Tsuke Bino Mura Yamaguchi Renzoku Satsujin Hoka Jiken Wo O (Shogakukan Bunko)

[Machine Translation] A midsummer morning in July 2013. Karaoke echoed through the marginal mountain village. The man opens his window every morning and evening and sings to them without asking. That's strange," he said. The villagers, numbering only 11, were accustomed to the man's eccentricities. That night, two houses suddenly caught fire. The next day, five bodies were found in the ruins of the fire, but they were not killed in the fire. They had all been beaten to death. A man left behind a strange sign that read, "A countryman who enjoys the light of the fire and the smoke. The man disappeared, leaving behind a strange poster. The police found a recorder in the mountains, which contained the man's words: "All gossip, gossip, gossip...". "What in the world is going on in this village? What on earth happened in this village?

2013年7月、真夏の朝。山間の限界集落にカラオケが響いた。その男は朝夕に窓を開け放ち、頼みもしない歌声を聞かせるのである。「あれは変わっちょる」。わずか11人の村人たちは、男の奇行には慣れっこだった。その晩、2軒の家から、突如火の手が上がった。翌日、焼け跡から5人の遺体が発見されたが、火事で命を落としたのではない。全員、撲殺されていた。「つけびして 煙り喜ぶ 田舎者」。奇妙な貼り紙を残し、男は姿を消した。追う警察が、山中で発見したレコーダーに吹き込まれていた男の言葉「噂話ばっかし、噂話ばっかし...」。いったい、この村で何が起きたのか。