On Being Assimilated by Dazai After Cosplaying with My Friends

As a transmigrator, Shen Zi Yezhi transmigrates into the Bungo Stray Dogs world again and again, countless times.

He saved Koyo, who betrayed them for love, and gave Mori Ogai a textbook on operations research. He adopted Fyodor and swindled a clown out of his money. He saved the world and tried to turn Dazai Osamu into a god. He put Oda Sakunosuke in the boss's seat and once relied on a clown for survival...

Every time he transmigrated, he jumped from that same high-rise. He saved everyone, but no one could save him, including Boss Dazai, who had watched him across countless worlds.

[Partners Who Understand Each Other]

"You can't do this... You'll bring about your own destruction." The detective who could see through everything tried to stop him.

"Idiot! I'm your partner!"

"Being cherished can be addictive."

Every time, I fail to hold you back. If one person's strength can't stop you, then... what about the strength of the whole world?

[Kindred Spirits, As They Should Be]

You should understand. We're the ones who are truly alike.

"You always like these beautiful clothes."

"I've always loved these fine clothes. This world is so filthy. I want to live beautifully."

"Yes, this world is so filthy. A world filled with sin... Everything will pass, and only truth will endure."

"Fyodor, are you still planning to do that?"

"You know me, Yezhi. I often imagine myself seized by a fervent desire to serve humanity... But I can't do it. The moment people so much as touch me, I become their enemy. The more deeply I love all of humanity, the less I love any individual person. But I still love them. Don't you feel the same? 'May everyone be born with the right to choose mediocrity.'"

"So, is the ending predetermined?"

"I love humanity more than anyone, but I can't touch them. You are the only warmth I can touch. God will bless you. You are human, too."

If love can't make you stay, what about responsibility?

[Friends and Family Who Trust Each Other Completely]

I have faith in God. I am His most loyal believer. I offer myself as a sacrifice, yet I also hope to use my filthy soul and so-called bonds to hold Him back, to drag Him into the swamp.

I used to think she saw through everything, but indulged me out of a kind of arrogance. I would often curl up in a corner, clinging to her with humanity's finest feelings and most contemptible gaze. When her unease and pain gradually revealed themselves to me, I felt ashamed of my relief.

I never had a free and pure soul. But I always wanted to be, in her eyes, a clean child beneath the sun, someone worth remembering. I changed all the time. I was contradictory and a little obsessive, but I knew I would stay by my little god's side.

When my little god became part of the human world, I felt an unprecedented mix of joy and sorrow at the thought of that hidden arrogance.

"I want to pull Him down from His altar, stain Him with the mortal world, bring life and expression to His face, and make those pure eyes grow cloudy. I want to make God human."

Reality can't save you. Can this world save you?

[Partners in Crime Who Choose Each Other]

I've seen every life you've lived. I've seen you charge like a moth into the flames time and time again. The other Dazais couldn't hold you back, and no one else could either. But I want to catch you, even if it means dying with you.

"Imagine giving someone who has been lonely for too long quiet companionship, giving someone extremely sensitive complete understanding, and giving someone as timid as a mouse fearless courage, then vanishing without warning... Especially when that person knows exactly why all their 'happiness' disappeared: 'No Longer Human.'"

They can't hold you back, but I can.

After transmigrating again and again and forming bonds with countless people, Shen Zi Yezhi lost his memory.

With everything forgotten, Shen Zi Yezhi starts over in this world, honing his blades while letting loose. He even goes to the neighboring world to help Boss Dazai elope with Gojo Satoru, until the people from Bungo Stray Dogs, who had watched him jump from that high-rise time and again, regain their memories...

Shen Zi Yezhi, burdened with countless love debts and broken promises, looks at the Bungo Stray Dogs cast smiling at him "kindly":

Maybe I should jump off a building and clear my head?

"Why do people have to live?" I ask, then tell him, my eyes full of despair and confusion, "I'm so scared, Clown. When we live each day as if we're so serious about it, are we really living for ourselves?

"Like the vast majority of ignorant people, humanity itself is made up of simple constructs built by power and knowledge. I can't find any meaning in being alive. Why do they go on living so seriously, searching for meaning in life?

"Every one of them is just a cog, mechanically surviving under society's rules and systems. How different is living like this from being dead?

"So, Clown, you see how absurd the meaning we've constructed is.

"Clown, how different is living like this from dying?"

"I am a traveler who would choose to end my life even in the arms of happiness, until the light caught hold of me."

"You are the darkest shadow in Yokohama's night, yet you are the light I want."

※ The golden finger is extremely powerful. This story is here to take back every blade.

Theme: Even cowards should support one another