From [Chibi Manga](https://www.mangaupdates.com/groups.html?id=3006): She used to live alone but suddenly, a groom appeared...

In this otherworld fantasy anthology, multiple noblewomen bearing painful pasts or unfortunate fates strive toward love, redemption, and truly happy endings. Each story follows a different heroine—sold off, betrayed, shamed, or discarded—yet each one fights against circumstance to be loved, to heal, and to live “all-happy” endings. https://ebookjapan.yahoo.co.jp/books/880766/A006253311/

“I want to stay with you forever, even after this curse is broken.” Sakaki Kikka is born into a prestigious family that inherits healing powers, yet she has been abused and treated as worthless all her life. In the mountain capital of Yamato, only those with special abilities can stand against the monstrous ayakashi threatening the land, but Kikka shows no sign of power and is forced to serve as a maid to the tyrant ruler’s younger sister, Botan. One day, after being lured into the forest by one of Botan’s schemes and nearly attacked by an ayakashi, Kikka is saved by a young man named Tōji, whose body is covered in cursed markings. Wary at first, the two slowly begin to open up as they recognize the loneliness in each other and are gradually drawn together. But the ayakashi curse eating away at Tōji spirals out of control, and he begins to transform into a fearsome yaksha. In the moment Kikka reaches out to the suffering Tōji, the dormant power within her awakens—the ability to break curses. [Original Webtoon](https://www.comico.jp/comic/13170)

This book is a re-arrangement and major addition to "Witness of the Times/Umezu Kazuo: 'Scary!' is the Power to Live," a series of interviews that were serialized in the Yomiuri Shimbun in 2023. It is a "definitive autobiography" filled with unique episodes that have become legendary, told by the author himself while he was alive, and the interviewer (Kanta Ishida) conducted with as much corroborating research as possible. It features beautiful illustrations and horror descriptions that are sure to leave you traumatized. It is not just scary, but also has excellent psychological descriptions and overwhelming storytelling on a cosmic scale. It talks about and explains the diverse "Umezu World" in detail. It also includes valuable color illustrations from the circulated handwritten doujinshi "Manga Exhibition" that was published before his debut. - Taken from the Amazon bookstore's description

V.1 - Anthology Comic V.2 - Seishun Event Shuffle V.3 - Koukiatsu Variety Show V.4 - Girls Only! V.5 - Boys Only! V.6 - Quest Senbon Knock