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"I hate it when you say stuff like that, it always means that I actually don't have a choice."

It has always felt antithetical to their dynamic, choice has always been a big thing for them, there's never any orders, it's always a question. From their first fight together in Fifteen, Dazai asks Chuuya "Do you trust me?" Chuuya has to choose to trust Dazai. In Stormbringer Dazai gives Chuuya all of the time that he can to decide whether or not to activate corruption and let the answer to his humanity be lost (Before I started drafting this post I actually hadn't realised that Dazai actually tried to give Chuuya as much time as possible - "Two more minutes. Nowhere near enough time to decide how to live the rest of one's life, but it was all the time they could spare" - that was very obviously caring of him. How did I not notice that sooner?) and in the meantime, he puts his mind to work creating backup plans, should Chuuya choose not to go through with it. Choice is so important to how they work, it's always trying to allow the option for a choice, even in a situation where it feels like there is no other choice.

That's when it hit me. In the manga Chuuya says;

"Whenever you say that you really mean there's no choice at all!"

Chuuya feels like there's no choice, what he doesn't realise is that Dazai is doing mental gymnastics to ensure that he can have one. If Dazai can even attempt to come up with backup plans when Guivre, he surely could have attepted to come up with one for Lovecraft.

[Storm Bringer]