Monster (..Lives Forever)

Violet eyes saw through him the second he opened his eyes, dread washing through his body, and it took him a great amount of effort to suppress a flinch. He was asleep, but not really, and it immediately dawned on him that he and the man in front of him were the same; he was, too, a Spirit user. He was manipulating Dazai's dreams, using their psychic link through Spirit to communicate with him.

This was the man he'd heard in his dreams since he was young, the ones with his voice in the back of his head as he waited for his mom to come home from work. This was the man who'd told him at just eleven years old that sleeping was dangerous and would only spoil the future for him, and it had come true. This man was dangerous, the one who'd stolen the private records of his family--

The one who stole his parents away.

"You need to save Chuuya."

And suddenly the space molded into something once familiar, Dazai looked down to see his bandages stained with blood, but instead of Mori's coat hanging off him, it was a tan one identical to Odasaku's.