You struggle against the restraints that have been placed on your wrists and ankles. The same man with jet black hair and black eyes from earlier walks into the room.
"My name, is Akugatawa Ryunosuke. And yours, is y/n. I know all about you," He said, displaying a sadistic smile.
He proceeds to close the distance between you two. "I'd love for you to be my subject, Miss F/n. My subject, of torture."
You see two long black strands with a red glow seem to come at you from nowhere.
"Help me!"
The words never left your mouth. ---
"WAKE UP!"
Your body jerks up with a sudden jolt. You check your surroundings: Ranpo's apartment.
"Are you alright, Y/n? Nightmare?" He asks you. You began to cry into his shirt, without giving him a reply. "It felt so real!"
"Oi, it's alright y/n-chan! Don't cry!!" Ranpo exclaimed, awkwardly trying to comfort you, who's basically a stranger.
Although it seemed this was the first time Ranpo had ever comforted anyone, his words still soothed you in an odd way.
And soon enough, you fell back asleep, in Ranpo's lap.
Ranpo's POV:
While I watched y/n fall back asleep, I got pretty bored, like usual, and decided to read the newspaper.
Nothing in particular seemed interesting. Something in the comic section caught my eye, though.
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•I know that isn't relevant in the least but, but it's sO CUTE so I'm including it in here. Creds to @/akanetsushima on Tumblr•
I giggled to myself, and finished reading the comic section. I smiled when I saw y/n smiling in her sleep. I'm glad she's not crying anymore. That was awkward.
'Eh? What is this...feeling?' 'I've never felt like this about anyone! Could she be with the port mafia? 'I'll use my ultra deduction.' 'Nope... 'Not anything about her past.
Strangely enough, she's not a threat...just lost, confused and...cute.
Strange...'
I moved, careful not to wake y/n, and tried to sleep, too.
--- Over the course of the next few weeks, you learned some "valuable" things:
1. Dazai is one sexy, suicidal maniac.
2. Kunikida is very easily irritated.
3. Atsushi is a smol bean, protect his precious soul at all costs.
...and so on with the rest of the members.
But most importantly:
4. Everything is about Ranpo. Everything. He survives off of encouragement to boost his ego.
But you always loved the face he made when you complimented him, so it was a win-win.
You also learned that he had the attention span of a goldfish.
But that, of course, was all fine with you.
In fact, it only made you like him more. But considering his personality, he couldn't take any sort of a hint. At all. You'd buy him things, ranging from stuffed animals, to fancy, foreign sweets, and even left small, cute love notes in the boxes. But, he only believed that you'd thought of him as a good friend, and did it out of kindness. Until one day...
Also: In the upcoming chapters, I'll be writing about what happened in those "few weeks" I just felt the need to include that at the end of this chapter to give sort of a preview of the upcoming chapters.
