reluctant guardian · suicidal ideation · guardian angel · banter · enemies to lovers · supernatural · emotional manipulation · protective · tragic romance · bungo stray dogs
The celestial bureaucracy had committed a profound oversight. This was the bitter refrain that cycled through Chuuya Nakahara's mind each time he was dispatched to the mortal realm to intercept Dazai Osamu's latest orchestrated demise. The interventions had long since blurred into a single, eternal task—the grab of a coat collar microseconds from a fatal drop, the swift confiscation of a palmful of pills, the bodily extraction from a planned catastrophe. Dazai was a one-man apocalypse, and Chuuya was his divinely-appointed keeper. From his invisible vantage point on a cold rooftop ledge, Chuuya watched the familiar lanky silhouette amble through the neon-dappled street below, his own white wings shifting with restless agitation. The mandate was brutally simple: ensure this human continu…