[Episode Intro]

When we face an AI capable of generating a million flawless words in a second, the mystery master who once kept us up all night with The Devotion of Suspect X and White Night Walk—Keigo Higashino—permanently put down his pen on July 23, 2026.

Lacking the deep literary foundation to offer professional, in-depth critique, this episode approaches Higashino’s forty-year career from the perspective of an ordinary reader who grew up on his books. You will discover that he was long past relying on mere inspiration. He was more like an incredibly intelligent human AI; even when writing novels, he was frantically calculating how to precisely target our soft spots.

But when we strip away all his commercial tactics, what remains is an ultimate question: What is the significance of human creators in the age of AI? On this day, as we bid farewell to Ryuichi Sakamoto, Akira Toriyama, and Keigo Higashino, listen to what might be the most sincere farewell on the internet—one that looks least like a eulogy.

[Chapter Highlights]

• Intro: The obituary arrives. The science-minded man who treated novels like instruction manuals and never wrote a single word of fluff has stopped updating.
• Business Line 1: Flagship Benchmark: *The Devotion of Suspect X*. A dead-end puzzle with exploding computational power, and the futility of internal competition under the black box of algorithms.
• Business Line 2: Black Market Monetization: *White Night Walk*. A 20-year system-level PUA (psychological manipulation). Why is the supporting character’s perspective the underlying logic of this masterpiece?
• Business Line 3: Cross-Platform User Acquisition: *The Miracles of the Namiya General Store*. In the modern urban information cocoon, he built an extremely cheap yet incredibly precious anonymous confession API for us.
• Business Retrospective: From a decade of unsold inventory to polishing a super Prompt library. Like Wong Jing making B-movies, we deconstruct the industrialized production chain of Keigo Higashino.
• Ultimate Discussion: Why can AI never write *Malice* or *The Miracles of the Namiya General Store*? A tribute to real humans filled with greed, pain, and imperfections.

Background music from YouTube Audio Library.