A collection of stories: Chapter in order Oboreru Sakana (Drowning Fish)Living in a house of constant fights, An has learned to drown his feelings in the water. He has never felt love, and doesn't desire it...

Yashiro, the ruthlessly efficient leader of the yakuza group Shinsekai, is also a brazen sexual deviant and masochist. Having been hurt by the only person he had ever fallen in love with, he now engages in...

High school student Yuta bumps into a man outside the train station, injuring him. The man's name is Tsubaki Nishijima, occupation novelist. In exchange for crippling his arm, Tsubaki demands Yuta work like a...

Harriet is married to Irving, who is shunned as a "cursed marquis." Even though it is not the marriage she wanted, she wants to love her partner because they will be husband and wife, but on their wedding night...

Akio and Umi live in the same student hostel. While Akio tends to avoid people, Umi is a connoisseur of the one-night stand. Still, with time they begin to seek each other out in order to deal with their pasts.