A Second Chance

Chapter 5

Feeling pissed that Dazai wasn't acting as he was supposed to, Kunikida went up and sent a karate chop straight down on his head. "Are you going to smear mud on the Agency's name right as I am saying we never would?! You bastard!" Kunikida bellowed out, causing everyone to sweat-drop and let out a sigh... "Don't bother asking for her help all the time! I will crush your neck with my own bony fingers!"

"Bony fingers, he said." Akira pointed out as she sniggers.

"Oh quiet, Akira-san. By the way, what were both of you doing before you joined the Agency?" Atsushi asked the two fighting 'couple'.

Upon hearing this, the 'fighting couple', Kunikida and Dazai, stopped their conflict and turned to meet Atsushi's gaze.

"HmmMNN?!"

"Uh, no real meaning behind that question by the way." Atsushi replied awkwardly, taken aback by the sudden loud voice.

"Oh, I'm curious about it too!" Akira yelled out, raising her hand up in the air.

"Take a guess. It is a game we play often. The rookie tries to guess his senior colleagues' former occupations. Well, it is part of their training as private investigators." Dazai said.

"Tanizaki-san and Naomi-san....." Atsushi started. "..Were students?" Both Atsushi and Akira guessed and voice them out at the same time.

"Oh, bingo~ I am impressed." Tanizaki complimented.

"How did you know?" Naomi asked them both, amazed by their skills.

"I heard you are a part-time worker, and I thought you might still be a student given your uniform."

"Uh huh. And Tanizaki-san seems close to both of us in age. Or so I see from my point of view." Akira continued on after Atsushi as she gave a half-hearted smile.

"Honesty is a virtue." Dazai spoke out, catching all of our attention. "Now, what about Kunikida-kun?"

Hearing his name being said, he realised it was now his turn. Feeling awkward, he spit out the coffee he was drinking out of his mouth before slamming the cup down on the table.

"Ewwwww, disgusting.. Can you please keep your drink in your own mouth, Kunikida-san. That is so-" Before Akira can finish her sentence, Kunikida cut her off.

"URUSAI! Who cares about what I used to be?!"

Thinking hard, Atsushi came out with an answer first. "Public worker..? An official?!"

"Close. He wa-" And before Dazai could finish, it was Akira's turn to cut in.

"A teacher!!" Said girl screamed out in delight.

"Bingo~~ He was a teacher. A math teacher."

"YATA!!! XD "

"Huhhh..." Atsushi hummed out as he starts imagining Kunikida teaching maths.

=In Atsushi's mind=

"Of course you had use the law of exponents here!" Kunikida yelled out in anger as he slammed the palm of his left hand on the black board hard.

=End=

"I can.. totally see that.."

"It is all in the past! I don't even want to think about it." Kunikida shot back.

"What about me, then?" Dazai asked both Atsushi and Akira.

"Before, you said to take a guess, right Dazai-san? Does that mean there is a catch....?" Akira pointed out as she smirk, her eyes glinting with mischief.