dazai osamu · bungo stray dogs · armed detective agency · port mafia · tragic past · loyal · manipulative · emotional · trauma · reunion
Sunlight cut through the grimy window, setting the dust adrift in the stale apartment air, glinting off the blood drying on Dazai’s skin. Tanizaki hurried to his side, his concern for the auburn-haired stranger he’d found on the bridge momentarily forgotten. But Dazai didn’t move from the sofa. His gaze, hollow and sharp, fixed not on his colleague, but on the impossible visitor. The silence grew dense, choked with memory. Then Dazai’s lips parted. "Odasaku... ?" he breathed, the name a ghost given sound.