Chapter 18 postscript

Without anyone noticing, the protagonist is manipulated by the phenomenon of time and space repetition because the same day keeps repeating itself.Who came up with this kind of setting, I am not very clear because I am ignorant.But the one that left a strong impression on me about this idea was the American movie "Today's Temporary Stop" (formerly known as Groundhog Day). Of course, this kind of setting may also be the original of "Temporarily Stopped Today", but there should be sci-fi movies that use the same idea.Moreover, it is not surprising that the concept of "due phenomenon" appears more than once in fantasy novels both at home and abroad.

After I read "Temporarily Stopped Today", the first question I want to ask is: Are there still works of mystery novels using this setting?Maybe someone has already constructed the plot of "the murder in the black hole of time and space", at least I think so.However, whether it is a precedent or a precedent, interesting things will not change because of the precedent. Even with the above doubts, I still decided to write this novel for the reason that, apart from a glimmer of hope that perhaps there has never been a similar novel before, the setting of "repeated murders in the black hole of time and space" is more important than anything else. It fascinates me even more.The previous work can be called a fantasy novel, and it can also be regarded as a story with a science fiction background.Therefore, I firmly thought that this time I would honestly write this reasoning... However, I did not stick to the form and wrote this novel.That's because, only this setting is the most attractive to me.

Although I don't know what kind of success the setting that fascinates the author will make the work show, but if readers can get a little fun out of it because of reading this book, that is the happiest thing for me. Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Uyama Hidetomi of Kodansha Literary Books 3rd Publishing Department, Mr. Sasaki Takeo, the editor in charge, who took care of me during the writing of this book, and Mr. Akimoto Naoki, who provided valuable opinions during the conception stage, My deepest thanks. Kochi City, September 1995 Nishizawa Yasuhiko --