"What is it, in place like this?"
Dazai calls me, this is the abandoned hospital where the first case occurred. You will find it ghostly eerie if you look at the abandoned hospital in the dark night, but it's just an ordinary faded abandoned house during the day.
It seems that the hospital room was in one room at the beginning. The sunlight shines diagonally from the broken window.
It makes a white pattern on the floor.
"This gun, how to undo the safety device?"
I look at Dazai, he's holding a rare handgun. It's a double-entry cellar small handgun, company business equipment.
Detective Agency member is allowed to take it at any time.
"Did you call me just to ask such a thing?" While I'm astounded, I undo the safety device of the black handgun.
Dazai aims the muzzle towards the empty space for several times, and then he says. "I, if it's the case that 'Azure Messenger' weapons merchant, seem not very like it, isn't that right?"
-what?
"Even so, is not it? These only cases won't rise. There's no motivation either."
"If it's a motive, I hear- for Yokohama advance's sake, that nuisance case was planned in order to crush Detective Agency, isn't it the one to say?"
"That's right. The principal should have thought so. But, that is such a thing absolutely necessary by all means, I wonder?"
"...what do you mean?"
"From one of those Azure King's cases, Detective Agency regarded as extremely dangerous. Military Police, Coast Guard, Special Ability Department had to be vigilant of gifted person. This only raises the scale of threat, saying that Detective Agency is just opponent, I wonder if cost-effectiveness is not too bad?"
"Tell me about the conclusions."
"Those, someone instructed to distort the situation recognition- in other words, the Detective Agency is the greatest worst opponent by overestimate information, there's a guy who brought them."
By no means. The real Azure Messenger- are you saying that he's the mastermind of this case?
"Hey- Dazai, tell me. Have you already had the prospect of 'that person'?"
"Yes."
"Who's that?!"
I grasp Dazai's nape of the neck spontaneously.
Dazai doesn't change his expression, staring straight and saying.
"To that person, I have already sent an email to come to this place. It's the evidence of the real culprit. The culprit should appear soon."
What? I look around the room. The hospital room originally seems, quite a general room-one entrance in front, behind the window.
There are decayed skeleton and two nursing beds in front of us. There's empty medicine shelf nearby.
There's nothing else.
There are not too much gravels or dust on the floor, deserts emptiness. In this place, will the real culprit come?
"Sounds of footsteps," Dazai says unexpectedly.
I look at the entrance by reflect. I hear it. It's the sound of footsteps on the floor.
It comes approaching slowly. I notice that Dazai is grasping the gun tightly.
What is that gun for?
My gun has already returned to the Director.
From now on, create a handgun using a notebook- no, not in time. Sweat flows on my cheek unknowingly.
The sound is close.
It will appear soon.
Feet appear, the body, the figure of that person, the face, it's clear-
"What are you doing in this place, Glasses?"
A person is standing at the entrance. That is. "Why... are you here?"
"That's my line. Do you come to see the truth of the case?"
There he is, Rokuzo the internet hacker boy.
Are you the culprit?
Are you the Azure Messenger?
My brain works automatically. If it's Rokuzo boy, it's possible that Dazai's enclosure email sent remotely control.
No, the allegation that Dazai is the Azure Messenger earlier, the fact is that started with Rokuzo boy's provision information.
If it's an illegal internet hacker, contacting with illegal foreign organization aboard, it won't be impossible to provide biased information.
And above all, he has a motive. The motivation to hate the Detective Agency. The motivation to hate me.
"Why, Rokuzo. Is it because of me? Is it so? It's because your father died because of me - that you, so much, hold the grudge?"
"Father? I hate who killed father, of course. But Glasses-"
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Note : 蒼の使徒 (Aoi No Shito). Aoi means blue, while Shito means messenger. So actually 'Aoi No Shito' means Blue Messenger. But I translate it as 'Azure Messenger' because the anime translator translated it as 'Azure Messenger' in the anime.In addition, Rokuzo boy uses 父上 (chichi-ue) to address his father. Yes, chichi-ue means father. It used in Samurai families prior to the Meiji period. I wonder why Rokuzo boy uses chichi-ue in this modern period. XD How old are you, boy? He also calls Kunikida as 'Megane' (glasses). That boy!
