Yulin Ling

On his first day back in Yura Town, Kubo Ryosuke meets a black-haired, red-eyed woman on the breakwater. She says, "The bigger the waves, the more valuable the fish. Wait long enough, and some will always slip through the net." Two days later, a murder takes place in the northern maple woods. The scene looks like a play carefully written by someone: a forged divine oracle, white ritual robes, red eyes, an iron shovel, and a drunken witness. Ryosuke forms a detective club with his childhood friend Fujiwara Yui and Asakura Shizuku, a self-proclaimed high school detective, to investigate. Yet the clues keep leading back to the woman who smiles without a word: Asakura Mio. She seems to know everything, but refuses to say anything. All she leaves him with is, "You still have your uses to me." Then she adds, "I don't have much time left." Beneath the red maples, the fog grows thicker, and the rain draws closer. Romance begins with a bouquet of flowers, but the truth may end with a lie. When every clue points to the same face, can Ryosuke still trust his heart?