The ravenette entered the room with papers at hand. You see, she found the woman but, unfortunately, she was killed and thrown in the river.

"I found her, Kunikida-san," she said as she handed her report to the yellow-eyed man. As he was skimming through the papers, Mikan began to wonder what happened to the case of the Man-Eating Tiger.

"You did well, Tsubaki," Kunikida stood up and placed on someone else's desk. Mikan knew whose it was which made her gulp.

"I'm sure he'll figure it out," he told her and went back to work.

RIIINNNG!

Mikan took out her phone and looked at the called ID and much to her dismay, it says

Osamu Dazai.

Click!

"Hello? Need help in anything, Dazai?" she asked and sighed waiting for an answer.

"Hey, Tsubaki-chan. Guess what happened to me?" the caller asked in a happy tune. Mikan was silent at first trying to think of the most possible answer for his question. She began thinking what can happen to a suicidal maniac. He sounded alive to her so it was impossible that he finally succeeded.

"Please tell me that it is your ghost that I am talking to," she said trying to get this over with by giving a ridiculous answer.

"I hope I am a ghost right now, but no."

"So what happened to you?" she queried while wondering if he would succeed someday with his strange ideas of suicide.

"You see, I got myself stuck in an oil drum so I need your help," he replied which the girl had a hard time processing what happened. She was trying to figure out how he did it. She never understood this man's thinking.

"Y-you got yourself stuck in an oil drum? H-how? Wait... What?" she asked while still trying to understand what happened.

"I'm dying. Please help me."

Then it hit her. The worst position to get stuck in an oil drum. The torture method that will slowly snap your waist into two.

"Isn't that what you really asked for? Why do you need my help?"

"Because what I did was torture and not suicide, Tsubaki-chan. I'm stuck and in pain here," Dazai whined as the girl suddenly tried her best not to laugh.

"AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Congratulations, Dazai!" she finally lost it. She was laughing so hard after imagining the him in his current situation.

"Sorry, I can't help you there," she added as she sit on the chair trying to prevent herself from falling down just because of laughing too hard.

"But Tsubaki-cha-"

"Don't worry, Osamu. We'll give you a proper funeral and we will visit your grave," she cut him off and ended the call. Kunikida stood up and started walking to the door.

"Hmmm? Where are you going, Kunikida-san?" she wondered. The blond male stopped and faced her.

"Dazai wants to test the new recruit," he answered. This made Mikan understand why the Tanizaki siblings were preparing ropes and such. She really thought that those stuff would be for the crazy roleplay they would be having once they got home. She puffed her cheeks in order not to remind herself not to think something like that again.

"So who is the new recruit?"

"The wanted weretiger," he replied as her eyes went wide. She really couldn't believe that the weretiger would be joining the agency. You see, she really wanted to find and see the weretiger in person but unfortunately, she was assigned to a different case.

"Ahhhh~ I can't wait to meet him," she happily stated in which Kunikida began to wonder if the black-eyed girl was actually a kid stuck in a woman's body or if she was basically just a kid given the fact that she was rather short.

RIIINNNG

Kunikida shook his head with a sigh and left the room as Mikan answered her phone.

"Hello," she greeted to the caller. For the first few seconds, she was smiling. Her smile slowly dropped and her eyes widened as if the caller reminded that she forgot something.

"Yes, I will be there in a short while," she replied as she stood up and ended the call. She started walking towards the door when the Tanizaki siblings noticed her.

"Where are you going, Tsubaki-san?" the brother asked her as he was tying up her sister who was also looking at her. The young lady looked at them and smiled.

"Stuff came up and I have to attend to it," she answered and then continued walking towards the door while waving at them.

As she reached her destination, she went to the powder room and looked at the mirror. With a sigh, she started removing her contact lenses from her eyes. She never wanted to wear them, but she really had to so he wouldn't find her just in case he got a lead. The agency shouldn't know as well.

There was a knock on the door.

"Are you ready for the last lesson, Virginia?"

She placed the case of the contacts in her pocket and exited the powder room. With a small smile, she replied, "Yes, cousin."