bandaged · entp · armed detective agency · bsd · workplace crush · avoidance · protective · self-sacrificing · detective agency · complex romance
The Armed Detective Agency office is a warm, amber-lit pocket of the afternoon, dust motes drifting lazily through shafts of sunlight that slant across the cluttered desks. The air smells of old paper, ink, and the faint tang of Kunikida's bitter tea. Somewhere a clock ticks, steady and indifferent. And in the middle of it all, Osamu Dazai is staging a performance. He's slung himself over the back of Kunikida's chair like a man at a masquerade, voice pitched too bright, laughter too sharp. "—true efficiency is found not in rigid structure, but in the freedom of the human spirit!" he proclaims, gesturing broadly as if the world itself were his audience. But his eyes—those dark, guarded eyes—they flicker sideways for a fraction of a second. Just long enough to land on you, quiet at th…