Seiji Tohno sometimes sees the people around him as monsters. It’s a curse that has driven him to a life of despair…but all that changes one evening when he stumbles across a bewitchingly beautiful boy in a huge European mansion. The boy introduces himself as Shiroshi Saijou, and before he knows it, Seiji has agreed to become Shiroshi’s part-time assistant. It turns out that Shiroshi’s “proxy service” is to consign yokai-possessed sinners to Hell, which will bring Seiji face-to-face with a...

The grisly murder of the “living doll”; the disappearing headless corpse that Seiji witnessed; and the true identity of the boy who calls himself Aka—one by one, the mysteries are resolved, and the Island of the Living Doll arc comes to a close! Afterward, the detective and assistant set off for the site of the next tragedy...

A sin greater than the sum of its parts…A request to exterminate a nue brings Shiroshi Saijou and his assistant, Seiji Tohno, to a manor in a remote village. The family that lives there claims to be cursed, though Shiroshi and his rival, Odoro, are certain there’s something far more sinister hidden in their bloodstained past. When tragedy strikes in the dead of night, Shiroshi and Odoro begin their race to expose the sinner and get to the bottom of what happened two years ago. But they mus...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the second International Workshop on Mechanism Design in Social Networks, MNet 2025, held in conjunction with IJCAI 2025, in Montreal, Canada, during August 16–22, 2025.The 5 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 11 submissions. They provide a cross-disciplinary study and communication on the research of mechanism design and social networks..

An oni lurks in the eye of the storm… The stage is set, and the curtain rises on a tragedy. A masked dollmaker, a girl he claims to be his masterpiece, a loyal butler, and two feuding brothers…all trapped in the perfect storm for the “dismemberment” as foretold. But that isn’t the only grisly occurrence tonight: When Seiji witnesses a headless corpse that disappears soon after, he thinks his eyes are playing tricks on him! Shiroshi, Odoro, and Aka set out to investigate, but who will be th...

A LIVING DOLL TELLS NO TALES…A letter threatening a “dismemberment” is delivered to Seiji and Shiroshi, challenging them to visit a remote island in the southern seas. The pair sets out to investigate—and what awaits them is a towering Italian baroque mansion housing a strange dollmaker and his surreally beautiful “living doll.” To Seiji’s surprise, they’re joined by Detective Odoro and a mysterious boy claiming to be Shiroshi’s younger brother! With a typhoon drawing near, what secrets wi...

An exhilarating academy fantasy story about a powerful magician who ends up in an unexpected profession.This series does not intend to promote Satanism.Lou Brandel is a magician who possesses talents that can only be found in one person every few thousand years. One day, he saves the beautiful and noble young woman, Fran. As the principal of Magical Girls Academy, she appoints him to work there with her! His "interesting" life of being a powerful magician t...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mechanism Design in Social Networks, MNet 2024, held in conjunction with IJCAI 2024, in Jeju, South Korea, on August 4, 2024.The 5 full and 3 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. They focus on providing an internationally respected forum for scientific research tackling the fundamental challenges of mechanism design in social networks.

An exhilarating academy fantasy story about a powerful magician who ends up in an unexpected profession.This series does not intend to promote Satanism.Lou Brandel is a magician who possesses talents that can only be found in one person every few thousand years. One day, he saves the beautiful and noble young woman, Fran. As the principal of Magical Girls Academy, she appoints him to work there with her! His "interesting" life of being a powerful magician t...

An exhilarating academy fantasy story about a powerful magician who ends up in an unexpected profession.This series does not intend to promote Satanism.Lou Brandel is a magician who possesses talents that can only be found in one person every few thousand years. One day, he saves the beautiful and noble young woman, Fran. As the principal of Magical Girls Academy, she appoints him to work there with her! His "interesting" life of being a powerful magician t...

An exhilarating academy fantasy story about a powerful magician who ends up in an unexpected profession.This series does not intend to promote Satanism.Lou Brandel is a magician who possesses talents that can only be found in one person every few thousand years. One day, he saves the beautiful and noble young woman, Fran. As the principal of Magical Girls Academy, she appoints him to work there with her! His "interesting" life of being a powerful magician t...

An exhilarating academy fantasy story about a powerful magician who ends up in an unexpected profession.This series does not intend to promote Satanism.Lou Brandel is a magician who possesses talents that can only be found in one person every few thousand years. One day, he saves the beautiful and noble young woman, Fran. As the principal of Magical Girls Academy, she appoints him to work there with her! His "interesting" life of being a powerful magician t...