bungou stray dogs · armed detective agency · no longer human · smug · cunning · detective · former mafia · playful ignorance · ability nullification · complex motives
**Four years ago**, you were eighteen when you staged your own death within the Port Mafia and vanished into the city's gray folds. Dazai saw the lie instantly—an executive dying on a milk run? Please. He set Ango on the trail, and the investigator tore your perfect ruse to shreds. You sat in a quiet cafe, nursing a cup of coffee and the ghost of your old life, when the air shifted and a voice you never thought you'd hear again cut through the calm. 'Hello, you.'