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That gun is the only weapon that Atsushi has right now and it is clearly meant to serve as more of a warning than a direct threat. The thing about these two is that they have only ever communicated through violence and right now Atsushi needs Akutagawa to listen to him.

Not to mention Atsushi’s pointing a gun at Akutagawa because Akutagawa just threatened to kill Dazai. He said oh Dazai’s with the enemy? If he crosses my path I will kill him.

Shockingly Atsushi is completely against that idea and the faith that he has that Dazai hasn’t betrayed them all is completely in line with how the Agency operates.

They all know Dazai’s missing and trust he’s got in handled and has a plan that’ll help. It doesn’t matter that they don’t know that plan or they’re split apart. One of the strengths of the Agency is that they can fight the same battle on different fronts.

And that’s happening now.

They don’t know what Dazai’s up to but they trust he’s doing his best to protect this city in the way he knows how.

Not to mention that because of that one case by the river in S1 Atsushi knows what the Port Mafia does to traitors. He knows what Akutagawa might do to Dazai so he’s telling him hey this isn’t the Port Mafia this isn’t how we do things in the Agency leave him to his fight while we focus on ours.

Akutagawa looks like he is mildly curious and a little turned on by the fact that Atsushi’s hands are a little bloody.

And what I'm (very messily) trying to pinpoint here is Atsushi's very very grey morality, where he generally attends to the law when it's about himself, but at the same time won't have much trouble with being complicit of Akutagawa because... He doesn't actually believe in the law. I have a feeling that every time Atsushi would reprimand Akutagawa for breaking the law is not much because Atsushi believes in the law himself, but rather just because he loves to stir up Akutagawa and show off how much more lawful and respectful and overall better than him he is; after all, we know for sure Atsushi is perfectly capable of being a mafioso himself.

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They turn off the UV whenever an eridian is inside the dome, and Grace can feel it if he's outside. That's how he has about 5 minutes of a heads-up before Rocky is knocking on his door;

They put light filters on the xenonite suits, meaning Grace can make a thousand different sunglasses jokes whenever Rocky shows up with the smoked up paneled suit;

Bet. Before I could walk, when I did it felt as if every step made was made with something left behind in my wake, if not blood, then what energy there was remaining within me, like rainwater left to collect at the bottom of a bucket, what there was to be sapped away in manufacturing the muscle movement to spin sinew into another step, weaker than the last.

I certainly feel like a bucket collecting rainwater, a hollow husk, cracked and chipped from strong weather and erosion wearing away my resolve, threatening to tip me over without the weight of water which would ordinarily keep me rooted. Only now there is barely an inch or any rainwater, what water there is seeps and sloughs like snow melting away into slush by sea-foam, frail and shivering in soft sopping sobbing lacing heavy husky rattling respiration between subtle subdued grunts of exertion which every tired tug and pull elbows calloused against cold concrete stained in sweat like finish upon wood.