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In a world where dead people turn into books and are stored in the Bantorra Library where anyone who reads a book can learn their past. Bantorra Library is maintained by Armed Librarians who wield psychic powers and their enemy is a religious society known as Sindeki Kyoudan.
This volume contains three one-shots by Shinohara Chie. 1. **Toubou Kyuukou** (逃亡急行) Natsumi is a young journalist who aspires to get that one big scoop that will put her on the map. Searching for something that might make a good story, she drives around at night and comes upon a murder scene. Wanting to find out more, she stops to ask questions of the investigators, but is taken hostage by a guy covered in blood! Is this story worth risking her own life?? 2. **Shissou Toshi** (失踪都市) Keiko wakes up one morning naked and with a huge hangover in a hotel room next to a guy that she had only met the night before. Horrified as she realized what she had done, she rushed back to her home, worried about what might happen if her strict husband ever found out. However, she discovers her husband dead at her house and she is now the prime suspect! Can Keiko prove her innocence? 3. **Shikeidai no 72jikan** (死刑台の72時間) Natsuki Kiriko has received a mysterious invitation to spend a few days at a fancy lodge called "The Orchard House". When she arrives, she finds 4 other young people there who had also been invited. After welcoming them, the hostess declares that the 5 of them had been chosen b/c they were all suspects of her son's murder 4 years ago. If one of them did not confess his/her guilt, they would all 5 die by the end of their stay! Kiriko knows she did not kill the hostess's son, but everyone else says the same. Can she find the real killer before she loses her life?? (Note: This story was published also in Shinohara Chie's "Umi ni Ochiru Tsubame")
The "Blue Hole" is a portal that leads back to the prehistoric age. In light of this astonishing discovery, the United Kingdom and the United States dispatched a joint team to the Jurassic world 145 million years ago for a full-scale investigation. But a sudden disturbance cut off their communication with the modern world. Only a few people and their equipment are left. A survival adventure in a terrifying world where everything is unknown and dinosaurs roam free has begun! (Source: Kodansha, translated)
The smile on the other end of that connection, is the brightest light of all. *Note: Originally published in Comic Yuri-Hime 2020 December issue.*
Another story from the world Mizu no Senritsu, which mainly revolves around ‘Song’, a sub-character in the game. There will be tons of other popular characters from the game as well! (Source: Osuwari Team)
Doraemon and Nobita go through hell to take revenge on Gian.
A world where witches and humans coexist. There are five countries on the continent that is the center of the world, and their land patterns and personalities vary from country to country. In this world, a big moon floats in the sky, and people call it the "Great Calamity" that attacks the world by exerting its mighty power. This is the story of the wizards who fight the Great Calamity.
In the future, in a rush much like the American gold rush, many people emigrated to our solar system's asteroid belt to mine the asteroids. A society developed out in the belt, and the citizens, who were generally looked down upon by Earth citizens, came to be known as "Belters". Eventually, this community sought independence from the earth, ushering in a war. The Belters could not stand against the Earth military, and they were defeated, falling back under the harsh control of the earth. Twenty years later, an old man called Bou discovered a still-living baby in a tank within the wreckage of a ship from the war. He named the boy Cross, after the Belter's greatest hero, and raised him with the hope that he would grow to become a messiah for his people. At the age of ten, Cross is captured by Earth soldiers and forced to leave his guardian's care. What connection does this young boy have to the legendary hero Cross? Will he be able to pass through the trials that lie before him, and fulfill the expectations he does not even know that his people have of him?
As if having giant monsters and robots threatening to destroy it wasn't bad enough, Japan now faces another crisis: demons. Kijimutan tells the story of Yuna, a young samurai woman seeking to feed her own ambitions as well as to fulfill her own sense of self. As Yuna and her faithful friend, Musashi, go on their journey, they come face to face with the Shouki, the evil spirits seeking to destroy the very hearts of the people. Faced with the possibility that there might be an enemy within every person they encounter, the two warriors will have to struggle in order to succeed. The Shouki may be a great threat, but the greatest peril to their quest might lie within the heart of Yuna herself.
The day she woke up after a two-year coma, Layla heard that her engagement to the crown prince has been called off. Not only is he already engaged to Layla's little sister, Rose, but she’s pregnant with his child… Was it for nothing that I had to endure my strict upbringing? A legendary sorcerer will be waiting for Layla when she escapes her life. But, the crown prince, who was supposed to have broken off the engagement, is still holding on to her?!