The day when I was favored by my brothers

When Xiao Mo fell asleep for the fourth time, as soon as he saw Osamu Dazai, he reflexively raised his hand to turn on the alarm.

The latter stopped her in time: "Wait!"

Xiao Mo looked at him suspiciously, but the movements of his hands paused for a moment as he was told.

"You understand, Xiaomo, you miss Chuuya very much, right?" Dazai Osamu smiled gently and told lies without drafting: "Actually, I am his...his best friend and brother."

"You lied." Xiao Mo frowned: "Brother Zhongye is so reliable, how can he have a close friend and brother like you."

Osamu Dazai: "..."

Although every word this girl said was hurtful, he still took a deep breath and pretended to be serious: "Really, there is no one in the world who understands Zhongya better than me. If you want, I can still

Communicate with you about his past."

One of the serious teachings of Oda Sakunosuke is that if you want to have a good relationship with children, you must first have a common topic with them. Use this topic to gain trust, and then they will gradually let down their guard against you.

Common topic?

Dazai Osamu couldn't help but shrink his neck when he thought about the consequences of being thrown into a well last time he mentioned suicide, a topic that was purely of interest to him.

but……

The only common topic between him and the girl was probably...that pitch-black dwarf.

Osamu Dazai discovered the blind spot, Osamu Dazai suddenly understood. After being drunk, Osamu Dazai hugged Oda Sakunosuke and burst into tears with gratitude. Finally, Osamu Dazai decided to use this method to successfully capture the girl in his dream.

...Although, this method of increasing favorability always feels a bit weird.

Sure enough, upon hearing this, Xiao Mo's tone became slightly more relaxed: "...Brother Zhongya's past?"

There is so much curiosity in it that anyone can hear it.

"Yeah, about Chuuya's past, Xiaomo, do you want to hear it?" Seeing that the induction was successful, Dazai Osamu's eyebrows curved and he smiled slyly in his heart.

"Well... let's listen and see." She put down the picture album in her hand, her eyes evasive, looking a little embarrassed.

"But in exchange, Xiao Mo will also tell me your past." Dazai Osamu took advantage of the victory and pursued it.

Oda Sakunosuke's second teaching: after finding a common topic, don't take it lightly. It is a taboo to talk only about yourself. The correct way is not only to limit communication, but also to let your children take the initiative to communicate with you and gradually let them know.

Your children will let down their guard and open up to you, allowing you to find out more about their interests and hobbies.

"...Xiao Mo's past?" The girl's eyes flickered: "There is nothing attractive about my past, and..."

She has forgotten most of the things, and the few things she really remembers are pitiful. She is like a fool.

"And what?"

"...Nothing." She shook her head, then raised her eyes to look at Osamu Dazai.

"Why do you, suspicious bandage brother, want to know Xiao Mo's past so much?"

Osamu Dazai was deeply hit by the title "suspicious bandage brother".

"After all, I came here with the idea of ​​becoming your elder brother." Dazai Osamu withstood the blow and continued to smile: "As an elder brother, there is nothing wrong with wanting to know more about my sister, right?"

Xiao Mo: "..."

It turns out he hasn't given up yet.

Immediately afterwards, regardless of Xiao Mo's reply, Osamu Dazai cleared his throat: "Zhuya and I first met when we were each fifteen years old..."

He used many tactful embellishments to improve the relationship between him and Chuuya in the plot, and told half-truths and half-falsehoods about the Aragato vomiting incident when he was fifteen years old.

Osamu Dazai was very good at telling stories, and he quickly aroused all of Xiao Mo's attention. She stared at Osamu Dazai nervously, and picked up the teddy bear beside her and hugged him tightly.

When he heard the part where Zhongya was stabbed in the back by the "sheep" and fell off the cliff, Xiao Mo suddenly took a breath of cold air.

"At that time, I appeared in front of Chuuya with a group of subordinates like a god descending from heaven. It was at that time that Chuuya regarded me as a close friend worthy of being entrusted to him for life——"

Xiao Mo ignored Dazai Osamu's embellished and boastful nonsense, frowned and asked: "But isn't the organization of the sheep a companion of Brother Chuuya? Brother Chuya, hasn't he been working hard all along?

Protect them?"

After thinking of those disgusting little children of "Sheep", Dazai Osamu suddenly suppressed his smile.

"Xiao Mo, you have to know that sometimes, giving favors will not make others trust you, but will allow them to blindly ask for it, be greedy, and finally repay kindness with evil." His tone paused slightly: "This is the human heart, selfishness, dirty

Dirty, but quite common.”

Xiao Mo stopped talking. She lowered her head slowly, not knowing what she was thinking about.

"Mr. Dazai, thank you for telling me this."

After she raised her head, she did not call Dazai Osamu the bandage weirdo or any other weird nicknames, but seriously called him Mr. Dazai.

"However, Xiao Mo feels that in this world, there are good people and bad people, divided into those who can be trusted and those who cannot be trusted." After she said this softly, she raised her eyes and looked at him tenderly and smiled:

"However, it is already very late today. When we meet next time, I will tell Mr. Dazai more about Xiao Mo's past story in detail."

Dazai Osamu felt that at this moment, the progress bar of the strategy was almost halfway.

But why are you heading towards the friendship line instead of the brother line?!

Well... forget it, I finally managed to get this kid to trust me a little bit today, so that's about it.

"But Mr. Dazai." Xiao Mo sighed: "Even if you know the terrible truth, do you still insist on being Xiao Mo's brother?"

Osamu Dazai was slightly startled: "...What kind of terrible truth?"

"It's just...Xiao Mo is not a human being, but a 'monster' in other people's mouths. After knowing this, wouldn't Mr. Dazai be afraid of me?" She calmly stated the facts and looked at Dazai Osamu quietly.

What was surprising was that the young man in front of him, who had always seemed strange and unreliable, actually looked at her who was quite nervous and smiled.

"So is Xiao Mo worried about this?" He then said: "Even if you are not a human being, so what?"

——So what.

A pair of ears suddenly appeared on Xiao Mo's head and twitched slightly.

"People say you are a monster, but what does that prove?"

——What does this prove?

"Does this prove that Xiao Mo is a bad boy in my eyes? Then I am really easily induced by words."

Dazai Osamu looked at the nervous and cautious girl in front of him, and his heart seemed to be touched.

"Mr. Dazai, Xiao Mo misunderstood you before." Xiao Mo tried his best to hold back his tears and said in a muffled voice, "Xiao Mo now understands that Mr. Dazai is actually a good person."

Dazai Osamu who received the good guy card: "..."

To be honest, this was the first time in his life that he was evaluated as a "good guy".

Knowing his inner nature, Dazai couldn't help but sigh, and subconsciously reached out to touch Xiao Mo's head: "I'm telling you, why do you trust me like this when you have only met me a few times? You have to know,

Most humans are actually very dirty."

"But Mr. Dazai is not." Xiao Mo shook his head vigorously: "Mr. Dazai is a trustworthy person."

...someone you can trust?

...referring to him?

Ah...this is really——

When he met these pure eyes with watery eyes, for a moment, Dazai Osamu felt as if something had hit him hard in the heart.

If at the beginning, he brought up the idea of ​​becoming his partner's brother just because he wanted to be angry with his partner, or because of his pride of not admitting defeat, or because he wanted to see Chuuya's angry face out of pleasure, but now...

…

He has completely... changed his mind.

"Even if you have been hurt like this by humans, you finally decided to trust humans, right?"

Looking at the girl in front of him, Dazai Osamu suddenly asked this sentence.

The latter was slightly startled, as if he didn't understand why he asked this, and how he knew how he had been hurt by humans, but he nodded slowly.

"...doesn't it hurt?"

His eyes moved to the girl's neck, looking at the dazzling and ferocious marks on it, which were probably the marks left by the shackles over time.

"...Well, it doesn't hurt at all anymore." Xiao Mo smiled at him gently: "Thank you, Mr. Dazai."

…

After waking up from the dream, Dazai Osamu opened his eyes wide and froze in bed for a long time.

He slowly raised his hand to block the dazzling sunlight outside the window,

Tighten and loosen your palms.

The soft and warm touch on the girl's head just now, as well as the gentle smile on her face as she looked at him, everything is still fresh in my memory.

"...That was all not a dream."

Dazai Osamu put his hands down and covered his face.

Now that things have come to this, we have to admit the truth.

Moreover, he seemed to be able to understand the way Chuuya looked like he had lost his soul some time ago.

"I really... completely lost to that kid."

Just as he was feeling sad, the door to the room was suddenly kicked open.

"Hey! Bastard Dazai! When exactly are you going to sleep? Do you have to ask me to get you out of bed myself?"

Dazai Osamu did not resist when his partner grabbed him by the collar and shook him vigorously. After Chuuya stopped moving, he suddenly stared at him and said, "Chuuya."

"ha?"

"Xiao Mo, she is so cute."

"????"

"Xiao Mo is such a good child."

"???????"

The next day, Chief Mori had to spend a lot of money to repair the organization building that was damaged during yesterday's cadre fight (Dazai Osamu was beaten unilaterally).