The World?
Chapter 119 Spoilers
I was rereading Beast and near the end when Dazai is talking about the world taking place in the book, there’s this panel;
To paraphrase, it basically says that things written in the book switches places with the real world. So, the world isn’t the original.
And we know Fyodor wrote in the book, not to mention that in 119 Fyodor mentions that the book is their origin and originally I took this as a metaphor but then…why would a world need a bookmark as Fyodor called Atsushi. A world inside the book would need one but not the original.
So, the world we’re seeing could just be an alternate timeline and the original world is far away. This could also explain why everyone didn’t really die but instead get ‘materialized’, turned into atoms or dust or whatever. Their existence ripped out of the world, because it’s not their original world.