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day one: separation
The Mimic soldier falls. Joins his comrade in death.
Dazai turns away.
Your men outnumbered them three to one, Odasaku does not say. You could have taken them prisoner by sheer force. It was wrong to kill them, Odasaku does not say.
They wanted to die, Dazai does not reply with. Because Odasaku hurts when Dazai hurts, and Dazai never, never wants Odasaku to watch him, pain curving that gentle face past contorted.
Even if the words will never leave Dazai, they are there, are with him. The reality is that someone who wants to die can only be forced to live for only so long.
Still. Odasaku will try and try, for the rest of their lives, as long as Dazai will let him.
But the reality is that someone who wants to die can only be forced to live for only so long.
Dazai learns this
as Odasaku slips through his fingers.