Fukuzawa probably learned how to sword-fight out of necessity.
He doesn’t have a combat ability…
“All Men Are Equal” helps those around him, it doesn’t help himself.
So he had to find a way to help himself without an ability.
It paid off.

So in episode three we meet Higuchi for the first time.

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And she’s pretty young (once I read she’s seventeen and it’s very much not canon but I’m not against this idea) and new to the mafia (she clearly wasn’t there during Dark Era so she’s fairly new, in the course of the four years taking afterwards or so) and they just sent her on a mission to hunt down a tiger at the same detective agency former mafia executive Osamu Dazai works at.

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First thing he does is as he usually does with any woman, is flirt with her and promptly get beaten up by Kunikida afterwards, while Higuchi stares on completely bewildered, then continues tricking the Agency into coming with her on a false case.

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It must be incredible to meet Osamu Dazai for the first time after having been told by the entire mafia that he’s demon spawn, the top torturer, former mafia executive… And have him take your hand, try to flirt with you, ask you to kill yourself with him, and then watch him get beaten up by one of his coworkers.

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There he is. The man Higuchi’s been WAITING to meet, the man everybody’s warned her about, and he isn’t even in CHARGE here, he’s basically an idiot.

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Girl’s face just screams “what the fuck“ and “I’m disappointed“