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| Original Title | 海豹島 |
|---|---|
| Author | 久生 十蘭 |
| Genre | Popular Fiction |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | Driven by an unsettling memory, an engineer from Tokyo recounts a chilling incident from his past on Seal Island. Dispatched to the remote, ice-locked fur seal breeding ground, his routine inspection quickly unravels when he learns of a catastrophic fire that claimed five lives, leaving only the enigmatic, increasingly erratic Sayama as a survivor. Trapped by an unforgiving blizzard and the vast, frozen Sea of Okhotsk, the engineer is forced to delve into the incident, but the island's desolation and Sayama's unsettling behavior twist his perceptions. As he uncovers cryptic clues—a forgotten hairpin, a woman's hair—the line between accident and murder, sanity and delusion, begins to blur. What truly transpired on that cursed island, and what horrifying secret does Sayama hide beneath the howling winds? |
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