Kuala Lumpur, August 2003. The city is draped in Jalur Gemilang flags, but for Darin, a freshman from the quiet hills of Sabah, KL feels like a battlefield. Darin arrives at his local college with a heart as hardened as a sun-dried cocoa bean. To him, women are like "rumput semalu"—fickle, shal...

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 ...

One unspecified day, Issei finds himself in a room with other strangers. Death himself arrives and forces them to play a game to redeem their souls. What have these people done to end up in this limbo of deadly games?

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....

To Mahiro transfers schools with one simple goal: To meet his childhood friend again. That’s it. But his first day turns into a disaster, he collapses, embarrasses himself, gets misunderstood, and somehow ends up surrounded by rumors, weird classmates, and his own overactive imagination....

"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...