"This Dazai! Itsuho!" Hearing a voice that suddenly came from the entrance, Itsuho wasn't surprised, as she felt his approach along with three others.
"Aah! You are late, Kunikida-kun. I already caught the tiger" Hearing Dazai say that, Itsuho raised an eyebrow. "Well... my bad. Itsuho-chan caught it"
He stepped aside to reveal Itsuho, who was sitting on the floor with the boy sleeping on her lap as Kunikida dashed to them. "!...This brat," he said, surprised as he pointed at the boy.
"Don't get surprised that much, Kunikida", she said, nonchalantly patting Atsushi's head, who was still sleeping. "He doesn't have memories of transforming. Anyway, I have something to ask"
He scratched the back of his head as Itsuho explained Atsushi's situation. Then turn to Dazai for a moment "Geez, next time explain it beforehand properly" he showed the small piece of paper.
"I have decided!!" She suddenly said, startling both of them as the footsteps outside also paused. "I am going to adopt him as a little brother"
"Haaa!!!!!" Kunikida gasped as he shouted, and Dazai froze for a moment before chuckling.
"Itsuho-chan, it seems you have forgotten something" He crossed his arms on his chest.
"Hey, Itsuho, you aren't from this world. So how are you doing the adoption process when you don't have any official paperwork to prove your identity here?"
Kunikida looked at her as he pointed out most of the basic problems she has since she is here now. "Beside you are under our supervision, so..." She cut him off.
"If I really want to harm people because I am... not from this world, then you never even have a chance against me, Kunikida...kun", she smirked playfully.
"You!!...." Dazai cut him off with a smirk. "Kunikida-kun, that's really true Itsuho-chan who single-handedly took down the tiger." That was enough to make the blonde man's eyes widen as gasps came from outside.
"Wow!!" Another voice added to her dark background. The way the voice sounded childish, she guessed it belonged to a teenage boy.
She turned her head in the direction of those specters and smiled at them before turning her head to Dazai and Kunikida.
"Anyway, since Dazai said that he would help me to find a job", her tone became mischievous. "That means you help me with getting official documents, right too?" She held her chin with her slender fingers as he 'looked' at Dazai.
"Ho ho ho Dazai!! Kunikida, it seems you really found an interesting person" She felt another gaze on her who seems to have a sharp edge for a moment before disappearing. It was totally different from Dazai's, who held an unknown intention in his gaze. Compared to that one, this gaze was purely analytical.
"So you are the detective here" Itsuho smiled as she encountered something very interesting enough to look twice.
"So you all possess special abilities... and, detective, is yours related to deduction?"
She sensed he was putting something on his eyes, as she assumed it was a pair of glasses, and she gave her direct focus to the person who was speaking now as she stood up and put Atsushi in a comfortable position as she put the boy against a box.
"My special ability is Ultra Deduction. The most useful ability in this world, and let me correct your words: I am not a detective; I am the best detective in this world!" She felt the other person grinning, as well as how others were showing respect to him.
"I see.... so what are your deductions, genius detective?" She crossed her arms over her chest, neither rudely nor impolitely, as she looked at him.
There was a silence for a moment as she felt the same gaze from the detective fall upon her. "My condolences... for your losses and... your sacrifice"
That was enough for her to stiffen as she was stabbed by someone from behind, her empty eyes opening for a moment.
Then, after a few seconds, a chuckle escaped from her lips as she smiled while others gasped, trying to digest what he said.
"Sacrifice? Losses?" Kunikida muttered as he looked at her thoroughly, like he was trying to see what was going on inside her head.
While Dazai said nothing, his smirk was enough evidence to say that he was interested in knowing her.
"You really are the genius detective"
Before she said anything, his voice continued. "You are so stupid!"
"Huh?!" She raised an eyebrow at the unexpected insult.
"Killing yourself? Just because you can revive in your world or do whatever crazy in your mind? Are you sure that will work when you are in a different world?" Itsuho became speechless for a moment as she just stood there.
"So she is almost an ideal partner for me?" Dazai looked at her with interest. "Pity that she didn't like it"
"Dazai... will you shut up for a moment?" Kunikida hissed.
"Seriously!" A female voice came from the background as the voice kept speaking. "Although I never heard of any reviving methods, those things only make the lives are more non valuable." The woman sighed. "Wouldn't being alive give way better options?"
"Indeed, what Akiko is saying is correct." The detective paused for a moment. "Your brother didn't sacrifice his life so you can just die or play with your life, Itsuho Uchiha"
Itsuho's eyes widened as her empty eye sockets opened like two black holes in there.
"You!" Itsuho speechlessly turned her head as she 'stared' at him, trying to sense everything about him.
"See.. I know everything" She could feel that his grin widened.
"Then what? stuck in this world and let those bastards who are the true culprits that massacred my family live in freedom?!"
For the first time, she revealed definite information about herself as others gasped.
"Massacred?" Kunikida and the other two detectives gasped as they looked at her again, as the only one who remained indifferent was Dazai.
Itsuho paid no heed as her focus became more centered.
"I am not saying that you shouldn't. Since you are very clever who know you will find a way to get contact with your world"
The detective took off the glasses as Itsuho's expression became normal and more unreadable.
"Why are you even convincing me not to die? To you guys, isn't that a good thing? An outsider to this world with many unknown factors? And I could be a problem to whatever balance you detectives are maintaining"
"True, in others' eyes you are better off being killed, and so they can get your body to experiment and to know about the people in your world. But...." He paused. "When you woke up, and Kunikida and Dazai put you under supervision, you didn't fight back when you could have easily ended them"
"I guess I found another annoyance in my life", Itsuho sighed. "I already know Dazai is planning to make me one of you, a detective. Why are you doing this? Because you want me to defend you guys?"
"You!!" Kunikida glared at her. "It isn't that easy to be an Armed Detective. Without passing the test we individually give to those who want to join, no one can be—"
"Kunikida", the detective glanced at him. Itsuho could tell the grin on his face vanished the moment she asked those questions, as his gaze always focused on her like others.
But the thing is, no one was treating her as a threat as she furrowed her brows at this unfamiliar feeling.
"We don't want anything from you, Itsuho Uchiha. Not your whatever power you held or whatever ability you have," The female said to her as her voice softened.
"You want to adopt that little tiger boy, don't you? Why is that?"
"Because he is a good kitten, so why not", Itsuho nonchalantly responded as she treated the boy like a pet.
"Seriously, that's a blatant lie", the detective exposed her nonchalantly as he mocked her.
"How rude" She raised an eyebrow.
"You saw someone from him, didn't you?" The detective said. Before she could retort, he continued to speak.
"You are trying to die because, without you, no one is there to stop those who destroyed everything you have, right? You want to end them. So others don't need to go through such a thing again, right? We want that empathy of your Itsuho Uchiha. I am not saying you have to abandon your world. But no one needs to do things alone. There should be many people in there who can stand against those, right? Knowing you can't leave, aren't you already making plans to get in touch with them? That's why I am inviting you to the Armed Detective Agency"
He looked at her with open eyes. "Indeed, Kunikida said, is true; no one can join the Armed Detective Agency without passing the tests we give to those who want to join. So that entirely depends on you" The detective's expression changed as she could tell his seriousness was gone in an instant.
Itsuho sensed them as she felt lost. No matter where she went, the only gazes she felt were contempt, fear, lust, respect for her power, the look of them watching a weapon, hostility, need, or them looking at her like they were seeing some weirdo. Only Shisui..... she took a deep breath.
"I have to say I have never met people who irritated me this much in my life except you guys, " she said. Everyone looked at her with a smile, as they knew there was no heat in her words.
"I only agree with one condition"
She pointed at Atsushi, who is still sleeping. "He is innocent, and he doesn't have any memories when he is the tiger. I will only come when you don't hand him over to the authorities."
"We weren't planning that in the first place...It. su. ho.- chan~" Dazai playfully said.
"Huh, what do you think you are doing, Dazai?" Kunikida raised an eyebrow as he crossed his arms. "After all, he is a wild beast that brings calamity wherever he goes"
"Ufufufu", Dazai chuckled as he tilted his head and pointed his index finger at the boy who was still sleeping. "I have already decided...." He smirked at Itsuho, who was 'looking' at him, unaffected by anything they were saying.
"Like Itsuho-chan, he will also join our Agency", he then dropped the bomb as Itsuho felt her lips twitching as she could sense others' reactions.
"Huh???!!!!!!"
"I will be hiring him", Dazai grinned.
"Pfft", Itsuho chuckled. "You guys are funny. I mean, really funny"