Doll: v. 2

Note: Chapters from volumes 2 and 3 are being mixed and matched so that volume 2 contains volume 3's OT-rated content and volume 3 contains volume 2's M-rated content. List 7 talks about a doll. An old man is a ventriloquist and used to amuse many children with his girl doll. Now that he's old, no one appreciates his songs and performances anymore. He steals a doll one winter day. She starts singing for him and attracts people on the street. Only it's too late. The old man was already passed away next to the doll in snow. List 8 talks about Mika. Mika is the only human working at a customer service department and is looking after any claims that dolls cannot take care of. It's very stressful to hear people complaining. She feels obligated to apologize anyone anytime and to make them calm down, which leads her losing her mind. List 9 talks about Mother. Two guys are secretly involving to remodel dolls for money illegally. Next to their apartment room, a little boy lives with his mother, who abuses him. He believes if he's being good, Santa Claus will bring him a gift. The two guys bring the boy a doll as a present to be the perfect nice mother to him. List 12 talks about Makoto.
Makoto can see people's past and future. Due to her special ability, everyone including her mother starts using her as a leader of some cult religion. She never enjoys her power and always wants back to live like a normal person. Only she knows her time is running out because of her brain tumor. Having met a boy doll, she decides to fight against the disease with help of her mother. List 14 talks about doll house. Chiyuki wants her parents to get along. He doesn't mind his mother forcing him to study hard and abusing him because he has his friend, girl doll. His mother wants Chiyuki to go to the best school so that he won't be a loser like his father. His father just wants a warmhearted family and he secretly finds a way to escape from reality by dressing like a woman. Chiyuki thinks that his father is seeing another woman and that's the reason why his parents aren't happy. He stabs the woman, his father in dress, to death. List 13 talks about S. The doll manufacturer, SG Corporation, is threatened by a terrorist group, which is against dolls. In order to find the group, SG Corporation uses their secret doll, S, which was made by Motohiko Kirishima.
S was originally created to assassinate dolls remodeled illegally like humans. In the meantime, a leader of the terrorist group and one guy member split because the guy becomes more violent than she wants. Ironically, it's S who saves the leader when the guy tries to kill her.