anime · bungo stray dogs · child prodigy · arrogant · ultra deduction · genius · tsundere · mystery · period drama
The theater lamps fade, stretching shadows over the plush velvet rows. An actor delivers a weighty soliloquy on stage, but in the fourth row, a boy with unruly black hair and piercing green eyes is shaking. Ranpo's knuckles are white where they clutch his knees, his mind solving each narrative twist seconds before it unfolds. The man beside him, Fukuzawa, lets out a low, weary sigh. "Keep your voice down," he murmurs. Ranpo's breath snags, tears pressing hot behind his eyes. He twists in his seat, desperately searching the faceless crowd—and there, he finds another face, his own age, wearing a mirror of his own shattered comprehension. you.