Two people who were transferred from another world and reincarnated at the same time.... more>>

She is a Hero and I am the Demon King.

What truth will be revealed in the final battle between the Hero and the Demon King? <<less

In the Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (Novel) series:... more>>

1. Sora Hen (Sora's Story)
2. Riku Hen (Riku's Story) <<less

Marianne Phull Reheath, who was supposed to be dead at the guillotine, suddenly found herself “reverted” 10 years into the past. Can she escape her... more>> fate this time? <<less

“Hello there, are you awake?”... more>>

When the girl woke up, she was in a strange room with a person she didn’t know.

She doesn’t remember anything, not even her name, but the stranger says to the girl….

“It’s nice to meet you, Mer Ivy.”

This is the story of a girl and a doctor who never speaks his name.

And the story that follows.

Please read it again at least once to see if you can understand the meaning of the girl’s name. <<less

(Taken from the author’s own summary)... more>>

Liu An’an, who had been away from her hometown in the county, returned anew, at the news of the demolition of her old house. She left the train station and called a cab to go home. Everything seemed normal. However, what happened next completely exceeded her imagination.

The female cab driver suddenly locked the car doors and said, “I want to die together with you.”

Faced with the sudden threat to her life, Liu An’an had no choice but to put everything she had into it. Who was this unknown woman? Why was she doing this? And what happened in Liu An’an’s past?

In the fierce downpour, where would the fate of these two lead them to?

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This is a baihe RPG-styled story originally posted on a forum. I sorted it out and posted it here.

A short story of just 150K Chinese characters. Genres are suspense and mystery, and it has two endings. Its old title is “Xiao Liu”. <<less

I thought it was rather strange.
"Why did you split Sato C’-san's head open??"
I couldn't instantly think of a motive for killing someone with the same face.... more>>

Me and me. You and you. A frenzied mirror house story. <<less

Sophie (I), a nobleman's daughter whose family funded a frontier territory, entered into a marriage of convenience with Alain, the Duke of Rose's son. This union allowed her to become a regular participant in social circles where her husband was involved. Sophie enjoyed engaging in conversations, especially with male aristocrats, and she found satisfaction in being recognized favorably by her beloved husband, Alan.... more>>

However, her contentment took a turn when she overheard Alan mention the name "Mikaela," sparking suspicions of adultery. The situation intensified when Alan started mispronouncing her name, leading Sophie to question him. Despite her inquiries, Alan evaded the truth, causing immense pain and testing her patience to the breaking point. <<less

One day, a "Reality Rift" occurred in the holy city of Akiba!
The invasion of interdimensional people, space-time pirates, and science gangs was about to begin!... more>>

And then a beautiful superheroine stood up to the crisis in Akihabara.
An epic tale of superheroines in Akihabara, the sacred land of Otaku.

The 114th episode of this Young Adult fiction is "The Reason She Wears Fishnet Tights ". Now then, during a popular magic show in Akihabara, a magician disappears and is found dead.

As the magic industry's grudges, a suspicious ex-boyfriend, an even more suspicious magic designers emerge, the Otaku's desire for fame comes to the surface in a hilarious way... <<less

Painfully shy and conflict-averse, Yun Ruoyan is a scion to a noble house only in name, a puppet embroiled in political machinations beyond her ken. At the tender age of eighteen, poisoned and at death’s door, she finds herself thrown out into the streets. Her relatives have all been executed, betrayed by her dear husband and her cousin. With her dying breath, she curses her own weakness and swears revenge.... more>>

When Yun Ruoyan awakens once more, she is thirteen, transported five years into the past by the will of the heavens. Her death-defying experience has changed her: no longer is she the malleable creature she once was but more questions await at every corner- What is the truth behind the birthmark that disfigures her appearance? What are the circumstances surrounding her mother’s mysterious death?

Will the phoenix rise from the ashes, or will she fall once more in thrall to fate? <<less

Hatou Manabu has a very odd friend at school named Marii Yukari. Yukari has purple eyes and a bizarre way of looking at the world: she sees all living things as robots. This has not always worked out well for Yukari, even costing her a best friend when she was younger. However, Yukari insists that the things she says she sees is true, and her vision seems to give her insight into the abilities of others.... more>>

Manabu thinks she's just weird, but she soon realizes that Yukari has unexpected talents. Her eyes allow her to view the world in a different way, and even the police come to hear her insights. Eventually, her eyes also get Manabu wrapped up in dangerous plots, and force Manabu to not only step up and take a much more proactive role in her own life, but also to question what being a human or a robot actually means. <<less

An Luo’s life took an unexpected turn when he found himself reborn as the young master of a prominent business family after a disastrous accident. Despite being his grandfather’s favorite grandson, he quickly realized that he was nothing more than a pawn in his brothers’ ruthless struggle for power within the family empire. ... more>>

However, what truly terrified him were the enchanting but unsettling emotions that flickered in his younger brother’s eyes whenever he looked at him. Overwhelmed by these conflicting feelings, An Luo couldn’t help but wonder if he was condemned to be trapped in the never-ending cycle of “brotherly love.”

An Luo’s brows furrowed deeply as he contemplated his predicament. The weight of his brother’s gaze bore down on him, making him feel both unsettled and apprehensive. With a surge of anger coursing through his veins, he couldn’t help but question, in frustration, whether he was fated to be eternally trapped in this cruel pattern of love between siblings.

Suddenly, a figure materialized from the shadows, a mischievous smile playing on their lips. Startled, An Luo was caught off guard. It was as if this person had been there all along, listening to his inner thoughts. Caught in the act, An Luo hastily dismissed the words that had nearly slipped past his lips and replied quietly, “No… It was nothing.” <<less

Humanity has learned to live in complacency behind its high walls, protected from the giant Titans. But when a Titan-worshipping cult opens one of the gates, a Titan wreaks havoc, consuming the cultists. After the rampage is over, two young Survey Corps members are shocked to discover a pregnant woman’s partially digested corpse – with her baby still alive inside it! What will the fate of this “child of the Titans” be? And how will humanity learn to cope with the Titan threat?... more>>

Vol 1: Before the Fall

Vol 2: Kuklo Unbound

Vol 3: The Harsh Mistress of the City <<less

There exist in this world a set of six daggers that carry a terrible curse: the ability to inflict a death beyond time. Those under the daggers' curse shall reincarnate without end, never able to know happiness and always drawn to die once more by the dagger. This is the story of "Raine" and "Marie", two souls bound by the daggers' curse to kill one another, over and over again.... more>>

France, 1243. Lapis Lazuli Castle is the name of an insignificant relay fort nestled away in a forest east of Carcassonne. Its ruler, Count Geoffroy, and his only daughter, Marie, are both believed to be insane. The root cause of their shared madness is the mysterious disappearance of Geoffroy's wife three years ago, which caused Geoffroy to grow detached from humanity and cast Marie into a deep depression. After three years of wandering in a state halfway to nonexistence, Marie works up the nerve to ask her chief bodyguard, Sir Raine, to investigate her mother's death, confiding that on the night of her mother's disappearance, she had witnessed something impossible. However, her investigation only prompts a new tragedy.

The French-German border, 1916. As World War I rages on, Raine and Marie's latest reincarnations live the life of a sub-lieutenant in the French army and a medic with the Red Cross, respectively. The two lovers are reunited at the site of the Battle of Verdun, but no sooner have they met then Raine finds himself faced with a barrage of impossible circumstances. An enemy soldier's head suddenly vanishes, right before his eyes. One of his subordinates reports the same thing happening to an ally. Four more headless bodies vanish from a flooded bunker in the minute he looks away. These baffling events are a prelude to the return of their old tragedy.

Northern Hokkaido, 1989. Kimiyo, age eighteen, is already dying, an inoperable tumor in her hypothalamus leaving her with less than a year to live. Refusing to despair in the face of her tragic circumstances, she spends her remaining days with her friends at "The Library at the End of the World", a private library so called due to its isolated nature. One day, a man named Kito approaches her out of the blue, regaling her with a story about a set of cursed daggers, knights in the 13th century, and the two of them being cursed, fated lovers. Naturally, Kimiyo is intensely skeptical, but the events that come next don't require her to believe in them.

Arriving at the scene of these three tragedies is Snowy, an enigmatic figure of indeterminate gender who claims to be "a detective charged with managing the world's chaos". <<less

Plan for 1 minute; writing time is uncertain. A specific deity causes the main character, who perishes in a car accident, to be reincarnated into... more>> a world other than Earth. His story as a isekai begin now...... <<less

The once wealthy and powerful Ryuuzen clan has been all but destroyed. Their misfortune began in 1960, when a majority of the family was wiped out when their vacation villa was buried under a landslide. However, search and rescue teams discovered something even more shocking: A majority of the bodies they discovered showed obvious signs of having been mu*dered before the landslide.... more>>

As though it were a trigger, what came to be known as "The Curse of the Ryuuzen Clan" spread throughout the descendants of the family's only survivor. By mu*der, by su*cide, by accident... it seemed none who held the name "Ryuuzen" could live to see the age of 35, and now, the family has been reduced to a single woman, lying in a hospital bed, days away from death.

Kamo Touma was once just another of the endless parade of sleazy tabloid journalists looking to exploit a prominent family's tragedy to sell magazines, but Ryuuzen Rena's kindness melted his frozen heart, driving him to quit his old job and become an investigative journalist specializing in overturning cases of false arrest. Eventually, he and Rena were married, but now, the curse threatens to steal away their happiness.

Kamo prays for a miracle, and his prayers are answered by the Hourglass of Miracles, an artifact spoken of in rumors and urban legends, said to grant one wish to anyone who obtains it.

"Meister Hora", a guide for those who obtain the hourglass, tells Kamo there is only one way to break the curse and save Rena: He must travel back in time to the year 1960 and catch the culprit of the original Ryuuzen Family massacre.

Who was the culprit of the mu*ders that took place almost 60 years ago? Why did they steal away the lives of the Ryuuzen clan? What is the true nature of the "Curse of the Ryuuzen Clan?" And perhaps most mysteriously of all... What is Meister Hora's goal in all this?

Winner of the 29th annual Ayukawa Tetsuya Award. <<less

【Narrative Trick】... more>>

A trick used in the composition of mystery novels to cause the reader to misread. For example, a character’s gender or age, or even the chronology of events are purposely covered up. Like that, the reader uses their precognitions to misunderstand the truth, creating an unexpected reveal. <<less

“If it means suffering, I don’t need to be loved.”... more>>

An explosive journey of the Meta Detective Tsukumojuuku’s soul threading its way on the dance floor scourged by the trumpets sounded by God/Seiryouin Ryuusui, the maestro to serial mitate mu*ders based on Genesis and Revelation to John from the Bible. <<less

Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria, or The Empty Box and the Zeroth Maria, tells the sinister story of Kazuki Hoshino, who is almost madly attached to his everyday life, and his antagonist Aya Otonashi, who suddenly transfers into his class—for the 13,118th time. She majestically announces to “break” him, without paying heed to anyone else around them.... more>>

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This is but the start of a dark roller coaster ride that turns the two against themselves, the people around them and the one who may be god. Read on as their relationship slowly changes as they go against their most basic values in their struggle against the world itself. <<less

Kaori notices a small inconsistency in her colleague, Sae, when she returns from her summer vacation…….... more>>

Conversational drama mystery. There are emoticons. (If you are not good with emoticons, please note) <<less

During an excursion with an eccentric acquaintance, I am accused of breaking the Gion Festival Ordinance by a burly posse. Seized and taken on a whirlwind tour through Yoiyama, I come face-to-face with a gallery of exotic, grotesque characters. But who's this "Lord Yoiyama" that they all seem to revere? (Yoiyama Goldfish)... more>>

I wake up, only to find that today is Yoiyama... just like yesterday was, and the day before that. How in the world am I going to find a way to escape this loop? (Yoiyama Maze)

A collection of strange and wonderful short stories, weaving in and out through the backdrop of the Gion Festival's Yoiyama. Morimi takes you into a fantastical world where the colors of fantasy and reality blur into each other like a kaleidoscope. <<less

In the dreamer's dream, the dreamed one awoke.
— Borges... more>>

“I exist between the heavens and earth, in the sunlight, in the wind, and in dreams.”

One night, Yu Hao, a college student who was at his wits’ end had an unexpected encounter with a mysterious visitor – “General” – who had dream travelled. He led Yu Hao in solving the countless riddles that abounded in the realm of the conscious, and lit up the fire beacons on the meandering Great Wall.

Thereafter, the darkness retreated, the sun rose, and when the long night was thoroughly lit up, the him who existed in reality was reborn.

The black dragon that roared, the lighthouse and demonic eye on the coastline, the rain forest before Chichén Itzá, the fierce beasts that wreaked havoc in the Colosseum…the bizarre projection of reality in one’s consciousness reflected the hidden place that the sunlight in reality couldn’t touch – the innumerable sins of the human heart.

The journey of seizing dreams continues, and one can only hope that the sun will continue illuminating the human heart.

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Fire beacons on the Great Wall were lit up to signal a border invasion. <<less

I’m an imperial uncle; his imperial majesty’s uncle.... more>>

Once, someone with nothing better to do took a comprehensive survey of the current dynasty, and summed up the imperial court’s three great cancers.

Wang Qin leads in corruption; the treasury is never full.

Yun Tang favours a few, forming cabals; leading to corruption in our politics.

Prince Huai plays with power, and serves as the head of a hundred poisons — thus causing instability to the throne.

When they talk about the most venomous of vipers, the wicked one who plays with power, the biggest cancer of them all, they’re talking about me: this insignificant prince, Prince Huai, Chengjun.

I can only say that I feel rather hapless in the face of these theories.

In truth, I have been ever dutiful, ever devoted, devoid of intention to monopolise power, and possess even less of a heart to covet the throne. In the entire imperial court, I dare say there is no loyal subject more loyal than I.

But, most tragically, in all the realm, the matter of me being a loyal subject is something that not many would believe. <<less

The story follows a boy named Muoru who has been falsely arrested and sent to a cemetery to perform forced labor. There, he calls himself... more>> the "grave keeper" and meets a beautiful girl named Meria. Muoru becomes fascinated with Meria as he spends his days digging a hole containing the undead monster named "The Dark." <<less

The six prefectures of Zhongbo were offered to foreign enemies on a silver platter, and Shen Zechuan was taken into custody in the capital, reduced to a drowning dog* loathed and condemned by all. Xiao Chiye followed the scent of the furor and made his way over. But instead of setting others on him, he kicked Shen Zechuan with his very own leg, rendering the latter an invalid. Who would expect this invalid to turn around and bite him in a counterattack until he was all drenched in blood? That was the start of an epic feud between both men who tore at each other every time they come face-to-face with one another.... more>>

“Fate wants to bind me here for life, but this is not the path I choose. The yellow dust submerged my brothers deep under. I have no wish to bow in submission to an illusory fate. The imperial edict can’t save my troops, and the imperial court can’t fill the stomachs of my mounts. I’m no longer willing to lay down my life for this purpose. I want to surmount that mountain. I am going to fight for myself.”

Note : a 'drowning dog' is someone who is down and out, having lost favor or power. <<less