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Original Title	三狂人
Author	大阪 圭吉
Genre	Modern Short Fiction
Author Type	Male Author
Summary	Perched atop a desolate hill overlooking a crematorium, Akazawa Brain Hospital is a decaying sanctuary for the lost. But its already ominous air turns to palpable dread when Nurse Ukichi makes a horrifying discovery: the hospital director savagely murdered, his brain violently extracted, and three of his most peculiar patients — Ton-Ton, the Songstress, and the Bandaged One — vanished without a trace. As the city reels, police race against time to capture the escaped madmen. Yet, a chilling question haunts the investigation: did the director’s constant, reckless shouts of "Replace your brains!" drive one of them to commit the unspeakable act? The lines between sanity and madness blur, and the hunt for a killer, or perhaps a brain, spirals into a terrifying unknown.