close friend, bosom buddy / crony, chum

小説家: novelist

晶析: crystallisation / 硝石: saltpetre / 証跡: evidence, trail / 誚責: / 蹤跡:

誚責: / 蹤跡:

章助: a male given name

小説: novel / 勝絶: 4th note of the ancient chromatic scale / 小節: (music) bar, measure / 小雪: (solar term) minor snow / 章節: chapters and sections / 消雪: thawing snow / 詳説: detailed explanation

小数: decimal, decimal fraction / 少数: small number, minority

(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me

a personal or private matter / selfishness / privacy, secrecy / (women's speech, obsolete) a brother-in-law

personal, private / secret