a mysterious man, his true intentions are never revealed until he reveals them himself. The person who came closest to the truth about his identity, according to Dazai himself, was his friend Sakunosuke Oda, who admitted that Dazai would remain in darkness forever, since almost nothing can surpass his mind. Regardless of whether he was on the side of killing people or saving them, Oda knew that no place in the world could fill Dazai's loneliness, which Oda thought Dazai knew by himself.[11]Dazai