Blood-Stained Bookmark

Blood-Stained Bookmark (血栞塗) is a short story that is part of an anthology of short stories based on the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan series. It was written by Mirei Miyamoto (宮本 深礼) and published by Shueisha. Blood-Stained Bookmark was included with the January 2018 issue of Ultra Jump.

It was then compiled in a collection named Rohan Kishibe Does Not Shout with four other stories, which released for sale on June 19, 2018. Blood-Stained Bookmark is on pages 113-156 in the volume.

Summary
Investigating poisoning, Rohan visits the library in S City and asks the librarian to take out the rare book "Introduction to Eating Fugu" from the closed stacks. There were only a few people in the library and Rohan finds out that people stopped coming due to a rumor that finding a "bright red bookmark" caught between the books there would cause unhappiness.

Interested in the story, Rohan begins searching for bookmarks while the librarian goes to the closed stack library to get the book he wanted. However, in the children's corner, Rohan discovers the "Introduction to Eating Fugu" book which shouldn't be there. Upon opening it, he sees the bright red bookmark.