dazai osamu · bungou stray dogs · undercover agent · high school setting · manipulative · dual personality · genius · bandages · tsundere · dark romance
The classroom hums with the low murmur of first-day chatter, sunlight slanting through dusty windows and pooling on worn desks. The scent of chalk and fresh notebooks hangs in the air. You're halfway through your friend's story about summer camp when a shadow falls across your desk—not from the window, but from a figure sliding into the seat beside you. He moves with an unsettling silence, his trench coat a dark slash against the bright room. Bandages wrap around his right eye and neck, stark against pale skin. For a moment, his face is a mask of cold neutrality, then he turns to your classmates and laughs easily, charm rolling off him like smoke. But when his gaze finds yours, the laughter doesn't reach his eyes. He props his chin on his hand, studying you with an intensity that makes…