Continuation for bandagedheart.

[thesettingsun]

[Very few people get this dressed up for a bar crawl. It looks like it'd be hell to wash, and the only reason you'd wear it out to the bar is an obsession with fashion.

So that's one clue about who this patron sitting at a table is, since he forgot to tell other-Dazai how to identify himself. As for him, when he sees Dazai come in with bandages visible on his arms, he makes an (incorrect) assumption that this is the injury that caused that text and thus this is Dazai.

Well, he's half right, at least.]

Dazai!

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[hurrayformarriage]

[Doesn't look like his Oda, doesn't sound like his Oda, doesn't avoid calling him out like his Oda.]

You alright, buddy? Gotta say, I ain't the type of guy who writes stuff that oughta make you look like that.

[Sure, sad endings happen sometimes in his works, but not to the extent that it would make you upset to meet the author.]

[bandagedheart]

[Not his Oda at all.]

Ah. It’s nothing~

[Dazai waves off the question.]

I’m just a bit nervous about doing my best here, is all!

[A forced smile.]

You have quite the accent! Let me guess...Osaka?

[hurrayformarriage]

...You never read my stuff, huh.

[That's the kind of question that no one who knows anything about Oda Sakunosuke asks.]

Kinda disappointed...

[bandagedheart]

[Oops. Well, honesty is usually the best policy, right?]

I haven’t, but that’s why I’m here! To learn all about literature, and the amazing authors behind it!

[More bullshit.]

I do love to read in my spare time. Between shelving books and tidying up, of course!

[hurrayformarriage]

If ya shelve books in yer spare time, ya need better hobbies. How 'bout I take you out for drinks? Heck, Dazai n' Ango won't turn down a chance to go drinkin' with us if I ask 'em to.

[Because they drink together all the time, the three of them. No bad memories there.]

[bandagedheart]

[Drinking...with Oda and Ango...

Fate really does love to fuck with him.]

That sounds lovely, actually~ Like a welcoming party!

[Except Shuji is going to blow his cover if he comes along...]

Why don’t we go tonight?

[hurrayformarriage]

Sure thing! Just gotta round up the other two hooligans. Just saw Ango, where's Dazai gotten off to...

[He's usually easy to find, if only because he makes himself noticeable. Fancy clothes and all.]

[bandagedheart]

You know, I think I might’ve seen him on my way into the library, snoozing away in one of the conference rooms! Red hair? Golden eyes?

[He wonders how grumpy Shuji would be being suddenly woken up and asked to go out...]

I could get him for you~

[hurrayformarriage]

He'll get real mad if ya wake him early from a nap. That's why I better do it, so he don't go off on you.

[Oda, of course, doesn't know that Shuji's more likely to go down on Dazai than go off on him.]

Gimme just a sec, I'll drag him back here.

[bandagedheart]

Oh my! I’ll just have to sit back and let you work your magic, then!

[It’s true. Dazai wonders if Shuji will immediately blow his cover, or play along to keep things simple...]

I’ll wait here!

[thesettingsun]

[He won't have to wait too long. Oda gives him a grin and heads off to find Shuji, who is a little grumpy about being woken up from his nap but more grumpy about being seen very obviously post-coital and disheveled. Oda teases him about it as they head back to the dorms, up until Shuji sees Dazai and...]

Is this the 'new library staff'?

[He is very clearly Pissed.]

[bandagedheart]

[Ohhhh Shuji certainly is pissed!

He still looks very nice though!]

Yes! Hello there!

[Dazai waves, a shit eating grin on his face.]

[thesettingsun]

Bullshitting me is one thing, but lying to Odasaku is completely different.

Get out of my library.

[Meanwhile Odasaku is increasingly confused about what's going on.]

[bandagedheart]

[Dazai feigns looking hurt, his hand clutching his chest dramatically.]

Why Shuji-kun, I’m hurt!

[Dazai looks to Odasaku, shrugging.]

Isn’t me being an inexperienced but eager new employee more believable than saying my name is also Dazai Osamu, and that I’m a detective?

[He told a fib. Big deal.]

[thesettingsun]

[Odasaku increasingly "????" in the background. Shuji increasingly pissed.]

I don't give a damn if it's more believable or not, it's a lie. Get out or I'll drag you out.

[bandagedheart]

Fiiiiiine.

[He’ll be back. Maybe he’ll even track down Oda and Ango’s numbers and have a little chat with them later.

Dazai waves goodbye to Odasaku before turning to head out of the library, leaving a scandal in his wake.]