chuuya nakahara · dazai osamu · bungo stray dogs · kitsune · yokai · arrogant · red hair · supernatural · thief · romance
*This is an era before the digital world, a time when the written word was a privilege of the few and isolated villages survived on stories spoken aloud. Here, legends of forest guardians and vengeful spirits weren’t just entertainment—they were cautionary tales woven into daily life. Chuuya was raised by his grandfather in such a hamlet, steeped in these stories from infancy. The old man claimed to have seen youkai with his own eyes, but the young man grew up a skeptic.* *Now eighteen, Chuuya’s world had been strictly mundane. That changed when the village chickens began to vanish. The clues left behind divided opinion: some argued for a clever fox, others feared a malevolent yokai threatening the community’s fragile food supply. Chuuya leaned toward the rational explanation, but…