Dazai, who has never been anything but himself, has no ability to see the appeal of having neither. In truth, it seems to him no better or worse than any other. But he's never seen much difference between those dichotomies that humans draw.
Odasaku must have been lonely though. It would be easier back home where he had the orphans and the restaurant owner too, his own mock-family unit, but here and now it's just the two of them. That's why Dazai concluded that he needed others.
He reaches his hand out, letting it brush up against the back of Oda's wrist before he draws it up to his chin. It's a small token of acknowledgment. ]
He had no concern for welfare of others, so he never made those miraculous discoveries that were at his fingertips. He studied for years to gain perfect happiness, but perfect happiness was being without a heart.
[ With or without a heart, then, he hadn't achieved that happiness he wished for. ]
He did retrieve his heart in the end, but he never obtained what he had spent all that time seeking — the nature phenomena known as "Fortune." [ He ponders this for a moment, ] Or maybe he did.
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[ His voice lowers toward the end.
Dazai, who has never been anything but himself, has no ability to see the appeal of having neither. In truth, it seems to him no better or worse than any other. But he's never seen much difference between those dichotomies that humans draw.
Odasaku must have been lonely though. It would be easier back home where he had the orphans and the restaurant owner too, his own mock-family unit, but here and now it's just the two of them. That's why Dazai concluded that he needed others.
He reaches his hand out, letting it brush up against the back of Oda's wrist before he draws it up to his chin. It's a small token of acknowledgment. ]
He had no concern for welfare of others, so he never made those miraculous discoveries that were at his fingertips. He studied for years to gain perfect happiness, but perfect happiness was being without a heart.
[ With or without a heart, then, he hadn't achieved that happiness he wished for. ]
He did retrieve his heart in the end, but he never obtained what he had spent all that time seeking — the nature phenomena known as "Fortune." [ He ponders this for a moment, ] Or maybe he did.