The book was the first thing that I found when I Googled today's gift, and I thought I may as well use it. I'm really sorry it's late again, but today was a pretty busy day for both of us. -Rin
Day 10 - Ten lords a-leaping
The Inui family was having an early Christmas with various relatives from Sadaharu's father's family at his grandfather's house. Several of the uncles and aunts didn't know what to make of Sadaharu.
"What do we get him? Does he do anything besides tennis?" They would say, and buy him socks or something else he didn't need or want. But somehow one second cousin thrice-removed got lucky, and Sadaharu received a present he liked.
Sadaharu was fond of mystery novels, and the gift, Ten Lords A-Leaping, seemed both intriguing and seasonally appropriate. So after thanking all the people he was supposedly related to but didn't really remember for their 'thoughtful' gifts, he snuck away to an empty guest room.
He closed and locked the door behind him so he wouldn't be disturbed, and sat down on the carefully made bed, opening the book. For the next few hours, while the grandparents and nephews and nieces made as much noise as was humanly possible, Sadaharu read, took notes, worked out clues, second guessed, backtracked, made charts, and everything else imaginable to figure out who the killer was. Eventually he slid under the covers of the bed for warmth, propping himself up with pillows as he deduced and analyzed.
There was only a 12% chance he was wrong.