Third Dad
Dazai Osamu fell silent, and Oda Sakunosuke also fell into deep thought.
While Dazai Osamu was malfunctioning, the man asked in confusion, "Little Luo, didn't you say your father's name is Dazai-ko?"
Xiao Luo: ……
The little girl became even more guilty. Her iris-colored eyes darted around, and she said without much confidence, "I... Dad changed his name, um, yes, he changed his name."
The truth came out: the child had remembered his father's name wrong. Oda Sakunosuke was also rendered speechless.
"Say it again, I don't think I heard you clearly just now, what's his name?" Dazai Osamu finally came to his senses after a long daze. He rubbed his ears and asked incredulously.
Hearing the other person's evasive tone, Xiao Luo became even more suspicious of herself. She glanced at the tablet again and said firmly, "My father's name is Dazai Osamu."
Dazai Osamu remained silent for a long time before finally exhaling and speaking: "Kid, do you know my name?"
Xiao Luo honestly shook her head, "I don't know."
"Okay, that's fine. Where's the car? Get it out of here quickly!" Dazai Osamu's calm tone grew increasingly agitated towards the end, the boy gesticulating wildly at Oda Sakunosuke in terror.
"The farther the better!!"
"Dazai, calm down." Oda Sakunosuke looked at the black cat, who seemed to be in a state of shock, and calmly reassured it.
Osamu Dazai...
Dazai Osamu couldn't calm down at all; he finally remembered why the child's description of his father looked so familiar.
Except for the fact that the detective agency member's identity didn't match, the little girl's description was exactly the same as his.
In that instant, Dazai Osamu considered many possibilities: brainwashing, disguise, truth and falsehood...
But Dazai Osamu discovered in despair that the most likely truths all pointed to the fact that the brat was his daughter.
No, that's scary!
"Brother! You're also called Dazai! What a coincidence! What's your name, Dazai?" The terrifying child approached him with a cute smile on his face.
Dazai Osamu almost involuntarily took a step back. He had no intention of answering the little girl's question; instead, he stared intently at her and abruptly asked, "Why are you looking for him, your father?"
Xiao Luo was puzzled and tilted her head, asking in confusion, "He's my dad, so who else can I look for if not my dad?"
"Oh no," Dazai Osamu thought, his suspicion growing stronger. He pursed his lips, his tone even more indifferent: "You have no proof that you are his daughter, do you?"
Xiao Luo was even more confused. She needed proof to find her father, but it didn't matter. After experiencing Mori Ōgai, Xiao Luo was no longer an ordinary Xiao Luo.
"I can get a DNA test done with my dad, or I can have Uncle Chief do it again," Xiao Luo suggested casually, but she still said confidently, "My dad definitely won't abandon me."
Uncle Chief? Who is that?
As far as he knew, the head of the detective agency was called the president, and Dazai Osamu was more likely to think of Mori Ougai as the title of leader.
As for the word "again," Dazai Osamu didn't think it was something a child would casually say.
This also means that Xiaolu has already experienced it once, if the leader the little girl is referring to is indeed Mori Ōgai.
Dazai Osamu felt that he had vaguely grasped something.
"Why are you so sure?" Dazai Osamu pondered tentatively.
Xiao Luo felt that this older brother had a lot of questions, and she was getting a little annoyed by them, but there was nothing she could do, as she still needed to rely on him to get back to the detective agency.
The little girl patiently explained, "My dad told me to go first, and I listened to him. Why doesn't he want me?"
You should know that when Dazai Osamu told her to go back immediately, she was still Edogawa Ranpo's daughter.
But Xiao Luo wasn't guilty at all. She openly admitted that she, Xiao Luo, did have that many fathers.
Dazai Osamu felt as if he had discovered the truth. He spoke slowly and deliberately: "You said that your father let you leave through your dimension?"
"Uh-huh."
The detective agency, Dazai Osamu, the leader, personally said to send him away...
Only one question remained. Dazai Osamu's eyes were unreadable; if his guess was correct, then...
"He encountered danger when he told you to leave, right?"
Xiao Luo, who had been giving a perfunctory answer, suddenly opened her eyes wide and exclaimed, "Brother, you're so smart! You guessed it right away!"
My brother and dad were fighting a monster back then. That monster was huge, it could lift little Luo into the sky in an instant. It was also disgusting, but my brother and dad weren't afraid at all. He even dared to pick up the monster's tentacles and look at them.
Then, my brother… Dad said he couldn't nullify it and told me to go first. Xiao Luo didn't want to leave at first. But Dad said he'd beat her to death if she didn't leave.
Excitedly chattering on and on, the little girl brought up Dazai Osamu's nickname again, until the very end. At the end, however, Xiao Luo, who had been boasting about Dazai, suddenly wilted, remembering how she had been chased away. She promptly corrected herself.
That's too much! They actually used Kunikida-nii to threaten Koro.
She was inwardly grumbling, but the girl didn't dare say it aloud. What if the older brother in front of her heard that the detective agency had a math teacher and refused to take her there?
Xiao Luo told a white lie, but she was still so angry that she threw a bucket of dirty water on her brother and father.
Dazai Osamu, however, did not notice the little girl's little thoughts.
He listened to the child's account and lowered his eyes; that confirmed it. To be honest, Dazai Osamu didn't believe that a member of the mafia could be involved with an officially affiliated armed detective agency.
So, the Dazai Osamu that Xiaoluo mentioned isn't him, but someone from a parallel world.
Dazai Osamu couldn't tell whether he was disappointed or relieved.
Good news: It's not his child.
The bad news: It's no different from his child.
It seems that my parallel universe self suffered a major crisis in the future and sent the child away.
I just don't know if the other side was behind the travel to the parallel world.
It's all Dazai Osamu; Dazai didn't mind speculating about himself with the darkest thoughts.
What a useless piece of trash! He can't even protect a child. He's completely worthless.
After thinking for a long time, Dazai Osamu finally looked up and stared at Xiao Luo with a strange look in his eyes. He never expected that he would have a parallel world where he was already married.
It's terrifying. I never imagined the consequences of having another child. The weight of life is something a person who thinks about suicide every day can't bear.
Dazai Osamu considered pretending not to know and sending the child to the detective agency to end the matter once and for all. However, if his parallel world self was using the child-rearing scheme as an excuse, he would be mistaken.
He's not the kind of guy who can take good care of kids.
After staring at the child for a while, Xiao Luo finally couldn't hold back any longer and asked expectantly, "Brother, when will you take me home?"
Dazai Osamu snapped out of his reverie and looked at the bright-eyed little girl staring at him, her eyes filled with longing and anticipation for her father.
It's clear she loves her father very much, but unfortunately her father is a good-for-nothing, and there's no father in this world for her.
Dazai Osamu's lips curled up in a cold smile. He glanced at Xiao Luo casually and said indifferently, "I remembered that I have some things to take care of. You stay here for now, and I will take you back later."
Oh no. Xiao Luo's expression fell; her brother really didn't want to see her off.
The little girl turned her gaze again, looking at Oda Sakunosuke with a hint of expectation: "Uncle! When do I leave?"
Oda Sakunosuke was somewhat at a loss. He glanced at Dazai Osamu. Although he didn't know what the other was up to, he was certain that Dazai Osamu wouldn't make a mistake.
The man lowered his head and said apologetically, "I'm sorry."
Xiao Luo: ……
"...The ship of friendship really does capsize so easily."
Xiao Luo realized that she had never expected that these two seemingly normal people were actually human traffickers.
They definitely want to keep Xiao Luo here so they can sell her when the time is right.
The little girl understood. She hugged the balloon doll and nodded obediently, "Okay, goodbye brother! Goodbye uncle!"
As soon as you left, Xiao Luo ran away.
The phone rang, and Dazai Osamu knew what the other end would say without even answering.
He didn't want to reveal his true self to the children, even though he seemed to have already shown a lot.
Dazai Osamu answered the phone and walked out without hesitation.
Oda Sakunosuke hesitated for a moment, but carefully told Koro before following after her, "Don't worry, Dazai isn't a bad person. He must have his reasons for doing this."
You can play obediently with Kosuke and the others.
"Okay!" Little Luo nodded obediently. Oh no, Little Luo will run away as soon as you leave the house.
Oda Sakunosuke believed it.
The consequence of their belief was that no sooner had they driven away than Xiao Luo grabbed the keys, opened the door, and ran off.
*
Within the system space,
The system looked at the little girl performing the ritual in front of the gate and slowly typed a question mark.
What are they doing?
Xiao Luo bowed three times devoutly and said solemnly to the system, "System brother, it seems that Xiao Luo's luck is a little bad."
I'm praying to God for good luck. I want to send Xiao Luo directly to my dad's place.
The system fell into deep thought. Logically, the time portal should have sent Xiao Luo to her father's vicinity, or to the vicinity of his causal relationship. How could it have prevented the child from finding her father?
Could it be that the time portal is broken?
Before he could finish thinking, the little girl had already set off again with full confidence.
The door slammed open, the child stepped out, and then darted back to close it.
The atmosphere outside was tense and frozen. The soldier who had finally managed to capture Mimic, an organization member who had attacked the mafia, was killed by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
Dazai Osamu didn't get any information out of him, even though he could have obtained it through other means.
But he was filled with irritability. He was already somewhat upset because of Xiao Luo's matter, and now the disciple he had taught had caused such trouble.
"So annoying, so annoying, so annoying," Dazai Osamu thought, his eyes filled with barely concealed murderous intent. He had already pulled the trigger once on the gun aimed at Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
With a gloomy look in his eyes, Dazai Osamu pondered how to deal with the young boy kneeling on the ground.
In this silence where even the air seemed to freeze, the sound of a door being pushed open came from the wall.
Almost everyone looked over warily.
Xiao Luo looked at the scene, a place filled with blood and smoke, and saw a group of men in black standing there, their expressions heavy with sorrow. Especially the black-haired boy standing in the middle.
The little girl gave a sweet and polite smile: "Sorry to bother you."
With a swift movement, the child retracted his foot and prepared to slip away.
"..."
Stopping his men from firing, Dazai Osamu looked at the second brat, his voice unreadable, "Are you going to come out yourself, or should I help you out?"
Dazai Osamu realized he was wrong. Could a child who was so adept at realizing he was lost be any kind of obedient creature?
She's a space-related person; she's still a space-related person.
If she's disobedient and unsupervised, it wouldn't be surprising if Xiao Luo were teleported anywhere.
Just like now, if Dazai Osamu hadn't intervened in advance, not to mention the bullets from his men, Akutagawa Ryunosuke's Rashomon was already showing signs of life the moment the door appeared.
If Rashomon, capable of tearing through space, were to actually attack Little Lo, even Dazai Osamu had no idea what would happen.
Indeed, leaving a naughty child alone is a mistake, and leaving a naughty child with extraordinary abilities alone is an even bigger mistake.
Adding fuel to the fire. Dazai Osamu was so exasperated by the stubborn and unlucky brat that he almost laughed.
He let out a sinister laugh, his eyes filled with murderous intent. She was so disobedient that she would die sooner or later because of his abilities, so he might as well kill her first.
The boy narrowed his eyes, his smile devoid of any hint of amusement, and said gently, "Come out, or you'll die."
Xiao Luo: ……
Barbie Q is here, she's run right into a human trafficker's face.
What should we do now? This human trafficker's tone is exactly the same as when her brother tries to beat her.
Xiao Luo panicked when she heard that!
The little girl looked at the system brother pleadingly, "Help!"
The system scanned the outside with some confusion, and there was the child's father standing outside.
The system asked in confusion: "Little Luo, why aren't you going out?"
Xiao Luo: ……
She didn't dare.
Although the little girl thought about it for a moment, she still moved out slowly and nervously.
The child crawled out little by little like a snail, his gaze meeting Dazai Osamu's murderous stare.
She instinctively flashed a flattering smile and obediently called out, "Brother."
The subordinates, who hadn't gotten a clear look at the little girl's face because she'd disappeared so quickly, now saw her clearly. And after hearing her call out "Brother Dazai,"
His subordinates all looked shocked. They had never heard that Dazai had a sister.
"Come here," Dazai Osamu beckoned to her indifferently.
Xiao Luo was initially reluctant because she felt she would definitely get beaten up if she went.
Seeing Dazai Osamu's expression, the little girl reluctantly moved over. Xiao Luo hugged Dazai Osamu's leg, adopting the posture of coaxing her older brother, and immediately knelt down: "Brother, don't hit me, I was wrong. Xiao Luo really knows she was wrong. Although she doesn't know what she did wrong, Xiao Luo just knows she was wrong... okay?"
Dazai Osamu:......
Zero Zero: ...You deserve to be beaten.
In the ensuing silence, it was the stubborn Akutagawa who spoke up, "Dazai-san, is this your sister?"
"No," both Dazai Osamu and Koro denied.
The group of men under him looked at the two faces, which were at least 80% similar, and didn't dare to say a word.
Whether they believed it or not is unknown, but at least Ryunosuke Akutagawa believed it.
The lop-eared rabbit boy stared at the little girl with a serious expression. "Since you are not Mr. Dazai's sister, then please let Mr. Dazai go!"
"Not really," Xiao Luo honestly shook her head.
"Why? Do you want to take Mr. Dazai from me?" Ryunosuke Akutagawa's expression grew increasingly ferocious.
"What's your relationship to my brother?" The little girl was a bit confused. How did she suddenly end up competing with this older brother for someone's affections?
“I am Dazai-sensei’s only disciple!” Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s voice was firm and powerful.
Xiao Luo paused, then slowly opened her eyes wide. Master and disciple? Snatching? Could this be what her brother was talking about...?
"You guys are so perverted! How could you..."
The child, startled, quickly shut her mouth, realizing she was still on the verge of death. She clung even tighter to Dazai Osamu's leg and said earnestly, "I don't want to be beaten to death."
To be honest, the little girl was all too familiar with Dazai Osamu's gaze. Every time her brother had a seizure, he would stare at her with that same look. The little girl felt it was a miracle she was still alive.
The child thought about it and suddenly realized how difficult things had been for her. She looked up in distress and said, "Brother, why don't you just give me to my dad?"
A strikingly similar double is certainly appealing, but if they're too similar, it becomes terrifying.
As expected, her brother and father are the best; they gave her not a penny more or less.
Feeling the child's soft body against his legs, the warm and gentle temperature passed through the thin trousers into Dazai Osamu's body, carrying the unique breath of a tender life.
The love for offspring is an instinct etched into the genes of living beings. The fragile bodies of offspring, which can be easily destroyed, are enough to soothe Dazai Osamu's restlessness and anxiety over the little girl's uncontrollable behavior.
His murderous intent gradually subsided; he was quite skilled at it.
Dazai Osamu thought casually.
Then he pressed down on the girl's soft hair beside him, ruffling it carelessly, and said, "What did you just say that was so perverted? Can you repeat it again?"
Xiao Luo: ……
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