"But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay." -Dante's Inferno The City, The last remaining bastion of humanity away from the danger that lurks outside its premise. A place where corporations lay amok and t...

I awoke in a room with a clouded mind. A mysterious bartender stated that this place was a rift, a void between universes; I did not comprehend much of it. He led me to a mission where he remarked that the rabbits were cute and that I was required to kill them. He cautioned me that these rabbits ...

The god of death brings some guys into a room where he makes them play to redeem themselves.

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...