(Note: Sachertorte is a chocolate sponge cake covered with chocolate glaze and filled with apricot jam.) Full Text Contents | Part 2 It was during a June which saw little rain and was swelteringly hot, making it seem like we’d skipped the plum rains and gone straight to midsummer, when a strange rumor was spread […]
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Full Text A Break, and a Short Conversation | Contents | Chapter 2 Part 2 June 27, 1991 (Heisei 3) – Thursday My wallet became quite a lot lighter in the last two weeks. That was because the books on Yugoslavia I ordered kept getting delivered one after another. Given that I usually only bought
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Full Text Prologue | Contents | Chapter 1 Part 2 April 23, 1991 (Heisei 3) – Tuesday There’s a saying that goes, “One can only appreciate manners when their basic needs are met.” There’s also another saying: “Poverty dulls the wit.” In other words, if you exclude some saints, civility is secondary, to be considered
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Full Text Contents | The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 2) It all began with a newspaper. It was followed by another newspaper, and another, and another, then for some reason led to a cookie. Basically, what happened was this. One winter day, after returning from school, I opened the newspaper for some reason. I
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Full Text The Berlin Fried Bread Mystery (Part 5) | Contents | The Florence Cream Puff Mystery (Part 2) There had been no indications of winter until the end of December, but the weather instantly became freezing cold when the year changed, as if it had been waiting for that very moment. I didn’t know
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Chapter 2 | Contents | Chapter 4 The light that streamed in through the open curtains hurt my eyes. The door opened, and the nurse with very short hair entered. “Good morning. Did you sleep well last night?” I did open my eyes once, but excluding that I’d slept for almost half a day. “Yes,
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Prologue | Contents | Chapter 2 I had a dream. Or at least, I thought it was a dream. In the dream, I was in an intensive care unit. I did not feel any pain, but there was this fretful feeling that something irreversible would happen if I continued to stay like this. However, I
Full Text The New York Cheesecake Mystery (Part 8) | Contents | The Berlin Fried Bread Mystery (Part 2) It was after school on a day when the end of the year was in sight, and I was heading to the Newspaper Club with the answer sheets for a survey in hand. The survey was
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Full Text The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 6) | Contents | The New York Cheesecake Mystery (Part 2) Osanai-san and I had an arrangement whereby we would protect each other from troubling situations, as well as monitor each other so that we do not break the oaths we’d made in our hearts. However, that pact
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Full Text The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 2) | Contents | The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 4) There is a song about hitting a pocket to make the biscuits within increase in number. I had no recollection of hitting anything, but there was now one more macaron on Osanai-san’s plate. However, she was not visibly
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