"Evil must only be governed by even greater evil."... more>>

The day before becoming an official priest.

With a single sentence from the High Priest, I became an undercover agent. <<less

The protagonist, who once died caught up in a messy love affair, has been reincarnated as a low-tier villain in a BL novel—a story he had read out of curiosity about SM. ... more>>

Determined to taste just a little of this new life and avoid being brutally killed by the main lead, he resolves to tread carefully and disappear quickly.

But that resolve doesn't last long.

This man is simply too irresistible.

And with fear paralyzing any thought of resistance, the protagonist finds himself completely swept along by the dominant lead.

"I just want to enjoy this a little before I go. Is that really too much to ask?" <<less

Monstrous screams from all directions, mutated beings.... more>>

A sealed satellite, everything falling apart.

The frozen base tightens the breath.

Still, just a little further, there might be a way to escape-

[Screeeeech!]

[Unauthorized life form detected. Isolating the area.]

"Run, damn it." <<less

The way for me to get stronger was really simple.... more>>

Just eat.

All I had to do was devour artifacts relentlessly.

Now that I had regressed, maybe it was time to consume them without any limits. <<less

At a young age, I was caught up in a Gate incident and barely made it out alive. ... more>>

They called me a "miracle child," Jung Jehee.

But that so-called "miracle" meant nothing—I had only barely survived.

I lost my sight, my ability to move freely, and was even diagnosed as terminally ill.

Trapped in a hospital room, all I could do was wait for the day I would die...

Then, in a moment of life-or-death crisis, I awakened as Korea's first-ever S-rank.

After a long, long hospital stay, my new life as an S-rank began.

It should have been something to celebrate.

So why is it that my childhood friend, Im Taehwan, who had been so devoted to me throughout my years of illness, is acting so strange?

"Jehee... don’t tell me... you can see through me?"

Even after learning about my awakening, he seemed oddly unsettled.

"After you're discharged, I was thinking... how about living with me?"

He insisted on living together for some reason.

"Once you're out, why don’t we go study abroad? Anywhere is fine."

Out of nowhere, he started suggesting we move overseas together.

For thirteen years, he took care of me every single day. He should be free to live his own life now.

For the sake of my kind but stubborn friend, I tried my best to gain independence from him.

But then—

"Ah, that? It’s called a re-awakening."

"Seems like I got a little stronger."

To make matters worse, my childhood friend followed right behind me—awakening as the second-ever S-rank in Korea.

Just days after I became the first.

"How did Taehwan end up awakening as an S-rank like me...?"

Is S-rank something contagious?

This is getting seriously weird.

* * *

"Jung Jehee. Do you really not want to live with me?"

"You’re in danger just by being with me. You’re only a B-rank and don’t even have combat abilities. At best, you’re just a normal person with slightly better stamina and strength."

Could Taehwan, who has a non-combat ability, really protect me?

He stayed silent, as if he couldn’t argue with what I said.

"No, it’s just that..."

"You only said your house feels empty to reassure my mom, didn’t you? The truth is, you like being alone—that’s why you never joined a guild. I know how hard it is for solo artifact creators to survive. And yet, you insist on staying independent."

"No, it’s true that I like being alone. But... you..."

"I’m a bit special?"

"...Uh... well... no, I mean..."

"So? What exactly do you mean?"

"...You are... a little special... I guess...?"

Avoiding my gaze, he mumbled under his breath, "We’re friends, after all..."

For someone so big, he still acts just like he did when we were kids.

He won’t meet my eyes, yet he won’t let go of me either. <<less

Lowell slowly opened his eyes. ... more>>

The first thing he saw was someone’s broad chest.

Still groggy from sleep, he instinctively reached out, his hand grazing the firm surface.

Even in his hazy state, he couldn’t help but give it a few experimental squeezes before his gaze drifted up to the familiar black hair.

He gently stroked it, the way he would with a lover.

‘But there’s no way he’d have a chest like this. Besides, we’ve been broken up for ages.’

As his senses returned, Lowell glanced around, piecing together his surroundings.

Once his vision cleared, the situation began to make sense. <<less

Hard times call for recycling tr*sh.... more>>

The world’s going to hell, and there are never enough heroes.

“…So, who’d you say was on this mission?”

Doesn’t matter what kind of tr*sh—monster, villain, petty thief, con artist, even a rabid dog.

“Welcome to the Black Parade.”

Day after day, they throw convicts onto the battlefield.

For justice, peace, love, and… for freedom! <<less

#Hunter #Constellation #Comedy #Overpowered... more>>

The Gate incident took her entire family away.

She gave up on school and employment.

Hyun Habin, a sad non-awakened who bounced between day jobs.

One day, she picked up a powerful constellation.

[The seal has finally been broken! Together, let’s save the world…!]

“What are you on about? I’m going to have fun.”

[I am a constellation! With me, you can do anything…!]

“Anything? Then can you pay for my Netflix and YouTube subscriptions?”

[…What are those?]

“Geez, constellations are useless.”

[…?]

Anyway, her part-time job life is finally over!

She was planning to visit restaurants she couldn’t afford before and watch dramas she missed.

But the world won’t leave her alone.

“Habin! Are you really not joining our guild?”

The rich unni who keeps following her despite being rejected.

“That masked magician, why do I feel annoyed every time I see him?”

The mysterious world rank #1 who somehow resembles her missing brother.

“Join our guild. I’ll give you twice what they’re (rich unni) offering.”

Even her former classmate who hit domestic rank #1 and lost his social skills.

“No. I’m not joining! I said no!”

She thought rejecting them all would be enough, but…

“Hyun Habin-nim! We’re so sorry! The bank has just been robbed!”

“Whaaaat? Who did it?”

“It’s that infamous Hunter crime organization…”

“Damn it! Those bastards! I just want to watch my dramas!”

…Will Hyun Habin be able to enjoy her retirement life?

*This work is an award-winning entry from the KakaoPage X Joara “Free If You Wait” contest.

Keywords

#Raid #Rampage #TowerClimbing #Constellation #Regression #Overpowered #System #Helper #Artifact #Swordsman #Superpower <<less

"Congratulations on your marriage, Kaindel."... more>>

Isaac, who had been Kaindel’s lover—the hero who saved the world from the Great Calamity—learned one day that Kaindel was engaged to a princess.

Exhausted by their already strained relationship, Isaac eventually decided to leave Kaindel, who had betrayed him.

However, Kaindel wouldn’t let him go.

In the end, Isaac fled, unable to endure Kaindel's refusal to give up either the marriage to the princess or his relationship with Isaac.

Not long after, rumors began to spread throughout the kingdom: the hero had gone mad.

***

[From Isaac Winter, who once loved you]

"......."

Kaindel read and reread the last line of the letter, but the words didn’t change.

'Once loved.'

Isaac really wrote his feelings in past tense.

"Ah."

He never thought Isaac would leave him.

No, he never believed he could be abandoned.

Even if they parted ways, he was sure it would be on his terms.

Because Isaac loved him.

Because being loved by Isaac was, for Kaindel, something so natural.

"Why......."

But it had all been an illusion.

"Why didn’t I see it?"

Now, the one left behind like a forgotten relic was Kaindel, him.

The one clinging to the past, too blind to see the present, was none other than himself.

He only realized it now, after he left him.

Suddenly, Isaac’s voice, long buried in his memory, resurfaced.

Isaac’s smiling face filled his vision, his silver eyes, like clear glass marbles, gleaming with a thousand bright stars, painfully vivid.

The sound of Isaac’s innocent laughter echoed in his mind. "I love you," Isaac had once whispered.

When Kaindel's mind wondered around, did Isaac’s laughter disappeared?

No matter how much he tried to remember, the moment escaped him.

He searched his memory in vain.

As Kaindel traced the days gone by, thick tears began to fall.

Like melting ice dripping onto the budding new leaves of spring, his tears left indelible marks on Isaac's letter.

"Where is he?"

"......."

"Find him."

"Immediately."

Kaindel finally crumbled.

In the place where his arrogance shattered, a deep regret settled in.

It was a perfect despair. <<less

I went and seduced the Duke's daughter.

After transmigrating, I found myself as Go Yeonwoo, a side villain who mu*dered the protagonist, Woo Jiyoo, only to be brutally killed by a group of S-Class Espers.... more>>

To make matters worse, the moment I transmigrated was right after killing Woo Jiyoo.

But unlike the original story, Go Yeonwoo awakens as an S-Class Guide.

The Espers, upon sensing Go Yeonwoo’s guiding energy, start acting differently from the original.

“This bastard, let’s take him and use him as our personal sl*t. Just killing him would be too easy a punishment.”

“We’ll make him regret killing Woo Jiyoo. I’ll have him begging for death by the end.”

The S-Class Espers fake Go Yeonwoo’s death and imprison him in a secret place, forcing him to guide them.

However, with his already twisted tastes, Go Yeonwoo finds the Espers’ obsessive behavior suffocatingly delightful.

He even pretends to resist, encouraging them to treat him even more recklessly.

But then…

“Hey, are you seriously stopping after eating just this much? Are you planning to starve yourself to death?”

“Get lost, Kang Taewon. Because of you, my sl*t can’t eat properly. I’ll feed him myself. Open wide, Yeonwoo.”

“Yeonwoo, is there something you want to say to me? You were jealous enough to kill Jiyoo over it, weren’t you? If you tell me now, I’ll listen. Go ahead.”

“You’re letting me hold you up? Does that mean you’re giving me permission now?” <<less

As Haebom walked along the campsite trail, reading his novel, he quite literally stepped into its world. ... more>>

And right in front of the sub male protagonist—who was about to meet his death, no less!

On top of that, he was now an S-rank Guide?

It was already absurd enough that he had fallen into the world of a novel, but awakening as an S-rank Guide?

Though momentarily flustered, Haebom quickly made up his mind—he would become the partner of Wonho, the sub male protagonist he had pitied throughout the entire story.

Of course, only until he found a way back.

But… was the sub male protagonist always this prickly?

Like a wary cat that refused to be touched, Wonho kept running away from him, dodging him at every turn.

Determined, Haebom gave chase—only to make a drunken mistake in the end…! <<less

But I can't use sorcery.

Trapped in a fictional world based on a novel. I snatched the duke, the sub male lead, to survive.... more>>

“As long as I am the head of the household, there is no need to forcefully keep this engagement.”

“No, Duke. I refuse to break off the engagement.”

“What?”

“I want to marry the Duke.”

“This is the Duchy of Atcher. Aren’t you afraid?”

The Duke of Atcher was known as a pe*verted family, famous for having short-lived duchesses in each generation.

“Why should I be afraid?”

‘My father was a pe*vert when I was born’, that wasn’t the Duke’s fault..

***

“You’re not my type.”

“Oh, is that so? The duke isn’t my type either.”

“I’ll be honest with you. I am not interested in marriage.”

“Oh, that’s great.”

“It’s great?”

“It’s my dream. A platonic marriage.”

“If you change your mind after marriage, please let me know. Divorce is always on the table.”

A world she can leave at any time once she logs out. If the groom was not interested in his wife, then it was a rather good thing.

I was sure it was…….

“Not today!”

“I-it’s a misunderstanding. I was just trying to hug you today.”

“I…. It’s suffocating.”

“I didn’t know it was that uncomfortable.”

“Th-that, my leg… . don’t poke me.”

“That’s a conditioned reflex….”

The story of a female lead who was alone trying to shoot a strategy/infiltration/espionage story while trying to pay for food. The duke’s wife, who found out that he was not a pe*vert, but had a rather ‘normal preference’. <<less

I became the first son of the Demonic Heaven clan—one of the Six Great Clans of the Heavenly Demonic Cult—Jin Yeomyung.... more>>

I was ready to enjoy a sweet life with a silver spoon in my mouth, but thanks to that damn Murim Alliance, the Heavenly Demonic Cult was destroyed.

But in my final moments, Cult Leader Cheon Yura turned to me and said...

“Would you mind seducing me?” <<less

“The Great Sage, Heaven’s Equal, Sun Wukong, go to the martial world and find Tang Sanzang.”

A nanoengineer reincarnated as a disciple of the Extreme Heaven Sect. He has only one goal!... more>>

After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, a nanoengineer is reborn as Jang So-cheon, a low-ranking disciple of the Extreme Heaven Sect.

—What? The Sect Leader is over 400 years old?

—And the Grand Elder is 900?

This is cheating. Anyone can see that living as Jang So-cheon is a much better deal.

Instantly captivated by this new world, Jang So-cheon sets his heart on one humble wish: immortality.

Strangely enough, fateful encounters just keep coming his way—

Like discovering a centuries-old spirit herb,

Or obtaining the ancient martial art Dragon Soars, Phoenix Dances and the mysterious Primordial Spirit Sword.

Of course, just as many incidents follow as fortuitous events...

—Wait a second... is this the flag for becoming an Absolute Being? <<less

Yong Hwarin, debilitated by illness and weakness as the heir to the Tianzhong clan, ultimately gave up the path of martial arts and lived as a merchant after marrying into another family.... more>>

Carrying his regrets until the time he met his end, he unexpectedly travels back to the past he thought he would never revisit…!

Returning to the time of his lowest point, he swears to his shattered heart that his fate will be reborn through his own hands. <<less

Three years ago, a man who had gone missing returned—bearing within him things that do not exist in this world.

In the darkness where it was hard to say that light existed, she thought that all the black she knew might have been fake .... more>>

He stroked her saliva-soaked breasts and slowly went down to kiss her sunken belly button. He put his hand inside her skirt and caressed it, and when he found her thin, seamless underwear, he snickered and opened his eyes.

“Underwear that looks like yours? Neat and clean. Perfect…. I want to get dirty.”

He pulled her underwear down to her ankles and squeezed her round buttocks as if spreading them apart.

His gaze was fixed on a moist and secret place that no one had ever seen before.

Chaewon said, avoiding eye contact with a heat that could not be explained as shame.

“Those words…. It seems like bad taste…”

“I’m not tr*sh who has s** as a hobby. But, can I… suck it? Here.” <<less

With unmatched talent, but a fate sealed by a terminal illness, Jeong Yeon-shin challenges his destined death for a chance to live. ... more>>

Set in a realm where elves and dwarves coexist with martial artists, this is the story of Jeong Yeon-shin, a genius fighting to extend his life against all odds. <<less

A man returns home after millennia of endless struggle,... more>>

Only to find that the sanctuary he yearned for has vanished.

"What an interesting world it’s become."

In a land transformed into a lawless zone rife with crime after a great upheaval,

Lee Seojun, the Demon God, dreams of a quiet life with his family.

An omnipotent being who can shift mountains with a single gesture

And slice the heavens with a second—

If you value your life, never disturb his peace! <<less

Winner of the 2017 Joara Novel of The Year Contest-... more>>

In a world plagued by Morgellons, a deadly disease that turns humans into non-human creatures, people have chosen to abandon their humanity in order to fight against the bloodthirsty corpses. In the end, there will be no humans left on Earth.

But that harsh world is, in fact, a world fabricated merely for entertainment. A world for humans to live in exists neither inside nor outside.

This is the story of a boy who, while living a miserable life, stares at the stars as he desperately tries to keep his humanity. <<less

I have to leave the house the moment I transmigrate?I transmigrated into an R-rated novel as an extra — the daughter of a count.... more>>

Out of nowhere, I’m hit with bankruptcy, lose my home, and now I’m being forced into a marriage?

To make things worse, the new owner of the house is none other than the infamous Duke of Bloodstone — the man who supposedly destroys everything, be it people or property.

I can’t just get kicked out like this.

“What if there’s another way to protect White House?”

“…You mean, I just have to pretend we’re dating?”

I have to earn money and save the White House estate.

Even with just some basic interior design knowledge, people think I’m a genius.

“Fine. In this life, I’ll just focus on making money.”

But then…At some point, the cold-hearted Duke of Bloodstone began to change.

“If you don’t want to die, you’d better cooperate with her business.”

He started threatening nobles and others behind my back, and before I knew it,

his once emotionless red eyes were burning with desperate longing.

“…If I lose you, I’ll destroy everything.” <<less

I possessed the body of the fiancée of the second male lead, who was madly in love with the female lead.... more>>

He sighed whenever he looked at me, and didn’t hesitate to throw harsh words my way.

“Marrying someone like you would be worse than death.”

Then go ahead and die, you arrogant duke!

It was a superficial engagement.

Neither Ricardo nor I wanted it.

Besides, I—someone who had possessed this body—had a world I could return to.

We’d both be better off going our separate ways.

But then, the second male lead suddenly started clinging to me.

“Are you planning to go to Leon? Or is it your so-called first love you always talk about?”

Was he nervous?

The hand Ricardo used to hold me was ice cold.

“I know. I know you love Leon.”

“…And you’re still doing this?”

“That’s why I won’t ask to be your first. First love or whatever—if that matters to you, go ahead.”

Ricardo’s eyes began to tremble.

"But let me be your last love.” <<less