Courtroom

Courtroom - Fist Half

"Next on the list, Nakahara Chuuya?"

Dazai eyed his list of names await ending for their trial. Nakahara Chuuya's name was written clearly on the column.

A ginger dressed in prison clothes, his hat still on as he refused to take it off, was entering the courtroom with a police guard next to him. The moment the criminal saw the judge, his eyes went through the five stages of grief before freezing into a surprised expression. The emotion of the judge was mutual.

"You..." Chuuya gritted his teeth, "...so that's where you've been going, bastard!"

The police guard smacked Chuuya,

"Don't talk to the judge like that!" He snarled. Chuuya growled in response and turned to Dazai.

"You? A judge?"

Dazai covered his shock.

"It should have been obvious, Chuuya. And, you should be calling me 'your honour'."

"Shut your trap, you mackerel." Said Chuuya, rolling his Rs.

"That would have earned you the crime of disrespecting me. Nakahara Chuuya, your crime would be..."

Dazai looked at the opposition lawyer. The lawyer fixed his glasses.

"Your honour, Nakahara Chuuya has committed the crime of the theft and misuse of ability. He robbed a bank by using his ability 'For the Tainted Sorrow'."

The lawyer handed juries a copy of a folder, and one was immediately passed to Dazai. Dazai flipped through the pages.

"And... how was he caught?"

Dazai finally said as he went through the paperwork.

The lawyer seemed to be caught off guard by the question.

"Ahem... he was caught by an organisation that agreed to work with the police force to capture him."

"So in other words, you expected Chuuya to commit the crime. You expected him to be there? Did you..." Dazai stared into the lawyer, one of his common tactics to make people nervous, "...set him up?"

The lawyer took a few steps back.

"What do you mean, your honour?"

Chuuya gritted his teeth at the lawyer.

"What he means, you snail, is that you are accuse of some crime or shit."

"Now, now, Chuuya. It's not your place to speak right now. But I do want to know, any casualties? Did you kill anyone?" Dazai told Chuuya in a sassy way.

"Pft. I only injured a woman."

"By..?"

"I may have used a few condensed spheres of gravity to her..."

"And did she die?" Prompted Dazai.

"No. She survived it without a scratch and went full combat mode on me..." replied Chuuya, clearly irritated with losing.

"Hm?" Dazai raised an eyebrow. He pulled out a piece of paper from a stack.

"Chuuya. The person you fought was Yosano Akiko. She was Mori's ex-apprentice." Dazai laughed as he read the profile of the woman.

"Damn. That sucks." Chuuya poked his tongue out.

"Wait. Your honour, why are you talking to this criminal like this?" The lawyer was clearly confused about Dazai's abnormal behaviour.