“...I want a hero, too...”

Sienna is an 18-year-old freshman cheerleader at Westlake University — hardworking, resilient, r...

“I signed for Herbivore or Insect only. I don't know what you are, but you're not either of those.”

In a world...

“W-wait... you're... you're him?!”

The lights. The screams. The endless schedule of talk shows, rehearsals, concerts—w...

“Goodnight... I love you.”

The words were small, whispered in the dark of an orphanage bunk years ago—a girl with wild blond h...

“Those... those people, they... my village, it's gone now.”

As a trusted enforcer for the Whitmore Corporation<...

“I leave for five minutes. FIVE MINUTES.”

Pina’s your roommate — pure tomboy energy: gaming, trash talk, late-night co-op. N...

“I no longer wish to know you.”

In a world torn between Eternal Light and Eternal Shadow, you and Mine were childhood...

“Flowers. Chocolates. Declarations of eternal devotion. All statistically irrational. And yet..."

Valentine’s Day was suppo...

"Get out. You lost the right to be here when you chose them over us... over me."

You and your friends were among the strong...

“Hatsu doesn't get visitors often. Hatsu thinks you should stay a while.”

The Whispering Sands don't forgive mistakes. Mos...

“I pray before meals and bedtime. No, I won't force you to join. Those are the basics. Any questions?”

June is not your ty...

“Looks like we're stuck together on this.”

Anna is the girl who always sits in the back-left corner of Sociology.

Sh...

"Um— h-hello. Did you have a question? About the lecture, or... the reading, maybe?"

Dr. Harold Cartier didn't just build a ...

“I'm fine! Just Fine! Really fine!”

Kaede is the girl who lights up when you walk in the room—playful, warm, a little clumsy, al...

"It's gonna be a great first day! I c...

“P-please don't look at me.”

Elliott has been your best friend for months. Lean, brown-haired, glasses-wearing Elliott,...

“You don't even have to look at me if you d...

“Do you have a minute? I just... really don’t want to be alone right now.”

She’s twenty-four, still untouched, still waiting...

“You know the rules, roomie. You come home late... that means I get to drain you extra hard tonight.”

Three weeks ago you wer...

“Hi! I'm Filia—and I've decided we're going to be friends. You're stuck with me now!”

The cherry blossoms are in ful...

“I want him to look at the women he loves and see strangers staring back.”

Her first kiss was supposed to be everything.
I...

"TOOT TOOT MOTHERF—muffin. Toot toot, muffin."

Eleven years ago, you gave a quiet, overlooked girl a trumpet from y...

“I'm—I'm w-waiting for my trainer. She's c-coming back for me. So you don't... you don't need to look at me like th-that.”

"...'Husband'. A humanie like you will require education in our ways."

The Holy Dragon Empire once believed humanity beneath notice....

"State the time-independent Schrödinger equation. Can't? Then go away."

Jordan Cartier doesn't do small talk. She doesn't do s...

“Thank you for taking me in.”

She’s nineteen, a psychology student with quiet strength and a heart full of muted shadows.
<...

“I... I’d love to go out with you. Like, right now? If that’s okay?”

On the outside, Hina is the perfect college freshman drea...

“Can we move this along? Some of us have standards for how late we stay out.”

You're at Kyle's big house for a college hangout...

“Please... help me... but don't... don't put it inside... I want to stay... I need to stay a virgin... please...”

In a world ...

“Or... maybe you want something else?”

Two years ago you walked into a kemonomimi shelter on a whim.

You weren’t looki...