Hiroto is a pretty carefree 29-year-old, except he finds it difficult to talk to attractive women around his own age. He has no problem befriending older ladies, including an 81-year-old former lunch lady he affectionately calls Granny. He has dinner at her house twice a week until she suddenly dies of a heart attack and leaves her two-bedroom house to him. When Hiroto’s cousin Nat comes to live with him as she attends art school, the two learn to live together and figure out what it means to be adults in their various stages of life - Nat as a struggling college student with social anxiety, and Hiroto trying to figure out his purpose in life.
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Konosuke and Aki the Ichido fight off a band of assassins masquerading as performers, and finally make it out of Konosuke's house. Even though they don't have a travel permit, they decide to go after Tsuki anyway. They are almost immediately attacked by Madara, a terrifying gifted being who controls all manner of deadly bugs. She has had a tragic life full of persecution in her village and has a fierce loyalty to Haretake of the Tsuchimikado clan who have been ordered to kill Konosuke. As he is ferociously attacked, Konosuke starts to unlock some of his power and control over metal in order to save himself and Aki.
Nasa's students begin filming the horror movie in the abandoned mansion, but Nasa and Tsukasa are mostly there to check out the furniture. As soon as the door closes and the lights go out, the students are freaked out by the headless suit of armor and giant worms chasing them, but Tsukasa is cool as a cucumber. She grabs a sword and starts fighting back! She nearly ruins the movie except for her unbelievable swordsman skills, and her dual with the mastermind behind all of it. After their harrowing adventure, Kaname convinces Tsukasa that she has to match Nasa in showing affection, including being able to say "I love you," which Tsukasa thinks is the height of embarrassing.
The mysterious Kaguya gives advice to a stressed out classmate on how to pass a math exam, and we learn more about her genius and her sad home life. Nasa continues his job tutoring at a high school, and when the girls find out he lives at a public bath, they invade so they can sneak a peak at his cute wife. Later, the girls want to film their own version of The Blair Witch Project at an abandoned but luxurious local mansion that is reportedly haunted. Nasa and Tsukasa want to peak on the inside to get furniture and decorating tips, but the girls need a teacher chaperone.
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Frieren and Denken relive Macht's memories and see him come to Weiss. They see the deal he makes with the lord of Weiss and all of his time in the Northern Lands was spent in order to understand human emotions. Frieren spends two additional months analyzing Macht's memories in an effort to break down the Diagoldze spell to find a way to counter it. Another powerful demon from Macht's past, Solitär, comes to help break Macht out of his barrier around Weiss. Fern and Stark confront her, yet Frieren's teachings lead Fern to want to flee because Solitär is a powerful demon with no recorded past - meaning she most likely rarely leaves victims alive to tell of her. 
Nagisa continues to document Koro-sensei’s weaknesses, and another one comes in the form of the curvy new English teacher, Ms. Irina Jelavitch, who is actually also a trained assassin! She uses her feminine wiles to get close and trap Koro-sensei, which also includes extorting Nagisa for the intel he has already gathered. When her initial plans fail, Ms. Vitch must endear herself to the students to earn her spot among Class 3-E. Then, it’s time to prepare for the Midterm, and Koro-sensei isn’t about to let his pupils think less of themselves, even if the whole school is against them. Afterwards, the whole school goes on a trip to Kyoto, which might be the perfect time to plot an assassination attempt via snipers.
This volume opens up on several young children playing, pretending to be soldiers in the war effort. One in particular never has a toy gun like the rest because his father disapproves of their make believe. Then, the war breaks out between the East and the West. The kids become embroiled in the ear for real, and one of the children grows up to become Twilight. In present times, Yor goes out to find cookies for Anya and ends up befriending Mrs. Desmond, the wife of Twilight’s target!
Luffy and crew escape Roguetown as a crazy storm hits the island. Nami reads the charts for entering the Grand Line, and she learns this terrible storm is part of their chance to sail onto the Grand Line. The Merry Go sustains a bit of damage, but they finally manage to make it onto the fiercest sea of the them all. Once there, the ship is swallowed by a moaning whale, and they meet a wise sea doctor who has been taking care of this abandoned creature. The sad whale has been ramming his nose on a wall, hoping to escape, while two secretive folks have been trying to capture the creature to take its meat back to their starving village. From the old man, Nami learns her years of navigating will be mostly useless on the Grand Line as she must learn to use a Log Pose to survive the turbulent seas.
Konosuke wakes covered in bandages and can’t remember a thing. As he slowly recovers, he realizes he had a job to report to in a few days, so he focused on recovering from whatever made him so injured. His memory is still very hazy, but this has happened before. He slightly remembers two other people, but can’t make anything more out. Meanwhile, Tsuki and her captors are on their way to their destination and reveal the memory wipe on Konosuke has been successful. In another part of Edo, a young blind ichiko (fortune teller) has arrived. Aki looks to set up shop while she tracks down the descendants of the woman who saved her mother. Her quest leads her to the doorstep of Konosuke just as he recovers his memories and becomes distraught at Tsuki’s disappearance, and Aki finds herself entangled in Konosuke’s quest.
The battle with Arlong concludes, and Luffy realizes how he can free Nami from her trap. But, in doing so, he manages to tick off the local naval officer who was doing business with Arlong for many years. Thus, Luffy gets a price on his head of 30 million berries, far more than Arlong, Don Krieg, or Kudo. The crew finally sail off towards the Grand Line, but decide to make one more stop at Roguetown, the site of the execution of Gold Roger, the original King of the Pirates, but another chance for them to stock up on provisions and other supplies. Luffy stops off at the site of the Pirate King’s execution and runs into some old foes who have partaken in the Devil’s fruits themselves and undergone some transformation. Their altercation brings out the local soldiers, but Nami’s keen senses helps her realize a storm is rolling in on the island.
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