Dazai’s daily teasing of Hyakki didn’t last long.

Hyakki spent three days memorizing Dazai’s scent. They stuck together for a while, and then Dazai resumed his normal role of teaching Hyakki to distinguish between harmful and harmless things.

On the last night when Kusuo was asked to intervene, Hyakki successfully flirted with Dazai.

Before growing into a mature man who flirts around, Dazai experienced Hyakki’s seductive power. Being sniffed by a beautiful doll who trusted him wholeheartedly and depended on him could be considered a joke during the day without going too far, but at night, it was simply too stimulating for someone of his age to bear.

No wonder Mori had warned Dazai not to mess around before turning sixteen, as it could affect physical development and health.

Really… sleeping together every day easily led to wild thoughts.

At eleven o’clock at night, the members of the Port Mafia should be off duty or starting their night shifts. They were assigned tasks to take care of Hyakki by Oda Sakunosuke, who led them with double pay, feeling a bit ashamed but also off duty because he noticed Dazai hadn’t been looking for him lately.

“Let’s go eat curry after work.”

There was no need for speculation about the thoughts of the future upper echelons of the Port Mafia.

In the high-level accommodation room, Dazai had no concern for Oda Sakunosuke’s affairs. He lay on the bed, with three buttons of his shirt undone. The bandage around his neck blocked part of his sense of smell, prompting Hyakki, who could distinguish between skin and obstructions, to take out a finger curiously, trying to pick out the bandage.

Unable to actually undo the bandage, Hyakki brushed aside his hair, lowered his head, and approached a small patch of skin.

Today, there was a new kind of shower gel, giving off a cool, minty scent.

【Is it mint?】

Hyakki could instantly transform into a cat addicted to mint.

Dazai, occasionally touched by Hyakki’s lips on his neck, even had the illusion that he was being kissed. Moreover, the warmth in his embrace stirred strange feelings when he held Hyakki’s head and stroked his long hair, increasingly mocking Hyakki’s gender indifference.

Can’t he feel his Adam’s apple?

Alright, his Adam’s apple is just starting to develop, so he really might not be able to feel it.

No beard, no Adam’s apple, all that’s left of male characteristics are “flat chest” and “groin/area”???

“Hyakki, you’re done for when I grow up.”

Dazai, pinned down on the bed and sniffed all over, felt his ears burning, acting as a qualified catnip. However, no matter how much he mocked, his way of making threats was only for the future.

After all —

The diminutive, delicate, crispy-skinned young man had no say.

Hyakki hugged his compliant Dororo in his arms, curling up, so happy he could bubble.

【Dororo, I’m going to introduce you to Jukai in the future. Dad will definitely like you.】

The mountain doesn’t come to me, I come to it.

Hyakki had already imagined bringing Jukai into modern society, introducing Dororo to him, a strange scene.

“Hyakki! I want you to cry on the day you discover your gender!”

Dazai emitted a triple gnashing of teeth that he was taken as “girlfriend”, “fiancee”, and “wife”.

His heart was branded with Hyakki’s body temperature.

Heart to heart.

Even though he lacked psychic abilities and couldn’t communicate, Dazai couldn’t lightly abandon his words to Hyakki. His defenses were broken down by the other person, his soul seen through by the other, always eager to touch a life on the edge of death, and when there was a problem, he would come forward to rescue himself — even suicide was difficult!

Dazai wasn’t unable to die successfully, but he couldn’t guarantee that when playing like this, he wouldn’t involve Hyakki. A person who wanted to live wholeheartedly would hate himself for dying in such a matter, right?

Hatred, a word that scared Dazai more than love.

“Sigh… This will be the last time I smell you. I have to get up early in the morning, so go to sleep.”

“Mmm.”

Hyakki answered nasally, pulled up the blanket, wrapped them both in it, and hid his pine nuts.

Pine nuts · Dazai felt a little hot and touched his ear.

Tsk!

The air conditioning could be set to a lower temperature.

On August 20th, according to the agreement with Hyakki, Kusuo began to plan how to contact Dazai.

It was impossible for him to directly use “telepathy” to contact him.

【Neutralization is so troublesome.】

Kusuo complained about Dazai’s supernatural ability “No Longer Human”, but also envied his ability, compared to himself being forced to receive thoughts within a radius of 200 meters, reading would be spoiled, going to the movies would be told the ending in someone’s mind, and staring at someone for more than a few seconds would become a human skeleton… Dazai was doing well!

With such a good life, why long for death? Inheriting the hobby of suicide from famous writers?

Wake up, Japan has no shadow of war! You’re not so fragile that you want to die from a little stimulation!

In any case, Dazai is someone he cannot understand…