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In a near-future, post-war Tokyo, the war hero president of a major corporation is murdered at his own party. Will the brilliant, young Shinjurou prove his self-proclaimed title as "the last great detective" by solving the case, or will devious "Media King" Rinroku Kaishou beat him to it, leading to a questionable outcome and the branding of Shinjurou as the "Defeated Detective" once again?

A trunk is delivered to a mansion by an unlicensed taxi driver. Inside is the corpse of the mansion's owner, Osada Hisako. Based on Kaishou Rinraku's deductions, a manhunt begins for the suspect, Aramaki. But An, the daughter of Osada Hisako, tells Shinjurou that Aramaki isn't the killer. This leads the "Defeated Detective" into a search for the real murderer as well as the secret behind wart...

Rie pays Shinjurou a visit, thinking he'll be able to solve the mystery that occurs at the Sassa house. The deceased is the head of the Sassa household, Kazamori Sassa. Kazamori's father, Komamori, was a brilliant researcher in the field of artificial intelligence, but during the war, his research was suppressed and he was subsequently killed in an explosion. Seven years later, his son, Kazam...

The former head of the Sasa family, Komamori Sasa, developed a groundbreaking artificial intelligence known as RAI (Real A.I.), but the technology was banned by the government and consigned to oblivion. Shinjurou's brilliant reasoning follows a trail to the past and exposes the Sasa family's hidden truth. But even then, a mystery remains, until a certain event provides the young detective wit...

During the war, three students bravely volunteered to prevent a terrorist bombing . After the war, it became taboo to speak of their actions, but the unveiling of a bronze statue is held to praise the three young heroes. The sponsor is Hakurou Shimada, the leader of the "Rising Sun Party", a political organization the three students had been involved in. But then, during the ceremony, two co...

Yajima, a man who has just gotten out of prison, pays Shinjurou a visit. It turns out that he's an old friend of Kaishou and he asks the young detective to break a secret code. Folded inside of a purloined book from Kaishou's library is a piece of paper from Yajima's own personalized manuscript paper with a series of numbers written on it. The decoded message indicates a planned rendezvous, w...

Shinjurou Yuuki is working as a movie cameraman. His current project is "The Retard", a film set in a fictionalized modern-day Japan that is embroiled in war, though the story focuses on three young women who escape from different places only to wind up living together in the closet of a ramshackle house and being loved by the same man. The seeming disinterest of the director, Kichitarou Mita...

After searching for the missing Shinjurou on the net, Kazamori discovers that he's in the East Kantou Social Rehabilitation Program Center, a prison. Shinjurou's objective in going to this privately-run prison was to interview the criminal who calls himself "The Novelist" regarding a previous case. Through Rie, Rinroku, Koyama and Hayami also learn of Shinjurou's whereabouts. Rie tags along a...

A group of crackers calling themselves "Full Circle" fix on JJ Systems as their target and begin attacking by leaking the company's data as well as revealing Rinroku Kaishou's private life. Amid those unfavorable winds, Kaishou appears on a TV talk show. The other participants, a politician, the president of a rival company, and the writer of a tell-all book are all critical of Kaishou. Just ...

Inga has disappeared, but Shinjurou continues to search for the truth alone. While investigating the TV station bombing, Shinjurou, who suspects that Kaishou used Bettenou to do it, devises a plan to uncover the truth. Kaishou is requested to testify at a budget committee, but if done via video monitor while he's in his hospital bed, Bettenou's ability to manipulate people through a person's ...

A mysterious invitation has been delivered to Shinjurou and several other people who have a connection to Chairman Kaishou. It contains the message, "An invitation to a party, in which the real person behind the bombing will be discovered" and seemingly bears the personal seal of Kaishou himself. And so, the people concerned gather together in the TV studio that had recently been bombed. A fu...