After Raising Affection with Dark Dazai

[Main story and bonus chapters are complete. For the cooking-themed bonus chapter, see the author's notes in the comments.]

[Currently updating: "Xia You Is Working Hard to Win Someone Over Today"]

[Stays on an original-canon what-if route: no Tengen incident, no defection. Jie never went down an extreme path, so there is no need to manufacture conflict. He is fascinating in his own right.]

[Copy by someone hopeless at writing blurbs]

Geto's life before enrolling at Jujutsu High: fight monsters, go to school, fight monsters.

Geto's life after enrolling at Jujutsu High: fight his best friend, play games, cause trouble, and fight monsters on the side while going to school.

His best friend and classmates have no idea how foul Cursed Spirit Orbs taste. They're so disgusting that even swallowing one feels like it gets stuck in your throat. But Geto is still willing to devour them and grow stronger to protect the weak.

Then he discovers that the new classmate who enrolled half a month late can also knead Cursed Spirits into Cursed Spirit Orbs. The way Geto looks at the new student changes: One of us! This is one of us!

The new student does seem a little slow to react, though. They space out while talking and doing things, and on the very first day of school, Geto's best friend, a young master from a feudal family waited on by five hundred servants, decides they're "a complete idiot." Even so, Geto's fondness for the new student keeps going up, up.

It's just a shame that at their first proper meeting, he mistakes them for a curse user and attacks them. Then, while teaming up with his best friend, he accidentally gets a girl's skirt pulled over his head.

Geto: "..."

So Geto begins his quest to make sure he gets along with the new student.

[Blurb]

I have a friend.

When I'm not around, this is what he's like with other people:

With his "Double Black" partner:

[He pins him to the floor with his knee, grips his throat with one hand, and says gently, "Chuya, didn't I tell you that if you screwed this up, I'd throw you into Tokyo Bay?"]

With the kid he picked up:

[He grabs the kid by the hair and forces him to look up, muttering to himself, "I just love taming stray dogs."]

With his enemies:

[He points a gun at their temple and smiles gently. "You have to pledge your loyalty right now? But I'm in a hurry."]

With the white-haired teacher:

[He reaches out one finger and touches the other's arm without any resistance, his tone innocent. "Why exorcise it? Wouldn't nullification do the trick?"]

But with me, he's like this:

A gloomy boy whose bandages seep blood, who doesn't want me to see he's hurt. A boy who can't meet my eyes when I'm direct with him. He waits in line to buy desserts for me, eats the KFC meal I bought just to get the toy, swaps new manga with me, and blow-dries my hair...

My uncle really doesn't like him.

But I can't help falling for him more and more.

[I really like you so much, Dazai.]

[Important]

1. First-person narration. Pairing: Dark-Era Dazai. There will be OOC moments. My Dark-Era Dazai may be a little crazier, and his hand-to-hand combat skills are on par with Chuya's when Chuya isn't using his ability.

2. For the sake of the plot and characterization, the Decay of the Angel has been written out of the story. The Hunting Dogs are good boys here. The original timeline and setting have been rearranged, and there are lots of personal additions, so there may be many plot holes too.

3. The heroine's ability will be gradually revealed later. She has a golden finger and doesn't know it.

4. This is a writing-comeback fic, written to feed my own cravings. I hope everyone can read it without overthinking, and please don't nitpick the details. The worlds in this story have no connection whatsoever to the real world, so please don't draw parallels to reality!

Theme: Learn to love yourself and others, and set out toward the light.