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    "How much longer do you intend to live like this?"
    "How?"
    "I'm not in the mood for jokes, Dazai."
    "I don't understand what you mean. I'm living the best version of life, restricting human contact to the absolute minimum for which I still get paid. I can keep going like this for a long time. You return from them and I'm already suffocating."

    Dazai remains true to form: a young, jaded intellectual born into a powerful political family, stifled by a name and status he can no longer bear.

    Fyodor is the ruthless, enigmatic outsider, thriving in his current role as... an efficient instrument of the Japanese law.

    Together, they forge a dark pact, sealing it with blood—and Dazai, with additional curses.

    Back then, he didn't like pain yet. Or perhaps that, too, was the writer's lie, one of many...

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