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Dazai watched Dumbledore’s house burn as he went back into the limousine. While he was leaning in a note fell out of his pocket onto the limo floor.

‘what the ####?’ reluctantly Dazai got in the car and bent over to pick it up, glancing at Hirotsu who’s own eyes laid in front.

Once fully upright, Dazai then promptly slumped into his chair and opened the folded paper to read:

‘Boss

I know you're probably not going to write any letters to us even if you say you will. I'm not sure if you’re even going to return to Hogwarts.

If you don't return, I want you to know that I will never stop searching for you. My life was empty before you came into it and it will remain that way when you're gone. I'll do my best to keep the gang together until we reunite. Once I'm done with Hogwarts I won't stop until they let me see you again.

-your ever loyal second in command, Blaise’

Dazai’s eye felt cloudy and feeling a swirl of emotions in his chest, he took a deep breath before folding the paper up and putting it back into his pocket.

‘Blaise is an idiot’ Dazai turned his head towards the window and stared at the scenery as they drove on by.

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Dazai never wrote back to the other hounds and instructed feather brain to take any and all mail, to a secluded place he was sure Mori would never see. Outside of Yokohama there are wizards just as secretive as the rest, but they also have an international postal service. All mail is sorted through and kept until the appropriate owl comes to collect their owners mail.

Over the years he never mentioned his time at Hogwarts or that he was a wizard, he checked his mail location every other month. Slowly after a while he slowly stopped getting mail until only Blaise sent him a letter once a month telling him about the other members and what was going on.

In the mail one day, professor Snape sent him a magic prosthetic eye that would follow the other eye’s movement.

That was the last letter from Snape he ever got, Dazai had it coated in a special material so he might use it, but instead of actually using it, he put it in a pretty and very sturdy box.

Once he left the mafia, he took his eye and all of the letters over the years to a different secret location. Juuuust in case Mori somehow knew where the current one was. you can never be too (paranoid) cautious.

The hells hounds worked hard to make themselves known to all, and all knew they were not to be messed with. Their organization is dedicated to their boss, no one knows who or where their boss is, but no one wants to come across someone who could lead the Hell’s hounds.

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Years later, post guild arc

The agency was lounging at the office when (surprisingly) the peace was broken by a very bored Dazai, who (shockingly) decided to knock over Kunikida’s papers.

“DAAAAAAZAAAAAAIIIIIIIII” 

“Oopsie~” Dazai leaned back and put his hands up in a shrug.

Kunikida slammed his head onto the desk with his book and there was a strangely kinda loud ‘PoP’ noise.

Dazai lifted his head…. one of his eyes WAS GONE!!!!

Dazai’s prosthetic eye popped right out of it's socket!!!, Kunikida and Atsushi looked horrified.

“AAh my EyEeeE, Kunikidaaaaa”

“WHAT THE ##########!!!!”

“AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH”

The other agency members rushed over 

“What happened!?” Yosano said with an excited smile

“What with the noise” Ranpo said rubbing his own intact eye

Atsushi and Kunikida turned ridgedly to face the others, all Atsushi could make out was

“Hi- his- his- his-”

And Dazai interrupted with his usual upbeat manner 

“Ah it's nothing, Kunikida just popped my eye out that's all”

“HUUUUUUUUHHHHHH!!!?!!!” everyone said at once -ranpo of course

Tanizaki looked like his soul left his body

Yasono looked horrified but happy?

Kenji was concerned

Kyouka “Is that part of your ability?” She was surprised at first but regained her composure quickly

Dazai “no, no, no Kyouka, of course not!” He picked up his eye, spun around on his chair and it was back in his head

“I actually lost this eye, like maaaaaany years ago”

Atsushi “no way”

“You mean like, it's gone gone forever?”

Dazai “mhm!”

Kunikida “I-I-I'm so sorry, I had no idea!”

Dazai merely laughed

Yosano “And whyyy was this never mentioned???” Yosano scrutinized him

Tanizaki “right, and how'd you even lose it in the first place? And when!”

Kenji “a long time ago right?”

Dazai sighed “well yes, before I was in the port mafia myself.” He dramatically leaned on the side of his chair “ a super old crazy port mafia member attacked me! For a while I didn't have this prosthetic and once I got it I didn't immediately use it either”

Atsushi “Wow that's horrible! Why would you join them after that!!”

Every one paused and Dazai looked solemn for a moment 

Atsushi “Ah! I'm so sorry Dazai san!! I didn-”

Dazai regained his cherry attitude albeit a little less that it had been

“Don't worry about it, Atsushi! I have my reasons for doing the things I've done, okay?”

Atsushi nodded

Yosano “Well, I don't think anyone would like to relive something like losing an eye, so let's all just forget about this okay”

Everyone nodded and slowly walked away, Yosano stayed behind

“Do you need something for that eye? eye drops?”

Dazai shook his head “no Yosano sensei, but thank you”

Yosano nodded “I'm going to have to put this on your record, I won't mention it if you won't. But If I hear you have another serious injury you're hiding from me we're going to have a loong chat, got it?”

Dazai shot up straight and saluted her like a soldier “yes Yosano sensei!”

Yosano chuckled and walked away

Her face turned a bit gloomy as she got to her office.

For the rest of the evening Atsushi looked like a very sad tiger 😔 

As Dazai sound around in his chair with

a smile on his lips and a laugh in his eyes, there was only one thing in his mind ‘Somebody please kill me’

Chapter Text

Late the next day, the agency members are in the cafe downstairs. While having some caffeinated drinks the conversation was light and easy going.

Kenji was going on and on about the joys of farming to Atsushi who is next to him, Tanizaki and Naomi who are across the table.

The next booth of people is solely teasing Kunikida, Which consists of Dazai, Ranpo, Yosano then Kunikida

Kyouka was out running an errand.

Then the conversation shifted when Naomi, all over her brother, shifted around onto her knees on the bench looking over the seat at Dazai “Dazai-san…” the teasing pauses but Kenji’s still yapping  

“Yesss Naomi” ^u^

“I don't mean to be nosy or anything but I just can't understand it ……..”

“Don't be shy Naomi, you know me!” Dazai leans onto the table, hands under his chin

“how does your prosthetic eye move with your real eye!!?” >∆<

At the sudden kinda outburst (ig) Kenji and the others focus in. The agency looks like a bunch of meerkats, and Dazai he can't help but reminisce of When he was a leader, especially when the people in front of him look like lost puppies.

Super cheerfully Dazai said “A very good friend had it made for me”

Yosano was intrigued and filled with curiosity “really? How was it made? I wanna know the details!”

Yosano’s crazy doctor curiosity makes Dazai nervous but he doesn't show it, at all.

Kenji and Ranpo join in and in unison “me too!!”

The others don't say anything but they have a face that screams ‘I wanna know too…’

Crumbling under the pressure a little he looks for an escape “well… I don't really know… tee hee!” he makes a winky face. 

The agency stares at him in exasperation

Ranpo’s about to say something but suddenly “oooooo DOUB-” its heavy metal screamed and Atsushi leaps out of his seat and falls right into his face and slides a little bit across the floor. It's Dazai’s phone which is sitting on the table. “DOUBLE SUICIDE DOUBLE SUIIIIIDSSIIIIIIDE” it screches.

As suddenly as it was picked up, it combusts into flames, Dazai drops it back into the table. Clutching his hand Yosano chucks the phone at the cafe door.

The rest of the agency ducks a little bit before straightening back up. while Atsushi is still lying on the floor, Kunikida quickly stamps out the fire. Kenji stands up from his seat “Are you okay Dazai-san!??”

Kunikida looks upset “What the h### happened?”

..

“Well let's see shall we?” Ranpo says with his usual vigor, and the members relax. (When did he even stand up??) Ranpo takes out his glasses and Dazai sinks into his seat a bit, holding his hand.

Yosano leaves the booth with “I'll get some ice”

Ranpo puts on his glasses then the flash of lights that accompanies his super totally completely real ability appears (disclaimer:I love Ranpo) but his face turns to horror.

Tanizaki is holding Naomi, and when he sees Ranpo’s horrified expression he feels a shiver run down his back “Ranpo-san?” The agency is getting this sinking feeling as Ranpo looks at Dazai.

He's frozen and Dazai is freaking out. ‘Im dead. I'm so dead, he definitely knows.’

Then Ranpo said these words “I don't know”

……….

“hmmm, that's not good”

 like it's just everyday this happens

(maybe it does if your Dazai.) internally he's celebrating

“What do you mean, you don't know!?” Naomi said thoughtfully

‘Is that possible??’ Atsushi thought, nervous for his mentor’s safety. (Nervous/scared to death)

Suddenly Ranpo is filled with determination.

“I don't know what caused this, but I promise…”

The agency members lean in slowly.

Ranpo jumps onto the table “I WILL KEEP YOU SAFE, DAZAI!! HA HA” he points at Dazai with a face as bright as the sun and then leaps to the door where the phone lay in pieces. He crouches down and examines the scene.

“Guess I need a new phone, huh?” *sigh*

“You're not worried?” Atsushi said cautiously

“HA worried, I'm only jealous my phone died and not me..” the he dramatically leaned into his seat and slid down

“Here's that ice Dazai” Yasono hands Dazai a dishclothe with ice in it, then walks over to Ranpo.

“If this is an attack on one of my members we will not be idle.” Fukuzawa appeared seemingly out of nowhere.

Dazai sits back up and Ranpo stands up again.

“What have you found Ranpo?”

“There wasn't an explosive, that's for sure president”

Everyone (-Dazai) is flabbergasted

“Then how did the phone catch on fire?” Tanizaki said

“That's what I'm unsure of, but I do know this was a deliberate attempt to get our attention.”

The agency looks to Ranpo definitely confused

“But why this idiot?” Kunikida jabs a finger at him from across the table

“Ahh Kunikidaaaaa, don't be so mean to meee” (」´ ロ`)」

“Shut up” Kunikida crosses his arms and turns back to Ranpo

“Um, why would anyone want to get our attention this way, and hurt Dazai-san?”

Ranpo turns to Atsushi

“It's possible this was a warning, ”

Then Dazai cuts in “OORRrrrr this was a one in a million freak accident, I doubt anyone would want to hurt me. Especially when the city loves me as much as it does.”

………

The agency was too stunned to speak.

“anyway. Who would target Dazai?” Ranpo puts his hand to his chin

“The port mafia?” Tanizaki suggests

“No…”

“The guild?” Yosano ‘It better not be’

Yosano looks a little murderous

“No”

Dazai's really regretting setting his phone on fire.

“I believe we should discuss this upstairs, shall we?” He's already walking away

“Good point Dazai” Ranpo scoops up the phone pieces in a thick cloth and heads straight upstairs.

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. . .

. . . .

. . .

Hell’s Hounds.

A mysterious organization located primarily in London, England.

. . .

Their main base location is unknown but assumed to be London.

. . .

Purpose: Their only known goal or purpose is to “faithfully serve their boss”

. . .

Total members: unknown

. . .

Ability users: unknown

. . .

Organization head: unknown, someone other than their boss seems to be making most of the decisions, the members refer to him as “the second” or “second in command” 

. . .

Classification: highly dangerous

. . .

Known Crimes: assault of police, kidnapping government officials, threatening government officials, black mail, breaking and entering, defacing public property.

. . .

They seem to be gathering information on the Port Mafia, Yokohama, Japan.

Questions centered around detective “Osamu Dazai.” A member of the Armed Detective Agency

. . .

. . . .

. . .

“This has to be our guy right, Ranpo?”

“Indeed Atsushi!”

.

.

.

After a lengthy discussion on who would attack Dazai, the agency went into a database of listed criminal organizations.

Fukuzawa was furious “Why was I not informed that one of my employees was a target.”

“If I see them, I’ll slice them all” Kyouka pulled her weapon

“Kyouka-chan your back!” Naomi greeted her

“T-thats not necessary right now Kyouka..”

Atsushi’s trying to get her to put the weapon away

Kunikida ignoring the lil bit of chaos

“What do you think of this?”

“Dazai?”

“Dazai.”

The agency turned to where Dazai was, but he was not there.

“I passed him on the way here.” Kyouka asserted

“Seriously.” Kunikida is now miffed that Dazai would leave, when he's almost be

en killed, by an organization no ones ever heard of

_______________________________

As Dazai was running out of the agency he started to call a cab on Kunikida’s phone.

Chapter Text

Dazai waited as the cab drove on, his leg bouncing of the floor with anxiety and a strong temptation to take out the driver and go faster
‘F### speed limits, I need to fix this’
‘This is all my fault, why are they so dam loyal’ he's scratching his wrists and looking out of the window anxiously. ‘What do I do?’
. . . . .

’What would Odasaku do?’
‘He’d be calm….. right, I'm calm’

Slowly he stops his fidgeting and scratching. Then leans into the window, eyes watching every passing car and building

‘im calm, I'm calm, everything is fine, it's fine, it's fine’

Dazai leaned forward towards the driver

“Could you please hurry? I’m in a bit of a rush” he put on a charming smile

The driver just scoffed “ You want me to break the dam law for your “rush” what kinda detective are ya?”
The drivers eye was twitching like it was having a seizure.

‘this mf.’
He fell back into his seat
He took a deep breath in and then exhaled slowly

“Yeah, I guess you're right ha ha… ha”

‘It’ll be fine, it can't be that bad’

‘it'll be fine, it'll be fine’
As he kept reassuring himself, the houses passing by started to look more and more dingy and dirty.

Almost as bad as Suribachi city, but not quite.
. . .

After what seemed an eternity, the cab pulled up to a ratty old house that would probably be condemned at this point.
The windows are boarded up shielding the broken windows from view

Chucking money to the cab driver, Dazai practically leaps from the car doors. He runs up a few steps fumbling with the keys and accidentally dropping them.
He shouts “F##K”
Then kicks the door, except instead of the doors bursting open; his foot went through the wood. He hopped on one foot and put his hands on the door, somehow getting his foot out before he fell back onto the stairs. Then again, he paused.

‘I could've just died just now…’

Sigh

The doors are about as strong as paper, so when he simply shoved the doors they fell off their hinges.

After darting through the living room, and tripping onto the couch face first.
He doesn't waste a second turning corners and bumping into the walls.
Finally he gets to a room in the back with a big rug in the middle. He tosses the rug off the floor, low and behold there's a secret door. He flings that open and flies down the stairs into the basement.

“FEATHER BRAIN!!!”
“hoo”
IS THERE- IS THERE- IS THERE A LETTER
“coo”
“WHEre”

Taking in a deep breath
“is the letter”

(There's a window, that the owl can open and close on his own)

Featherbrain jumps to the side and reveals the letter he was sitting on.

Dazai’s trembling hands and shaky breath he takes the letter and opens it. It reads:

‘Dear Boss,
We’re coming to find you. I don't care if I have to tear down the Port Mafia with my bare hands, I'm going to get you back home, with me. and the others.

We've all done things we aren't proud of to get you, because you're our boss and nothing, nothing, will ever change that ever.

I just hope by the end of this, you won't feel ashamed my crimes.’

Dazai shakily slumps to the ground staring at the letter.

_______________________________

There’s so much panicked talking, the anxiety and tension is palpable.
Atsushi was frozen, filled with horrible thoughts, and the room seemed to get louder and louder, Ranpo was nowhere to be seen and then..

“Enough”
Fukuzawa cuts through the noise instantly.
“Dazai is one of us and we will keep him safe, the only way to do that is to calm down.”

“Pres-”
“There's no need to worry” Ranpo came through the door with a bag of chips in his hand “I'll take care of this”

“HUHHHH” The whole room was stupefied even Fukuzawa was taken back by that.

“Ranpo!” “You're okay!!” “What happened!?” “Where were you!?”

The president relaxed some at the sight of a healthy (living) Ranpo
“Ranpo, where did you run off too”

“Don't worry, president! I was just investigating something suspicious”

The group felt so much more at ease with Ranpo’s presence, though still thrumming with anxiousness.

Fukuzawa nodded

Since the room quieted down Atsushi regained some mental stability

Yosano shook her head “I bet Dazai owes you some snacks huh”

“Nope”
Now everyone was a lil confused

*Sighhhhhhhhhh*
“Where would you all be without me?”

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One week prior

“Why does no one know ANYTHING useful….”
Ron let his head fall onto the beautifully designed super fancy desk
*Sigh*

“Don't worry Ron-” “we’ll find something eventually” Fred and George walked into the office, with Hermione behind them. “Precisely, so get back to work Ron.”

“aaaarghhagah We've waited this long, what's one break going to do Mione.”

“You know very well Ron, time is of the essence! And we need those files written up, I refuse to work in disorganization!”
“Come on, get to it Ron” George says in a teasing voice “Yeah” Fred joins

Hermione scowls at the twins

“jee sorry” “Fred, I believe there’s work to be done elsewhere” “yep, yep lots of work”
“Bye now” thankfully the twins manage to escape with their heads still attached.

“This is about as hard as finding him when he'd get lost in Hogwarts.” Ron spins around in the spinny chair

Hermione stepped around the desk grabbing Ron by the cheeks and kissed his forehead “Well why don't you hurry up and we can have tea. So we can for once, have a break during break time. You're wasting valuable work time.”

Ron looked horrified. “Is it tea time already!” Hermione nodded “Yes and you would've been done already if you’d stop squabbling instead of working!”
“ARgh” Ron sped up his writing, Hermione just sighed and then stood up. “See you at the tea table”

-10 minutes later-
The four are at the table.

Fred and George are talking about their latest prank magic
As Ron puts a cube of sugar into his tea he turns to Hermione
“Hey Mione, when are the others coming back?”

“Tomorrow I belie-” *SLAM*

Blaise swings open the door and it slams into the wall, Draco follows behind. Hermione tries to speak but

“We’ve found him.”

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Back to present
-Dazai in his basement, rolling on la floor-

It's silent, all that can be heard is Dazai rolling, his coat making coat noises.

It's messy with random things all over, kid toys, random crumbled papers, empty alcohol bottles, it's also pretty dusty.
except for the back of the wall where a whole lot of letters are neatly stacked on the old creaky desk, as well as letters and trinkets nicely organized in an office paper holder shelf thing.

Then there are footsteps…

“Wow this place is a dump”

Dazai stops rolling and looks at the intruder

Dazai gets onto his hands into a kinda half plank “Ranpo??”
He then sits up fully

“Jeez, what would the world be without me? A total mess that's what!” Ranpo skipped over to Dazai as he was standing up.

“That's true..”
“Hm hm!” Ranpo is living for compliments (like me)

It was kinda silent for a moment but not awkward. Then Ranpo picked a kitchen stool off the floor, wiped away the dust and hopped on.

“So.”

Ranpo opens his eyes. As if they knew all the secrets of the world, they looked right into Dazai’s soul.

“How did you hide that you’re a wizard from me”

Chapter Text

-Atsushi

After Ranpo declared ownership of the Dazai’s assassination attempt, the agency felt much more at ease, even though Dazai hasn't been heard from in 3 days.

Nice and relaxed, no shouting, complaining or whining, just sweet peace. Though a little unsettling everyone seems to enjoy the peace and quiet.
Except for Atsushi, he's a wreck.
(This isn't too far from the guild arc, so he doesn't have that faith yet, or experience with Dazai)

No matter how much Ranpo says Dazai's fine, Atsushi can't help but worry and… feel completely useless

‘Someone tried to kill Mr Dazai and he's been missing for THREE days!! Is there seriously nothing I can do? Ranpo and Kunikida won't say anything about what happened the day Dazai went missing’

‘Just focus on your work Atsushi, just work. Look at Mr Kunikida! So focused, he's not worried, but also maybe he's not the best example… Kenji! He's also relaxed and Kyouka she's always so collected (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠) please be okay Mr Dazaiiiiiii’

-Kunikida

‘Finally some peace, at least for most of us..’
Kunikida looks up
Atsushi looks like a very sad kitten

‘He’ll be fine, It'll be good for him to learn that Dazai can somehow actually take care of himself.
Though I can't help but wonder where the hell Dazai went, Ranpo won't say anything about it.
I have no idea what happened or why Ranpo didn't come back with Dazai, but Ranpo says it's fine so.. might as well enjoy this’

*smirk*

‘FREEDOM!!’

_______________________________

3 days ago (day 1)

“I had no idea you were a wizard!”

Dazai looked confused and tilted his head to the side.
“A wizard? What are you talking about? Like in western stories and whatnot?
Why would you think I'm a wizard?”

*Sigh*

“sybau”
Proceeds to aura farm
Dazai blushes intensely
Then they kiss 😏

“I don't know how I didn't realize it sooner, you probably haven't used any magic since you joined the agency. But today when the phone exploded… it was you, and if I weren't a wizard too, you'd of had us running in circles until you could cover it up”

Dazai’s jaw dropped “you. You're a wizard?”

“Yup, I even went to a wizard school too. A school in Japan, Mahoutokoro”

“Wow” Dazai sat down on the desk behind him

Nodding to himself Ranpo pointed at Dazai
“Mm hm. Now the reason you blew that phone up, it was someone you knew from a long time ago. Someone you thought could never contact you”

Dazai’s face went blank

“And you knew exactly who was calling, you saw the caller ID and knew. A friend or friends, The Hells Hounds”

“You feel guilty about something Dazai and you don't want to face it. But that won't fix anything, will it?”

“...........” Dazai glues his eyes to one side of the room (← _ ←)

“So, you and me are going to England find the hells hounds and-”

“Huh” (⁠●⁠_⁠_⁠●⁠)

“Let me finish, we're going to England and YOU are going to reunite with your buddies, buy me all the snacks I want, while I show those English people who the world’s greatest detective is”

“But- Ranpo wait!”
Ranpo hopped off the stool and started walking up the stairs.

Dazai rushed after him
“Ranpo!”

“Don't you have a bag or something around here?”

Ranpo was snooping around the mess of a house

“Ranpo, hold on”

“Ughhggh, Dazai. It's going to be okay, why would they still send you letters and try to find you, if they didn't want to find you?”

“......”
Ranpo just stared with heavy eyes

“How are we even going to get to England…. How did you even get here?!”

“Kunikida dropped me off, about 2 blocks from here! I told him to wait in the car, after that I simply deduced where you were!”

“Right… and England?”

“A plane or something and you'll buy the tickets! Obviously”

_______________________________

Ranpo crosses the street while Dazai begrudgingly follows

*Sighhhhhhhhhhhhh*
“Go to England? Find my Hounds? Reunite?
No thank you.”

“Come oooooonnnnnnn, we had this discussion 2 hours agoooo! We both know you want to go”

“Nu uh”
Yuh huh”
“No I don't! They're all in the past!”

Ranpo walks backwards
“Then why are we walking to Kunikida, so he can take us to the dorms, so we can go to the airport? And why are you carrying suitcases?”

“Because…”

Dazai stopped in his tracks on the sidewalk. Ranpo notices this pause, then turns around and…
Further up the sidewalk there's a tall, handsome foreign man, who is staring directly at Dazai.

Suddenly the man starts running towards them

“Boss!”

“Blais-”

Blaise pulls Dazai into a hug, arms around Dazai’s neck tightly. Dazai's arms limp at his side.

Blaise has his face in the crook of Dazai's neck and he almost whispers
“I missed you”

Chapter Text

“Blaise..”

“I told you I'd find you. No matter what, I'd find you, and now I have”

Dazai's arms slowly wrapped around Blaise and his body started to shake, tears threatening to escape his eyes.

“Another case solved by yours truly! Ranpo!! The world's greatest detective! I believe lunch is in order, don't you?”

A pause

“Okay. Let's go, I know a good place to eat around here”

Dazai let his arms drop and Blaise slowly let him go. Dazai slowly started walking past Blaise down the sidewalk, Blaise caught up and walked by his side.

Ranpo trailed behind the two like a lil duckling

.

.

After a bit of walking, Dazai led the two into a decent but somewhat dingy looking restaurant.

They get a booth in a far corner in the back. They order food.

Ranpo sits next to Dazai, and Blaise sits across from Dazai.  

It's awkward, for two of these people. Especially with their third wheel, and when said third wheel rattles off to Blaise about his greatness. Ranpo fills the silence and when the waitress walks up, he orders half the menu for himself. The Blaise and Dazai order.

When the waitress walks away, Dazai turns to Ranpo.

“Shouldn't you call Kunikida? It's been almost an hour”

“Ah right!”

Ranpo dials Kunikida’s number

_______________________________

Pov Kunikida

‘It’s almost been an entire hour, if they aren't back in 10 seconds I'm going after them.’

‘dam! If only Ranpo hadn't told me to wait an hour!!! I'd give Dazai a reason to not wander off’ ARE YOU KIDDING ME’ 

His thoughts now became more than thoughts

“THIS STUPID IDIOT!!”

Kunikida gets out of the car and slams the door shut and starts walking from the car. Before he can far, his phone starts to ring.

He answers

“Yes Mr President, I'm on my way to Ranpo right now..”

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Sigh “he told me to wait in the car”

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“Seriously?”

*Sigh

“We'll be there in 20”

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“MR PRESIDENT!”

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*Beep beep beep*

The line goes dead.

Kunikida pockets his phone and starts running

He shouts as he runs through the streets

“Ranpo! Ranpo!”

After what felt like forever in searching, his phone rang again.

Kunikida pulled out his phone as he searched and when he saw the very person he was searching calling, he skidded to a stop and accepted the call.

‘dam why didn't I just call him?!’

“Ranpo!!”

“I found Dazai”

“The pres- you.. found him!”

“Yupp”

“Great, we need both of you immediately. The president. I don't know what happened yet, but he could be in danger right now.”

_______________________________

Ranpo's usual smile dropped instantly

“I need you to tell me where you are, I'm at American cheeseburger paradise are you close by?”

Ranpo looked to Dazai as he stood up, soon Dazai and Blaise followed

Dazai glanced at the window of the restaurant and told Ranpo

“Were just around the corner, not even 2 minutes away from Kunikida. Let's go”

The two left the restaurant quickly

Once they exited the building they ran towards Kunikida. Blaise lagged behind to pay the waitress but soon ran after them.

When they saw Kunikida, they ran faster. Even though Blaise had no idea what was happening, he understood the urgency in the emergency. (Lol)

Kunikida caught sight of Ranpo, and ran to him.

“Ranpo! I was on the phone with the president and there was some kind of explosion during his meeting at the eggs and bacon bank!! Where's Dazai?!”

“He's right-” 

But when Ranpo looked behind him no one was there 

“He's not coming with us, let's go.”

Kunikida hesitated, but if Ranpo says it's alright..

“Okay”

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When Ranpo and I first got in the car he used his ability to figure out how much danger the president was in, he realized the explosion was actually a distraction for some criminals attempting to rob the eggs and bacon bank. I asked Ranpo what the idiot Dazai was doing, but he wouldn't tell me.

We drove to the building where the president is located, as we got closer we could see smoke rising into the air. The bank is surrounded by police cars and a single fire truck. The president and Haruno Kirako are standing outside of the building, talking to police officers. 

Ranpo and I walked to the president and Haruno. 

“Ah Ranpo, are you alright?”

“Yuppers”

“And Dazai?”

“Eh he's fine, I'm handling it”

“He may be fine but where is he?”

“Can't tell you.” 😒

“Ranpo”

“He's fine. Great in fact! And he won't be gone for long”

😮‍💨 “I trust your judgment Ranpo, in the meantime, please do what you can to assist these police officers”

“Heh, no problem, I solved the case on the way here!”

Many police officers sighed at Ranpo's remark. Then Ranpo got to work, explaining how the bank was robbed. 

‘Ranpo is truly amazing, and I'm glad to work with him. Though I really am curious about Dazai. Where is that fool? And why won't Ranpo tell us?’

It took a few hours for everything to get cleared up and we all went back to the agency. Everyone crowded around asking questions, normally Ranpo would revel in the attention, but he was rather quiet at the agency. Dazai's case must be really complicated.

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‘After we got back to the agency everyone praised me as usual of course, but it didn't feel great. How can I fully enjoy all these compliments when the real case has yet to be solved? The truth is, I have no idea where Dazai is, not to mention his British boyfriend. If not even my ability can solve this case.. will Dazai be gone forev

er?’

*SIGHHHHHHHH

The other members glance at Ranpo as he spins in his chair, but otherwise leave him be. He needs to think 🤔 and have a lightbulb idea 💡