Humanoid self-propelled wishing machine

"I didn't do anything to steal secrets, not to mention that I can't do anything now." Osamu Dazai tilted his head, soft and slightly curly iris-colored hair slipped from his ears and fell on his fair cheeks On top of that, he looked sideways at Mori Ogai standing in front of his bed with a half-smile, and said slowly, "People in this hospital [personally] told me."

The order that Mori Ogai issued at the beginning was not to imprison, but to detain Osamu Dazai as a mental patient with serious suicidal tendencies and treat him.

Even the mentally ill don't lie on the hospital bed all day long. After consulting Mori Ogai for advice, the nurses in the hospital carefully arranged for Osamu Dazai to spend an hour every day. During this period of time, he Wearing straitjackets, sitting in a wheelchair, being pushed by the nurses into the small garden set up by the hospital, basking in the sun and admiring the flowers with other patients living in the hospital, and even being accompanied by the nurses, they can freely talk to those patients Talk about everything.

And all the patients accepted in this hospital can be said to be family members of soldiers, and it is conceivable what the most common topics they talk about will be.

At the very beginning, Osamu Dazai just wanted to get rid of the situation where he was restrained and freed, which made him feel a little troubled. He had neither gratitude nor resentment towards the doctors and nurses who prevented him from committing suicide, but after going through this time After the failure, Osamu Dazai also realized that he should not commit suicide in a crowded public place like a hospital.

He should choose a place that would not disturb others, he thought, otherwise, it would only cause trouble to unrelated people, and increase the failure rate of his suicide.

There's no point in saving someone like him.

Because his heart has already gone to the dark and cold death.

In order to be able to choose a suitable suicide location for himself, the first thing Osamu Dazai needs is to collect information from people around him, use people's hearts and manipulate human nature, choose an unlucky victim, and ask him to help him escape from the hospital.

During the one-hour airing time every day, he only quietly and silently listened to the chats of military families, and explored their characters and weaknesses. Slowed down the pace of the war and noticed something unusual among the "mysterious troops" that frequently appeared in the patient's mouth.

Osamu Dazai just grasped the broken pieces of information bit by bit, and put them together like a jigsaw puzzle.

He didn't bother to explain his thinking to Mori Ogai in detail, but only slightly mentioned a few key nodes, and Mori Ogai, who had a keen mind, understood it.

"I see," Mori Ogai's wine-red pupils were half-closed, with a fox-like false and unpredictable smile on his face, he falsely praised, "Dazai-kun is really smart, to be able to Under such circumstances, I can still calmly integrate and speculate from the broken information that I didn't even realize, and guess the information that there is a powerful healing power user beside me... Haha, what a talent! , This is simply not like the wisdom and will that an ordinary child should have."

Osamu Dazai's eyes were empty, full of uninteresting indifference and boredom. He quietly watched Mori Ogai's exaggerated and hypocritical performance, as if he was watching a circus clown's deliberately sloppy performance. , expressionless and calm.

No one cheered, and Mori Ogai also felt depressed, so gradually, he restrained the awkward, uncomfortable, and disgusting expression on his face, revealing his original emotionless expression Looking at Osamu Dazai with those wine-red pupils that were fully opened, revealing all the sharpness of his indifferent face, he asked, "Suddenly brought up this news... What does Dazai-kun want?"

"You said before that you want my powers to be used by you, right?"

The child who was tied up on the hospital bed by a straitjacket and was completely in a vulnerable position said this with a lot of momentum, and his tone was not inferior, even in this situation, he did not show any weakness.

He is negotiating.

rather than requesting.

Mori Ogai took a little longer to recognize this matter, and couldn't help laughing. He found it interesting, so he nodded along Dazai Osamu's meaning.

"That's right, Dazai-kun probably doesn't know how precious his supernatural power is?"

"I know." Osamu Dazai said, "There are many idiots in this world who subconsciously refuse to admit that they have supernatural powers because they are afraid of their own supernatural powers, fear of their own supernatural powers, and fear of being treated as aliens. I have been deceiving myself and others until my death, not knowing that I am a person with supernatural powers, and I thought that I was content to live an ordinary life belonging to ordinary people."

"This kind of thinking is not incomprehensible. After all, until modern times, there are still many people with supernatural powers who are regarded as monsters, monsters, and people parasitized by evil spirits because of their power beyond ordinary people. They are feared and kept away from people. , and was often sentenced to death because of this, beheading, hanging, drowning, burning at the stake... There are very few people who are found to be people with supernatural powers and can live to a natural death. According to the records in "Memoirs", in the eighteenth century, the average life expectancy of known supernatural powers was 17 years old, because many precious supernatural powers awakened in childhood were often killed by their biological parents in the early stages of awakening. I strangled to death with my own hands because I didn’t understand and because I was afraid.”

"It wasn't until the beginning of the long supernatural war period that supernatural powers were discovered, and the living environment improved."

The materials and data described by Osamu Dazai are not something that ordinary children can touch, and they can even be called the secrets of government agencies. After all, in front of the general public, politicians who hold state power are still In order to stabilize the overall political situation, they are working together to hide the existence of people with supernatural abilities from the public.

Mori Ogai's heart moved slightly, and a slight doubt had already quietly arisen.

And Osamu Dazai just looked at the unreasonable suspicion flashing in his pupils and the changing expression on his face with cold eyes, and said with a slight smile, "But unfortunately, I am not one of those fools who deceive themselves. , I knew that a wonderful change had taken place in my body, the power started from the head and was transmitted to the limbs, it was as natural and harmonious as the original organs."

"Mr. Sen should have seen it before, but I'd better say it again."

"——My supernatural ability is [Disqualification in the World], which can eliminate all supernatural abilities." Osamu Dazai tilted his head, his soft kite-colored hair spread out on the snow-white pillow, and was placed on his bed slightly Hellgate Border, "but sadly, it's clearly useless for spells."

"Spell power?" Mori Ogai caught a word, showing some surprise.

He obviously didn't expect Osamu Dazai to be involved in the magic world.

"This is what I want to tell you next." Osamu Dazai looked at him, "I want to know... how far can the healing system user next to you go?"

Mori Ogai narrowed his eyes slightly, he was still thinking carefully, "Do you want to exchange yourself and me for this information?"

Osamu Dazai showed such a contemptuous and arrogant smile, "Mr. Mori, do you think I'm only worth this little information?"

He said almost sarcastically, "Are you always like this? Covering up and playing tricks, fearing that your own interests will suffer a little bit of loss, but hoping that the other party will cut open your chest cavity to abdomen clearly." Come, and reveal it to you frankly and clearly."

"I need to figure out the chips in your hand before deciding whether to make a deal with you." Osamu Dazai said almost bluntly.

"Of course not, Dazai-kun, you may have misunderstood me." Mori Ogai heard the dissatisfaction of Dazai Ogai, and said some comforting routines, his brows were slightly frowned, and there was a little sadness in his expression, " Healing-type superhumans are too important to this war, even if there is even the slightest possibility of leaking information, I need to think twice, and I hope Dazai-kun can understand my position."

Mori Ogai's tone was sincere and sincere, and he unconsciously used the same method of coaxing a little girl to coax Osamu Dazai, "But Dazai-kun's talent, Dazai-kun's mind and sharpness are also unique, of course you have that value !"

"What I can tell you is that for this person with supernatural powers, all external physical injuries are not a problem. Except for special cases like Mr. Dazai, as long as he is still holding his breath, this healer can be in the hospital. In an instant, the patient is taken back from the clutches of death, and he recovers as before without any sequelae."

Dazai Osamu's pupils moved slightly, and finally there was a touch of color in his dark, dull eyes, which seemed to have no light at all.

"What about the magic power? What if it is a fatal wound with magic power attached to it?"

His tone also became slightly anxious involuntarily.

And Ogai Mori also noticed Osamu Dazai's rare mood swings since they met. He narrowed his eyes slightly, and the words he was about to say rolled on the tip of his tongue, adding a bit of subtle temptation, "The magic power ?Maybe Dazai-kun is not very clear, but spell power and supernatural power are incompatible, supernatural power cannot directly act on a conjurer, but the external effects indirectly caused by supernatural power can act on anyone."

"The same is true for mantras. The body of a person with supernatural powers is like a funnel that cannot store water. Except for the traces of mantras that naturally exist in the body, any mantras that come in from the outside will naturally be discharged. Outside the body, and the conjurer's spells can't directly act on people with supernatural abilities, but the various special effects added to the spells that work outside the body of people with supernatural abilities can also cause damage to people with supernatural abilities."

"That's why it's a pity that the supernatural power user of the healing department cannot heal the wounds caused by the spell."

Mori Ogai saw the light in Dazai Osamu's eyes dimming little by little, smiled slightly, and slowly spit out the second half of the sentence pressed on the back of his tongue, "However, if you can find a conjurer to put the curse on the wound If it is completely wiped out with force, and if you use supernatural powers, even if there is only a little bit of life left, that doctor can save the person back."

Ah, found it.

Mori Ogai thought, he has found the weakness that can hold this precious diamond tightly in the palm of his hand.

Mori Ogai is like a cunning fox, but also like a hunter with a gun. He uses the little hope left in Osamu Dazai's heart, like a slender silver spider that only gives to the desperate people who have fallen into a deep well. It is as cruel as silk, and only makes those who have the will to die struggle to wake up from the peaceful eternal sleep again and again because of that tiny bit of hope that is more fragile than bubbles.

Their eight-year cooperation began from then on.