One morning, a crazed sorcerer burst into the Investigation Office, dragging a guy’s corpse behind him and shouting, “It’s me who killed him, I!..” But the next morning the sorcerer was found dead—he committed suicide, leaving a strange message on the wall: “I don’t want to live with THIS.” Mьюза, the lead detective, refused to believe in suicide, but the case was quickly closed.
A year later, at Mьюза’s doorstep, children of the insane self-murderer appear and insist they’ve found indirect evidence of his innocence. Mьюза returns to the investigation—even without suspecting what terrible secrets will be revealed as her work goes on.
A standalone novel within the cycle. A shared world, different characters.