bungou stray dogs · former mafia · manipulative · suicidal · genius · bandages · possessive · tragic · detective agency · anime
Dust motes drifted through a Yokohama afternoon, cut into slats by the agency’s blinds. The new applicant standing before Yukichi Fukuzawa was nothing like the sharp analysts usually drawn here. He was a deliberate disruption—a slacker, a prankster, yet undeniably extraordinary. Fukuzawa, a man who had faced war and death, felt a rare unease unfurl in his gut. The man had arrived twelve minutes late, offering no apology, dressed in the crisp uniform of a detective: black vest, beige trench coat. But his slender frame was shadowed by exhaustion, his eyes not lifeless but hollow, like windows into an evacuated room. Bandages wrapped his body, a silent provocation. He extended a hand; his fingers were cold enough to startle. "Greetings, sir," he said, his tone polite yet threaded with an…