My Childhood Friend Is Osamu Dazai

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Every young nobleman and noblewoman at Ouran Academy knows that the eldest daughter of the Hanazono family, the leading clan among the financial dynasties, has a childhood friend who has been by her side for years.

She even refused an arranged marriage to the Sumeragi family at any cost, all for that childhood friend.

Only Hanazono Yukio knows what it cost her to keep up with her childhood friend, Dazai Osamu. Even becoming his childhood friend was something she had fought tooth and nail to win.

Hanazono Yukio thinks he is like the wind, impossible to read and always drifting away. Sometimes, though, she also thinks he is lonely, like a homeless monster abandoned by the world.

“So... what am I to you?” the girl asked curiously, half joking and half hiding her true feelings.

“Yukio, you're such an innocent girl~ You clearly want me to say, ‘You're special to me.’ But everything about me is like a reflection of flowers in a mirror or the moon on water to someone like you, who can never touch the rules of the world I inhabit.”

The boy simply gazed at the girl with his reddish-brown eyes.

Then he tugged at the corners of his mouth, wearing an almost-smile:

“Someone like me... only exists in a city on the road to ruin. Even knowing that, would you still want to stay by my side?”

“Even if you're like that! So what! I don't think that means you don't deserve to be happy!”

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one pure romance. The male lead is Dazai Osamu, but there are plenty of his scummy moves in the story, written according to the author's interpretation and the needs of the plot. There are bittersweet moments, so feel free to leave if that's not your thing.

2. A mutual-crush story: a blunt, world-weary heiress x a scummy Port Mafia executive.

3. The main story begins when Dazai Osamu is 15.

4. Updates are slow, so you may want to save up chapters.

Theme: We all have a bright future!