HOW MANY LIVES DOES AN ASSASSIN NEED TO SURVIVE A HIGH SCHOOL ROMANCE?Sousei Takarai is not normal. More than anything, he wants to be a regular high schooler like everyone else. That’s why he has to keep his less-than-wholesome job a secret. Of course, the school life he’s carefully built up is shattered when the most beautiful girl in class, Asumi Shiramori, asks him out. Unfortunately, his work as an assassin takes up most of his evenings and weekends, so he can’t even go on a proper da...

FREED BY DEATH, CHAINED BY FRIENDSHIP.After being saved by his classmate Kuchina Hitsujimoto, Sousei decides he wants to thank her. However, what starts out as a letter of gratitude eventually develops into an exchange diary also involving Asumi Shiramori, Hina Shigee, and Yukisada Hayashi. Kuchina enjoys writing to her classmates, yet she can’t help but feel pain whenever she has fun—a mindset conditioned into her by the boss of the All-Japan Assassin Association, Furuhiko Kagemiya. Event...

TAKING LIVES AND STEALING HEARTS!Sousei wants to get closer to his classmate Kuchina Hitsujimoto. She isn’t just any ordinary classmate, though—Kuchina is in the same line of shadowy work as Sousei, and their powers miraculously complement each other. Yet it’s hard to make much headway when Kuchina inexplicably avoids him, and Sousei’s (more or less) former girlfriend, Asumi Shiramori, notices the strange mood around the pair and decides to take action. Meanwhile, Sousei is focused on his ...

THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORYInfected by a mysterious being called the Goddess and transformed into unthinking creatures of havoc and slaughter, abominations known as “heroes” wage an endless war of blind justice on monsters… never realizing that these monsters are actually fellow humans. Only Charon, an elite unit led by a young man named Azuma, stands a chance against these terrifying heroes. So what might happen when Kaguya, a headstrong young scientist, joins Charon’s ranks and wa...

HER FACE MAY BE SUNAO’S, BUT HER FEELINGS ARE HER OWN.When Sunao is sick, or has a test to take, or simply doesn’t feel like going out, I take her place. I’m her replica, her stand-in. My purpose is to help her, to do whatever she asks and nothing more. But when I fall in love, everything changes. I start putting my hair half-up, so the boy I like knows it’s me, and spend time with him as myself. I’m her replica, and everything I have is borrowed. But my heart is mine alone.

Reaching for the moonThe summer of Chitose’s second year in high school was unforgettable, lit up with encounters like fireworks across the short-lived night sky. The end of the season may be near, but that just opens the way for new beginnings. In this collection of vignettes from four different girls, that summer will last just a little longer before this chapter of their lives closes for good.

THESE HEROES MIGHT BE MORE TROUBLE THAN THEY’RE WORTHHomura wants to light something, anything, on fire—and she finally gets her chance when she’s summoned to another world that’s desperate enough to ask her for help! Along with a group of similarly offbeat high school girls who all have their own powers, Homura sets off to incinerate evildoers and rein in the chaos caused by the Dark Lord’s resurrection. But what happens when these five oddballs get carried away? Will they actually save t...

A TALE OF SWEET LOVE AND BITTER REVENGEHugo is stuck in a loop, repeating his life over and over, only to be betrayed and murdered by those closest to him—his own family—every single time. But enough is enough! Now on his seventh life, he swears revenge. After hearing rumors that the powerful archduke’s daughter is really a bloodthirsty monster, he offers himself as her groom in the hope that the allegiance will give him the power he needs or that she will at least kill him and free him fr...

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...

An honorable knight fallen from grace…returns as a total stud! Ras Talion was once a respectable knight who single‑handedly slayed a Greater Dragon, but he lost his beloved in that same battle. Now Ras is a mercenary and a hedonist who visits brothels night after night. He’s even known throughout the empire by the derisive nickname “the Stallion.” One day, he comes face‑to‑face with the impossible—the supposedly deceased imperial princess Fiarca, his ex‑fiancée. Alive and kicking, she assi...

CUTTING DOWN EVIL ISN’T ALWAYS SO SIMPLEIn another world, Homura has found herself part of a group of beautiful but perhaps not entirely sane young girls who follow their own rules, and they’re finally starting to settle into their new lives in their own special ways. But what happens when they get sent to a far-off port town to investigate a mysterious monster attack? A beachside standoff against a shark, ogre hunting at a nearby fishing village, and worst of all, getting tangled up with ...

A Faithful Hound or a Violent Machine? Amalgams: fearsome tactical weapons deployed to the front lines of battle. As the leader of a special investigation unit tasked with hunting down rogue Amalgams, Theo Starling has no love for these tools of war. In a strange twist of fate, he’s assigned a partner named Eleven, who looks like a young girl—but she’s actually an astonishingly lifelike Amalgam. And though Eleven is incapable of understanding human emotions, Theo must cast aside his reserv...