Book Synopsis - English (translation provided by Naphthalene)
Tilana Exedilika, junior knight from another world. A fair skinned beautiful girl (note: she is 20, though, not sure if that’s still in the “girl” category, but fine I guess).
Kei Matoba, one of the finest detectives from the San Teresa Police Department. Has cat allergy and isn’t great socially.
The two of them have been ordered to cooperate on an investigation in the city of San Teresa, a city connected to another world through an interdimentional gate.
Even as they keep fighting about everything and insulting each other, they track their common enemy. In doing so, a strange sense of trust starts blossoming between them…
A complete rewriting and extension of “Dragnet Mirage”! A thrilling police action story!
@Naphthalene, since you’ve read the book before, would you mind weighing in on a reading schedule?
Here are some numbers I’ve pulled from my Kindle copy; the page numbers are all extremely rough approximations I got by multiplying the chapter percentage on my Kindle by the stated number of Kindle pages on Amazon’s listing (275, as opposed to 324 for the paperback). If anyone has a physical copy to check against that would be wonderful.
Week
Start Date
Content
Ending % / # of Pages
1
June 26
Prologue + Ch 1
11% (31 pg)
2
July 3
Ch 2
20% (24 pg)
3
July 10
Ch 3
29% (25 pg)
4
July 17
Ch 4
37% (22 pg)
5
July 24
Ch 5
48% (30 pg)
6
July 31
Ch 6
58% (28 pg)
7
August 7
Ch 7
67% (25 pg)
8
August 14
Ch 8
78% (30 pg)
9
August 21
Ch 9 + Epilogue
97% (52 pg)
The page counts, at least according to this, feel on the low-ish side for a good number of weeks, but I’d need a better understanding of inter-chapter breakpoints to be able to better modify this.
Does anyone know a way to get a physical copy that gets here in time to start? I’d like to use Audible and a physical copy ideally. Done a little bit of quick searching but so far haven’t found anything yet. It’s not a huge deal just thought I’d ask. I can just do the first few chapters audio only.
I always wondered what exactly they do, because the fee is expensive. I wonder if they kinda import it from amazon.jp to an amazon EU company and ship it from there. I haven’t ordered anything via amazon.jp in a long time, because doing my own clearance used to be cheaper (i.e. ordering via honto or kinokunya etc.). Ever since my country changed the import fee laws, buying anything outside the EU has become almost prohibitively expensive either way, though. (Which is also why my suitcase is usually 50% books on my return from Japan. )
If you are in EU, now AmazonJP collects VAT and there’s nothing to do on your part, and there’s also an auto clearance and no extra import taxes, the amount that AmazonJP charges you is everything you will pay.
Being the Yen so low, makes imports very cheap right now. On the other hand if I buy from a proxy service, then yes, the fee is quite expensive compared to let’s say the postal office, but the process is much more painless so I just pay the difference.
Just as an example, I bought 13 out of print light novels the other day. I paid 2.88EUR to import them to DHL, and since it’s a low value declaration, they didn’t add a fee on top of it.
That sounds reasonable. Even if I don’t have to pay import tariffs and stuff, just the fact that DHL or the post had to check, makes me have to pay a minimum of 6 EUR as a service fee + VAT (DHL and post are the same in this). So the only time I import stuff is in bulk orders. I really miss my snack box from Japan.
Reminder that you can download a word list for this book from https://koohi.cafe/ and export it to Anki, if that’s your thing. Requires an account; then go to ‘export user data’ from the extra drop down. Ping me if you have trouble.
Thank you, MinTea! So here’s an updated version of the proposed schedule with real page numbers:
Week
Start Date
Content
Ending % / Page #
# of Pages
1
June 26
Prologue + Ch 1
11% / p41
33
2
July 3
Ch 2
20% / p66
25
3
July 10
Ch 3
29% / p95
29
4
July 17
Ch 4
37% / p119
24
5
July 24
Ch 5
48% / p149
30
6
July 31
Ch 6
58% / p178
29
7
August 7
Ch 7
67% / p204
26
8
August 14
Ch 8
78% / p234
30
9
August 21
Ch 9 + Epilogue
97% / p293 (end)
59
…I was actually really close on basically all of these. I think there were only like two chapters where the estimate was off by more than a page. Not bad, not bad. Anyway, any thoughts on the schedule?
I think it looks great, very balanced! The last week being a bit longer should be nicely offset by already being used to the style by then plus the extra weeks before the next book.
I figure I’ll give this a shot since I want to try some mysteries and I’m getting a bit bored of Kuma Bear, though jumping up from Level 22 books to level 35 might be a bit too much of a gap. But we’ll see
Just a heads up that we’ll be officially starting on Monday! I’ll probably start reading a bit early this weekend, just to make sure I’m on top of things…
I haven’t ordered anything via amazon.jp in a long time, because doing my own clearance used to be cheaper (i.e. ordering via honto or kinokunya etc.). Ever since my country changed the import fee laws, buying anything outside the EU has become almost prohibitively expensive either way, though. 
(Which is also why my suitcase is usually 50% books on my return from Japan. 
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