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Done with week 1. The prologue was definitely harder level-wise than chapter 1, but neither were too bad. Looks like we’re going to be jumping back and forth in time with this one, so hopefully it won’t be too difficult to keep everything straight.
It’s an interesting choice to take the classic “suspicious-seeming, don’t know what they’re thinking” masked-man and make them the viewpoint/narrator character.
I assume given the careful detail about layout of the building and the helpful floorplan that this is going to be important later.
I also just finished week 1. Is it just me or is our masked man kind of a jerk? He seems unlikeable I want to know what’s driving it. Also the character list has been very helpful to me already, I put in a second book mark. Until I meet these characters more fully I suspect I’m only going to remember 由理絵 (because 19 and married to a masked man in his 40s) and 正木 (because dead in a very notable way).
Total sidebar from the plot, but I don’t think I’d come across 二枚目 before, of if I have, I never thought deeply about it, but here it caught my eye and I looked up the origin. Seems to be a bit of Kabuki terminology referring to the handsome men cast as the love interest: かっこいい男性が「二枚目」なのは、なぜ？
ngl, the first paragraph in the prologue had me running, but then the rest wasn’t so bad and chapter 1 was considerably easier.
I wonder what the smell is? A corpse?
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