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OnchiAuthor: Yumeno Kyūsaku
| Original Title | オンチ |
|---|---|
| Author | 夢野 久作 |
| Genre | Detective & Mystery |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | In the shadow of Hoshiura Steelworks’ roaring furnaces and choking smoke, workers navigate a world where brutality and eerie silence collide. Amid this industrial inferno lies Tsubo Court—a forsaken tennis court drowned by steam pipes, now a stage for cryptic play rehearsals where factory hands mime violent dramas to crowds who strain to decode their grim pantomimes. When cosmos flowers bloom each October, the court briefly transforms into a surreal theater of bloodless spectacles… until a staged murder blurs into reality. \nSuekichi Matano—a gentle giant known as Onchi—witnesses an office clerk’s skull shattered by an iron rod during what seems another rehearsal. But the victim is real: Nishimura, the payroll officer, lies dead, his briefcase of 120,000 yen stolen. As suspicion festers among workers and police flounder, alliances fracture. Miyoshi, a sharp-eyed technician, weaves theories of betrayal, while Totsuka’s erratic behavior hints at darker loyalties. \nThe factory’s labyrinthine underbelly—a realm of molten slag and shadowy decks—becomes a battleground where greed and vengeance ignite. Matano, torn between loyalty and justice, confronts a killer whose intellect masks monstrous ambition. Yet the truth simmers beneath Hoshiura’s smoke, where even flames may not purge the sins etched into its scorched earth. \nA tale of deception unfolds where every hiss of steam could be a lie, and survival demands deciphering which performances are acts—and which are death warrants. |
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