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  1. Public Bookmark 22

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    For two years, someone has been killing people and staging their deaths like scenes from classic literature. Satoru, a true crime blogger with progressive vision loss, is the only one who sees a pattern. The killer isn't just murdering. She's creating art.
    When celebrated thriller author Suguru Geto reaches out for a "consultation," Satoru's instincts scream danger. Suguru's books are too realistic. Her timing is too perfect. And the way she talks about violence sounds exactly like the anonymous commenter leaving cryptic messages on Satoru's blog.
    But Satoru has spent her whole life invisible, isolated by her obsessions, understood by no one. And Suguru sees her. So when Satoru realizes Suguru is the killer, she doesn't run. She investigates and tells herself it's about justice.
    She's lying.
    The captivity starts with invisible chains: threats against loved ones, fear mixed with fascination. As Satoru's vision fails and her world shrinks to just Suguru's voice, Suguru's touch, the lines blur between prisoner and willing participant. When a detective gets too close and ends up dead, Satoru has to decide who she really is.
    The survivor everyone thinks she is? Or the accomplice she's been all along?

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    23 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 3

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    After weeks of harrowing missions, Suguru and Satoru finally have time to relax in the warmth of each other’s embrace.

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    22 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 12

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    He’s directly responsible for everything! The nightmares, the exhaustion, the fear of dreaming, the bags under her eyes, the trauma she refuses to acknowledge for herself and the trauma given to the rest of the crew, it was all him! Why would she ever agree?!

    She tightens a fist at her side slightly. Speak her mind? No, why would she do that? She knows that anyone should be welcome on the express. She herself technically shouldn’t be on the express, she’s a bomb after all.

    But just thinking about all the stuff he caused, the betrayals he committed, everything… it makes her blood boil.

    Regardless, she’s an adult. She needs to put her reservations aside. Stelle takes a breath before looking Sunday in the eyes, her expression scornful.
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    In which Sunday joins the express and Stelle isn’t handling it very well.

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    10 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 19

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    "She didn’t notice that her fist curled so tightly against the glass that her knuckles were starting to whiten.
    “Stelle?” a familiar voice sounded rather suddenly from behind her. She turned around swiftly to see Mr. Yang standing there, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes before putting his glasses back on. It seemed he had woken up, whether that was by her or by something else. “I thought I heard some distant noise. Turns out I was right.”
    “Oh,” Stelle said flatly, not thinking she’d been loud enough for him to hear. Apparently, she had. “Hi, Mr. Yang.”"

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    Stelle couldn't sleep and went for a walk in the Express, unexpectedly coming across Welt in the Parlor Car. They end up talking over hot soup about what happened in Amphoreus at three AM.

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    07 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    He combs his fingers through her hair and looks at her. “How about we go back to sleep?”

    “No.” Stelle says firmly. It catches Dan Heng a little off guard.

    “Stelle, please...” he pleads, but she wasn’t having it.

    “I said no. I don’t need to sleep, I’ll be fine.”

    “Stelle, you’re going to make yourself sick.”

    “I play in trash, Dan Heng. A little sleep deprivation isn’t going to hurt me.”
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    In which Stelle wakes up from a nightmare and promptly refuses to sleep again despite her exhaustion

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    04 Jun 2026