MADONNA ni Tsugu

The volume includes three short stories by Tamura Yumi. In the first, Karen, an expert archer adopted by a surgeon in the Tokyo police hospital, learns on her 16th birthday that a bomb is implanted in her heart and will detonate in a week. She must find her biological father with the help of two friends to survive. In the second, Mio continues searching for her missing boyfriend Shou, who has been lost at sea, with the help of a mysterious man named Ai, as others have stopped looking. In the third, Naoya, a tutor for his friend's housebound younger sister, finds himself involved in strange events and rumors of a local killer, while hiding a personal secret that is eventually revealed.