the sun will rise another time (for now it’s me and you) ♡
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pairing ♡ edogawa ranpo/kunikida doppo
Kunikida can't close his eyes. He can blink, but nothing more than that. Nights go on, the world moving with him stuck in the past. There is something, someone, eating at his heart until there’s nothing left of him. Who is he, if not Yokohama’s greatest failure?
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Ranpo won’t stand for it anymore. He’ll take whatever’s left of Kunikida’s heart and nurse him back to the man he once was, all alone in the dead of the night. The sun can wait to rise, but Ranpo cannot wait to get his Kunikida back.
or, kunikida struggles to cope after the events of the Azure Banner case and the deaths he believes he caused. Ranpo visits him in the middle of this night and takes him out, helping him realize what more there is for him- for the both of them, together.