Tomadoi (Cosmic Jidai Bunko Ko5-5 Haru Machi Doshin 5)

[Machine Translation] A series of incidents occurred in Edo city where people broke into big stores and killed witnesses. When eyewitness testimonies lead the Kitamachi Magistrate's Office to suspect that the crime was committed by the "Hotarubi," a mysterious thief they are pursuing, the old chief magistrate finally grows impatient and informs them that they must catch the Hotarubi within ten days or lose their magistrate's position. Ijuro Ihara, a Teimacho-mawari-doshin, was forced to take responsibility for the crime, and his marriage proposal with Yuri, the girl he was in love with, was also put on the back burner. However, Ijuro is convinced that the "firefly" that killed the man is a fake. He believes that the "fake fireflies" are a diversion and that the real target is elsewhere, but his superiors, impatient with the expiration of the deadline, refuse to listen to him. Ijuro asks for help from Keishiro Oshida, a fellow inmate of the Minamimachi Magistrate's Office with whom he has an enmity, and even from "that man," with whom he has an illicit relationship, in pursuit of the fake fireflies. Ijuro, a man who will not give up, must continue on the path he believes in!

*Rated 18-and-over.

江戸市中で大店に押込んで目撃者を殺す事件が立て続けに起こる。目撃証言から北町奉行所が追う怪盗「ほたる火」の犯行とされると、遂に老中も業を煮やし、「十日以内にほたる火を捕まえなければ奉行失職」と通告してきた。そうなれば定町廻り同心の井原伊十郎も責任を取らざるをえず、恋する百合との縁談もたち消えになってしまう。しかし伊十郎は人を殺めた「ほたる火」は“偽もの”と確信していた。「偽ほたる火」は陽動で本当の狙いは他にあると睨むも、期限を切られ焦る上役は聞く耳を持たない。伊十郎は、反目する南町奉行所同心の押田敬四郎、そして腐れ縁の「あの男」にまで助けを求め、「偽ほたる火」を追う。諦めない男・伊十郎は、信じた道を突き進むのみ!!