THE BOOK

[flamingprick]

[So somebody went looking around in Dazai's room to see if he left a note or something, and he found a book instead! Which he is going to promptly take with him as he goes off to find Akira and Ichigo. Because this feels like something important he should share with them.

And also he can't fucking read this shit either. Someone's going to have to read it out loud to him.

And hopefully he doesn't come across a certain shounen idiot who isn't supposed to be climbing four flights of stairs right now, because that would be a problem. HMMMM.]

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[cw_suicide]

[the story begins in the dark of night, a very suspicious doctor visiting his very ill and very mad patient who calls for blood and murder in the streets of the city... and the fourteen year old child with dead eyes and no expression watched his mentor become the boss of the Port Mafia a slitting of a throat.

the story really doesn't get better from there, but it does thankfully switch out of the child's perspective into various others throughout his life in the mafia.

one such perspective is of a fourteen year old who runs into the recently-promoted to Executive "Tsushima" (top panel), surrounded by the bodies of the killers of his friends he had been chasing. he ends up falling to his knees and crying out in utter relief of having a reason to live thanks to the mafioso's offer to take him on. "Tsushima" is sixteen years old and makes the kid's life a living hell in order to "survive in the mafia".

it goes on from the perspective from who appears to be a friend of "Tsushima"'s who--very unfortunately--turns out to be the friend who died in the end. spoilers: it was really sad. "Tsushima" is eighteen years old.

but then, the POV switches back, briefly, to "Tsushima"'s... it is a few months later, and he's speaking with a Government official about getting a job outside of the mafia. he rejects the offer to go to a government job--"My personality isn't suited to too many rules and regulations."

once again, the POV switches back--it's that straight-laced personality that Dazai mimicked back when he read a scene from the book to Akira and Ichigo. he doesn't like his new partner. he's a drunkard, gets high on random mushrooms, and is a general nuisance and louse who couldn't even pass the entrance exam and instead allowed one person to murder another. to be fair, there was a murder-grudge involved, and a lot of other good things he did. "Tsushima" is twenty years old...

when the perspective changes again, the story is from a young boy who was treated horricially by his orphanage and was lied to about his special ability of being a weretiger... he was ready to starve and-or kill himself... but a man was floating down a river...

"Tsushima" is twenty-two years old and the narrator would like everyone to know that they know "Tsushima"
is a good person...]