A former public prosecutor, and a former lawyer… Mebuki Akira, who is both talented and good-looking, is a person who loathes three things: violence, blackmail, and coercion so much that he finds them nauseating. In order to help those who cannot help themselves, he manages an office called ‘Mebuki Nego Office’ and, as a negotiator, would take up any case, save for international disputes and in-law issues… ... more>>

Volume 1: Koushounin wa Damaranai
Volume 2: Koushounin wa Utagawanai
Volume 3: Koushounin wa Furikaeru
Volume 4: Koushounin wa Hamerareru
Volume 5: Koushounin wa Akiramenai
Volume 6 (Extra): Sweeper wa Tokidoki Warau
Volume 7: Koushounin wa Aisareru
Special Volume: Koushounin wa Yasumenai <<less

A scientist who lost his wife in an unforeseen accident.... more>>

He set out to create a clone of his wife because of loneliness.

But just before the birth of the clone, he was converted and the clone was discarded.

But then for a while. Scientists who are subjected to guilt will receive unexpected punishment.

The runaway of the science which does not stop. The sci-fi short short of two men who are crazy for love, depicting their sins and punishments. <<less

As investigating partners, Zhu Xuan always wondered if her boss, Chu Haoran, had multiple personalities? How could he be so proud and obnoxious one minute,... more>> then caring and tender the next? One day after work, Haoran put up his long legs on her sofa table, announcing that he was living with her now. Xuan: "What about your own home?" Haoran: "There’s no point in resisting!" <<less

Deemed hopeless by her family and that she was better off married when her fourth novel continued to be a flop, aspiring author Xiang Wan begins to doubt herself. While feeling conflicted about continuing her dream as an author, things take an unexpected turn when a dazzling guy appears before her and takes her to the police station.... more>>

"What? I'm the primary suspect in a mu*der case?"

A mu*der has taken place and the details are eerily similar to the details of her latest novel. The dazzling guy turns out to be a talented detective with a hidden identity who is assigned to investigate the case. From then on, her life turns topsy-turvy.

In the beginning, she seeks the detective's protection by requesting to stay overnight at his place.

"Detective Bai, is it not the duty of the police to protect the witness when her life is in extreme danger?"

She ends up staying at his house overnight because of various reasons, such as—

Scenario 1:
Xiang Wan: "Detective Bai, you have no right to detain me..."

Detective Bai: "I remember you're the one who requested to stay at my house?"

Scenario 2:
Xiang Wan: "There's no need for that. Detective Bai, I can return..."

Detective Bai: "You've not cleared of suspicion yet. If something happens, at least you'll have an alibi."

Scenario 3:
Xiang Wan: “Why did you bring me to your house again?"

Detective Bai: "You haven't released a new chapter today!" he said, enunciating each syllable, "I want to read your latest chapter before telling you of our latest investigations."

"…" <<less

There are so many strange things in this world that make us wonder:... more>>

Why does the lone soul hanging in the cold classroom have a smile at the corner of its mouth? 　　 　　

Why does the half-broken corpse hidden in the cave of Ghost Valley feel unresigned? 　　 　　

How can a few puddles of flesh displayed on the lonely rocks of the beach have dreams? 　　 　　

We saw the caged beast in the villa floor forgetting that he was once a human being. 　　 　　

We see people in tattoo stores transforming into demons and ghosts and then painting themselves with human skin. 　　

We saw the couple walking down the aisle with their arms folded. 　　 　　

We can see the lonely people in the dark mine relying on each other’s warm and decadent bones……… In the end what turned an originally good people into a heartless mu*derer? 　　 　

　
Thirty cases, thirty stories, thirty times the most essential interplay between good and evil. 　　 　　

Let’s see how the reality of heaven becomes the heart of hell, how the angel of mercy becomes the cruel devil …… <<less

There was a terrible mu*der of a boy in the city where Honami lived. The victim r*ped after being killed. The news made Honami worry... more>> about the safety of the only daughter she had and she couldn't even trust the police. What will she do to protect her only daughter? <<less

Transmigrated into the world of American cinema and television, turning everything upside down.... more>>

I wanted to be a good person, so I was chased by the CIA, hunted down by the FBI, and pursued by the DHS... <<less

In the winter of three years ago, the first locked room mu*der in Japanese history was committed.... more>>

All of the evidence pointed to the defendant. It was certain they were guilty. And yet, they were found innocent and released. Why? Because the crime scene was a perfect locked room no one from the police or the prosecutor's office could solve.

"Since the room was locked, it was impossible for the defendant to have committed the mu*der. It's no different than if they had a perfect alibi." That was the argument of the defense, and that was the argument the judge sided with.

The ruling sent a ripple throughout Japanese society. No matter how suspicious you were or how much evidence you left behind, as long as you managed to create a locked room that no one could solve, you were immune from prosecution. With the common anti-mystery fiction talking point "there's no reason anyone would ever actually commit a locked room mu*der" completely overturned, the rate of locked room mu*ders in Japan skyrocketed.

When the police proved unable to deal with the surge of locked room crime, the Ministry of Justice published an official categorization of all known locked room tricks as an investigative aid. When that proved insufficient, Division Zero of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, a police division dedicated solely to solving locked rooms, was created. When that still proved insufficient, locked room detectives, private investigators specializing in locked rooms, were officially licensed by the state and authorized to participate in police investigations. Calling a locked room appraiser, someone specializing in searching buildings for secret passages, is now a common first step in criminal investigations.

On the other side of the spectrum, locked room agents, assassins and crime planners specializing in locked room mu*ders, have become some of the most notorious criminals in Japanese history, and even a cult worshiping the scenes of locked rooms as a way to purify the souls of the deceased has made rapid inroads into Japan.

The protagonist, Kasumi Kuzushiro, is an introverted, somewhat cynical high school student who loves mysteries. Kasumi often finds himself dragged along on bizarre journeys by his flighty childhood friend, Yozuki Asahina. Due to their staggeringly bad luck, these trips often leave them in the wrong place at the wrong time to be caught up in locked room mysteries. Fortunately, another of Kasumi's childhood friends, Shitsuri Mitsumura, is the greatest locked room expert in the world, and can always discover the truth.

Hm? How did a high school girl become the greatest locked room expert in the world?

It's simple.

She's...

Volume 1 was the grand prize winner of the 2022 This Mystery Is Amazing! awards. <<less

There exist in this world a set of six daggers that carry a terrible curse: the ability to inflict a death beyond time. Those under the daggers' curse shall reincarnate without end, never able to know happiness and always drawn to die once more by the dagger. This is the story of "Raine" and "Marie", two souls bound by the daggers' curse to kill one another, over and over again.... more>>

France, 1243. Lapis Lazuli Castle is the name of an insignificant relay fort nestled away in a forest east of Carcassonne. Its ruler, Count Geoffroy, and his only daughter, Marie, are both believed to be insane. The root cause of their shared madness is the mysterious disappearance of Geoffroy's wife three years ago, which caused Geoffroy to grow detached from humanity and cast Marie into a deep depression. After three years of wandering in a state halfway to nonexistence, Marie works up the nerve to ask her chief bodyguard, Sir Raine, to investigate her mother's death, confiding that on the night of her mother's disappearance, she had witnessed something impossible. However, her investigation only prompts a new tragedy.

The French-German border, 1916. As World War I rages on, Raine and Marie's latest reincarnations live the life of a sub-lieutenant in the French army and a medic with the Red Cross, respectively. The two lovers are reunited at the site of the Battle of Verdun, but no sooner have they met then Raine finds himself faced with a barrage of impossible circumstances. An enemy soldier's head suddenly vanishes, right before his eyes. One of his subordinates reports the same thing happening to an ally. Four more headless bodies vanish from a flooded bunker in the minute he looks away. These baffling events are a prelude to the return of their old tragedy.

Northern Hokkaido, 1989. Kimiyo, age eighteen, is already dying, an inoperable tumor in her hypothalamus leaving her with less than a year to live. Refusing to despair in the face of her tragic circumstances, she spends her remaining days with her friends at "The Library at the End of the World", a private library so called due to its isolated nature. One day, a man named Kito approaches her out of the blue, regaling her with a story about a set of cursed daggers, knights in the 13th century, and the two of them being cursed, fated lovers. Naturally, Kimiyo is intensely skeptical, but the events that come next don't require her to believe in them.

Arriving at the scene of these three tragedies is Snowy, an enigmatic figure of indeterminate gender who claims to be "a detective charged with managing the world's chaos". <<less

A compilation of 20 detective stories and 6 essays and miscellaneous writings by Japan's first female detective writer, Ookura Teruko.

Senior forensic doctor Bai Yue is good at autopsy, profiling, trace inspection, psychology, and criminal portraits. Accidentally traveled to the scene of an ancient crime... more>> and became the runaway fiancée of Dali Temple Qing Jianyu. The whole family likes it, the in-laws love it, the husband and wife love each other in front, and pinch each other in the back... "Hypocritical!" : "Yue'er, what did you like about me back then?" Bai Yue smiled slightly: "I just like you, you can't understand me, and you can't get rid of me." <<less

Lee Won, who works as a poor lawyer in Russia, visits City Councilor Zdanov, who is in conflict over Nikolai's commission, and there he meets... more>> the mafia boss, Caesar. Behind City Councilor Zdanov, there was a mafia involved. The meeting between the two is extraordinary. <<less

Those who are hunters and those who are the hunted have never intersected.... more>>

For carnivores and herbivores, genes have already set the conclusion and cannot be changed. How do we move towards a future that is cold on the outside and hot on the inside?

Jiang Huaiyu was adopted ten years ago from an orphanage, but instead of going home with the adopter, he stayed at the orphanage and was supported by Mr. Xiao. Now that he has graduated from University, his adopter wants to meet him, but he doesn’t think that his adopter would be a Carnivore who wants to raise this Herbivore up for a Master-Servant relationship.

(It has ABO elements, and their relationship is very similar to an omega/alpha. The herbivore has a self-lubricating back hole.) <<less

After being imprisoned by his mother for five years, Raymond was sent to a boarding school in the countryside as if being abandoned. He began a new school life with four dormitory roommates.... more>>

<Simon> – a quiet, blunt but kind-hearted boy.

<Hugh> – a sociable and energetic boy loved by everyone.

<George> – a mysterious boy who seems to have secrets.

And now, we need to know about <Jerome>.

***

<Jerome> had a room to himself. George said it was because there weren’t enough students, but I didn’t believe him. I instinctively disliked <Jerome> from the moment I first saw him. He was similar in height and build to me, but somehow seemed larger and stronger. His equestrian physique was slim and agile, and his hands were slightly larger than average.

Because he rode horses every day, he often wore riding clothes. With white riding pants clinging to his legs, black boots, and a loose-collared shirt, he carried a leather riding crop. I especially disliked that crop. <Jerome> would often, as a joke, lift the tip of Hugh’s chin with the leather loop attached to the end of the crop, and the sight was extremely uncomfortable. <<less

An exclusive opportunity! Travel back seven days with eight strangers.... more>>

I don’t care about what they’re here for; I just want to win the lottery and escape poverty!

What? What did you say?

That guy, he’s in trouble… <<less

My first meeting with him was in the hospital’s ICU.... more>>

Before I laid my eyes upon him, I thought that the legend of Snow White was simply a fairy tale. How could someone with hair dark as ebony, lips red as blood, and skin white as first snow exist in this world?

I began to believe in fairy tales that very day. <<less

A side story to Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens.... more>>

A collection of short stories across the whole timeline. Each chapter is an individual story and can be read separately.

**Timeline of the short stories are as follows:
Ch. 1 - between volumes 1 and 2
Ch. 2 - prequel (mentions of volume 6)
Ch. 3 - post-volume 8
Ch. 4 - post-volume 8
Ch. 5 - around volume 3 <<less

Seven years ago, Hua Chong, a member of Special Force from the Luocheng City Bureau, was deployed to the Beixi border to support anti-terrorism. Two years later, the mission was accomplished, and Hua Chong was transferred back to Luocheng. However, instead of going back to the Special Force Detachment, he voluntarily transferred to the Criminal Investigation Detachment. Several years later, Hua Chong became the head of the Criminal Investigation Detachment’s Serious Crime Unit. Soon after, a young and talented elite from the Information Warfare Team of the Ministry of Public Security was suddenly transferred into the Serious Crime Unit. The seemingly ‘successful’ mission on the Beixi border five years ago had already changed the... more>> destinies of two individuals.

Protagonists: Hua Chong and Liu Zhiqin. <<less

Sakurako Kujō is a genius beauty in her mid-twenties whose life is centered around one thing and one thing only: bones. With little tolerance for... more>> others, she would be completely isolated in her study full of skeletons if it weren’t for high school boy Shotaro—her new assistant and constant companion. Why exactly she has taken a shine to him remains a mystery, but one thing is clear: Whenever the two go out together, the chances are high that they will come across a human corpse. <<less

In the remote Oak Town, a broken corpse lay in the bushes. The person who reported this crime was the dream man of the town’s ladies—Mr. Arthur. His graceful and expensive-looking gray coat was dyed with striking stains of blood. The day after the mu*der, Sheriff Lynn’s records, along with the corpse, disappeared without a trace, only leaving behind the man’s memories which were filled with the smell of blood…... more>>

A year later, the details of the crime sank into the dense fog as time passed, but the daughters of the two single fathers grew closer and closer with each passing day. Although Arthur seemed impeccably perfect, his overly forceful actions to conceal something and his great loathing of anyone digging into his secrets made Lynn feel that the other person hated him like he was a reptile.

What Lynn didn’t know was that he and Arthur were unexpectedly very similar—both of them were runaway desperadoes who had given up everything to protect their loved ones. <<less

After an accidental electric shock, Jackson traversed into a parallel world filled with supreme beings—beings whose might and strength could hold the skies on their shoulder.... more>>

At first, Jackson preconceived the idea that he’d only traversed on the other side of the world, the United States, until that is various peculiarities popped up.

While watching the news channel, Jackson wondered whose the big green guy jumping up and down the buildings of New York without care.

Who is that bodybuilder statue donned in a red-blue uniform standing tall and proud in the Memorial Hall?

And who is that man flying the skies with a big hammer calling himself a God?

Jackson wondered if he should advise his parents to move away from New York.

But after a moment of thought, Jackson pulled out his mobile phone and dialed a number. “Mr. Stark, for the safety of mankind, I think it’s necessary to discuss the developments of technology and advanced armors with you.”

This is the story of a young man living in the world of Marvel who only wished to live a quiet and stable life but as fate would have it, fate had other plans for him. <<less

Even if trapped in darkness, one will always search for the light.... more>>

This is a story of a young police officer searching for the answer to “Who am I?”

Xie Lanshan was an undercover drug enforcement officer who made his way inside the Golden Triangle’s most feared armed organization as the right-hand man of drug lord Mu Kun. After successfully returning to his post from the operation, an accidental case of police misconduct triggered a series of unexplainable headaches and hidden memories that began haunting him.

While investigating the truth behind his father’s death many years ago, Xie Lanshan utilizes his unique and sharp thinking from the perspective of a psychotic mu*derer to solve difficult cases around him. Plagued by this growing change and instability of both his mental health and personality, he will later meet a mysterious forensic sketch artist named Shen Liufei. Together, the two men will maintain a strange relationship; as friends and enemies, they solve mysterious cases one by one.

But, perhaps, there was another motive for the forensic artist to approach the young officer… <<less

《Live Action mu*der Mystery》Case File:... more>>

A live script acting, deductive reasoning game.
Poor performances result in death.

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If you draw the Deceased Card, please follow the script accordingly and die;
If you draw the mu*derer Card, you might be the real mu*derer, please ensure that you conceal your identity;
Detective, please try your best to guide the players and find the real mu*derer, or else you will be met with the death penalty.

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Have you drawn the mu*derer Card this day?

——–【System Reminder 】———

Please obey the character design set by the script during enactment, by no means OOC;
Inferences should be made with the script settings as the norm, by no means diverge your thoughts;
The system has the final right to interpretation, have a happy game!

—————-

Gong + Shou: “A pair of As.”

System: “Can’t afford it.” <<less

No single thing abides, but all things flow.... more>>

One’s life passes as quickly as a white steed gallops past a slight crack—in a mere instant. <<less

A former detective chases after his missing daughter, but what he uncovers in the darkness is…... more>>

Third “Konomys” (このミステリーがすごい!) Grand Prize recipient

A story of descent into lunacy over a single girl.

The 17-year old Kanako has disappeared, leaving behind a trace of drug use in her room. Akihiro Fujishima, a former detective and her father, is in pursuit of her whereabouts. Three years earlier, Naoto, who was tormented by his classmates, fell in love with Kanako, who saved him…

The story of the present and the past intersect, and the outline of Kanako gradually emerges from the blurry darkness. Yet the more one delves into her disappearance, the more unintelligible she becomes. What manner of shocking ending awaits at the end of the tunnel? The recipient of the grand prize of the 3rd “This Mystery is Amazing!”, this work overwhelmed every member of the selection committee. A lurid work of dark emotion that will enrapture the hearts of all who read it. <<less