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Lady Emira Geirek's DiaryAuthor: Tachibana Sotoo

Original Title	令嬢エミーラの日記
Author	橘外男
Genre	Detective & Mystery
Author Type	Male Author
Summary	In the untamed jungles bordering Angola and Congo, a surveyor stumbles upon a grisly scene: the mangled corpse of a young European woman, her diary clutched in bloodied hands. The journal reveals her life as part of a perilous scientific expedition led by her father, an obsessive scholar determined to decode gorilla communication. Isolated in a remote camp, tensions escalate among the team as they imprison a massive silverback gorilla named Mafuchazu. The creature’s uncanny intelligence and volatile bond with the diarist blur lines between observer and subject, while simmering rivalries and paranoia fracture human alliances. As her father’s experiments grow increasingly reckless—culminating in a fateful decision to unleash the gorilla—the entries spiral into fragmented terror. The diary’s final pages hint at unspeakable violence, leaving questions about primal instincts, scientific ambition, and what truly lurks in the shadows of the rainforest. This haunting account teases a descent into madness where humanity’s grasp on civilization proves frighteningly fragile.