A crying child left alone

by Hana no Hikari

Dazai Osamu, a demonic prodigy, later joining the ranks of the fearsome Executives of the Port Mafia: "... a crying child who's been left alone in the darkness, a world of nothingness far emptier than the world we can see."

1. Prologue

So I sunk in deep with the Bungou Stray Dogs series... here's a collection of short stories, from when Dazai was still with the Mafia~

First, a prelude!

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Prologue

This is the story of a child left alone in the dark.

He didn't know how he ended up there, nor did he know the way out.

I'm still looking for it. Or, maybe, I know—

Sometimes, there were beams of brilliant, warm light poking holes in the wide, fathomless darkness.

But those are...

Sometimes, just when the child thinks it can't be possible, the darkness grows deeper, colder, more suffocating than before.

... those are not the way out.