The Mystery of Kuroba Town

**"The Paradox Writer of Black Feather and Pure White"** Crow Qingxue, a "visitor from the Snow Country" whose identity is a mystery. Born in the late Showa era on an isolated island in Hokkaido where snow falls all year round, he moved to Tokyo as a boy due to an "icicle mystery" that was not recorded in the archives. He once worked as a restorer at Kagurazaka Bookstore and handled 317 old books containing death words. His text has been described by critics as "carving snow marks on crow feathers" - in his masterpiece "Snow Cut Grass" series, the murder weapons are always hidden in the purest places: the poison needle in the lantern at the beginning of the shrine, the ice blade between the piano keys, and the blood stains on the suicide note solidified in the stalk of the white chrysanthemum at the funeral. It is said that she would drink a cup of brown rice tea mixed with crow ashes before writing. A glass paperweight with seventeen cracks embedded in it was always placed on the left side of her desk. When the reader tries to decipher the coordinates of the real case from the number of strokes in the pseudonym in the chapter title, they discover that the sum of all the numbers is exactly equal to the year her hometown island disappeared.