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[chemex]

[The alarm bells at being addressed by his first name by a stranger, man. Akira's spine pulls so straight it almost hurts, but he replies pleasantly.]

Thanks for those, by the way. Shoot.

[nullificates]

You can keep 'em! Good fashion never hurt nobody.

(as if he doesn't dress like an alleyway manic from the 19th century, but alas.)

Do you happen to know a man named Ango Sakaguchi?

[chemex]

[Akira frowns slightly, but-- maybe he can give the coat to Akechi. It's way more his style. He frowns at the name, thinking for a minute.]

...the author?

[nullificates]

... Author? He's not an author. Can you explain to me a little bit?

[chemex]

[Hm. Obviously, Akira has an open enough mind about the idea of varying alternate universes. But this... is particularly Odd.]

Do you mind if I ask something, too?

[nullificates]

Sure, what is it?

[chemex]

Osamu Dazai is the pen name of a very famous Japanese author, as far as I'm aware. But that's not true with you, right? That's your actual name.

[He's trying to explain, roundaboutly, that Shit Is Weird.]

[nullificates]

... What? No, it's my real name. I'm definitely not an author, and I'm definitely Japanese, from Yokohama.

[chemex]

Oh, I was just in Yokohama. [Focus, Akira.]

But-- anyway. You talk like you know Sakaguchi personally, and you're both not authors.

[nullificates]

I do. Can you tell me what you know about us, please?

[chemex]

Sure-- it isn't a whole lot, though. I'm not much of a literature buff.

[nullificates]

I'll take what I can get. Who are they to you?

[chemex]

Dazai wrote two books considered classics, The Setting Sun and No Longer Human. Sagakuchi was most known for an essay about decadence, I don't remember the exact title, he was covered a little less in classes. They both died about fifty years before I was born.

[nullificates]

... Oh. Alright. Thanks.

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[chemex]

[Curious.]

Can I ask who Sakaguchi is to you?

[nullificates]

... No!

[chemex]

[SIGH... He'll simply have to find out the Hard Way: asking everyone Dazai knows.]

So you want me to tell you what I know, but you can't even tell me one little thing? Seems kinda unbalanced.

[nullificates]

If it were 'one little thing', do you think your boyfriend and I would have had problems?

[chemex]

[The audacity of this bitch-- He grimaces, because God Akechi would take being called his boyfriend So Badly, but doesn't quite rise to the bait.]

I don't have a boyfriend, but I'll ask around for info from people you've had problems with, I guess.

[nullificates]

Oh, thank God, you'd have had terrible taste if you went that direction!

[chemex]

I have pretty varied tastes on that front, I like to think.

[A bi icon who can and would hold hands with nearly every one of the Thieves.]

Was that all you wanted to ask?

[nullificates]

If none of us are alive in your world, then I can rest assured and easily. I'm fine with it.

[chemex]

[There is so much more to this and Akira is curious, damn it! But alas-- he'll have to rank up this confidant before he can learn more.]

Okay then. Are you sure you don't want your clothes back...?

[nullificates]

Nope, I don't care about them, do what you want.

[chemex]

Gotcha.

[A beat, and:] If I come across anything I didn't know about the Dazai and Sakaguchi in my world, do you want me to let you know?