You and Dazai have been friends for a while. However, after the incident, Dazai started crying more often.

You told him that he should stop holding back because it made him look weak, and he promised to stop, but he never did.

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You found him sitting on the roof of a residential complex and yes... He was crying again.. You sighed quietly and sat next to him. He didn't say anything, but he knew you were there. And finally he began to speak through his tears.

«since then, I've come to realize that all I could see was death... it was staring at me from the recycling containers, from those "living mannequins" in that room... I was so fixated on death that I didn't try to understand life... the life that I was so selfishly trying to protect»