Territory of Light (Bungou Stray Dogs X OC)

Episode 7: To Address One's Identity

"Odasaku, man fears death and yet, at the same time, man is drawn to death. Death is endlessly consumed by men in cities and in literature."

"It is a singular event in one's life that none may reverse. That is what I desire..." Dazai said with a smile while playing with his glass.

It was one of those nights when Odasaku found himself again at Bar Lupin after another trivial day from his missions.

Surprisingly, he found himself in the company of two usual men; Dazai Osamu and Sakaguchi Ango.

The three of them you can consider as drinking buddies.

"Ango! It's been a while...are you on your way back from a job?" Dazai greeted as soon as Ango went down the stairs.

Ango suddenly remembered the meet up he had earlier with Tsushima Yuko. He was indeed coming from his job, both from the mafia and the government.

For the whole day, he took care of Dazai's order of investigation to Yuko's identity. At the same time, he captured the associate of Yuko in the intelligence department...and many more.

It was an exhausting day for him.

"It was a bad day..." Ango replied while taking a seat.

"Have you finished investigating?" Dazai glanced to him.

Odasaku kept drinking in silence, mind slowly drifting in his own thoughts that he could barely care what the other two were talking about.

"Unfortunately...there was none. No records of her, Dazai-san." Ango shook his head.

"How about face recognition?"

"Nothing..."

"An ability user?" 

"We don't know that, too...I apologize." 

Ango lowered his eyes to his drink as he continued to cover up Tsushima Yuko's identity while reporting to Dazai.

It was nerve wrecking for him, lying in front of Dazai; though the threat he got from the woman earlier was much worse. Because of that he was able to compose himself.

Dazai smirked and played with the ice in his glass.

"So Ango fuzzed his job, too." He commented. 

"Fuzzed?"

"Yeah, we're fuzzed buddies."

Odasaku heard the word fuzzed  and turned his attention to the other two. 

"Now that I think of it, it's been a long time since we first became drinking buddies but I've never heard you complain about work, Odasaku." Dazai turned his attention to Odasaku.

Odasaku closed his eyes and held his drink.

"It'd only bore you to hear my stories..."

"There you go being secretive again." Dazai said meaningfully which Ango somehow understood.

Odasaku knows that all the jobs given to him are far less interesting than the other two; given that he was the lowest-ranking member of the mafia. 

However, it was due to this that he was able to help Yuko and give her shelter in his house despite lacking an identity. Despite Yuko, being a mysterious woman, Odasaku could tell she's not dangerous.

And because of his rank, the organization would hardly pay attention to him nor what he do...or so he thought.

"By the way, are the two of you here today for a meeting?" Ango inquired, thinking that Dazai had called Odasaku regarding Yuko's case.