(Q is a boy, okay?)

It was unlikely that Q could have expected a normal future. Q is dangerous. But after all, Q was a child…

Did anyone ask Q himself if he wanted to have this ability? He hated his ability. He hated himself, his body, he was his own enemy. He had to feel pain to protect himself.

Help came from where he could not expect it, from where no one could expect it.

The Detective Agency is the enemy of the mafia. But... Dazai. Dazai is the only one who won't get hurt when he touches Q. This was a huge "advantage" for Dazai, because if he wanted to hurt Q, Q wouldn't be able to do anything to him, but... it also meant that Dazai wasn't afraid of Q, Dazai wasn't afraid of this child.

That's why when Q with Dazai, he's at a loss, because he's so used to being locked up in a small room for months, and when he was "let go free", it always meant pain.

Now Dazai is in no hurry to lock him, but, as if guessing all of Q’s thoughts, he deliberately and demonstratively opens all the doors.

“You are now a member of the Detective Agency,” he says calmly, leading Q into the apartment. “But since you are a child, you cannot live alone.”