完美宠物：秘密地下室

　　高中三年级学生朝仓晓生是个车迷，这天他在车行里发现了一辆深蓝色的日产FairladyS30Z。这正是传说中的“恶魔Z”，号称速度最快的改装车。据说“恶魔Z”仿佛有着自己的意志，能够根据情况做出反应，它的高速令人生畏，却又深深地吸引着追求速度之梦的人们。“恶魔Z”曾经的拥有者都出了事故，这辆车在世上销声匿迹了一阵，竟然又出现了。晓生迷上了“恶魔Z”，为之投入了全副精力，试图去完全掌控它。　　绘梨子的哥哥晶夫也因为“恶魔Z”而死，绘梨子非常讨厌这辆车，反对让它复活。然而晓生的热情感染了她，她在晓生身上看到了哥哥的影子，渐渐地开始支持他。　　绘梨子的男朋友岛达也曾经是晶夫的赛车朋友，他认为应该把“恶魔Z”销毁，阻止再有人牺牲。达也将爱车黑色保时捷911重新改装，向晓生发出了战书。　　恶魔Z与黑鸟的对决拉开了序幕……

　　Joseph Fulton, a well-regarded fifty-eight-year-old director of romantic comedies, wants to become assistant groundskeeper at a local cemetery. He wants to work outdoors and be close to nature. Meanwhile, he thinks it’s important to have his last will and testament drawn up. But his highly dramatic actress girlfriend thinks he must be dying and that he is just too brave to tell anyone. The rumor spreads and soon everyone he knows—and some he doesn’t—are crowded into his small apartment to say their last farewells.

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.