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[8:31am accessing phone records]
[Conversation 24 September 2016]
[8:07am Mackerel]: Chuuuuuuuuuuu-yaaaaa~ how are you~?
[10:56am Slug]: never talk to me again
[10:56am Mackerel]: Is that how you treat your partner who saved your life?
[10:57am Slug]: yes
[10:58am Mackerel]: Is Chuuya angry?
[10:58am Slug]: what do you think
[10:59am Mackerel]: I want you to tell me.
[11:00am Slug]: yes
[11:01am Mackerel]: I want you to tell me why.
[11:01am Slug]: I’m sure a genius like you could figure it out.
[11:01am Mackerel]: Awww you called me a genius!!
[11:11am Mackerel]: It’s because your clothes got ripped isn’t it?
[11:15am Slug]: you LEFT me
[11:16am Mackerel]: oh that
[11:16am Slug]: yeah THAT
[11:17am Mackerel]: We’re not partners anymore.
[11:17am Slug]: I know but I trusted you to take me back.
[11:18am Mackerel]: I couldn’t do that. The Port Mafia are my enemies now.
[11:18 Slug]: like you give a damn
[11:19am Mackerel]: Hmm true but I can’t be too nice.
[11:45am Mackerel]: Did you feel like partners again, Chuuya?
[11:52am Slug]: what are you asking that for?
[11:53am Mackerel]: We sure fell back into it easily.
[11:54am Slug]: well I’d been saving your ass for years
[11:55am Mackerel]: I believe it was I who saved your ass.
[11:55am Slug]: keep telling yourself that
[11:56am Mackerel]: How is the Port Mafia anyway? Do you work alone now? Do you have a protege? Do you miss it?
[11:57am Slug]: are you serious?
[11:58am Mackerel]: Yes.
[12:00pm Slug]: We’re better than we ever have been.
[12:01pm Mackerel]: Lies, Chuuya! That’s why Mori asked me to rejoin, right? Is he satisfied with you?
[12:03pm Slug]: fuck off
[12:03pm Mackerel]: Does that hurt?
[12:04pm Slug]: istg
[12:04pm Mackerel]: Do you miss me?
[12:05pm Slug]: No
[12:06pm Mackerel]: I see.
[12:06pm Mackerel]: Are you happy?
[9:45am accessing phone controls]
[9:54am 1 December 2016, Mackerel is typing...]
[9:55am Mackerel]: Good morning.
[9:57am Slug]: the fuck is wrong with you?
[9:58am Mackerel]: Am I not allowed to say good morning?
[9:59am Slug]: i thought i fuckign deleted your number
[10:00am Mackerel]: Why would you do that?
[10:00am Slug]: would you like the whole list of reasons?
[10:01am Mackerel]: Yes.
[10:05am Slug]: you really are a sadist, Dazai. 1. You left without warning. 2. You always think you’re better than everyone else. 3. You blew up my CAR. 4. You left me in the middle of a field outside the city after I used Corruption. 5. You disappeared while the whole double assassination thing was going on. 6. I had to wake up to your stupid text.
[10:07am Mackerel]: I see.
[10:07am Mackerel]: In hindsight, I could have handled that better.
[10:08am Slug]: i’m sorry?
[10:08am Mackerel]: I could have handled it better.
[10:09am Slug]: handled what better?
[10:10am Mackerel]: All of it. It was the Mafia I was angry at. Not you.
[10:11am Slug]: are you joking right now?
[10:11am Mackerel]: No.
[10:12am Slug]: what the fuck you can’t just text me these things
[10:12am Mackerel]: You would rather I don’t apologize?
[10:13am Slug]: apologies are disgusting coming from you
[10:13am Mackerel]: That’s rather insulting.
[10:14am Slug]: you never mean them
[10:15am Mackerel]: I mean this one.
[10:15am Slug]: prove it
[10:16am Mackerel]: I’ll find a way.
[10:16am Slug]: sure
[10:17am Mackerel]: You never answered my question. Are you happy?
[1:17pm Slug]: are you?
[1:19pm Mackerel]: I am. But something is still missing.
[1:20pm Slug]: you could never be satisfied
[1:21pm Mackerel]: The Agency is more satisfying than the Port Mafia.
[1:22pm Mackerel]: But are you happy, Chuuya?
[1:27pm Slug]: i’ll let you know when i figure it out
From his room in a building on the outskirts of Yokohama, Fyodor Dostoyevsky grinned at the screen of his phone and typed another message.
The fifth executive of the Port Mafia was just as sinfully stupid as the rest of the people in the city his organization claimed control over. But his link with Dazai was fascinating.
As always, everything came back to Dazai.