Two years after Lordlake was razed by her Sun Rune, Queen Arshtat dispatches her son the Prince, her sister Sialeeds, and their royal bodyguards Lyon and Georg Prime to inspect the state of the ruined town. The Prince sees the grim state of the dried-up town and report on it, but Arshtat scorns this; she declares that Lordlake's citizens deserve their desolation for stealing the Dawn Rune. Arshtat's husband Ferid pulls her back to her senses, and she dismisses the inspection party with a whisper.

The next issue of contention is the Sacred Games for Princess Lymsleia's hand in marriage, being held somewhat early for the ten-year old Lymsleia. The two main contestants, both representing themselves with a champion, hail from rival noble houses: The foppish Euram Barows, and Sialeeds' former fiance, the charismatic Gizel Godwin. The royal family, however, favors the mysterious outsider Belcoot, as a neutral option less likely to cause strife; the Prince attempts to aid Belcoot quietly with Ferid's approval. However, Gizel successfully rigs the Games to his advantage, and his champion Childerich defeats a drugged Belcoot while the Barow's champion is disqualified.

However, Lord Marscal Godwin, Gizel's father, is less than impressed with Gizel's activities, thinking that he has made an enemy of the Prince and the royal family as a whole with his plotting. Additionally, the royal family took Zegai, the Barows champion, into their own personal custody, who could perhaps help reveal the Godwins cheating and offer an excuse to annul the engagement. Thus, the Godwins launch a preemptive attack at the engagement ceremony in Sol-Falena, Falena's capital. Arshtat and Ferid had anticipated and prepared for the attack, but not the involvement of the elite Nether Gate assassins, who overwhelm the palace's defenses. The struggle culminates in Arshtat and Ferid's deaths, while Lymsleia finds herself a captive. The Prince Ardil, Lyon, Georg, and Sialeeds are forced to flee.



Volume 2 Contains 2 Side Stories/Oneshots:
The Secret by Fujuu Mizuki (can be found in Suikoden 5 Anthology as the 14th story)
The Light that Falls in the Distance

Sketchbook printed in 2000 featuring character sketches from Matsushita's works including Yami no Matsuei.Includes a reprinted shoujo oneshot: "Inu ga Arukeba" (Walking the Dog): Dog lover Shinri wants to be a guide dog trainer. Unfortunately, dogs seem to hate him and co-worker Iruka never lets him forget it. But things change for the better with the arrival of new dog Wakame.

From Chibi Manga: Ikenai Kiss O Shiyou She fell in love with an extremely handsome mysterious man. He turns out to be a trainee teacher?! Kinkyori Renai ~Bangaihen A secret romance between teacher and student. The only person who can take off his glasses is me. Pink No Idenshi Hanamitsu Shounen She saw her Chemistry teacher Fugiki Sensei kissing a married teacher in the music room and the heroic battle begins! Ecchii Houkago Kiken Na Katekyou The extremely “popular” tutor is here to teach Yu but...?! Mi Da Ra Choukyou Yu-Sensei came as a tutor. I’ll do what ever it takes for him to fall for me!

Enjiro is a talented baseball player, but has to quit due to a 100 million yen debt. Komado's family runs Benten High School, but the school is on the brink on bankruptcy and (for some strange reason) the only way to save it, is to win the National High School Baseball Tournament (a.k.a the Koshien Tournament).
Seeing Enjiro as their savior, Komado offers to pay him 100 million yen, if he joins the school's baseball team and wins the Koshien Tournament.

Summary from ANN: It is panic at the Kuron institute : a guinea-pig escaped. And not any guinea-pig : it is Elaine, a fourteen year old girl, endowed with immense powers. Her father, the professor Reed, tried on her an operation aiming at giving her a psychic force equivalent with that of a nuclear fission. Elaine has a twin sister, Diana, resulting from the same experimentation. Both developed an incredible mental force but Diana is a handicapped person, with a body entirely robotised whereas Elaine is a wild child, with an animal's nervous system. Together, they are the key of a discovery which would disrupt the world.

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High-school student Nanamura Hikaru has little memory of his deceased father, a famous playboy actor, until his father's suave attorney, Shimogura, contacts him with the promise of a sizable inheritance. The catch? Hikaru has to make contact with his eight half-brothers - the fruit of his father's philandering ways.

In the age of Feudal Japan, the land is roaming with zombies and towns after towns are getting consumed by the monstrosity spreading like wildfire. In the midst of this, a girl is looking for her father.

From Village Idiot: I want to paint it red. Gengenji. A beautifully portrayed story about how emotion can truly warp one's true desires, and the lengths that they're willing to take to control them.

Tamaki Otoya is the last in a line of ancient summoners tasked to battle evil forces that threaten mankind. Burdened by his duty as a summoner, Tamaki has always found strength from his childhood friend, Asahi, with whom he has a deep, emotional bond. So when Asahi's friend is found out to be possessed by a demon, he awakens--as the one destined to exorcise demons out of tortured human souls.

Saikawa is a teacher at a fine-arts prep school. His colleague, Nashimoto, is a great guy and always stays by his side for him. Looking at Saikawa so depressed after holding his wedding yet breaking up even before submitting the marriage registration, Nasimoto instinctively gives him a kiss. Nashimoto who realized his feelings for Saikawa...!?

Hasumi from From Yesterday makes a cameo appearance as Saikawa's friend.

Included Oneshot "And the Rose Coloured Days"

From Shoujo Sense:

I've been watching you attentively from close by... because I fell in love with you.
Only once... although we have spoken only this one time.

From Nagareboshi Manga:
Himeno lives in Moonlight Tokyo City, a world different from ours; one in which there are illusionists, those who can conjure up things. One day, Himeno accidentally conjures up a human from our world!! How will they react to meeting someone so different from their own kind?

From Eternal Bunny Love:

Colors. Death. Life. Questions. More questions. Will they be answered? Maybe a Roman could shed some light...

Based on an album of the same name, by the band Sound Horizon.

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Haruka Kotoura is a 15-year-old girl who can read people's minds. She has been suffering from troubles caused by her mind-reading ability, and her parents got divorced as a result. She moves to a new high school but tries to keep away from her classmates. Yoshihisa Manabe, one of her classmates, accepts and appreciates her ability and she begins to interact with her friends with his help.

Kyotaro is just an ordinary guy trying to lead an ordinary high school life, despite the fact that he is the son of a yakuza boss. Then comes Kumiko, his half-sister he's never met before, who's looking for a man with a centipede tattoo who killed her loved ones in the past. Will Kumiko and Kyotaro be able to manage their family business? Will Kumiko ever find and take revenge on the man with the centipede tattoo? And will they be able to control their sexual urges for each other?

On that night, Yuki, teacher of the tuition class, fell in love at first sight with Nanagi, a bishounen with a unique air about him. Nanagi's sweet cuteness somehow also seems to hide an aura of danger...

In the Under Grand Hotel (2013) series:

V.1 - Kiss & Kill
30 meters underground, a prison where escape is impossible; the United States penitentiary, The Underground Hotel. Only the people who enjoy living in this place, a life cut off from the sun, call it by another name: The Under Grand Hotel. Absorbed in pleasure-seeking sex, the shut-call, Erie (leader of the prisoners) isn't watching the men he's raping each night, but rather one man alone. Norman.

Norman, who keeps trying to harm himself as a result of trauma, the kind doctor who cares for him, Van, and Erie, who's falling into a brutal love that's more akin to hatred. What will happen when these various feelings are made to intertwine into a closed-off world? From storyteller Sadahiro Mika, the long-awaited, mature love story of the Under Grand Hotel begins!

V.2 - Last Dinner
Erie is send to level 4 of UGH and reunites with an old acquaintance.