Ryuji becomes suspicious when Yoshiko subscribes to a local newspaper which is serializing his novel and then suddenly cancels her subscription saying the novel has become boring. He investigates and finds a connection to a double suicide.

When the wife of an assistant to a minister is set up and subsequently blackmailed she has to go to extreme lengths to satisfy her blackmailers, while also safeguarding her husband's position. In the meantime, and on the other side of the country, a novelist's work is serialized in a local newspaper with its author and his assistant taking a second look at an open and shut case.—aghaemi