Let's do our best at making handmade chocolate! But how will this chocolate taste to the person I yearn for?

A pair of two-part oneshots. 1) It's a lot Like Love/This Must Be Falling in Love: managers who work on the same floor stumble and bumble toward love through awkwardness and misunderstandings. 2) Your Best Expression: when a government bureaucrat's sister moves in with him, he gets caught up in her money troubles with unexpected consequences.

A mysterious doll maker grants "Plain Jane" Seika Hosokawa a new life as a pretty girl. Her new found beauty gives Seika the courage to ask her crush, Asai, out to the school 's cultural festival. However, Asai has an unstable childhood friend who will do anything to keep Asai all to herself.

Behind Student Council Vice President Yuuko's cool facade lies a secret that she is desperate to keep from flamboyant President Hasumi. But how long can she go before her mask cracks on Christmas Eve and she's exposed? *Note: Published in LaLa 2011-12*

Mary is hired as a laundress at castle inhabited by a mad Earl who is obsessed with making her become his doll.

A prequel to *Himitsu* that follows Maki Tsuyoshi and his best friend Suzuki Katsushiro during their college days. The year is 2045, when MRI technology was still in its nascent stages. A decade ago Maki's parents were killed in a fire, and since then he's been living with his legal guardian Sawamura Satoshi, who suffered severe burns while rescuing him. Though he's convinced that his parents were murdered, Maki has no clues to help him find the culprits other than the hazy memory of a certain symbol. Upon discovering that this symbol is associated with a powerful secret society called Premium that's based in Tokyo University, Maki enters the same college, hoping his top credentials will get him an invitation to Premium. He isn't chosen, but the more socially adept Suzuki is. Maki approaches Suzuki in hopes that he'll lend him his aid, and the two embark on a hunt for the truth. *Note: On hiatus between Aug. 2021 and Oct. 2024.*

Once upon a time, there was a princess who locked herself up in the top of a little tower, and a young man set on becoming the palace artist. When the King decrees that, "He who can paint a portrait of the 'Locked-up Maiden' will be made the palace artist", Gunjou thinks he's set...but the princess is not willing to come down, and Gunjou is not willing to give up.

Salleal wakes up, injured, in a strange place, where a strange man she doesn't recognize, keeps her. She falls for him and his kindness, and she soon realizes she had once loved that man! But who was he? Who was she to him? And what had caused her to be in the state she was in? She had to find out.

Caught up in the midst of lust, love, and hate, people are attracted to a boy's magical nature and dance around him like puppets on strings. Now Daniel's eyes remain cold and dark. (Source: Hana to Yume, translated)

Part of the Hime Kuzushi series. This volume includes 6 stories: 1. Princess waste (姫くずし) 2. 5 minutes in Shinbashi (新橋の５分間) 3. I'm sorry tonight (ごめんね今夜は) 4. I want to kill you by passing (通りすがりに殺したい) 5. ザ・shy－ing I 6. ザ・shy－ing II

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