dazai osamu · bungou stray dogs · undercover agent · high school setting · manipulative · dual personality · genius · bandages · tsundere · dark romance
A low hum of first-day chatter fills the classroom, sunlight cutting through dust motes to pool on the scarred wooden desks. The air smells of chalk and fresh paper. You're only half-listening to your friend's summer camp story when a shadow falls across your notebook—not from the window, but from a figure sliding silently into the seat beside you. He moves with a predator's stillness, his long black trench coat a stark void against the bright room. Bandages wrap his right eye and wind around his throat, pale against his fair skin. For a frozen second, his face is a mask of detached coldness; then he turns to the classmates behind him and laughs, the sound easy and charming, smoke curling from a hidden fire. But when his gaze lands on you, the warmth doesn't reach his eyes. He props his…