How can you lose something you never have?When your own mother poisons you to gain pity from others, how should you feel?Why am I, the youngest, being married off?How can I care about something that is never mine?

My name is Calla Lind. For 20 years, I have lived within the shadow of my beautiful older sister - chasing and holding onto an illusion of love. A love that will never belong to me... Now with this second chance of life, I won't chase after illusion. I won't rely on someone else for happiness. I will do what I want, enjoy what I do, and learn to let go...

My name is Calla Lind. Ever since my reawakening, I have live my life the way I wanted. I was able to be Calla, meet people as Calla, and have people see me as Calla. I had thought to let go of the past and be free of it. Now I know, letting go also means moving on...

2 years is short...2 years is long...Days pass like years.Years continue on for eternity.Do you still remember the promise?

To Kill That Which Cannot Die After his success in battle with a demon, Lugh is made a Holy Knight by the Alvanian Kingdom and tasked with slaying more of the creatures. The problem is, only the hero can actually fell demons. Such a setback isn’t going to stop the world’s greatest assassin, however, and Lugh gets to work devising a spell to kill the supposedly immortal beings. Unfortunately, the only way to test this new magic is in a real battle! Failure promises certain doom, but triumph...

Is this the power of the hero?! Lugh challenges the orc general leading the monster horde, but no matter how he kills the demon, a mysterious force negates the damage. When Lugh tags in Epona, she unleashes the full fury of her overwhelming S-rank skill: Berserk! And while the hero’s might wins the day, what ramifications will the battle have on the war against the demons…and on Lugh’s true mission?

The Assassin Meets the Hero Lugh, Dia, and Tarte enroll in the most elite academy in the Alvanian Kingdom. On the surface, the group is there to learn how to be knights, but Lugh’s real goal is to get close to the hero he’s been tasked with eliminating. However, Lugh winds up getting more familiar with the hero than first intended, and he learns that the prophesized savior’s power comes at a steep price. Being a hero isn’t easy, and when trouble strikes, will the assassin have to save the ...

Balam just won't stay down. After his "death," Balam's darkness has spread far and wide, turning everyone it touches mad. Procel's dream of a utopia for both humans and demons seems unreachable, especially since the Creator is about to destroy the world to stamp out the darkness once and for all. In a desperate move, Procel asks the Creator for just one day to turn the tide. The Demon Lord of Dragons Astaroth joins Procel for the defense, but with Balam gaining the powers of the Demon Lord...

Action and drama intertwine in this captivating manga about a boy burdened with an impossible task—using the power of modern-day knowledge and alchemy to lift an entire nation out of poverty!Reborn as the third prince of a tiny and insignificant country, Hero happens to learn the forbidden yet powerful art of alchemy. Combined with his knowledge from modern-day Japan, Hero's abilities grow beyond what anyone in his world could fathom! With his newly-acquired powers...

Action and drama intertwine in this captivating manga about a boy burdened with an impossible task—using the power of modern-day knowledge and alchemy to lift an entire nation out of poverty!Reborn as the third prince of a tiny and insignificant country, Hero happens to learn the forbidden yet powerful art of alchemy. Combined with his knowledge from modern-day Japan, Hero's abilities grow beyond what anyone in his world could fathom! With his newly-acquired powers...

During its impressive career over the last decades the term 'performative' has been attributed with many parallel meanings in the humanities, philosophy, arts, or economics. Empty Stages, Crowded Flats additionally applies the notion of the performative to the context of curating with the aim to unfold a potential that so far has been mostly unused. The book is following J. L. Austin, Judith Butler, and others in their belief in the performative capacity to transform reality with words and...

Who will be declared the world's greatest valkyrie at the Ultimate Showdown of Power and Beauty? K-cup karateka Misora, or the utterly massive judoka Alevtina Guseva, a fighter with the inescapable grasp of a black hole?! And what's a girl to do after the battle is over...except head back to her hometown, pose nude for an aspiring and very flexible young artist, face off against a komodo dragon, and learn a sexy, if slippery, new skill?