Yōkoku no Kenshi is a historical fantasy set in the country of Yasura, where humans and yōma are in conflict. Seventeen-year-old swordswoman Natsuno Kurokawa, searching for her kidnapped younger brother, takes a sealed yōma eye into her own left eye and meets the master swordsman Kyōichirō Sagasawa and the one-eyed boy Sōta. It was published after winning the fourth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award as Gara no Kaze.

Searching for her brother, swordswoman Natsuno Kurokawa takes a yōma eye sealed in a shrine into her left eye and is drawn into a conflict involving yōma.

Tanabata Rain was a finalist for the fifth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.

Shinichi Natsukawa's Inter Play was a finalist for the fourth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient. The award went to Misaki Chino's Kara no Kaze, later published as Yokoku no Kenshi.

GHOST was a finalist for the fifth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.