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The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria, Vol. 5

Eiji Mikage

Translation by Luke Baker

Cover art by Tetsuo

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

UTSURO NO HAKO TO ZERO NO MARIA Vol. 5

©EIJI MIKAGE 2012

First published in Japan in 2012 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo.

English translation rights arranged with KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo, through TUTTLE-MORI AGENCY, INC., Tokyo.

English translation © 2019 by Yen Press, LLC

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Mikage, Eiji author. | 415, illustrator. | Tetsuo (Illustrator), illustrator. | Baker, Luke, translator.

Title: The empty box and zeroth Maria / Eiji Mikage ; illustration by 415, Tetsuo ; translation by Luke Baker.

Other titles: Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria. English

Description: New York, NY : Yen On, 2017– | v. 1 illustration by 415 — vols. 2–7 illustration by Tetsuo.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017027929 | ISBN 9780316561105 (v. 1 : paperback) | ISBN 9780316561112 (v. 2 : paperback) | ISBN 9780316561136 (v. 3 : paperback) | ISBN 9780316561143 (v. 4 : paperback) | ISBN 9780316561174 (v. 5 : paperback)

Subjects: | CYAC: Science fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Science Fiction / General.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.M553 Em 2017 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017027929

ISBNs: 978-0-316-56117-4 (paperback)
978-0-316-56127-3 (ebook)

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