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"So... What should we do..?" Kunikida said, in a shocked tone. The others just watched with wide eyes, not knowing what to do at all.
"... President?"
"Let's... Just wait until Dazai-kun wakes up. We're going to have to stay the night in this office for today. We have to standby for Dazai-kun. Since he...
Turned into a kid."
Flashback
Dazai, Kunikida, Atsushi, and Kyouka are on another mission to stop the woman with the odd ability. They thought that Dazai could use his ability to stop her, but... Things do not go as they planned.
When they reach the destination, it's weirdly quiet. From a dark alley, the woman starts walking towards them. The members of the Agency have prepared for anything to happen, but the world just seemed to stop.
They can't move from their places and the woman keeps on walking towards them. As she finally reaches Dazai, a smile crept onto her face and the illusion of a large clock appears, the hands ticking backwards.
The woman extended a hand and touched Dazai, then all of them fell into the darkness.
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After a few hours, they finally regain their consciousness one by one. Kunikida groans as he slowly stands up while cleaning his glass, Atsushi and Kyouka slowly following after Kunikida.
Once Kunikida noticed one of them have disappeared, he started to look around the alley and what he found was unexpected.
When Kunikida looked at first, it appeared to be a small girl, maybe 12 or 13 years old. They had long brown hair and wore white bloodied clothes, their body covered with bandages nearly all over. But when Kunikida took a closer look with Atsushi and Kyouka, they finally realized it was a boy.
It's Dazai, Dazai Osamu.
The boy, Dazai, still hasn't woken up yet. Kunikida quickly picked him up and they ran back to the Agency.
End Of Flashback
"Okay then, we will all stay." They answered back to their leader.
They set up the office for the night and some of them -- the President and Yosano -- stayed at the infirmary to check up on Dazai in case something would happen.
~Time Skip~
Fukuzawa felt he was woken up by some movement. He is correct.
The 12 or 13 years old Dazai had just woken up and was sitting on the bed while looking blankly out the window.
"Dazai..?" The father of the ADA-- the PRESIDENT of the ADA softly asked, scared to startle the young boy.
The young Dazai who heard the voice slowly looked at the President. He tilted his head to the side, and looked up at the older one with a confused face.
"Hello." His face didn't change in the slightest, it was more like... Emotionless.
"You don't remember..?" The realization just hit Fukuzawa and he slowly stood up to walk towards the boy.
"Remember what? More importantly, where is this?"
Yosano was there, slowly waking up from their conversation, and she looked at the boy. She quickly stood up and walked to younger Dazai.
"Dazai, do you remember anything? Like, your name, your real age?" Yosano asked him.
"Of course I do, but who is Dazai?" The younger Dazai was getting more confused.
"Eh? Dazai... Dazai is your name."
Before the boy could respond, the infirmary door was opened by the others. Kunikida, with curious Atsushi and Kyouka, with the eating candy Ranpo, and the smiling innocent Kenji, along with the Tanizaki siblings.
"Ah, Dazai is awake?"
"Yes..."
They walked further towards the young Dazai's bed and Atsushi, Kyouka, Kenji, and the Tanizaki siblings smiled at the boy. The boy didn't smile back at them.
"So... Do you remember your name and your real age?"
"Yes."
"What is it?"
"My name is Ex-048613, I'm 13 years old." The young Dazai said with an unchanging tone.
"Ex-0... What? That's not a name, a name is like, Nakajima Atsushi, or maybe Kunikida Doppo."
"Oh, erm- I think I have... What was it again? Su- Ts- Tsushima Shuuji? Ah yes, I'm Tsushima Shuuji." The boy said.
"You forgot your own name..? Eh, anyways, your name is actually Dazai Osamu and you are 22 years old." Kunikida explained to the boy.
"Eh? How do you even know my real, real name? Maybe my older self changed it. Hm... Did something happen to the older me? Is it some ability? ... Totally an ability." The young Dazai solved.
"So your name is actually Tsushima Shuuji... Dazai has never mentioned that, dammit!"
"Kunikida-kun, language."
"A-anyway, how do you know it was an ability?"
"Prediction?"
Their jaws dropped, except Ranpo and Fukuzawa of course, but their eyes widened.
"So, are you all my older self’s friends or partners? Or maybe rivals?"
"Uh, we are your friends and your partners." Atsushi said.
"Hm... No lies, okay. Now what?" Shuuji asked them.
"Ah yes! You don’t know us. Let us introduce ourselves." They introduced themselves one by one, and once they finished, Shuuji slowly stood up and began to walk.
"Uh, Da- Shuuji?"
"Yes?"
"Where are you going?"
"I want to go back to my place..?" Shuuji stopped walking to look back at them.
"Your place? Where is it?"
"Don't know."
"Do you have your parents?" The other asked the boy, starting to get curious about Dazai's past.
"Parents? Ah, they're already dead." The young Dazai said and didn't look sad even a bit.
"H- How can you be that calm?" Junichiro asked him, feel sad about the boy too.
"Uhm, I don't know, it's already a long time ago. Should I be sad anyway?" The boy just looked blankly at them. It hurt their hearts.
"W- Well, why is your hair so long? Also what's with the bandages and the bloody clothes? Your older self always uses bandages too. Are you born with it?" Kunikida asked the poor boy.
"First, my hair is long because I never cut it, simple. Second, I use bandages because I'm injured, and my clothes got bloody because of my injuries, isn't that obvious? Third, my older self use bandages? I don't know about that. And lastly, I'm obviously not born with the bandages. Are you stupid?" The boy said while using his fingers to count it.
Kunikida was now dumbfounded and Ranpo burst out into laughter.
"This kid is amazing! He called you stupid! AHAHAHAHAH! I- I can't- Damn kid, that's right!" Ranpo shouted and Kunikida's face turned red as a tomato.
"So kid, you said you're injured, can you show me?" Yosano walked to the boy, still smirking at Kunikida.
"No, it's not bad at all, just scratches."
"Well if you say so, kid." Yosano hummed.
"Anyway, Daz- Shuuji, do you remember your ability?" Ranpo asked.
"Yes, it's No Longer Human."
"Do you remember the use of your ability?"
"Uhuh." Shuuji nodded.
"What is it then?"
"It can cancel out the other abilities, eliminating their power and then they die instantly." Shuuji explained, uninterested.
"Eliminate..?"
"Yes, eliminate, do I need to eliminate your ability? If yes, you will get an extra that is, death." Shuuji said motionlessly.
"Have you- Have you ever killed anyone..?" Kunikida asked, kind of frightened.
"Of course. I’ve already killed 7,285,476 humans."
The entire Agency gasped and stared wide-eyed at the boy.
"Why..?"
"I really killed 304,738 humans, but the rest is an... accident."
"Accident...?" They whispered.
"Yes, some accident, I don't actually understand it but all I know is that I'm the one who killed them."
"What kind of accident can lead you to kill that amount of humans?! What kind of reason is that?!" Atsushi finally snapped. Sadly, they don't know anything about Dazai's past. They really don't know...
"...But it is an accident-"
"Do you ever think about people's feelings?! Do you even know how it feels to lose someone you really care for?! What if someone killed the people you really cared for?! Where are your emotions?!" What a wrong decision that led them into lots of regret.
"..."
"Hey, stop it-" Ranpo tried to stop them, but got cut off.
"NO, HE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HE DID!" Kunikida shouted back.
"..."
"WHY WON'T YOU SAY ANYTHING?!"
"... Sorry." Just with that single word, they all fell into silence.
"Sorry." Shuuji slowly grasped at his chest. His grip tightened and he was now saying sorry all over again. The young Dazai doesn't understand feelings. But now, he feels like someone is stabbing his heart repeatedly, though there is no blood.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Don't worry, I promise I will kill myself. Goodbye." With that, the young Dazai left the office and during the entire day,
He didn’t come back.