You see? You don't want to die. You already have a reason to live... As for me, it's enough just to know that you'll write one. How long it takes isn't important. But...
[ It really is unlike him to speak in this way, but Dazai does find it to be necessary. His singular goal since arriving here has been to Odasaku the life that he wants; to let him live in a world full of warmth and light. A world where he's alive and writing a novel. A world that he won't disappear from.
He always excludes himself from those possible worlds in the end.
But there is a faint pang of nostalgia now, and Dazai does think once more that he'd like to read it. He'd like to see everything finished.
He wonders how long it's been since he looked forward to something. ]
If I were to die without ever reading it, then I could be called nothing but a fool. I've never once been disappointed by what you've shared with me.
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[ It really is unlike him to speak in this way, but Dazai does find it to be necessary. His singular goal since arriving here has been to Odasaku the life that he wants; to let him live in a world full of warmth and light. A world where he's alive and writing a novel. A world that he won't disappear from.
He always excludes himself from those possible worlds in the end.
But there is a faint pang of nostalgia now, and Dazai does think once more that he'd like to read it. He'd like to see everything finished.
He wonders how long it's been since he looked forward to something. ]
If I were to die without ever reading it, then I could be called nothing but a fool. I've never once been disappointed by what you've shared with me.