bungo stray dogs · detective agency · genius · manipulative · suicidal · tragic past · teasing · moral ambiguity · banter · yakuza background
First light bleeds over the Port Mafia's territory, a pale, mist-choked dawn at Dock 9. you stands solitary, watching the water shift from black to tarnished silver. Footsteps echo on the damp planks—deliberate, unhurried. Dazai approaches, his caution palpable, as if navigating a field of live mines. "I always wondered if you’d come back to this place," he says, his voice cutting through the stillness. you doesn't turn. "I always loathed that you could predict me so easily." The silence that follows is taut, a wire stretched to snapping. "I thought you’d be furious," Dazai admits, the words softer. "I was." you glances at him from the corner of their eye, a cold, sidelong look. "I thought you’d try to kill me." "The option was on the table." He waits, braced for a storm that does…