The Life of an Author

Call of the Night

Kou Yamori is a middle school student who has stopped attending classes. Unable to sleep and dissatisfied with his daily life, he starts wandering the streets at night, where he feels a little more at ease. On one of those walks he meets Nazuna Nanakusa, a strange girl who offers to help him with his insomnia by sleeping beside him. Nazuna, however, is not an ordinary girl: she is a vampire. After biting Kou's neck, she begins to meet him night after night for conversations, walks and shared moments. Kou discovers in the night a freedom he did not know, while his relationship with Nazuna grows between attraction and uncertainty. The arrival of a girl from Kou's past complicates things furt

Three Days of Happiness

Kusunoki is a twenty-year-old college student with no motivation, no dreams, and no money. After years of believing a great future awaited him, he discovers just how little his remaining life is worth when he is offered the chance to sell his lifespan. Deciding he would rather have a few meaningful months than decades of mediocrity, he sells all but his last three months. Now, with a clerk named Miyagi assigned to monitor his every move, Kusunoki sets out to find a purpose to his existence before his time runs out.

The Ancient Magus' Bride

Chise Hatori has spent her fifteen years unwanted and unloved. Abandoned by her father and orphaned by her mother, she has been passed between relatives who never wanted her, until desperation drives her to a slave auction. There, she is presented as a rare Sleigh Beggy, a being with an unusual affinity for magical energies, and sold to the highest bidder. Her buyer is Elias Ainsworth, a mysterious magus with a beast's skull for a head and powers beyond her understanding. He takes her to the English countryside and declares that she will not be his slave, but his apprentice—and his bride. Thrust into a world of fairies, dragons, and ancient magic, Chise begins to learn the ways of a mage.

Even If You Slit My Mouth

Miroku is the slit-mouthed woman, an urban legend whose terrifying smile once made her the self-proclaimed Queen of Folklore. But times have changed, and the public's belief in her has faded so much that her very existence is at risk. To survive, she enters into a contractual engagement with Kouichi Sano, a seventeen-year-old high schooler whose family has managed supernatural beings for generations. Kouichi is surprisingly eager to marry her, but Miroku refuses to depend on anyone else. They make a deal: for one year, they will act as a married couple. If Miroku can scare Kouichi even once before he turns eighteen, the engagement is off. But Kouichi has a condition of his own: he must mak

The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl

Himuro is a modern-day descendant of a snow spirit. His supernatural heritage gives him icy powers that react to his emotions, often plunging the office into freezing temperatures when he is deep in thought or flustered. Despite his frosty abilities, he is a warm and kind person who likes flowers and cats, though he cannot get too close to either. His heart is set on his coworker Fuyutsuki, a calm and collected woman who is completely oblivious to his feelings. Whenever she helps him or simply talks to him, a passionate blizzard of love rages inside him, causing snowstorms in the workplace. Everyone can see his affection except for her. Determined to win her heart, Himuro tries to navigate

The Elder Sister-Like One

Yuu Hasunuma lost his parents in a car accident when he was five and has spent his childhood moving between relatives who never truly welcomed him. Now living with his mother's cousin, he finds a rare sense of stability, though his uncle gives him one firm rule: never enter the storehouse. When his uncle is hospitalized, Yuu has no choice but to go inside. There he meets Chiyo, a powerful demon with horns and hooves, who offers to grant him one wish in exchange for what he holds dearest. Longing for the family he never had, Yuu asks her to become his older sister. What follows is an unusual domestic life as the lonely boy and the otherworldly being try to build the sibling bond he has alwa