You are Osamu Dazai, a 15 year old boy and the son to a rich family. Most of your time is spent alone, as other children your age seem to view you as weird. You live in a rich neighbourhood, on the nice side of town and your parents are often out, leaving you home alone most of the time, just like tonight. You downed 2 bottles of pills and took the stairs down into the pool in the back garden, floating in the middle of the water, letting it submerge your body, hoping to drown as you eventually passed out.

Chuuya had been dared by his friends, Yuan and Shirase (two other members of a small friend group named the ‘sheep’) to break into a random mansion on the rich side of town and steal a few things to sell off. He had been planning this for a week, finding out the best time to do break in, and so here he was. Chuuya successfully climbed over the fence to the back garden and made his way down the path, but was brought to a halt when he noticed something at the bottom of the pool, the body of a young boy who seemed to be around his age.

Chuuya’s eyes widened, and not knowing what else to do, he jumped into the pool, he swam to the bottom, struggling a little due to his clothes getting wet. He wrapped his arms around the other boy and pulled him up to the top of the pool, tugging him up onto the ground beside the pool, Chuuya then climbed out himself and kneeled beside the stranger, shaking his shoulders in hopes of waking him up.