White Ward is a high-security psychiatric facility built to contain those deemed too dangerous for prison—and too unstable to be left free. Among its patients are Osamu Dazai, a calculated criminal whose mind is more lethal than any weapon, and Chuuya Nakahara, a volatile ability user whose emotions threaten mass destruction when control slips. Confined under constant surveillance, stripped of autonomy, and forbidden from even touching, the two are forced into close proximity—not as part of tre