Yuki no Shita no Qualia

Akio and Umi live in the same student hostel. While Akio tends to avoid people, Umi is a connoisseur of the one-night stand. Still, with time they begin to seek each other out in order to deal with their pasts.

The novelist Shun decides to travel to his hometown of Hokkaido with his younger boyfriend, Mio. Once he escaped an arranged marriage with his childhood friend by saying he was gay, he had been estranged from his parents. But once he heard that his father was sick, Shun decided to go home. It was an awkward homecoming for Shun, but to Mio who lost his parents… A direct continuation of *Umibe no Étranger*.

Kishi works in the anime industry but doesn't really like his job. During one of his regular disappearances, he runs into a rather mischievous cat who follows him home and begins stalking him wherever he goes!