Time flew by, and Ryōhei had already spent ten days living in this altered worldline.
Counting from that day he'd bumped into Kitahara Setsuna, nearly a full week had passed.
That gloomy, unlucky woman hadn’t shown up again to bother him, which was great news.
Come to think of it, he'd adjusted to daily life here much faster than he'd expected.
Ryōhei figured part of it was simply his own adaptability—he’d always been good at facing reality. Back in his origina...
2025-09-16 22:18:45 +0000 UTC
View Post
Kitahara Setsuna couldn’t remember clearly when she had last spoken properly with her husband.
From some point onward, the two of them had stopped eating meals together, chatting, going for walks—or even sharing a bed.
She couldn't remember exactly when the small yet certain happiness they'd once shared had ended.
...
Since childhood, Setsuna had rarely ever cursed aloud.
But now—right now—in front of Hikigaya Ryōhei, she desperately wanted to scream eve...
2025-09-16 22:18:41 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hikigaya Ryōhei actually had a younger sister married and living out in Nagano Prefecture, though it seemed like they hadn't contacted each other in quite some time.
This morning, while lining up, he'd idly flipped through his phone call records sorted by date and discovered a contact labeled simply as "Imouto."
Apparently, she was the married kind of sister.
Their last communication was about three months ago.
Thinking about it now, the girl he'd seen standing beside...
2025-09-16 22:18:17 +0000 UTC
View Post
According to current Ministry of Labor statistics, due to the ongoing economic downturn, the unemployment rate has already reached a staggering 5% this month—far exceeding the average of about 2.5% over the past three years.
That meant over six million people had lost their jobs.
The future forecast looked even bleaker, as the economic crisis, originating from the Atlantic Federation—the heart of the global economy—was quickly rippling outward, triggering a worldwide recessi...
2025-09-16 22:18:13 +0000 UTC
View Post
Does that man care so much about pleasing Tōma Kazusa that he ignores his own wife cheating? Is his love really that deep?!
Setsuna’s heart filled with despair, helplessness, along with jealousy and anger.
Her life had already been destroyed. Ever since a year ago, when her husband, Kitahara Haruki, had reconnected with Tōma Kazusa…she’d completely fallen into a spiral of self-denial, plagued by months of extreme anxiety and depression.
Lately, she'd hardly ...
2025-09-16 22:18:08 +0000 UTC
View Post
Early in the morning, half-asleep, mind still fuzzy—
Jolted awake by a hysterical phone call—a miserable woman’s voice, so grief-stricken it felt like her bitterness traveled directly through the wireless signal.
Of course, that was how Hikigaya Ryōhei would later recall the call.
When he first answered, though, it was more like this:
Are you insane?! Calling this early in the morning! Your husband can't keep himself in check—how’s that my fault?
2025-09-16 22:18:04 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hikigaya Hachiman, already introverted and awkward, simply lowered his head and continued eating.
Noticing how his father was inexplicably brighter today, unlike the usual gloominess, he quietly felt puzzled inside. Why does Dad seem so different now…? Sure, big life changes can affect personality, but even his cooking style totally shifted? I don’t think he ever made this type of fried rice before...
Could Mom leaving him really affect him this badly? Is divorce ...
2025-09-16 22:18:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
On the road back from Chiba to downtown Tokyo, Hikigaya Kazusa—or rather, the cold and beautiful young divorcee known as Tōma Kazusa—sat quietly in the passenger seat of Haruki's car, replaying the image of her ex-husband’s fallen, dispirited figure.
Had he really become like that…because of her mistake?
Did I truly do something wrong…? But Mama always said a woman has the right to pursue happiness and true love!
Earlier today, glimpsing the lonely silhou...
2025-09-16 22:17:54 +0000 UTC
View Post
“Thank goodness! I just heard about what happened yesterday—it scared the hell outta me! Hey…of all the stupid things, why’d you go and try to end your life?! Life’s always like this! If you’d really died, what about your two kids? And that damned woman, Tōma Kasuza—she really threw everything aside, didn’t she? Ha ha!”
A middle-aged man around the same age as Hikigaya Ryōhei suddenly appeared from around the corner. Momentarily stunned, he rushed forward, grabbing R...
2025-09-16 22:17:44 +0000 UTC
View Post
Rousseau really did say: "Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains."
These chains naturally included the shackles of money.
As a middle-aged member of society, "Hikigaya Ryōhei" had already deeply experienced this truth.
Money isn't everything, but without money, nothing is possible! This was especially true in capitalist societies, which measured everything by money. The new Hikigaya Ryōhei had already steeled himself—no matter what, he would survive and live we...
2025-09-16 22:17:26 +0000 UTC
View Post
But when she heard the word "Mama"—which should’ve been filled with warmth and care—the little girl kneeling beside him trembled slightly, as if it were some forbidden phrase. Her small body shivered, and her bright eyes immediately dimmed.
She quickly lowered her head, struggling hard to suppress her sobbing, desperately forcing herself to calm down.
But her tiny fingers grasped even harder onto her father's leg…
Something definitely happened here…! Lin Z...
2025-09-16 22:17:15 +0000 UTC
View Post
Wait, wait, hold on a second!
I've transmigrated into Hikigaya Hachiman's dad? A guy in his thirties?!
Just got out of the ICU from overwork (thanks, 996? And I got fired along the way?!
My wife was Hikigaya Kazusa? But we're already divorced? An amicable split at that?!
Broke and divorced, I had no choice but to get a physically exhausting job. And the matchmaking partner introduced by my neighbors turns out to be Hiratsuka Shizuka, my kouhai from university days?
...
2025-09-16 22:17:09 +0000 UTC
View Post
After hanging up the call, Makoto Rōma stood quietly on the rooftop for a short while.
Though he wanted nothing more than a carefree, leisurely life, whenever he thought of certain people behind him, he felt an irresistible urge to take action.
If he knew that members of the research institute were risking their lives against dangerous anomalies, yet he was comfortably idling away his time at school, he’d probably feel pretty damn guilty.
What am I even thinking about...
2025-09-16 22:16:16 +0000 UTC
View Post
“So Hiratsuka-sensei called you out to ask about club activities?”
After class, Sakamoto turned around, asking Makoto Rōma casually.
Ever since Rōma arrived, Sakamoto found himself talking more frequently.
Though he wasn’t exactly the aloof type before, his circumstances had always prevented him from forming deep friendships.
Rōma’s presence, without question, had brought some new color to his otherwise monotonous life.
“Yeah. But when I said I'd joi...
2025-09-16 22:16:06 +0000 UTC
View Post
“All right, class dismissed.”
As soon as the bell rang, Hiratsuka Shizuka neatly closed the teaching materials in her hand and announced the end of class.
This decisiveness in dismissing class raised her favorability slightly among some students.
“Oh, right—Makoto Rōma, come to the staff room for a bit.”
Just before leaving, Hiratsuka seemed to remember something, turning to Makoto Rōma and calling him out.
Without waiting for a response, she walked s...
2025-09-16 22:15:52 +0000 UTC
View Post
Night had fallen, and a vehicle slowly rolled into a fruit processing factory on the outskirts of the city.
Once the car entered, lights immediately illuminated the previously dark space.
A hidden secret base beneath the factory emerged clearly into view.
“The fallen angel has just been designated AO-037 (Abnormal Organism),” the team leader informed Rōma as they stepped out of the vehicle.
“Understood.”
Rōma nodded in acknowledgment.
Beh...
2025-09-16 22:15:34 +0000 UTC
View Post
Thud.
Raynare, crashing heavily onto the ground, lay miserably among scattered rubble.
Aside from her previously severed arm, her remaining limbs now twisted grotesquely at unnatural angles.
If one listened closely enough, they might even catch faint moans escaping her lips.
After transforming, Rōma had shown absolutely no mercy, hitting her brutally—but precisely—to ensure she wouldn’t die, while inflicting the maximum possible damage.
“This is...
2025-09-16 22:15:03 +0000 UTC
View Post
5:33 PM. Hugging his small school bag tightly, Aki Tomoya excitedly headed home.
The club he'd spent an entire year applying for had somehow suddenly gotten approved today!
Now, at last, his dream could truly begin!
“Alright! Tomorrow, I'll start recruiting members!”
Actually, Aki Tomoya had always dreamed of making games. It was just something he’d never openly expressed before.
Now, this humble little club would become the first step toward creating the w...
2025-09-16 22:14:43 +0000 UTC
View Post
Paying serious attention in class made time stretch endlessly.
Ding-ling-ling-ling~
The delightful sound of the bell rang out, instantly revitalizing the students who had been dozing facedown on their desks.
The middle-aged teacher, still writing notes on the blackboard, shot a sideways glance at the students and straightforwardly declared:
“Class dismissed.”
Are you kidding? I’m not about to waste my precious break time here.
As a seasoned, ...
2025-09-16 22:12:40 +0000 UTC
View Post
Sobu High was considered one of the relatively famous schools nearby.
To be precise, Sobu High was listed among several other renowned high schools in Japan.
Among them were Shuchi'in Academy, famous for its aristocratic students; the elite-affiliated academy cultivating future political leaders; Hyakkaou Academy, notorious for its gambling addicts; and the incomprehensibly athletic Seishun Academy.
Compared to these, Sobu High didn’t seem particularly outstanding.
I...
2025-09-16 22:12:14 +0000 UTC
View Post
When I first woke up, I thought this was an ordinary, everyday world.
Because in my memories, it was a very peaceful world.
When I searched my memories again, I thought this was a mixed anime world.
Because in those memories were Yukinoshita Yukino, Sawamura Eriri, and others.
When my hand found the transformation device on my bedside table, I thought this was a world invaded by monsters.
I was going to become a solitary hero to save the world.
When a group...
2025-09-16 22:11:40 +0000 UTC
View Post
Winter—
The useless bum who spent the whole season shouting “I’m hibernating” and curling in his blanket actually managed to get through it.
...
Spring—
No matter what excuses that bum shouted, Sasuke and Naruto teamed up to drag him to the training ground for their daily workouts.
Seriously, what was this guy even thinking? Who the hell dreams of enrolling in the ninja academy just to graduate and become a firefighter or a mailman? Truly disgraceful.
....
2025-09-16 22:10:25 +0000 UTC
View Post
By evening, Naruto shuffled out of the bathroom, sulky, hair dripping, pajamas clinging damply.
Totally baffled. All she did was eat one banana—why wasn’t brushing her teeth enough? Why did she have to be forced into a full shower, too?
“…Hoshino? What… what are you doing?”
Naruto eyed him warily. Hoshino sat cross-legged on his bed, masked and gloved, wearing a doctor’s coat, with a bottle of eerie green liquid at his side.
What was this, a human experim...
2025-09-16 22:10:06 +0000 UTC
View Post
When Hoshino came through the door, he saw the two homosexuals dripping with cold sweat, too guilty to meet his eyes, faces screaming we did something shady.
Heh. So you still know this is my house. Stay trapped forever in the shame of doing unspeakable things in someone else’s place—and then die.
Even though Hoshino had zero intention of gaying it up himself, nor the slightest thought of ever stepping in that direction, the moment he entered, his gaze still ...
2025-09-16 22:09:56 +0000 UTC
View Post
Time flies like light, days and months slip past like a shuttle. In the blink of an eye, three… days had gone by.
Expecting three years to pass already? Behave. Stop dreaming.
During these three days, Hoshino’s gaze would now and then drift toward his shabby little wooden door. He wasn’t waiting for that dead homosexual Sasuke to show up again—he was praying that Guy would never, ever find this place.
Watching Hoshino, who after disappearing for a day had returned on...
2025-09-16 22:09:51 +0000 UTC
View Post
Since being cornered in that alley, a whole day had passed.
Although at the most dangerous moment Gai had swooped down like Superman and carried Hoshino out of harm’s way, Hoshino could feel no gratitude at all for that bastard culprit—only the urge to stab him to death.
Still, sticking with that lunatic hadn’t been entirely without payoff. At least by nighttime, Gai had already taught him the secret massage technique, as well as how to prepare the special green essential oi...
2025-09-16 22:09:47 +0000 UTC
View Post
Wearing his so-called invincible battle suit, Hoshino was at this moment pinned down on a stool by Guy, a washbasin clamped over his head.
Looking in the mirror at Guy standing behind him, scissors poised in his right hand, Hoshino felt an extremely bad premonition.
“Forgive-me-green… cough… shishō, what exactly are you planning to do?”
Along with the sound of scissors snapping empty air, Hoshino received the most despair-inducing answer.
“I’m hel...
2025-09-16 22:09:40 +0000 UTC
View Post
After handing the signatures to the student council and officially establishing the Light Music Club, Rinto started making preparations with the other members.
Thanks to Kawakami-sensei, their homeroom teacher and new club advisor, they successfully obtained permission to use the music room, along with access to the piano and electronic keyboard already in the classroom.
Sakiko was instantly overjoyed, happily dashing over and claiming the piano bench.
Seeing her eager expre...
2025-09-16 22:09:35 +0000 UTC
View Post
...Gotoh-san had always known that she was an introverted, socially anxious background character.
Since kindergarten, she always overthought everything, missing countless opportunities to play with friends.
During her elementary school field trip, she couldn’t even join her classmates’ picnic. She’d only managed to swap side dishes with a kind-hearted teacher.
Sometimes, she'd wonder: Is it really okay to stay like this?
Having no friends, only receiving...
2025-09-16 22:09:30 +0000 UTC
View Post
“Elias!”
Inside the room, Diancie suddenly called out.
Hearing this, Elias, who was absorbed in reading, paused for a moment before looking over in confusion.
Seeing Elias’s puzzled expression, Diancie puffed up her cheeks slightly.
“These past few days, I haven’t said a word to you. Didn’t you feel uncomfortable at all?”
Originally, she'd planned on giving in only after the weekend.
But reality proved she couldn't wait that long.
After ...
2025-09-16 22:08:50 +0000 UTC
View Post
