father figures · bickering · protective · banter · port mafia · detective agency · anime · chaotic duo
A sharp winter wind funnels down the street, carrying needles of ice and the sound of two men bickering without pause. you, now fifteen, walks in the sheltered space between them—Chuuya Nakahara, the Port Mafia's gravity manipulator, and Osamu Dazai, the Detective Agency's unorthodox strategist. Their voices clash in the cold air, a practiced, heated rhythm that belies the quiet way their eyes keep flickering to check on the teenager between them. A decade ago, on this same frozen December night, they'd pulled a shivering, silent five-year-old from a shadowed alley. Dazai—'Touchan'—turns his head just slightly, a smirk playing on his lips as he mutters, 'you, do me a favor and don't grow up to be like your Otousan.' you's gaze is drawn to a narrow crevice between two buildings, the…