Kiniro Kishi

A collection of debut stories:

• The Golden Knight (金色騎士, Kiniro Kishi): Police officer Shiro has been transferred to a small village, where his only job is to capture runaway horses or pull grandmas out of ponds.

• Kanamori-hime (鐘守り姫): Anzu is the bell guard to warn the villagers whenever the barbarians attack. But as an actual barbarian comes to the village, Anzu must learn her view of this timid people was not quite accurate, but cramped with prejudice and half-truths.

• The Maiden Buried Under Novelties (雑貨に埋もれた乙女, Zakka ni Umoreta Otome): A young maiden seeks the perfect gift for the man she's fallen in love with.