Yami He No Sasoi (Futami Jidai Shosetsu Bunko Ha 1 - 24 - Inemuri Doshin Kage Goyo 19)

[Machine Translation] There are people in this world who have committed crimes, but have escaped judgment and are living large. The beheadings of these criminals, who have escaped punishment, continue to be exposed at every street corner by a man who calls himself the "Dark Magistrate. Kurama Gennosuke, former head of the Kitamachi Magistrate's Office, is now a quiet man who is derisively called a "dozing watchman," but he is beginning to sense a terrible danger in the enthusiasm throughout Edo that applauds the Yakumugyo...

「この世には、罪を犯しながらも裁きを免れて、大手を振って生きておる連中がおる。そうした悪党に天罰を下すのだ」闇奉行と名乗る者の手で、罪を免れた悪党たちの打ち首が辻々に晒されつづける。北町奉行所の元筆頭同心・蔵間源之助は、今は居眠り番と揶揄される閑職だが、闇奉行を喝采する江戸中の熱狂に、恐るべき危うさを感知しはじめていた...。