Translations - Ziru's Musings

The story of a withered, kindhearted middle-aged man who is reborn as the strongest dark elf -- a woman -- and gets to live his youth all over again.

A martial artist (42 years old, single) who devoted his days to swords and martial arts, honing himself relentlessly, got caught up in a massive disaster. He saved many lives and met his end. Just as the man thought he was headed straight to the afterlife, a beautiful woman appeared before him, introducing herself as an administrator. Upon hearing that he could reincarnate into a world of swords and magic, the man chose to be reborn with the powerful gift "Dragon's Bloodline". However, his new form was that of a woman. And not just any woman--a rather beautiful girl. To master the path of martial arts and to reclaim his symbol of manhood, the adventure (?) of this reborn girl (?) begins.

For starters, though, I'll bury my face in my beautiful mom's boobs. In the women's bath, I'll totally stare at all the other boobs! And I'll pull some sexual harassment on cute girls!

One day, due to God's mistake, Tomoaki Akino's life was accidentally snatched away.

Though he gratefully accepted the cheat offered as an apology and reincarnated, he was reborn as a female elf!

Then time passed, and Tomoaki now works as the intelligent and beautiful receptionist named Ilya in the Lunéville branch of the Guild Association.

In a world of swords and magic, her job in the guild begins today.

The Goddess wrecked the Last Boss while saying, "This is a tutorial, after all." After landing the finishing blow, she left with the message, "Thank you for your efforts, the rest is up to you."

The Last Boss' defeat took all but a minute.

But as a reward, the protagonist was given [Talent to Learn Skills], [Basic Knowledge], and the very same [Spatial Magic] that the Goddess had used in her (violated) tutorial, so she decided to enjoy a slow life in another world -- even though she somehow ended up as a girl.

... Maybe I'll give being a merchant with my all-powerful Spatial Magic a shot?

This is the story of Karina, the girl who could wield Spatial Magic strong enough to defeat the Last Boss, and her carefree life she was determined to live with all she had.

... Will there ever be an end to this story?

"I am a Dungeon Master. As yet I have no name. I haven't the faintest idea where I was born." So muses a brown-tabby library cat (yellowish-grey with black markings) who has completely blanked on the word "librarian."

Although it has been cast as the dungeon's Master, it can't be bothered to read the dungeon system's English, so it mistakes "Librarian" (the very title of the navigator it is supposed to summon) for the name of a racehorse. The upshot: for its very first dungeon monster, instead of a librarian guide, it just shrugs "Eh, good enough!" and forcibly summons Rosemary, a "secretary" of the Shiso (Perilla) race, one of the Six Realms, a plant-natured offshoot of the Asura.

From that fumbled first summon grows a sprawling library city, as a hapless cat Dungeon Master accidentally builds an agricultural empire one misunderstanding at a time.

"Hey, hurry up and massacre those bandits!"

"No way, I don't want to work..."

Spending my daily life in leisure, that was my pastime -- until I was summoned into another world and met a blonde loli introducing herself as Dungeon Core Number 695.

"Save my dungeon. By the way, if the Dungeon Core is destroyed, you'll also go down with me as the Dungeon Master."

A dungeon with a single room. Moreover, one already controlled by bandits. This is a [Checkmate] no matter how you look at it. Guess I've got no choice but to somehow get out of this situation so that I can [Not Work]!!

Asahi's tastes have always run off-center: he loves a good bad end. The girl he meets at the movie theater, Tsukino, not only shares that love of bad ends, she's exactly his type. The two hit it off instantly and, reluctant to part, head their separate ways home... only for both of them to arrive at Asahi's house, where Tsukino has somehow become "the girl who lives with the family." No such arrangement existed as of this morning, and Tsukino looks just as blindsided!?

After testing it every way they can, only one conclusion remains: Tsukino is Asahi's same existence, strayed into this world from a parallel one. Asahi commits to helping her get back to her own world, but there's no way he can pretend not to notice a girl this exactly his type. And for Tsukino, it's the same...

A love comedy woven between two people far too close to each other!

The being that dwells inside a dungeon and feeds on human emotions is called a Dungeon Core. But a newly born Dungeon Core, saddled with the [Sloth] attribute, has its own ideas: "If I just spend DP to whip up something delicious every single day, I won't even need human emotions -- way easier that way, right?"

And so a Dungeon Core that has no interest whatsoever in the concept of actually building a dungeon is loosed upon the human world...?!

(This is a dungeon story, but it leans far more toward the laid-back than the combat.)

Dungeons bled out of the internet and nearly ate the world. The government's fix? Turn "Debris" cleanup into a nationwide VR game, Battle-Cast: Dungeon Alive, where every player's HP bar is literally their bank account. Take a hit, lose real yen. Clear the core, get paid. Stream it well, and the SuperChats roll in too.

Enter Karona Ryutanji: twin-drill curls, wine-red Gothic frills, a parasol named Mary-chan, and a theatrical "Ohohoho~!" always locked and loaded. Her dream is a gorgeous, elegant 100-million-yen fortune. Her reality, behind the immersive VR headset, is Saya Shinohara: plain-black-haired, friendless, and subsisting on 98-yen sliced bread and 20-yen bags of bean sprouts in a shabby 1LDK. One stray arrow erases a week of groceries. No pressure.

Armed with a recalled secondhand headset, a handful of loyal Karonites, and enough Ojou-sama conviction to shrug off any amount of humiliation, Karona charges from zero-viewer daily streams toward the high society she worships, chasing her top oshi Mikado-sama and a butler-type Secretary AI she absolutely cannot afford. Watch the broke streamer claw her way up, one SuperChat Potion at a time. (Yoroshiku desuwa~!)

Kurose Jin was an ordinary high school student. Yet within him were memories of a past life, one where he was feared across another world as the "Sword Emperor".

One day, mysterious omens appeared worldwide. Hallucinations. Sudden illness. Cracks in the sky. As people scrambled, crying "Terrorism?!" or "Mass hysteria!", Jin alone knew the truth.

"--It's here. Dungeonification. X-Day."

In peace-addled Japan, he was the only one preparing for what was to come--training his body, stockpiling supplies, crafting a brutal weapon from sharpened rebar. Then, at the fated noon, a massive hole tears open in the school grounds. Goblins and Orcs pour forth.

Police pistols were deflected. A Self-Defense Force helicopter was shot down. The school descended into a screaming hell. As his classmates wailed in despair, Jin rose with a sadistic grin.

"Now then--time to earn. Bonus stage time."

This is the story of a man with supreme knowledge and cold calculation who hunts monsters, seizes magic stones, and claws his way to the top through overwhelming force in a crumbling modern Japan.

He wanted money.

A merchant who'd inherited a tool shop from his father was sick of scraping by on thin margins.

Nothing ever changed because nothing ever paid big.

So he bought a slave.

Adventurers who made it big earned fortunes. But danger? No thanks. So just have a slave do it.

What belongs to the slave belongs to the master, after all.

That's right -- the era of the slave business had arrived.

This is the story of a single merchant who buys slaves and molds them into adventurers.

As he poured everything into supporting their growth, his slaves grew stronger and stronger.

What he didn't realize was that he was on the verge of creating adventurers of unimaginable power.

A tale where one merchant's whim sets history in motion.

A new game my coworker recommended: "Kaito a Luise".

It cost about five convenience store onigiri, suspiciously pricey for something this sketchy. "A rare buy-to-play social game these days"... or so they claimed. Figuring the company would go bankrupt anyway, my coworker and I decided to give it a try.

As a "spirit", I save and guide Tria, a village girl who was about to be sacrificed to the Great Turtle. Tria grows stronger and stronger. I wonder when this tutorial will ever end, even as we conquer the game -- and the world.

--Back then, we still thought this hellish game was just that: a "game".

Raul Chaser was once the top student at the hero-prep academy, destined to slay the [Demon King]. Then the [Demon King] was defeated by someone else, the hero industry collapsed overnight, and Raul -- with no profession, no skills, and a sister to feed -- reluctantly took a part-time job at Magic Shop Leon, a struggling capital-district magic-item store.

Years later he is still there, ringing up registers and rolling his eyes at his ex-classmates. Then one morning the shop's owner hires a new recruit: Fino Bloodstone, the former [Demon King]'s daughter, freshly out of work for the same reason he is.

A retail-sector workplace comedy starring two people the world no longer needs.

A man who met his end in the modern world was reborn as Bloom--a girl bound by contract to a death god.

Bloom was a character from Souls Light Nobly, a manga notorious for its soul-crushing developments. She was destined to meet a tragic demise from overusing the death god's power.

"Those who wield death shall eventually become entranced by it, and in the end, choose death for themselves--"

"But I've already died once. I know the truth: death is nothing but oblivion."

Having experienced death firsthand, Bloom trembled with joy upon realizing she could now wield the death god's power completely risk-free.

"--This means I can watch my favorite ship to my heart's content!"

Paying no heed to the death god's bewildered mutterings of, "Wait... favorite ship...?", Bloom's days of stalking--er, delightfully observing her beloved characters using her cheat abilities have begun!

In an age long lost to legend and myth.

In an age where humans had still yet to establish a system of writing.

It's said that there existed a Magus in a country named Scarlet.

It's said that he imparted knowledge concerning language and writing, taught how to cultivate the lands, instructed the ways of raising animals, and brought about the gift -- nay, the magic of fire.

It's said that he was a dauntless youth, a dragon clad in scarlet red scales, a person worshipped far and wide.

It's said that this man was the God of Civilization.

Yet strangely, his name had been wiped from virtually all records.

Therefore, he was simply referred to as--

--The Magus of Genesis.

"This is totally the flow of a villainess-centered downfall story!"

It seems I've been reincarnated as Koleha Nyarlathotep, a villainess and poison sorceress from a game world, the daughter of a marquess. But I'm pretty sure this world is one of those "downfall" stories where the villainess is the star!

I know all about this!!

Because I've read millions of these stories on a certain site!

I absolutely love downfall stories!

I adore watching people's faces as they're plunged into the abyss of misfortune, so I'm definitely going to make sure the heroine gets her just desserts!! Oh-ho-ho-ho!!

... Wait, this is the villainess's personality! I didn't have this kind of personality before I was reincarnated, did I?! I don't think so...?

Katsuragi Daichi, a youth that had suffered through gruesome bullying, suddenly teleported into another world together with his classmates.

Daichi did his best in trying to be a hero, but as he was useless even after reincarnating, he was abandoned in a Monster House to be a scapegoat.

Daichi should have died.

However, he rose, somehow unharmed.

The ability he gained was [Revenge of the Grudgebearer]. It was a unique ability, one that would revive him each and every time he died and bring him an extreme level of growth!

The strongest ability in his grasp, Daichi set out to take his revenge...