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The devil tells no tails, and in Dazai’s case this would soon become very true.
Ok, so maybe he had over done it a tad. Sue him for thinking the guy could actually fight back. This kid looked like he had never fought in his entire life. Scott did a terrible job trying to train him. Natural selection should’ve taken Bobby a long time ago.
So technically, Dazai actually did him a favor. That way Bobby could see how incredibly weak he was. Dazai also had a fun time thinking about the fact that Bobby had been beaten up by someone who looked way scrawnier/younger than him.
A little earlier
“You call that a fighting stance?” Dazai said in a sarcastic tone while exaggerating a fake yawn to egg on Bobby more.
Bobby is for the most part considered a friendly guy to everyone around him, so when Dazai showed up and treated him with nothing but disrespect he found it amusing at first, but this was getting annoying quickly.
“Well at least I have a proper fighting stance.” He then started to jump in place to get some momentum going “If you don’t put your hands on guard who knows what might happen.” Ok, Bobby knows it’s low to taunt a kid, but this kid had it coming.
Dazai smirked a bit before lazily assuming a fighting stance “Just so you know I’m not getting into a fighting stance because you told me to, simply put I’m making sure you don’t feel too humiliated after I still beat you.”
Wow, Dazai could literally see the fumes coming out of this kid. Huh, kinda reminded him of the fire in the trailer a while ago. Oh yeah, how is Mr. Cat doing? He can’t be still sleeping right? Well then again old men tend to have slower reflexes, so it must be the age getting to him.
With all of this side thinking, Bobby could tell that Dazai was not paying attention to the fight, and it was starting to piss Bobby off even more. How dare this kid try to show me up when he just got here! He really ought to teach him a lesson.
With this newfound confidence and resolve Bobby goes for the attack, switching his defensive stance with an offensive one. He aims for Dazai’s left arm because he noticed Dazai writing with it earlier so Bobby assumes that must be his dominate hand. He wanted to immobilize Dazai’s dominant hand so he couldn’t do anything.
What Bobby didn’t know was Dazai had single-handedly influenced Bobby’s tactic to taking him down. First thing to note is that when Dazai stepped into the room he deliberately tried to put some room between him and the rest of the kids. Second, he provoked Bobby enough to where he wouldn’t fight him on the spot but that he would remember him and start paying more attention to what Dazai did. And probably the most important piece of information, when Dazai was writing his name on the piece of paper to put into the hat, he wrote with his left hand to make Bobby believe he was left-handed. Dazai is ambidextrous, meaning he can use both his right and left hand equally well. He does, however, prefer to use his right hand so he chose his left for this experiment.
Bobby triumphantly takes the victory and grabs Dazai’s left arm and twists it.
“FUCK THAT REALLY HURT!” Oh yeah, nailed it. Dazai really added his most angsty tone to that one as well. Yeah, he knew that what Bobby did caused him to fracture his left arm but hey not like it matters, Dazai has been through a lot worse. He really just wanted to see where Bobby would go with this. And he had to act that yell out because Dazai almost lost the pain to feel these “superficial” injuries.
At Dazai’s yell Bobby hesitated for a moment but then decided to continue the fight because Summers hadn’t said anything yet.
Bobby then tries to kick Dazai in the stomach so Dazai can fall to the ground. However, things don’t go to plan. Well, at least for Bobby because for Dazai’s everything always goes to plan.
Dazai swiftly dodges Bobby’s kick moving his body to the right before grabbing his leg and swinging it, the left causing Bobby to lose balance leaving him vulnerable. He then starts flailing to catch his balance again only for Dazai to body slam his back to the ground.
Dazai was now sitting on Bobby’s back holding his head down to the ground with his right hand.
“Oh, what was that about needing to have a proper fighting stance?” Dazai said in a taunting voice only to press his head harder to the ground and get closer to whisper to him. “Looks like even in your so-called perfect stance you were no match for me.”
At this comment Bobby started to yell and squirm but since he was pushed down to the ground his yells sounded muffled.
Once Dazai was thoroughly done humiliating Bobby, he pulled his hair back and slammed his head the ground once more. This time however with the impact of the cold concrete floor, Bobby’s head gets red presumingly bruised, and his nose starts to bleed heavily.
With the way things were going Bobby felt extremely lightheaded and was on the verge of passing out. He couldn’t help but feel bitter rage towards Dazai before he ultimately did after one last look into Scott Summers eyes and he realized the fight was over.
“All right that's enough Dazai!” Scott sounded panicked like he didn’t expect this to happen. It’s as if he expected Dazai to be in this situation and to stop Bobby from hurting Dazai too badly, but for it to be the other way around shocked Scott to say the least.
Dazai got off of Bobby trying to tip toe around the mess he had just created for himself. ‘Great there goes the acting innocent act.’ Which for the record he was never going to do.
On the bright side Bobby only got a small taste of what Dazai’s mafia style fighting was like. He didn’t even step on his head! Or shoot him for that matter. In the mafia, to punish traitors, he would tie them and turn them on their backs before stepping on their heads shattering their teeth, next he would turn them around again only to shoot them 3 times in the chest. Oh, but I guess Dazai was considered a traitor now to the mafia since he left. Wonder what Mori would do to him once he got his hand on him again. Not like he could anyways, Dazai is too smart but also Mori would have to be one determined man to find Dazai all the way in another universe just to take him back. Somehow Dazai wasn’t thoroughly convinced that Mori wouldn’t go through such lengths to get him back and the thought made him sick.
“Dazai, do you have any idea what you just did!” After all of Scott’s yelling the other kids in the room got nervous. They even fully stepped back from the scene after Dazai got his hands on Bobby. They were all terrified of him.
“No sir, I haven’t a clue!” Dazai then looked back at Bobby with a nonchalant tone “WOW, who did that to him!?” He then started to point fingers at all of the other students in the room.
They all thought he was crazy. They could clearly see Dazai was the one behind everything and yet he was acting as if he didn’t just do it.
Dazai loved to confuse people. He did it all the time. By directing everyone’s attention to him being slightly crazy for a second everyone forgot about the body lying on the floor. Whatever came next was going to be a lighter punishment because the anger that was first there would be replaced with confusion/annoyance and Dazai could deal with that easily.
“Oh right, it was me. My bad! He was just so much weaker than I thought he would be. I thought with the training you were doing at this school he could beat me in no time.” Turning his head back around to stare at Scott. “So, does that mean I win? Or will I get disqualified because he’s passed out?”
Scott was even angrier than before at Dazai’s attitude towards the situation. “This isn’t about winning or losing Dazai. You seriously hurt Bobby, and you don’t treat your other classmates like that. This is supposed to be self-defense not beat up your opponent class.”
“Then why name this class combat if there isn’t going to be any combat?” Dazai continued “If this class was about self-defense, then why not call it a self-defense class? Charles clearly knew what was going to happen by sending me here.”
“Don’t take me for a fool kid. I know what the sign says but that doesn’t excuse you. And may I remind you that before your fight even began I specifically said to not wound your opponent badly.”
“And I remember YOU saying that you would stop the fight when you deemed necessary.” Dazai could argue about this all day. He had the time. He wasn’t doing anything really. He just wanted to see how far he could push these guys around before they broke. After all everyone has a breaking point, you just have to know where to press.
“Well, I could argue about this all day, but you might want to check up on Iceman over there. He looks like he could need your help.” He turned back around facing Bobby as he said this in a mocking manner.
“I’m only going to stop talking because you’re right, Bobby does need some medical attention. But need I remind you that when the PROFESSOR brought you here, he said that there would be no funny business. This is strike one for you kid.”
Dazai assumes that Scott specifically emphasized professor because he has been intentionally calling the professor by his name Charles as a sign of disrespect. This is partly one of the reasons Dazai had specifically said his first name was Dazai and not Osamu. He didn’t want people to call him by his first name. It felt weird. Foreign. And he was not about to let complete strangers call him by his first name. He hadn’t actually heard anyone call him by his first name in years, well except when Atsushi saved him from drowning.
Scott went up to Bobby’s unconscious body and tapped him on the shoulder to wake him up. Once he made sure that Bobby could get up, he started to head his way to the nurse's office with Bobby’s arm holding Scott’s other shoulder for support.
“Class is about to end soon. Learn from the fights that previously just went on and review the principles of martial arts because we will be having a quiz on them next class.” Before Scott left he made eye contact with Dazai and warned him “And you, I’ll deal with you later.”
Dazai said under his breath “oooOOOo so scary.”
Scott heard it but decided taking Bobby to the nurse's office was more productive than taking it out with Dazai yet again.
Dazai was not scared at all for what Scott was insinuating too. He was, however, extremely curious as to how they would handle the situation and as to why Charles would even put him in combat class knowing damn well the year he’s lived through. Obviously, he would have to know that Dazai could already fight and was proficient with most weapons. So, he knew that he was just testing Dazai but why would he even take the risk? Was he just testing Dazai? Did he somehow fail the test?
He was curious for both outcomes but right now he had other fish to fry which speaking of he could really use some canned crab about now or BEER. Dazai would kill for a beer right now. He ought to find a way to sneak out and get some. But that's a later issue.
The principles of martial arts. Interestingly he brings this up now seeing as he just threw his kids into the deep end. Right, send these kids to fight and then bring them back to the foundations of writing. This school is wildly inefficient when it comes to creating soldiers. Which Dazai doesn’t get because if they are learning combat in school and this world is based on supernatural powers then wouldn’t there be a brewing war between those who had powers versus those who didn’t? This was only further confirmed when Jean called this a school a safe haven to keep kids away from scorn.
If he had it his way he would just train everyone to their limits. Only when you work yourself to the bone can you see your limits as well as surpass them. Dazai learned that way and it worked well for him. And he taught Akutagawa the same and he was able to control his ability 100x better than before. The only exception to this form of training is Atsushi. After all the ADA is a way better environment, most of the time agency members are just completing paperwork. So, the survival rate is higher, meaning he didn’t have to really teach survival skills to Atsushi because he wouldn’t really need to use it. He also probably picked up enough survival skill coming from the orphanage. The only thing Dazai really needed to train was his mental state because once Atsushi accepted, he was the tiger, he was able to better control it. The president’s ability also made this easier because Atsushi could manipulate specific limbs in his body.
So Dazai would be doing them all a favor by training them with the mafia methods. They really need it considering they’re all so weak. The teachers are all weak too. One touch with Dazai’s ability would render most of them useless because they rely too much on their powers.
He ought to make a club to actually teach these kids to fight! Yes, this would be a huge help to him later on because if Dazai had to protect all of these kids all of them would die, but if most of them could stand on their own then Dazai only had to protect some of the weaker ones and more would end up surviving. Wow, I’m so kind, see Odasaku I’m trying to make you proud. Are you proud?
The 8 principles of martial arts
Feet - the way the body connects through the ground. Keep pointed in the direction of power and used to press against the floor to generate power.
Posture - Being aware of where you are in the room, breathing correctly, and about the body's natural stance upright.
Mind - Awareness. Always have high awareness to stay alert.
Breath - Good oxygen flow is important to ensure the mind stays alert.
Internal - The ability to channel energy/force from the contact point with an opponent through the body, down the legs and into the feet.
Power - Layering power with different parts of the body. In conjunction with something.
Wedge - The point the hands other part of the body would normally travel to when meeting an attack combines first four principles to be able to first block and then begin to redirect a strike.
Spiral - turning your opponent's energy away from them using their energy to your advantage through wedging.
This is actually good information to note and would get taught in the mafia as well. Well not verbally but through the actual action. But still nonetheless good principles to have. All of these kids should pass with full marks, or they are failing not only this class but at life.
Oh, and look at that time to go!
Dazai took his sweet time to get to his next class. Meaning he was actually not planning on going to his next class and was going to skip entirely because the next class he has is physics with Charles. And after that meltdown he had earlier he would rather not be in the same room as him again. Plus the thought of his disgusting ability touching his own head brought shivers down his spine.
And would you look at that just when Dazai was about to contemplate killing himself Jean starts walking straight towards him. ‘Ah great here we go.’
“Hello, Dazai. Haven’t been up to any trouble I assume?” She says this in the most light tone she could muster up, but Dazai knew she knew about the altercation with Bobby. She was just there trying to fish for answers before Scott got to him. She really is far too kind.
“Of course, nothing at all. I was just about to head to my physics class. Which speaking of, could you take me there? I totally forgot where his office is.”
Dazai still couldn’t stand the thought of calling Charles the professor in an actually respectful way but he for some reason couldn’t make himself call the man Charles in front of Jean. It’s clear that she is trying hard to be respectful at the current moment and also Dazai could tell how much Charles meant to her and didn’t want to disrespect him in front of her out of courtesy.
Jean was about to continue the conversation when she noticed the way Dazai was standing. He was using his right arm more adamantly than his left. He was also leaning on his left side more. His left arm was hanging by his side instead of just being by his side.
“Dazai, is everything ok?” She said this in a now concerned tone.
‘Damn it!’ She knew now. Dazai knew she knew because now she was just staring at his arm. Dazai started to back track. “Oh no, no, not at all!” Dazai waved around both of his arms, making sure to actively wave around his left arm even though it would probably make the healing process longer. “I’m totally ok, thanks for asking though! I did get tossed around a bit in the fight at first. How could they put me in a combat class and not even teach how to fight before putting up against one of the strongest kids in the class.”
Jean nodded a bit, but she couldn’t tell if Dazai was being serious about the second statement because she had seen the way Dazai had to be held down by both her and Scott earlier and they were definitely not weak. Dazai was strong. Stronger than he let on. But one thing is for sure. Dazai was injured. No matter how hard he tried to hide it she could see. She had seen this before with patients during the war.
“Well since you went through a fight, I still want to do a standard check up! And don’t worry we make every student do this.”
She got Dazai there. When she had mentioned that this was a check up every student had to do, Dazai couldn’t get out of it.
With a dramatic sigh he followed Jean to a smaller office. Not the underground table he was at before but rather a smaller office with some medical tools and a thin bed.
This room reminded him of Mori’s old medical room back when he was still an underground doctor.
The thought brought back a sense of dread. Dazai didn’t want to be here. If he couldn’t control his heart rate at his own will his heart rate would be through the roof.
“Want to talk about what happened during class today?”
“No.” Dazai answered quietly.
“Ok, how about what happened earlier today in the professors office?”
Dazai answer the same no. Not changing the tone of his voice whatsoever. He just wanted to get this over with.
“Alright, seeing as you don’t want to talk that’s fine for now. I hope you do know that we will be talking about all of this in the future.”
Once Dazai was seated down Jean picked up and dropped Dazai’s legs individually to see if Dazai winced in any pain before continuing to do the same thing with his arms.
Nothing in the left leg, right leg, right arm. But when she got to the left arm Dazai didn’t wince but he did twitch slightly. It wasn’t noticeable unless you knew what you were looking for. Jean wasn’t looking at if he had any injuries. She knew he had some which is why she could see through Dazai. However, if Dazai had come to her and she wasn’t expecting any injuries, she would have never known Dazai was injured in the first place. That’s partly one of the reasons that makes Dazai so dangerous. He is too good at hiding his own pain. Which could only come from experience. It’s also sad to think about because that would be this kid has been through some unimaginable things to be at this state.
“Dazai, can you bend your left-arm up and down for me please?”
Dazai complies knowing it’s going to hurt but tries anyways hoping by some miracle she leaves it at that and doesn’t look further into it.
She doesn’t and continues to examine his arm.
“While I can’t say for certain because I don’t have the proper equipment with me currently, I believe you featured your left-arm.”
Fuck, so he did get caught. That usually would have worked on the president or anyone else at the agency. I guess not here. This only solidifies Dazai’s hatred towards doctors. Stupid and annoyingly preceptive.
“I’m going to have you wear a protective sling over your arm until we can properly assess the situation. So, try not to move your arm around too much! However, I do recommend not leaving your arm stiff either. A little movement here and there isn’t a bad thing but don’t over do it.”
Jean starts to put around the sling on Dazai and continues “Oh, and if you ever feel like doing something that might hurt yourself, please see me before you attempt it.”
She had a look of sadness and pity. And Dazai hated it with every bone in his lifeless body. He knew what she was referring to. She also knew he didn’t want to talk about it so it bringing it up right now is annoying. Everything is annoying right now. I should beat up kids less often if this is the outcome.
Dazai just nodded along to what Jean was saying fully starting to disassociate. Jean could tell too that nothing she was saying was getting through to Dazai. At least not anymore.
“Alright, that should about do it! If you have any questions, feel free to ask, and I will be scheduling a meeting with you later in the week to talk.” She was about to send Dazai out before remembering that Dazai asked about directions before. “Oh, I’ll take you to your class no worries. Just follow me.”
Oh great, Dazai planned to skip, and now not only did he just have to deal with pity fest, but he now also has to go to that MANS class. Awful, I tell you.
The walk to the class felt long. And deathly quiet. All of the other kids went to class already so there's no one in the halls except him and Jean. The air between him and Jean now is also considerably tense but that makes sense.
But just when Dazai was about to contemplate sneaking away, they made it to the headmaster's room.
Physics great, just what I needed.