—> The Next Day...

—> Female Atsushi Nakajima

"Good morning everyone," Atsushi sleepily greeted as she walked into the office. "Hm? What's going on?"

"I think it's time we introduce you to one of our Agency members~!" Dazai cheered, grinning. "She has been away for a mission but now she's back and she's eager to meet you, Atsushi-chan!!"

"The way you said that kinda scares me, Dazai-san," Atsushi bluntly admitted, causing Dazai to comically deflate in posture and aura. "And no, Dazai-san, I'm not going to commit lover's suicide with you."

"Kunikida-kun! My precious Atsushi-chan has learned how to completely brush me off!" Dazai whined loudly to Kunikida, trying to wrap his arms around the blond male but failing as he was slapped away.

"Shut up and get back to work!" Kunikida shouted at him before getting up from his seat and sighing irritatedly. "Kyouka, Nakajima, come here and meet each other already."

Atsushi nodded and almost hesitantly walked over to Kunikida. The weretiger's eyes widened as a short, cute girl in a red kimono walked over. "Uh, hello," Atsushi greeted awkwardly. "I'm Atsushi Nakajima, and you are. . .?"

"Kyouka Izumi," she bowed respectfully for a few seconds before returning to a normal standing-up position. She opened her mouth to say more, but closed it again. "You're.."

"A girl now?" Atsushi guessed her sentence, already used to this treatment. "Actually, Kyouka-san, I'm not the Atsushi you know. I guess you could say I'm the girl version of him."

"Girl.. version..?" Kyouka curiously questioned, tilting her head slightly to the side.

"Whoops, Kunikida-kun, you forgot to explain it to her," Dazai teased. "Don't worry Kyouka-chan! I will explain!" He took one breath and prepared to explain it before Kunikida saved all of them from Dazai's lousy explaining skills and did it himself.

"..And that's basically it," Kunikida huffed, eyeing Dazai grouchily. "We're currently just trying to find out if we can make contact with the other Atsushi to make sure he's okay."

"Oh.." Kyouka deflated, her obvious favorite out of the two Atsushi's so far being the male. "Okay.."

Is she not happy about me being here? I guess that it's fair, since I took the other guy's place. I wonder what he was like to make all these people want him back so much, Atsushi thought. "Uhm.. It's nice to meet you, Kyouka-san," she nervously finished up introductions.

"It's nice meeting you, too," Kyouka politely returned the favor. The two of them stood there for a while, staring at each other and not knowing what to do. There was tense silence that followed.

"Are you two having a staring contest?" Dazai curiously asked them.

Atsushi shook her head slightly before turning her gaze on Dazai. "No, Dazai-san, we are not having a staring contest."

"Aw~ But I liked looking at your eyes as you stared," Dazai sighed sadly, his posture drooping slightly. "Your eyes are beautiful, Atsushi-chan."

It was at that point Tanizaki decided that he would fight for what he wanted. "Atsushi, do you mind coming with me on this job? All we have to do is just walk down to a shop down the street and ask them a few questions," Tanizaki offered, distracting her from Dazai's stream of endless compliments.

"I can come with," she agreed. "But is it a two person job?"

"Ah, actually it's just a one person job but I'd really like your company," he awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck. "I also thought I'd offer because you've been stuck in the Agency all day."

Convinced, Atsushi nodded. "Alright. Thank you for letting me come with, Junichiro."

Dazai wasn't going to give up easily. "Buuut Atsushi-chan~ I thought you promised to go to lunch with me today!" He whined, and put all the sadness he could into his eyes without physically crying as he made eye contact with Atsushi. "Please have lunch with me~"

"It's still morning, Dazai-san. We have enough time to do this job and come back," Atsushi smiled awkwardly to try to comfort him somehow so she wouldn't feel guilty leaving him. "Let's go, Junichiro."

Before Dazai could make any more protests, Tanizaki grabbed Atsushi's hand and they were out the door. Dazai sighed before turning his attention onto Kunikida. "Hey, Kunikida-kun, how do you feel about Atsushi?"

"Nakajima?" Kunikida thought about it as he typed rapidly on his computer. "The male or female one?"

"Female, obviously."

"I don't have a problem with either of them," Kunikida answered honestly. "They're both the same person."

"It may seem like that, but the two of them are wildly different Kunikida-kun~ and I think you're going to bite your words as soon as you realize that," Dazai poked the other male's nose. "Because everyone who meets Atsushi-chan falls in love with her."

"What? Falls in love with her? Nakajima doesn't meet any of the requirements I have for an ideal woman," he confusedly turned around in his chair to face Dazai. He took out his ideals book and starting flipping through it before Dazai took it and ripped out the ideal woman page.

"You're gonna thank me later, Kunikida-kun~" Dazai tossed the ideals book on the other male's desk and tossed the page he took in a random direction, which landed on Atsushi's desk. Not that either of the males would notice, due to the fact that Kunikida was chasing Dazai around with murder in his eyes.

—> Male Atsushi Nakajima

Atsushi gained a few more of his memories over the past few weeks he's been in this world. He knows that this world he was currently residing in wasn't his own, and that he needed to get back to make sure everyone was safe. This world— it isn't his, so why does he feel so guilty for trying to find a way to leave it?

"Atsushi," Akutagawa coughed into her free hand as she entered the small room. "Do you still desire to go back to your own world?"

"Yes."