birthday.

Takigawa Yuichi thought for a while, and remembered that it seemed to be the case.

Except for the New Year festival, this seems to be the second time Zhongyuan invited him.

But January should be the busiest time for the port mafia.

"Mr. Mori actually agreed?" Yuichi Takigawa asked curiously.

"..." Zhongyuan Zhong also turned his face subtly, "I will finish the work before that."

"Thank you for your hard work." Takigawa Yu smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "But it doesn't matter if Mr. Mori doesn't agree."

Zhongyuan Zhong also paused, and suddenly realized that he used the tone of the leader.

So the boy frowned and his expression became serious.

"Is there anything I need to do?" he asked.

"No." Yuichi Takikawa replied softly, his long eyelashes drooping down, raising his hand and pulling the red scarf around his neck, "I can do it myself."

[Sorry, Takigawa-sama, I haven't found any trace of the person you mentioned]

[But we have found some information about you, please give an order]

On the way back to the port mafia, Yuichi Takigawa received a message from his subordinates.

That's why he's holding on to the gin.

Blanchesso is a cunning man who must be found before he knows anything.

Takigawa Yuichi originally thought so, but it turned out to be a step too late.

The young man sighed,

"Zheng Yi." He said softly, "You said, where will Bai Lan wait for us?"

Iron angle.

At least in high school, that's how everyone put him, Bai Lan and Zheng Yi together.

Bai Lan looked like a normal person at that time.

Although he would also shout boring, but the boy always had a smile on his face. As a popular representative, Bai Lan always brings snacks from others to the laboratory to share with him and Zhengyi.

It's a pity that that smile disappeared without knowing when.

【"so annoying."】

This is what he said with a blank face when he received a gift once.

Takigawa Yuyi, who was only a teenager at that time, turned his head to look, and was surprised to find that there were emotions that he could not read in those violet eyes.

[“Actually, it’s not that I hate human beings. I sometimes feel overwhelmed, and it’s not negative or pessimistic. I am good at interesting things, and I will do my best for things I am interested in.”]

[“However, I always feel that I am out of tune with this world.”][1]

Realizing that she was being watched, Bai Lan touched his head, and the corners of her lips curled up again when she looked at him.

【"So, Yuichi, can you understand me?"】

【"Isn't this world a bit disgusting?"】

... don't understand at all.

There were many things Takigawa Yuichi didn't understand, and Bai Lan was the only existence he could talk to at that time.

Bai Lan said it didn't matter, he could teach him everything.

Thinking about it now, if there was no Zhengyi, he might indeed have followed Bailan to destroy the world.

[December 25]

Christmas.

Probably due to the snow that fell all day on Christmas Eve, the streets were covered with a thick layer of white.

"Yo-yo-yo!"

When Takigawa Yuichi went out, Yumeno Hisaku had already built a snowman. He heard the sound and looked, and found that the latter was proudly akimbo, pointing at the distorted snowman and saying, "Look! I made a you!"

Takigawa Yuichi was silent for a moment, feeling that there was no need to be too harsh in this regard, so he clapped in cooperation.

"It looks like..."

and many more.

Takigawa Yuichi's voice stopped abruptly.

What is that ice sculpture over there that can be taken to the competition?

"It's made by Akutagawa." Hisaku Yumeno snorted indifferently, "It's not as good as a tenth of mine."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke didn't speak, but judging from the black air coming out of his back, he seemed to kill Yumeno Hisaku.

"Is your aesthetic finished, Mr. Q." Osamu Dazai, who was also forced to go on a mission, sighed regretfully, "Let's just go back to the furnace and rebuild."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke was taken aback, and seemed to cheer up a little.

Takigawa Yuichi stared at him for a while, leaned close to Dazai's ear and lowered his voice: "Look, Akutagawa is blooming."

Dazai didn't care about such things at all.

The feeling of breathing in his ears was itchy, he turned his face slightly, looked at the young man beside him, and suddenly found that he had grown a little taller.

At this time last year, when Yuichi came to look for him in the container, it seemed that Yokohama was also covered with snow.

At that time, he couldn't really lower his eyes to look at Yuichi.

Osamu Dazai never knew he could be satisfied with something like this.

"Are you coming to pick you up after the mission?" He asked with a chuckle.

"Huh?" Takigawa Yu stood up straight, "I'm not a child, so I can still find my way back."

"Well, that's true." Osamu Dazai replied, not being too persistent in this aspect, "But Ango and Odasaku invited you to go to the bar at night, so Yuichi should come back early."

Lupine.

"I thought that was your secret base." Yuichi Takigawa thought deeply.

"That's right." Osamu Dazai tilted his head to avoid the snowball Yumeno Kusaku threw at him secretly, "So Yuichi's popularity is also something that bothers me."

Takigawa Yuichi sneered: "I'm so sorry for robbing your secret base."

Huh, did he mean that?

He clearly wanted to say that he wanted to invite Yuichi alone, but Ango and Oda Tsukuru took the lead.

with a snap.

Takigawa Yuichi didn't pay attention, and his head was smashed by Yumeno Hisakusaku, who was dissatisfied in the distance.

...Waterloo in the life of the Mafia.

The soft snow rustled from the youth's silver hair. Yuichi Takikawa endured the coldness, and when Yumeno Jiusaku noticed the accident and subconsciously hid behind Osamu Dazai, the corners of his lips opened, revealing a wicked smile. .

Dazai Osamu silently watched a super-large snowball squeezed out by the youth full of vigor, pulled out his hand in his pocket, and ruthlessly carried Yumeno Kusaku out.

"It's all said."

"Don't implicate me, Mr. Q."

Yuichi Takigawa finished his mission at five o'clock in the evening, when the sun set early on the mountain, and at the junction of day and night, orange-red light sprinkled all over the ground.

He stared at the spinning crystal ball in the window for a while, and suddenly realized where Brandjesso would be at Christmas time.

When they were abroad, they went to church every year.

Choir, hot coffee, freshly baked gingerbread.

So at the moment when the heavy door was pushed open, the familiar pair of wings really reflected in Takigawa Yuichi's eyes. Blanchesuo sat on the table, slightly surprised to see him.

"Isn't that Yuichi?" Unsure whether it was a surprise or a frightened tone, Brandjesso's eyes only widened for a moment, and soon returned to his usual beating look.

"I don't think you have a place to go." Takigawa Yuichi leaned against the door, raised his eyebrows and laughed sarcastically.

Bai Lan blinked and tilted her head cutely: "Are you here to catch up?"

Takigawa Yu lowered his eyes and loaded his hand/gun: "No, although it was a little earlier, I did come to kill you."

Brandjesso observed for a while and found that the other party didn't seem to be joking.

But it's funnier that way.

"You know I can't be killed, Yuichi." The corners of his lips curved, but there was no smile in his eyes, "Now that I'm dead, there will be me from other worlds coming."

"I know." Yuichi Takikawa responded lightly and raised his eyes, "This is also the point that I think I am stupid in the parallel world."

"There is a better solution, but I want Dazai to kill me when you're not around, thinking that I'll have a chance to do it all over again."

"However, since I have a power of seven, it means that the value of my soul is much higher than yours."

bang.

When Takigawa Yuichi shot himself in the foot, Brandeso fell off the table uncontrollably.

The laid-back attitude of his body was gone, and Blanchesso lowered his eyes gloomily to his feet.

It has broken through the limit of [Only by Contact].

Takigawa Yuichi had such a guess from the very beginning.

In the final analysis, it was not Bai Lan who wanted to create conflicts between him and Dazai, but himself as the leader.

Shot four times in his limbs—it was precisely because of leaving such a painful memory that Bai Lan was given the opportunity to alienate him and Dazai.

——The sixteen-year-old Dazai is still too young.

The other self probably thought so.

He wanted himself to discover the truth slowly, maybe wait until he was twenty-eight years old like that world before doing it.

However, he probably did not expect that Dazai and Nakahara would come to this world.

When all the mysteries were solved, Takigawa Yuichi lost his patience.

In the state of dying, his ability will frantically plunder the vitality of the surrounding. With the addition of the power of seven, Takigawa Yuichi had a crazy idea.

He might be able to kill Bai Lan from other worlds as well.

Brandeso apparently also thought of this possibility.

The wings on his back flapped, but just as he left the ground, he fell hard again.

At the same time, blood gurgling from Takigawa Yuichi's abdomen also fell on the ground.

"Sometimes it's a good habit to get used to the pain early, isn't it?"

The young man didn't fall down, he just smiled lightly and walked forward step by step.

Blanche laughed loudly: "Are you crazy too, Yuichi?"

"If you lose the bet, your life will be gone."

"In other words, even if you kill me, no one will thank you."

Takigawa Yuichi half-kneeled in front of him and said "I know".

boom.

Another shot.

This time it was with the left hand.

"I didn't want anyone to thank me at first."

A man like him is not worth remembering nor thanking. In the festive atmosphere of Christmas, the giant Christmas tree in the center of the mall was lit.

People gathered layer after layer there, cheering and making wishes.

As long as the sun will rise tomorrow—

"I won, Bai Lan." Takigawa Yu raised his hand, and gently supported his friend's cheek with the bloody palm.

Bai Lanjie chuckled, "In that case, how can it be faster to shoot at the heart?"

"I don't know." Takigawa Yuichi said, "I don't know how my self in another world feels towards you."

"Whether it's hate or love, I don't really understand that kind of emotion."

"In the end, I, like you, have done all kinds of bad things, and never thought of using strange reasons to whitewash myself."

Just do what you want.

The only thing is that don't want to lose to the opponent.

Why not just shoot it in the heart?

"perhaps……"

His eyelashes trembled and his cheeks were pale from blood loss.

[In the evening, at 5:16, the police received a report, and gunshots were heard from a church next to the Meiji University Museum]

"Probably, I just want to talk to you as before."

【"I always feel that as long as Yuichi and Xiao are by my side, I can do anything."】

Bai Lanjiesuo's hand that grabbed the gun suddenly hung in place, but in just a few seconds, Takigawa Yuichi stood up.

He aimed at his heart and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

boom

So when Matsuda Jinhei opened the door, this was what he saw.

【"I guess you won't talk to me in the future, so according to common sense, you should say a few more words now."】

Clumsy, expressing sad emotions little by little.

Until now, Matsuda Jinpei seems to have truly understood the meaning of this sentence.

With a gunshot, the white pigeons on the square started up.

Under the colorful glass of the church, behind Takigawa Yuichi is the white statue of the saint. His blood dripped from the white spot little by little, and when he fell behind him, he seemed to fall into a deep sleep in the embrace of an angel.

Some people are laughing, some are moving forward, and some people's time stays in place forever.

Righteousness and evil become insignificant at this moment.

In a trance, Matsuda Jinpei seemed to see the boy in the police uniform, holding a child in the waiting room and making up stories.

【"Brother policeman, you read it wrong. Mom said that if you die, you are dead. Even a little rabbit can't be resurrected."】

Takigawa Yu raised his eyebrows, and there was a flamboyant and wanton smile on his lips.

【"Shut up, I will live if I say I can live."】

Matsuda Jinpei suddenly remembered.

He obviously...

I haven't said goodbye to Yuichi yet.