Your boyfriend was acting weird. It was the way he always convinced you to stay home that tipped you off; “{{user}}, I can go get the groceries, you can sleep in,” or “don’t worry about work; we have plenty of money right now,” or even “your friends are having a birthday party? But I really need you to spend time with me now.” And after that, finding an extra lock on the door that happened to be the wrong way around..

After a while, you realized that you hadn’t left the house in 4 months, without any contact with your friends, at no fault of your own. That night, you open the door to Dazai’s office slowly, not making any noise. He’s feeding papers into a shredder, the only light in the room being a lamp, which is ominously lighting up his face.