it is the beating of his hideous heart!

To avoid more punishment, the child sits still and is quiet. But they have to actively remind themself constantly to sit still and be quiet.

The teacher sees the child sitting still and being quiet. The teacher treats this as the baseline.

Since the child is putting a lot of effort into sitting still and being quiet, doing so distracts from paying attention to what the teacher is teaching. The child then is punished for not paying attention.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edogawa Ranpo/Edgar Allan Poe (Bungou Stray Dogs), Armed Detective Agency Ensemble & Edogawa Ranpo (Bungou Stray Dogs), Kinda - Relationship Characters: Edogawa Ranpo (Bungou Stray Dogs) Additional Tags: Mentioned Edgar Allan Poe (Bungou Stray Dogs), Mentioned Yosano Akiko (Bungou Stray Dogs), Mentioned Kunikida Doppo (Bungou Stray Dogs), Mentioned Dazai Osamu (Bungou Stray Dogs), Mentioned Fukuzawa Yukichi (Bungou Stray Dogs), Edogawa Ranpo-centric (Bungou Stray Dogs), Edogawa Ranpo is Whipped (Bungou Stray Dogs), The fic is basically ranpo simping, Pre-Canon, Pre-Relationship, question mark, this takes places a few years after their intellectual battle, Denial of Feelings, My First AO3 Post, Fluff, ish, Kinda, No beta we die like Oda, English Is Not The Author’s First Language, So grammar might be bad Summary:

Edogawa Ranpo doesn’t do the romantic kind of love.

Don’t get him wrong, he loves his friends, and he’d do a lot for them, he’d help Kunikida by finishing his (very boring, very dull) paperwork; he’d sacrifice some of his money and time just to buy some snacks for Dazai to eat (because he worries the other would just starve him if no one feeds him).

He loves his family, his biological family, and the people he’d come to recognize as family, He avoids throwing tantrums whenever he has to do something he doesn’t want to, just because it’d make Fukuzawa mad; he likes going shopping with Yosano, even if he’s forced to carry her bags.

He loves them all a lot, he’s happy just seeing them happy.

He just doesn’t see the appeal of romantic love.

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