A married man reaches out from a lonely hotel room to a younger family friend who has always trusted him. What begins as harmless reassurance deepens into late-night confessions, until one hypothetical changes everything: “If I were single…” Her reply lingers. So does the silence that follows....

After his father’s company found success, a boy left the countryside for Tokyo, where he became a popular middle school volleyball player. As his life changed, the quiet days of his past slowly drifted away. Yet one memory stayed with him, a childish promise made long ago by a girl from his ho...

"Is love really worth the trouble?" This story follows Sato Hiroshi as he visits his mother's hometown for the first time and is met with an unexpected surprise. He meets Chiyoko, a sheltered girl who doesn't know all that much about the world, strangely enough she is also supposedly waiti...

Harumasa Kengo has been rejected often enough to reach a firm conclusion: true love only exists in dramas and anime. In real life, confessions fail, feelings go unanswered, and everything ends with an awkward “let’s just stay friends.” Determined to avoid further embarrassment, he decides to s...

Everyone Is Gone, So I’m Opening a Café in My Former Bank —Jean was a ruthless bank manager and the world was at her feet, until one day everyone was gone and she was left behind. Jobless and confused, Jean has to forge a different slice of life for herself. With no one around but the care...

Arion failed the Academy entrance exam five times. Not because he lacked talent— but because he lacked a last name. At twenty-two, he finally gets accepted as the lowest-ranked student, surrounded by teenage prodigies and noble heirs.

In this ever-changing world built on conspiracy and technological ambition, where governments, corporations, and mafias claw for dominance, Golden Lion’s Pharmaceuticals engineered countless human weapons to grasp it. Among them, Project ASTRAEA's first successful attempt in humanity’s forced e...

Hugo Narakami has mastered the ultimate high school survival strategy: absolute invisibility. To avoid the painful social traps of his past, he minimizes his presence, relying on deadpan silence to graduate with a zero percent social engagement rate. Forced into the demanding world, Hugo want...

Okay, so like, my name is Molly and I have a tiny little secret. I'm the Demon Lord's daughter. Like, the Demon Lord. The big bad evil guy that heroes have been trying to defeat for centuries. That's my dad. He's actually super sweet and doting, but don't tell anyone I said that. I'm als...

This is volume two so before reading it read volume 1 This story follows a boy named Shin Tomoko, who lost his mother at the age of five. After her death, his father abandoned him and gave him to their butler, throwing him away like he meant nothing. The butler took care of Shin because his fat...