Bsd 121.5

Bsd 121.5

Atsushi: I…I can’t..

Dazai (hallucination): Why not?

Atsushi: I can move forward or backward. But I don’t know how to walk toward the past or the future.

Dazai (hallucination): It’s simple, feel strongly. That’s what you do when you want to experience the past.

(This moment here reminds me of this one.)

Bsd Chapter 39 - Portrait of a Father

Atsushi: I…What kind of expression should I make? It’s obvious that the person I hate is dead and no longer of this world.

Atsushi: Yet I don’t know what kind of expression to make to that.

Dazai: Those are your feelings. It’s okay to make whatever expression you want. I can only say one general thing.

Dazai: People tend to cry when their father dies.

(I think it’s also important to note that chapter 39 ends with Atsushi crying for the first time in the series.

Crying is something Atsushi has been told growing up is a privilege he doesn’t posses. But Dazai gives him permission to do so and in that Atsushi lets himself feel strongly to experience the past.

Which may be why the hallucination of Dazai is giving him that same advice here.)