Tokyo resident Keiko Furukara has never fit in - neither in her family, nor in school - but when at the age of 18 she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of national convenience store chain Smile Mart, she realizes instantly that she has found her purpose in life. Delighted to be able to exist in a place where the rules of social interaction are crystal clear (many are laid out line-by-line in the store's manual), Keiko does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and mode of speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a "normal" person excellently, more or less.

He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.

Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste. Into his life comes Tokue, an elderly woman with disfigured hands and a troubled past. Tokue makes the best sweet bean paste Sentaro has ever tasted. She begins to teach him her craft, but as their friendship flourishes, social pressures become impossible to escape.

As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth.

大混乱のロンドンから、悪の女王ジェイディスをなんとか異世界へと連れ出したディゴリーとポリーは、アンドリュー伯父や辻馬車の馬や御者までも一緒に連れてきてしまった。おまけに、そこは女王のいた廃都とは違う、漆黒の闇に包まれた〈無〉の世界。だが束の間、どこからか歌声が聞こえてきたかと思うと、新しい太陽が昇り、世界に光が差し始める。歌っていたのは一頭のライオンだった。一行は、ライオンが世界に生命を与え、新たな国を創造する瞬間を目撃する……
　感動的なアスランによるナルニア創世、そして新たな試練と冒険の始まりを描く『魔術師のおい』後編。
（本作品はシリーズ全７巻のうちの第１巻、その後半を収録したものです）