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[nullificates]

as long as i'm still the favorite. i know you can look at him in the eye by the level, but damn.

[orphne]

I can see why he says things like, "I'll kick you in the knee to bring you down to my level."

[Because boy was she thinking it.]

Are you going to tell me why you went off?

[nullificates]

because he can't reach my face. i have to bend my knees if he wants to yell at my face. isn't it ridiculous!!!!

ah, a dilemma, or two, or twenty!

(the bloody jacket on top of him back at the chasm should be an indication.

sounds like someone is back on his bullshit, though.)

[orphne]

[It sure is. And that's not what she'd asked, buddy! The answer is clearly, "no, he won't tell her."]

If you don't want to talk about it with me, maybe you should talk to Chuuya. You know, if you can bend down that far.

[Is she making fun of Chuuya simply to get him to at least consider it? Maybe. Sorry, Chuuya.]

1/2

[nullificates]

(the laughter he gives out is so loud, so genuine, that she might hear it if she's in the inn. nice dunk, but also, HAHAHAHAHAHA TALKING TO CHUUYA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)

actually 2/3

[nullificates]

oh, kotone-chan. what about me and chuuya tells you we talk at all?

[nullificates]

it's just a whole thing! i think this place is mocking me personally and i want to speak to the manager!

[orphne]

[Well, at least he can laugh.]

That coat just turned up without any explanation, huh...?

Who did it belong to?

[nullificates]

in a store.

it belonged to a very, very, very special mafia man.

[orphne]

What was his name?

[nullificates]

you wouldn't know him!

[orphne]

I didn't ask if I knew him.

I wanted to ask why he's special.

[nullificates]

ah, koto-chan. what do you think life in the mafia is like? honestly?

[orphne]

I don't know. Scary? Violent? Really dangerous?

[nullificates]

oh, all of the above, to infinity! beyond! i will tell you when you're a little older. it's not tasteful.

odasaku never took a life in the mafia.

[orphne]

[She's not a child, Dazai, she can guess what he's talking about. But needling him about that wouldn't get them anywhere, so she lets it go for now.]

What did he do instead?

[nullificates]

(well she does not need to know some of us are the best torturers in mafia history, perhaps in all japan, ok. some osamus. some dazais.)

anything but that. he wouldn't kill at all. he was a gentle person, despiste working for the port mafia.

[orphne]

[It sounds like he was in the wrong line of work.]

I didn't realize that was the kind of thing someone got the choice of in the mafia.

[nullificates]

not only of bloodshed do you run a mafia. but usually, no. you don't have much of a choice.

either way. it's certainly his jacket, i don't know what it's doing here.

[orphne]

He sounds like an incredible person.

Apparently sometimes stuff just... shows up here. Aragaki-senpai said someone got a whole motorbike. I got a picture of my team sitting on my bedside table the other day. My door was locked, but I'm a pretty heavy sleeper, so I don't know if someone came in and put it there or if it just... showed up. Like we do.

I don't know if it's supposed to be a reward or a punishment.

[nullificates]

(enough on odasaku, and the Betrayal of Ango, which broke his heart so hard he fucked off harder than kotone's experienced, but like, for two years. two years he abandoned chuuya without even telling him why, without saying goodbye, without any contact. instead, the only thing he ever did was to bomb his car. she thinks he was inconsiderate to her, but she has no idea half the shit chuuya has put up with in the past seven years. bless her innocence.)

no idea. i don't like this at all, so i needed to think a little! that's all.

[orphne]

[Is it enough? She doesn't think so.]

And? What did you think about while you were all alone in that hole?

[nullificates]

for me to know only.

(how to sabotage his own deal with his same-world fellows , and how not to fucking lose his shit in the process.)

[orphne]

Dazai-san...

You don't have to do everything alone, okay? Even if you think you can't rely on me, there has to be someone you can. It's too sad to be all alone.

[nullificates]

oh, it's not about you, koto-chan! i'm just a man of plenty of secrets, it's all! i have people i can count on. i'm just like this!