Pro Bono

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When Kiriko Yanagida walks into a prestigious Tokyo law office, she has nothing but a conviction: her brother did not commit the murder he confessed to. The lawyer Otsuka takes the case expecting a routine failure. Instead, Kiriko's stubborn certainty begins to crack open a case that everyone — police, prosecutors, even the defendant himself — has already closed. Seicho Matsumoto's legal thriller runs on the tension between institutional power and individual persistence — a small-town girl against a system designed to make people like her disappear. A mystery where the question isn't whodunit but why everyone agreed to stop asking.