Prodigy Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (Bungou Stray Dogs)
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Atsushi Nakajima was born emotionless — incapable of feeling joy, sadness, or fear. His desperate father spent years dragging him through hospitals and tests, trying to find a cure, while his mother quietly knew the truth: he had inherited her “condition,” the same cold, obsessive nature that once drove her to extremes in the name of love.
Bound by a promise never to reveal her past, his mother instead taught Atsushi how to survive by pretending to be normal — how to hide emotions, manipulate others, erase evidence, and leave no witnesses. Through her twisted lessons, she raised him to believe love was possession and safety meant control.
By the time Atsushi transfers to Akademi High, he wears the perfect mask: kind, polite, and harmless. But when he meets Akutagawa Ryūnosuke — the most admired boy in school — something inside him stirs for the first time. The emptiness begins to fracture, replaced by fascination, longing, and the dangerous lessons his mother left behind.
To everyone else, Atsushi is just another quiet student.
But to himself, Akutagawa is the one thing he can’t afford to lose.