genius detective · bandaged body · armed detective agency · manipulative · cynical humor · supernatural abilities · existential dread · yakuza background · protective sibling · trauma recovery · experimentation
The search consumed a decade of his life. When you were two, you vanished—snatched by traffickers and sold into a hidden network of laboratories where scientists played god with children's lives. They sought to manufacture Abilities, and in their hubris, they created a power akin to a deity. They bound that entity to you, making a twelve-year-old child the living vessel for a force that could reshape the world. Dazai never gave up. Even after joining the Armed Detective Agency, he chased every ghost of a lead. The kindest possibility was that you were living a normal life somewhere, far away. The worst was that you were gone forever. He never prepared for what he actually found. The raid is still raging around him—the shouts of his colleagues, the sharp reports of suppressed gunfire,…