tragedy

At the heart of a wish lies an attempt at completion, a human desire to become our true and final selves. Wishes are fuelled by regrets and are bound eternally to the past, serving as approximations of what once was. We all experience regret and nostalgia, leading us to make wishes and find despair, but can we become our true selves despite this all? That's where the story of a girl who struggles to control her desires begins... Two souls sharing the same body and memory are living in Kyoto 2031. Tang-Ji Shizukesa, a girl who's grown up in her previous life with a hardcore passion for gaming, is now a bookworm in her new life who has no interest in video games. Along with her, Kazami and Hoyeon, the three childhood friends who separated 7 years ago due to an accident, have now been reunited again in a VRMMORPG game known as Dusk Protocol. The game has a unique combat system known as "Leere," a physical manifestation of an individual soul that can be conjured into deadly weapons. As Tang-Ji navigates this virtual world, she confronts the echoes of her past and the dissonance between her former self and her present identity. How will she cope with the rediscovery of a life she thought she left behind? How will Kazami and Hoyeon react to the new Tang-Ji? In a world where reality is malleable and death is just a click of a button away, the boundaries between past and present blur, forcing everyone to grapple with the truth of who they truly are. Disclaimer: This novel contains explicit language, violence, racism, and sexual scenes. There are also scenes that deal with various traumas, from physical to emotional to mental. (THE CHARACTERS’ CIRCUMSTANCES , TRAITS, AND BELIEFS IN THIS NOVEL ARE ALL BASED ON A TRUE STORY.)

Yujin and his countless clones have traveled through time! Talents, skills, and abilities are shared. But... why are they all starting out so disastrously? Naruto Yujin: I'm in the Uchiha clan, and there are only ten months left until the night of genocide. Pirate Yujin: I've been locked up in the Crimson Hell of Impel Down for seven years. Come on, brothers! Marvel Yujin: I don't know what I can do. I can only make sure I don't get arrested by the immigration authorities. Lord God Space Yujin: Once I've outlasted those breeding crews, I'll ask the Lord to restore me. Then I can start my big move! Wait for me! DC Yujin: God knows how I even live across from the Joker. The Arkham Asylum prison break is too difficult! Journey to the West Yujin: I just found out, and this place I'm staying in is called the Lion Country. Brothers, see you in the next life... Dragon Ball Yujin: Good news, I'm in the Goku era. Bad news, I can't even defeat the audience at the World Martial Arts Tournament. Master Roshi wouldn't even look at me. ... Years later, someone commented on Yujin. "His journey has been filled with blood and tears... He is bound to hate evil with all his might!" **** Support me on my ko-fi account and read upto 15 early chapters, https://ko-fi.com/aayume ***** This is a translation. 同时穿越：全是深渊难度 ***** Please subscribe to my Youtube Channel and support me, https://www.youtube.com/@OtakuFictionTales/shorts ****** Join Me on Discord : https://discord.com/invite/cnnMq3te

Ash Wyvern was once the most feared assassin of his age—silent, precise, unstoppable. But even he could not escape death. Murdered by The Thirteen Months, without ever knowing why, Ash awakens to an impossible truth: he has been reincarnated into the body of a newborn girl—Lina Lapis. In his past life, the world pulsed with mana and magic. In this one, such forces are said to have vanished, replaced by a strange and unfamiliar source of power. Stripped of his weapons, his identity, and even his very gender, Ash must navigate childhood as Lina while secretly clinging to the instincts of a killer. Haunted by fragments of his past and driven by a burning question—Why did they kill me?—Lina embarks on a perilous journey through a world that hides its truths, ruins that whisper of forgotten ages, and battles that test both body and spirit. But as enemies close in and conspiracies unravel, one truth becomes clear: her death was only the beginning.

The novel opens with Elara Vane, known only by her cold precision and her devastating vow to silence the House of Kaelen - the powerful, corrupt dynasty responsible for the execution of her father, Arthur Vane. Her father, an honest city architect, was murdered after exposing Kaelen's financial crimes, his memory silenced by the state. Elara’s quest is driven by the dark irony of the novel’s title, Epiglottis - the biological flap that prevents choking. She aims to ensure the Kaelen name, its legacy, and it's very breath, can never pass into the future. Elara’s methods are not those of a killer, but an architect of ruin. Her strikes are psychological and systemic, designed to preserve the Kaelen shell while poisoning its core. She begins by orchestrating the financial and social collapse of the eldest heir, Cassian, banishing him to ignominy. The second blow is even more tragic: deploying the Aesthetic Despondency Oil (ADO), a neuro-chemical weapon designed by her compromised mentor, Professor Thorne, to turn artistic creation into profound psychological pain for the daughter, Seraphina. Seraphina's resulting public breakdown ensures the loss of a crucial political marriage. As the dynasty begins to crumble, Elara encounters her greatest obstacle and most tragic complication: Commander Joric Tahl, the Head of Kaelen Security. Joric is a man of duty, a 'Shield' forced to serve a corrupt house to maintain life support for his critically ill sister, Elena. In their professional meetings - where Elara wears the mask of "Archivist Veridia" - a profound intellectual and moral connection forms. Joric is hunting a ghost; Elara is the ghost, and their shared despair over the city's corruption binds them in a devastating, impossible attraction. The tragic climax begins when Elara attempts the final, financial strike against Valen Kaelen, only to be blocked by the A-V-LOCK, the impenetrable firewall designed by her own murdered father. This failure forces Elara to abandon her moral code and plan a final, biological attack - the Mnemotic Lapse agent - targeting the youngest, most innocent Kaelen son, Elias, through the city's nutrient supply chain (The Citadel Gardens). The confrontation at the Citadel is the devastating turning point. Joric, having traced the biological threat and realized Elara's identity, arrives with the antidote. He confronts her, not with a weapon, but with a challenge: whether her father's "silent justice" truly extends to the erasure of a child's mind. Elara's resolve breaks, but the compound is accidentally released, contaminating the entire Kaelen food source. In the aftermath, Joric makes his agonizing choice: he cannot save the Kaelen name, but he must save Elena. He spares Elara, extracting a final pact - she must deliver the evidence of Valen Kaelen’s crimes, including the A-V-LOCK key, to ensure the dynasty’s public, total exposure, which would secure a new, honest government that would protect Elena. Elara complies, trading her freedom for the truth. In the epilogue, the Kaelen dynasty is utterly erased. Joric becomes a respected advisor in the new government, ensuring Elena's safety. Elara Vane, the architect of ruin, chooses the required silence, living as a quiet librarian in a distant coastal town. Her vengeance is complete, having restored her father's truth. Her final piece of closure is a new copy of her father’s book, delivered by Joric, bearing the inscription: The Epiglottis protects the breath. The truth sets it free. The silent vengeance leads not to further death, but to a collective breath of freedom for the city.

Corrupted by Angel Of Chaos. Cursed by the whispers of unknown beings. Stripped of will, power, and memory. Shon Eril makes a choice—an insane choice. Not bound by fate. Not forced by death. Not by his own will. But by a choice, a revelation. He steps into a book, and awakens in another body… Ibaan De Light. A vast world unfolds before him: towering machinery, advanced technology, mighty clans, secretive organizations, churches, sealed contracts, schools, endless metros and carriers, airships crossing the skies, and the unknown—the same frightening beings, the curse carriers! Here begins his journey, not as a hero, but as a servant of Willpower. Will he reclaim his will, or lose himself to its abyss? This is the tale of what he seeks… and what seeks him. *** "I order you to understand me—my will, my choices and my beloved ones." ——————— Extra Tags: #AcademyArc #Scoopy #Clans #SecretOrganizations #cults #mysteries #hidden identities #unknown beings #angels #daemons #deities etc [Join the Discord server for illustrations and more: https://discord.gg/djNAmGxJZ5] [1 chapters per day because can't risk the quality of the chapters, as I am just a beginner] Support my first novel—not first in a sense but could be considered as first' —with the power stones, golden tickets or gifts and comments are also well appreciated .

A young boy’s innocent dreams of world peace evolve into a dark, psychological odyssey as he grows into Mr. N, a morally ambiguous savior with a god in his head. This world reeks of failure, of fault, of imperfection. But it will not be this way for long. I will make this place anew. I will make it perfect with my gentle guiding hand~ Or— with the certainty of my closing fist, I will tear out their eyes and force them to see the world exactly as I do.

The expansive universe has limitless life and possibilities, but a majority of those chances fall under the despondent tree of chaos and death. Wars in intergalactic space, the exact solution for peace, are reported to kill an innumerable amount of people annually. Vale Luckwish, a man who holds the Skinny Warlock Psychologist System, is the key to an optimal future for all worlds. The universe's last hope. Using magic and technology, one can dodge bullets, evade death lasers, and even destroy planets! For Vale, he’s a warlock with a one of a kind ability to understand all beings with a single gaze, making him the greatest psychologist to ever travel the cosmos. Bringing peace to a universe isn’t an easy task, but for a mind reading warlock psychologist, it just might be possible. Problem is, he’ll soon realize… the universe doesn’t give a shit about him! “The universe is too corrupt and expansive to fix, but if I can just help a few million people across a few galaxies, then I can die happy.” Voyaging across the cosmos, Vale's space crew, The Eight Wandering Therapists, accompany him with their less than ordinary personalities. These oddball pirates, maintaining a fun lifestyle, are on a mission to bring peace to the universe, helping one being at a time.

SYNOPSIS: Arin Sharma was just a cyber expert, until the world ended. On May 14 2032, Earth didn’t burn. It vanished. A rift tore open the sky, and in a heartbeat, the planet was ripped from its orbit and hurled into a distant, hostile galaxy. Cities collapsed, continents shifted, and billions vanished in a single breath. They called it The Shift, an extinction event without fire or warning. A year later, Earth survives… but it doesn’t heal. Technology decays. Governments fracture. Familiar stars are gone, replaced by unfamiliar constellations and a creeping sense that something out there is watching—ancient, silent, and cold. The world has become a haunted carcass, crawling with horrors born of desperation, alien science, and human arrogance. In this fractured world, Arin drifts without purpose, plagued by guilt and silence. Until he discovers a buried secret beneath the ruins of what once was—a message encoded in alien signals. The Shift wasn’t random. It was a warning. And someone, or something, has responded. Now, Arin must navigate a planet that has become unrecognizable twisted by alien biology and infected with human ambition gone mad. Monstrous creatures roam the wastelands, mutations of man and beast, warped by invasive DNA, parasitic growths, or fusions of flesh and rogue technology. Bioengineered horrors, once created for protection, have turned predator. Humanity has splintered into warring factions, some worshipping the new gods in the stars, others performing experiments on survivors in a race to evolve… or survive. In the shadows, the true invaders stir, eldritch beings beyond comprehension, whose mere presence bends reality and time, driving minds to madness. They are not here to conquer. They are here to reclaim. Amid gore-soaked survival, betrayal, and the collapse of morality, Arin races to uncover the truth of what Earth has become—and what it is becoming. Along the way, he will face tragedy, treason, body horror, and cosmic terror, forced to decide not just how to survive… but whether humanity deserves to. Because The Shift wasn’t the end. It was the prologue. And what comes next is worse.

After the War, a New Era Begins... Twenty years after the great war, hero society has changed beyond recognition. Once symbols of hope and justice, heroes are now just another part of the system—overworked, underpaid, and treated as little more than civil servants. The golden age of heroism is over, replaced by a world that sees them as nothing more than government employees. Yet, not everyone is content with this peace. In the shadows, dangerous movements stir. Cults devoted to the League of Villains and the Paranormal Liberation Front conspire to restore an era where power ruled above all. The long-feared Quirk Singularity Theory is becoming reality—new generations are developing quirks so unstable and devastating that society itself is struggling to keep control. Desperate to reclaim their lost glory, former heroes align with extremists, vigilantes rise from the cracks, and the line between justice and ambition blurs. Enter Tetsuo Hoshigawa, a 16-year-old born into this uncertain era. Raised on tales of legendary heroes, he dreamed of following in their footsteps. But the world he steps into is nothing like the one he imagined. Now, as society teeters on the edge of collapse, one question remains: if the world no longer believes in heroes, what does it truly mean to be one?

Arin Sharma was just a systems engineer—until the world shattered. On July 27, 2032, Earth didn’t burn. It vanished. A rift tore the sky, and in an instant, the planet was ripped from its place in the cosmos, hurled into an unknown galaxy. Cities collapsed, continents shifted, and billions disappeared into silence. They called it The Shift. A year later, the world survives but doesn’t heal. Governments cling to power. Technology falters. Unfamiliar stars replace old constellations. And in the darkness beyond, something watches—ancient, patient, cold. Now, Arin drifts through a broken world, purposeless and haunted. But when he uncovers a secret buried in the ruins, he learns The Shift wasn’t random chaos. It was a signal. A warning. A beginning. And whatever answered… is coming.

The region of Turfazia, shaped by the existence of the only two surviving kingdoms — Dirfázia and Akatlon — stands on the edge of war. Amid fragile peace and rising shadows, a young mage steps into a world where every spark of power hides the memory of something far greater — and far more dangerous — than anyone remembers.

One summer, the sky burned red and humanity fell. The alien race known as the Vexari descended without warning, slaughtering millions. But for the brightest and most resilient among us, a darker fate awaited: captivity in fifteen biome-engineered ranches scattered across Earth. Here, the Vexari’s cruel sport began - a weekly Hunt where humans, now called runners, trained, chased, and killed to empower the aliens. To solidify their galactic dominance.

On the night Cidolfus Lynvern was born, the Red Moon turned the sky into blood and monsters crawled out of the earth. He entered the world with no magic, no aura—a living curse feared even by the gods. Twelve years later, a Northern army wipes out his home. Cid escapes into the deadly White Desert with his little sister, Emily, surviving a year and a half of monsters, starvation, and death. He kills beasts far above his level, slays a black wyvern as a child, and bonds with Clain, a mysterious soul weapon whose spirit speaks to him in dreams. The Shadow of Creation final But to save Emily’s future, Cid makes the strongest choice of his life— he sends her away, breaking his own heart so she can live. Now alone, he becomes a hunter feared by monsters and kingdoms alike. He rises from A-Rank to S-Rank and finally becomes the first NT-Rank in Alfrey’s history. Even kings begin searching for him. His fate changes again when he meets Fenrona, a wolf-eared princess cursed by Fenrir, and later Sith, a 10-year-old girl from the dawn of time—daughter of Zeus, hunted by Time itself. Alongside Arthur of Camelot and Merly, they become a group the world will one day fear and worship: The Cursed Children. Monsters, kingdoms, gods, and fate itself hunt them… But Cid was born under a bleeding moon for a reason..

The tower of babel, the infinite cave, the divine elevator.A phenomenon with three thousand names, one that could be called the path towards enlightenment. One day humanity was plunged into a new era. An era of awakeners. Where the strongest where challenged with following the path to greatness, failure being met with death or something far worse. Silently, forces beyond what can be understood clash with one another. This is a story of enlightenment, but underneath all facades, lies and realms. This is a game between two players fated to end in stalemate. As the board of reality is set, the Demon King and the Hero face one another on an eternal replay. This is the story of a certain regressor, too keen on killing a God. What to expect? Weak-to-strong, some horror! loops and more loops! slow progression! and failure!

Karl always dreamed of becoming the greatest Magi… but reality slapped him hard. Weak spells, zero combat talents, and a magic rank so low even goblins would laugh at him. Karl is stuck doing the most boring job in the Magi Association: filing reports, fetching documents, collecting dead bodies. Living a life completely opposite of the hero he wanted to be. Until one day, everything changed. Karl receives a mysterious offer to join Guild C—a secretive team of High class Magi. Nobody knows why they want someone as "useless" as him. but Karl accepts. And the moment he steps into Guild C, his whole life flips. Treacherous dungeons, cursed monsters, concealed conspiracies, ancient truths… and a power inside Karl that not even he knew existed. This is the story of the weakest Magi, who rose from the shadows, not because he was strong— But only because the world had no idea what he was truly capable of.

BB isn't your normal detective. Especially when he gets kidnapped by a time travelling priest and his merry band of adventurers. Their sentient time machine, TODD is planning something for he brought, an assassin, a serial killer, a priest, a dictator, a spy, a thug, and a psychic together to do something.

"May death be upon you." Such an ominous prayer, who would utter such words to another? And yet, those who walks the shadows sees it all. It lingers among mankind, it come for all. It comes for you and it will come for me. From the moment of first breath, it waited till the lasts. Yet, he's not the Death they feared, he is but the accompaniment, a melody of destruction brought forth.

Kang Juhwan, a lonely student who escapes into dating sims, is pulled into a mysterious game called Dead End Dating Simulator after clicking a strange pop-up. The game installs itself on his devices, knows his name, and assigns real-world missions with threats of “punishment” for failure. His first task: explore an abandoned high school between 10 PM and 3 AM. Even in daylight, the place feels wrong... but the mission timer keeps counting down, and the app can’t be deleted. Terrified yet trapped, Juhwan realizes he’s been forced into a deadly “dating game” where choices are permanent and love might kill him.

Christmas night, 2035. Strait of Hormuz. Captain John Hastings and his seven-man Gray Horse element, call-sign of a TF Orange hunter-killer team, fast-roped onto a burning platform to seize a cooler-sized bioweapon. None of them made it off alive. Only Hastings did. A micro-payload from the weapon punched through his plate and lodged beside his heart. The experimental toxin NMDA-7 began rewriting his mind in real time. Medically retired with “severe PTSD,” he’s sent home. Then the dead start talking. Teammates appear at his six on comms that no longer exist. Past and present collapse, overwrite, merge. Ghosts at his six and vengeance in his veins, Hastings turns a neon megacity into his private kill zone. Every body he drops violates the assassin world’s Code of Silence, driving his bounty higher with every heartbeat. Hunted by every contractor on the continent, trapped between two timelines, armed only with the voices of the dead, he races toward a single, terrible truth: The platform never stopped burning. The war never ended. Some men come home in a box. John Hastings came home carrying the war inside his chest. Now the world learns what happens when a Tier-One ghost refuses to stay dead. #SpecialForces#JSOC#TaskForceOrange#Military#Realistic#Brotherhood#TierOne#NearFuture#Gunfights

At the far north of the Atherno Continent, in an unknown village, Kyrian was born as a mere mortal. Weak, insignificant, and destined for oblivion. But he was anything but ordinary. Upon opening his eyes for the first time, they revealed an absolute white eyes without pupils or irises… and with them, an inexplicable innate talent. The ability to see what no one else could. His eyes didn’t just see the particles of spiritual energy, they could steal them. And more than that. Whether intentions, laws, concepts… everything before his vision could be taken by his eyes. When he stole his first Sword Intention, his eyes awakened to the path of the blade. Upon taking the Intention of Ice, another ocular pair was born. With every new stolen intention, his eyes changed, and new ones appeared. Kyrian does not hide them from the world, no, heeding his mother’s last wishes. He uses his gift without fear, with only one goal. To become strong by any means. (This is my first story, so don't expect anything mind-boggling. I just write what I think would be interesting and easy to read. English isn't my first language, so if there are any mistakes, please let me know so I can fix them. Otherwise, enjoy your reading)