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Coconut FruitAuthor: Yumeno Kyūsaku

Original Title	ココナットの実
Author	夢野久作
Genre	Detective & Mystery
Author Type	Male Author
Summary	In a Kobe café brimming with gossiping patrons, a girl disguised as a schoolgirl smirks behind her cocktail. Hours earlier, an explosion shredded financier Gonroku AkaIwa’s empire, scattering body parts and igniting frenzied headlines. The prime suspect? Elako—his vanished illegitimate daughter, last seen fleeing with a radical lover. Unbeknownst to detectives swarming nearby, Elako lounges inches away, drafting a mocking letter that will expose her guilt… and her genius. Through fragmented memories, we glimpse her puppetmastery: manipulating a lovestruck Indian servant’s fatal devotion, toying with a tubercular revolutionary’s bomb-building skills, all while orchestrating her father’s gruesome demise. As police dismiss her as a pawn in political games, Elako’s narrative drips with contempt for their blindness. Will her confession arrive before they realize the mastermind wears pigtails? A tale of twisted gamesmanship unfolds, where every smirk could be lethal and innocence is the deadliest disguise.