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New boy Natsume Hiro comes to a boarding school unlike any other school in existence to solve/resolve something that happened in his past- but even that fact takes a while to emerge. The school is a hotbed of bullying and rape kept slightly in check by a feudal organization called the Salon. The Salon protects its members from random abuse by specifying who can/must rape whom (yeah, there are must rapes here) under what circumstances, and punishing those who rape/abuse without proper permission. All this to be decided at the whim of the Salon head. Sex at the school is both an overwhelming obsession, as befits an all-male society where there are no other outlets for stress, and a matter of down-and-dirty power politics, not unlike an American jail. When you throw in the Byzantine institution of the Salon, you have a scenario reminiscent of the surrealistic, closed, hothouse world of British boys' schools. But the Rika world is even more bizarre than that.

Sonoda Kaiya is a really famous model who's still in high schoool. Tateyama has been in love with Kaiya for a long time but Kaiya only sees Tateyama as a plaything. As for Tateyama, he is willing to do whatever the wicked Kaiya wants, thus starts an abusive and possessive relationship...

Fujishima Takara goes to high school and will start living in a dorm because he has lost all his family except for his father, who's always away for his work. Takara has to share a room with Hosaka Kiyomine. Living together isn't easy, and many rows ensue. Kiyomine is very introverted, while Takara is just the opposite. At first the two get on each other's nerves because of those differences. But things turn towards friendship and later on,towards love?

Ayase Yukiya is a university student whose cousin Tetsuo Ishii betrays him and sells him in an auction to settle his heavy debts. Ayase is bought by Somuku Kanou for 1.2 billion yen. The reason behind Kanou doing this is Kanou remembers Ayase from four years ago, when Ayase, a stranger, helped him. Now Kanou wants to keep Ayase close to him in order to protect him, and uses the 1.2 billion debt to force Ayase to live with him. As Ayase is still a student and does not have a job, he is forced to sell his body to Kanou for 500 000 yen a time.

From Youko, the artist of the Apocalypse Alice manga, Restraint X Death Row Inmate Death Game!! Lusters, those who have the ability to embody their heart's true wishes into a power. Because people were afraid of the possibility of the Lusters committing crimes, it was decided that death row inmates, Gundog, were to subdue the Lusters. What will satisfy their hunger? Now, standing in the jaws of death of desire!!

Mioh is a short, overweight and ugly girl, who is constantly picked on by her peers. Boys make fun of her and her "friends" make her do errands for them. Even her relatives shun her as being the "ugly duckling" of the otherwise gorgeous family, going so far as to question whether or not she's related to them behind her back. One day though, Mioh tries to commit suicide but her grandfather saves her and somehow turns her into a real beauty! But this transformed form comes with two conditions: whenever raindrops touch her, she turns back to her original, ugly form for a short time, and if she ever kisses someone, she won't be able to turn back into her beautiful form. Now that Mioh is no longer ugly, how will her classmates and family react to her? How will Mioh cope with the limits to her miraculous transformation? And what is the meaning of "beauty" anyway?

Ch. 12