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Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam summary
 *  Note: Under construction 


 * Doppo Kunikida, a member of the Armed Detective Agency and an idealist, is partnered with Osamu Dazai upon the referral of Special Division for Unusual Powers director, Santōka Taneda. Hence, customary for all new employees, the Agency president Yukichi Fukuzawa entrusts Kunikida with Dazai's entrance exam to determine whether he is truly a suitable member of the Agency. Fukuzawa also gives Kunikida the prerogative to kill Dazai if he discerns that the newcomer is related to a nefarious plot that might endanger the Agency, more so because Dazai's past seems to be suspiciously erased from records and because of his unusual nullification ability.


 * Later, Kunikida receives an anonymous e-mail requesting the Agency to investigate an ostensibly haunted building. With the help of Rokuzō Taguchi, a 14-year-old informant employed by Kunikida, they trace the client's whereabouts to an abandoned hospital, to where Kunikida and Dazai head through a taxi ride driven by an acquainted driver and Agency informant. There they find a shackled woman, Nobuko Sasaki, drowning in a cistern and, later, four more people trapped in a cage. Though they are able to rescue Sasaki, Kunikida and Dazai are unable to save the four others after a poison gas is released to their cage.


 * The four victims are apparently Yokohama visitors who have disappeared upon their arrival, an ongoing case being investigated by the Agency. News articles and images also surface that depict the Agency's failure of saving the four victims that resulted to their deaths. Kunikida surmises that someone has candidly photographed the event and released the photos to the public, which Dazai thinks is the culprit's objective.


 * Eventually, Kunikida realizes that the culprit to the visitors' disappearances is their taxi driver. As they confront him, the driver confesses to kidnapping the visitors. He then asks for a witness protection deal for fear of being targeted by the Port Mafia after dropping the organ trade market on their head. Mafiosi soon attack the driver's taxi during their conversation, compelling Kunikida to fight Ryunosuke Akutagawa briefly. Their clash is later thwarted, and Dazai is able to protect the driver during the shootout, whom he hands off to the police.


 * Soon after the driver's arrest, Kunikida receives another request from the same anonymous client. This time, the Agency is asked to deactivate a large-scale bomb by sunset the following day. The e-mail is also signed by someone known as the Azure Messenger. As the Agency is briefed on the message, Fukuzawa tasks his members to find and neutralize the bomb within its time limit and to locate the Azure Messenger behind the attack.


 * As Kunikida finds Dazai together with Sasaki to brief him on the matter, Sasaki suggests that the Azure Messenger may be connected with the Azure Banner Terrorist Incident, a case whose culprit known as the Azure King died in a blast that claimed five lives, including Rokuzō's father. Upon conjecturing that the bomber might be a foreigner, Kunikida and Dazai enact an operation at the American embassy in an attempt to acquire intel regarding a possible foreign bomb manufacturer operating in Japan. In the end, they are told about Zadkiel Alamta, who is known for making bombs for terrorist groups. Hence, they suspect him to be the Azure Messenger.


 * Ranpo Edogawa, the Agency's senior detective, soon aids them with his ability, Super Deduction, and determines that the bomb is located at a fishing tackle shop near Yokohama's oil storage facility. Dazai is also impressed with Ranpo's mere deductive skills, revealing to Kunikida that Ranpo does not actually have an ability after trying to nullify (and failing to cancel out) Super Deduction. They later arrive at the area to look for the bomb in a car, but they surprisingly find Alamta's corpse nearby, with two zeroes scratched all over his body. Not long after, they are notified that the taxi driver has also died, with two zeroes on his body like Alamta.


 * Rokuzō calls Kunikida and tells him that the e-mails trace back to Dazai's computer. Initially in disbelief, Kunikida realizes Dazai as a suspect is feasible after musing how the enemy has been a step ahead in their investigation as if they are being constantly monitored. Kunikida later confronts and shoots Dazai at an abandoned warehouse per Fukuzawa's instruction vis-à-vis Dazai's possible evil nature, backed upon by recent revelations that appear to claim Dazai as the Azure Messenger. Shortly after, however, Agency doctor Akiko Yosano informs Kunikida that the Azure Messenger has sent another request to stop a passenger aircraft from crashing.


 * Kunikida's confrontation with Dazai turns out to be a ruse, after they figure out earlier that Dazai was framed to be the mastermind by having incriminating items planted on him. Kunikida shooting Dazai is also an act to deceive the person listening on the device placed on Dazai's pocket, with which signaled the said party to launch the third threat afterwards. They soon track the transmitter signal paralyzing the aircraft's systems at a former defense force facility.


 * Upon arriving at the facility, Kunikida faces a number ability user who breaks the cancellation key to the transmitter signal, while Dazai struggles against a gigantic man. Though the two are initially overwhelmed by their opponents, they soon defeat their respective foes after switching places with each other. Kunikida beats the large man with his physical prowess, and Dazai easily nullifies his opponent's ability. Kunikida also reproduces the cancellation key, preventing the aircraft from crashing.


 * A few days later, Kunikida reports to Fukuzawa about Dazai's character and allows him to pass his entrance exam. Later, after Kunikida chances upon Sasaki at a cemetery where she also tells him that her significant other has passed away, Dazai calls him out to the abandoned hospital. Dazai tells Kunikida that he has sent an e-mail to the true Azure Messenger to settle matters at the hospital.


 * Rokuzō suddenly arrives, making Kunikida think that he is the Azure Messenger. However, Rokuzō is suddenly shot by Sasaki, who turns out to be the true Azure Messenger. (To be continued)