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The stage is the Daybreak Detective Agency, located on a dark alley. Detective Waki, who takes care of everything, from finding missing people to ghost exterminations, is beloved by part-timer Rika. Hoshihiko follows Waki, who he says is attracted by a smell. The door of the Daybreak Detective Agency opens to a client… A mysterious story by Taratsumi John.
At Aruko Hole, college students, salary workers, freeters, and unsuccessful musicians come to mingle. Tomo and Nao, two people from different walks of life, happen to meet one day at Aruko Hole. Despite their differences, they drunkenly become friends and start attending art exhibit "dates" together on the weekends. Their past and present anxieties burden them. But, as they reveal their worries to each other, their relationship becomes essential to both of them. This volume also contains a spin-off story about between a former musician and his "pure" but loyal friend and a one-shot about a pair working to improve their communication skills.
From Bunny's Scanlations and Must Be Endless: One day, up-and-coming young photographer Franz Schumann makes a fateful encounter. A beautiful young man with jet-black hair, eyes that show traces of a fresh grief, white skin like porcelain that, though it’s decorated with numerous bruises, is still sublime: Jay. He won’t tell the whole story of where he’s from, and Franz, wanting to keep the mysterious Jay as his exclusive model, as time passes, begins to fall in love with him...