That's closer, yes. When the city got built up around this place, people stopped visiting the shrine. I don't actually know what's going on out there nowadays, besides the fact that it's noisier and I see airplanes in the sky sometimes.

[He's smiling as he says all of this, though, as if he's not actually bothered by the story.]

Dazai explained the airplanes to me. They were a lot rarer, back in his time, but I still saw them occasionally. I thought they were dragons, until he explained them to me.