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Chapter 40 in Naver's 2023 Rookie Short Story Collection (2023 루키 단편선).

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The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Diamond Kongou, a.k.a Akira Hayami, is a 32 year-old unsuccessful and reclusive manga artist who spends his days shuffling between his part-time job and home. One day, he receives a job offer from an editor who claims to be a big fan of his work. The editor, Ethan, turns out to be a handsome and dashing half-Chinese, half-British man from Hong Kong, who claims that Akira’s work inspired him to immigrate to Japan in the hopes of working together. Akira, inspired to try drawing BL manga for the first time in a long time, believes that he and Ethan could make a masterpiece… but his lack of recent romantic experiences leaves him out of good story ideas. Akira confides in Ethan, only hoping for some advice, so why are they suddenly making out on his bed…?! “If you can learn anything from my experiences with romance, then I’ll do everything in my power to help you.” Can love bloom between an artist and his editor when their story depends on it?

Young Prince Leif looks nothing like the Queen or his older brothers. It would make sense to assume that they all hate him - especially when they lock him into the clock tower on the day of the ball - but are the fates just trying to protect him from a horrible case of mistaken identity?

With his slicked-back hair and the tattoos on his body, it's difficult to see Ryuji Takakura as anything other than a quintessential member of the Yakuza. That being said, how deep of a brotherhood does he share with the fluffy little bunny in his arms?

On the cusp of calamity, the dead have risen! Corpses that have long grown cold return to steal warmth from the living, and the natural order dangles by a single thread of fate—a pair of lovelorn enemies tethered intrinsically by ice and fire. Together, Selena and Millard may yet salvage an era that’s torn between bitter frost and scorching flame. They must enter the enigmatic Magic Tower with only one another to rely on, knowing they may never return…

When schoolgirl Takiko Okuda attempts to destroy her father's translation of The Universe of the Four Gods, she is instead literally sucked into the story, becoming the Priestess of Genbu in an epic journey to find the seven Celestial Warriors.

Hoshino's had his eyes on Kazuma for a while, but that's not because he wants to - it's because he's willing to do anything to make sure nobody knows just how in love he is with his friend Hanazawa. But when he's truly left with no choice but to give up on his love, can Kazuma become the medicine his broken heart needs?

With his slicked-back hair and the tattoos on his body, it's difficult to see Ryuji Takakura as anything other than a quintessential member of the Yakuza. That being said, how deep of a brotherhood does he share with the fluffy little bunny in his arms?

Read manhwa To My Beloved FoeOn the cusp of calamity, the dead have risen! Corpses that have long grown cold return to steal warmth from the living, and the natural order dangles by a single thread of fatea pair of lovelorn enemies tethered intrinsically by ice and fire. Together, Selena and Millard may yet salvage an era that's torn between bitter frost and scorching flame. They must enter the enigmatic Magic Tower with only one another to rely on, knowing they may never return

The Adresia empire on the Vogel continent. There is a battle over the throne of such an empire that possesses powerful military and vast territory. With the successor undecided, the children of the emperor are vying to expand their power. However, there was one prince that everyone says will definitely not become the emperor. The seventh prince, Arnold Lakes Adler. The young man who was inferior to his younger twin brother in every way, the dull prince. Incompetent and lethargic, Arnold wastes every day just playing around. However, behind the scenes, he is one of the only five SS-Class adventurers called ‘Silver’. Seeing the intensifying battle for the throne he decided “I don’t want to die so let’s have my little brother become the emperor…” This is the tale of absurd secret maneuvers of the prince who is uninterested in the title of the emperor.

The protagonist has possessed the body of April, a supporting character who was killed by the male lead after being manipulated by the villain. She ignores the original storyline and resorts to spending the rest of her life running a café secluded in the countryside, but as the little boy she started to raise by chance turns out to be the nephew the male lead was desperately searching for all along, her resolution begins to go greatly awry. April becomes the male lead's exclusive barista, and she pours him a coffee imbued with magic every night. Eventually, she also ends up opening a café in the capital. She's planning to do so until the female lead makes her appearance. And around when that happens, she'll slowly start to leave the male lead's side. There’s only one problem— she’s starting to grow fond of this life with him.

When people get transported into novels, they usually end up as noble ladies, even if they're villains. But I ended up as the final monster that the male lead must kill—the daughter of the Demon King. "Here’s your favorite finger necklace, Princess!" Abduction and murder are the norm among demons. I can’t live with these creatures for 5,000 years! I just need to endure it, fulfill my role according to the original story, and move on to the next novel! Oh, God. How is this even possible? This isn’t some stray cat adoption; it’s like adopting the male lead! And the eight-year-old Kiel is saying some very ominous things. “Can I eat you?” "Well... I’ll raise you with care, so come kill the Demon King’s daughter later."

As the successor of the God of Flame, Princess Thatcher just can't keep her fiery temper under control! And after a particularly bad incident involving the enemy Dragon Clan, she's exiled from her Kingdom of Rong. She can return if she journeys to the far north and finds a legendary sword that can soothe her wrath... however, the Dragon Clan is scheming something spectacularly sinister, and they need to destroy Thatcher before she reaches the sword. But this spunky young princess won't go down without a fight, and she'll set the entire world ablaze if she has to!

In a city so dismal it's known only as "the Hole," a clan of Sorcerers have been plucking people off the streets to use as guinea pigs for atrocious "experiments" in the black arts. In a dark alley, Nikaido found Caiman, a man with a reptile head and a bad case of amnesia. To undo the spell, they're hunting and killing the Sorcerers in the Hole, hoping that eventually they'll kill the right one. But when En, the head Sorcerer, gets word of a lizard-man slaughtering his people, he sends a crew of "cleaners" into the Hole, igniting a war between two worlds.

Kim Nelson has heard the legend of Jade, a powerful djinn, a spirit with the ability to seduce any human heart—but Kim isn’t interested in legends. She’s just looking for her grandmother. Fifty years ago, Jade served the Black Sultan as part of the Imperial Harem, but Jade was no ordinary harem girl—she was the sultan’s favorite. Rumored to be a djinn from the Ottoman Empire, she had the power to manipulate men’s hearts, subtly alter their convictions, and even affect the course of an entire war. The legends also say that Jade, and Jade alone, knew where the Black Sultan hid his treasure . . . a treasure that no one has ever managed to unearth. Now, fifty years later, Kim Nelson is reliving the life of her ancestor Jade in modern Istanbul, hoping to find answers that have been lost to history. It will be a long journey, a journey that will change her life forever.

He became depressed as hell after being mocked for being bad at sex. Then late one night, his childhood friend, who he hasn’t seen in a long time, invites him over for a “good time.”

THE GRAPHIC CANON (Seven Stories Press) is a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. There are more than 130 illustrators represented and 190 literary works over three volumes—many newly commissioned, some hard to find—reinterpreted here for readers and collectors of all ages. Volume 1 takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. Along the way, we're treated to eye-popping renditions of the human race's greatest epics: Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey (in watercolors by Gareth Hinds), The Aeneid, Beowulf, and The Arabian Nights, plus later epics The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales (both by legendary illustrator and graphic designer Seymour Chwast), Paradise Lost, and Le Morte D'Arthur. Two of ancient Greece's greatest plays are adapted—the tragedy Medea by Euripides and Tania Schrag’s uninhibited rendering of the very bawdy comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes (the text of which is still censored in many textbooks). Also included is Robert Crumb’s rarely-seen adaptation of James Boswell’s London Journal, filled with philosophical debate and lowbrow debauchery. Religious literature is well-covered and well-illustrated, with the Books of Daniel and Esther from the Old Testament, Rick Geary’s awe-inspiring new rendition of the Book of Revelation from the New Testament, the Tao te Ching, Rumi’s Sufi poetry, Hinduism’s Mahabharata, and the Mayan holy book Popol Vuh, illustrated by Roberta Gregory. The Eastern canon gets its due, with The Tale of Genji (the world’s first novel, done in full-page illustrations reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley), three poems from China’s golden age of literature lovingly drawn by pioneering underground comics artist Sharon Rudahl, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Japanese Noh play, and other works from Asia. Two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays (King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and two of his sonnets are here, as are Plato’s Symposium, Gulliver’s Travels, Candide, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Renaissance poetry of love and desire, and Don Quixote visualized by the legendary Will Eisner. Some unexpected twists in this volume include a Native American folktale, an Incan play, Sappho’s poetic fragments, bawdy essays by Benjamin Franklin, the love letters of Abelard and Heloise, and the decadent French classic Dangerous Liaisons, as illustrated by Molly Crabapple. Edited by Russ Kick, The Graphic Canon is an extraordinary collection that will continue with Volume 2: "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray in Summer 2012, and Volume 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest in Fall 2012. A boxed set of all three volumes will also be published in Fall 2012.