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Oda Sakunosuke's Entrance Exam
Title: Oda Sakunosuke's Entrance Exam
Fandom: Bungou Stray Dogs
Character(s): Fukuzawa, Odasaku, Dazai
Pairing(s): None
Genre: Drama...?
Word Count: 1,205
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Summary: Fukuzawa finds Odasaku difficult to accept into the Agency.
Notes: I don't know Dazai Osamu's Entrance Exam past the current translations, so if this contradicts something there, I apologize!
Fukuzawa sighs heavily, not taking his eyes off one smiling face and one blank expression.
Chief Taneda’s recommendation isn’t one to be taken lightly. If Taneda found these two men worthy of being part of the Armed Detective Agency, there’s no polite way to contradict him. His judgment is superb.
“We have a condition,” Oda Sakunosuke says.
“Both of us or neither of us!” says Dazai Osamu. “If you can’t hire both of us, we’ll just have to find somewhere else.”
“Sorry,” Oda adds.
It’s not a lack of space that’s the problem. The Agency can always use more hands. Both of them passed the initial exam without problem, and both have absurdly useful Abilities.
But both of them have no history on record, and that’s unlikely for someone who can tell the future and someone who can nullify Abilities with a touch. They should have been scouted by other organizations long ago.
He’s not sure which he’s more worried about. Dazai is slippery, always joking around, and yet passed the first exam with flying colors. Oda seems more straightforward, which makes it even stranger that he has no history.
“...I’ll allow it.”
In the end, the connections the Agency has with the government are too valuable to risk injuring their relationship with Chief Taneda.
He’s already planning what to do in case things go wrong.
Dazai passes his entrance exam, and soon wants to know - “What was Odasaku’s?”
They’re not in front of Odasaku at the time, so Fukuzawa is able to freely admit, “I haven’t had the opportunity to give him one yet. Someone else has been keeping us occupied.”
Dazai looks completely unashamed of himself. “He’ll pass!”
“If you tell him that there is an exam ahead of time, I’ll be forced to fire him,” Fukuzawa says.
Dazai makes a zipped lips motion with his hand.
“Good.”
Fukuzawa doesn’t plan on telling Dazai exactly what the exam is, either. Now that he’s gotten to know Odasaku a little better, one of Fukuzawa’s concerns is that he might choose Dazai over the wellbeing of everyone else. It wouldn’t be unexpected, but it would mean he had no place in the Agency.
But to put Dazai in danger without Dazai knowing what’s really going on, that will be difficult indeed.
He tries Kunikida’s approach: to assign a certain case for Odasaku to solve. A murder case involving three victims.
This doesn’t work, because Odasaku looks over the names and photos of the deceased and says, plainly, “They were killed by their superior in the Port Mafia.”
Fukuzawa raises an eyebrow. Dazai stifles a laugh.
“These look like injuries from Akutagawa’s Ability, Rashomon. Dazai would know better than me.” He passes the photos over to Dazai, who gives an exaggerated shrug. “I recognize all of the names. Who asked us to take this case?”
“A relative of one of the victims.” The Agency isn’t foolish enough to get involved in the Mafia’s internal affairs. “We’ll have to politely decline.”
So that won’t do for an exam. On the other hand, he now has confirmation that both of them are ex-Mafia, so it wasn’t a complete waste.
Dazai and Odasaku take many missions together, but none of them will work for an exam. Hardly anyone can put the two of them in serious danger, and when they do Odasaku’s never forced to make a moral choice between his friend and the safety of others.
Dazai reminds him about it occasionally, sometimes in singsong. “Ne, President~ Shouldn’t Odasaku be an official member by now~?”
Fukuzawa has the same answer every time. “Be patient.”
In the end, Dazai forces his hand.
A group of fire-using Ability users holding a movie theater hostage. The police hadn’t been able to negotiate with them thus far, and matters were unlikely to improve.
“Please send Odasaku and I,” Dazai says, with a bow of his head that immediately tells Fukuzawa that he’s planning something. “We’ll rescue the hostages. I’ll tell you all about it afterwards!”
“Go,” Fukuzawa says, simply. A test he can’t oversee isn’t one he can rely on, but he doesn’t have the time to tell Dazai that.
So they leave, with Odasaku driving because Dazai’s attempts at driving would only make matters worse.
Time passes. Fukuzawa waits: reports from outside the theater inform him that Dazai and Odasaku arrived as requested, and a little later that shots were fired.
He’s considering sending Kunikida after them when more reports come in. The hostages are fine and the criminals have been taken into custody, but Dazai is badly burnt and going to the hospital. Fukuzawa doesn’t relax at the news: Dazai is the only member of their organization who Yosano can’t easily heal.
“You are in command while I’m out,” he tells Kunikida, then goes to pay a visit.
Odasaku is pacing in the waiting room when he arrives. “Dazai won’t be receiving visitors for a while,” he says. “I called the office to give my report, but you were already on your way here.”
Fukuzawa has a seat. “Deliver it to me now.”
Odasaku describes Dazai’s plan: Dazai would deal with the hostage-takers at the front of the building, while Odasaku would deal with the lesser number in the back and focus on getting everyone out safely before joining Dazai at the front again.
Odasaku had followed those instructions. Even when he heard, more than saw, Dazai being burnt, he’d still finished getting the hostages out before he hurried back to help Dazai. The enemies had been dealt with fairly quickly after that, and now here they are in a hospital waiting room.
Fukuzawa sighs heavily. “I suppose that fulfills the qualifications I was looking for in the entrance exam, even if I would have preferred to see it done myself. ...You pass your test.”
“...Sir?” Odasaku asks, after a moment. “What do you mean?”
“The true entrance exam for the Armed Detective Agency tests an applicant’s strength of character and resolve in a crisis, among other traits” Fukuzawa says. “You, for example, I was concerned about putting Dazai’s wellbeing before the public’s.”
“Ah.” Odasaku looks like something he’d been wondering about was just resolved. “In that case… may I please retake the exam?”
Fukuzawa doesn’t hear that very often. “Why do you wish to?”
“It’s true that I put the hostages before Dazai, but… I trust Dazai completely, and by now I can tell when he’s doing something on purpose. He could have dealt with those people more quickly, and instead he got himself burned.” Odasaku looks in the direction Dazai’s room must be. “I didn’t think he was trying to kill himself again, so I knew he had some other reason for doing it. ...So, if you were testing me on that, I don’t think it should have counted.”
“Dazai is truly my most troublesome employee,” Fukuzawa says with a sigh. “I can’t allow retakes - it wouldn’t be a secret entrance exam if you knew there was one. You will have to accept becoming an official member with just this.”
“I see.” Odasaku thinks for a second. “Will it help if, after Dazai heals some, I smack him for pulling this?”
“Yes, I think that would help considerably.”
Fandom: Bungou Stray Dogs
Character(s): Fukuzawa, Odasaku, Dazai
Pairing(s): None
Genre: Drama...?
Word Count: 1,205
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Summary: Fukuzawa finds Odasaku difficult to accept into the Agency.
Notes: I don't know Dazai Osamu's Entrance Exam past the current translations, so if this contradicts something there, I apologize!
Fukuzawa sighs heavily, not taking his eyes off one smiling face and one blank expression.
Chief Taneda’s recommendation isn’t one to be taken lightly. If Taneda found these two men worthy of being part of the Armed Detective Agency, there’s no polite way to contradict him. His judgment is superb.
“We have a condition,” Oda Sakunosuke says.
“Both of us or neither of us!” says Dazai Osamu. “If you can’t hire both of us, we’ll just have to find somewhere else.”
“Sorry,” Oda adds.
It’s not a lack of space that’s the problem. The Agency can always use more hands. Both of them passed the initial exam without problem, and both have absurdly useful Abilities.
But both of them have no history on record, and that’s unlikely for someone who can tell the future and someone who can nullify Abilities with a touch. They should have been scouted by other organizations long ago.
He’s not sure which he’s more worried about. Dazai is slippery, always joking around, and yet passed the first exam with flying colors. Oda seems more straightforward, which makes it even stranger that he has no history.
“...I’ll allow it.”
In the end, the connections the Agency has with the government are too valuable to risk injuring their relationship with Chief Taneda.
He’s already planning what to do in case things go wrong.
Dazai passes his entrance exam, and soon wants to know - “What was Odasaku’s?”
They’re not in front of Odasaku at the time, so Fukuzawa is able to freely admit, “I haven’t had the opportunity to give him one yet. Someone else has been keeping us occupied.”
Dazai looks completely unashamed of himself. “He’ll pass!”
“If you tell him that there is an exam ahead of time, I’ll be forced to fire him,” Fukuzawa says.
Dazai makes a zipped lips motion with his hand.
“Good.”
Fukuzawa doesn’t plan on telling Dazai exactly what the exam is, either. Now that he’s gotten to know Odasaku a little better, one of Fukuzawa’s concerns is that he might choose Dazai over the wellbeing of everyone else. It wouldn’t be unexpected, but it would mean he had no place in the Agency.
But to put Dazai in danger without Dazai knowing what’s really going on, that will be difficult indeed.
He tries Kunikida’s approach: to assign a certain case for Odasaku to solve. A murder case involving three victims.
This doesn’t work, because Odasaku looks over the names and photos of the deceased and says, plainly, “They were killed by their superior in the Port Mafia.”
Fukuzawa raises an eyebrow. Dazai stifles a laugh.
“These look like injuries from Akutagawa’s Ability, Rashomon. Dazai would know better than me.” He passes the photos over to Dazai, who gives an exaggerated shrug. “I recognize all of the names. Who asked us to take this case?”
“A relative of one of the victims.” The Agency isn’t foolish enough to get involved in the Mafia’s internal affairs. “We’ll have to politely decline.”
So that won’t do for an exam. On the other hand, he now has confirmation that both of them are ex-Mafia, so it wasn’t a complete waste.
Dazai and Odasaku take many missions together, but none of them will work for an exam. Hardly anyone can put the two of them in serious danger, and when they do Odasaku’s never forced to make a moral choice between his friend and the safety of others.
Dazai reminds him about it occasionally, sometimes in singsong. “Ne, President~ Shouldn’t Odasaku be an official member by now~?”
Fukuzawa has the same answer every time. “Be patient.”
In the end, Dazai forces his hand.
A group of fire-using Ability users holding a movie theater hostage. The police hadn’t been able to negotiate with them thus far, and matters were unlikely to improve.
“Please send Odasaku and I,” Dazai says, with a bow of his head that immediately tells Fukuzawa that he’s planning something. “We’ll rescue the hostages. I’ll tell you all about it afterwards!”
“Go,” Fukuzawa says, simply. A test he can’t oversee isn’t one he can rely on, but he doesn’t have the time to tell Dazai that.
So they leave, with Odasaku driving because Dazai’s attempts at driving would only make matters worse.
Time passes. Fukuzawa waits: reports from outside the theater inform him that Dazai and Odasaku arrived as requested, and a little later that shots were fired.
He’s considering sending Kunikida after them when more reports come in. The hostages are fine and the criminals have been taken into custody, but Dazai is badly burnt and going to the hospital. Fukuzawa doesn’t relax at the news: Dazai is the only member of their organization who Yosano can’t easily heal.
“You are in command while I’m out,” he tells Kunikida, then goes to pay a visit.
Odasaku is pacing in the waiting room when he arrives. “Dazai won’t be receiving visitors for a while,” he says. “I called the office to give my report, but you were already on your way here.”
Fukuzawa has a seat. “Deliver it to me now.”
Odasaku describes Dazai’s plan: Dazai would deal with the hostage-takers at the front of the building, while Odasaku would deal with the lesser number in the back and focus on getting everyone out safely before joining Dazai at the front again.
Odasaku had followed those instructions. Even when he heard, more than saw, Dazai being burnt, he’d still finished getting the hostages out before he hurried back to help Dazai. The enemies had been dealt with fairly quickly after that, and now here they are in a hospital waiting room.
Fukuzawa sighs heavily. “I suppose that fulfills the qualifications I was looking for in the entrance exam, even if I would have preferred to see it done myself. ...You pass your test.”
“...Sir?” Odasaku asks, after a moment. “What do you mean?”
“The true entrance exam for the Armed Detective Agency tests an applicant’s strength of character and resolve in a crisis, among other traits” Fukuzawa says. “You, for example, I was concerned about putting Dazai’s wellbeing before the public’s.”
“Ah.” Odasaku looks like something he’d been wondering about was just resolved. “In that case… may I please retake the exam?”
Fukuzawa doesn’t hear that very often. “Why do you wish to?”
“It’s true that I put the hostages before Dazai, but… I trust Dazai completely, and by now I can tell when he’s doing something on purpose. He could have dealt with those people more quickly, and instead he got himself burned.” Odasaku looks in the direction Dazai’s room must be. “I didn’t think he was trying to kill himself again, so I knew he had some other reason for doing it. ...So, if you were testing me on that, I don’t think it should have counted.”
“Dazai is truly my most troublesome employee,” Fukuzawa says with a sigh. “I can’t allow retakes - it wouldn’t be a secret entrance exam if you knew there was one. You will have to accept becoming an official member with just this.”
“I see.” Odasaku thinks for a second. “Will it help if, after Dazai heals some, I smack him for pulling this?”
“Yes, I think that would help considerably.”