[ oda stops when dazai pauses, the sudden change in demeanor causing him to suddenly go into alert-mode for anything that might happen.

when he remembers that atsushi had that very same pause yesterday, oda can't help but feel just a bit...angry. like everyone's dancing around a subject and they won't tell him. ]

Atsushi did that too, yesterday. I'm guessing it has something to do with the other one, but if this is how you two are going to be around me, then I think I should know why.