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One day, Iris, a shrine maiden at a church who is a candidate for sainthood, learns that once the saint selection ceremony is over, she will be branded as a discarded shrine maiden and sold off as a concubine to an upstart baron. Thinking that she won't be chosen as a saint anyway, Iris runs away from the church, and on the way, she spots a sickly young man in a carriage and inadvertently heals him with her shrine maiden powers. However, the young man she saved turns out to be a titled knight, and he finds out that she has run away from the church...! (Source: PASH! Books, translated)
-The story of the novel is set during the Peace Preservation Law of 1925, which targets those who believe in "Marxist" ideology. Proletarian writer Takiji Kobayashi chooses the harsh working conditions of a crab cannery ship as the subject of his next novel, which draws the attention of the special police task force charged with monitoring ideological threats. Two spies are sent to monitor his activities. (Source: Anime News Network)
Komada Ryusei grew up as the daughter of a whiskey distillery. A university student with no connection to the alcohol industry, she aims to revive the legendary whiskey "Koma" in order to bring back her family, which has fallen apart due to financial difficulties, and for the people who love the alcohol they make. (Source: Kodansha, translated)
**Note:** Vol. 1 and 2 released as *Jibun Tsukkomi Kuma no Hon* under the Wide KC imprint, 2023 reprints and vol. 3 released as *Nagano no Kuma no Hon* under the Wide KC Kiss imprint.