A Collection of Dazai-Chuuya One-Shots

[Part One: Dark Dazai and the IF Set]

Question: What do you think when you see your counterpart as the boss?

Dark Dazai: This guy has no idea how to raise a dog (shakes his head). I'll just have to teach him how to get along with his partner.

A lost dog that wandered into a dead end still needs his younger self to show him the way, doesn't he?

After all, back then, the two of them were worth more than all the world's billion-dollar paintings.

Dark Dazai: So, if you're not in a superior-subordinate relationship, what else could you be?

Chuya from the IF: ...Ahem.

Boss Dazai: Hah, just a kid, after all.

Meanwhile, on the other side...

Executive Chuya: Why has my partner been looking at me strangely lately?

Dark Dazai: (Starting to catch on)

[Part Two: Young Chuya Wanders into the Wrong Dead Apple Set]

Fifteen-year-old Nakahara Chuya thinks this world has gotten even more surreal. For example... why did time travel have to happen to him?

Standing on an unfamiliar street, surrounded by strange white fog, he sees a pale hand open in front of him.

White suit, white trench coat, a harmless smile. He looks like a man of elegant bearing...

Yeah, right.

Back in his own world, Nakahara Chuya stares at the face before him, identical to the one in his memories, and starts to lose it.

Where's the promised gentleness? The promised elegance? What is this suicidal maniac who keeps messing with him every day?!

[Part Three: Guide Dazai x Sentinel Chuya]

As a sentinel so powerful that no guide can fully suppress him, Nakahara Chuya has fought alone for a long time.

Then one day, a casual order from above forced him to pair up with a fledgling guide.

All because this guide has the goddamn ability called [No Longer Human].

Although he's very reluctant to admit it, [No Longer Human] really does soothe the emotions that often get out of control.

But that doesn't stop him from absolutely hating this so-called partner who dropped out of the sky.

His partner hates him, too.

Hates him so much that he even uses things like kissing to disgust him.

It's too embarrassing to say out loud and too nauseating to swallow, so they can only keep things as they are, without ever quite figuring them out.

[Part Four: ?]

Reader's guide:

1. This is a very Chinese fandom space, please don't be a buzzkill.

2. I'll post some little skits. Updates whenever I feel like it, and you can suggest prompts.

3. This is all made-up gossip. Any out-of-character behavior is my fault.

4. Check out my upcoming story, also very Chinese, "Yokohama Merch Simulator." Here's the blurb:

The [Character Art Life Simulator], just as its name suggests, is a simulator that lets players experience stories based on different character illustrations. It's currently in closed beta and needs two enthusiastic players.

The two lucky players selected are: Port Mafia executive Nakahara Chuya and Armed Detective Agency member Dazai Osamu.

Hot off the press (crossed out), scorching hot. So reassuring.

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P.S.:

1. In my version, Dazai and Chuya are a pairing, no breaking them up or reversing their roles. Please don't be a buzzkill.

2. This came from a blind-box pull that broke me. The author's mental state is a little unstable.

3. I really love collecting merch. It feels like I'm spending every last penny I have.

4. I'll add more if I think of anything. Prompts set on 25.1.4.

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