Hazy and misty

Author: (Japanese) Edogawa Rampo, translated by Ye Rongding
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: In the area around Tokyo's Marunouchi, countless skyscrapers soar into the sky, densely packed. On the building-lined streets, there is a concentrated area of three-story buildings, all featuring uniform red brick walls and antique-style designs, as if a cluster of buildings from ancient times had been preserved until the present. Each building is an office for renting out. On the right side of the entrance to one of these three-story buildings, which is also a first-floor office with three rooms, there hangs a polished bronze signboard that reads "Suzukawa Research Institute." It is said to be the detective agency rented by the authoritative figure in the medical field, Dr. Suzukawa Ryuichiro. At this moment, coincidentally, a young man arrives at the entrance of the detective agency. The young man appears to be twenty-eight years old, with an appearance similar to that of an ordinary office worker. What is strange is that he walks like an insect crawling on the ground, staggering as he steps up the stairs in front of the agency. In reality, the stairs are not very high, and it should only take a few steps to climb them.