: Mai Mochizuki
: Holmes of Kyoto: Volume 18
: J-Novel Heart
: 9781718376847
: 1
: CHF 6.00
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
: 250
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After the New Year, Yilin Jing comes to the Komatsu Detective Agency with a request. She wants to hire the trio as guides and bodyguards for the daughter of a Hong Kong tycoon who is visiting Kyoto in secret. Kiyotaka is forced to accept the request against his will, but luckily, Aoi comes to save the tour from becoming a total disaster. Everything seems to be going well at first, but before long, they find themselves caught up in an extraordinary incident!

Prologue


It was the start of a new year.

I—Aoi Mashiro—was visiting Kitano Tenmangu Shrine with my friend, Kaori Miyashita. I wished I could say we were there for the first shrine visit of the year, but we weren’t. It was already January 5th, and we had already done our first visits separately. So today was a more casual New Year’s visit.

“It’s so crowded since everyone’s still on winter break,” I remarked, craning my neck to look around while we lined up to pray.

“Uh-huh,” said Kaori. “It’s mostly middle schoolers. They’ve got entrance exams coming up, after all.”

“Yeah.” I nodded. “I bet they’re taking this prayer really seriously.”

Tenmangu shrines were dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane, the god of learning, and this was their head shrine in Japan. It was known fo