Kenjiro Tsuda

Denji encounters a new romantic interest, Reze, who, unbeknownst to him, harbors a dangerous ulterior motive.

After being orphaned by the Korean War, a young girl has no choice but to raise her younger siblings. All hopes of future happiness seem dashed when one of her brothers is killed in a traffic accident.

Akino, the new concierge, works at a mysterious department store where a majority of the customers are animals. "The word 'no' doesn't exist in a concierge's dictionary." That's just one of the demanding rules that Akino must abide by in her new job as a saleswoman at the elegant and expansive Hokkyoku Department Store. It's a very special store the customers are all animals, and the most valued among them are of extinct species. Sea minks, laughing owls, Japanese wolves, even an enormous mammoth that's Mr. Woolly, the celebrated sculptor whose works are showcased at the store. It's still a luxury retail space, though, and anxious Akino finds her hands full with the customers' challenging requests. These range from hard-to-find merchandise to more complicated matters of the heart. Can the inexperienced Akino fulfill their whims and meet their expectations? If she wants to keep her job, she'll have to succeed while under constant observation by the fussy floor manager, Mr. Tôdô, a creepy consultant eager to downsize the staff, and the store's enigmatic president (who is not a penguin, by the way!).

The story takes place several years after Lelouch's "Zero Requiem" plan. It is the second year of the Kowa Period. The world has unified around the reorganize United Federation of Nations, and has enjoyed days of continuing peace, but now, that peace suddenly comes to an end. Suzaku, while travelling as the masked man "Zero" accompanying Nunnally on her visit to the refugee camp, is defeated by a mysterious Knightmare Frame, and the two of them are taken away. Following secret orders from Schneizel, Kallen, Lloyd and Sayoko infiltrate Zilkistan, the Land of Warriors, where they are attacked by a mysterious Geass user. There in Zilkhstan is a person named C.C., known to the assailants as the "former master". In the indomitable kingdom which once conquered even the great army of the Holy Britannian Empire, what do the people desire? Hope, or despair? The people of Zilkhstan Palace certainly know of Geass. What are they, and C.C., planning? Picking up some time after Zero Requiem, Suzaku as Zero falls into trouble while protecting Nunnally against a foe unlike any other. Even with his geass he was cursed with by his late friend he can do nothing. Now its Lelouch's turn to once again become the puppet master.