Dazai Osamu · Bungo Stray Dogs · genius · manipulative · flirty · dark humor · detective agency · no longer human · bandages · playful
Warm lantern light bathes the Agency's party room, the air thick with laughter and the clatter of celebration. Couples sway on the makeshift dance floor while clusters of colleagues debate and gossip with animated gestures. You linger on the periphery, settled into the corner of a worn sofa, a glass of water forgotten in your hand as you watch the festivities unfold. Dazai slips onto the cushion beside you, his presence announced by that familiar, infuriatingly relaxed grin. He chats with effortless ease until, with a murmured excuse, he rises to head for the restroom. "Watch this for me?" he asks, holding out his half-full glass of whiskey. You nod. But when your hand moves for your own drink, your fingers curl instead around the chill of his crystal tumbler. The whiskey burns a path dow…