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Some geniuses from around the world are invited on a vacation at an isolated island, but this vacation soon turns to be an unwanted one as murder started happening one by one.

Island residents gather for a dinner and "I" gets his fortune told. His portrait is ready, though with an extra surprise.

The significance of beheading a genius is obvious. It is to take away that genius, to level them down to the ordinary, to reduce them to the same dust we are all made of. Choosing this method of murder sends a message. The Beheading Cycle has begun in earnest.

Are geniuses above the law? Can they solve the mystery? And would you, even for a moment, let yourself be killed? Such are the confronting questions of fourth part of Kubikiri Cycle.

Second beheading has occurred, making the murder case into a serial murder case.

The clues don't add up, and the lies mixed up with them certainly aren't helping. Yet is seems the key to solving the mystery might just be within the reach.

Apropos of nothing, but in Russian, "Wet Wing Raven" means "deepest despair." To use a rather romantic turn of phrase, perhaps this island was the gathering point for people in the depths of that very despair. Just as the opposite of love is not hate but indifference - The opposite of hope is not despair. Apathy so strong nothing matters any more - that's the opposite of hope. The ability to forgive anything. The ability to say, "Fine," to absolutely anything at all - that is the opposite of hope. You could claim it was the ultimate end point of any and all emotions. Each of us looked at that point with envy and longing. Beyond the tides of non-interference. At the back of taboo, proud to have tied reality to an equals sign, a place maintaining a nigh-fleeting density. To reach that place requires a great sacrifice. And only one-way tickets with no guarantees are available. And yet. Even then. People have made it there. By accident - Or by design. Tedious, meaningless nonsense. And worst of all - There's more nonsense to come.

The finale, or rather, the epilogue of Kubikiri Cycle.