Hana Maruko

“Your body and your heart—I want to strip everything from you down to the bone.” A hapless, exhausted office worker finds herself, after her death, in the world of an otome game set in the Taishō era. There, she lives as Ruri, a notorious villainess who seeks to murder the protagonist and is ultimately killed by the Chinese mafia boss Haku. To escape this cruel fate, Ruri decides to play a risky game that Haku, who loves danger and thrills, is guaranteed not to ignore. But the outcome exceeds all expectations. “Ruri… you belong to me, don’t you?” Haku, who has never held on to anything in his life, suddenly begins to pursue Ruri with unconditional obsession and lay claim to her entire existence. A dangerously romantic love story begins between a notorious villainess and an unpredictable mafia boss.