After a troublesome and traumatic past, (Y/N) (L/N) joins the Armed Detective Agency as well as operating a part-time job at their family's nearby cafe. After dealing with everyone's shenanigans for countless months, (Y/N) seems to expect their life...
TW: Gore, Cursing, Death SW: The Azure Messenger (Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam) RI: Atsushi Nakajima, Osamu Dazai, Doppo Kunikida, Akiko Yosano, Chuuya Nakahara, Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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Now all four of you sat in the taxi cab again, in the same positions as before except this time you were closer to Atsushi, who was desperately trying to focus on the mission instead of his red cheeks. "Sorry for the short notice," Kunikida apologized to the driver.
"So you mentioned that you figured out who's behind the serial murder case?" The driver responded, "I imagine that you're on your way to arrest the killer?"
"That's right," Kunikida confirmed.
"Then we should probably hurry." The driver asked, "so what's our destination, sir?"
"Right here."
"Huh?"
"The abductions happened here," Kunikida accused the driver, "you're the kidnapper. You subdued passengers with a sleeping gas and abducted them after they fell unconscious. You wore a gas mask to escape the effects."
Atsushi wondered, "why would he go through all that trouble?"
"I can think of one reason," Dazai sighed. He had seemed pretty calm the entire time, as if he already had known who the kidnapper was.
You turned to look at him with Atsushi as you asked, "and that is?"
"Merchandise," Dazai answered.
Your eyes widened in realization as Atsushi continued to ask, "what do you mean?"
Dazai leaned forward and explained, "he'd sell the bodies for their parts. There's quite a large black market for organs if you know where to look. The cut may not be ideal because of the various economic factors involved, but if you're flying solo the pay's not bad..."
"That's horrible," Atsushi gasped.
"Dazai," you muttered, "how do you know so much about organ trafficking?"
"Reasons," Dazai giggled, "all will be figured out in due time."
"Hang on," the driver exclaimed, anxiety dripping from his voice, "that's impossible! If I kidnapped people in this taxi I would've been found out when the police traced their last known whereabouts."
"Actually," Kunikida declared, "the police didn't even give this taxi a second look. Why would they? All the victims had vanished, and subsequently each one became untraceable the following day. After the targets got in your taxi and were sedated, you proceeded to strip them of their clothes and belongings. That's why most of the victims in the hospital were only in their underwear.
"You would then don their clothes in order to disguise yourself as them and followed up by checking into hotels where they had previously made reservations. You made sure you would show up on security cameras for that reason. The victims being the same size as you was no accident either. You chose people who wore hats and glasses because they were easier to impersonate. If the security feed showed someone looking close enough to the victim, the police were inclined to believe it. By the time the last known sighting of the victim was recorded, the real victim had already been abducted."
