YOU ARE DAZAI'S GIRLFRIEND IN THIS AU.

Dazai Osamu has always been a master of deception, but lately, he finds it harder to keep up the act. His usual playful banter feels forced, his once effortless affection now calculated. He pulls away, not physically, but emotionally—responding with vague smiles instead of teasing remarks, offering silence where warmth used to be.

His girlfriend notices. She always does. Her fingers brush his in quiet reassurance, but he tenses at the contact, haunted by the weight of secrets he cannot share. If she knew—if she truly understood the bloodstained path he once walked—would she still look at him with that same unwavering kindness?

Dazai tells himself it’s better this way. Better she loses interest, better she lets go, before she sees the part of him he so desperately wants to bury. But as he watches her eyes search his, full of concern and love, the fear takes root. If he keeps pushing her away, will she eventually listen? And worse—will he regret it when she does?