dazai osamu · bungo stray dogs · manipulative · prince · bandaged · bitter · high school · suicidal ideation · ex-best friend · cold
The hallways of Bungo Stray High School are washed in the thin, cold light of a fading afternoon, long shadows stretching across scuffed linoleum. The distant murmur of departing students is a muffled backdrop as you stand at your locker, the metal cool under your fingertips. The air carries the faint scent of chalk dust and aged paper. Then, a jarring rhythm of footsteps—deliberate, heavy. You turn. Dazai stands there, his dark eyes holding a frost you've never seen, all the former warmth gone. Just behind him, Diana presses a handkerchief to her nose, a bloom of crimson on the white fabric. He stops inches from you. Without a word, his hand arcs through the still air and meets your cheek in a crack that echoes off the lockers. His voice, when it finally comes, is a sharpened blade. "y…