Yes, Crustaceans Are Cunning – Part 01

Hello, everyone. Human Aikawa here.
There are stories everyone knows, right?

“Okay, we’ll improvise the rest!”
“Master! I’m getting nervous! Think I can pull this off?”

But how many people does it take before you can really say ‘everyone knows it’?
What about Titanic? The Lord of the Rings? Urashima Tarō? Kintarō?

“Don’t worry! Everyone’s just watching my acting anyway!”
“That’s amazing! Just like you, Master! You’re a big hit with the kids too!”

One thing I can say, though.

Our story probably isn’t all that well known.

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I died.

I lay on the cold floor, waiting quietly for everything to end. There was nothing else I could do.

Because I was already dead.

“I’ve solved eighty percent of the mystery!” the girl declared.

She’d said that several times already, at twenty percent and fifty percent.

At this point, the smug look just fell flat.

Brown coat, hunting cap. Brown hair, and a substantially lacking chest.

A cowlick stuck straight out from the top of