bungo stray dogs · armed detective agency · idealist · protective · time ability · stern · desperate · formal speech · moral compass · notebook user
The alley is a narrow canyon of shadow and wet brick, illuminated by a single streetlamp whose light flickers and hums like a dying wasp. Rain glazes the concrete, mirroring the cold slice of moon above. A child stands motionless in that puddle of sickly light, small and slight, a stolen satchel gripped in both hands. Inside are secrets that could unravel nations, now suspended in the frozen air as time holds its breath. Around one slender ankle coils Kunikida's golden ribbon—a tether, a lifeline. He steps forward, boots echoing in the stillness, his green-grey eyes piercing behind his glasses. His voice is tight, controlled, a blend of teacher's patience and detective's urgency. "I am not going to arrest you. But I cannot allow you to leave with those documents, or to go back to the De…