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

I can see the color of that person’s sorrow, the color of joy, pain, and love.... more>>

Cyril Vedito, a pharmacist, can see things that other humans cannot. Colors appear above a person’s head that represents their emotions and future. With her white hair and red eyes, she is often treated as a rumored “fortune teller” in town.

Hector Alderde, the “Flower Knight”, is the most handsome bachelor in town. The man with many loves, is actually not in love with any of his followers. In fact, he even seems to be a misogynist.

By chance, Cyril sees an ominous color above Hector’s head and unintentionally saves him. Hector, who is supposed to hate women, has taken an interest in her, and he comes to visit Cyril’s shop incognito.

Behind his handsome face, Cyril finds out that Hector actually has a big secret. One day, she finds the color of “love” above Hector’s head. And that is…

A clumsy “first love” fantasy of a fortune teller and a beautiful knight! <<less

In an alternate 2023, the Your Forma, a miraculous "smart thread" technology initially developed to treat a massive outbreak of viral encephalitis, has become an... more>> integral part of daily life. But these convenient devices come with an invasive drawback—they record every sight, sound, and even emotion their users experience. For electronic investigator Echika Hieda, diving into peoples' memories via the Your Forma and hunting for evidence to solve the toughest crimes is all part of a day's work. The problem is, she's so good at what she does that her assistants literally fry their brains trying to keep up with her. After putting one too many aides in the hospital, the top brass finally furnish Echika with a partner on her level, a brilliant yet cheeky android named Harold Lucraft. Does this unlikely duo have what it takes to resolve their mutual suspicions and avert a deadly technological infection from sweeping across the globe before it's too late? <<less

17-year-old high-schooler Suzu lives with her father in a country-town in Kouchi. She lost her mother when she was young and has closed her heart... more>> away from the real world. But she came to join the so-called “other reality,” a supermassive virtual space called “U” with an avatar. When Suzu became the songstress recognized all around the world with her peerless singing voice in an instant, she meets the mysterious existence, feared and called the “dragon”— <<less

Afterwards, I discovered that I had been reincarnated as a disciple of the righteous path. The senior brothers in the sect don't beat up children, senior sisters don't poison the food, and my master is really willing to teach his disciples. Mu Xue had tears streaming down her face, and she decided to return to the right path with all her heart. ... more>>

Senior sister: "Do you know who the current number one in the demonic path is?"

Mu Xue: "Who?"

Senior sister: "Cen Qianshan, the top boss of the demonic path, created chaos and destroyed all in his path, just to use a forbidden spell to resurrect his dead master, the great demon king. The demonic path is really demonic, even romantic relationships between master and disciple are earth-shattering."

Mu Xue: d(?д??) Who? Are you talking about the little disciple who she picked up from the s*ave market, Xiao Shan?
Mu, the great demon king, swears that she definitely did not have any improper relationship with her clever and versatile former disciple.

This story mixes a cyberpunk world with an ancient cultivation background, with plenty of original content.

The female protagonist, who is determined to focus on the righteous path and not get involved in romance, faces off against the reclusive male protagonist, who is weak and pitiful but also incredibly capable in combat. <<less

My fourth regression.... more>>

To survive, I had to become independent.

For my goal, I picked up a man who was woefully annihilated and about to die.

I wanted to become an "extraterritorial territory" in a world full of villains.

I wanted extraterritoriality rights so power, money, honor, and even the law couldn't reach me.

That's where I wanted to stand.

"What exactly are you?"

"I don't know—your fate, maybe?"

"What?"

"Miraculously appearing and saving you just before death, isn't that fate?"

Ahaak Osvold, the tyrant who would rule with cruelty, proposed an unexpected contract.

"I want to make a friendship contract with you."

'Why would you want to be friends with me?' …It's what I thought, but in all honesty, I needed him to gain my "autonomous region."

"Don't regret it later."

Then, I'll raise you as an emperor.

 

━━━━ ∙ʚ(✧)ɞ∙ ━━━━

 

But it seems I raised him too well?

Amid the imperial succession competition, Ahaak kissed my hair and said,

"Tia, what are you looking at?"

"I mean, tonight… I'll be waiting for you in my chambers, Tia."

"Since I'm the only friend in your life, it's enough."

…Wait.

It didn't say anywhere that the friends contract with the tyrant would be exclusive, right? <<less

Suxi, who had been well cared for since childhood and had achieved excellent results, was a good girl everyone liked.... more>>

Lu Xun was exiled from his childhood and suffered humiliation before he became an emperor.

One day, Suxi downloaded a love cultivation Game App, and found that the game protagonist’s eyes were dark and beautiful. He was drawn completely according to her taste, and she immediately opened the mode of baby raising mode.

“Why is there no fire in the cub’s house? Do you want gold to buy it for him?”

“The pup looks better in snow white. Ouch, buy, buy, bought it!”

“Why was there a trace of footprints on the cub when he came out of the door? Is it a side mission to deal with the bully ?!”

Suxi enjoyed playing the cultivation game.

Lu Huan had lived in mud and blood since he was a child. He thought that living was just a matter of getting through one day then another.

Until he made a complicated discovery-

A warm charcoal fire was smuggled into his room.

His torn old clothes were quietly replaced with new ones.

Those who bullied him and ridiculed him, who knows who taught them a lesson, but their faces were swollen and they dared not go out.

On his long lonely journey, he had a female bodhisattva walking his path with him. <<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

Cordelia, who was sold into marriage and subjected to various humiliations, finally saw a way to escape this hell when her husband, who lacked character, manners, and intelligence, fell into a coma after an accident.... more>>

“O’ sacred star, please kill my husband.”

However, it seemed that her prayers had been answered in an unexpected way. Her husband woke up but lost all his memories. Cordelia saw this as an opportunity, but…

“Please sign here. You were eager to finalise the divorce before this, remember?”

“Heh, a divorce agreement. I’m sure you know why this upstart family welcomed you as a bride.”

There’s no way my husband was this astute! She deduced that something unimaginable must have entered his body. He was presumed dead; it’s a chance she won’t get again.

“Don’t you think your personal circumstances and ‘just divorced’ are incompatible given the circumstances?”

She threatened, putting her life on the line. She desired to learn magic from the great wizard and use it to secure a better life after her divorce. But she made a mistake, and that was underestimating her opponent’s temper.

“As my student, you should study and only sleep three hours a day.”

“Read five theses together, and you’ll be done in no time.” <<less

[Earl Avondale’s Mansion]... more>>

“Who are you……?”

“That’s what I want to ask you.”

She met a handsome blonde man upon opening a hidden episode and it turned out that he was a genius magic engineer who should have already died.

Esperanza fell 13 years back in time from the virtual reality game ‘Golden Claw’.

Suddenly, in a world without monsters, she became the strongest in the world and in order to return to her original world, she had to find the ‘Golden Claw’ to complete the quest…!

“Why would I dissect you? There is so much more that can be studied while you are alive.”

And her only helper keeps making creepy remarks.

“Then why don’t you give me a drop of blood? Just one drop.”

He’s trying to draw her blood.

Can she finish her quest successfully? <<less

“You’re as rude as you look!”... more>>

One day, a curse befell Evie Ariathe, the lovely saint candidate.

It’s a curse that answers the truth to every question, in a nutshell.

With the curse starting suddenly, dark clouds hang over her promising future, and the position of a saint which she was so close to getting, becomes infinitely distant.

Nevertheless, the beautiful saint candidate, Evie Ariathe, must become a saint. For the perfect salvation of Thiendavis, a world full of secrets. <<less

For high-schooler Yoko Nakajima, life has been fairly ordinary–that is until Keiki, a young man with golden hair, tells Yoko they must return to their kingdom. Once confronted by this mysterious being and whisked away to an unearthly realm, Yoko is left with only a magical sword; a gem; and a million questions about her destiny, the world she’s trapped in, and the world she desperately wants to return to.... more>>

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Books in the Twelve Kingdoms series with the kingdom covered in parenthesis and volumes numbering based on re-release edition:

Arc 1: Tsuki no Kage, Kage no Umi – Volume 1-2

(Kei Kingdom)

Arc 2: Kaze no Umi, Meikyū no Kishi – Volume 3

(Tai Kingdom)

Arc 3: Higashi no Watatsumi, Nishi no Sōkai – Volume 4

(En Kingdom)

Arc 4: Kaze no Banri, Reimei no Sora – Volume 5-6

(Kei Kingdom)

Arc 5: Tonan no Tsubasa – Volume 7

(Kyou Kingdom)

Arc Extra : Mashou no Ko (Demon Child) – Volume 0

(Taiki Story in Modern World)

Arc 6: Tasogare no Kishi, Akatsuki no Sora – Volume 8

(Tai & Kei Kingdoms)

Arc 7: Kasho no Yume – Volume 9

(Anthology: Tai, Hou, Kei, Sai & Sou Kingdoms)

Arc 8: Hisho no Tori – Volume 10

(Anthology: Kei, Ryu, and other Kingdoms)

Arc 9: Hakugin no Oka, Kuro no Tsuki – Volume 11-14

(Tai Kingdom) <<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

On the front line of the war, there’s a little girl. Blond hair, blue eyes and porcelain white skin, she commands the army with lisping... more>> voice. Her name is Tanya Degurechaff. But in reality, she is one of Japan’s most elite salarymen, reborn as a little girl after angering a mysterious being X who calls himself “God.” And this little girl, who prioritize over anything else efficiency and her own career, will become the most dangerous being amongst the sorcerers of the imperial army… <<less

Shen Yi, whose stage name is Wei Long, was an actor who was popular all over the world in the 1970s, but because of a disappearance, he disappeared in history, as if he had never existed in this world. ... more>>

One day, Rong Qian saw a photo of herself and Shen Yi on an old photo from more than 30 years ago ......

The unbelievable discovery made her start a journey through time and space again and again, returning to the past to save him!

For Rong Qian, every time she travelled to the past, it was only a few days apart, but for Shen Yi, if he wanted to see her, he had to wait for several years.

Later, during the long years of waiting for her, the noble, gentle, and elegant young master Shen always held his chin in private and counted the days when he would meet her with his fingers.

Then he sighed bitterly: "Alas, what is more difficult than a long-distance relationship is a different space and time relationship, my Ah Qian, I miss you so much..." <<less

One fateful day, a girl time slipped into the Sengoku Era.... more>>

It was an abrupt enough event to be dubbed god’s whim, done to sate hellish boredom.

The girl has no power to change the world.

She was a very ordinary, common, and plain girl that can be found anywhere.

And that girl can do no more than a single thing.

Survive the Sengoku Era ——– that’s all. <<less

The overworked nurse was moments away from dropping dead from exhaustion when suddenly, she found herself trapped in a once-popular zombie video game. But somehow,... more>> a character from a dating sim rescues her. They team up to reach the end of the game so that everyone can make it out alive. <<less

Ibaraki Maki is a highschool girl who lives in Asakusa and loves the food there above all else.... more>>

Despite being only human, she likes to poke her nose into troubles involving ayakashi on a daily basis. Moreover, her go-to method of resolving said trouble often involves using her brute strength.

This was because she had a secret: she had memories of her previous life.

What’s more, those memories weren’t that of a human; they belonged to the oni princess whose name reached far and wide during the Heian period—the infamous Ibaraki-doji.

Dragging along Amasake Kaoru, her classmate and reincarnation of her husband in their previous life, Shuten-doji, the strongest oni bride bustles about the streets of Asakusa again today to help the troubled ayakashi! <<less

A standalone sequel of Mimizuku to Yoru no Ou, which is set 5 years after the tale. The story is about a sharp-tongued princess who... more>> gets cursed and loses the ability to speak. Out of a forced wedding, she encounters a prince with abnormal limbs. <<less

After Lin Lan dumped her cheating boyfriend and resigned from her job, she was faced with both unemployment and a broken heart. Her current situation is a bit grim and requires serious attention. Thinking about it this way, she put on her sunglasses and boarded the plane, flying by herself without her now ex-boyfriend.... more>>

So why was something wrong with her body after the vacation? Like now, she stood at the door of her small building, and accidentally saw someone holding a pet carrier. A pair of white furry paws were pulling at the mesh covering, and its meowing was desperate: "Save me! Help me! The sh*t-shoveling officer (Chinese slang for cat owner) is taking me to get an injection!”

Another time: After successfully getting her revenge against the immoral couple, Lin Lan was discouraged and returned to her hometown, preparing to inherit the family property. She didn't think that she would suddenly gain an ability. When she discovered that she could communicate with her pet cat without any difficulty, she thought of an idea.

A short while later, pedestrians began to discover that a new cat cafe was opened in the area. The owner sat behind the glass window, with several cats laying on her legs, and around her feet. She sat drowsily in the sun every day, unbothered if her business was prosperous or not. People that hurried by envied her carefree lifestyle.

However, one day, they found out that not only did she own the shop, but her family owned the entire building… <<less

I managed to get myself thrown into a story as a stepmother so jealous of her daughter that she tried to kill the girl with a poisoned apple.... more>>

I’d love it if I could shower my cute and lovely Blanche with all sorts of affection, but–

“Hilarious. Since when did you like Blanche so much?”

This god-damned husband keeps getting in my way!

“I am Blanche’s parent as well. I demand an apology for being so suspicious of me.”

“And if I don’t?”

“I’ll visit your bedroom tonight, your majesty.”

“…..”

“I even managed to get some really sexy panties just for you.”

With a big smile on my face, I struck him with a critical hit.

“I could show it to you right now if you’d like?”

The look on his face was truly something to behold.

I lifted my chin, and looked down on him victoriously. <<less

, the Her, Faye Luvanessel.... more>>

She had everything – status, wealth, beauty, and even a simple personality. She walks the flower path with all these qualities…..

However, one day, after waking up:

“?”

A strange status window appeared before her. Moreover, as the days passed, the status window evolved on its own!

Strange! Useless!

Although she managed to live without revealing any signs that could lead to being identified as a witch, she inadvertently incurred the misunderstanding of a formidable man who sensed something suspicious….

“Answer me. How on earth did you find out about my identity?”
“Well…”
“Did you know and approach me from the beginning? Did you purposely chase after me to the maze garden?”
“Ah, really. Really, it’s not like that.”

Suddenly, without resolving the misunderstanding, that man became Faye’s fiancé overnight!

“Don’t pretend to be innocent. Got it? I won’t be fooled by your disgusting act.”
“Ah, yes…”
“And make sure to have only one son or daughter.”
“…?” <<less

It was something that happened while I was waiting for the day of the primary school entrance exam. I realised that I had become one of the characters of a shoujo manga that I loved reading in my old life, ‘You Are My Dolce’.... more>>

The role I was assigned was a character who bullied the commoner protagonist and tried to get in the way of her love with a rich boy nicknamed Emperor; a typical villainess rich girl, Kisshouin Reika.

At the end of the story, Reika suffered the Emperor’s retribution and even her family fell into ruin. With the villain gone, the protagonist and the Emperor overcame their trials and became a couple. And they lived happily ever after.

Wait, that’s terrible for meee! The manga ended there, but I have to continue living my life after my family is ruined!

The protagonist can enjoy her romance or love or whatever on her own. I’ll erase my presence so that I don’t anger the Emperor.

Eh-? The story isn’t progressing well because there’s no villain, you say? But I’m busy saving up money and studying so that I can live well after the collapse. <<less

White-collar worker Gotou Shizuka is attacked by a slasher who suddenly appears in the heart of the shopping district. Just as she is lost to her wounds, she hears a voice ring in her head.... more>>

“You have been defeated. Commencing termination countdown.”

Due to the counsel of the “Night Guide (Guidance),” she narrowly escapes death and awakens with an ability that ordinary people do not possesses. In the same instance, this world became connected with another and monsters began to spring forth…

Gotou makes a decision to fight against these monsters. With her positive nature and bold and carefree attitude, she throws herself into the heat of the battle while leveling up and making weapons. <<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