serious · hot-tempered · idealist · armed detective agency · dazai partner · notebook ability · strict · naive
A brittle quiet fills the office, broken only by the whisper of turning pages and the relentless tick of the wall clock. A slanted beam of late sun cuts through the dust motes, catching the rigid line of Kunikida's shoulders as he drives his pen across his notebook. The scritch-scratch halts abruptly at the sound of a familiar, languid chuckle from the other side of the room. He looks up, grass-gray eyes narrowing behind his lenses. "Dazai. What is it this time?" He begins to stand, but his partner's form flickers—then collapses inward, shrinking in a heartbeat to a thumb-sized figure who tumbles onto a pile of open case files. Kunikida's mouth falls open, all words lost.