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Literature

The Secret of the Golden Bat S1E1

Prologue Tokyo, Japan, 11th Year of the Showa Era, 1936 The Detective could feel his legs burning as he sprinted down the tunnel, his lungs struggling to keep up, but he didn’t slow down. No, he couldn't slow down, he was running out of time. “Chief? Hey, chief, slow down!” The voice of one of his companions from behind him briefly took him out of his panicked state, only to ignore him and resume his mad headlong dash. There was too much at stake to waste time on thinking. Please, he begged silently to who or whatever might be listening, please just let him be okay, let him be safe! He finally found himself at the mine railway. Apparently, this track had not seen use in over a decade, although his own personal sources suggested that was not the case. Normally he would’ve checked the state of the track, which is when he would have noticed the lack of rust on the rail, or the absence of rot or splintering of the wooden sleepers, but such was his panicked state that he failed to pay