No Money!

お金がないっ

Okane ga Nai

88 chapters

19 volumes

2002 – present

Yukiya Ayase is a mild-mannered, caring, and naive college student. His only living relative, cousin Tetsuo, sells him off to the highest bidder at an auction in order to clear his own massive debts and turn a profit. The hot-tempered yet extremely wealthy loan shark Somuku Kanou rescues Ayase by paying 1.2 billion for him. Kanou seems to recognize Ayase from an encounter in their past, but Ayase has no memory of Kanou or why he would "save" him. Frantic to keep Ayase near him, Kanou insists the debt must be repaid completely, and proposes a particular arrangement: Ayase can pay it off by giving his body to Kanou for 500,000 a time. Ayase is initially appalled, yet before long a bond starts forming between them — something that no amount of money could ever buy.