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I was a corporate slave with a normal outlook on life, values, and romance. My worldview shattered after I get isekai'd, and through a twist of fate, I went with the flow, unexpectedly accepting my new reality in the role closest to the anime world... that's right, I became a voice actor. --- If you like Grand Blue, then you'll like this. You'll find everything here, from romance and comedy to interesting conversations, Japanese life, and life lessons you can apply in the real world. Note: The timeline in this book differs somewhat from real life, don't sweat the small stuff.

"Could you survive a horror movie?" That's the question Riley must answer after he and his friends get lured to Carousel, a malevolent town where horror movies come to life. Riley thinks he is in big trouble when he is assigned the archetype, a minor support class that has a penchant for dying early in movies. At first resigned to his fate to die over and over, he believes he has found a way to survive. Upon obtaining the trope, monsters and killers will not harm him as long as he can convincingly pretend he has not noticed them. At first, this ability appears to be a joke, but Riley thinks that with some clever exploitation, it might just be his greatest strength. What to expect: -Strategic gameplay and clever uses of movie tropes to survive -Perilous storylines right from your favorite horror movies -Creative Twists of Classic Horror Movie tropes -Moderate stats-based combat and strategy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is a Original Novel and not a Fan-Fiction!!! The author of this novel is 'lost_rambler'. I found this and upload it here with some edits. If the original author wants it removed then contact me.

A new phenomenon, or a perhaps a new guide, appears in a world that has been ruined by the final impact that the gods had upon. In order to help, the guide named Mahina, has offered to help humanity. Mahina has chosen to help the human race by understanding the world all together; using her advantage and knowledge to change the fates of the world. She finds companions that will help her with her journey to prevent the extinction of the mankind.

"Shatter, Kyōka Suigetsu!" After transmigrating into the world of Hunter x Hunter, Mord awakened a Specialization-type Nen ability—Zanpakutō. Ryūjin Jakka, Senbonzakura, Hyōrinmaru, Kyōka Suigetsu... "When did you ever have the illusion that you weren’t under hypnosis, Hisoka?" Mord stared at the man before him and spoke with utmost seriousness. "Your illusions are far too flimsy before me." 100 PS = 1 Bonus Chapter 5 Star Review = 1 Bonus Chapter

She woke up with blood on her hands. A dead child beside her. No memory of how she got there. No explanation for the three hours she'd lost. Only a voice — cold, patient, impossibly familiar — speaking from somewhere inside her own mind. His name is Veyran. He has existed for two centuries. He has destroyed seventeen hosts before her. Aria should be the eighteenth. She isn't. Something about her is different — something that makes Veyran slow down instead of consume. Something that a hunter named Theron recognizes as dangerous. Something that an ancient man named Aldric has been waiting for. Now hunted by an organization that believes all hosts must be eliminated, Aria must learn to hold the line between herself and the darkness inside her — before Veyran decides she's worth keeping. Or worse. Before she decides the same about him.

Emma Carter never imagined that one accident would change her life forever. Forced into a contract marriage with the cold billionaire Alexander Knight, she finds herself trapped in a world full of secrets, jealousy, and danger. As their fake marriage slowly turns complicated, Emma discovers that Alexander’s past may destroy everything between them.

On the day she was meant to become a bride, her world collapsed. Betrayed by the man she loved and framed for a crime she never committed, she was abandoned, disgraced, and hunted like a criminal. With nowhere left to run, she thought her life was already over. Until a drop of her blood summoned something far worse. A demon. Bound by a mysterious blood contract, the powerful demon is now tied to her for one year. In exchange for his power, he promises to help her uncover the truth, destroy those who betrayed her, and reclaim the life that was stolen from her. But demons never help for free. As their dangerous alliance deepens, secrets begin to unravel, enemies close in, and the line between hatred and desire begins to blur. Because the only price the demon wants in return… is her.

Han Jiwoo had everything and lost it all. At 42, a broken investor and alcoholic, he stands on a Seoul rooftop with nothing left to lose. When he jumps, he expects an ending. Instead, he hears a voice: "Do you wish to start over?" He wakes in his 20-year-old body on September 1, 2004 the first day of university with every memory of the next two decades intact. The 2008 financial crash. The real estate bubble. Every betrayal. Every mistake. Every name on a list he never got the chance to settle. Armed with twenty years of knowledge and nothing but time, Jiwoo begins the silent construction of an empire. No flashy moves. No wasted chances. No mercy for those who destroyed his first life. But as the years pass and the plans unfold, one question haunts him: in becoming the predator he needed to be, has he lost the man he was trying to save? Rebirth: Zero to Empire is a slow-burn financial thriller about second chances, calculated revenge, and the cost of a life rebuilt from the ashes.

Voldemort is dead. In his final moments, a bright, cheerful voice echoes in his mind. Would you like to start over? Tom Riddle answers yes without hesitation. Of course he wants another chance. Whatever the price is, he will pay it, as long as he gets to do it all again. When he opens his eyes, the former Dark Lord finds himself in an orphanage in 1991. Only this time, everything is wrong. He is no longer Tom Riddle. He is a girl named Tamara Riddle. And to make it worse, she is bound to a ridiculous Virtue System. [Welcome, your account has been bound to the Virtue System!] To become stronger, she must accumulate virtue points. Tom: I am Voldemort. I can kill whoever I want. [WARNING! Strong murderous intent and malicious attack detected!] [Penalty activated: Level 1 electric shock.] With her eyes still stinging from the shock, Tom forces a gentle, harmless smile, while quietly calculating how to eliminate everyone in the room. But as the days pass, she does not kill a single person. Instead, the people around her start to like her. Then trust her. Then protect her. And when the truth finally threatens to surface, nobody believes it for a second. Harry snaps, furious: “What nonsense are you spouting? Tamara cannot possibly be connected to the Dark Lord!” Tamara only sighs, soft and tired. “Sorry, Harry. He is already the Dark Lord.”

In a universe where the lost worlds outnumber the dominant ones, survival often favors the strong, leaving the weak to decay into obscurity. Among these forgotten realms lies Gorgor, a world once vibrant and thriving, now erased from Omania's memory, Yet, Gorgor's spirit endures, yearning for resurrection and revenge against those who condemned it to oblivion. For five-year-old Lilith, Gorgor is not just a lost world —it's the enchanting realm of her favorite bedtime story. Each night, she drifts into dreams of its wonders, captivated by tales of its heroic prince, Andreas. As her mother reads, Lilith imagines herself among the stars, forging a bond with the alien Prince. But as Lilith's imagination brings Andreas to life as her imaginary friend, she unwittingly becomes the key to Gorgor's resurrection. With every shared secret and whispered wish, Andreas hopes to harness her innocent belief to break free from the shackles of his lost world and take his rightful place as ruler of Gorgor. As Lilith grapples with her extraordinary friendship, the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur. She discovers that her dreams may hold the power to reshape worlds, but dark forces conspire to thwart her and Andreas's plans. Just when it seems they will triumph, a shocking betrayal threatens to unravel their connection, leaving Lilith to choose between the stark reality of her existence and the allure of Gorgor's destiny. Will Lilith rise to the challenge and help her alien prince reclaim his world, or will she be consumed by the very darkness she seeks to conquer? Packed with thrilling twists, heart-stopping cliffhangers, and a poignant exploration of courage and romance, _My Alien Prince-charming _ invites you to embark on an unforgettable journey through the stars. Happy reading!

The night the sky split open, everyone in the kingdom believed the world would end. Black flames poured from the heavens. Demons descended. Cities burned. And the Demon Prince stepped onto human soil for the first time in a thousand years. They called him Cairis Vantheir, the heir to the Demon Throne. Cold. Merciless. Untouchable. A monster who slaughtered knights like insects. A man whose beauty was said to be so terrifying that people froze before he killed them. And yet— The one person who ruined everything for him… Was a quiet village witch who wanted nothing to do with demons.

Regulus Black was a tragic footnote in the original tale — the Black family’s “good son,” and one of Voldemort’s earliest victims. But in 1961, he opens his eyes again… and something inside him is different. With the iron shackles of a pure blood house around his neck, Voldemort’s shadow rising across Britain, and a future that ends in death already written for him, Regulus does the one thing no one expects: He looks up at the stars. Magic is power that bends reality. So why do wizards waste it on petty power struggles? Why has a thousand year old magical civilization never once tried to leave Earth? If Muggles can reach for the heavens with steel and fire… what excuse do wizards have? Lily: “He’s a different kind of Slytherin.” Snape: “No. He’s a standard Slytherin — and a dangerous one.” Malfoy: “So… there’s more than one choice.” Sirius: “My brother’s a pure blood fanatic!” Voldemort: “That Black… his talent is captivating. He will be made useful.” Dumbledore: “Some dreams are greater than war — and far more fragile. Should I stop him… or help him?” Grindelwald: “Black… perhaps you’re right. But it won’t be easy.” Regulus offers only one answer: “My journey is to the stars. I want no obstacles in my path.”

This is a story about a young boy, who was abandoned by his own parents, after child birth, being under a rock for five years, because of his immortality, he couldn't die he couldn't move, for five years he was completely immobile, but now with a skill that is unheard of, asm now learns about his world, in his own way, not letting his past five years ago, anger him as he sets his own path, in this world of vilian's, heroes, corruption and demons this is a story from a villains perspective.

Bloodbound Souls: Every Time We Love, the World Ends Every time we fall in love… one of us dies. And the world begins again. She has no memory of him. But the moment their eyes meet, her heart reacts like it has loved him for a lifetime. He looks at her the way a survivor looks at a disaster he has already lived through. Not with hatred. Not even with anger. With exhaustion. Because he remembers everything. He remembers every life where they met. Every life where they fell in love. Every life where the world paid the price. He says she loved him once. He says she betrayed him. He says she killed him. And the terrifying part is… something inside her heart believes him. Bound by matching scars neither of them can explain, they are drawn together by a connection that feels less like fate and more like a curse. The closer they grow, the more fragments of a forgotten past begin to surface — memories of war, sacrifice, betrayal, and a love powerful enough to shake the foundations of reality. But their reunion is not an accident. Someone is watching them. Someone who remembers every timeline where their love began… and how each one ended in catastrophe. Because long ago, in the very first world that ever existed, their love awakened something ancient — a power so overwhelming that reality itself began to collapse. To save existence, the universe created a cruel solution. A cycle. Every time they come too close… one of them dies. And the world resets. Again. And again. And again. But now something is changing. The cycle is breaking. Memories are returning. The force that kept them apart is weakening. And for the first time in countless lifetimes, the choice may finally be theirs. Save the world… or choose each other and watch reality burn. Because some souls are not meant to live happily ever after. Some souls are meant to destroy the world together. And every time they fall in love… the world ends.

Ryo Kenzaki was just a high schooler. Ordinary. Forgotten. Content to fade into a crowd and wait for the end of the day. Then a star fell from the sky, and everything changed. In a moment of instinct, he pulled a bleeding woman from a crater—and learned that the world he knew was a lie. The Human Realm exists on borrowed time, separated from the Hunting Realm by a crumbling threshold. On the other side, monsters wait. Creatures born when Hunters break—warriors twisted into something that only remembers hunger, their humanity consumed by an endless need to kill and feed. When a Spider creature hunts Ryo across burning ruins, he's dragged into the last sanctuary: a dojo at the edge of both worlds, run by a woman who expected his arrival. Tsukihime offers him a choice—one that isn't really a choice at all. A blade. A Kizugami—a weapon forged from wounds themselves, blessed with a terrible awareness. It doesn't serve the wielder. It judges them. And in the moment Ryo touches the hilt, he feels it: the blade seeing into him, searching for something, finding him wanting. But there's no walking back. A Kaimon hunts him. A cosmic Eye watches from the sky. And somewhere in the gathering darkness, something vast and inevitable is moving toward the world's end. Ryo never wanted to be a Hunter. Never wanted to inherit a curse he didn't deserve. But fate, it seems, has already made its choice for him. The only question left is: when everything is stripped away—when he's forced to become something other than human—can he still stand as himself once more? Or will the blade consume him like it has consumed all the others? Character Art by @_iamskiddy

His consciousness shifted abruptly into the body of a young man named Zavi Actitus, with no memory of anything before he awoke in a world on the brink of crisis, a world shrouded in suffocating supernatural forces and mysterious, unexplained deaths. Seeking a path and freedom in his new, unfamiliar life, he realised that his mother had been kidnapped by a cult for their selfish purposes and forced to participate in rituals she never desired. However, instead of merely being a Receivers, Liam awakens the Prisoner's, a bound, limited, and unfree ability that transforms a true captive into "The Elusive Sorcerer," feared by captives in the unseen world!

In the flickering neon of East Highland, a newly-returned Selene trades the quiet of rehab for the intoxicating chaos of the town's social hierarchy, instantly colliding with the mesmerizing and troubled new girl, Elara. Their dangerous, magnetic connection draws the ire of Jax, the high school king with a predatory darkness, and Maya, a girl using beauty and glitter as a riot shield against her own heartbreak. Plunged into a world where high-stakes secrets and visceral excess blur the line between love and destruction, Selene must decide if this new addiction is her final escape or her beautiful undoing.

"What are you willing to do to achieve something? How serious are you about achieving your goals?" This was the question that Loki and the other people who came to the Four Directions sect to earn their freedom were asked on their first day in the sect. For Loki, this question was easy for him to answer because he was reborn as a slave in this world and had already defied the will of his slave master in order to join the Four Directions sect. He had braved danger and suffering to reach the Four Directions sect. So he knew what it meant to be desperate and was willing to do whatever was required of him to achieve his goal. In the world of the blessed heaven realm, there is no such thing as human rights, and freedom is a luxury that very few people have. It is said that everyone is a slave to someone. The only difference is how strong their master is. So he, just like everyone else, is under the control of someone above them. But he doesn't want to remain a slave forever. He aspires to greatness, immortality, and freedom. He wants to acquire enough power to gain control of his fate. He also wants to rise to the top of the world and be the one to control others. He even wants to gain power and control over death. In order to achieve this, he is willing to do anything. This is his answer to the question of what he is willing to do to achieve his goals. His answer to this question was why he awakened the Fenrir metac. This is a metac that can help him achieve his goals by granting him the ability to find prey, hunt prey, and devour them to strengthen himself. With the Fenrir metac, he will transform from a prey into a predator. He will even have the chance to rise to the top of the food chain and become the strongest predator. That is to be his purpose in life, and with great luck and perseverance, he might achieve it. Golden Tickets/Power Stones: Bonus Chapters 1. 100/1,000: 1 Bonus Chapters. 2. 200/2,000: 2 Bonus Chapters. 3. 500/3,000: 4 Bonus Chapters. 4. 1,000/4,000: 7 Bonus Chapters. 5. 2,000/5,000: 11 Bonus Chapters. There will also be bonus chapters for gifts too. Discord: https://discord.gg/wA7n2M23Aw

Lily Sanders thought the hardest thing about her new job would be keeping up with the impossible demands of being a junior architect and working for one of the city's most formidable men. She was wrong. Hunter Blackwell is a 165 year-old vampire, devastatingly handsome and powerful. He has spent the better part of two centuries keeping his true nature carefully hidden behind boardrooms and tailored suits. As the head of Blackwell Incorporated, one of the most prestigious architectural firms in the city of Chicago, he has built a million dollar empire. He does not lose focus. He does not make exceptions. And he most certainly does not fall in love. Then Lily Sanders walks in. And Hunter, for the first time in over a century, finds himself undone by something as simple as a shivering young woman in the middle of his Tower's lobby, looking to get a job. What begins as an office affair, grows into a romance that neither of them are willing to call off. But the night Lily asks Hunter to feed on her, everything changes. Lily is not the ordinary girl who she believes herself to be. She is the last living descendant of one of the most powerful witch bloodlines ever recorded — a lineage so powerful that even a single drop of her blood, freely given, was enough to wake forces that should have stayed sleeping forever. Neither of them saw it coming. Now they must face it together.