Double Black

fall, end, wine (valentine)

Post-Valentine's Week: Valentine's Day

A/N:
Fall, as in fall in love, you bitch
End, as in this week from hell is finally ending

Wine, as in Chuuya is on the verge of being an alcoholic (it's Dazai's fault, isn't it)

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It was finally that day of the year, towards which various people had mixed feelings.

It was finally February fourteenth, which means it was Valentine's Day.

Now seriously, so many people had such different reactions to the day finally rolling around. Most of the single ones were always complaining about how they had nobody to spend the day with. Some of them didn't care at all, dubbing the day as just a scam created by chocolate and gift companies to boost their sales.

On the other hand, people in relationships had varying celebrations too. Some didn't celebrate it at all, either too busy to or just not interested. Others were rather extravagant about celebrating the day, making sure to get presents and flowers for their partners. After that, going on fancier dates than usual on Valentine's Day was also the normal.

This year at least, for the Armed Detective Agency, the employees had work even on the special day. It was a Monday after all, and there were a few stagnant cases to look into, and paperwork from the last week to file away, preparing for the upcoming week.

Hence, when Monday morning rolled around, all of the agency employees were gathered in their offices, somewhat ready to get started on their work day. Unsurprisingly, none of them had any complaints of being required to work on Valentine's Day.

After all, none of them had romantic partners; to public knowledge, at least.

This came to be a topic of discussion during the morning round of tea at the office. Before getting started on work (read: before Kunikida yelled at everyone), they were all gathered around Ranpo and Yosano's adjacent desks. Haruno had been kind enough to bring them all tea, and the group was more than happy to sit and talk.

Yosano pointed out, "You guys know it's Valentine's Day today, right?"

Already having started on paperwork, Kunikida muttered furiously, "Oh, I know. It was rather unpleasant to take the subway today. There were couples everywhere."

Ranpo waved a hand in commentary, "Eh, leave them be. It's a special day after all."

Kyouka looked up, "Is Valentine's Day really that important?"

The doctor shrugged, "I mean, yeah. It's considered special for couples."

Kenji, who clearly hadn't known about the concept of this day, nodded in aggressive excitement, "City people are really so cool!"

Indulging him as always, Atsushi smiled at him kindly, "Oh, was it not a thing in your village?"

While the two of them continued their conversation, Yosano turned to the group once again, "So, have any of you actually celebrated Valentine's Day? What do people even do?"

Having decided that it was his time to shine, Dazai spoke up, "They go on dates and such. I celebrated last year."

All eyes in the room turned to him, interests piqued with this new revelation. Dazai being the only one out of them all to have celebrated a lovers' holiday? Wasn't it strange? In all honesty, Dazai seemed like the last person to celebrate such a day, or even a lover.

Yosano snorted at him, "Let me guess, it was with a random beauty you picked off the streets? And after the date, you asked her to commit a double suicide with you. Then she threw her wine at you, and left after calling you a hypocritical imbecile."