"Suicide Note" "Memoirs of D-Class Personnel"

A glass bead rolled silently on the table.

"The doll was taken away."

"Alice was taken away too."

Edogawa Ranpo and Dazai Osamu were talking to each other in an ambiguous manner.

"Ranpo-sama has already predicted this! With this glass bead, the detective agency's chances of winning can be fully restored."

"That's a real bargain."

"The strength of Hat-kun is still very much needed." Ranpo Edogawa narrowed his eyes and suddenly called out Dazai Osamu: "Dazai."

Dazai Osamu quietly looked at the detective who had already made a lot of guesses, and understood that the next words were directed at him.

"'Weird' does not mean 'ghost'. It is called 'weird' because it is beyond the visible existence and difficult to understand."

"I see."

The detective returned to his seat with satisfaction. He believed that Dazai Osamu would make a choice that he would not regret.

On the other hand, a horror novel entitled "Suicide Note" gradually came to the attention of the world.

If the recent horror novels such as Zhenshan's "Mortuary" and the rising star "Two Dolls" are both depicting real and unreal horror, then "Suicide Note" is leaning towards surreal horror with no weird objects and mostly psychological descriptions. What exactly is fear? Is it based on specific events or subjective feelings? Is it an emotion or an instinct?

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There must be someone next to you, you just didn't look.

You turn your head quietly and look back from the right, and it is standing on the left, looking at you quietly.

You look back and it's behind you.

There was a lot of noise outside the house. After I recorded it, I suddenly heard a voice saying "Look at me, I'm looking at you" from the boring dialogue.

'Look at me, look at me.' It will try every means to attract your attention. If you cover your ears and close your eyes, it will stand in front of you and laugh at your cowardice.

It rests in the same bed with you, beside your bed, or under your bed.

Is it possible that there is nothing to be afraid of? I told A that it is just making a sound, and it is just showing its presence all the time. Just pretend it does not exist, okay? Stop torturing yourself with things that you can't help.

Until one day it tapped me on the shoulder.

I looked back and saw a deserted wilderness.

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If the horror post "Kusurugi Station" that people are still replying to nowadays gives people the feeling that "ghosts are in reality, be careful not to take a wrong step", then this "Suicide Note" can be regarded as a spiritual pollution that keeps repeating "ghosts are around".

But even a horror novel that is devoted to creating an atmosphere throughout the entire novel actually has a plot.

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The day I learned that A had disappeared inexplicably, I broke down for the entire night.

In the surveillance video, A walked into the corridor camera crazily and never came out again.

I turned off all the lights and couldn't see anything, so I looked at it.

What do you want to do! Are you going to kill me too! I held a knife and shouted in fear, and then I heard a noise behind me.

I turned around suddenly and saw that the refrigerator door was opened at some point, emitting a faint light.

I seemed to hear A's laughter in my ears, as if she had also become 'it' and looked like this.

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I finally accepted my inevitable extinction, and I was exhausted, but I wanted to be free.

If you think about it carefully, A and I have never done anything wrong, nor do we bear any grudges, but these things are just so unreasonable, or they just have such malicious intentions towards people, and take pleasure in driving people crazy. In the last few days of A's life, his mood was already bad, and so was I, but I was a little more determined than A.

I stood on the rooftop and looked down, with only the obsession that even if I died, I would die with a corpse in reality, so I jumped.

I felt extremely liberated.

A woman who was watering the flowers was looking out from the rooftop when a figure fell in front of her.

The woman was startled and quickly looked at the ground, then a look of confusion appeared on her face.

There was nothing on the ground.

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There is no corpse of me in the real world.

I wander in the narrow space that is beyond sight.

I walk on people's backs and stroke their spines.

Look at me, look at me.

I'm watching you.

I am so lonely.

Is there anyone to accompany me?

You know I exist.

It's you.

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Thunder and lightning——

The sound of marbles hitting the ground.

"ah--"

In a cafe along the river, a man suddenly stood up and screamed, attracting many people's attention. In front of him was a brand new newspaper, but it was soaked by the spilled coffee.

"I'm so sorry. I'm really embarrassed." He carefully apologized to the people around him who were frightened, but he felt dazed inside.

Did you hear the sound of marbles just now?

Click.

Except for the three parties who were reminded, almost everyone in Yokohama had read the novel. Although it was impossible to print so many newspapers and some young children could not read, they still knew the story through their own channels.

See this sentence "It's you".

The authorities did not stop this, or perhaps considering what will happen in Yokohama next, it is better for the public not to stay in reality.

Although this incident caused a certain degree of panic and subsequent appeasement would be a problem, it was not difficult to make the decision as it was the lesser of two evils.

All those who stay have to challenge what was accomplished at the cost of countless human sacrifices in another world.

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I originally thought that I was generating electricity for love, but now I find that I can actually see the real owner.

There is such a good thing, or rather, such a thing really exists in the world! I always thought that ghost stories were just stories, and novels were always more exciting than reality. Who knew that reality would be the opposite, it was really amazing.

So it's okay to read more horror novels to build up my courage, right? I began to wonder what strange things I had been fed over the years.

These are all suppressed at the bottom of my memory, buried by a bunch of weird systems that are neither real nor fake, and have always been considered to be the material of unfounded horror stories. Perhaps the authorities fed them all to me - then this is it -

From my memory, I saw a huge organization that guarded the last line of defense for humanity.

So he gently pulled out a piece of manuscript paper from the desk.

These pasts that I had lost or ignored will become known to me again in the form of stories.

I began to write.

【《D-Class Personnel Memoirs》】

Who is a D-class personnel? Looking at this strange title, I am a little confused. I always feel that it has something to do with me. No matter what, I will write it down first and then talk about it.

Alice, holding her doll, watched each sentence being formed.

Alice had deliberately gone up there, but being dragged into the inner world was an accident. Generally speaking, this process takes a certain amount of time, mainly based on the connection between the object of action and the outer world. However, Alice is just a humanoid superpower, and the only person she has contact with is the superpower user Morio, so naturally she completely disappeared from the outer world at the first sight.

But it was a pleasant surprise.

Everything Alice sees now will be transmitted to the three organizations synchronously by Moriowa, so that everyone can obtain valuable information, making this mission not impossible.

She began to read word by word.

[On ▇year▇month▇day, I was taken out of Stent Prison and came to this unknown place. I was given my own number, starting with D.]

Alice was a little stuck when she read the first sentence.

How is the symbol “▇” written by hand?

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"They told me it meant misery - I knew I was unlucky enough and that things were going to be bad - until I saw that things were getting worse."

In a room full of surveillance cameras and personnel, Mori Ougai read out what Alice saw, while another device simultaneously played the sound of "rustling" of pen hitting paper, and technicians were tracing the handwriting.

Since all surveillance equipment cannot record this scene, Dazai Osamu's doll has a monitoring device in addition to a locator.

The locator completely failed at a certain point and could no longer be contacted. However, after playing a distorted sound, the monitoring device was able to play successfully, as if it was allowed.

Everyone was listening intently to the speech of the Hong Kong and Black leader. Considering the identities of these listeners, including some from official and higher-ups, this scene might be a little humorous.

However, everyone's expressions were solemn.

Mori Owl's voice was unhurried. Considering that the content was all handwritten, the writer's writing speed did not seem slow: "I was wearing orange clothes, holding a mop, and was escorted by several armed guards. I turned left and right and walked into an empty room."

"There was nothing in the room except a human-shaped, ugly sculpture."

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There was a reddish-brown stain on the ground, and I was instructed to clean it up. The two guards escorting me were communicating with each other in some incomprehensible instructions, and during this process they stared at the motionless sculpture, as if it was not an ugly sculpture, but some kind of criminal who would escape if not careful.

Well, not only people are imprisoned, but also sculptures. I tried to think of something lighthearted, but the atmosphere of these two people was too depressing, and I swept the floor with some uneasiness.

After I left, the two of them stared at the sculpture and slowly left the room, closing the door, and nothing happened.

Although I don't understand anything, let it be, wearing ugly clothes to clean the room for ugly sculptures once every two weeks, nothing new happens in prison.

My colleagues - or inmates, whatever, they're all named D, which is equally confusing. Some people suddenly believe in Flying Spaghetti at a certain moment, while others forget everything after just a few days. Okay, I get it, D-class personnel just don't know anything.

Then he died without any warning.

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