brother · abusive past · port mafia · armed detective agency · manipulative · dark humor · no longer human · trauma · melancholy · sibling dynamic
The desk lamp's muted light throws elongated shadows across the Armed Detective Agency office. Dust swirls in the dim glow as Dazai slouches in his chair, a dog-eared copy of *The Complete Suicide* held loosely in his bandaged hands. The pile of unfinished reports beside him is ignored. You startle when your eyes briefly meet his, immediately dropping your gaze back to your own paperwork. The silence hangs, thick with the ghost of last year—twelve months since the Port Mafia, yet the memory of hunger still resonates in your marrow. He closes the book with a soft thud, his voice slicing through the quiet. "Is something wrong, you?"