Full Text Chapter 3 Part 1 | Contents | Epilogue July 6, 1992 (Heisei 4) – Monday At night, a bell rang. It was a phone call from someone I didn’t really want to talk to. As they always did, I responded with the minimum amount of words. “What is it?” “I want to meet […]
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Full Text Chapter 2 Part 1 | Contents | Chapter 2 Part 3 June 30, 1991 (Heisei 3) – Sunday What in the world were my eyes seeing? I definitely hadn’t closed my ears, either. After scouring the newspapers, I discovered that the morning paper from 26th June had already reported on Slovenia and Croatia
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Full Text Chapter 1 Part 1 | Contents | Chapter 1 Part 3 May 7, 1991 (Heisei 3) – Sunday “So, what happened with that Eastern European?” Nukata Hiroyasu asked in an easy-going manner while sitting cross-legged, with his hands behind his head. His skin was burnt brown by the sun even though it was
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Full Text The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 1) | Contents | The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 3) It was a gray painting. The top of the painting is painted gray, probably depicting heavy, overcast clouds. The bottom is painted gray as well, likely representing a dark earth. At the boundary between the sky
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Full Text The Florence Cream Puff Mystery (Part 1) | Contents | The Florence Cream Puff Mystery (Part 3) On the following Saturday, I met up with Osanai-san in the morning, and we took the Tokaido line heading to Nagoya. When I was a middle school student, all sorts of things happened around me. Events
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Full Text The Berlin Fried Bread Mystery (Part 1) | Contents | The Berlin Fried Bread Mystery (Part 3) The Newspaper Club was using the Printing Preparation Room on the first floor as their club room. The door was ajar, so I peeked in to see what they were up to before completing my task.
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Chapter 11 | Contents | Commentary I returned to the dark hospital room. With Hisaka Eiko-san gone, who will come in tomorrow? Now that we’ve created a situation which resulted in a nurse from this hospital getting arrested, will I be able to receive treatment tomorrow? But I was too tired to entertain those thoughts.
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Chapter 10 | Contents | Epilogue Osanai-san was wrapped in a cream-colored down coat, and was wearing a gray muffler. She was always bad with the cold, and would often bundle up during wintertime. She put down her hood, revealing a pair of cream-colored earmuffs that looked like it was made of down. After removing
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Chapter 9 | Contents | Chapter 11 I couldn’t turn on the lights. In this dark room, I wouldn’t be able to write anything even if I opened my notebook. Thus with my head on the pillow, I gazed up at the ceiling and started recalling the past again. How did the case of three
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Chapter 8 | Contents | Chapter 10 On the morning of New Year’s Eve, Miyamuro-sensei of the Orthopedic Department conducted a medical examination. I had an X-ray taken for the first time since the surgery, and I was then asked to give a detailed description of any pain or unease that I felt. Of course,
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