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An hour and thirty or so ago.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke received an order from the leader Mori Ogai himself.

"Akutagawa-kun, please investigate the real identity of the person in this photo, get close to him, and find out the supernatural ability."

A photo was slid out, face down.

The mafia disaster dog who had been listening to the order seriously did not step up to pick up the photo immediately after hearing the order, but stood there blankly, with dull eyes like thick ink Slightly widened, he looked at his leader with puzzlement.

Mori Ogai showed an unpredictable smile as usual, and Alice was lying on the edge of his chair, quietly adding a bit of mystery and danger to the dark background.

"This is an investigation mission...? Why did you hand it over to me?"

Akutagawa asked hesitantly, not because he was unwilling to take over, but because his personality was not suitable for this kind of thing at all, he was not sharp enough and easily irritable, and it was easy to ignore some important things.As usual, the task assigned to Akutagawa himself will only be the type of fighting and killing. Occasionally, he will be responsible for the arrangement of negotiations, which is also a physical negotiation mode depending on who has the biggest fist.

This kind of task of lurking to obtain intelligence from others rarely falls on him.

After all, what is the difference between letting a notorious bloody dog ​​patiently put away its claws and fangs to investigate, and letting a murderous beast mix into the flock?

Akutagawa Ryunosuke is quite self-aware, and he spoke at this time to confirm the details of the mission.

Is it to make him an ordinary latent investigation?Or is it to use violent means to torture and make the other party spit out all his information?

If it's the latter, just take it back and hand it over to the torture department.

This is clearly not the latter.

"Ah, there is no way. After much deliberation, you and Hongye-kun are the most suitable candidates for this task, and Hongye-kun has other tasks now, so I have to leave this matter to you, Akutagawa-kun."

Chief Mori showed a gentle smile, folded his hands into a triangle, leaned his elbows on the mahogany desk, rested his pointed jaw on the back of his hands, and spoke in a distressed tone.

"Get close to the other party. There's no need to be too anxious. It doesn't matter if it takes a few days, huh? Don't show such a nervous expression. It shouldn't matter if you reveal your identity, okay?"

Mori Ogai didn't expect Akutagawa Ryunosuke to be able to hide his identity perfectly to get close to this person.

But at the same time, he was not worried about Akutagawa's mission failure and accidents at all.

There is no way, after all, the message hidden in this photo, the person standing behind, has been too gentle and conniving towards Akutagawa since before, and it has not changed even after four years.

Judging from the situation of the last combination battle, this is the case.

Mori Ogai: "In your case, you won't be killed for investigating this person, and you may even be able to obtain information more easily than other investigators."

The port mafia leader's humanoid ability, the girl with blond hair and blue eyes in a red dress with a cute smile raised her head happily, and took Mori Ogai's words: "It's best to bring him back, Alice wants to play with him, and depending on his size, my little dress probably suits him too."

Look at the shape?

Isn't that also a child?

Akutagawa stepped forward in bewilderment, stretched out his too slender and pale hand, picked up the photo on the leader's desk, and turned it over gently, his cold eyes were fixed on the front of the photo.

The pitch-black pupils instantly widened in horror, and the bloodless lips subconsciously parted a little.

Like a frightened wild cat.

"Chief, chief?" Akutagawa's voice was raised by a degree, unbelievable: "This is——"

"This is the information I just got."

Mori Ogai spoke softly, "After I learned that Dazai-kun and Chuya-kun were at the detective agency, I investigated their whereabouts a little bit, and today happened to be the day when Chuya-kun returned to Yokohama from a business trip."

"I have arranged manpower at each Yokohama entry and exit station. Originally, I just wanted to see the [condition] of Chuya-kun, but unexpectedly, I got unexpected news."

"This is Mr. Chuya...? No, no, then there are two Mr. Chuya."

Akutagawa looked at the photo with a frown, obviously taken from a candid angle, and the one standing in the center is undoubtedly the shocking point - a young child who has exactly the same appearance as Nakahara Nakaya, with an innocent expression that has never experienced any darkness Bounce and walk.

If there is only this one child, maybe Zhongyuan Zhong also has some strange powers and loses his memory, but the adult leading this child undoubtedly broke this guess.

The adult version of Zhong Yuanzhong is also standing beside the child, holding the little guy's hand. Although only half of his face is exposed, he can still see the relaxation and gentle indulgence in the other person's expression, just like an ordinary parent ——Edogawa Ranpo who is holding the other hand of the little guy is not important, so ignore it for now.

The problem is, all of them know that it is impossible for Zhongyuan Zhong to have such a big child.

Akutagawa thought in a trance, if there was one, it would probably have been secretly disposed of by Mr. Dazai long ago, and it is impossible to live to such an old age.

"That's what you're responsible for finding out."

Mori Ogai showed a gentle smile again, "Let me give you a reminder. The latest information shows that the child went out with Nakajima Atsushi and Izumi Kyoka not long ago. Judging from the route, there is a high probability that he went near the commercial street. , because Quan Jinghua's acuity is good, and the investigators couldn't follow him for too long."

The words stop here.

There is no room for rejection, but according to Akutagawa's character, he will not refuse either.

Mori Ogai finally added: "Thanks for your hard work, Akutagawa-kun."

then.

That's why Akutagawa Ryunosuke was wandering around the commercial street in broad daylight with a photo, frowning.

Frowning doesn't mean distress, but more nervousness.

In any case, with an indifferent personality, cruel and bloody methods, such as Akutagawa Ryunosuke himself, there will be one or two close people, or people who are willing to bow and sincerely respect.

The latter is like his teacher Dazai Osamu and the leader Mori Ogai, while the former is like his sister Akutagawa Yin and... Mr. Nakaya.

This may be Mr. Chuya's child.

This realization made Akutagawa very nervous. Although he didn't know how the child survived, this face already proved that the two could not be unrelated.This nervousness even made him struggle for a long time when he was thinking about how to say the first sentence after contact.

Perhaps it was precisely because of such entanglements that this well-known disaster dog fell into deep thought, to the point where even the formerly keen [human-tiger breath detection instinct] became exhausted.

That's why I was shocked by [Wen Ye's photo! ? ] interrupted his thinking, and then his hand was grabbed by another hand that was slightly wider than his own and was much warmer.

The most hated and jealous face belonged to Atsushi Nakajima, so abruptly broke into sight.He didn't notice any hostility, and even Akutagawa himself was stunned for a few seconds by the temperature from the touch of his hand.

Atsushi Nakajima ran over impulsively and yelled. After impulsively, he realized that he was actually holding that Akutagawa's hand. He was frightened and froze immediately, and his whole body was motionless.It's not right to let go, and it's not right to continue to hold it. It just maintains the original movement, as if someone has suddenly pressed the stop button.

Hands, hold together.

There was no reason for this message to pass through Dun's mind.

The cold touch makes people wonder whether the season is in the cold winter, otherwise how could it be so cold.

There are also calloused fingertips, which are a bit rough. At Dun's level, it is impossible to identify what caused the callouses.But it's too slender, it doesn't feel sensual at all, as if it will break with a little force, it doesn't look like a blood-stained killer at all.

But that's just an illusion.

The man in front of him was a most terrifying beast.

Dun remained frozen, maintaining such a movement, until Akutagawa's expression became cold after a few seconds, and a trace of hostility flashed in his dark and dull eyes, and he grabbed Dun's hand unceremoniously, coldly I used a clever trick——

Click.

The arm was broken.

Atsushi Nakajima gasped and pulled his hand back, and took two steps back under Akutagawa's murderous aura, blushing so that he could breathe out without pain.

Tiger's self-healing ability was activated, and the fractured part was slowly reset. Akutagawa noticed this and frowned, and snorted indifferently.

The self-healing power of the tiger he hates the most can't be killed no matter what.The power of the opponent's ability [Moonbeast] is not only praised by Mr. Dazai, but even his physical fitness can keep up with Mr. Kamichuya.But a guy with such a supernatural power, obviously has everything, but still feels sorry for himself for what happened in the past.

Akutagawa thought, what a shame.

It's completely different from myself.

Not only is he always criticized by Mr. Dazai, but he can't even learn the martial arts specially taught by Mr. Chuya.

This weak and weak body has been spurned by him countless times.

A flame called jealousy burned in his chest.

It's impossible to be pleasing to the eye.

The hem of the pitch-black robe faintly began to roll, and the black-red beast showed its fangs. [Rashomon] was about to move, and might stab Nakajima Atsushi at any time.

"Wait a minute!"

Dun waved his hands frantically, dripping a drop of cold sweat. Although Tiger's amazing self-healing power gave him a strong vitality, it didn't mean he didn't feel pain!

Rashomon is so painful!

"This is the street, we have no plans to fight the mafia!"

The white tiger boy mustered up his courage, pointed at Akutagawa's murderous gaze, and said, "We should be in a state of being irrelevant now!"

"..."

Akutagawa looked indifferent.

Fuck you have nothing to do with each other.

If we don't have anything to do with each other, we should act as if we didn't see each other, just pass by each other, instead of you guy deliberately running over to provoke!

Wait a minute, for Renhu...

Akutagawa finally remembered something from his prejudice. Rashomon, who was about to move, was pressed down. He raised his jaw slightly, covered his mouth and nose with one hand and coughed a few times, with a cold tone: "What did you just say, [文章Also photos]”

"Wen Ye?... Is it the Central Plains Wen Ye?"

Akutagawa took a step forward, his aggressive hostility intensified a bit.

"Speaking of you..." The pale man with black hair and black eyes looked around, his complexion was ugly to the naked eye, although the original complexion was not that good:

"Isn't it responsible for taking care of Wen...that adult!?"

"Eh!? Why do you know—" Atsushi Nakajima was taken aback, and immediately covered his mouth in the next second.

"Where is Mr. Nakaya's child? Where is it?" Akutagawa looked around, ignored Atsushi's question, and instead observed Atsushi Nakajima indifferently, as if guessing something, the murderous intent spread again.

Gritting his teeth, he lowered his voice: "...you won't tell me that you lost Mr. Chuya's child!?"

Dun's expression froze.

Akutagawa, who immediately ascertained the truth from Atsushi's expression, became more and more fierce, and his expression became distorted.

Dun: What is this inexplicable feeling of guilt?

Obviously a member of the port mafia.

"You...you bastard who can't do anything well——!!!"

"So what about you!" Dun swallowed his saliva after being startled, and found his voice after a while, and shouted back unconvinced, "Speaking of which, how would you know, no, it was you guys How did you know about Wen Ye's existence!!"

"Heh, after all, unlike your incompetent detective agency, our port mafia is the dark ruler of Yokohama." It's just a mere piece of information, and it's still related to Mr. Nakaya, who they focus on, how could they miss it!

"You guy-"

The white tiger and the evil dog bared their fangs while growling at each other.

It wasn't until the sound of Didi's information came from Dun Pocket that the simmering dispute was interrupted.

Dun frantically pulled out his phone.

"SMS? Who... ah, it's Mr. Dazai!" Atsushi's eyes lit up, and he turned over the screen of his phone, his face full of joy, "Mr. Dazai took Wenya away as expected."

"give me!"

The word Dazai seemed to touch some kind of stress response switch, and the agile Rashomon stretched out with precision, following the operator's will, and swept away the mobile phone in Atsushi's hand at a speed like an afterimage.

[Xiaowen is also here, pick him up at the exit of the shopping plaza in the commercial street. ]

A glance at the short sentence, if it wasn't for the name of the phone number being Mr. Dazai, I might still be confused.

As we all know, the area of ​​the commercial street shopping plaza is astonishing. There are twelve entrances and exits alone, three in each of the four directions of the southeast, northwest, and arranged in the manner of the first north gate, the second north gate, the first south gate, and the second south gate. Osamu Dazai's text message did not clearly state the time and place at all.

It may take a lot of time just to find it.

What a wicked man.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa held back the momentary excitement and suppressed it forcefully.

"Hey, that's my phone! You mafia, don't suddenly grab other people's things!"

"Heh, the weak can't even protect their own things well, so don't blame others for taking them away."

Born in the Yokohama slums in the worst times, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who carves the weak into his bones, looks at the other party with a sneer, and throws the phone back to the other party like throwing garbage.

He walked towards the shopping plaza without looking back. Although he still walked, the frequency was several times faster.

Atsushi Nakajima quickly followed, but deliberately controlled his pace to be one step away from Akutagawa, "What are you going to do?"

"..."

"Are you going to find Mr. Dazai and Xiaowen? You mafia, what are you going to do to Xiaowen?"

Dun followed suit, not daring to get too close to the other party, so he asked.

From his point of view, who didn't know the existence of [Huang Ba Tu], Xiao Wenye's matter was not too much to be concerned about. It was just a child born due to external force, just like a replicant.Even Mr. Chuya and Mr. Ranpo said that it would be good to just treat them as ordinary children.

Just an ordinary...child with supernatural powers.

And there should be quite a few such children in the headquarters of the Port Mafia.

What's more, Wen is also the child of one of the members of the Armed Detective Agency, and he is undoubtedly the object of their protection. Let alone the more powerful Mr. Chuya standing behind Wen Ye, just talk about the current truce between the port mafia and the detective agency The state, the reaction is not too intense, right?

Mr. Nakaya has a child—is this matter so shocking to the port mafia that someone must be sent to investigate it?

The pie was still Akutagawa.

Among other things, Atsushi Nakajima thought silently: But Akutagawa's words... are not suitable for investigation at all, right?

Almost every time they meet, this person is fighting, fighting and fighting, especially when facing Dun, every time they meet, they have an expression of wanting to kill each other.

Totally violent.

But if it's something related to Mr. Dazai or Mr. Chuya, even if it's Akutagawa—no, it's because of Akutagawa that he will do his best, even if he doesn't want his life and suppresses his own instincts, he must do it, right?

Although he cared about the actions of the Mafia, Atsushi Nakajima was surprisingly not worried at all about Akutagawa Ryunosuke doing bad things to Wenya.

After all, this is that Akutagawa?

A guy who is so obsessed with Mr. Dazai and Mr. Chuya.

Although he seems to have a vague intention to kill Mr. Dazai, but when he treats Mr. Chuya, he is like a child in front of his parents, inexplicably——

A little cute.

Like being held down by the back of fate's neck.

Atsushi Nakajima: I don’t know why this word is put on Akutagawa, it feels very discordant.

#Probably the shadow that was pierced countless times by Rashomon, almost engraved into DNA#

But even so, Atsushi still wouldn't let this man go to Xiao Wenye alone. Seeing that there was no way to stop him, he paid attention to the direction Akutagawa was walking, which was the east gate of the shopping plaza, so he hurriedly sent a text message to Kyoka, ask the girl in kimono to find someone on the side of the west gate that is farthest from here.

Kyoka had a not-so-good, or pretty bad past, and it might be better not to meet Akutagawa.

"Hey, Renhu, get out of here, stay away from me."

"How could I let you contact Xiao Wenye alone!"

Although Akutagawa had a hunch that he would not take action against the child, Dunzui said unconvinced: "I want to take Xiaowen back safely, you dangerous person is the key surveillance target!"

"Heh, just because of you, who can't even look after children, and only gets anxious after losing someone?"

"..." Choked by the other party's words, Dun snorted and turned his head away, still following closely beside the black-haired and black-eyed Akutagawa.

The two walked faster and faster as if competing with each other. The special purple-gold eyes and the dull black pupils like splashed ink carried a similar feeling of disgust.

Because they didn't specify the time and place, the two of them wandered back and forth through the gates of the shopping plaza at a speed like a race walking, spitting out sarcasm unceremoniously, almost fighting on the spot several times, Akutagawa Ryunosuke paled Due to emotional reasons, his face was dyed a tinge of blush, his physical strength and physical fitness were not as good as Dun's, and his breathing rate was a little faster than the other party's.

Dun keenly noticed that the instinct of observing words and colors, the urge to compete suddenly weakened, and the gentle white-haired boy hesitated and slowed down:

"Hey... Akutagawa, if you're tired, you might as well go to the side and take a rest, or it doesn't matter if you walk a little slower."

"Renhu, what do you mean!? It's just that your physical fitness is better, do you want to be proud and mock at me?" Hearing the words, the pitch-black vicious dog was angered, his expression was cold, even if he was sick and weak Unabated: "Don't show mercy there, you are not qualified enough, it is just a simple thing for me to kill you!"

"You bastard, do you have to distort other people's good intentions!?" Dun's forehead burst out with veins, "You said you simply killed me, didn't you fail to kill me several times!"

Being poked at the pain point, the pale black-haired man pursed his lower lip fiercely, the hem of the black coat began to roll, and the supernatural power Rashomon was ready to go.

This person...is completely malicious towards Atsushi Nakajima! !

Thinking hard, can't you treat me a little better!

Even if it's not as good as Mr. Dazai and Mr. Chuya, it's okay to have such a one percent attitude.

Let’s not talk about the cooperation of the partners to defeat the leader of the combination before, just talk about the Moby Whale battle. After the battle of the white whale, I supported my exhausted body and carried you back to the place where the port mafia was in a coma.

I don't ask you to be grateful, but can you treat me calmly! ?

However that is not possible.

Rashomon's beast has bared its fangs.

At this moment, Dun's eyes suddenly noticed the orange-haired child standing at the gate of the shopping mall not far away.

Wearing familiar clothes, the exposed side face is also familiar.

"Wen Ye!"

Atsushi shouted in surprise, and the keen Akutagawa immediately withdrew his ability and followed Nakajima Atsushi's line of sight.

A child who looked exactly like Mr. Nakaya whom he respected appeared in front of him.

Akutagawa: ...! !

The mind went blank.

His limbs tensed instantly, and after a pause for a few seconds, he walked over.

But with a blank brain, Akutagawa Ryunosuke didn't know what to say, until Xiaowen looked at him curiously with clear blue eyes, the pale man with black hair and black eyes relied on instinct reacted.

He bowed to the little guy who was not as tall as his waist, restrained all his sharpness, and even subconsciously used honorifics.

"Master Wen Ye."

He is respectful and courteous, and cannot find the slightest fault.

Dun who was bullied all the way: ...you didn't treat me like this before! !

The author has something to say: Dun Dun: It is also a second child, why (bushi)

Mustard: ... Bah!