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Having inherited a great fortune and a vast mansion, Jean finds himself trapped in an infinite cycle, reliving his ruthless slaying repeatedly. However, on reaching the hundredth iteration, he summons unparalleled resolve to resist and protect his loyal servants from their pointless demise.
Nothing in Sakiko's life seems to be going right. Frustrated with her job and nursing a broken heart, she embarks on an ocean cruise, hoping the change of mood will turn things around for her. Never does she expect her vacation to end with the ship capsizing, stranding the surviving passengers on an island. When a young man saves her life, she finds herself drawn to him, but soon discovers he may be harboring a dark secret...
After the sudden death of his father, a young master realizes that he cannot escape the repercussions of his father's odd behavior. In particular, his father's decision to purchase and care for a personal lover now falls on the young master's shoulders. As a result, unresolved emotional scars are reopened and he is forced to confront his painful past once more.
Following their parents' divorce, the Ikeuchi family dwindled to only two members: college student Masaki and his younger sister Minami. Their mother remarried, and their father vanished. Together with Masaki's best friend Kanda, who shares their home, they barely scrape by. Despite their struggles, the trio manages to maintain a content existence until Masaki's early return from work one day shatters their tranquility. The book consists of 5 chapters that are not part of the main storyline.
Investigating a school where three students have fallen to their deaths in the past two months are two transfer students full of mystery.
Selected for Morning's 2022 Chiba Tetsuya Award.
Yoshiwara, old Edo's paradise of pleasure, has been reborn in modern-day Tokyo... In this playground of the powerful, where money rules all, women sell both their bodies and the idea of romance to their male clientele. Thrust into this world is the ingenue Asuka, who's been sold out by her foster parents to pay off their debts. While at first oblivious to the nature of Yoshiwara, she accidentally barges in on a "transaction" between a courtesan and her client. Confronted with her new reality of being bought and sold, she longs to make a break for it... but is there anyone around her she can trust...?!
Gomi Jirou, a 29-year-old virgin, has spent the past 9 years nerding out with his work colleagues about anime during lunch and drawing erotic doujinshi at night so he can masturbate. However, one day, this comfort zone of his is thrown into disarray by the introduction of a new colleague, Yumezora Kuroko, a bespectacled beauty with long, dark hair and a massive chest. It only takes a moment to fall in love, just like how it takes a moment to lose your footing.
Is it possible for the ostracized girl, who is able to spot criminals based on their shadows, to save one of her tormentors from a notorious murderer?
Welcome to this mad world.
