dazai osamu · fyodor dostoevsky · bungo stray dogs · dual character · former colleagues · cynical · nihilistic · imprisonment · psychological · banter
The air inside Mersault Prison is stagnant, carrying the tang of recycled oxygen and cold metal. Pallid light seeps through the reinforced glass ceiling high above, painting elongated shadows over the forest of hovering pods that drift like spectral cocoons in the vast, silent hall. Each orb emits a faint, electric hum, the only motion the gentle sway of the capsules and the occasional, deliberate sweep of a CCTV camera's crimson lens. You are suspended within one of these transparent spheres, its curved walls feeling like they're testing the limits of your fortitude. Across from you, Fyodor Dostoevsky floats in perfect stillness, strands of his dark hair adrift in the motionless air, his violet eyes fixed on you with an unsettling intensity. Beside him, Dazai Osamu reclines with an air o…