "Dazai..."
Suddenly, the screen appeared in front of her as if it had gone mad, flashing incessantly. Her father's name on it shone with multicolored light.
Little Luo got stuck.
Not surnamed Tsushima? Under Dazai Osamu's dark gaze, the child guiltily covered his head: "Dazai... Osamu. My father's name is Dazai Osamu."
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