Red Spider Anecdote: Triangle

Red Spider Anecdote: Triangle is a Hong Kong noir visual novel and a side story in the Red Spider series. It is a short prequel told from the perspectives of 來, 永孝 and 越児, about an incident that takes place three years before and four years after events in the series. Its voice recordings total three hours, performed by a cast of 30.

The case

Four years after leaving the Hong Kong assassination organization 蜘蛛网, 越児 works as a singer at 龍爪花, a nightclub run by 楊坤, the head of the 九龍-area criminal organization 紅花会. She learns that 來, a former police detective she once knew, has opened a detective agency and visits him to renew their friendship.

Around the same time, a model named 恩恩 is murdered in an alley in 九龍灣. Her lover, 黑豹, a burlesque dancer, is arrested as a suspect. 永孝, 楊坤’s son, 越児’s boyfriend and a lawyer, takes on 黑豹’s defense and asks 越児 to investigate the case.