BUILDING A LIFE OUT OF DEATHYuki wakes up to find herself in an unfamiliar manor, wearing a maid uniform and lying on a luxurious bed. Soon, she discovers five more girls, all dressed the same as her. This is the Ghost House, and the only way they can survive is to make it through the traps that lie in wait-deadly games full of blowguns, buzz saws, locked rooms, and weapons. It’s a hopeless, terrifying situation for everyone there…well, everyone except Yuki. After all, this is her career a...

Taïwan, 1934. Jingzi est une chanteuse extrêmement populaire. Après avoir tiré une prédiction dans un temple, elle se retrouve projetée dans notre monde moderne.Taïwan, de nos jours. Li Yixing est une jeune femme qui n’a pas encore réussi à faire ses preuves dans le monde musical.Ensemble, les deux chanteuses vont collaborer pour renvoyer Jingzi à son époque et réaliser leurs rêves : enregistrer un album et se produire au Sunrise Music Festival !

Having overcome the Wall of Thirty, Yuki restores her lost fingers and makes a full recovery. Not long after, she achieves her next milestone of clearing her fortieth game, and it seems like it’s smooth sailing from here. But everything changes during Cloudy Beach—Yuki’s forty-fourth game, one packed with veteran players who have also overcome the Wall of Thirty. On the game’s isolated island venue, Yuki stumbles upon a dismembered body reminiscent of the work of that sickening psychopath ...

PERIL FROM WITHIN AND WITHOUTAfter overcoming Cloudy B Beach, Yuki learns about a recent game that ended in a bloodbath, leaving only a handful of survivors. Resolving to investigate the catastrophe with Keito, a player she met in a previous game, Yuki uncovers the rise of another homicidal maniac. However, as she steels herself for the inevitable confrontation, she gets more bad news—this time concerning the scar on her right eye. Compounding her worries, one of her classmates begins to m...

THE PITFALLS OF EXPERIENCEThree months after the events of Candle Woods, Yuki plunges back into the world of death games. This time, she’s participating in Scrap Building, a race to escape an abandoned structure fifilled with deadly traps. But to make it out alive, she must contend with Mishiro, a haughty, pretentious player intent on getting in her way. Then time goes by, and Yuki fifinds herself in a game called Golden Bath, staring down the Wall of Thirty—a curse in the industry where m...

DEATH LURKS OUT OF SIGHT One evening, Yuki returns home to find an arrestingly beautiful girl standing outside her apartment building—Tamamo, whom she falsely promised to accept as her apprentice during Halloween Night. Now obligated to take the girl under her wing, Yuki reluctantly begins the process of training Tamamo and fifinds herself growing attached. While this is happening, Yuki reaches out to Rinrin, a retired player who had a successful career in death games despite being blind. ...

Alice Kagami is an ordinary high school girl who doesn't really get her friend Tamami's obsession with idol games. There's more to life than handsome digital boys, dating sims, and mini-games, right? But then, Tamami is "chosen" as one of the top idol fangirls in the country and gets drawn into the game — and hapless Alice gets pulled in too!Between dealing with the mismatched members of her idol group to intense pressure to spend real money on gachas, how is a total idol ...

After getting unexpectedly drawn into an idol dating sim, total newbie Alice Kagami doesn't have a clue how she's supposed to act like a proper producer, let alone save herself and her idol-obsessed friend Tamami. But after her group's crushing first loss, the only way to go is up!Together with her mismatched group of handsome boys, Alice learns to brave the gacha again, level up her idols, and join in summer festival fun. But will their group's newfound success transform digital d...

The goal of this contribution to the Elements series is to closely examine Merge, its form, its function, and its central role in current linguistic theory. It explores what it does (and does not do), why it has the form it has, and its development over time. The basic idea behind Merge is quite simple. However, Merge interacts, in intricate ways, with other components including the language's interfaces, laws of nature, and certain language-specific conditions. Because of this, and becaus...

The objective of publishing this book is to let the general public have a better understanding of the food security situation in China and better comprehension of the merit of allocating land through market mechanism. In addition, it makes the public aware of the inefficiencies of current government regulated land system.As a populous country in the world, China emphasizes too much importance of food to ensure people's sufficient consumption. There is a national policy to protect farm land...

My long-awaited life of marriage was a day-one disaster. Between my selfish husband and his overbearing mother, I was this close to reaching my breaking point... So I asked for a divorce!

My long-awaited life of marriage was a day-one disaster. Between my selfish husband and his overbearing mother, I was this close to reaching my breaking point... So I asked for a divorce!