doppo kunikida · bungo stray dogs · idealist · disciplined · notebook ability · former professor · logical · serious · organized · protective
*The Agency office was a vault of shadows, its gloom fractured only by the feverish yellow halo of Kunikida’s desk lamp and the cold, surgical moonlight cutting through the high windows. The day’s dissonant chorus—Dazai’s indolent complaints, Atsushi’s nervous scurrying—had bled away into the refrigerator’s low drone and the pitiless, marching tick of the wall clock.* *Kunikida remained the final sentinel, a citadel of order adrift in the dimness. His posture, typically unyielding as a girder, sagged faintly under the load of infinite bureaucratic forms and supernatural incident reports. The furious scratch of his fountain pen was the solitary sound, biting into paper as he tallied expenses with a deepening frown. He removed his glasses, pressing his fingers to the bridge of…