A Unwanted Meeting
Two weeks had passed and Hirotsu had thankfully agreed to take over his duties. It was clear that his new subordinates were not yet equipped to manage his work. Mori had been making him drink coffee all the time lately to keep him focused. This had also been keeping him awake and sitting in the dark at night with the ghost, to put it mildly, it was very unpleasant.
Mrs. Norris had recently joined the ghosts that had been following him. He was constantly looking at her from afar. Wherever he went, he saw a cat following him. Although... he didn't think Mrs. Norris' fur was orange. Maybe he was just remembering incorrectly because his memory was blurry, yes. That must have been the problem...
Tomorrow, he would get ready to go to Diagon Alley, get on the plane, and then take the train to Hogwarts. Simple, right? Well... He didn't think he was crazy enough to do that.
Now he started to pack his things. He didn’t have much anyway, just a set of pajamas (honestly, just black pants that looked like sweatpants and a baggy black T-shirt) and some underwear, socks, and a dressing gown.
He could have fit all of that in the bag, but Mori had convinced him to carry the suitcase, claiming it looked better on his "mafiaso look". He had been trying to get him to visit him for the last hour, of course the subject of this visit was a mystery, either to ask how he was doing on missions or to force him to try on the clothes he had bought for Elise that were starting to get too small for her, and to take pictures of him with his snotty grin, maybe both? Well, he should probably go now for the final talk, Mori loved using every opportunity to punish him, especially his habit of always being late…
He arrived at Mori's office after a looong walk. The guards at the door recognized him and immediately stepped back. After all, they knew the consequences of annoying the famous "Demon Prodigy". He walked in, and of course as always, Mori was at his desk signing some documents. Mori's face turned to him as the door opened, and his usual ugly smile appeared on his face
-Ah, good to see you Dazai-kun, for a moment I thought you wont gona come..
Mori got up from his desk and walked towards Dazai, Dazai flinched for a moment as if he was expecting to be slapped, but Mori put his hand on Dazai's cheek and caressed it with an unexpected gentleness from his cold hands.
-You've grown up now Dazai-kun. You've been doing really well lately, I'm not going to lie, you make me proud, don't ruin it, okay? Also, don't tell anyone about your "little..illness", it'll ruin your "Demon Student" image. Okay?
Dazai understood what Mori was talking about, if it turned out that he was schizophrenic, the Daily Prophet could show that he killed Quirell due to his illness and his image as a "folk hero" would be strengthened by after killing the basilisk last year, and that wouldn't suit DOA at all (He had been subjected to a very harsh punishment after the basilisk incident, the scars were still on his legs and arms). Dazai nodded, trying to ignore Collin's ghost with a camera in the corner as much as he could.
-I know Mori, I'll be careful.
Mori nodded:
-Okay honey, we have full confidence in you. Both as the head of the port mafia and now as your....foster dad.
Ah, he had forgotten until stupid Mori reminded him, since his father died, Mori had officially adopted him under the name of "Dazai Osamu", so now he had more control as the child's official new foster parent, the only good thing about it was that now the last member with "Tsushima" blood, "Shuji Tsuhima", had also died along with his father according to the documents Mori hadi been change, and the "Tsuhima" line was now officially over. Of course, this caused some diplomatic problems (the Tsuhima family had been famous for their political presence for centuries). Mori had said that the rumors had said that the last family leader, his father, had killed his heir in a moment of his crisis. So, it was partially true, his father had actually tried to kill him, according to Mori, the knife had missed his brain by a few inches (how unlucky). Even though a month had passed and he still heard some people complaining about it,but mostly the entire people of Yokohama got happy to hearing that the old boss's madness had been stopped, the only problem was that the old boss's loyal subordinates. Even though most of them were dead, it wasn't very unlikely that there were still some alive who were planning to take down Mori for the name of the revenge . Dazai turned his head to Mori, trying to show an emotionless expression on his face, just like Mori liked.
-Yes Mori, I will complete the mission.
Dazai didn't know what the mission context for this year too, all he knew was that according to the information Mori gave him a few days ago, Gilderoy had been dismissed from his role as the Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts with the DOA's recommendation due to his "unimaginable training of his students".To Dazai, it was half true but he couldn't help but grin at the news of Lockhart's departure whenever he remember.Also, a notorious criminal "Sirius Black" had escaped from Azkaban Prison, which was considered impossible to escape, which had tarnished his "Demon Student" image. He won't make the same mistakes this year.
-Good, your plane leaves at 3 PM tomorrow, before you go and pack your things...
Mori handed over a ribbon-wrapped package under his desk
-A gift from me~ would you like to try it now, dear?
Dazai opened it with a grimace, although he could more or less guess what was inside, inside was a frilly dress, of course... However, instead of white, it was a powder pink, although it was a bit short, it was wrapped in three layers of lace, the white layer inside had a heart-shaped cleavage at the chest, and the sleeves were puffy and short. When viewed from another perspective, the dress could be called cute, but for Dazai, it was just nauseating. Did he really still had 39 hours to go or he could blow his head of right there and now..?