Hiro just wants to live a quiet, peaceful life, but she is curious about an orange-haired boy who passes by her on a pedestrian bridge? A story of pure first love. (Source: Rimacomi Plus, translated) *Note: Originally published in Margaret 2024 No. 18.*

Collection of Oneshots 1. **Zannen Nagara Chigaimasu** (残念ながら違います) \[Kotomi Aoki\] He wasn't even that handsome, but when I saw him, I was captivated. He said "meet me upstairs". it seems he also feels the same because we're now signing a marriage registration form?! 2. **10-ka Kan** (10日間) \[Miki Aihara\] 3. **Oide, Boku no Kotori** (おいで、僕のことり) \[Mio Nanao\] 4. **Mou Sukoshi de, Itsuka Eien** (もうすこしで、いつか永遠) \[Ai Fujio\] 5. **Suki na Hito wa Dare yori Atashi wo Kizutsukeru** (好きなひとは誰よりあたしを傷付ける) \[Tomo Asada\]

Every day I go to work without conviction, without having fun and I get caught up in an uninteresting routine. Moreover, I'm single and have no hobby, so my life is not very bright. But then I meet the handsome boss Kurose, and everything changes. He begins to lighten up my life.

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The manga's story begins when high school student Kiriko is suddenly assaulted by a man who has seemingly transformed into something monstrous during a train ride. Her classmate and biology club member Sōta helps her out, and she is able to escape thanks to his quick thinking. But when she runs home, the only thing waiting for her are more monsters. (Source: Anime News Network)

Kiriya Nao, a company employee, has sworn off younger men as potential partners due to past romantic trauma. One day, he arranges to meet an older man he connected with on a matching app. However, through a mix-up, he ends up at a café with Yoshino Ryouta, a 20-year-old college student. Yoshino, who followed along simply because he thought it’d be interesting, casually tells a flustered Kiriya, “Who knows, something might spark between us.” Though Kiriya firmly replies, “You’re too young for me, it’s impossible,” he finds himself increasingly thrown off by Yoshino’s affectionate persistence. (Source: Leed Publishing, translated) Note: Includes an extra.

1. **Bloody Lily** (ブラッディ・リリィ) *(Formerly titled "Majo no Kousui" (魔女の香水))* Dahlia joins a class and all of the girls are charmed by her beauty—and the fact that her family makes a popular perfume, Crimson Dahlia. Lily, who has always been popular with the boys, learns of a rumor that the secret ingredient of the perfume is the blood of a beautiful girl. 2. **Shikaeshi Jitsugen Game** (仕返し実現ゲーム) Mako is being picked on by the girls in her class. When she finds a strange little gaming system that causes whomever's name is used as the character name to suffer the character's fate, she plugs in the names of her tormentors and watches them die with a sense of power. 3. **Toumei Shoujo to Shoujo** (透明少女と少女) Touko loves to make clocks. She doesn't have friends, the other girls think she's weird, but she'd be happy enough if people left her to make clocks. Misa befriends her and they are inseparable… Misa tells her that a large supermarket is killing the stores in the local shopping arcade and her own family's shop is in danger. 4. **Hokenshitsu de Miru Akumu** (保健室で見る悪夢) The school rumor is that if you go to sleep in the Infirmary, you'll die, so Fumie is really, really worried about her friend Ryo who sleeps there almost every day, but is still getting more and more listless. 5. **Futago Mitai na Futari** (ふたごみたいなふたり) The other girls don't like dark gloomy Mayoru (midnight), but bright, sunny Mahiru (noon) is totally willing to be friends. It turns out they share a birthday, so they decide to pretend to be twins. But as Mahiru gets closer to a boy, Mayoru panics. 6. **Akuma no Hon wa Yuuwaku suru** (悪魔の本は誘惑する) Houka is a beautiful, kind girl who raises rabbits in the school hutch. Kirika is her best friend whose feelings are slightly deeper, who is on the basketball team. Kirika sees Houka with a boy after the basketball game and is disappointed, but the next day when she finds all of Houka's rabbits slaughtered and Houka missing, she's distraught. (Source: Okazu)