Being transported into the world of a novel and reaching its conclusion was exhilarating.... more>>

If things had gone according to the original plot, I would have triumphed in the final battle and had a happy ending.

However, I was defeated. And, in a twist of fate, the knight with the crimson eyes and a silver blade, the very one who brought about my downfall, was the one to save me from the brink of death.

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"Hey, wait."
"Do we really have to do this?"
"Give me your hand!"
"I'm not a dog, you know..."
"Hand!"
"...."

My resigned expression said it all.

"Alright."
"Well done!"

And yet, as she caressed my hair, a tender smile graced my lips.

But once that gentle smile faded, a deep yearning settled in.

"Can we do it now?"

She nodded in response to my fervent crimson gaze. As she approached and sat on the bed, my eyes followed her every movement. Soon, she beckoned.

"Come here."

Her voice, laden with sweet temptation, resonated deeply within me, sending a chill down my spine. Very discreetly. <<less

Tsukina was summoned by God to another world to be one of its Saviors.... more>>

"I’ll leave saving the world to the younger Saviors, and open a book café and live how I want to!"

But will her encounter with the knight Ill, who arrives as a customer, disturb her quiet lifestyle?! <<less

I, Tremina, was an ordinary village girl. No, maybe less than ordinary. I was said to be easy-going for a long time, and I was not good at any form of exercise. At a young age, I decided to take over my family's potato farm.... more>>

With that involved, I was able to enroll in a knight training school.

There, I discovered a great talent of mine, aided by my gentleness and overwhelmingly strong mental strength.

Anyway, I was able to forge mana without feeling tired at all. Mana is the source of life and power, and if an ordinary person trains with it for two hours a day, they will, naturally, be completely exhausted. But I was able to go on and on for hours and I never got tired. By the way, except when sleeping, Mana can be trained in parallel to doing anything else like eating or studying.

This story is a record of my battle. While being feared as a monster by those around me, I eventually became a sword god with the greatest fighting potential of mankind.

In addition, I also grow potatoes as a side job. <<less

Leticia’s father, aware that his sons’ supporters would rebel should either of the two become king, announces his retirement, decreeing his daughter instead to be his successor. ... more>>

Without any political allies to back her, she gathers a group of loyal knights before her, forming her own, “round table,” before the day of her coronation.

Or, that’s how it should have been if not for the fact that the knights possessing of any skill have already been pledged to her father and brothers! <<less

A girl Alicia lived as an orphan in a world of sword and magic Ciel.... more>>

One day, she learned that she was an “otome game’s heroine”. Even her parents’ death was simply a part of the scenario. Alicia judged the heroine’s setting as 「nonsense」and discarded it decisively. She introduced herself as adventurer 『Aria』, gradually mastered multiple weapons and magic, and grew to become the 「Ash Crowned Princess of Slaughter」! But, by accepting a request to guard the “villainess”, before she realized it she got dragged into the stage where nobles quarreled against each other――？

「I am “I”. I’m not a game character!」

Create weapon! Train your body!

Survive the fighting against powerful enemies and smash apart the otome game!

A sublime and exhilarating other world battle fantasy with charming fighting heroine! <<less

After living for a long time in a fantasy world, I ended up becoming a villain!... more>>

Whilst I beat up both bad guys and good guys as a villain, the legendary hero appeared in front of me.

“Teacher!”

He seems to be my disciple. Crap… <<less

Two heroes of the game Legend of Heroes 2 who were rotten waters*.
Kang Jin-ho in the first place and Hong Yoo Hee in the second place.
One day, they opened their eyes and found that they had reincarnated as characters in the game…... more>>

“Hey…you too?”
“Hey…me too!”

The ending of Legend of Heroes 2 was the destruction of the human world.

But if there were two of them and they were not alone.
If it was also the first place and second place in the server rankings.

The path of the rotten waters begins for a perfect happy ending!

*Rotten water is a Korean slang for someone who has played a certain game for a long time and mastered everything. Think of them as oldbies, veterans, or game pros. <<less

Konosuba: Yorimichi (Lit: Detour) is the short story collection released by Akatsuki Natsume after volume 17 featuring a set of eight brand new short stories. ... more>>

Apart from the last story, all of these short stories have previously appeared as Bonus stories for buying the Blu-Ray set. <<less

In 21st century, world entered a new stage of VR games…and “YGGDRASIL” is considered top of all MMORPG…but, After announcing that all its servers will... more>> be off, the internet game ‘Yggdrasil’ shut down…or so was supposed to happen, but for some reason, the player character did not log out some time after the server was closed. NPCs start to become sentient. A normal youth who loves gaming in the real world seemed to have been transported into an alternate world along with his guild, becoming the strongest mage with the appearance of a skeleton, Momonga. He leads his guild “Ainz Ooal Gown” towards an unprecedented legendary fantasy adventure! <<less

The city was destroyed. Her family was dead. Her friend was mu*dered right before her eyes. Veronica tried to run away but to no avail. The moment her eyes met ‘it’, her life was turned upside down.... more>>

“She’s already been assimilated.”

A man grabbed her by the hair and looked at her disdainfully as she struggled.

“Do you want to live?”

“Ugh, cough. Ugh.”

“Do you want to live even if you have to roll in the fires of hell?”

“Let me go.”

“Answer me. If you wish to die, I will kill you painlessly.”

She doesn’t want to die. She didn’t want to die yet. She had just been reborn.

“Then ask me for help.” The man, who seemed to read her thoughts, sneered. The burning abyss was staring straight at her.

“I want to live… please, help me.”

She didn’t know until then. That his breath and his saliva, filled with his holy power, will save her.

She became God in place of a vanished God. <<less

I am a holy knight. To be precise, I am the Church of the God of Light’s Sun Knight…in training.... more>>

The Church of the God of Light worships and serves the God of Light, and theirs is one of the three largest religions on this continent.

As the whole continent knows, the Church of the God of Light has the Twelve Holy Knights, and each one has his own unique personality and features.

To be the Sun Knight is to have shining golden hair, sky blue eyes, a compassionate nature, and a brilliant smile.

…even the Sun Knight-in-training is no exception.

The 38th generation of the Twelve Holy Knights have completed their term of office, yet the time for the 39th generation to take over is still far in the indefinite future.

The Judgment Knight is brash and easily angered; the Storm Knight and the Leaf Knight are always fighting nonstop, day and night.

Since childhood, the Sun Knight-in-training has watched the others grow from kids into adolescents.

What must he do in order to become comrades, who will fight through thick and thin for each other, with this group of “younger brothers”?

“Benevolent God of Light, may I ask when I will complete my training that has taken more than ten years?” <<less

I was born as the daughter of a wicked woman in a novel. ... more>>

At birth, my mother had already been exposed to her evil deeds and was confined to the spire, and would soon face a miserable death in the hand of the main characters.

I looked at my mother, who was still searching for her ex-husband until the moment she died and held her hands.

My little hand got tangled with my mother’s rough hand and her eyes full of warmth turned to me.

“I understand Mom.”

“….”

“Don’t suffer anymore, sleep tight.”

Don’t wait for the dad who won’t come.

Tears fell from my mother’s eyes at my words, and soon she fell asleep peacefully.

Since the novel’s “Wicked Woman” is now dead, her daughter, I will be beaten to death by people tomorrow night.

And the second part of the novel will begin.

A warm novel in which the daughter of the main characters begins her adventure full of happiness.

But I didn’t want to die, and I had no intention of letting the story flow that way.

“It’s okay to be mean.”

I decided to completely re-write the second part of the novel because it’s a life that may be killed anytime anyway. <<less

This is the day-to-day life story of a knight who returned to his home in another world, and the salaryman who crossed over with him... more>> from modern-day Japan. <<less

Lucia Arca, 16 years old. I am the prime representative of all things ordinary, but by using the shabby magical incantation “Soap!” I can only cause soap bubbles to appear. Through this, I perform the duties of a laundry girl employed by the royal castle.... more>>

I thought that this magic’s only effect was to clean dirt off from the washing. However, one day I found out it also has the additional effect of purifying monsters. And y’know, because of this it’s turned into a total disaster.

The Heavenly Crystal Trees acts as the intermediary of all magic, and they are also the root of the monster outbreak.

As I’m suddenly forced to accompany the journey to purify the Heavenly Crystal Tree, the companions joining me include His Highness the crown prince, a saint summoned from another world, the commander of the strongest knight brigade and his adjutant, the Dragonslayer Hero, the Academia institute’s top sorcerer, etc. etc. etc. With all the extraordinary people gathering together, I’m going to feel faint! I’m only ordinary!

Surrounded by these prodigies, once the Heavenly Crystal Trees’ purification safely ends, my daily life will return to normal. Right…? <<less

“I’m going to adopt a child.”... more>>

Duke Ferio Voreoti’s impulsive decision shocked everyone in the mansion.

Not only did he make her his daughter, but he also gave her the name of a ‘beast’ that only direct members of the bloodline could receive.

“Even as you breathe right now, I’m earning money.”

“It’s confidence, not arrogance.”

“My face really does have its advantages.”

The most arrogant father in the whole world, and

“I love muscles the most. Let’s get muscular.”

“Show me your thigh muscles! Your bu*t would be even better!”

“You’re nothing but a flower if you have a calm personality…”

his corrupted(?) daughter.

And…

“I will give his excellency the information he wants most.”

“Information I want most, you say…”

“You won’t regret it.”

…A stepmother(?) with a strange secret as well. <<less

Kondou Seiichirou, 29, was tired.... more>>

Living the life of a corporate s*ave, he didn’t know day from night.

Unable to break the status quo, his days of nothing but work continued till one day his life completely changed when he got dragged into a saint summoning and came to another world…Not!

Seiichirou, who had the spirit of a corporate s*ave ingrained in him, decided to work even in the other world, at the Royal Accounting Section.

However, this section only existed to seal approval on the unreasonable expenses of high-ranking people, and was also known as the “Rubber Stamp Department”.

The budget requests of “Third Knight Order”, where the ones with strong magical power gathered, were particularly outrageous!

Seiichirou, who had been an assistant to the section manager in the accounting section of an IT company, would never let that happen, and embarked on a mission to revamp the finances of the royal palace. <<less

Murgenia —a land from another world.... more>>

Yet to be influenced by the shadow of the Scientific Revolution, the people continue to pass down the ancient vestiges of magic.

It is a world ruled by sword and sorcery—

A long, long time had passed since the great war that had engulfed the whole land of Murgenia.

The fragile peace that had kept the balance in the land was now heading towards its demise.

Zarmine, a large country in the northern regions of the continent, had been reborn with the coming of her new king.

Unsatisfied by the small power he wielded, he now burned with a desire to conquer the world.

Under orders from the strongest king, the Dark Army invaded and spread the flames of war across the land.

Sunkwoll, a small kingdom located in the southwest, was one of Zarmine’s targets for invasion.

Her national power was not even a tenth of Zarmine’s. Morale was at an all-time low.

Furthermore, her current king was excessively favorable towards the nobility. The people had already lost their faith in him.

The end of the small kingdom of Sunkwoll seemed inevitable. <<less

Her whole life, Sigrid lived as an imperial knight, a loyal servant, and a faithful subject. However, her loyalty was rewarded with disgrace, dishonor, false accusation, and a guillotine.... more>>

“If I came back,” she vowed, "... I’m not going to live a life like that again!"

Executed at the guillotine for assassinating the Crown Prince, Sigrid somehow opened her eyes again... and found herself five years before the day of her execution.

Once upon a time, Sigrid had lived an immaculate and principled life. However, now that she was given a second chance, she knew better. <<less

Sonia Carnelian is the only daughter of the Witch of Salvation. However, during the wedding ceremony that was done in accordance with the treaty, the Prince breaks their engagement, and she is condemned as an evil witch.... more>>

“In the original work, ‘the last boss’ will get angry, but I’m not that s*upid.” ― Sonia escapes the crisis with the knowledge of “anime” gained by peering through the previous life. And she gets the Prince’s Knight in exchange for the insult. <<less

Agnes Le Verges was a beautiful, haughty, Earl’s daughter.... more>>

Called high society’s resplendent rose, she was an unobtainable goal.

On the other hand, the poor noble knight, Bernard, who held a grudge against Agnes for her sneering and scorn at his upbringing and pedigree.

Five years after that awful meeting, Agnes’ house suddenly fell into ruin. Her father’s scandals were the cause.

Everyone around her was cold-hearted towards her and the only one who held a hand out to Agnes, who had lost everything, was Bernard.

He said that if she worked as a servant, he would provide all of the necessities.

Watching Agnes accept the proposal, Bernard snickered to himself.

“It serves you right, Miss. I’m going to work you hard from now on…” <<less

I don’t want to die. I want to be free. To that end, I shall….reconcile myself to the fate of becoming a “monster”.... more>>

A strange disease that racks one’s entire body with intense never-ending pain, until the person slowly withers away and eventually dies. After a few years of braving through the pain, the boy is in no luxury to even feel despair. With nary a soul to tend to him, he breathes his last.

The next time he opened his eyes, the boy had become an “Undead” of the lowest rank through the power of an evil Necromancer.

The boy rejoices at having his earnest desire fulfilled, which is a body that will never feel pain. However, he realizes that he is still under someone’s control and how it was no different from when he was cooped up in the hospital ward.

But the world would not leave alone the boy who only wished for peace.

The Necromancer who revives the boy from the dead, names him “End” and attempts to gain control over him.

The Undead Knights, lay their lives on the line to persistently chase after and annihilate the beings of the darkness.

With countless monsters under their command, the Demon Lords rule over their own lands while they all contend for ultimate supremacy.

The motivation being survival and freedom. The requirements being caution and power.

This is the tale of the cowardly King of the Undead. In his pursuit for freedom, he heads into battle and turns tail at times. He knows when to fear his opponents and when to waver in his decisions. <<less

Just like how everyone adores heroes in their childhood, a certain boy adored those who hid in the shadows. One day, after living the mediocre life of a side character while undergoing frenzied training by night, he reincarnates in a different world and gains ultimate power. The young man who is only playing at being a secretive powerhouse, his misunderstanding subordinates, and a struggling, giant, shadowy organization…... more>>

This is the story of a boy who adored shadowy manipulations who might possibly reign over the dark side of another world. <<less

The iron widow, the spider widow, male hunter, the witch of Neuwanstein castle, the embarrassment of noble ladies…….... more>>

These were all the words used to describe the Marchioness, Shuri Van Neuwanstein. Despite receiving such criticism from the world, she raised her ‘children’, who were unrelated to her by blood and were old enough to be called her siblings. And finally, on the day of the first son Jeremy’s wedding, she felt that all her hard work had tied all the loose ends together.

But she had been terribly mistaken. After hearing the message requesting her to not attend the wedding, she got caught up in an accident and died while leaving the castle.

When she opened her eyes, she woke up on the day of her husband’s funeral, seven years ago. I refuse to suffer any more. I won’t live as I had in the past a second time! <<less

A land polluted with poison, filled with cannibals and monsters. A world where society can only continue to exist inside “safe zones”. This is the... more>> story of Arsen, a knight who goes on an adventure in search of dreams and hope in this barren land. <<less

“I would rather just go out with a bang!”... more>>

For Princess Cecile, being married off to the emperor of a neighboring empire was unavoidable. But wait, isn’t this the same Emperor Estian who’s notorious for being a heartless sadist? In order to maintain her final shred of dignity, the fearless Cecile demands that her future husband carry her all the way from the carriage to the wedding chapel! If this is her fate, she might as well put up a fight before dying at the hands of the handsome emperor. After all, the only way to fight fire is with… more fire?!

Can Cecile become a villain even more fearsome than her tyrant husband? <<less