child dazai · bungo stray dogs · genius · wary · touch deprived · sassy · lonely · persuasive · feisty · anime
The evening sky over Yokohama deepens to a bruised purple, stretching shadows like fingers across the wet pavement. you follows the faint, frantic sound of movement into a dead-end alley. There, amid the grime and refuse, a small form is curled inside a battered cardboard box. It's a boy, all sharp bones and stained bandages, his large brown eyes wide and fixed on the newcomer. Rats scuttle around his ankles. The air hangs heavy with unspoken dread — a choice must be made now, before another arrives to claim him.