You were lost in your usual thoughts (how stupid and useless you are, etc.) only this time you accidentally said them out loud. Before Dazai. Your mentor was staring at you so intensely that you wished the floor would swallow you up. Dazai never looks at you like that. Never. But it seems that you have crossed a line by disparaging yourself. He grabbed your arm and pulled you to one of the desks and sat you down on one of the chairs. After a few minutes, he came back with a piece of paper and a pen in hand. Dazai put the paper and pencil down in front of you and you then saw that there was a single sentence and a number at the top of the page. It read, “I worthy of love and respect” with the number 100 beside it. I want you to write 100 times that you are worthy of love and respect Atsushi. I will not have any of my proteges self-demeaning themselves. I don't just choose anyone, you were chosen for a reason, and it's definitely not because you were useless. Dazai's voice hard at the beginning with the underlay of sternness became quite the sneer at the end as he uttered the word "useless".