[Bungo Stray Dogs] The Apple Tree

Xiao Lin and Song Gong joined the Port Mafia at a young age. They're seasoned corporate drones with at least nine years of work experience, yet their ID cards say they're minors.

Baize is their senior, and also their guardian. Protecting the physical and mental well-being of minors can't wait.

Is this simply a record of the everyday work and life of the three of them in the organization...?

"Friendly reminder"

Don't form one of those little three-person groups in the Port Mafia that meet up at a bar after work. It will make you miserable.

The last group that did this had one member die and two fall apart.

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The story of the first loop has no ending.

The story of the first loop is over.

The European nightmare, the immortal witch, Anastasia.

I was reborn in the flames.

I died in your arms.

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Rule One:

The story cannot stray from the core on which it was built. If order collapses, the world will collapse with it.

Rule Two:

Any action that touches the order will be erased and purged. If the damage exceeds the world's ability to repair itself, the world will reset.

Rule Three:

A story without an ending will repeat its history again and again, until the world has exhausted its lifespan and reaches its end.

The script in your hands: did you pick it up yourself, or did They put it there?

Things to note:

○ Everything is my own headcanon, with lots of random ideas thrown in. In particular, the lore about the Port Mafia's history and the Book is my own. For now, my understanding is: the Book = a physical manifestation of the Chronicle of Ages and an embodiment of the world's consciousness.

○ This is being updated on the spur of the moment, so chapters with different titles usually don't connect, and the timelines of the different arcs are very jumbled. The character Baize Songyue also appears in other fandoms. Sometimes updates jump to another fandom, though some parts are crossovers with Bungou Stray Dogs. It's normal if you don't understand everything. Feel free to skip around and read another arc; there's no need to force yourself.

○ The characters Xiao Lin and Song Gong were created by my friends. They were originally our OCs in the Bungou Stray Dogs setting. I've now written a story about them, and it will mostly cater to our feelings, so please understand.

○ The outline contains a deus ex machina, though it doesn't look like I'll write it at the moment.

○ That's all. Thank you for reading this far.

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Theme: In a photo of three people, the one sitting in the middle dies first.