The Detective is Already Dead

Chapter 136: Prologue

Chapter 136: Prologue

"Is there a detective on the plane?"

That question had made me doubt my ears at first, but it had once launched me into a dazzling adventure.

It wasn't a line you generally heard on passenger planes ten thousand meters in the air.

In a situation like that, people would usually be asking for a doctor or a nurse.

Who'd have believed they'd want a detective? I'd been born with a knack for getting dragged into stuff, so at the time, I'd wondered if it was my fault.

"It's not fair."

In my seat on the plane, I'd heaved one of my usual sighs. However, that was when things had really started getting unusual.

"Yes, I'm a detective."

The girl who'd spoken had been sitting in the seat on my right.

She had blue eyes and a pale silver bob. Her dress seemed to be modeled on a military uniform, and it flared as she brandished her musket. Once she was on the scene, the incident was over.

The consummately beautiful ace detective. Her code name was Siesta.

What she wanted was to fulfill her clients' requests and act in their best interests.

For some reason, Siesta appointed me as her assistant. Together, we left on a three-year journey to defeat the enemies of the world—and then death parted us.

On that day, the ace detective became a sleeping beauty, surrounded by the blissful scent of black tea.

That ended the first phase of our adventure. However, it really was too soon for an epilogue.

So that I'd be able to wake Siesta up one day, I left on a journey with companions who were hoping for the same thing.

"I'll always be your right arm, Kimihiko, and I'll be your left eye as well." "I'm your enemy, Kimizuka. When you take a wrong step, I'll slap you." "It's okay, Kimizuka. Your wish and all of ours will come true."

"Yeah. Let's go on a journey to save our friend."

Then, after living out a dazzling adventure that lasted more than a year, we got through the mother of all disasters, which would later come to be known as "the Great Cataclysm"—

—and at last, we worked a miracle.

It's been a year since then, and seven years since it all began.

I—Kimihiko Kimizuka—am twenty now, a legal adult. I'm soaking from the

top of my head to the tips of my toes in "the sequel," an ordinary life.

Am I okay with that, you ask?

Sure. It's not like I'm causing trouble for anybody. I mean, it's true, isn't it?

The detective is already—