Mao manga volume 21 features story and art by Rumiko Takahashi.

Mao attempts to save the victim of a curse as well as the one who cast it. Then, a case of missing children attracts the attention of both our friends and the Goko clan. Next, a puppeteer creates dangerous, living dolls. Sometimes it's hard to tell the perpetrator from the victim… and sometimes they're one and the same.