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Far in the future, humankind has evacuated the Earth in order to preserve it. Humans now reside in a gigantic structure that forms a ring around the Earth, thirty-five kilometers up in the sky. The society of the ring is highly stratified: the higher the floor, the greater the status. Mitsu, the lowly son of a window washer, has just graduated junior high. When his father disappears and is assumed dead, Mitsu must take on his father's occupation. As he struggles with the transition to working life, Mitsu's job treats him to an outsider's view into the various living-room dioramas of the Saturn Apartments.

A modern psychic accidentally travels through time and turns into an ancient princess. She and Zhen Qi Yao are in tears: Refusing arranged marriage! Unexpectedly, the black-bellied prince tells the truth about marrying her, just for her psychic skills! What does this man want to do?

A collection of short stories: - My Teacher and I A teenage girl learns lessons about life, love, political intrigue, and galactic trade.

The village’s most infamous man, Shan Gou, used to go up into the mountains to hunt wild animals every day. Recently, however, something seems to have frightened him so much he isn’t willing to even stay out late at night...

A witch doctor: an expert who is abnormally skilled with magic and sorcery, and uses it to heal people. Due to her snow-white hair and blood-red eyes, Shuka has long been scorned and thought of as a monster, all while working as an apprentice of the town's witch doctor. But one day, a request comes to her straight from the handsome emperor?! And in order to settle the request, Shuka has to pretend to be a princess and infiltrate the inner palace?!

Gimmy is just an ordinary teen living in a desert town when his younger twin brother and sister disappear. While searching for them, Gimmy comes face-to-face with a sassy deity, Sora, the rain goddess who provides water to the town. But another goddess, Ciel, wants Sora's sacred tree–so that she can control the rain!

Hiromu is a kid who is slow and bad in sports; despite that, he really wants to do sports. After a day full of failures trying to get to a sports club, he gets to the ping pong club. In the ping pong club he meets someone named Kawazue who is the ace, and he tells Hiromu he can’t join the club, because he probably failed every other club and is underestimating the ping pong club. A friend of Hiromu called Otome who wants Hiromu to get into a club merges in the middle of the conversation and has a match against Kawazue for Hiromu joining the club, but she loses. After that, and a lot of begging, Hiromu plays against Kawazue. If he loses, Otome becomes the ping pong club manager. He almost loses, but than he remembers he always gives up and it’s time to stop giving up. Then he shows wits when Kawazue was about to go, Kawazue got back to the game, just to fall for a smash counter Hiromu who never before played ping pong set up for him, and so he got a point… And entered the ping pong club. Summary by ThE WoRm.