Story 1: (Pgs. 5-78 and 177-188) Manager of a restaurant/one of his employees. Manager had a bad experience, employee hopes to soothe the damage.
Story 2: (Pgs. 80-123) A waiter of the aforementioned restaurant/one of his former classmates. Classmate is very pushy, forces a bargain, ends up winning over the love interest.
Story 3: (Pgs 124-176) The reunion of two classmates, one fleeing a stalker and the other a private detective. What was so long unrequited is reciprocated and all is joy.
1. Baker and a Calligraphist meet when the baker goes to the local bathhouse run by the family of the calligrapher. Calligraphist takes an immediate interest in the baker, and kinda of forces the issue, still it all works out.
2. Nephew of the calligraphist and his best friend come to terms with each other. Both are virgins, so that causes a little trouble, but they work through it.
1-A naive young man gets caught by a devious author.
2-Handsome boss and childlike subordinate like each other, vocalizing it at a cherry blossom party.
3-A man applies for the job of life model due to his erectile dysfunction stemming from a childhood trauma and ends up with the assistant professor.
4-Debt collector tries to harass the guarantor, but fails and confides in a consultation website.
5-Med school student deliberately injures his snowboarding crush.
1 - A sadistic uke works hard on his idiot masochist seme.
2 - Chef in training believes he has encountered the ex-boyfriend he hurt back in high school, but is that really the case or is he mistaken?
3 - Cousins living under the same roof are playing a deceptive game. One is an upright student, the other a delinquent, but who is really bullying whom?
1 - It's a little complicated and not for everyone. Kid lives with his stepfather while 'enduring' a sexual relationship, but eventually learns the truth and decides to love instead.
2 - Cutesy kouhai when his love interest senpai left to study overseas is grown up and manly when the senpai returns. Kouhai is very insecure about a loving relationship now that he isn't cutesy, and the senpai agrees to be just friends, but it doesn't stay that way.
1 - Shy Grunge meets Stylish and gets a makeover. Grunge now gets major attention, Stylish gets irritated, and love is realized.
2 - Kid with seemingly bad luck is always together with his friend. When a girl is thrown into the mix, the truth of the bad luck is revealed.
3 - A relationship between two kindergarten teachers is born, but the story is narrated through the eyes of one of their students.
4 - The same child from the above story reminisces with his best friend.
1 - An English language teacher, his seventeen year old student and a tale of trial and tribulation.
2 - Turbulent relationship between a serious guy and his hyperactive, impish boyfriend.
3 - Two kids become friends, one falls for the other, but his love interest harbors a heavy and sad secret.
4 - Kid who lost his parents falls for his caretaker who was, supposedly, in love with his father. Confess, rebel or both?
5 - Two students vie for the number one spot, and shenanigans ensue.
1 - A kouhai confesses to a graduating senpai who feels compelled to turn the boy down, but because the senpai also likes the kouhai, he ends up messing up the rejection and hurting the kid. Later the two end up working at the same school, and the pair do eventually work it out, but it takes some doing.
2- A serious kid likes his best friend who is constantly changing girlfriends. Eventually they connect, but via normal, emotionally awkward teenager hulabaloo.
1 - Coworkers fall for each other hard and fast, then struggle with how to keep their relationship together.
2 - Two high school friends who like each other, but can't say anything, until one gets caught going at it hot and heavy with Rosy Palm and her five sisters.
3 - Childhood friends bump into each other after losing contact for a long time. One is a bit of a lonely boy cryer and the other is scared of himself being overly passionate with protecting his friend whom he secretly loves.
Three stories surrounding the workers/visitors of a cafe.
1 - Younger brother and interior designer.
2 - Chef and rival chef.
3 - Older brother and an author/part-timer.
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