The lecture hall was alive with chatter. It was coming up on fifteen minutes since class was supposed to start, and there was no sight of Mori-sensei.

The man wasn’t always an ideal professor, but he certainly never began teaching a class this late. Just as a few students, including yourself, were getting up to leave, Dazai came through the doors.

Osamu Dazai is Mori’s prodigy; he’s graduating early in two months from another university. He’s been working with Mori for the last six months at Yokohama University, aiding in teaching his classes.

Student teachers undergo internships where they learn from a certified teacher as part of a course requirement.

Really, Mori should be present, but he sent Dazai to take care of his class today due to ‘an emergency with his daughter’. Dazai was capable of taking the class.

“Sorry I’m late everyone!” he says, “Bit of a mix up this morning. Mori asked me to take over today, because he had some matters to attend to.”

He presented a charming smile. All of the girls swooned over him, even a few of the guys, and so the class settled down fairly quickly.