The volume is a collection of 3 short stories that Iwahara created earlier in his career: 1. **Tetsu no Seiki** (鉄の世紀) Depicts the battle over the world. 2. **Hebi** (蛇) A story about a girl that keeps a snake. 3. **Ookami no Dou** (狼の瞳) A man whose beloved wife is killed by a drug addict and decides to become a “dark executioner” that takes care of the bad guys. (Source: Kadokawa Shoten, translated)

Haru Habaki, a 16-year-old who has been a junior delinquent since middle school. After his sister gets caught in a fight and injured, Haru decides to run off on his own. However, his mobile phone gets an odd email message about a "Habaki Hunt." Now, a shadowy group called the Kidō (The Way of the Demon) is pursuing him. Story & Art by Shinya Kuwahara.

Growing up deep in the forest, Misha is a thirteen-year-old girl learning how to craft medicine from nature's bounty, but she's also picked up a tremendous amount of knowledge from her mother, an estranged member of a distant tribe of remarkably skilled apothecaries. When tragedy draws the pair out of their forest home, Misha finds herself confronted with a grim truth: all the knowledge in the world is of no help if she doesn't have the experience to put it to use. Faced with her own inadequacy, the young girl resolves to learn how to put her gifts to use properly. Her world is about to expand far beyond the forest she once called home. (Source: J-Novel Club)

The blood-stained truth can’t be hidden… Hiromu Morinaga has lived through the unspeakable. Traumatized since witnessing the murder of his parents, the high school student is cursed with a haunting ability: He can now see the terrified faces of victims on the backs of the murderers he encounters. When transfer student Yuzuka Kohaku arrives, a staggering number of ghosts cling to her back. This mysterious girl may be an unstoppable killer! (Source: Alien Books)

Charlotte Cocoriara: duke's daughter, fiancée to a prince, villainess, and...NPC? Framed as the villainess in a spin-off of an MMO dating sim, Charlotte suddenly regains memories of her past life as a player of the same MMO. Armed with her new understanding of the world, she happily accepts the end of her betrothal and her accompanying exile. Who needs a cheating prince fiancé when there's a whole fantasy world to explore? Using knowledge from her gameplay, Charlotte strikes out on her own. Her first task is to switch jobs, something apparently no one else in this world knows how to do. With her new role secured, she'll make friends, join parties, challenge dungeons, and...! Follow Charlotte as she sets off on a grand adventure, free for the first time in her life! (Source: J-Novel Club)

When a stampeding horde of monsters threatened to destroy the world, Mariela the Alchemist would go on to survive. At the advice of her master, she placed herself in a state of suspended animation and awoke unaged and unharmed—two hundred years in the future! Alchemy is now a lost art, and potions have become scarce. As the last remaining alchemist, Mariela just wants a quiet life. But while she and her newfound allies work to carve out a slice of home for themselves in the Kingdom of Endalsia, keeping a low profile is harder than she thought. *Source: Yen Press, Vol. 1*

When Lara Bradley takes on an ancient dragon alone to give her young apprentice Alistair time to escape, her death seems imminent. As a last resort, the mage casts a spell that turns herself to stone. Twenty years later, the petrification wears off and Lara finds herself faced with a world that has changed—and a forceful, arrogant adult Alistair who never stopped adoring her. What will this second chance bring for pupil and master? (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

Chiko sees the dream of the night, it's like––––– At that time, as if people were talking about the weather, everyone was talking about the phantom thief, Twenty-Faces. That very "Twenty-Faced Monster", along with the secret treasure Anastasia Ruby, steals away Chiko who was bullied and raised by her uncle and his wife, as if they owned her. Chiko escaped from the unrelenting days of being kept, aiming to live her life the way she wants, and travels to the vast world with a mysterious phantom thief, Twenty-Faces! An emotional and magical adventure where Chiko's soft heart and bold action blossoms through various incidents that she encounters everywhere!

The time is the not-so-distant future and the planet Earth is under attack by an army of merciless aliens. Its only hope is the Starlight—a craft originally designed to realize man’s dream of traveling between the stars—and it’s genetically altered human pilot Mitsuha (codename: Silbuster). Inside of her and her four siblings lay the secret to completing the ship’s light wave engine. Only then can the alien threat be destroyed once and for all. Unfortunately, the creatures are well aware of this fact and will stop at nothing to destroy the adventurous family. Silbuster and crew must use their awesome powers and abilities to fend off the aliens until the key to humanity’s salvation can be uncovered. (from Atomic Avenue.com). Publication information can be found under 'More Info'

Natsumi is in the same high school class as her childhood friend, Haruyuki, but he has been treating her coldly and formally. One day when she wakes up, she suddenly finds that a doll-sized version of Haruyuki has appeared in her room! It seems that no one else can see or hear the tiny Haruyuki, and when she goes to school she finds that the original Haruyuki still exists. Where did the tiny Haruyuki come from, and is there any way to get him back to being a part of the original boy?

A collection of short stories and one-shots by mangaka Nakahara Migiwa that were published in Cheese! magazine.