People are in Yokohama, the vest is fully open

"It's so supportive..." Dazai Osamu touched his already bulging stomach, sighed contentedly, and then leaned back on the chair: "...It's a bit I can't bear to let Huihui leave..."

Osamu Dazai picked it up and took a sip of the miso soup left at the bottom of the bowl. He joked half-truthfully, "It would be great if I could keep eating until it was delicious."

"Then you can hire a housekeeper," Fukuro said, holding a bowl, not paying attention to Osamu Dazai's complaints.

"Eh——" Dazai Osamu thought about it seriously, shook his head and smiled and rejected the proposal: "Let's forget it, then Kunikida's salary card may really be maxed out."

Fu Heihui didn't respond to this, but brought up the important matter that Osamu Dazai mentioned just now: "You said you found a strange trace, what exactly happened."

"That's a long story," Osamu Dazai handed the empty bowl in his hand to Fukuihui consciously and said, "The matter has to start more than ten days ago..."

Fu Heihui took the empty bowl that Osamu Dazai handed over, and while he was sorting out the mess, he listened to Osamu Dazai tell the whole story.

It turned out that more than ten days ago, the Supernatural Secret Service Division observed through satellites that an unknown vortex quietly appeared in the sea of ​​the Sea of ​​Japan.

But at that time they only thought it was a normal natural phenomenon and didn't take this vortex seriously. However, just nine days ago, through satellite observations, the observers accidentally noticed that the sudden appearance of the nameless vortex has been paying attention to a constant speed. It shrinks and rotates evenly, and will not be affected by tidal changes in the slightest.

However, this is not the most surprising thing. On the day when the strange phenomenon of the vortex was noticed, a plane crash occurred. On that day, a fishing boat was nearby and witnessed the crash and disappearance of the plane.

——According to the fishermen who witnessed the incident, when the plane wreckage was still more than ten meters above sea level, the huge plane wreckage was attracted by the vortex for no reason and disappeared out of thin air.

It was later confirmed that the black box of the crashed plane was kept on the wreckage of the disappearing plane—however, it stands to reason that once the black box enters the water, the water-sensitive switch on the beacon will activate the beacon and then send an ultrasonic signal to the surrounding waters.Its built-in battery can work continuously for at least 30 days, but in fact, the inspectors did not capture any pulse signals in the relevant waters.

Whether it's the black box that entered the water or the huge plane wreckage, it seems that they went to another space through that strange vortex and disappeared without a trace.

——If the recorder on the fishing boat hadn’t happened to take pictures of what happened, the government staff would have wondered whether the crew who kept claiming to have witnessed everything had a collective imagination.

At that time, this strange phenomenon caused the government to send relevant staff and professional equipment to carry out investigation and detection. However, no matter how sophisticated the instrument is, it will directly lose signal and interrupt transmission after being absorbed by the vortex, leaving no trace. can be found.

——It was as if he had completely disappeared from this world.

In this way, the matter was handed over to the Supernatural Secret Service Division. After a careful discussion and meeting, the commanders of the Supernatural Special Affairs Section dispatched several supernatural beings who were good at underwater combat to investigate in a submarine.

Along with them, there is another supernatural being who can share life with plants as the final observation insurance.

However, something that no one could have imagined happened like this. The moment the submarine disappeared, the plant that shared its life with the supernatural person died directly.

Generally speaking, the ability of the supernatural person fails for no reason when the conditions for its use are met. The only possibility is that the supernatural person himself has died.

The Supernatural Secret Service Division immediately decided to temporarily abandon the investigation of the weird vortex and turn it into a monitoring observation, but what made them unable to sit still was that the weird vortex, which was originally only a few meters in diameter, had tripled in size in just nine days, and it was still there. There is a growing trend.

If things go on like this, it's only a matter of time before the vortex swallows the ocean. Just when the Supernatural Secret Service Division was in a state of desperation and didn't know what to do, the person in charge remembered the Armed Detective Agency, which had been cooperating with them all along.

The investigation and resolution of the Weird Vortex was delegated to the Armed Detective Agency.

"Wow--" In the kitchen sink, the faucet was turned on, and the water splashed and accumulated in the sink.

"So..." Fu Heihui was skillfully cleaning the tableware, and he asked, "Do you mean this strange vortex by the strange trace?"

"Well," Osamu Dazai slumped at the dining table contentedly, his eyes unconsciously chasing every move of Fukuroi, and he said lazily: "Mr. Ranpo said this, he said that the supernatural person might not be Death, but really 'leaving' this 'world' is not necessarily true."

"So that's how it is," Fu Heihui put away the washed dishes neatly. He nodded in agreement and said, "Since Mr. Ranpo said it, there shouldn't be any problem."

"Well, but Mr. Ranpo also said..." Osamu Dazai seemed to have suddenly remembered something, and facing Megumi Fukuro's probing gaze, he said, "I'm afraid we didn't know what happened this time." If there is a way to help, if you intervene rashly..."

"It might even cause you trouble..."

"So..." Fu Heihui thought for a while: "From the information I got, the remaining strange power is already very thin, and it can be said that it is far less than the scale of the previous two times... ...."

Fu Heihui wiped his hands, turned off the faucet, and asked: "Did Mr. Ranbu say anything else? —— About weird things, anything is fine."

"Ah, what you said," Dazai Osamu tilted his head and thought for a while, "Mr. Ranpo seems to have really said something..."

"What?" Fu Heihui stopped wiping the cooking table and raised his head to ask.

"The weirdness this time may have polluted the 'book'." Osamu Dazai said.

Hoshino Yu once knew the existence of "book" from Mr. Criminal Consultant's memory, so Fukui Hui, who suddenly heard this term at this time, was just a little dazed, and then understood the seriousness of the matter.

No one can predict what will happen when the 'book' that can change the real world and the already weird combination will produce.

But as long as you think about it for a while, you can understand the seriousness of it.

"The concentration of the remaining weird energy is too low." Just as Fu Heihui frowned and thought, Hoshino Yuu, who had been secretly watching a movie, pressed the pause button, and comforted Fu Heihui in time. He said rationally: "This kind of props similar to 'fantasy' level, judging from the remaining energy in this world, the pollution that weirdness can cause to him is very limited."

"And Huihui doesn't have to worry too much," Hoshino Yu said, "It's a good thing to know that it is combined with the book. In this way, Huihui only needs to 'strip' the pollution, and the rest can be handed over directly." Give it to me to digest."

Fu Heihui's expression relaxed visibly to the naked eye, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "I see."

Sensing the change in Fukuroe's mood, Osamu Dazai looked back at him with great interest: "Now only Megumin can do it..."

Osamu Dazai raised his head, he leaned on the back of the chair and looked at Fukuihui backwards and asked, "Are you going to solve that trouble? - alone?"

"That's in the sea—" Osamu Dazai said.

Megumi Fukuro seems to have a certain fear of the ocean or deep water. This happened not long ago when Osamu Dazai went to the aquarium with Megumi Fukuro.

If you want to talk about why the two of them went to the aquarium together, you have to talk about Chuya Zhongyuan again.

In short, this is a complicated story. Megumi Fukuro, who refused to show weakness and felt that she could do it, followed Osamu Dazai to the agreed aquarium to meet Nakahara Chuya.

However, after only ten minutes in the aquarium, Fu Heihui was so hypoxic that his lips turned purple, and he almost fainted.

This made Osamu Dazai have to change his plan, and helped Fukurohui to rest at the gate of the aquarium, and went to meet Nakahara Nakaya alone.

At that time, Fu Heihui looked extremely weak, as if he was about to pass out in the next second, and he was so delirious that it was worrying.

Osamu Dazai still remembers, if he hadn't come out that time

In time, Fu Heihui was about to be abducted and taken away by the black-hearted uncle with malicious intentions.

Alice, who pretended to be lost, was standing on the steps. At that time, she grabbed Fu Heihui to ask for help, and wanted him to help find the unreliable guardian.

If he hadn't been stopped by Osamu Dazai who suddenly appeared at that time, Megumi Fukuro would have obediently followed Alice away.

"What are you doing?" Fu Heihui asked him with a frown at that time.

Osamu Dazai leisurely put his hand on Alice's shoulder, making the beautiful blonde girl disappear immediately, and said, "No way."

Far away, far away... The chandelier hanging from the ceiling was shining brightly, leaving an indelible blue-blue visual afterimage on Osamu Dazai's retina, and he knew it later. Feeling thinking, if Huihui chooses to go to...

——After that, you probably won’t see each other anymore, right?

Although Fukurohui didn't give an answer immediately, Osamu Dazai was inexplicably clear about his choice.

He will definitely go.

As for why... probably because he is Fu Heihui?

Although she has a deep sea phobia, but after a moment of silence, Fukuroe did not reject Osamu Dazai's tentative suggestion.

Fu Heihui wiped the countertop of the cooking table, tied up the kitchen waste and carried it in his hand, and said, "I see."

He passed by Osamu Dazai carrying the sorted garbage, and said calmly, "I'll go down and throw out the garbage."

Fukuroe's calm demeanor made Osamu Dazai suddenly have an illusion, as if what they discussed just now was not the choice that would determine Fukuroe's ending, but whether to eat teriyaki chicken leg rice or curry rice tomorrow.

"Why didn't you refuse?" Osamu Dazai looked sideways at the little ghost who was a bit shorter than himself. The opponent's figure was thin but his back was straight, like a bamboo. He was clearly a teenager but he was calm and tenacious for no reason. .

"Aren't Megumin afraid of death?" Osamu Dazai asked as he looked at the back of Megumi Fukuro who put his head down and put on his shoes.

"If I can help more people. I don't care." Fu Heihui said so, he put on his shoes and picked up the garbage bag again, glanced at Osamu Dazai, and said as if saying hello: "I'm going out."

Immediately afterwards, the boy with the head of a sea urchin, carrying a garbage bag, opened the door and went downstairs as usual during the garbage delivery time.

Why........?

Osamu Dazai, who was left alone at home, blinked?

He suddenly discovered: Compared with being always afraid of pain and unable to really muster up the courage to let go of the expectations of old friends, the self who left this world-Fu Heihui is the type who is easier to kill himself, as long as it is for what he thinks is right. Things, his life seemed like something that could be weighed and thrown away.

Even though she looks like she's still just a junior high school student......

Fu Heihui......——How did you form this worldview?

It is already midsummer in Yokohama at this time. Compared with the long, boundless, hot and restless days, the cool and quiet summer nights are rare.

——The apartment where Osamu Dazai lives is very close to the bay. From here, you can’t help but see seagulls in the morning, hear the long whistle of the pier whistle, and hear the tide of the waves at night.

There was no sound...and one after another.

The occasional waves of the tide beat against the shore, together with the seemingly endless chirping of cicadas, washing the quiet and silent apartment.

But then again...... what does it have to do with him?

The smile on Dazai Osamu's face did not change at all, but the iris-colored pupils were empty and indifferent.

This is Fu Heihui's choice, he never dictates other people's lives.

Therefore, it is enough to give respect after the point is reached.

At that time, Osamu Dazai thought of this while looking at the chandelier above his head with a warm yellow halo.

In any case, it would be impolite to interrupt other people's work when you have nothing to do.

Moreover, this kind of thing... itself is just Fu Heihui's own choice, regardless of

No matter how you say it, it has nothing to do with him who can't participate in anything.

Right?