USOTOKI RHETORIC GN (2025)

It is 1926, the first year of the Showa era. Urabe Kanoko has left her hometown after it turns against her for having the ability to hear lies when spoken. She collapses from hunger after arriving in a town called Tsukumoya, where she meets a poverty-stricken detective named Iwai Souma. Is this fate? Or something more?

Soma and Kanoko get wrapped up in a fight between the waitress Lily and her partner, Kanji, and find themselves infiltrating a haunted house, chasing after the key to a murder case.

Poverty-ridden detective Soma and his assistant Kanoko are on the run in the dead of night, and their destination? A house where a doll was murdered!

It is 1926, the first year of the Showa era. Kanoko, a girl who can hear lies, and impoverished but cunning detective Soma Iwai now face a murder on a solitary island. Meanwhile, Chiyo Fujishima, a big fan of detectives, has her own case to solve. This volume also includes a special short with a retro-modern back-alley tale of mystery!

It is 1926, the first year of the Showa era. Kanoko, a girl who can hear lies, and impoverished but cunning detective Soma Iwai venture back to Kanoko's hometown. Kanoko, who was chased out of her town for her ability, now comes face-to-face with her mother.

The first year of Showa, 1926. Kanoko, a girl who can hear lies, meets an impoverished detective, Iwai Soma. Since then, she's been at his side. Until one day, he is framed for a murder, and put in jail! Will his plucky assistant Kanoko be able to save him in time?

Kanoko and Soma spend what little cash they have on a train ticket. From Tsukumoya Town, they travel to where Soma's older brother Atsushi lives. With Kanoko's power to hear lies, they aim to uncover clues as to why Atsushi set that trap for his younger brother Soma. But along the way, they end up hearing a lie about a possible affair happening between Atsushi and his wife?!

When a beautiful, mysterious woman appears on poverty-ridden detective Iwai Soma's doorstep and decides to stay with them, she asks Kanoko a disturbing question: "What will you do if Mr. Iwai gets married?"

Kanoko has realized she's in love with Iwai Soma. She becomes conscious of this as they work yet another case. While lost in her fluffy feelings she is kidnapped by Shiro, the notorious criminal they've had to deal with all this time.

Soma, who pours his heart and soul into pursuing Kanoko after she was kidnapped by Shiro. Kanoko, who see the depths of Soma's warmth and kindness towards Shiro in spite of everything. At last reunited, Kanoko and Soma's feelings for each other have only gotten stronger while they were apart. The closing curtain, wound with deception and lies that only Kanoko can pierce through, is set to finally fall on this beloved historical mystery series.