Oba Hazo's Time Traveling

A letter to a friend:

Three months ago, Dazai told me that after reading this interesting new manga, I didn’t expect it to be your work, let alone be the prototype of the protagonist.

After reading it, I can only thank you for your love. Those were trivial and unimportant things, which were not interesting at all, but somehow they became interesting in your writing.

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Dazai is currently living in my house. He has changed his previous busy schedule and is extraordinarily idle. He lies on the sofa every day, reading novels or doing other entertainment activities. He has read my novels 17 times. To be honest, I really don’t know that. What's so good about it is that I won the newcomer award, but I just wrote some ordinary Kansai stories, which is really not interesting.

But I am happy to see him like this, eating 10 canned crab meat a week, and making firm tofu for me in the kitchen, it tastes delicious.

A few days ago, I asked Dazai what his plan was. He said that he would come to the Armed Detective Agency after the case is cleared. I think it is very good. It doesn’t matter to him whether he is on the side of the dark or the light. There are many murderers, not to mention that the atmosphere in the Armed Detective Agency is relaxed, and there should not be too many jobs.

How is your life in the different world, Aye, the other I haven’t been to the different world yet, I checked, and he didn’t stay in this world either, Dazai tried to use the book, and the remaining pages were locked in the Supernatural Secret Service Division, He tried to use it to find it in other worlds.

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Take care of yourself, Ye.

Friend O

……

Ye Zang was surprised when he first saw Odasaku's letter from another world, but he was very adaptable and calmed down after a while.

The first thing he did was not to analyze and think, but to read through nearly a thousand letters.

Sure enough, he found gold grains from the big waves washing the sand.

There are concerns with Yosano Akiko, Nakahara Chuya's entrustment, Edogawa Ranpo's nonsense that resembles graffiti, and a sentence from Dazai Osamu.

Stop chasing me, I'm not him.

Really only one sentence.

He didn't leave a name in the email, and there was no date, but Ye Zang knew that the sentence was written by Dazai.

What would happen if it was the original Ye Zang?

He would definitely be terrified and ashamed, so ashamed that he wanted to scratch the ground with his toes, but Ye Zang is not necessarily so.

First of all, he has learned from Oda Sakunosuke's letter that Dazai can only see his own manga works and Twitter. Relying on these two, he can at most piece together a world view of the cursed world, and it is impossible to go any further.

What happened before, it is absolutely impossible to spy on Ye Zang with a "book".

For Ye Zang, who is a little crazy now, even if he is stared at by Dazai Osamu all the time, he will not feel too sad, he even...

' A little happy. '

'I should be happy if my father could give me his full attention and stare at me all the time. '

'That proves that I am more attractive to my father than Ye Zang in "The Flower of the Clown", Otani in "Wei Yong's Wife", and myself in "Fuyue Hundred Scenes". '

'The protagonist of every book has the shadow of his father. Among those shadows, I should be the most lovable one. '

'I hope so. '

Therefore, it is completely impossible not to chase after "Sir Father", want to become what he prefers, and want to paint his heroic appearance in the works.

As for "I am not him", in Ye Zang's heart, all Dazai Osamu are one, they are all Dazai Osamu, no matter what they are, only he is a fake, a counterfeit.

He is chasing every shadow of Dazai.

But at the same time when this idea was born, Ye Zang clearly knew that compared to the "cowardly and cute" self in the past, he should not be welcomed by Osamu Dazai now. He definitely doesn't want to see his father's clumsy imitation, but even if he is reprimanded, it's fine, as long as he is watched.

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Ye Zang read Odasaku's emails over and over again, put aside the work of answering readers' letters, and answered their emails seriously.

When writing the email, Ye Zang especially imitated his original style of writing, adding at most some of his experience over the years, perfectly covering up his abnormality.

After writing the email, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and Ye Zang clicked "Send" contentedly. The "Successfully Sent" prompt indicated that the bridge between the two worlds had been built very smoothly.

What came to his mind was a sense of solidity that he never thought he would have.

It was as if a wandering traveler had finally found a harbor. Even the abnormal state brought about by the magic power could not distort Ye Zang's mood at this time. Looking at the email that carried his past, he finally found the real sense of existence.

He realized: I will definitely be able to go back.

Odasaku and Mr. Nakahara, they will definitely be able to find me.

Therefore, I just need to work hard here, work harder, work harder, make "Yokohama Stray Dogs" popular all over the country, and make it easier for them to find me.

As long as this is enough.

……

There is a time difference between the two worlds, and until Ye Zang attended the annual meeting of Shueisha, he did not receive a reply from Dazai and the others.

He was not in a hurry, and set off from Kanagawa to Tokyo.

Kanagawa is in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and it takes only three to 10 minutes by JR to Tokyo Station. The building of Shueisha is located in Yiqiao, Chiyoda District.

It was not too early or too late for Ye Zang to arrive, and many cartoonists had already arrived.Needless to say, veteran cartoonists greeted familiar colleagues, and newcomers surrounded the old cartoonists.

Most of them worked as assistants to veteran painters.

The selection mechanism of Shueisha is still very complete. After the submission season, the editors will arrange authors who they think have potential to be assistants to the old painters. One is to practice their painters, and the other is to learn experience.

When they are almost cultivated, these authors will be arranged to participate in the competition in JUMP. Those who debut with the Newcomer Award will have a page in the magazine, and then submit short works according to their respective situations, or directly carry out long-form serialization.

Therefore, since the debut of young painters, they have formed a group, at least they want to toast with the old cartoonists who taught them back then.

Ye Zang is different from all of them. With his proficient skills and excellent painting skills, he directly skipped the learning stage. It can be said that when Xiaozhuang found him, he was already a very mature author.

Another manga editor asked Xiao Zhuang: "Isn't Mr. Ye Zang really the trumpet of some teacher?"

Xiao Zhuang showed a helpless expression when he heard the words: "Of course not, if this happens, there will always be a colleague who knows Teacher Ye Zang."

"Teacher, he is still very young."

Mibu, who was sitting at the next desk, let out an "ah" and said, "So there are really geniuses in the world."

Xiao Zhuang said, "It's not that exaggerated."

Mibu said seriously: "Even Adachi had a long period of silence, ah, from this point of view Mr. Ye Zang is really amazing, a natural cartoonist, so to speak."

Again, they know that Ye Zang's family background is amazing, he studied under the Utagawa school, and he is a handsome guy with shocking looks.

In short, before Ye Zang appeared at the Shueisha gathering, many cartoonists had heard of his name from the editor in charge, and it could even be said that the highlight of their visit to the meeting this time was to meet Ye Zang in detail.

There is no way, there are too many messages wrapped around him!

At present, the pillar of Shueisha is Mr. Sanzang Sanlong. His manga "dragon torrent" spans Showa and Heisei, and has been serialized for 81 volumes. It can be regarded as another masterpiece of JUMP since "Dragon Ball".

Mr. Sanzang Shanlong himself has also drawn a little old man from a young age, but even if he is hunched over, he is always fighting at the front line, and his enthusiasm for manga has never faded.

At present, Shueisha worships him, whether it is old people, newcomers or the Mesozoic generation. Ye Zang also has a good sense of him, mainly since he was a child. There has been a serialization of "Dragon Torrent" on JUMP, which is also the one he saw when he was young. Works now.

Apparently, when Ye Zang showed up at the venue, there were exclamations one after another in the venue, and some people joked: "Hey, when did models and comics become adjacent industries?"

Some people even said: "It's incredible, this is a beautiful boy who just walked out of a cartoon!"

In short, the venue was filled with praises for Ye Zang's beauty.

Ye Zang himself is also very sociable, as long as he thinks, he can make everyone like him. When he walked out of the venue, there were a lot of new friends on the line list, and all five painted signs for Wu Wu's name had arrived. .

He even asked for the autograph of Jay's favorite cartoonist.

Xia Youjie didn't mention it, but Ye Zang has been his friend for so many years, so how could he not know his preferences? It just so happens that not only the authors who are in the serial are present at today's gathering, but also those who have been famous for many years and have completed their works on JUMP The old author, the original teacher of "Dead Notes" and the painting teacher are both there.

'Jay should be happy. '

When Ye Zang is caring, no one can refuse him.

……

Carrying a large schoolbag full of painted signs, Ye Zang was not in a hurry to return to Kanagawa, he decided to go to Ikebukuro to see Yuriko first.

Ye Zang and Yuriko were separated in July.

They went to see the Fireworks Festival in Yokohama together—compared with the high-rise steel forest Tokyo, Yokohama with a wide sea horizon has a wider view. The Fireworks Festival was held on the edge of the beach. Ye Zang was wearing a sage-colored kimono, and Yuriko was elegant. Holding her hair in a bun.

They watched the golden-red fireworks illuminate the night sky above the sea level, and the sea was shimmering, clearly reflecting the appearance of the fireworks.

Aye said, "I'm ready to go home, Yuriko."

He had told Lily a long time ago, but amidst the roar of fireworks, he said this inaudible sentence, which was almost a silent farewell.

And Yuriko, somehow, she caught Ye Zang's words.

She opened her mouth, Ye Zang only saw her round red lips.

"Okay."

Yuriko thought, she has many things to say to Ye Zang, but which one should she choose?she does not know.

She wanted to say: I wish you a bright future, and hope you meet a lover...

'The main thing is not to meet an old woman with ulterior motives like me. '

When she was thinking about it, she was quite self-deprecating, but in the end Yuriko didn't tell Ye Zang anything, because she couldn't say anything.

Sure enough, Aye left one day after the firework festival, without even bringing the painting tools that Yuriko bought for him.

When Yuriko came home, she saw the empty room, and she felt empty in her heart. She kept the room where Ye Zang used to live.

The layout of a family building is exactly the same as when there are four people in the family.

After that, Yuriko thought that she and Aye would never meet again.

She thought clearly that Ye Zang came from the Chinese ethnicity. As long as he goes home and lives with her in the past, it will definitely become a stain on Aye, not to mention that his parents will not agree to come here. Be ashamed of it.

Yuriko graduated from Qingshuiyuan Girls' High School, and has heard too many scandals about the Chinese. Sometimes she even thinks with disdain that they are still living in the age of ancient tombs.

No, the Kofun era was much more civilized than them.

But one day in September, Ye Zang suddenly appeared in front of Lily.

The way he walked in with homemade cookies and a cake box was no different from the night he came back from the supermarket.

Lily was stunned, unable to speak.

Ye Zang took out the slippers familiarly, the same pair he was wearing at the time, stuffed the cake into the refrigerator compartment, told Yuriko that it would be eaten within three days, then skillfully put on the apron and cooked.

He even guessed that Yuriko's refrigerator must be empty, and bought fresh eggs, meat and vegetables.

It wasn't until Yuriko sat at the dining table in a daze, and the rich taste of soup and curry spread between her lips and tongue, that she realized: It's not right!

Why is Ah Ye back!

Why did he cook for me!

Ye Zang held a small bowl in his left hand, picked up the rice in the bowl slowly, and at the same time explained the current situation to Yuriko intermittently.

"...that's the way it is."

"In the end, I was sent to a private school, and the attendance rate was very low. Graduation would not be a problem."

"Moved out to live, mainly engaged in work related to cartoonists."

"Well, they are very supportive."

Aye is well versed in the art of language, and knows how to ambiguous the language without lying. Like now, Yuriko thought that he went to an unknown private school.

Maybe it was a well-known university, but Ye Zang didn't name it.

Yuriko said, "You will live in Tokyo later?"

Maybe it is a common young people living alone room, the kind of 1LD or 2LD.

Ye Zang shook his head and said, "Kanagawa."

"Kanagawa?" Yuriko was very surprised.

Ye Zang's explanation for this is: "I'm not used to living in a narrow room."

These words are a bit like "why not eat minced meat", but Ye Zang's words are very appropriate. He has the temperament of a swinger, even if he doesn't live in a Japanese-style building with all kinds of pavilions and pavilions. You should also live in a bungalow villa by the sea.

Yuriko has read a few books, and she thinks that the era that is most suitable for Ye Zang should be the romantic Taisho era, where suits and military uniforms go hand in hand, and literati read Western translated books, wearing blue hakamas, but wearing kakibu cloaks, with a belt on top of their heads. Wearing a stiff military cap.

Ye Zang has this kind of temperament, which is between Yuhe and Xiyang. You can feel the fusion of the two cultures in him. They seem to merge together, and there seems to be some kind of sharp conflict.

Lily said, "Do you live alone?"

But Ye Zang shook his head and said, "No, not really."

Yuriko thought it was Ye Zang's family members who were going to go with him, at least the butler who took care of him all the year round. The strange thing is that Ye Zang is obviously capable of doing housework, but anyone who has been with him will feel that he cannot be alone live on.

She had no intention of inquiring into Ye Zang's family, so she kept silent on this topic, and Aye was also happy to say nothing.

Yuriko therefore missed the opportunity to "know" Tsushima Megumi.

After that, Ye Zang went to Ishikawa Yuriko's house every now and then.

He will make an appointment with Yuriko in advance, and come to the door when both parties are free.

This made their relationship even more confusing.

If you say it's a lover, it's definitely not. If you say it's a friend, it seems to be higher than simple friendship.

In the end, only "family without blood" can describe his relationship between the two.

To Ye Zang's surprise, on the way to Yuriko's house today, he ran into an acquaintance.

Nanami Kento's recent life has not been going well.

He has the dual identity of a junior high school graduate and a magician. If the career of a magician is smooth, twists and turns will naturally fall on the campus.

The reason is to simulate voluntary filling in the form.

Nanami Kento filled in "Tokyo Metropolitan Higher School of Curse" stroke by stroke on the page.

Higher technical schools, here I have to explain the concept of such schools.

Here's what the Google lyric says:

"Technical specialized schools train mid-level technical personnel with practical experience... Most of the graduates are employed, and a small number can be inserted into the third year of university to continue their studies."

The direction of continuing learning is also very single, and they all go in the direction of practical operation.

Qi Hai can be said to be sober in the world. Under normal circumstances, he would avoid the risk of being questioned, but he has a serious and serious character, and he will not tell white lies unless necessary.

It is a very serious thing to simulate voluntary filling in the report form in Japan. It involves students going to various schools to participate in the registration examination. Unless they are those who give up their studies, students of middle and above will honestly fill in the school they are about to attend.

Out of various considerations, or perhaps due to impulse, Qihai filled in the name of the high school of conjuration.

As a result, needless to say, the head teacher who was still in charge directly blew up the pot, and when he saw the "higher technical school", he didn't care about three seven twenty-one and asked Qi Hai to come to the office.

Nanami's grades are very good. The junior high school he attended is ranked high in Tokyo, and in this school, he is the top student who will not cause trouble to the teachers.

He is very majestic among the students. He is obviously a mixed race who would be excluded in the school days, but he is respected by his peers and juniors on this campus where there are only middle class and above. It is no exaggeration to say that if Qihai wants to compete The president who has just joined the club has a high probability of success.

There are only so many people who trust him.

Such a good student is going to go to a specialized school. A teacher can't bear it. Mr. Haneda didn't even come to check the relevant information of the school, so he hurriedly called him over.

He slapped the simulated volunteer report on the table, thought for a long time and said:

"Recently, is there any difficulty, Nanami?"

Qihai is neither humble nor overbearing: "No, not at all."

"Then your wish..." Haneda Caton said for a long time, "With your academic ability, it's easy to go to a school in the 76th grade, such as the high school attached to the University of Tsukuba, Kaicheng or Aoyama High School, why... "

Why go to a higher vocational school?

He can't accept this kind of self-destructive behavior!

Qihai sighed in his heart, for a moment he regretted filling out the simulation form honestly.

In fact, he didn't know why he had to write like this at the time, he just kept silent.

"Tokyo High School of Magic, Haneda-sensei, have you heard of this school?"

Haneda was younger, so there was no such thing as "cannot be challenged by students". He honestly admitted: "No, not at all."

Qihai said: "Then, you can go to the official website to check."

Speaking of this, today's conversation is naturally over. Mr. Haneda checked the news of the Tokyo Conjuration College, and was shocked, and even alarmed the other teachers in the office.

"Average deviation of 74? Religious schools?"

In today's ranking released by the Ministry of Education, Nada High School in Hyogo Prefecture, which ranks first, has a deviation value of only 74, and the deviation value of the Conjuration College is the same as that of the number one university in Japan.

Haneda's first reaction was that the pheasant school was talking nonsense, but unexpectedly, he actually found this school among the technical schools.

Among the schools with a deviation value below 45, this school stands out from the crowd.

"Private schools with extremely high enrollment thresholds and high subsidies. After graduation, they can directly work in the department. If they have the intention of further study after graduation, they can directly enter S-level universities such as the University of Tokyo."

After reading it in one breath, Haneda took a breath: "It's true!"

The other teachers were also stunned after listening to it, and they all huddled together to watch it. What was even more frightening was that they also saw the official seal of the Ministry of Education, which meant that the above treatment was real.

"Then why is it called a specialized school!"

Haneda went crazy.

A teacher wisely said: "A religious school, is it Catholicism or Buddhism?"

"Let's study Buddhism..."

"It must be that kind of school." His old god is there, "The school that allows Buddhist heirs to enter the practice and directly inherit the family business after they come out, there must be many graduates who directly enter the Buddhist major of Dongda University."

"Ah... so."

In Japan, the heirs of old temples are very valuable. After all, doing things is very profitable.

Teacher Haneda's expression finally returned to normal: "Did Nanami really choose an excellent university?"

Then he hesitated again: "But classmate Qihai is Danish, right? Now foreigners can also be temple heirs?"

He thought about it for a long time.

Qihai was also surprised when she knew the deviation value of the high school of magic.

"74?"

Is there such a tall one?

The answer given by the relevant personnel of the school is: "Yes, our annual admission deviation value is determined based on the average deviation value level of the students in that year."

"Conjurers need in-depth thinking and precise control to operate spells. Some spells even involve atomic operations and Achilles' paradox. Therefore, excellent conjurers have good grades."

"We also strongly recommend students to enter the University of Tokyo for further study."

This is actually a bit confusing. After all, there are not many very science-based spells like Liuyan, and Gojo Satoru himself is not very good at Chinese.

This year's deviation of 74 was a complete accident.

As I said just now, 74 is the average level of the students of that year, so who are the students this year?

Gojo Wu, Xia Youjie, and Jia Ruzi.

Needless to say, Xia Youjie's deviation value is not far behind Japan's No. [-], and Gojo Satoru, he is a man with perfect everything except his personality, and his grades are of course not bad, and he belongs to the same level as Xia Youjie.

The family entry nitro is worse than them, but it's not too bad.

Under normal circumstances, the admission deviation value of the University of Tokyo is around 75, Xia Youjie and Gojo Satoru are both around 79, and definitely belong to the ranks of the top 50 in the full-day high school entrance examination, so the deviation value of the family entrance examination is 64.

In fact, I can go to a good girls' high school.

She herself doesn't study hard. She is good at racing, drinking and drinking. She hasn't been to school for a few days. Under this premise, she can get a score of 64 in the model test, which is a genius.

If you only look at the grades, then the High School of Magic is really a pretty good school.

After convincing Haneda, Nana Ming's troubles are not over. His main source of pressure is actually his family.

The Qihai family is not a family of conjurers at all, and it is unknown which of his parents has the blood of conjurers that has been diluted countless times, and it has taken root in him.

His parents are very open-minded, otherwise they would not have come together. At the beginning, they were very supportive of Qihai's wish to become a magician, but recently they opposed because of some things they experienced.

The cause was that Nanami Kento's father was involved in the curse incident.

He was not a victim, but just a witness. He saw the conjurer who came to deal with the curse spirit, and also saw the other party covered in a white cloth and carried out of the scene of the crime.

Nanami Kento's father is an atypical Japanese. He has no roots of Japanese men in him. He is a little too romantic. He is in love with Nanami Kento's mother every day. Perhaps it is because of his parents' detached character that Nanami Kenren grows up. Absolutely reliable appearance.

His parents are just young-minded, and they definitely don't ignore the child's life and death. After witnessing that incident, Nanami Kento's father quietly told his mother, and neither of them greeted Nana Ming. Based on their identities, the members of the window had a thorough understanding of the living conditions of magicians.

The results were very... amazing.

"The vast majority of conjurers will die unexpectedly."

"The average age is 25."

These two sentences were too shocking. Qihai’s parents couldn’t see the curse, and couldn’t imagine their son fighting the monster, but they knew that no parents would want their children to work in a job whose average age was only 25 years old.

"This is the first time I've made a request to you."

Nana Ming's parents said so.

"For us, and for yourself, give up being a magician."

Nanaming was disturbed by his parents' prudent words, but his face remained calm, but his heart was already in a mess.

Does he know the loss rate of conjurers?

No doubt he knew.

But Nana Ming didn't have any familiar companions in the magic world, and he had never experienced the death of an acquaintance. Even if he did the task by himself, he never made a mistake in rating.

This made him lack a sense of the actual casualty rate in the magic world.

the most important is……

'It seems to me that there is no reason to be a conjurer. '

"Under this premise, do you want to study at the High School of Magic..."

He suddenly wavered.

Most of the time, people make decisions in an instant.

Because she has been thinking all the time recently, Nana Ming will also let go when walking on the road.

Empty his mind, simply put, he is in a daze.

Since the conjurer has magic power to bless his limbs, he has good hearing and eyesight, and he didn't crash into the car because of being in a daze.

Today is different.

"!"

He visibly bumped into the warm, limp body.

Kento Qihai subconsciously opened his eyes wide, and immediately squatted down and said to the victim: "Sorry, I didn't look at the road, are you okay?"

When he saw clearly who he hit, his face was about to split open.

"It hurts, hurts, hurts." Aye bent his slender legs and sat on the ground. He didn't know whether it was weak or something else. In short, he looked very slender, and he fell down with a slight push.

"It's okay." Even if he is the one who was hit and suffered, he must comfort the other party first.

But facing such Aye, Qihai almost burst open.

Obviously, he knew Ye Zang's face, and they even exchanged a few words.

But what happened last time, when we parted a few months ago?

In order to naturally disperse the curse spirit that stayed on Ye Zang's shoulder, Nana Ming put on a serious face, put on a look that was difficult to mess with (he even buttoned the school uniform to the top), and suddenly stretched out his hand on Ye Zang's head With a feint, he pinched the curse spirit to death, and finally put his palm on the wall of the alley.

Official scientific name: Bidong.

He also seemed to say something that seemed self-aware, something like "Stop following me" or something.

Nana Ming: "..."

"..."

"..."

Nanami Kento, male.

Cause of death: social death.

Year of death: 15 years old.