Volume List
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| 01 | Forgotten Juliet Wasurerareta Jurietto (忘れられたジュリエット) |
July 17, 1992 ISBN 978-4-592-12597-6 |
October 3, 2006 ISBN 978-1-59116-975-8 |
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| In "Forgotten Juliet", Suzette, Cain's half-sister and secret love, fakes her death as part of her plan to run away with her secret lover, but goes insane from being trapped in her premature grave. She escapes and wanders around, killing people in the process; she then goes to her lover's wedding to another woman, and kills him and herself. In "Branded Bibi", Cain encounters a hypnotized girl being used by her stepmother to kill her father, and is unable to prevent her from doing so. In "The Death of Cleo Dreyfus", Cain accuses the older brother of a deceased friend of murder. Believing Cain poisoned him, he quickly leaves for a nearby hospital, only to drive off a cliff. | |||||
| 02 | The Sound of a Boy Hatching Shōnen no Fukasuru Oto (少年の孵化する音) |
October 19, 1993 ISBN 978-4-592-12642-3 |
December 5, 2006 ISBN 978-1-59116-977-2 |
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| A motherless girl named Mary Weather reads Cain's fortune in "The Hanged Man", and foretells that a man will murder three people and bring him misery. As her predictions come true, Cain comes to believe that she is his father's illegitimate daughter. Cain rescues her from her dead mother's obsessive husband, and unofficially adopts her. Cain's valet, Riff, recalls in "The Sound of a Boy Hatching" how he first met him, and how Cain's abusive father, Alexis Hargreaves, committed suicide after Cain attempted to kill him. In "Who killed Cock Robin?", Cain solves a series of murders resembling lines from the children's rhyme "Who Killed Cock Robin". In "The Tragic Tale of Ms. Pudding", he investigates the 'Plum Pudding Murderer', who murders the members of a gentlemen's club that abused and drugged children for amusement; the murderer is one of their victims. In "The Twisted Fairy Tale", Cain takes revenge on a relative and a maid who killed an orphan boy they thought was him to cover up their thefts. | |||||
| 03 | Kafka Kafuka (カフカ) |
February 18, 1994 ISBN 978-4-592-12659-1 |
February 6, 2007 ISBN 978-1-4215-0089-8 |
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| Discovering that he was mysteriously poisoned, Cain decides to go to the countryside with Riff, Mary, and Ancel Allen, the family doctor. There, he learns that a vampire has been killing girls, and meets Dirk and Justine, the inhabitants of a nearby castle. He eventually discovers that Justine has a split personality which causes her to believe that she is a vampire. In love with his sister, Dirk dies with her in the fire set by a mob. Allen reveals that he is Jizabel Disraeli, Alexis' illegitimate son; Alexis survived his suicide and now leads a secret organization named Delilah. | |||||
| 04 | The Seal of the Red Ram part 1 Akai Hitsuji no Kokuin: 1 (赤い羊の刻印: 1) |
June 1994 ISBN 978-4592122340 |
April 3, 2007 ISBN 978-1-4215-0475-9 |
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| As part of an agreement for Mary to be officially adopted by the Hargreaves, Cain becomes engaged to Emeline Lauderdale, a haughty aristocrat whose brother, Gilford, went insane after witnessing a "red ram". Cain, however, falls in love with Meridiana, an amnesiac fortuneteller whom he vows to save from Jizabel. Hearing from Meridiana's mother that she died, he and Riff dig up her grave. Emeline sees him leaving and follows him, only to be murdered by Jack the Ripper. Upon hearing of her death, Cain swears to seek revenge on Jack the Ripper. Jizabel uses Emeline's blood and organs to replenish Meridiana's; Meridiana is a "doll", a corpse resurrected by Delilah, and therefore needs a constant supply of fresh blood and organs to live. | |||||
| 05 | The Seal of the Red Ram part 2 Akai Hitsuji no Kokuin: 2 (赤い羊の刻印: 2) |
October 1994 ISBN 978-4592122357 |
June 5, 2007 ISBN 978-1-4215-0899-3 |
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| Running away from Jizabel, Meridiana decides with Cain to enter the lair of Jack the Ripper—her mother; Meridiana is fatally wounded while protecting him from her. Although Jizabel attempts to bargain her life for Cain's eyes, Meridiana kills herself, wishing to protect Cain and not wanting to live on other people's blood. Her mother then kills Gilford, Meridiana's last lover, and herself. In "Elizabeth in the Mirror", a younger Cain attends a party to find a husband for a girl who died years ago. Her twin sister takes revenge on the stepmother who abused and murdered her. | |||||
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