The Law of Amida Buddha transformed the Land of the Rising Sun into the Pure Land. From now on, the killer donates his body to the murdered one, and he himself descends to hell. Toryumon Raiden - a samurai from Akayama, an interrogator for the Carp-and-Dragon service - investigates cases of violent deaths and miraculous resurrections, already known to the reader from the novel “Carp and Dragon”. But even death cannot tame a person whose soul burns in the fire of passions. And now it is no longer the carp that climbs the waterfall, becoming a dragon, but the dragon that descends from heaven to become a carp. Investigator Raiden finds out this, risking his own life. The first book of the new novel “The Dragon and the Carp” consists of “A Tale of the Dead and the Living”, “The Tale of a Talisman Doll” and “A Tale of Two Blades”. 2021