Some Friends Never Return

WARNING! WARNING! "Moon Maiden" Columbina's hunger level has reached 99%!

Turns out in the Dragon Ball universe, you only have to suffer if you've got Saiyan blood - and since our boy got transmigrated here, why not actually enjoy himself instead? Oryon just unlocked the [Affection Over Time] attribute: get intimate with the opposite sex, rack up emotional value and pleasure, and convert it straight into cultivation time. Ding - congratulations, host, ten days of cultivation acquired. While Goku trains himself half to death for his next big fight, Oryon's busy debating the meaning of life with Lunch. While Vegeta grinds away in the gravity chamber, Oryon is off "researching" the secrets of Saiyan cells with Bulma. Then he unlocks a second attribute, [Tyrant's Will] - making everyone around him insanely jealous banks cultivation time too, leveling him up on the spot. Vegeta: "Damn it, I've trained for years - why haven't I surpassed him yet?!" Meanwhile, Oryon's just lounging by the pool of his mansion, surrounded by beauties, leveling up completely on autopilot. People in this world are just way too uptight...

Names carry weight. Some are inherited with pride. Others are spoken only in whispers. A few become so deeply tied to fear that the person carrying them is judged long before they are known. Y/N Grindelwald has lived his entire life beneath such a name. To the Wizarding World, it is a warning. A reminder of ambition, war, and a wizard whose vision nearly reshaped magical society. Some will fear Y/N because of it. Others will admire him for precisely the same reason. Neither understands him. Because Grindelwald is not the only name he carries. The second has remained hidden for years-protected by blood, secrecy, and promises made to the dead. It connects Y/N to magic older than the reputation that follows him and to a history far more dangerous than anyone at Hogwarts could imagine. When he enters the school during the year of the Triwizard Tournament, he does not come seeking friendship, glory, or redemption. He comes because the protections around his old life have failed. Within Hogwarts, he will be tested by students who want his loyalty, professors who question his methods, and a castle that appears to recognise something within him. Y/N is not a hero in the way stories usually describe one. He does not believe that legal magic is always good or that forbidden magic is always evil. He trusts logic more than tradition and consequences more than appearances. He will protect the innocent, but he will not always use methods others consider acceptable. And while Hogwarts watches the champions of three schools compete for honour, another struggle begins quietly beneath the surface. Old magic awakens. Forgotten promises break. A dead name returns to the world. Some oaths are shattered through betrayal. Others must be broken before they become chains. Written with the help of ChatGPT

In this book, you'll get a behind the scenes look at how your favorite characters were born, my creative process, and the dirty details never before revealed. Tex's Camp Q&A: Come sit by the fire and ask me whatever you'd like. We can roast marshmallows, tell scary stories, and hang out in the comments like a big, happy family. Gator's Backstage Pass: A place full of secrets. Learn the-sometimes embarrassing-details on how my wildest scenes came to life, facts about the characters, the process, and myself.

Reincarnated as the infant Rudeus, he quickly figures out which story he's landed in: the world of Jobless Reincarnation, where the Human God decided to kill the boy's parents before he could even grow up, just to avoid being sealed down the line. The problem for the god? This Rudeus is immortal. He can die - and he does, over and over, blown apart, burned to bone, reduced to a skeleton - just to push the limits of his own magic until he masters it completely. That's how he develops magic of his own at the molecular level: breaking matter down and recombining it from scratch, from splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen to building weapons that can level a hillside in a single blast. While he trains to get strong enough before the Human God makes its next move, Rudeus is also busy winning people over along the way - starting with Roxy, his tutor, a powerful mage who can't decide whether she's more impressed or unsettled by the talent (and the flirting) of a three-year-old. And she's just the first: Sylphie, Ghislaine, and Eris are still to come.

I am the Destroyer of Destiny! The Ender of All Things! I, the Great- Er... wait, no, wrong script! My name's Natsuki Subaru - "Ghost" of the Stellaron Hunters, a top-tier assassin who comes and goes without a trace, and also the unluckiest guy alive, the kind who can step out to a convenience store and get flung straight into an unknown universe. Good thing being a transmigrator comes with the occasional perk. Subaru picked up an Ihan Crystal and inherited the legacy of Zeratul, Dark Prelate of another universe entirely - and just like that, a mere human became a Dark Templar. It caught Kafka's eye, and he became the second member of the Stellaron Hunters. His one regret? That little black cat still doesn't seem to like him much. All Subaru wanted was a quiet life. Instead, he ended up sacrificing himself to drive an evil god from another world out of this universe. And then - guess what? He transmigrated again! A second trip should come with another perk too, right...? Except now the real question is: which unlucky idiot ended up with Deathwing strapped to him?! Standing in front of a fruit stand in another world, Subaru decides he'd rather figure out how NOT to destroy this place than worry about how to survive in it. (Infinite Flow. Currently in Re:Zero. Will return to Star Rail.)

A model student at school slips and ends up transported to the world of Re:Zero, becoming Pandora-the Witch of Vainglory and suspected final boss. In this moment, he can't help but sigh in relief: thankfully, he's a light novel reader who knows the world of Re:Zero inside and out. But... Looking at the silver-haired little girl and woman in front of him, along with the giant door standing behind them in the snowbound landscape... Is this... the legendary nightmare difficulty start?

Natsuki Subaru, still living in Japan, suddenly finds his mind flooded without warning by strange memories of himself in another world - the Royal Capital First Encounter Arc, the Mansion Arc, the Royal Selection Arc, the Sanctuary Arc, the Watergate City Arc... At the same time, characters from IF timelines he never knew existed have also been reborn: [IF Wrath] Emilia, who fell in love with the man who imprisoned her - after confessing to the "King of Purge" Subaru and being rejected, she convinced herself she had been abandoned, and shattered completely. [IF Pride] Reinhard, who had every person he swore to protect destroyed by the "Sin Archbishop" Subaru - and for the first time in his life, learned what it means to truly hate. [IF Lust ] Crusch, Priscilla, and two other Royal Selection candidates are reborn carrying memories of having been "conquered" by Subaru. Multiple world lines converge into one. Elsa the Bowel Hunter vows to fight for Subaru and no one else. Reinhard, upon recovering memories of the Capital's burning, is consumed by rage and sets out to kill Subaru. The Witch Factor within Emilia - born of the Wrath route - runs out of control, and she transforms into the [Witch of Envy], threatening to destroy the world. Beneath a veil of ornate lies, the timelines of four hundred years past and four hundred years future curve and meet, forming an endless loop. At the story's beginning, Emilia says: "Subaru, I... I wuv you!" At the story's end, Subaru declares with unshakeable confidence: "You may call me - the [Great Sage] Flügel."

A boy named Miguel has spent thirteen years in the world of Zenless Zone Zero since the day he transmigrated - from the catastrophe of the fall of the Old District, all the way to the Battle of Lumina Square, a conflict that nearly brought all of New Eridu crashing down. The ordinary boy he once was has long since been forged into something extraordinary by the passage of time. People have given him many names. The Savior of New Eridu? A god walking among men? None of those titles matter. All the world needs to know is this - from this moment forward: The shadow of regret shall be scattered by the radiance of creation. Welcome to a New Eridu unlike any you have known.

Naoya Zenin was killed twice. First as a man. Then as a cursed spirit. Both times by the same woman - Zenin Maki. Given a third life, he woke up as something he despises above all else: a woman. Naoya Zenin, reborn female, back at the moment of her birth. She doesn't care about fate. She doesn't care about the Zenin clan's politics. She only cares about one thing - making Maki understand what it means to destroy someone who refuses to stay dead.