Winner of the 2017 Joara Novel of The Year Contest-

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.

My childhood friend with platinum-blonde hair is just too pretty.

She's a bit... no, actually, quite prickly and stubborn, always doing things her own way.

But still, she's just too beautiful.

Though it may be a dream weathered, crumpled, fading,

I held on without surrendering.

Through each repeated day, running toward tomorrow’s light,

I became a knight, resolute and bright.

The world has gone to ruins, and I must live my own way. Of course, luxuriously and gorgeously.

On the way to a company workshop, we fell into a world of immortal cultivators while still in the car.

Those with spiritual roots and unique abilities were all called to join cultivation sects, living prosperously.

But I, having neither spiritual roots nor special abilities, lived as an ordinary mortal for 50 years, complying with fate until my death.

That’s what I thought.

Until I regressed.

Is the worst first meeting the best start to a love story?
On the day of her high school entrance ceremony, Hodaka, who has repeatedly moved and transferred schools due to her father's job, runs into a hard-to-approach boy wearing the same high school uniform at her front door. When they get on the elevator together, the worst thing happens...

I want an S-Rank skill too! I want it so badly, I would even die for it!

[You have awakened an S-Rank skill.] [But it only works when you die.]

Eh!? WHAT IS THE POINT OF GETTING ONE IF I DIE!?

In his dull everyday life, his blond hair looked like it was glowing... A collection of short stories depicting encounters with shady "Boys in the back alley," such as outlaws, fallen-apart men, and men who work in the nightlife district.