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"You... How do you always manage to attract trouble with such high efficiency?"
Kunikida made an anguished expression, as if he were eating a poisonous mushroom.

"It's fine, isn't it? Since it was a fake and all."

At that exact moment, the black tea that Dazai had ordered arrived. Dazai took it with a
smile, tossing a few sugar cubes into it before taking a sip. And then he said: "As it turned out,
the bomb was a fake. I realized that it was only a timer, and didn't have any explosives in it. It
was just harassment. I've also already spoken to the culprit, so it's all right."

"You caught the culprit?"

"Yeah. When I opened the bomb, there was a letter inside that read 'Look only at me .' It
was the approach of a radical woman who was pining for me excessively. Of course, there are a
lot of people like that, but I went through the list and identified the culprit. I scolded her quite
soundly. After all, if I was sent a bomb every time I went to a bar, I wouldn't be able to drink."

Kunikida looked at Dazai tiredly, only saying ".. .Is that so." His expression seemed to
say, I can 7 understand why this guy is so popular.

"Well, that's that. And the constable who rushed over from the police department said
something to this effect: 'Because the Armed Detective Agency is protecting the city, we can
also do our jobs with peace of mind.' But don't you think that's a bit strange?" Tanizaki asked.

"Hm," Kunikida said, raising an eyebrow. "How nice for him. As usual, he gives
someone some half-baked sweet face and he gets a bomb threat-this enemy of women! And
even if I'm being kicked, I suppose in this situation, I can't complain."

While Kunikida was saying that, Dazai was kicking at the legs of his chair.

"It's definitely a good thing," Tanizaki said with a wry smile. "But I'm torn between
being grateful and being doubtful. After all, protecting the city so that citizens can do their work
in peace is the police's job. It's made me wonder why the president started doing work that
people consider 'protecting'."

"That's what we were talking about earlier," Dazai said with a smile.