At 59 years old, John Leben had only one passion left in life. Playing Alfiria Saga, a fantasy MMORPG he had devoted 25 years of his life to. After resigning from his job in his mid-thirties and living alone ever since. John found comfort and meaning in the game world he loved — even as ...

Kawamura Nagi, 16 years old, stands atop a skyscraper in the heart of Tokyo. A cigar burns quietly between his fingers as he takes one last look at the city's endless lights, the same city that left him alone, unseen, and unmissed. He steps forward without hesitation. The wind roars. The world ...

What Stayed Behind is a quiet series of short stories, each beginning with something small—something forgotten, unused, or left behind. The first volume tells a longer, meditative tale: when a young woman finds a pair of unopened dog nail clippers, it awakens memories of her late companion and...

Norihiko Hojo is a fifteen-year-old high school student who comes from a long line of lawyers and judges. He decides to become one himself after witnessing firsthand the cruelty of the world, which led to his mother’s death. In his third year of middle school, he already had enough knowledge t...

When a group of armed terrorist decide to attack Hanamizu University of the Arts, the students of class 3-A soon find themselves reincarnated in a new world – Eystial. There are many questions: who were the terrorists, why did they attack, what is Eystial and more importantly, do the students hav...

The world called him a demon. But all he wanted was to sleep. Long after civilization had forgotten his name, a black dragon opened his eyes amidst the ruins of a world he had scorched himself thousands of years ago. He didn't remember why he had done it. He didn't even remember who he truly w...

In the southeastern corner of Gravania lies the Kingdom of Palanthein, once celebrated for its artistic grace and the philosophers whose ideas shaped generations. But behind that, social inequality plagues the country and makes its people begin to wonder, is our beautiful country really that beau...

Amertia was just a business woman, raising her younger sister alone by herself. One day, she never expected a god to summon her. "My path, you must trace it." "I will wait for you to find me" When she woke up, Amertia found she was in another world. Tracing the path prepared by the gods,...

Matisse Castor was never a fan of video games that had multiple endings, or those open world ones where decisions mattered, or when characters ‘will remember that’. It was too difficult, it was too much like the consequences in real life. However, fate was cruel to Matisse, thrusting him into...

What happens when the creator gets lost inside his world? Erick Fischer, a reclusive English writer and tabletop RPG game master, wakes up in the very fantasy universe he helped create, along with his best friend Nikkita, a russian engineer and longtime brainstorm partner. At first, it was ...