Written By

VENIO TACHIBANA

Scorpio - November 9 – Blood type O

On the horoscopes they do every morning on TV, they said, “Watch out for burns!” I laughed, but then I burned my middle finger.

Illustrated By

TOOKO MIYAGI

Last year, I said I wanted to redecorate my apartment, but I never did. I think it’s going to be another year like that.

LOVE WATER

Love Water - Girou No Koimizu © VENIO TACHIBANA/TOOKO MIYAGI 2007. All rights reserved. Original Japanese edition published in 2007 by Taiyoh Tosho Publishing Co., Ltd.English translation copyright © 2010 by DIGITAL MANGA, Inc./ TAIYOH TOSHO CO., LTD. All other material © 2010 by DIGITAL MANGA, Inc. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the copyright holders. Any likeness of characters, places, and situations featured in this publication to actual persons (living or deceased), events, places, and situations are purely coincidental. All characters depicted in sexually explicit scenes in this publication are at least the age of consent or older. The JUNÉ logo is ™ of DIGITAL MANGA, Inc.

Written by Venio Tachibana

Illustrated by Tooko Miyagi

English translation by Karen McGillicuddy

English Edition Published by:

DIGITAL MANGA PUBLISHING

A division of DIGITAL MANGA, Inc.

1487 W 178th Street, Suite 300

Gardena, CA  90248

USA

www.dmpbooks.com

www.junemanga.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available Upon Request

First Edition: October 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-56970-049-5

e-ISBN-13: 978-1-931712-55-2

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Conclusion

Postscript

Prologue

Evening was approaching in Shibai-machi, and the traffic in Dotonbori was made more clamorous by vehicles like rickshaws and horse carts.

The gas lamps that had come in the first years of Meiji dotted the street. Lamplighters thrust their flames into the wicks and the cherry blossoms lit up with a gentle white glow in the deepening darkness. A row of these magnificent cherry trees ran from Dotonbori past the western side of Kadoza and straight up to the grand temple of Hozenji, where they stopped abruptly in front of the soaring western gate.

Across from the great portal was the newly-opened district of Namba.

Home of the Otobe pleasure district and the premier brothels of Osaka, where even the cherry blossoms changed color.