“I am afraid of them. I have very dark, horrible feelings around them. When I face them, I become a cowering mess. I can’t even speak. It’s not as if they are bad people, necessarily. They are always concerned about me. I understand that. Perhaps they love me very deeply, but I can’t do it. I don’t want to talk to them.”
The Untold Story of the Founding of the Detective Agency [Chapter 1, Part 2]
despite having just begun working on this, it’s become abundantly clear to me that i do not have the time to see this through and i don’t want to make you guys wait forever between sections because i’m disgustingly slow.
nonetheless, here’s the next section (4552 words!!!). i know at least one other person who was going to translate this, so they can feel free to take over from here.
i’ll still be working on wan! of course but this is too much for me right now. i’m so sorry guys :(
(note: most of this was done after midnight, so there are definitely errors. if anyone sees any and knows how to better phrase them, tell me and i’ll fix them.)
I absolutely love using Kintsugi as metaphor of recovering from trauma, which means dazai would have heard about the same metaphor and decided he absolutely hates it