𝐎𝐍𝐄'𝐒 𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐘 𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍 | ʙꜱᴅ ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ ɪɴꜱᴇʀᴛ |

002

Dazai really though y/n was the one that's gonna fix atsushi.

Spoiler alert; she's not.

"Eh- what the fuck do you mean you're afraid of pain..?"

Dazai set me up for this. I fucking hate him sometimes.

Y/n. Who literally was SH- ing herself for a criminal organization as a living, had now to deal with a new pain in the ass that dazai forced into her just because bro was lazy to do the job himself.

Now was she supposed to make astsushi start liking pain? That technically means she'd have to turn a 15 yo kid into a masochist...

I FUCKING HATE YOU DAZAI

Right now she was casually walking out of a successful mission done by her and atsushi, so she decided to strick up a conversation to learn more about this version of the boy.

But the more she listened to him, the more she considered unaliving herself more.

Atsushi's just a more emo version of himself in this world... and now she was stuck with dealing with him.

Might I add that he isn't just a furry cosplayer anymore, nuh uh. Bro upgraded into a furry premium! Transforming into a tiger and everything damn.

Tho that caused him pain in order to control his powers or some crazy shit. Pain itself that he claimed to hate.  so talk about antagonism.

"How do you deal with it? Your ability I mean. Doesn't it hurt you?" Atsushi initiated a conversation as the two were making their way towards the head quarters.

"You get used to it."

"That's all? You're not bothered by pain anymore just because you've felt it for too much time? But how... no matter how many time I get hurt, it's still scary..."

Y/n wasn't apathetic, infact she kinda eproved slight pity towards the guy. Maybe therapy would've been good for him but then again he'd break at the peer pressure of this toxic environment that they work on.

Being more or less affiliated with the mafia was never a good thing after all.

"There’s a beast inside me.." atsushi continued.

"And that’s not a metaphor. There’s a literal beast inside me. Right now, he’s howling and wildly feasting as he rampages. For some reason or another, he seems to have the power to negate wounds. Not the power to heal them or to recover but to negate. The reason he’s able to do this isn’t totally unrelated to my birth, probably. It’s not unrelated to the suffering I’ve had to bear all these years." He went on again with another yapping session.

"The beast—the tiger—is a manifestation of something within me. I still don’t know what that something is, but if he commands me to stand, then I can’t not stand—just like if he negates my wounds, then my wounds have no choice but to disappear."

"..." y/n honestly thought like even therapy couldn't help at this point.

The only sane thing she thought of doing was wrapping one of her arms around the boy's shoulder bringing him closer to her as the two were still walking together.

"I really can't help it... but be scared that I might get hurt and die alone..."

...

"Pain, What is it really. In the end it's just a common human feeling. You said you're afraid of dying alone right?" Y/n looked at atsushi who nodded his head.

"Then think of pain as a reminder that you're still alive atsushi."

Today atsushi learned a new life lesson; never seek help from a depressed teen.

_

Fast forward y/n and atsushi arrived to the hq and were headed to dazai's office.

Upon being met with the giantic door atsushi was about to knock out of respect (he didn't want to hear a handful out of chuuya) but y/n had other plans.

"Dazai!!! My favorite mafia boss how are y-"

"You bastard! How many times do I have to tell you to fucking knock before entering!?"

It wasn't a surprised when chuuya greeted her so nicely like this, she just complelty ignored him and made her way to dazai's desk.

"Anyways, the mission was done to PERFECTION! like everything went smoothly from cutting myself to unaliving everyone I saw- you should send me to more mass murder missions like this!" The girl said with a bright smile, dazai had to squint his only eye to be able to see her.

"You just like self harm don't you?" Dazai said with a calm expression, not matching his words at all and y/n eagerly nodded.

"Hey you! Don't just ignore me!" Chuuya had gotten now infront of the girl not allowing her to take a step closer to dazai. "You really have no respect huh,"

"Womp womp. Anyways can you move, you're blocking my view."

"Hah!? You bastard, where do you think you are!?"

"Uh... Dazai's office?"

"You-" chuuya was yet again about to yell at her until the door sudently bursted open again.

"Boss! This is an emergency-"

"What is it will all of you people not knowing basic manners- this is the boss's office damn it!"

Y/n was pretty sure chuuya would explode a nerve or two.

"O-oh, my apologies executive nakahara!" The member who just entred respectfully bowed.

"Well, what is it?" Dazai spoke from behind his office.

"Its about our prisoners, they've-..." The member swallowed hard or some spit, having a hard time getting it out of his throat.

"They've...?" Y/n was also curious about this new.

"They've been killed.. 5 out of our 6 prisoners- there's only bones remaining from their corpses,,,"

A faint momment of silence passed.

"Do you know who did this?" Dazai asked, he turned on serious mode as he looked at the member with his sharp eye.

"There's high chances that it's the 6th prisoner who killed them and escaped. We don't know how they manage to free himself nor how he managed to kill them in such way..."

"I see. Very well, you can go back to your duties." Dazai dismissed him as the member shouted a 'yes boss' before bowing and exiting the office.

Atsushi's tiger senses perked up sensing a slight discomfort in y/n's aura. Tho the boy had no intentions of questioning why.

"Y/n." Dazai's voice got her out of her thinking. "I'll leave it to you to find this 6th prisoner."

Y/n would've argued about it being too much of a work and that her iq wasn't suited for any kind of investigations but she just couldn't, after all it could be him.

"Sure, whatever. I'm going inspector gadget mode yay!"

Y/n turned around as she started to walk towards the exit but then she stopped.

"Atsushi, you comin'?" She looked at the boy, who's eyes sighly widened but he none the less nodded. Bowing towards his two superiors then following right behind y/n.