Nakahara Chuuya:?

Sakaguchi Ango:?

"Huh? Why are you so surprised?" Dazai Osamu innocently took out his complete suit from his windbreaker pocket and opened it to show them.

“Yes.”

According to legend, "The Book" is a wordless book of literature, and writing logical words on it will make it come true.

After casually showing it to them, Dazai Osamu took it back and flipped through it nonchalantly.

Suddenly he exclaimed, "Huh?"

"What's wrong?" Sakaguchi Ango pushed up his glasses and asked.

"Suddenly there are words, how magical!" Dazai Osamu widened his eyes in amazement, then sat down cross-legged and began to read the book as if he was reading a novel.

Before today, he had also read this "book".

But at that time, there was nothing in this "book".

Nakahara Chuuya and Sakaguchi Ango silently moved behind him.

After two seconds of silence, Nakahara Chuuya slapped Dazai Osamu on the back of his head, "Dazai, you bastard, what are you doing? There's nothing in here!"

"Ouch!" Dazai Osamu was hit so hard that he almost fell on the "book" in his hand. He raised his left hand to rub the back of his head and complained, "The dwarf is so violent..."

"I can't read either, Dazai." Sakaguchi Ango pretended not to have noticed what had just happened and said calmly.

"Huh?" Dazai stood up and looked at the two of them with a strange look, then he touched his chin and said thoughtfully, "So that's how it is."

"I am the only one who can see it as the 'peer'..."

"Then there's nothing we can do." Dazai Osamu said irresponsibly, then sat down on the ground again and started reading the contents of the "book".

Everything before was normal and was within Dazai Osamu's expectations.

But when his counterpart's plan reached the fifth stage and was about to end, something went wrong.

The original sentence "Oda Sakunosuke survives, Dazai Osamu dies" was crossed out by the author with a black pen and replaced with new words.

"Survival outside the forest."

This sentence was also crossed out. The crossed-out words took up an entire page, and in the end only one sentence was left.

"Please restart the world."

Dazai Osamu tried hard to recognize the crossed-out words and finally recognized them.

They are names of people one by one.

First were Mori Ogai and Kunikida Dopo, then Osaki Kouyo, Tanizaki Junichiro, Miyazawa Kenji, and the last few names were Nakajima Atsushi, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, and Nakahara Chuuya.

There is no name of Fukuzawa Yoshikichi.

But Dazai Osamu did not think this was a good thing, nor did he think that Fukuzawa Yoshikichi was the survivor.

Maybe things are even more cruel than what is written here.

Because this is a "book" and not a diary, Dazai will not record what happened in it. He will only write down the ending he hopes for.

The reason why I cut off the hopeful ending...

Probably because of reasons like "it's impossible to achieve".

There were not enough clues, and Dazai Osamu could not analyze what exactly happened there from the limited clues.

But now he has confirmed a conjecture, that is -

The world of his counterpart is a world where everyone except Dazai Osamu is destroyed.

Then, Dazai Osamu turned the page and his pupils contracted.