Tokyo Literary Godfather

What is the most effective damage to a star?

There is nothing better than the public withdrawal of fans and accusations from big fans.

This is the conclusion Kei Fujiwara came to after many observations in his previous life.

No matter how many gossips there are from outsiders, they are not as powerful as a short essay written by a senior fan of a star before he quits being a fan. Sometimes, it is even possible to beat many popular celebrities to paralysis with one blow.

The reason is easy to understand. Compared with passers-by and ordinary fans, big fans are more familiar with the lives of celebrities, and their public withdrawal from fans makes it easier for the public to question the celebrity.

The people who like you the most are openly against you, so you must really be a bad person, right?

And Kei Fujiwara and Shinichi Chiba are a bit like the relationship between celebrities and big fans.

Chiba Shinichi was the first book critic to praise Kei Fujiwara in newspapers. He was a well-known critic in the circle, and the books he recommended usually boosted sales, so his recommendation was also given to this book in the early stages of "White Night Journey" The sales of this book have increased a lot.

Later, he was invited to attend the Naoki Prize Awards Ceremony, and he bluntly stated before the awards were given: "White Night Walk" is the best among all the shortlisted works.

Even at that time, not many people believed that "White Night Walk" would win the Naoki Award, because the Naoki Award is not a pure newcomer award after all, and it is rare to award it to newcomers, but Chiba Shinichi still said that. Compared with some other book reviewers, the icing on the cake of praising "White Night Journey" only after "White Night Journey" won the award is more convincing.

Therefore, in the hearts of readers, Chiba Shinichi can be said to be a staunch supporter of Sima Keita.

But now, even this influential person who has always supported Sima Guitai has begun to rebel. Has Sima Guitai really exhausted his talent?

Three chapters of "Genius Detective Mitarashiyoshi" have been published so far. Judging from the current story, it is indeed not that good. At least it is still far away from Keita Sima's famous work "White Night Journey".

Soon, the fourth chapter was officially published, and the second case of "Genius Detective Mitarashi Kyous" officially entered the reader's field of vision.

The name of this new chapter is "Astrological Killing Magic".

When Togada Nanako passed by Ohno Bookstore, she bought the latest issue of "Spring and Autumn Literature Appreciation" in the bookstore.

Ohno Bookstore is near Ueno Park, just a few stops away from Tokyo University of Literature and Art. I heard that Keita Shima worked as a librarian here before writing "White Night Journey", which made this bookstore famous among some literature lovers. Big noise.

There has even been a superstition formed recently in the school, saying that this bookstore has good feng shui, and people who have worked here will be successful in their careers...

The owner of Daye Bookstore is a long-haired man in his twenties, who looks like a literary young man. He used to be seen at the counter, but recently he has disappeared. A new store manager has come to take care of the bookstore. In the bookstore, I don’t know where the owner went.

Togada Nanako went home after buying the magazine. After eating, she took a comfortable bath, then lay on the bed and read the magazine, and first opened the chapter of "Genius Detective Mitarashi Kiyo".

She has also read the recent discussions about Mr. Sima Keita in newspapers, forums and magazines. Most people are not very optimistic about the fate of Mr. Sima Keita's new novel.

In fact, "The Man with a Bandage" is not that bad, but who made Sima Keita turn into a star like "White Night Walk"? In comparison, it looks inferior.

Will the new chapter of the story be better?

Thinking in her mind, Togada Nanako started to read.

[Among the many cases I know, this is the most horrific and bizarre one. I think this almost impossible crime may be the first time in this world——Preface]

This time, what Mitarashi was facing was not the case that happened in front of him, but a murder full of weirdness that happened forty years ago. The large scale of this case and the weird plot caused a sensation in Japan at that time, but no one ever solved it, and it became an unsolved case that lasted for forty years.

Forty years later, the truth about this case and the identity of the murderer remain an unsolved mystery.

Just by looking at this setting, Togada Nanako's interest was piqued. Is this case actually an unsolved case from the past? Such a story is difficult to write. I wonder how Mr. Sima Keita would handle it.

The case begins with a notebook.

The owner of the note is a painter named Umezawa Heiyoshi. The notes are filled with satanic content and bizarre religious terms.

In this notebook, the painter Umezawa Heikichi said that there was a demon in his body that was always against him, constantly torturing his body and spirit.

Gradually, a desire deep in his heart became stronger and stronger. That is, he wanted to create a perfect woman in his inner world. He also gave this perfect woman in his fantasy a name: Assold.

The human body can be divided into six parts, namely the head, chest, abdomen, waist, thighs and calves.

In Western astrology, the constellations corresponding to these six parts are: Aries, Cancer, Scorpio, Virgo, Sagittarius and Aquarius.

So Asod needs the head of Aries, the chest of Cancer, the belly of Scorpio, the waist of Virgo, the thighs of Sagittarius and the calves of Aquarius to make up.

And these parts must be female limbs.

Heiji Umezawa discovered that six girls in his family were just right for making Asold, and those six girls were all virgins, making them the perfect material for making Asold.

Therefore, Umezawa Heiji brutally killed these six girls, took out the corresponding body parts, and spliced ​​them into Assword.

After the completion of Asode, the remaining body parts of the "raw material" girls were buried in the land representing each constellation in Japan by Umezawa Heiji, and the constellation attributes of the land were determined by the metal composition contained in the land.

The perfect woman Assold will be stored in the center of Japan.

In reality, the six girls were indeed brutally murdered as the notes said, and their limbs were indeed buried in those six places.

Seeing this, everyone may have thought that the painter Umezawa Heiji was the murderer, but that painter was also dead.

And she was killed before the girl was killed.

The way the girls died was exactly the same as the record in the diary. This cannot be a pure coincidence. The person who killed the girls was either the person who wrote the diary, or had read the diary.

However, the police investigated all the people involved in the note and found that none of them had the time or ability to be involved in the case. The investigation of the case has stalled.

The prisoner should be an outsider. He escaped the investigation because he did not come into the police's sight. However, there is no evidence of who this person is.