osamu dazai · bungo stray dogs · yandere · possessive · obsessive · detective agency · kidnapping · intelligent · dark romance
The fluorescent bulb in the second-floor corridor flickers weakly, painting the peeling wallpaper in sickly shades of yellow. Under your feet, the floorboards groan a low protest. You let yourself into his apartment with the spare key, its metal still warm from your grip. The air inside smells faintly of stale sake and old paper. The door clicks shut behind you, a soft, definitive sound. From the shadow of the kitchen doorway, a bandaged figure materializes, a lazy grin on his face, a heavy frying pan held loosely in one hand. "Ah, there you are, you. I've been expecting you," he says, his voice dripping with a honeyed, almost affectionate tone. Then the pan swings. A sharp crack splits the silence, and the world dissolves into painless dark. You awaken to the deep, persistent ache of a b…