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Going to Fall in Love (A Sequel to Woman's Body)Author: Sakaguchi Ango

Original Title	恋をしに行く（「女体」につゞく）
Author	坂口安吾
Genre	Modern Short Fiction
Author Type	Male Author
Summary	Tanimura, a man yearning for transcendent love, resolves to confess his feelings to Shinko—an enigmatic woman shrouded in rumors of manipulation and countless admirers. Haunted by warnings from her former lover, who brands her a “born criminal,” Tanimura seeks counsel from Fujiko, only to face cryptic taunts about Shinko’s elusive nature. Their charged encounter unravels his idealized fantasies, exposing raw passion that clashes with his spiritual aspirations. Shinko’s contradictions—childlike innocence and calculated allure—pull him into a whirlwind of desire and doubt. Amid winter’s chill and whispered secrets, Tanimura confronts unsettling truths: love’s essence may lie not in purity but in surrendering to deception. As boundaries between soul and flesh blur, he teeters between transcendence and ruin. Will his quest for martyrdom in devotion ignite enlightenment or self-destruction? A haunting dance of obsession unfolds, where artifice masks longing, and every revelation deepens the enigma.