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A mystery comedy which blurs the line between reality and fantasy. An unsuccessful teen novelist (Matsu Takako) is in trouble. She gets carried away by the atmosphere and declares, "I'm going to write a real mystery. which she has no idea how to write. The editor in charge (Kamiki Ryunosuke) is dismayed, but when he asks her about her ideas, he finds that all of them are brilliantly copied from Agatha Christie's very famous mysteries and the killer is instantly recognizable. When he makes a few changes, the writer gets upset. The editor has no choice but to help her with the concept. The writer has only a grand image in mind, and the world is in a Christmas season, so she begins to think of a mystery set in the world of "A Christmas Carol", in which the diabolical moneylender Scrooge (Fumiyo Kohinata) is murdered. Just as she's about to go to sleep, relieved that she's finally finished writing, she realizes, "He's not the killer. He's not the murderer. Just as she is about to contact her editor to rewrite the story, an incident occurs in real life.