Another season, another mysterious group of Skill users. This week’s episode introduces at least the name of Decay of the Angel, an ominous-sounding gang that somehow involves Dostoyevsky (who clearly likes this sort of name; see “Rats in the House of the Dead”) and a fellow calling himself Nikolai. This combination almost certainly means that he’s 19th-century Russian author Nikolai Gogol, a writer known for surrealist works, one of which is a short story called “Diary of a Madman.” Since his look can be described as “Mad Hatter,” that’s another possible clue to his identity. He’s also definitely bad news: he pops up after Rampo solves the crime and gets Mushitaro to admit to his role in it when it was looking like everything was going to be okay. But instead of being en route to a potential new job (or…
