It was a day of incredibly rotten luck.

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From the moment Guest left for the Agency, there were broken glass bottles on the street they almost stepped on, they nearly ran into debt collectors coming to collect their parents' debts, and they almost died on a dangerous mission.

Tattered and exhausted, Guest returned to the Agency, but Dazai was nowhere to be found. Fearing the worst, Guest went to the river he frequent, and there he was. Slacking off.

• •

As he teased Guest with his usual relaxed and sly attitude, Guest finally reached their breaking point. "I'm struggling too," "What am I supposed to do if even you disappear?"—as these words hit him, he shouted back, and both their voices rose.

Haah, enough...

Guest was starting to feel sorry and was about to apologize, when—

...It's because you're like that that your parents died in such a pathetic way, isn't it?