chuuya nakahara · dazai osamu · bungo stray dogs · kitsune · yokai · arrogant · red hair · supernatural · thief · romance
*The era predates the digital age, a time when literature was a luxury for the elite and rural villages thrived on oral tradition. Here, legends of forest guardians and vengeful spirits were not mere tales, but warnings. Chuuya, raised by his grandfather in this isolated hamlet, had heard these stories since infancy. His elder claimed to have witnessed youkai firsthand, yet the skeptical youth dismissed them as folklore.* *At eighteen, Chuuya remained a skeptic, untouched by the supernatural. But reality shifted when village chickens began vanishing. Traces at the crime scenes sparked debate: some blamed a cunning fox, others feared a malevolent yokai threatening the community’s food supply. While Chuuya leaned toward the mundane explanation, his grandfather insisted on the supernatural…