Reina Kamisu is a friend of loners, a slayer of families, a savior of worlds, and a killer of lovers—and she is absurdly beautiful. Who is she and what are her intentions? The search for her true identity begins with Fumi Saito, a lonely girl student whose only friend and support in life is Reina, as she is accused of things she did not do…... more>>

This is a story of delusions, despair and destructive beauty.

The series consists of two volumes titled “Kamisu Reina wa Koko ni Iru” (Kamisu Reina Is Here) and “Kamisu Reina wa Koko ni Chiru” (Kamisu Reina Disperses Here). <<less

A fledgling adventurer is depressed from his most recent, seventy fifth, failure to capture the third floor of the dungeon under Labyrinth City. In his... more>> unwariness, he is ambushed by a certain someone, and suddenly his life begins actually progressing again. From a life of bland rain to a life of colorful acquaintances he goes.
A series of short stories surrounding an Antique shop outside of Dungeon Gate. <<less

Player: I’m a worker whose monthly salary doesn’t even hit $5,000. My monthly rental already takes up half of my salary, I don’t have a girlfriend and is reprimanded by my superior every day. However, I feel very happy because there has been a new virtual game recently. In the game, I have a powerful bloodline. Not only do I have my own fleet, I even have a powerful overlord that granted me a colonized planet. Although I know this is fake, but inside there, I found the meaning of my life!... more>>

Actually…the overlord who gave him the planet really wanted to tell him that this game wasn’t fake. (You really have your own fleet and colonized planet…) but the overlord knew that he couldn’t say this. Because, once he said it, these subjects who thought of themselves as ‘players’, would definitely not be as terrifyingly hardworking as now!! <<less

In the darkness stands a girl draped in pure white. Don't let her innocent appearance fool you; her hands grip a glistening scythe. Momo is... more>> the dark messenger of death who, along with her wisecracking cat named Daniel, is tasked with releasing humans from their mortal bonds and delivering their souls to the great beyond. First encounters with Momo always end in farewells. <<less

The author has a passion for collecting all sorts of strange and unusual supernatural stories. He enjoys frequenting parks, open-air teahouses, and similar places, listening to others share their stories. In his free time, most of it is spent surfing the internet, seeking out various tales to adapt.... more>>

These bizarre stories... I’ve decided to share them, one each day. <<less

I am an unfulfilled third year university student. Led on by my frenemy Ozu; pushed around by the preposterous demands of the mysterious, freewheeling Master Higuchi; unable to approach the beautiful, aloof maiden Akashi; I find myself far from the rosy campus life I had dreamed of. If this is how it's going to be, I had rather return to my sparkling days as a freshman and do it all over again!... more>>

A rambling chronicle that sends you hurtling through four parallel realities on a bittersweet journey through youth. <<less

From love, marriage, heartbreak, pain, to divorce- Mu Chuqing has been through it all in a few years with Sheng Yuchen. After not seeing each other for years, she imagines that they would be like strangers. But why is that man looking at her with anger even when holding his fiancée in his arms? Why can’t they be like strangers? ... more>>

Will he forever humiliate and torture her? Why can’t Sheng Yuchen let her go? Just what kind of cruel man is her ex-husband?

…

Ever since that night three years ago, Sheng Yuchen has not slept peacefully. Every time she cries, her tears fall like acid on his heart. His blood boils when he sees her smiling at other men the way she used to smile at him, and the beast in him might as well destroy everything around.

He can’t let her go. He won’t let her go. Even if his heart gets charred with her tears.

…

This isn’t a love-at-first-sight story!

“Boss! Miss Mu is back!”

“Got it.” The man responds indifferently.

“Boss, someone gave Miss Mu a bouquet of roses!”

“Adulterer! Humph!” The man finally raises his head, narrows his eyes, and snorts.

“Boss, Miss. Mu and that man watched a movie today, had a candlelight dinner, and…”

“And what…”

“They kissed!”

The man’s eyes spits fire, and he can’t sit still anymore. He suddenly stands up from the sofa.

“B-Boss, bad news. Miss. Mu and that man are going to get married in the Netherlands!”

The man slams the table. “Which plane? Shoot it down!”

“Yes!”

“Wait!” The man suddenly stops him.

“Boss, do you have any other instructions?”

“Blast the male adulterer. If she loses even a hair on her, I’m afraid you won’t be able to handle what comes next!”

“…” <<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

“If you love me, you must change for me!”... more>>

With just one sentence from Ye Linghan, Ji Ran went from an Alpha to an Omega. Ji Ran endured adverse reactions after changing his physique and endured Ye Linghan’s repeated injuries. After Ye Linghan divorced him, heartbroken Ji Ran turned and left. As wished, Ye Linghan realized his mistakes and wanted to remarry Ji Ran. <<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

Grace Gurton has been harboring a one-sided love for months.... more>>

The object of her affection is Richard Spencer, the Young Earl of Spencer.

Heir to the Spencer family, an aristocracy older than the royal family itself and standing at the king’s side, and Captain of the Rugby Club at Christ Church College.

The embodiment of refined, aristocratic elegance. Impeccably perfect attire.

A masculine and handsome face, combined with a towering height that stands out anywhere.

A rugged and god-like ferocity on display during rugby matches, as though the god of war himself has descended.

From afar, Richard Spencer appeared flawless.

At least, until Grace received an adoption proposal from Lady Mary Montague, Richard’s aunt.

And until she discovered the reality of Richard Spencer, a self-centered narcissist who seems to live as though the world revolves around him. <<less

The war that raged between the Church and the Witches for five centuries finally ended in peace but a few short years ago. However, nestled in the shadowy places of the world, the embers of that age old conflict still smolder.... more>>

Attending the Royal Academy of Magic of the Kingdom of Wenias is a struggling student named Saybil, who has no memories of his time before being enrolled. At the command of Headmaster Albus, he left the Kingdom to travel to the southern reaches of the continent, where anti-magic insurgents are still a force to be reckoned with, as part of a special training regimen. Accompanying him are a party of individuals strong in both ability and personality; there’s the one known as the Witch of the Dawn, Loux Krystus, who seeks the forbidden knowledge of primeval magic in the ‘Grimoire of Zero,’ the genius girl Hort, as well as the school’s sole beast, Kudo.

Just what truth shall they uncover in their journey to the south…? <<less

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"Even if it's a one-for-one trade, I will take over his company."

These were the last words Luan Yenan said before transmigrating into a book.

As the sole head of a Fortune 500 investment company, she never expected her end to be dying from overwork after three sleepless days and nights, only to transmigrate into a novel.

The character she transmigrated into was a crazy, abusive Alpha who tormented the female lead before having her glands removed by the seemingly innocent but secretly cunning female lead.

Crazy? Perfect, I’m crazy too.

Abusive Alpha? Sorry, I’m single and not interested.

As for the female lead, are you talking about the little girl I’ve pinned down, teary-eyed and begging for mercy?

Seemingly innocent but secretly cunning? Interesting.

Let me personally train her. I want to see how she plans to cut out my glands.

Summary 2:

Zuo Baixuan, who had just differentiated into an Omega, was sold by her adoptive parents to a crazy, abusive Alpha. She thought her life would be plunged into darkness from then on.

Unexpectedly, on the first day of their marriage, when she was pinned down, the Alpha, who was on the verge of losing control, suddenly calmed down and retracted her pheromones after Zuo Baixuan said, "I want to graduate smoothly, I don’t want to have a child so early."

After that, the previously good-for-nothing Alpha seemed like a completely different person. She became a guest professor at the university, started a company, helped Zuo Baixuan seek revenge, and together they reached the pinnacle of life.

One day, Luan Yenan’s pheromones went haywire, and she lay on her deathbed: "I’ll set you free, let’s get a divorce."

Zuo Baixuan chuckled, grabbed Luan Yenan’s hands, and pulled her closer: "I’ve already graduated."

"So?"

"I want to have a child. With you."

Let’s see who’s really the crazy one. <<less

A former detective chases after his missing daughter, but what he uncovers in the darkness is…... more>>

Third “Konomys” (このミステリーがすごい!) Grand Prize recipient

A story of descent into lunacy over a single girl.

The 17-year old Kanako has disappeared, leaving behind a trace of drug use in her room. Akihiro Fujishima, a former detective and her father, is in pursuit of her whereabouts. Three years earlier, Naoto, who was tormented by his classmates, fell in love with Kanako, who saved him…

The story of the present and the past intersect, and the outline of Kanako gradually emerges from the blurry darkness. Yet the more one delves into her disappearance, the more unintelligible she becomes. What manner of shocking ending awaits at the end of the tunnel? The recipient of the grand prize of the 3rd “This Mystery is Amazing!”, this work overwhelmed every member of the selection committee. A lurid work of dark emotion that will enrapture the hearts of all who read it. <<less

Hariyama-san, Center of the World is a series of connected short stories by Narita Ryohgo, the author of Durarara!! and Baccano!. They’re basically strange or... more>> supernatural events that are seemingly unrelated, except that every one of them involves the title character, Shinkichi Hariyama, as a minor character in some capacity. The last story in each volume ties all the previous stories together. It doesn’t take place in the Naritaverse (consisting of Durarara!!, Baccano!, Vamp!, and Etsusa Bridge) <<less

One day, while Lin Chen read a book, Xing Cong Lian said to him, “You’re a psychologist. Can you help me find out what kind of person is suitable for me to marry?”... more>>

Lin Chen remembered telling him love was the most immeasurable thing in the world. Even psychologists couldn’t predict love, because its progress in two people’s lives had countless variables.

What variables?

Lin Chen thought, at the time, the first variable was: You’re just an ordinary police officer who liked eating crayfish at the stall with a bottle of beer. I didn’t know you were…

Or: I didn’t know when I fell in love with you or when you fell in love with me. <<less

In the jianghu, who can resist a bit of flirting?... more>>

Aloof, protective, and proud young disciple gong X trouble-prone, reckless, death-defying and seemingly straight-laced but actually carefree shifu.

Once you enter the jianghu, the years fly by.

“The world is a battlefield; wherever the jianghu exists, so do the cycles of vengeance and retribution. You either flourish or die.” Many years ago, when young Chu Xiwei first joined the sect, he heard these words, and they chilled him to the bone like a blanket of snow.

After scaring the young disciple, Ye Fusheng leisurely took a sip of his tea and said, “Everything I just told you is nonsense.”

This is a story of a carefree and flirtatious shifu digging up old grievances and adventures in the jianghu. It’s also a romantic tale of a loyal and proud disciple who follows his shifu through life and death without ever giving up.

After the storm, the splendor fades to ash. With it, the Graceful Phantom blade is sealed away from the world. <<less

None of us could forget her.... more>>

The six of us spent our college days in Kyoto. Ten years ago at the Kurama Fire Festival, Hasegawa vanished into thin air. Ten years later, the remaining five found ourselves back in Kurama once again, hoping to meet her one more time. As night fell, we began to swap stories about strange things we'd encountered on our journeys, including the mysterious series of artworks by Kishida Michio called "Night Train". Morimi Tomihiko masterfully weaves strands of youth and fantasy into spine-tingling ghost stories of sojourns into night.

"There's no place that night doesn't touch. All the world's in perpetual night." <<less

To pay back her debt, Tang Tian was forced to sell herself to a ghost matchmaker, who wed her to a dead person. She never believed in ghosts and thought it would just be easy money.... more>>

Since then, however, she obtained an unusual mobile phone that broadcasts an eerie radio station announcement every night at midnight.

Little by little, one horrific ghost story after another came true.

Who will help her? <<less

In order to go back home, Su Wei is forced to bind with an unscrupulous system.... more>>

And the only task of the system is to eliminate the blackening value of the male supporting characters.

But who can tell her why the blackening value of these male supporting characters keeps increasing after they sleep with her willingly?

System: “Maybe it’s because you’re not using the correct sleeping position? I heard men like to be on top, why don’t you try it?”

Su Wei: “Get lost!”

BEEP BEEP BEEP – Warning! Blackening value of the male supporting character has exceeded the limit!

“…” Su Wei, with tears in her eyes, throws herself at the handsome man who is about to turn into a big villain, touches his sexy abs, twists her waist, and lets out a delicate moan, “Ah, it smells so good!”

The man smirks, pinches her waist fiercely, and speaks in a low and hoarse voice, “Huh, a woman who says one thing but means another.”

Su Wei: “Do you believe that it’s the system forcing me?”

System: Meow meow meow? Sorry, the signal is not good. This system will retreat for now!

One-sentence synopsis: The male supporting character blackens at the drop of a hat.

Contains a wife-chasing crematorium, also known as “The Male Supporting Character is Sick” and “The Forced Business of the Female Lead”

Couple: The sarcastic and optimistic female lead X various male supporting characters who blacken and turn into villains

Male lead: A heartless black-hearted dog who doesn’t do his job.

Female lead: A fallen girl who is targeted by the black-hearted dog.

System: Writing system named “tr*sh Chicken” with lots of kinky ideas, the king of plot twists.

A sweet petting story!!! The entire story is completed.

The order of the following worlds can be adjusted~

First World: Blackened School Grass x Childhood Sweetheart ✓ Completed

Second World: Disabled Crown Prince x Fated Princess ✓ Completed

Third World: Zombie Boss x White Moonlight Missy ✓ Completed

Fourth World: Imperial General x Mermaid Little Wife √ Completed

Fifth World: Immortal Cultivator x Crossdressing Little Rebel √ Completed

Sixth World: Omega Little Wife x Abstinence-type Crown Prince √ Completed. <<less

This story is about a strange woman who is looking for her lover in her past life but she always finds the wrong one.
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There were a few big bosses with different identities, all playing the same child raising apocalyptic game and raising the same daughter.... more>>

———they didn’t know about each others’ existence

The bosses would try all sorts of way to splurge on her every day, their only wish for their daughter to have the highest quality life possible during the apocalypse.

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Bian Bian was given birth during the apocalypse and adopted by an elderly man. When she was five years old, grandpa got infected by the virus and turned into a zombie. And so, she became an orphan, living miserably every day.

One day, an ability user found that on a rooftop balcony was a little girl dressed in a beautiful princess dress, happily eating hot pot!

While behind her stood two zombies, each holding a bowl of ice to help her keep cool.

Ability user: “……?”

Later on, Bian Bian’s birth parents came to find her.

Splurging daddies: “???”

Want to snatch my darling daughter away? No way!

Not long after, the sky changed. Dark clouds covered the world and true dragons swam in the skies.

The survivors were all trembling, only Bian Bian said happily, “My fathers are here to fetch me~”

Everybody: “???”

Why is father plural!? <<less

“Sanctuary” was the first holographic online game of the Blue Star system.... more>>

Qiao Nan unified the devil race, pacified the human world, and almost killed the gods when the “Sacred Realm” was deleted.

Qiao Nan, who should have been ejected from the game, was trapped in the game, experiencing one censored internal test after another.

During this period, Qiao Nan changed countless camps, magic, elves, sea, human, and even the divine realm, relying on the deletion of the file, but also recklessly increasing the goodwill of the NPCs and races.

Then on a day when Qiao Nan was quietly unaware, “Sanctuary” was publicly tested.

Thinking the file had been again, Qiao Nan once again chose the Demon camp.

The man who was appointed by him as the Archduke of the Demon Clan knelt down on one knee and kissed his hand.

Welcome back, my king

Qiao Nan: ????

However, the situation was still much more than that, and when he went to the other races, he found that things seemed to be a bit big. The high priest of the elves, the prince of the sea race who had been imprisoned for a hundred years, the great hero of the human race a hundred years ago, and the god of light …… who was forced to sleep in the divine realm all cast a respectful yet frenzied gaze at him.

Qiao Nan: Wait, what’s going on?!

The worlds seemed to have…… fused. <<less

Yan Yi Ming transmigrated into the hottest otome game at present. She became a female cannon fodder destined to be ruthlessly abandoned by the male protagonists; a stepping stone on the white moonlight female protagonist’s path to success.... more>>

The system informed her that only by replacing the female protagonist and becoming the white moonlight of the male protagonists then could she successfully escape and return to her world. After years of painstaking efforts, utilizing all kinds of strategies, and adopting various identities did she finally succeed in conquering the four male protagonists. She recovered her true body and eagerly awaited to go home but found that she was unable to go back.

A weak reminder from System:

Please read the user manual carefully: –

1. Become a white moonlight, and

2. To extricate oneself and make a successful retreat from the male protagonists.

Yan Yi Ming looked at the second condition and suddenly found herself in a pickle. <<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