When Kensuke Niikura was in the third grade of elementary school, he lied when he introduced himself in a class at his new school, saying that he had a girlfriend named Makoto. For the next four years, until he...

Staffed by murderous maids and situated on a war-ravaged island, the Voynich Hotel is far from your run-of-the-mill vacation destination--but it’s not such a bad place to lie low for ex-yakuza Kazuki Taizou...