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crowspace2017-08-02 12:37 pm
thesettingsun) wrote in crowspace2017-08-02 12:37 pm
For odasaku.
[Bookstores get all types. People who only come in for the magazines, people who come in for the romances but try to make sure no one is looking at them buy them...
And people like this guy, dressed in a way too flashy outfit for just book shopping, who when he sees Odasaku looking at the third book in a series, comes right over to talk to him. Despite them having never seen each other before in their lives.]
How is that series? I've been thinking of picking it up.
And people like this guy, dressed in a way too flashy outfit for just book shopping, who when he sees Odasaku looking at the third book in a series, comes right over to talk to him. Despite them having never seen each other before in their lives.]
How is that series? I've been thinking of picking it up.
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but unlike most, who would stay at home and sleep, oda chooses these days to go book shopping. though the remaining money in his bank account is not much (rent, food, and five children give his paycheck quite the beating) he has enough for at least a couple new books.
at first, he had thought that he had been the only one in the small bookstore -- but it seems that he was wrong.
what a strangely dressed guy, he can't help but think. ]
it's good. it delves into the characters' desires and motivations very well, which is what i like the most from a book.
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I see, I see! I'll check it out in that case. Have you read this author's other work?
[Dazai is always up to talk about books.]
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I haven't. The title caught me, so I'm reading it right now.
[ and he's already half way through. ]
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[Because he doesn't understand a lot of the terminology.]
But if you're interested in that, you should check it out after this one.
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[ being a child assassin didn't give him much chance to get a formal education, after all.
but after a momentary pause, oda's blue eyes flicker to the stranger again, although not for long. ] Is there anything else you recommend...?
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[He has so many recommendations.]
What are you looking for? Just modern series, classics? I'd be remiss in not recommending my own work, but I have plenty of other favorites if you aren't interested in the kinds of books I write.
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his eyes widen slightly, his expression obviously surprised and, for a second, the ex-assassin feels like he's at a loss for words ]
You're... a writer?
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[The awe is nice, and this guy doesn't even know that he's famous yet. Dazai feels good about this conversation that will definitely not go any weird places once they exchange names.]
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[ you're so lucky are the words that he really wants to say, but oda holds himself back from doing so. after all, this is not a matter of luck-- the person next to him is simply qualified to write.
unlike himself. ] Can I know your name...? If you don't mind, that is.
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Dazai Osamu, at your service! And you are?
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Strange. I know someone who has that same name.
[ that someone being one of the five top executives of the port mafia and also his drinking... companion. although they've known each other for years, the word friend still feels... much larger than what their relationship is.
but the dazai osamu he knows is nowhere close to being a writer. hell, he barely likes to read. ]
I'm Oda Sakunosuke. Nice to meet you.
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But then Oda introduces himself.]
My best friend is an Odasaku. That's weird.
[Too weird for him to chalk it up to coincidence.]
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it's something that a stranger wouldn't be able to come up on his own. ]
I think that it's a bit more than strange. [ and that means a lot in the bizarre city that is yokohama. ]
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Does your Dazai call you that too? Oh - do you know a Sakaguchi Ango, too?
[If all three of the school of irresponsibility and decadence are together, that's the final evidence that something is going on here.]
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[ now this is a level of bizarre that oda can't begin to comprehend. if the sakaguchi ango that dazai is referring to is not the same as the mafia's top information broker that he knew ( not too well, but that doesn't matter ) then, somehow there's two of each.
two dazais. two odas. two angos.
this is too bizarre ] I know one. He has round glasses and he's a very intellectual-looking man. We drink together sometimes, along with, well, the Dazai that I know.
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What's going on here?
[For sure, Dazai doesn't know, except it's weird and probably not normal.]
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[ oda's highly considering the option that maybe this 'dazai' is only a liar that stalks him, but that's too rude to openly admit... ]
You're a writer, but what about the other Ango? And the other... [ wow this sounds too surreal to believe ]Oda?
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[Dazai's proud of this. The buraiha are terrible delinquents, for sure.]
-I'm the most famous one though.
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somehow, although it has nothing to do with himself or his drinking acquaintance, it describes them perfectly well. living in the decadent world of the mafia, where only the last rays of the light can reach, a world of crime that very few can escape from.
a life of irresponsibility and decadence... it seems to follow odasaku everywhere. ]
I'm sorry, it's the first time that I hear about you.
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[Though this bookstore doesn't have his works, for some reason.]
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and it's not exactly because he's read the book. ]
That's-- that's the name of Dazai's ability. No longer human.
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[If 'Dazai' were a liar who stalked Oda and his drinking companions, he would probably at least know what an ability is.
But he doesn't, and the confusion on his face is completely honest.]
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but it does ping oda as weird, and has to keep himself from frowning at the redhead next to him. ]
Yeah. It's like...uh...something he's capable of doing, that normal people aren't able to do.
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[It's probably depressing. That was not a happy book.]
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oda knows this all too well. ]
Or you could have named it after his ability.
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[You know. Chronologically speaking, that'd be challenging even for a genius like him.]
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[ that's it. that's it this confirms it 100%. the person next to him is crazy beyond oda's understanding. even his own dazai can't compare to this. ]
We're in 2017.
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[He's not that crazy.]
I've been dead for a while.
[...but pretty crazy.]
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Sure.
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[ because 1. odasaku's not rude enough to do so and 2. dazai already sounds ridiculous enough. after all, dead people can't be walking around the way this person is doing. ]
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[It's entirely possible that Dazai's just defensive and would have said this to anyone.]
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[ no it's just that he really does have a hard time believing this. but maybe these are one of those things that will never be explained.... ]
So why are you back from the dead?
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[The entirely serious and accurate answer.]
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[ this has reached a level of awkward that Odasaku has never experienced before. he thought that he couldn't be surprised anymore but this...
hm. ]
That makes sense. [ somehow. ] But isn't it rude to exhume graves without permission?
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