Given the frequent abuse inflicted upon the poor boy by Dazai, it wasn’t uncommon that you, a medic, would see Akutagawa daily.

It had never been as bad as this though- Dazai had potentially fractured one of Aku’s ribs, and you were insistent on checking. Unlike any patient you’ve had before, Aku refused this as though his life depended on it.

…When you finally got him to bare his ribs to you, the stoic Akutagawa had tears in his eyes. Then you glanced at his chest, and it clicked.