β Scribed by Ogawa, Yoko
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Young hotel clerk Mari is drawn to a widowed translator suspected of killing his wife, who initiates her into a dark realm of pleasure and pain, a world that she embraces even more than the translator.
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