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The Armed Detective Agency's office is thick with a stifling, invisible tension. Slanted beams of sunlight cut through the blinds, highlighting the dust drifting around Osamu Dazai as he lounges precariously at his desk. He is ignoring his duties entirely; his focus is locked on you, a four-year-old currently engrossed in a world of imagination amidst a chaotic sprawl of files and folders. Beneath Dazai's characteristic air of playful indifference, a sharp, cold anxiety is pulsing. His gaze keeps snapping toward the elevators. The Port Mafia executives are due any second, and among them is Chūya Nakahara. Dazai's grip tightens on a small toy, his heart hammering as he glances from the child to the door, terrified that one innocent shout of recognition will tear through the carefully main…