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FocusingAuthor: Yumeno Kyūsaku
| Original Title | 焦点を合せる |
|---|---|
| Author | 夢野 久作 |
| Genre | War & Social Literature |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | Amidst the greasy clatter of a cargo ship’s engine room, a law student’s desperate gamble collides with shadowy agendas. Li Fa-kun, smuggling mahjong sets to fund his studies, finds himself entangled with a grizzled captain whose laughter echoes through steel corridors. Their cryptic exchange veers from tuition woes to veiled threats, the air thick with coal dust and unspoken alliances. The captain—a man as weathered as his ship’s antique boiler—spins tales of South China Sea storms and wartime espionage, his oil-stained hands punctuating each word. Yet beneath the banter lies a razor’s edge: whispered codes, a locked trunk of hollowed tiles, and the lingering specter of Mr. Wang, a Shanghai fixer with fingers in every underworld pie. As machinery groans and pressure gauges quiver, Li Fa-kun’s academic facade begins to crack, revealing layers of deception that could sink nations. Between hellish engine heat and the promise of abalone feasts, loyalties blur like steam on cold glass—and not everyone aboard intends to reach Nagasaki alive. |
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