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Beast TristessaAuthor: Tachibana Sotoo
| Original Title | 陰獣トリステサ |
|---|---|
| Author | 橘 外男 |
| Genre | Fantasy & Sci-Fi |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | In a Barcelona prison cell, disgraced banker Rodríguez Alejandro pens his final testimony—a confession veiled as defiance. Society brands him a monster for butchering his aristocratic wife Dolores in a crime of unmatched brutality: three gunshot wounds punctuating a night of savage torture and violation. Newspapers paint him as a depraved sadist, yet Alejandro insists his grotesque fate defies comprehension. \nHis memoir reveals a life shaped by deformity—a "cripple" scorned since youth, whose obsessive love for Dolores curdled into violent possession. The narrative twists through aristocratic decadence and a peculiar dog merchant, Julio Benavides, whose uncanny hounds link multiple young wives in whispered scandal. Alejandro claims these beasts harbor unspeakable secrets, dismissed as madness by courts and scholars alike. \nAs executions loom, his writings oscillate between raw vulnerability and chilling pride—a man who sees himself as both victim and avenger of love’s darkest extremes. Between lines of self-loathing and defiance flickers an unnerving truth: perhaps true monstrosity lies not in bloodstained hands, but in forces lurking beyond society’s gilded facades. The mystery lingers—was Alejandro a madman, a prophet, or something far more ancient? |
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