Everything Cain Igarashi thought he knew is upended as he finds himself ripped from Earth and summoned to the besieged world of Ranael by a mysterious group known as Last Bastion. This strange world is under attack by otherworldly creatures from beyond the stars, called the Bottomless. This “Last...

Raizen Kurogane's life was perfectly ordinary, until he touched his father's hidden stone. Now he can see them. The Makura. Shadow monsters that have always lurked in the darkness, feeding on fear and chaos, invisible to human eyes. And they can see him too. Every single one of them wants him...

He woke up in a field under a copper field sky. His old life ? A forgotten dream. now in a city of grinding gears and whispering gods. Amir Zen a hero ? no more likely a survivor that he learns every power requires a sacrifice to find his way home he must learn to lie, to fight, and see the hidde...

Inagawa Shigeru's life is coming apart at the seams. After a startling question on a talk show leads to a break up with his lover, all eyes are on him and not in the way he'd prefer. But the show must go on and Shigeru has always been good at acting like everything is alright. When his manage...

A man at the end of his rope makes a desperate choice, only to awaken somewhere impossible — a world of soft grass, strange skies, and a body that isn’t his own. Before he can make sense of it, a tiny blue guide appears, speaking of “levels,” “skills,” and “quests.” He thought he’d escaped lif...

Renka works late nights in Tokyo just trying to keep her life together, until a faceless spirit steps out of a dark alley and shatters everything she thought was real. Moments before she’s taken, a man with silver hair and burning eyes appears and destroys the creature with a single strike. He ca...

A story where two girls from a rural town in northern Japan are late to their friend's Halloween party.

My name is Fujiki Nishi, a quiet student who becomes the victim of bullying every single day in class. However, one day, my classmates and I were suddenly summoned to a strange world — another world filled with magic and mysterious creatures. There, we were called the heroes who would save tha...

Back story of banshees. A story created for my competition.