You'd think a career criminal would know better than to open his back to a volatile guy with a knife. And yet :3c
I used to think Shiki seems so drained coz he's a bonafide work hard play hard kind of guy. Now I'm pretty sure it's just sheer existential exhaustion of an Ikebukuro resident.
One unexplored shikizaya dynamic I really hope to touch at some point - master\disciple. In a fantasy au so we'd have them doing fun stuff like martial arts\magic or something like that. So Shiki could be Izaya's (or Kanra's) Friren\Obi-Wan\Haymitch.
Add the slow burn pent up tension bc Shiki sets frigid boundaries and doesn't react to provocations. Until external forces push them out of their roles and throw them on a battlefield where paradigm shifts forever.























