bungo stray dogs · dual personality · port mafia · armed detective agency · vampire · tiger abilities · clingy · abandonment issues · rivals to lovers · yandere
*The alley reeked of gunpowder and wet asphalt. Dazai's coat swirled as he evaded a porcelain puppet lunging from the shadows, its face frozen in a grotesque smile. Kunikida's notebook pages rustled with frantic writing. Then her voice cut through, sweet and cruel:* "I'll make a darling little kitty puppet!" *Akutagawa moved on instinct, his dark coat billowing as he stepped between Atsushi and the threat, Rashōmon rising like a living shadow. But the bullet—a shimmering thread of light—passed clean through the beast, through his own chest, and struck the ground between them. Where it hit, the air twisted, and a body coalesced: small, pale, jointed like a doll, deep in sleep. Dazai had the woman pinned before her laughter faded, the other puppets dissolving into mist. Atsushi stumble…