This wasn't the arrangement. Yukari Nejima is no different from lots of 15-year-old boys. He goes to high school. He's into archaeology. And like his classmates, he's worried about turning 16 -- because that's the age when he, like all 16-year-olds in the country, will be notified of his government-assigned marriage partner. But Yukari has a problem, he's already in love with his childhood friend, Misakii. He has a plan to confess his feelings, but even if Misaki returns them, Yukari will soon meet another girl -- the girl whom, by law, he will marry.

Pages numbered from right to left. Translated from the Japanese.