[Bungo Stray Dogs] The White Dove and the Wit

[Ongoing]

What should you do after abandoning Nikolai three times?

A. Buy several more life insurance policies.

B. Tell him it's fine, and that he'll get used to being abandoned after a few more times.

C. Truly realize your mistake and spend the rest of your life making it up to the clown.

Serious synopsis

"Freedom."

"Freedom... What is it...?"

For him, right now...

"Freedom is the right of a clown to choose the sauce for tomorrow's breakfast..."

"Plain is the best!"

"Nooooo!"

The Russian scar on her wrist burns faintly.

Is the name "robin" circling on the tip of her tongue?

Or is the real "caged bird" knocking at the gates of her memory?

Her story

is hidden in the space between light and shadow.

[Little skit]

Back home

White Bird: Nikolai, you sprayed way too much perfume on your clothes! (Tugging at his hem)

Nikolai: Mm-hmm~ (>y<)

White Bird: Our coworkers will get suspicious. This is a critical time in our fight against the Decay of the Angel. (Seriously)

Nikolai: Mmm~

I can't stand it. I want them all to know! I never want to have a secret relationship again!

Then, with tears in his eyes, he sprays on some extra perfume while ironing White Bird's shirt.

Well~ I want to wrap you up completely in the scent of cedar. Mine, all mine.

The whole idea is: I help my wife with the housework, and my wife helps me take down that rotten workplace...

Fyodor: ...

Here's a coming-soon title:

[Bungo Stray Dogs] The Hound's Dangerous Relationship Reformation Act

You're saying

that even a hound, driven by animal instinct and rotten to the core,

can softly whimper in someone's palm?

When he presses a wire against her throat,

she smiles. "Killing me would triple the cleanup costs. I suggest we work together instead."

Suehiro: "...You should be grateful the calculations prove you're useful..."

He files a report claiming "Suehiro Tichiya has been executed," and as far as everyone else is concerned, Suehiro Tichiya is dead.

But he is embracing her from behind as she reviews documents.

He bites her ear and sneers, "Falsifying a superior's death record... What's the penalty?"

She gently catches his wrist with her other hand. "Under the new law, you're sentenced to lifelong supervision."

Theme: At the end of obsession lies the bond between people