-Ranko, who has a serious personality, supports Minato, the ace of the sales department. In order to change her blunt attitude, she decides to use a "rental boyfriend" who is a professional conversationalist. However, the person who shows up at the rendezvous is a Minato's look-alike...?
There's a reason why things are brought into the mysterious pawn shop!? A dark light mystery! Chisato, who was fired from the company she entered as a new graduate for unreasonable reasons, visits "Pawn Shop Karasu" to cash in her parents' keepsake wedding ring to pay her rent. However, she was completely ignored by the owner, Karasujima. It's about wanting to buy Chisato's "certain ability" with money. What Karasujima receives is not gold, silver, or jewelry, but a small bottle containing a gold tooth, a bundle of duplicate keys of the customer's past lovers, and a burnt pendant. What is the mysterious shopkeeper's secret that he wants the customer's valuables rather than the valuable items...?
Maho Sawada (28), a business interpreter who lives more for work than love, lives a freewheeling room-sharing life with her cousin Rina, a childhood friend, and four other men and women. However, when Rina gets married, a new roommate arrives at Maho and her friends' share house. It is Koutaro Miyano, a classmate of Maho's from her college days, who stepped on her love seven years ago when she was in her third year of college! Maho and Koutaro share sweet and bitter memories of playing at love, and Nanako and Kanasuke, who live together with Maho and Koutaro, are in for some upheaval in their lives!
-Taking care of the house and being a wife. I know that's the right way to live. But for women, sometimes that's not enough. After twenty-five years of marriage, my husband went back to his hometown, and at the age of 46, I began living alone for the first time. The only thing that saved me from my empty and suffocating days was a man who already had a family. I don't want to let go of this excitement. Am I a bad wife for thinking so? (Source: Shueisha, translated) *Note: Includes the one-shot "Mukaikaze wo Kimi wa."*
A booklet packaged with Harta volume 16 at select stores. It's an anthology of one-shots centering on the theme of muscle enthusiasts. (Source: Natalie, translated)
Half-brothers called "Princes of the Devil" -brother Sherabach and brother Astrod. The younger brother, whose soul is sealed in the body of his beloved Princess Nasiera by his brother, tries to call "Knight of Light", the only person who overthrows his brother, who is a dark person different from humans. However, on a knight-searching journey, Lucia, a man who knows the former Nasiera, appears. Lucia is attracted to her while wondering about the changes in Nasiera. And finally, the love and hate of the dark brothers who give and compete for each other will reach the final moment.
JP: My sister (x3), who suddenly came into my life, pushed me around, pushed me around, pushed me around, pushed me around again! CN: When Takakura Kyoya returns to his hometown after graduating from college, he finds that he has three half-sisters! Although he is pushed around every day by his sisters, his life surrounded by cute little sisters is still a bit embarrassing!
Miyuki Umemoto (38). I am grateful to my husband Takaya for giving me a place to stay after I lost my job and house 10 years ago. I have children whom I love very much. But every day.... I have decided that no matter what happens, as a righteous wife and mother, I will get through it with a smile on my face, but...
