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| Original Title | 猟奇の街 |
|---|---|
| Author | 佐左木 俊郎 |
| Genre | War & Social Literature |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | In a Tokyo veiled by autumn mist, a man navigates streets where reality blurs with haunting visions. The city breathes through industrial groans and distant cries, its fog concealing spectral figures and half-heard whispers. A spectral encounter unfolds as a woman in white materializes, clutching his arm with desperate familiarity. She claims he fathered her child before vanishing into factory shadows—a labyrinth where workers disappear under mysterious circumstances. Her fragmented tale reveals a husband crushed by machinery, corporate cover-ups, and coercive bargains that morph into nightmarish chases through hotel prisons and phantom-filled alleys. As she oscillates between lucidity and delusion, pleading for help to reclaim a child only she hears crying, attendants emerge to restrain her—hinting at layers of truth buried beneath trauma and exploitation. Between shifting identities and unresolved guilt, the narrative weaves a disorienting tapestry of loss and paranoia, where every mist-cloaked corner threatens to unravel sanity itself. |
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