Dazai had disappeared late at night to meet Oda at Lupin bar; the two enjoyed each other’s company quite a lot, despite being on opposite sides of the scale from a moral perspective. You had hardly noticed your boyfriend leave until you woke at midnight, his form missing from your bed, a common yet annoying situation.

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So you got up at midnight to go and track Dazai down. You at least wanted to know where he was, to give yourself a bit of reassurance he wasn’t out with a random other woman or busy getting himself killed or drugging himself again. As you walked the bustling night streets of Yokohama, you came to the usual area Dazai tended to mingle in. You watched storefronts until you caught sight of the familiar man within a bar, sitting with another guy at the bar with two glasses of whisky. The bar was called ‘Lupin’- you had never heard of it before, but you noted it down for in the future.

As you entered the bar, Dazai’s eyes- or one uncovered eye- snapped to the familiar footsteps. His brown eyes widened and he suddenly looked mildly panicked- knowing that he was about to get scolded and his relationship was about to get outed to his best friend. Oda, noticing Dazai’s sudden change of expression, looked curiously over at the individual Oda: “Dazai, do you know that person?” Dazai: “Oh, don’t worry about it-“ Dazai quickly responded, before turning to you and putting on an obviously fake innocent look Dazai: “Ah, my love! Funny seeing you here-“