Boku Dake ga Inai Machi Another Record [Light Novel]

[Machine Translation] After Satoru Fujinuma's fierce pursuit, the real culprit in the serial child abduction and murder case was finally arrested. The murderer was sentenced to death at the first trial, but his mental evaluation led to his acquittal based on his call to the mysterious "spice" that appears frequently in his "memoirs," which were discovered. The prosecution immediately files an appeal, but for some reason the murderer dismisses the lawyer who won the acquittal, and a young lawyer, Kenya Kobayashi, is appointed as a court-appointed defense lawyer. He is a close friend of Satoru's and was himself one of the parties in the case. Kenya is perplexed, but he tries to find out the mysterious inside of the murderer through his memoirs, and also tries to find out his own "justice". Finally, a hearing at the Supreme Court arrives. The "true intention" is revealed there. This is an astonishing original story that depicts the "aftermath" of the true culprit's arrest!

藤沼悟の壮絶な追跡の果てに、連続児童誘拐殺人事件の真犯人は、ついに逮捕された。犯人は一審で死刑判決を下されるが、発見された犯人の「手記」に頻出する“スパイス”なる謎の存在への呼び掛けから、精神鑑定によって一転して無罪判決になってしまう。検察は即日上告するが、犯人はなぜか無罪を勝ち取った弁護士を罷免し、若き弁護士・小林賢也が国選弁護人として指名される。彼はサトルの親友であり、自身も事件の当事者の一人だった。ケンヤは戸惑いを覚えながらも、手記を通じて犯人の不可解な内面を探り、己の“正義”をも突き詰めていこうとする。そして、ついに訪れる最高裁での審理。そこで明かされた、ある“真意”とは―。真犯人逮捕の「その後」を描く、驚愕のオリジナルストーリー!