Sofia in Exchange for Lies

"The human heart is but a vessel for pain."

That's what someone once whispered―a voice laced with loneliness, whispering directly into the soul. It's an indescribable sadness, a love just beginning to bloom. It becomes an invisible pain that pierces the heart. And that's what makes up life: a cyclical series of highs and lows.

Tachibana Sai was born without the ability to feel pain in his heart. He spends his days eliminating any seeds of malice that sneak up on his sister, the one person he treasures, without drawing attention to himself.

Sick of the never-ending monotony he lives through, he chances upon a meeting with Benio Matsuri, a young girl whose aloof demeanor resembles that of a beautifully crafted doll.

For the first time in his life, he encounters a heart-piercing sensation―that of falling in love.

On the edge between day and night, in a twilight world where the dead and living mingle, stands an apartment building called Maison sans Nom, which is home to a group of boys and girls.

A ruthless boy who knows no pain in his heart.
A lonely girl without any friends.
A friendly girl who struggles to make connections.
A prickly, ambitious girl who is keen to be of help.
A boy who loves his own cute self above anything else.
A mess of a woman who tries to solve everything through brute force.
And a boy with a tender heart who knows no pain in his body.

This ill-assorted group of residents, hands stained with blood from battling the supernatural Maledicts, shall encounter the hearts they never knew and begin nurturing their souls.

The human heart is but a vessel for pain.

To protect this pain akin to love... To gently break the world apart, piece by piece... Even if it means abandoning humanity. That's why the heart is but a vessel for pain.

For life blazes brilliantly, while the heart goes around in an endless cycle.

Once, an old carpenter made a wish on the shooting star, making his puppet come to life; Li Yuan made a wish on the shooting star, making his sex doll come to life. And when he woke up and saw the doll, with his "stuff" still in her body after sex last night, opening her big eyes and talking to him, the first thought that...

Sayako Ishihara" (44 years old), a mother who loves her only son very much. Sayako will do anything for her son.

The relationship between her and her son used to be very close, but since her son could not enter the university according to her husband's wishes, their relationship became strained.
Her husband often got angry, her husband's authoritarian nature made her son prefer to lock himself in his room.

Her husband's attitude had been like that for 2 years, it greatly affected the previously harmonious relationship in the family.

Now the family has become very foreign to Sayako and her son.
Sayako's son is named Sota. Sota, who used to have a very close relationship with his mother, now prefers to lock himself in his room because of pressure from his father.
He decided to become a game streamer.

As time went by, the relationship in the family became more complicated.
Sayako's husband who started having an affair with a young woman really hurt Sayako's feelings. The man was not at all interested in Sayako's old woman's body.
Sayako really suffered, because Sayako was actually a woman who had a high sex drive.
However, because of that, Sota, who didn't care about his mother, started to care about his mother again.

Sota, who was initially unlucky in the streaming world, suddenly got a lot of viewers when his mother was accidentally caught on camera.

Sayako decided to help Sota do Live streaming, for some reason, at the encouragement of the viewers, they might cross the boundaries of a normal relationship between mother and son. They might have an immoral relationship. Will they?

When campus nobody Seiji is attacked by unhinged space demons, it’s his classroom crush Yuuri who shows up to save the day! Her magical-girl powers easily vanquish the enemy, but a surprise ambush forces her to dive in harm’s way to shield him—leaving both fatally wounded. Luckily, Miss Fujiko arrives on the scene with an enchanted thread to bind both their life forces, saving them from certain death.

Over the next three months as Seiji and Yuuri slowly recover, the pair are on doctor’s orders to stay within one meter of each other or risk snapping their “red string of fate.” This means shacking up together and pretending to be a couple to avoid their classmates’ suspicions, but despite the clueless Yuuri claiming to be a “one-woman fortress with zero openings,” her natural powers of seduction quickly result in awkward situations that test poor Seiji’s sanity and self-control...

With his dream girl only centimeters away at every waking moment, will Seiji finally summon the courage to shoot his shot?

Live, die, live again.

A few people awoke in an unknown place.
All of them, strangers to each other, are supposed to be dead.

Amid their confusion, a mysterious entity offers to extend their life with a single, non-negotiable condition: they must eradicate various specters in this world. Only the resurrected, such as themselves, could perceive and eliminate these otherwise imperceptible apparitions.

Their revival, however, has its side effects; an abnormally strong libido, the persistent dread of an unpredictable call to battle, and the constant terror of their borrowed time running out.

Still followed by the clutches of death, their cruel daily existence was about to begin...