Amasawa Miyako, the middle child of 5 siblings, is the only 'normal' one, the others all being very good-looking and very talented at something. She takes care of them at home with cooking, cleaning, etc. because their parents are very busy at work, but she has to deal with both her own insecurities and people's opinions on how she's not like her brothers and sisters. It also doesn't help that she likes her best friend who's in love with her older sister.

1. Beloved Teddy Bear 1 2. Beloved Teddy Bear 2 3. Beloved Teddy Bear 3 4. Boy-Girl 5. Chisana Koro Kana

Contains 5 one-shot stories and a 3 page omake: 1) Tenshi wa Maiorita - Taki really wants a boyfriend but has been turned down 7 times. She finds a white feather in the school court yard. According to school legend, she will be granted a wish by the "angel feather". Akira, Taki's classmate, also finds a feather... whose wish will be granted? 2) Kimi o Miteita - Yuiko saved a dog from being hit by a car and fell in love with the dog's owner Yoshiyuki when he smiled at her. Yuiko watches Yoshiyuki from the window of the pet store where he works but one day Yoshiyuki invites her into the store. The two start to get to know one another, but does Yoshiyuki remember who Yuiko is? 3) Bokura no Power - Kamura-sensei's first story to be published in Ribon. A story about Minori and Sakaki trying to win a sports competition with their class and realize their feelings for each other at the same time... 4) Issho Da Ne - Toda Fumio and Toda Keisuke gets teased because they are a boy and a girl with the same surename in the same class. Keisuke laughs it off while Fumio getes embarrassed, but what is Keisuke really thinking? 5) Ohisama no Egao - Kamura-sensei's debut work. Koharu, a girl who always smiles, gets teased a lot by her classmate Hagiwara. But one day, Hagiwara stops teasing her and Koharu realizes she misses his teasing? Summaries modified from Lijaka

Mari, like another Japanese girl, has been invited as a formal guest. She is to be headed to another country to visit her friend who became a queen. When Mari arrives there, things starts to get mysterious as there is an attempt to kill the royal family. Who is behind the plot to kill them?

This volume contains 4 one-shots; the last 3 one-shots are part of a series titled "Kiri to Honoo to Satsujin to." Shi wo Utau Seiza (Constellation that Sings Death) Takano Mahiro arrives at the vacation lodge in the mountains where she will be working for the summer. She meets the owner and her niece, who both seem quite nice. The guests also seem normal enough, save one girl who claims that there is a ghost haunting the place. She's ignored until one of the guests turns up dead! Is the guest telling the truth or is there a cold-blooded killer living among them? Furimukeba Kiri (When the Fog Comes) They say that if you visit a graveyard in the fog, you might be able to see the spirits of those resting there. Tracey sees someone at a foggy graveyard that looks like her boyfriend, Fred, but at least 5 years older. Could he be Fred's dead older brother? Honoo no Senritsu (Fire Starter) Since she was young, Sugihara Shouko has had the special power to spontaneously light things on fire, but because of her inability to control it properly, she has accidentally harmed many. Now, she has driven people away from her, in order to avoid the risk of hurting anyone, but Yano Tsukasa, her handsome new classmate, tells her that she can be a normal girl. Is he telling the truth? Is it really possible for her to be just like everyone else? Toki no Yakata (The Castle) For weeks, Yukari has been haunted by the same nightmare where she is killed by a woman with a bloody knife in a building she does not know. Her parents send her to her uncle's to get a fresh start, but there, she finds the same castle in her dream, wavering mysteriously in the fog. When Yukari asks about the castle, however, nobody seems to know what she is talking about. What is the secret behind the castle and why does Yukari keep seeing the same dream?

There is a special organization known as "anonymous" which takes children and raises them without names, without feelings, without souls. Then it sends them out to kill. Can emotions get through to these cold-hearted killers?

Chiyako's brother, Takaya died in a fight. While everyone in the hospital is sad about his death, Takaya wakes up. Soon Chiyako found out that there's something different about her brother.

A highschool detective special interest group meets up with all sorts of murders and mysteries, including supernaturals. Included is a dog with an attitude.

1. **Ninjin Daisuki** (にんじん大好き!) A little boy named Takashi-chan hates eating carrots, so one night, he prays that somehow, he will be able to like eating them. Little does he know how dangerous this wish turns out to be... 2. **Saishuu Bus** (最終バス) Sachiko visits Hitomi in her new rural home on the pretext of visiting an old friend. She gets on the last bus back to avoid having to stay at Hitomi's creepy new house, but...?? 3. **Family** (ファミリー) Yuka lives with her gentle father and mother and mischievous, but cute younger sister Eri. Things seem like they should be so happy, but why is it that sometimes Yuka feels so uneasy? What important memory is she forgetting? 4. **Noriawaseta Shinigami** (乗り合わせた死神) Miya was supposed to just take her father his lunch, but an earthquake stops the elevator she is on. Before the lights go off, a woman calls out that there is a shinigami (a grim reaper) among them, but suddenly dies before everyone is able to see where she pointed. Was the woman just crazy or is everyone's life now in grave danger? 5. **Soshite Yami wa Yomigaeru** (そして闇はよみがえる) Minori is on a trip to a small lodge in the mountains with her school club. They are specifically going b/c the site is rumored to be frequented by UFOs, and they want to investigate. They are meeting Minori's cousin, Naoki, there, but why is it that Minori keep experiencing deja vu?

Sani lives together with some other orphan children at Strawberry Orphanage. A lot of people belittled them because they didn't have parents. One day Sani crashed into a person coming out of a building but she didn't take a good look at the person, and the next day there are news that there are a murder in the building the person coming out from and the suspected time of death is around the same time Sani crashed into the person. Then Sani and the other children tried to investigate the cases to gain recognition from the people who belittled them.

1. Kuro no Kumikyoku After Ricardo's death Jess suddenly become so different, he even forgot about a song that he composed for Cathy, his girlfriend. His piano playing become so similar with Ricardo's and he also becomes close with Ricardo's lover. 2. Tenshi wa Yami ni Hohoemu a. Cole: When someone encounter a person who looks exactly like theirselves, it means those person will die in a near future. b. Violet: Violet is a girl who longs for a mother, attention, and love. c. Linda: Short story about the lost of a lover and the happy medicine. 3. Bell ga Nattara A mysterious phone call from afterlife.

Shirakawa Ayumi has transferred to a new school after her friend Masako recently jumped from the top of a building and killed herself. Things finally seem to be turning around for Ayumi. Her homeroom teacher is handsome, she's already begun making new friends on the first day, and she found out that her uncle even serves on the school board. But all of this suddenly changes when one fateful day, her new friends and she decide to pull a silly prank on one of their teachers, triggering a series of violent murders... Based on the novel Shisha no Gakuensai, by Jirou Akagawa.