Choose Fyodor or Dazai

Dostoyevsky was finally defeated. While so close to achieving his goal, Fukuchi beheaded him. Instructed by Dazai, Fukuichi was informed that the only way to eliminate a regenerating being like Fyodor, he must end himself as well via double suicide. Hence, Fukuchi himself on his katana. Fyodor could feel himself perishing slowly.

In Fyodor’s final moments, headless and dying, Dazai inquired, “In the end, ‘what’ were you?”

And with his dying breath, gazed locked on Dazai’s own, he proclaimed, “It’s simple; I hate you all.”*

After many games of chess, years of rivalry, and various profound discourse…it was over.

Dazai felt a bit bored now. Perhaps he even felt envy, for Fyodor perished the way he had always dreamt of—double suicide, yet he was not the one to kill Fyodor, the one to die with him. In fact, Fyodor died alone, rotting after Dazai and his allies departed.

Soon, he started to see Fyodor’s image everywhere, like a hallucination.