[BSD Odazai] [Transfic] The cost of our lives part 1

Fandom: Bungou Stray Dogs & Related Fandoms

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences (13+)

Archive Warnings: Creator Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen | M/M

Relationships: Implied relationaships, “Oda Sakunosuke/Dazai Osamu” OR “Oda Sakunosuke & Dazai Osamu”

Characters: Oda Sakunosuke, Dazai Osamu, Assorted Bungou Stray Dogs characters

Additional Tags: Modern AU, No power, Dazai-typical suicides attemps, School AU, possibly Out of character, angst, hurt & comfort, triggers warning in Translator’s notes, Originally written in Chinese, No beta we die like men, no seriously I am waiting for my beta(s)

Disclaimer: Bungou Stray Dogs and characters et al. belong to respective owners which are not me. The plot and everything else belong to the original author aka 阿雀, please check out their blog if you are curious and love Odazai and want to read more and cannot wait for my translation.

If you want to use my English translation of this story as source to translate to another languague, please do not forget to ask the original author first (if you don’t know Chinese, tell me since I would be glad to help).

Author: 阿雀

Original source: 何が僕たちの命を贯いた

This is a draft translation, I intentionally formatted it for AO3 posting (which will happen later after I work with my betas).

The permission to translate the story is kindly granted by the author, please do not repost this translation anywhere without my permission.

Constructive criticism is welcome.

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Dear your Honorable,

Mister [ ■■ ].

If you receive this letter, thus it is proved.

Today, I decide to depart this life.