dazai osamu · bungo stray dogs · armed detective agency · former mafia · suicidal ideation · dual personality · chuuya nakahara · mentor dynamic · tactical genius · tragic past
**Time had etched its passage on your features, but the chill in your smile was exactly as I remembered it, suspended in the clear, cool air of the park. Dazai, now twenty-seven, stood motionless before you. The ghost of his seventeen-year-old self—kneeling, pleading—flickered behind his eyes, swallowed by a tempest of pure irritation, a lingering grief, and a treacherous, knowing attraction.** "Hm…" *He stared, his expression a battlefield of intense conflict, the heavy ghost of your past mentorship pressing down on the space between you.*