“Hello, Tamashi Ume! I am the Guide. How would you like to be a test subject?” That was the first thing Tamashi heard on an otherwise ordinary morning. An azure, talking smoke had just asked him if he'd volunteer to be a lab rat. Before he knew it, Tamashi's brain was flooded with information...

Twenty year old Kira Ishikawa is having a rough go. She can't use a computer, her parents can't live together, and her gap year from school might be the rest of her life unless magically-assisted crime can finally pay tuition. Anything she touches also experiences her feelings tenfold, whether st...

Once a year, the sovereign witches of the Egregore Seven gather for a tea party. This year's event is hosted in Sapporo, Japan, and the task of security falls to Section Eight, a new, experimental division beneath the National Public Safety Commission tasked with preventing magical crimes. Cap...

Alan drifts through the remnants of his former life, unpaid bills, dead-end jobs, a small apartment cluttered with the little traces of the past. Guilt eats at him and his memories splinter. In a bar Alan meets a woman, Evangeline, enigmatic, commanding attention without trying, seeming to unders...

“The best photographs are the ones taken when nobody notices.” Photography student Mikazuki Hajime dreams of capturing truth, not perfection. But when assigned to Japan’s top idol Tsukishiro Rin, his world turns upside down. Behind the lights and cameras, Hajime slowly discovers a girl who’...

Cecelia Summers is a 24 year-old substitute kindergarten teacher who lives alone with her cat and if that sounds awful, that's because it is. Teaching is a nightmare and anyone who says otherwise simply cannot be trusted. But you know what's even worse than cleaning up snot, tears, and poop all d...

Reality can be harsh. Nothing guarantees a satisfactory life. One's everyday could consist of misery or struggling to adapt to daily life. At last, some resort to fiction. Can we blame them? Maybe. But what if the fantasy itself manifested for them? What would be the right choice? Is reality, ult...

Daisuke Tanaka always dreamed of becoming a top detective in Japan’s elite Magical-Specialized Emergency Response Team, M-SERT—a specialized law enforcement agency founded by the government to handle all emergencies magical in nature. But after successfully graduating from the academy, he gets st...

Tama Kimura lived such an average, simple life. Average enough to have no meaning, average enough to go to a normal school, average enough to slack off, and especially average enough to have no magic in it— "BORING! You're so boring, I can't stand it anymore! Stop showing me every second of yo...

I’m Eren—or at least, I used to be. Now, I’m Aren. Death came for me in a way too strange to explain, yet here I stand again. Why? To find purpose in a world that’s ruthless, where survival demands more than strength—it demands the mind of a predator. Every step I take is precise, every move c...