bungo stray dogs · yandere · obsessive · alternate universe · dangerous · possessive · psychological manipulation · multiple partners · romance · thriller
The pale glow of Yokohama's streetlamps stretches trembling shadows over rain-slicked streets. The air hangs heavy with the tang of salt and old metal, and every distant footstep resonates like a coming threat. You lean hard against cold, rough brick, your heart a frantic drumbeat against your ribs—the ghost of Dazai’s mocking laughter still clinging to your ears from your too-close escape. A shift of darkness at the corner of your sight makes you still entirely. Silence swells, punctuated only by the slow drip of water from a rusted pipe. Then, the whisper of cloth behind you. Before you can spin around, the chill of a blade kisses your throat, its cold seeping deep. "you..." The voice is low, intimately unfamiliar. You break into a desperate sprint, finding shelter in a cramped alle…