Saihate No Serenade 1 (Afternoon KC)

[Machine Translation] The story started with an unprecedented 8-page color illustration in the monthly Afternoon magazine and became a hot topic of conversation! The intense suspense of a piano prodigy and her mother's murder. A passionate suspense about a piano prodigy and her mother's murder, written by Hino Chuko, a hot talent in the industry! A country town in Hokkaido. Ritsu is a junior high school student who lives in a house with a piano teacher, and Saya is a transfer student who attends the piano teacher's class. As the two grow closer through a piano competition, Saya tells Ritsu that she wants to kill her mother. Time passes, and ten years later. While Ritsu was spending his busy days in the editorial department of a weekly magazine in Tokyo, the discovery of a skeletal corpse in his hometown of Hokkaido caused a commotion. A memory of ten years ago and a ten year gap. As if ignoring the length of time, the story now begins to move forward. The author, Hino Chuko, whose omnibus short story collection "Good Bye Prominence" (Shodensha, Inc.) has touched many hearts, is now working on her first full-length serial story for "Gekkan Afternoon". The first story started with an unprecedented 8-page color illustration, and the collaboration with "FEEL YOUNG," which serialized "Good Bye Prominence," also became a hot topic.

月刊アフタヌーン本誌で異例の8Pカラー付きで始まり話題沸騰！　天才ピアノ少女と母殺しの激情サスペンス。業界話題の才能・ひの宙子による、天才ピアノ少女と母殺しの激情サスペンス！北海道の田舎町。ピアノ教室の家に暮らす中学生・律と、その教室に通うことになった転校生の小夜。あるピアノコンクールをきっかけに2人は仲を深めていく中で、小夜は律に、母親を殺したいと告げた。時は経ち、十年後。律は東京の週刊誌編集部で慌ただしい日々を過ごしていたその頃、地元北海道では白骨遺体が発見されて騒ぎになっていた――。十年前の記憶と十年もの空白。その時の長さなど無視するかのように、いま確実に、物語は動き出す。オムニバス短編集『グッド・バイ・プロミネンス』（祥伝社）が多くの心を揺さぶった著者・ひの宙子が、「月刊アフタヌーン」で初の長編連載に挑むのがこの作品。第1話目は異例の8Pカラー付きでスタートし、『グッド・バイ・プロミネンス』を連載した「FEEL YOUNG」とのコラボ企画も話題となった。