“What are you made of?” A question from “outside” that cannot be answered using the “common sense” of the earth. If you answer incorrectly, what awaits you is disaster or destruction. Tsubura Uruki, a graduate student, is drawn into an extreme interstellar friendship after encountering a monolith. With the survival of humanity at stake, she faces the ultimate question posed by aliens.

Collections of one-shots that won the monthly Hop Step Award from 1987 to 1996.