The third book in the Ryuuzen Clan series is a crossover, featuring both Kamo from The Time Traveler's Hourglass and Yuki from Visitors to the Isolated Island, as they take on the darkest and most vile type of criminal element to ever crawl forth from the black pits of the human soul:
Gamers.
In the post-COVID future of 2024, VR games are the hottest thing in the world, and the hottest thing in VR is Mystery Maker. Naturally, a sequel is inevitable, and as part of the game's pre-release hype, producer Kurata Chikage has invited seven real life Great Detectives to playtest an early build of Mystery Maker 2.
At least, she says it's just a playtest...
On the day of, all seven of the participants are drugged and knocked unconscious. They awaken to find themselves wearing Virtue's Last Reward-style locked watches in rooms containing hidden camera feeds of their families and other loved ones. The rules are simple: just play the game as planned.
Mystery Maker 2 is, as the name suggests, a game of making mysteries. The player with the role of Murderer must kill their fellow detectives in VR without getting caught before the time limit runs out. The losers of the game face a simple fate: death at the hands of the Gamemaster's hidden accomplice, the Executioner.
Will the Detectives be able to escape the death game? Who among them is the Executioner? And just what is Kurata's motive for enacting this mad scheme?
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~A Foreword from Meister Hora~
Chapter Two: Demo Playtest, Day One, Opening
Chapter Three: Demo Playtest, Day One, Rules
Chapter Four: Demo Playtest, Day One, Round ①
Chapter Five: Demo Playtest, Day Two, Investigation Time ①
Chapter Six: Demo Playtest, Day Two, Investigation Time ②
Chapter Seven: Demo Playtest, Day Two, Answer Time ①
Chapter Eight: Demo Playtest, Day Two, Round Two, Investigation Time ③
Meister Hora's First Challenge to the Reader
Chapter Nine: Demo Playtest, Day Two, Answer Time ②
Chapter Ten: Demo Playtest, Day Two, Round Two, Round Three
Chapter Eleven: Demo Playtest, Day Three, Investigation Time ④
Meister Hora's Second Challenge to the Reader
Chapter Twelve: Demo Playtest, Day Three, Answer Time ③