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What Type of Person Is Izaya Orihara? (Densuke Sozoro’s Case)

What type of person is Izaya Orihara?

That is a troublesome question.

Well now, he was a detective. There is someone who wants to know about Izaya-dono, you say? Well, I am not forbidden to speak.

Is it suitable if I give my opinion? Or do you need the objective view of how he carries out his role in society?

Hmm, my opinion. Then this is easy: he is nothing more than an uncooperative, superficially dignified five-year-old.

Furthermore, that five-year-old may very well be the child with the worst personality you could ever imagine. Just like a child knowing he will be forgiven, he is the clever runt that craftily uses the truth.

If you were to ask me if I hate him, then naturally I should be able to say that I do. If it were not for the contract and the debt I have towards him regarding my family, I may have already snapped that slim neck of his.

I think I can at least be a brake for him.

As a matter of fact, his actions are inevitable. He should be called some battle crazed demon child who is not satisfied unless he jumped in front of his enemy while also having the ability to withdraw himself in a safe place. The issue is it is almost as if Izaya-dono himself cannot fling himself at his opponents.

I have heard the rumors from that time. That he would jump around freely with a skill called “parkour” and mince his opponent with the free manipulation of his knife, but with the body he has right now, he is unlikely capable of accomplishing those same feats. Nevertheless, that man seems to be enjoying even these shackles.

The doctors have apparently said that he may be able to run around again if he has the will to do so, but he does not intend to walk that path right now. He exaggerates that it is his punishment, but in his heart he may be afraid - afraid to revert back to his old self and once again return to his home town: Ikebukuro. I have heard that it is the town of his beginning and ending through varying degrees of circumstances. However, if I may say so, he completely reaped what he sowed. He should be grateful for the town of Ikebukuro’s benevolence just for not being killed.

However, Izaya-dono seems to have become even more attached to “people” since that incident. Until now he seemed to prepare the large quantity of convenient

pawns he kept a reasonable distance with, but in recent years it should be said he has come to seek for people to substitute for the

activities he cannot do like I have.

In spite of the future of these old bones, there are certain matters in life I have come to know for consequently living for so long.

That thing…the human Izaya Orihara’s true nature has not changed in the slightest.

It is not that I have seen that man as he was before directly. I have not, but even so I could see the never-changing logic coursing throughout his being.

If we are to consider normal human beings, then there are many who lack that logic. I would be more content if at the very least the belief that resides within him was good.

Well, there may have been a way to save him if he was completely evil. But that is impossible. The belief Izaya Orihara grasps is not a concept to divide into a form of good and evil.

There are many concluding actions of “evil” when we factor in the end result, but all are dependent on the swing of the pendulum. No matter which direction it swings, Izaya’s actions will be “evil” to someone.

If I am capable of doing anything, I suppose I can try to suppress the amplitude of the pendulum. However, I am poor at such work….

At least if Izaya-dono were to fall in love with one human something would change… It is not possible. It is not possible right now.

Detective-dono, can you imagine it? The sight of Izaya Orihara taking an interest in some pretty girl at a glance, giving himself to her even if he had to throw away everything else, so deeply in love he wants to also be completely accepted by her.

Good gracious. However, I think I would be grateful for the opposite. Consider this: the mysterious person, who uses the art of coaxing, to truly love one person. Surely that man would then become “evil.” To only obtain that person, he would be fine with destroying the world, killing people, or making a mess of society. Furthermore, we should be grateful in fortune. For that man named Izaya Orihara, a twisted philanthropist, to love the whole human race equally.

Hmm, detective-dono.

The one who told you to ask me about Izaya Orihara is no one else than Izaya Orihara himself, is it not? Well, it does not matter either way. You can relay this back to him as it is.

There is no need to reexamine you. There is no way for you to return to sanity. When you have finally gone mad, at least I, Densuke Sozoro, will finish you off. No, even when it is not possible for me to accomplish, that infamous man in the bartender uniform will eliminate you for certain this time. By that detestable monster who stopped being human as you call him.

However, from my perspective, the one with the possibility of becoming a monster is you. Izaya-dono.

I pray to continue being human until my life has come to an end, for Haruto-dono and miss Himari’s sake as well.

And more than anything, for your own sake.

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