In Kanazawa City, a man and a woman took their own lives together. Soon after this tragic event, Yoshiko Shiota, a resident of Tokyo, reaches out to a Kanazawa newspaper, expressing her desire to read a novel by Ryuji Sugimoto that is being published in installments. How did Yoshiko become aware of this serialized novel, and why is she eager to begin reading it midway through the narrative? What specific article is she truly interested in? Driven by curiosity, Sugimoto embarks on his own investigation into Yoshiko’s motives, only to uncover increasingly surprising revelations…