I, who thought I had been abandoned, was the child whom Namgoong had been looking for for a long time.... more>>

It was only when I was killed by Hyeolma whom I called Master, that I found out about it, and waking up again as a 13-year-old, I decided to go back to Namgoong.

I have no intention of wanting to be recognized as a family.

It’s just, I was just trying to prevent Namgoong from being destroyed in vain like before, but…

“These are the jewelry, silk, gold bars, and elixir that the Lord has given for the Young Miss.”

“Now, Little Kid. It’s a gift from me to celebrate your return.”

As soon as I was recognized as the granddaughter that Namgoong had lost, I got delicious food, precious clothes, gold and silver treasures, and even high-quality swords!

I have a grandfather and father who would cry and laugh for me.

Just what in the world is this tingling sensation in my chest that I feel every time they do that?

To protect the laughter of those whom I had killed with my own hands,

To preserve this tingling and warm sensation for a long time,

I am trying to change the blood-red future differently from my previous life, but…

***

A shadow clouded Namgoong Mucheon’s face.

‘Is this child really raised as an assassin?’

A deep mu*derous energy and the sword method of attributes she could do, which are essential for an assassin, were bottling up her life intact.

‘That damn bastard.’

Anger rose from Namgoong Mucheon’s inner thoughts.

Since he was about to gush out coarse swear words in front of his granddaughter, he repeated the same remark unpleasantly only to himself.

‘How dare he try to raise my granddaughter as an assassin?’

The blue energy that covered up Namgoong Mucheon intensified. <<less

I went into rehabilitation.... more>>

Would you skip the tutorial when playing a new game?

I had a strong inclination to do so.

After the Beta test phase ended, the main character joined the MMORPG during its Public Release.

He likes to go with the flow and enjoy playing the game. This is a story of his adventures. <<less

When he woke up, he was in a forest. It seemed that he had become a ghost. He had memories (or rather, knowledge) from before he died. And from there, the story of Shu Archlight began.... more>>

With the power of absorbing life force, he steals magic and accumulates it to evolve. He analyzes magic and enhances his fighting strength.

This is a story about the protagonist, who became known as the King of the Underworld, and his partner witch as they travel the world. <<less

In the winter of three years ago, the first locked room mu*der in Japanese history was committed.... more>>

All of the evidence pointed to the defendant. It was certain they were guilty. And yet, they were found innocent and released. Why? Because the crime scene was a perfect locked room no one from the police or the prosecutor's office could solve.

"Since the room was locked, it was impossible for the defendant to have committed the mu*der. It's no different than if they had a perfect alibi." That was the argument of the defense, and that was the argument the judge sided with.

The ruling sent a ripple throughout Japanese society. No matter how suspicious you were or how much evidence you left behind, as long as you managed to create a locked room that no one could solve, you were immune from prosecution. With the common anti-mystery fiction talking point "there's no reason anyone would ever actually commit a locked room mu*der" completely overturned, the rate of locked room mu*ders in Japan skyrocketed.

When the police proved unable to deal with the surge of locked room crime, the Ministry of Justice published an official categorization of all known locked room tricks as an investigative aid. When that proved insufficient, Division Zero of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, a police division dedicated solely to solving locked rooms, was created. When that still proved insufficient, locked room detectives, private investigators specializing in locked rooms, were officially licensed by the state and authorized to participate in police investigations. Calling a locked room appraiser, someone specializing in searching buildings for secret passages, is now a common first step in criminal investigations.

On the other side of the spectrum, locked room agents, assassins and crime planners specializing in locked room mu*ders, have become some of the most notorious criminals in Japanese history, and even a cult worshiping the scenes of locked rooms as a way to purify the souls of the deceased has made rapid inroads into Japan.

The protagonist, Kasumi Kuzushiro, is an introverted, somewhat cynical high school student who loves mysteries. Kasumi often finds himself dragged along on bizarre journeys by his flighty childhood friend, Yozuki Asahina. Due to their staggeringly bad luck, these trips often leave them in the wrong place at the wrong time to be caught up in locked room mysteries. Fortunately, another of Kasumi's childhood friends, Shitsuri Mitsumura, is the greatest locked room expert in the world, and can always discover the truth.

Hm? How did a high school girl become the greatest locked room expert in the world?

It's simple.

She's...

Volume 1 was the grand prize winner of the 2022 This Mystery Is Amazing! awards. <<less

Tenjou Yuuya has been a bullied boy since the past.... more>>

He lives in the home of his beloved grandfather while he goes to school. As usual, he receives a harsh bullying, and he takes an extended absence from school to have some time to heal his wounds.

While on this long time of absence, he takes the opportunity to clean his grandfather’s house and goes to a room he never went before, where his grandfather keep many different objects that he gathered from his travels around the world. While he was arranging the objects, he found a door not on a wall among the objects.

Out of curiosity he opens this door, what he found on the other side was… <<less

Suddenly, high school student Subaru Natsuki has been summoned to another world on the way back from the convenience store. With the biggest crisis of his life being summoned to another world, and with no sign of the one who summoned him, things become even worse when he is attacked. ... more>>

But when he is saved by a mysterious, silver-haired girl with a fairy cat, Subaru attempts to return the favor by helping her track down something that was stolen from her. When they finally manage to get a clue, Subaru and the girl are attacked and killed by someone.

Subaru then awakens in the place he was summoned and notices he gained the ability “Returns by Death” and has become a helpless boy that only has the ability to rewind time to a certain point by dying.

Beyond the despair, can he save the girl from the fate of death? <<less

Stabbed 7 times. Massacred 11 times. Beheaded 5 times. Hanged 3 times. Burnt to death 7 times. Drowned 8 times. Run over 3 times. Shot... more>> 12 times. Poisoned 6 times. Strangled 7 times, etcetera… Scarlett was a villainess whose life has repeated 108 times in total. The duke’s redheaded, red-eyed daughter summoned fear and terrorized the nation as a ruthless queen. In all of her 108 lifetimes, she always ended up dying at the age of 28. After 107 lifetimes ending by being killed by one of the five heroes and the flower-minded heroine, she died for the 108th due to an accident. Thus on her 109th life, Scarlett regains all her memories and tries to break free from the loop. Will Scarlett be able to break the chains of the Red Curse? <<less

Seiichi Takeda who yearned for a free life was given a chance to reincarnate into a different world. Since he has little trust in others (no, he is not an edgy MC. He is normal), he chose the lowly job (seen in high society, aka the aristocracy) of a porter, the only job that has a storage skill (there are magical bags, tho). ... more>>

This is the story of a man conquering a different world with his low amount of mana by utilizing things like skills, equipment, and drugs. <<less

She trusted someone her whole life, only to be betrayed. She lived solely for her father’s revenge, enduring intense pain through grueling training to become the ultimate assassin.... more>>

Her entire existence revolved around him. She even killed for him.

Yet, her father was an empire traitor, and the person I killed was my own cousin. Ayla Weishafen, deceived and driven to kill her father by a dagger, died by its poison.

That’s how it should have ended. But when she woke up, she was a child again. She didn’t know why, but it was a chance for revenge…… She was determined; his life would be the price of his deception. <<less

I’m a fake bride.... more>>

Diello Argenta’s name engraved on my back indicated that I was his soulmate… but I was a fake.
One day, I possessed the unscrupulous villainess’ body inside an adult novel.

Is there any way I could survive?

…Contract marriage!

I’ll be his wife and act the part to protect his purity until the real one appears. So when the Duke of Argenta awakens his power, he will destroy my villainous family.
While becoming a fake couple with the innocent Diello Argenta, acting sweet day and night…

“If your soulmate appears, it’s time to end the contract.”

Hearing that, Diello, the Duke of Argenta, gave me a long look.

“When a Ferro dies, a new Ferro will be assigned.”

As he grabbed the tip of my chin, the distance between us shortened.

“…I’ll kill them until it’s you.”

What’s with him?

Out of nowhere, he started obsessing over me. Wasn’t he supposed to be a pure and sweet guy?! <<less

Liam Sera Banfield is a reincarnator.... more>>

He had reincarnated into a fantasy world of magic and swords, but at the time the civilization had already been making advancements into outer space.

The setting takes place in an intergalactic empire, a space opera-like universe where humanoid weapons and spaceships battle.

Liam, who had been reborn into an aristocratic family in a monarchic society, has the ambition to one day become an evil lord.

In his previous life, Liam had unfortunately lost everything and died in despair.

— It’s foolish to live for others.

— I will live for myself.

Keeping those feelings in his heart, he has decided to fulfill his goal, but is instead worshipped as a virtuous ruler due to his difference in values.

Will Liam be able to become an evil lord? <<less

The struggles between the puppet king and the nobles, in a 22nd-century royal city stained with violence and corruption, where prostitution and violence run rampant, there lives a young man named Ray Arisa, scraping by while running a secondhand bookstore in a corner of the brothel. Ray, impoverished and plagued by illness, seeks to forget the pain tormenting him and spends a night with a randomly chosen partner at the Gaiba, a place where people go to indulge themselves, only to meet a mysterious man affiliated with the political gang Guiger.... more>>

Ray, with his neat appearance and polite speech, and the man, who harbors an unexpectedly violent passion in the bedroom, continue to meet by chance. As their relationship, which started as a simple one-night stand, becomes increasingly complicated... <<less

By some ill fortune, Hikaru died in a traffic accident. He was in heaven standing in line, waiting to be judged, when he took an unexpected request to transfer his soul to a person in another world. He received an ability called Soul Board which he could use to allocate points to Skills to make himself more powerful.... more>>

But there was a catch…

「I want you to take revenge on someone for me within an hour. If you don’t, I’ll destroy your soul.」

To pull off the task assigned to him, he poured all his available points to the Stealth skill tree.

This is a story of a boy who specialized in Stealth. With his skill trees as weapons, he would demonstrate his unrivaled strength in another world. <<less

This is the story of Ryo, who was reincarnated in the world of swords and magic.... more>>

It is a story of the royal road to survive using the magic of water attribute.

What is magic? What is swordsmanship?

How does it relate to the laws of physics that we know?

Or what is politics? What is a nation?

Why are there many 『kingdoms』 in reincarnation stories? Will republics not work?

Can it be written …?

Since it is a water-based magician, so it shall start with 『Hydrogen bond』! <<less

In a room in a certain hospital, a young life was on the verge of fading away. His name was Hikaru Tendou. He had lost his parents in a fire at the age of five and had been living in a facility since then. ... more>>

After leaving the facility at the age of 18, he had worked in a subcontractor factory, but the harsh working conditions had taken a toll on his health, leading to hospitalization after just two years.

And today, a little past the age of 20, he was about to breathe his last in a solitary hospital room… <<less

Seventeen-year-old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world! ... more>>

They’re treated like heroes and tasked with the duty of saving the human race from utter extinction.

But what should have been any otaku’s wet dream quickly turns into Hajime’s nightmare? While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers, Hajime’s job, Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Ridiculed and bullied by his classmates for being weak, he soon finds himself in despair.

Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with only a glorified blacksmith’s level of strength? <<less

Yuri Louth was the third son of a ducal family, the mastermind family of the story.... more>>

The family is behind all the events that aim to turn the country upside down, but in the end, all their evil deeds are revealed by the main characters, and like this ducal family was doomed

I’ve been reincarnated as such a character, and to avoid my doom, I decide to ignore the original story and become independent.

I developed the small, weak territory that my father had given me, and was trying to become a knight with my achievements.

However, in the original story, Yuri, the ruthless last boss, is so strong that his talents are too cheat that the territory develops into the most powerful territory in the blink of an eye.

Then, the characters from the original story, who were supposed to have avoided me, started to come at me . <<less

The apprentice hunter who hates being the target of attention, Eil of the village Albat.... more>>

Upon becoming 15, at the Ceremony of Determination that he needs to go through to be acknowledged as an adult, he is determined to possess the ‘Talent for Megane.’

Megane?

What does that even mean?

But gradually, Eil discovers the countless possibilities hidden within his megane, one at a time.

“I think these glasses might actually enable me to conquer the whole world. Not that I’m going to do it, though.”

Thus begins the bizarre megane life of Eil, the megane young man. <<less

When Shen Zhifan awoke, he had become the nation’s male god.... more>>

The type of male god that everyone in the world, crying and shouting, wants to marry.

However, because the General (who lives next door) has a fiancee who fell in love with Shen Zhifan, the General absolutely hates him.

Shen Zhifan, who has always thought of the General as his male god, was crushed.

*My Male God has become my rival in love. Every day his ice-cube face looks like he desperately wants to hack me to death.*

*Esteemed General, I don’t even have a sliver of affection for your fiancee. I’ve long given up any hope of love – right now, I just want to get rich.*

Luckily, the General’s cat really likes him, and always wants to……climb into his bed. <<less

She is an expert in medicine, the only daughter of Yun Tian, Yun Valley’s master.... more>>

Her parents died, leaving her alone in this world. She fell from heaven to hell. She had a marriage prospect but her future husband broke it off. The entire world view her as a joke.

She blossoms in Feng Yun Hall, with unparalleled wisdom and startling beauty.

Against all the people eager to make a move, she lifts her hand first. Kill the chicken to warn the monkey.

But nobody knows that the soul within her has long been replaced by someone from another world.

She has no regret in the past life and originally plans to live an idyllic life, but because of the same question from the past life, she gives up the peaceful life and steps into the power struggle for imperial power. <<less

Feng Chen transmigrated to the fantasy world and awakened the system.... more>>

At the beginning, he summoned three thousand Saints and established the assassination organization, Underworld Palace!

"Kill the Quasi Emperor; reward with Supreme Weapon!"

"Exterminate the Ancient Royal Clan; reward with Ancient Immortal Scripture!"

"Attack the Holy Land; reward with the inheritance of the Ancient Immortal King?"

As long as the price is paid, even the Supremes and True Immortals must bow down before entering the Underworld for reincarnation.

Several years later, Feng Chen looked at the countless True Immortals, Immortal Kings, and Immortal Emperors under his command. <<less

“From today onwards, you will become the Envoy of one of the Main Gods in the Dimensions of Gods. You will travel from one world to another and through that, you will attain what others will never obtain in their entire life.”... more>>

The moment these words echoed in Fang Li’s head, Fang Li’s life was destined to be extraordinary… <<less

Paula, the daughter of a poor peasant.... more>>

By chance, she is hired as the maid of the prestigious Count Bellunita.

But the owner she has to serve can’t see.

She thought it would be so difficult to serve the blind master.

The problem is that his personality is too sassy!

The story of a master who has lost his sight and has a dirty temper, and a maid who went through all sorts of hardships <<less

When Fu Nian first met Chu Zhaoyi, the late emperor was still alive, and Chu Zhaoyi was still a Wangye.... more>>

But at their first meeting, Fu Nian experienced the ferocity of this future ruler.

A cacophony rang in his mind, and as the metallic tang of blood flowed along his numbed skin, Fu Nian heard that devilish voice tell him,

“Thunder and rain, all are the grace of a ruler. Just a bit of thunder, and you’re reduced to such a state.”

Later, he would hear these words again, but it would be a long time later.

“Thunder and rain, all are the grace of a ruler,” Chu Zhaoyi pronounced deliberately by Fu Nian’s ear.

With the remnants of his strength, Fu Nian struggled to suppress a sob, “Your Majesty, such thunder and rain, this humble subject… truly doesn’t deserve.”

[Opening in November]
Fu Nian’s first life ended due to poison.

Sensing his impending fate, he believed that the heart-connecting gu inside him was planted by a pitiable scapegoat, ordered by the ruler. Not wanting to implicate innocent people, he forcefully removed the gu from his heart, gasping his last breath only after handing it to the Imperial Guards.

After death, Fu Nian realized that the one who had planted the heart-connecting gu wasn’t anyone else, but Chu Zhaoyi, the one above ten thousand others. He thought of Chu Zhaoyi as heartless and merciless, someone who didn’t trust him, let alone love him.

Only in death did Fu Nian know that his master, who had plucked him from the pile of corpses and nurtured him, didn’t treat him as a disposable pawn, but genuinely cared for him. After Fu Nian’s death, his master went madly searching for medicine, going so far as to use living people as ingredients, all to save Fu Nian’s life.

His Senior Brother, too, surprised him. Fu Nian had thought that their last meeting before parting ways was the night his Senior Brother gifted him a sword.

Little did he expect that the one keeping their childhood sword manuals was his Senior Brother, and the one keeping the birthday gift he sent was also his Senior Brother. And after his death… it was his Senior Brother who clung to the jar containing the heart-connecting gu that he had dug out, crying uncontrollably.

But what surprised Fu Nian the most was Chu Zhaoyi.

He never thought that Chu Zhaoyi, whom he believed never truly loved him.

Would, after his death, hold onto his already stiffened body, gently place the phoenix crown and red wedding robes he never dared dream of onto him, kiss him devoutly over and over again, and even, like they did in their lifetime, sleep side by side through the night.

Awakening from a deep slumber, Fu Nian discovers a chance to rectify all the regrets of his previous life.

Everything is still within reach.

[Warning: Protagonist with prosthetic limbs!!! Warning: Offspring anticipated!!!]
The cover features Fu Nian’s character design.

With a cold exterior but a warm heart, a ruthless monarch finds himself entangled with a stunningly beautiful and seemingly insane individual who is devoted and submissive to only one person, while showing no mercy as the commander of a ruthless group of shadow guards.

The timeline progresses linearly, with no time-traveling involved; the protagonist’s body remains his own throughout. <<less