One day the high-school student Yachi Haruaki received a mysterious black box sent by his father from abroad. It was a "Cursed" object which could... more>> assume human form. The black box whose name was Fear came to Haruaki wanting to rid herself of the curse. Together with Haruaki and his boarder Konoha, Fear decides to do helpful things in order to neutralize the negative energy that was built within her, to be free from the curse that bound her. <<less

War of the Holy Grail - Pursuing the power of the "Holy Grail" which grants a miracle, this is a contest in which seven magi summon seven Heroic Spirits to compete for it. In that battle whose conclusion was postponed three times, now, the fourth war commenced again. ... more>>

Entrusting their dearest wish of victory, the magi joined the battleground called "Fuyuki", but amongst them, there was a man who was always alone, and could not find out the meaning behind his fights. His name was Kotomine Kirei. Not comprehending the guidance of fate, Kirei was lost, and had kept questioning. Why someone like him was given the Command Seals. However, the fate of his fights crossed Kirei's path with a nemesis by chance. That person is - Emiya Kiritsugu. A man who was sterner than anyone else, more merciless than anyone else, and who sought the miracle of the Holy Grail.

Merely recited in fragments in Fate/Stay Night, this is the Fourth War of the Holy Grail 10 years ago. The truth which unfolded behind the battle between Shirō's foster father, Rin's father, and the younger Kotomine Kirei, is finally revealed...... <<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

After the end of the world, the last man on Earth sat in his house. Suddenly, he heard the doorbell ring.

A prince Who can Only be happy because of a curse.

220 years ago, in the legendary Dragon Demon War, Hero Azell ended the war by killing the evil Dragon Demon race’s King Atein. He was able to save the population, but as a consequence, he was cursed. While he was dying, the high magician suggested a gamble that might save his life.... more>>

‘The Dragon’s hibernation is the only key to saving your life.’

Instead of a human’s sleep, he slept the sleep of the dragons and he was able to overcome the curse. Now he is realizing that he has slept way longer than a human’s life span. <<less

Lin Jin never imagined he would ever transmigrate. And to such a peculiar world at that. Here, deadly beasts were regarded as sacred, and thankfully, he owned a museum for deadly beasts. ... more>>

“Master, this is just a dying little tortoise…”

“What tortoise? This is a rare species that contains the blood of a Black Tortoise and could be promoted up to level seven.”

“What about this shedding mongrel?”

“Mongrel? How narrow-minded. This is a branch descendant of the snarling hound with a hint of Kirin’s blood. Take my word for it and sign the blood contract at once. I guarantee you that you'll soar to success and be on your path to invincibility!” <<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

Shaymon, the man who has achieved the apex of dark magic, is framed as being a Demon King and is killed.... more>>

'I will not let it end like this!'

He finally achieves new life but reality was cruel. Being born after 500 years, he was born as the descendent of his rival, the Sword Emperor! <<less

Mariella is a maid who dreams of rising through the ranks by becoming the mistress of a nobleman.... more>>

She is convinced that a blind man she meets by chance is a noble,

and she takes great care of him, pretending to be Lady Marianne.

One day, the man disappears, leaving a proposal for marriage.

Unaware of Mariella’s true identity, he sends a proposal to the Riedenburg family.

Mariella worries that her identity will be discovered.

A disorientated Lady Marianne offers to marry him off in her place…

—

“I’ll go.”

“What?”

Mariella repeated, unable to understand.

“I’ll marry into the royal family. For you, in person.”

“…”

The young woman said, sounding eager.

A hint of amus**ent in her eyes behind her gentle expression.

Mariella knew what Marianne was thinking.

She was jumping for joy at the opportunity.

The chance to be the heroine of the popular novel she always carried with her. <<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

Lillie von Ehrenberg is the only daughter of a duke. She was trying to inherit the ducal house, but her half-sister Christa, who came along... more>> with the death of her mother, the duchess, robbed her of the ducal line. Although she loses her goal, her first love, Crown Prince Alexis, offers her an engagement, and Lillie becomes the Crown Prince's fiancée. Upon hearing this, Christa stole Alexis out of jealousy. <<less

Cthulhu Gonfalon is a story about a man who woke up in another world. After a drink over his loss in a game, Sui Xiong ended up in the middle of the sea. Surprisingly, he now found out he no longer existed in a human shape but in a spirit state without any flesh. In order to survive and find a way to return to Earth, he then searched for a body to accommodate his spirit. After several confrontations with some creatures under the sea, he decided to settle for a jellyfish flesh. This Jellyfish was extraordinarily huge. With its tent**les, it caught others’ spirits to nurture its own power. In this world, Sui Xiong... more>> wasn’t only matchlessly powerful but he also had an ability to cast magic. With this gifted ability and combined with his knowledge from the civilized world on Earth, he could help a deceased person resurrect, change a person’s look, and do tons of other crazy things that he didn’t know.

As his journey to discover this world went on, he encountered many bizarre and mystic creatures along the way, who were Gods, Humans, Devil Beasts, Giant Dragons and lots of other undetermined organisms. Some of them might insanely worship him, while others hated him. Some might become his enemies. Some might end up becoming his teammates in the end. From a gamer on Earth to here, he became a God (even he himself could not verify this yet), had his own religion and even a church with a Holy Land to fight for justice.

What kind of world is this? What kind of existences might live in this world? What kind of secret this world owns? Can Sui Xiong return to Earth?

Keep on following the story to find out the answers for those questions.

Little explanation about Cthulhu: Cthulhu has been described in appearance as resembling an octopus, a dragon and a human caricature, hundreds of meters tall, with webbed human-looking arms and legs and a pair of rudimentary wings on its back. Cthulhu’s head is depicted as similar to the entirety of a gigantic octopus, with an unknown number of tent**les surrounding its supposed mouth. <<less

The time is Taisho era, and the stage is the "Otherworld" where the gods reside.... more>>

The cursed Fire God, Hoozuki, and the girl, Sayo, who became a "cleaner" and a "contract bride" serving in Hoozuki's mansion, set out one night under the full moon to receive the tears of the moon. Hoozuki, who took in the mistreated Sayo, dotes on her to his heart's content, and this story unfolds over the course of a single night as Sayo gradually accepts his affection. <<less

Anna, who traveled through another world, had captured the demon’s attention, and the other party constantly possessed various people to propose to her.... more>>

Aided by a cheat code, Anna could clearly see through everything. She was very moved but rejected him again and again.

——So, when will he let her off??

Because of a bet with a friend, the Great Demon Lord of The Abyss, Rothgarr had to get a hundred human women to agree to marry him within six months. Unexpectedly, the first human woman he met in the human world firmly rejected him.

Don't like the handsome son of the city leader? What about the young talented sorcerer, or the noble and pure Crown Prince?

And yet... that human woman rejected him every time!

Rothgarr’s embarrassment turned into anger and refused to back down.

Half a year later... Rothgarr crawled humbly on the ground, kissed Anna's feet, looked at Anna with crimson red, blurred eyes, and said, panting: "Please punish me for being disrespectful..."

Anna: "..." When he wakes up, she’s doomed! <<less

Chi Jiayan, a 'heavenly fiend lonely star'[1], had met the Grim Reaper when he was very young.... more>>

At that time he was crying in an embarrassing situation, as he looked so adorable, the Grim Reaper, without a hitch… bought him an ice cream.

Later, Chi Jiayan became an adult and his birthday wish was—to be the bridegroom of the god of death??

Grim Reaper: I refuse.

Chi Jiayan: What, refuse? Then I will reluctantly become your bride. (^-^)

Grim Reaper: …

This is a story about a human courting the Grim Reaper and taming him.

Grim Reaper: This human being might be poisonous.

Note:
[1]heavenly fiend lonely star- idiom which means bane of others’ existence (also translated as ‘an orphan who causes others misery’) <<less

A story about a young lady whose engagement is broken because she hid her face with a veil.

A fairy tale-style little bedtime story with western fantastical elements.... more>>

Maladroit, mensao, invincible doting dragon x foodie prince who wants to be a dragon knight

A short story. It’s a cookie so sweet that it’ll make you thirsty. <<less

To be able to confess well.... more>>

My friend, the “Witch” Maho-chan, gave me a spell..

However, after the spell. When you meet the person you like, you have to confess with your first words.

I thought it was easy.

…… New Year’s greetings are important, aren’t they? <<less

Living for the sole aim of escaping!... more>>

‘Light of Rusbella’ was a depressing romance novel.

Wishing for a new life, Asili Rosé was reborn as the daughter of the 8th wife of the Estrian Emperor.

She thought she was born with a golden spoon, but it was actually just a gilded spoon?

Once she realized that nothing but ruin awaited, she found a diary foreshadowing the future…

It foretold Asili’s death by the hands of the Crown Prince, Castor!

[“What does the empire mean to you?” After asking this, the Crown Prince smiled so very beautifully. And then he killed me.]
Unfortunately, Asili kept coming back to life, and continued to be killed over and over again. As she continued to relive her deaths, she slowly lost her smile and changed.

…Let’s try to survive first.

__

“What can I do for my elder brother?”

“Well.”

__

Pale sky blue hair fluttered finely in the wind. He smiled weakly, before parting his dry lips.

“Call my name.”

“…”

My head quickly snapped up.

“Call me… Amor.”

His fingertips skimmed along my inner wrist. <<less

“As if I’d marry an ugly woman like you!”... more>>

Monette, a noble daughter of the House of Idira, was hurt deeply by what her fiancé, Prince Alexis, had said.

To rub salt on the wound, her younger sister was then made Alexis’ fiancée instead of her. Unsure just what part of her was ugly, Monette develops a complex… and begins to cover her whole body with iron armour.

And so, Monette researches magic alone in the old castle… until one day, two men come to visit her…

“Monette, break my curse!”

This is a story of Monette, who wears armour from the top of her head to the tip of her toes; Prince Alexis, who suffers under a curse of bad luck that forces him to stick his foot in a bottomless swamp at least once a week; and Percival, a worrywart knight who spoils people when he’s tired. It is a story of their journey as all three of them think respectively:

I’ve got the most common sense here. <<less

After being betrayed by a butler and her nanny, whom she’d trusted wholeheartedly, Emma wandered down a forest trail on a stormy night to avoid them and the lurking animals.... more>>

She stumbled upon a magnificent mansion and bravely knocked on the large wooden door of the mysterious, secretive place. After a few minutes, a man opened the door.

“Hello. I am Emma. Emma Herman,” she said shakily and then begged, “Please! Save me, please! I will do anything.” Emma’s life was about to be flipped upside down.

“Hello, Emma. Has something happened to you?” he asked. The man she had thought to be the owner of the mansion, was Irvin Van Wert, the successor of Count Van Wert. “Don’t run away from me without my permission. Because you belong to me now!”

***

“So, you don’t have anything to do with the people I mentioned, right?”

“Right,” Emma nodded rapidly, expecting the misunderstanding and suspicion to be resolved.

“I see. So this isn’t a trap,” the man oddly mumbled as he stared at Emma and slowly bent his body down lower. Then, he put his lips closer to her ear and said, “If so, you’re just coming by perchance then?”

The low voice, while fascinating, was frightening enough to hurt Emma’s eardrum and she meekly replied, “Yes.” <<less

After discovering about her wealthy husband's affair, she humiliates the adulterous pair on the streets and divorces him the very next morning. Just as everyone anticipates her downfall, she goes on to marry the most brilliant bachelor in the nation whom her unfaithful former husband cannot hold a candle to!... more>>

"Aren't your mother's legs always hurting? It hasn't gotten any better despite seeking help from various doctors."
"How did you know that?"
"Not only do I know why her legs hurt, I can also treat her condition."
"As long as you can treat my mother, I'll give you anything you want."
"I want money."

After An Xiaoning uses her psychic powers to break the curse of a poltergeist, she earns herself a fortune as well as a perfect man of her dreams.

Don't be daunted by her psychic powers, for this book isn't terrifying at all! <<less

Orphan April picks up Bernard the teddy bear. However, Bernard began to say, "Actually, I am a prince cursed by a witch." Every day, he... more>> annoys the girl with his selfishness. One day, Bernard steals cookies from a candy store. April explodes in anger at Bernard who can't say sorry. But when Bernard leaves the house, April panics. Surprisingly, he is heading to a sweets shop that he was told not to go near again... A little story of a selfish and naive prince who is said to be strange and lonely Girl with a Happy ending. <<less

“Are you eating in this situation?”... more>>

“Of course! I’ll have to keep savoring the taste until I die. Do you want one?”

She was reincarnated in a novel as Luana, the abandoned princess.

And her death was already decided.

She just wanted to let people know about her cooking talent, but she was misunderstood as a witch because of her cheese jerky!

The General of the conquering army, Duke Legion, who had lost his sense of taste, took her to the Empire for her extraordinary jerkies and to break the curse that had come down from generation to generation.

“It is delicious, isn’t it?”

“Prepare the same for the dinner.”

She was happy to be able to cook and eat as much as delicious food as she wanted…

But now, she also wanted to look after Legion.

‘Eat three meals a day, and make sure to make dessert. I’m sure he will be able to gain some weight…!’

–

The Duke took the jerky from the princess. On the surface, it was no different from any beef jerky.

But when he took a bite of it, it felt like a new world had opened up.

The jerky, made by the princess, felt more tender than the others as he gently crushed it with his teeth.

The taste of condensed meat smudged his tongue as he chewed on. It was just as she said.

He could feel the savory taste of the spicy meat, and at the end of the day, he wanted to have more.

The desire that he had, faded for a while.

“I didn’t really want anything, but now I think I do.” <<less