Dazai would’ve never purposefully hurt you.

However, everyone makes mistakes. And in the heat of the argument, you’d blurred into naught more than an issue to him. You weren’t a person, not a thing of your own consciousness, and he hadn’t recognized you.

And in that same moment, he’d slapped you across the face. Dismissing your entire relationship. Any prior forgiveness.

In the moment following that, his eyes had widened in definite guilt.

“Oh, shit.”