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After the Shi Clan rebellion ends, Maomao returns to the pleasure district and resumes working as an apothecary, expecting a simpler life away from the palace. A breakfast served at the Verdigris House, however, contains a detail that immediately feels wrong to her, sending her after a trail that may lead far beyond an ordinary poisoning.Jinshi, meanwhile, can no longer hide behind his former identity after revealing his position as the Emperor's brother. Loulan's final message warns of a disaster that will strike the nation, while rumors spread about a mysterious shrine maiden deceiving the public. From the inner court to the capital streets and across foreign borders, Maomao and Jinshi face a widening web where medicine, politics, and human motives are part of the same mystery.

After six months of brutal preparation, Asta and the Magic Knights of the Clover Kingdom are out of time. The Dark Triad rules the Spade Kingdom through devil power and has taken Yami and William as part of a plan that could open the gates to the underworld. The mysterious Black Bulls vice-captain Nacht returns with knowledge of their enemy and forces Asta to master a far deeper union with Liebe, while the other squads prepare for an invasion they cannot afford to lose. Failure would mean more than the fall of another kingdom. If the ritual is completed, the human world itself may become an entrance for the devils waiting beyond it.

Fran has moved beyond the first stage of her life as a free adventurer beside the sentient sword she calls Teacher. Survival is no longer enough for the former slave: as a Black Cat, she wants to grow strong enough to prove that her people can evolve despite a long-held belief that they cannot. Teacher continues supporting her with the magic and skills he gathers, but new lands and stronger opponents increasingly demand that Fran rely on her own experience and determination rather than his power alone. Each battle deepens the bond between the girl and the weapon who has become both guardian and family, while carrying them closer to Fran's dream and to answers about the strange world in which Teacher was reborn.

Taiki Inomata continues chasing two goals that refuse to become simple: improving in badminton and understanding the distance between himself and Chinatsu Kano, who still shares his family home. After the months that changed their relationship, the feelings surrounding Taiki are harder to ignore, especially with Hina remaining an important part of his life.New competitions, exams, and changing relationships push everyone into another stretch of adolescence. As Chinatsu pursues her own ambitions in basketball and Taiki faces pressure both on and off the court, getting closer to the person he loves becomes a question of courage as much as timing.

After the Tenjiku conflict, Takemichi returns to the future hoping everything has finally been fixed, only to find Mikey trapped in an even darker path. Determined to save him, Takemichi leaps back again, arriving in a time when the Tokyo Manji Gang has disbanded and the delinquent world is divided among three major powers.Mikey leads Kanto Manji, South Terano commands Rokuhara Tandai, and Senju Kawaragi stands at the head of Brahman. Their fragile balance is heading toward war, and Takemichi cannot reach Mikey without stepping into it. Knowing the future gives him warnings, not solutions, and saving one friend may be harder than changing history itself.

After the legendary detective Siesta’s death, Kimihiko Kimizuka thought the extraordinary life he shared with her was over, but the past refuses to stay buried. Beside him now is Nagisa Natsunagi, the girl who carries Siesta’s heart, and with her come new cases and threats tied to enemies the detective once faced.Each mystery reveals another piece of Kimihiko’s years as Siesta’s assistant and makes the boundary between her death and her legacy harder to define. As he and his companions try to move forward, Siesta’s old choices continue pulling them toward unfinished truths, as though the detective who is already dead is still arranging the next case from somewhere none of them can reach.

Ars Louvent has proved that his ability to recognize hidden talent can change the fate of an entire domain, but his responsibilities have grown with every victory. Now ruling Canarre, he can no longer rely on simply finding gifted people and bringing them to his side. War, noble rivalries, diplomacy, and the lives of his subjects all demand decisions only he can make. As Ars and the retainers he carefully gathered step into a larger struggle, each success raises his standing while drawing him toward opponents and choices that cannot be solved by Appraisal alone.

Koyuki has begun spending more time with Miki, Minato, and Youta, slowly discovering how warm friendship can feel after years of keeping people at a distance. Yet the happiness of belonging to a group also frightens her, because getting closer to someone means giving them the chance to hurt her.Her friends carry insecurities of their own, and the four teenagers begin confronting feelings they can no longer hide behind jokes or polite distance. As their bonds deepen, Koyuki must decide whether the walls that once protected her are still worth keeping when they also shut out the people she has come to treasure.

After earning promotion to Tokyo City Esperion's A team, Ashito Aoi enters a new level of football. He is no longer surrounded by players learning the same fundamentals, but by more experienced teammates who think and move quickly enough to force him to reconsider everything he understands about playing full-back and reading the field.The promotion he dreamed of does not mean he has arrived. It only reveals how much distance remains. Competing for a place in the lineup and facing elite opponents, Ashito must turn his unusual field vision into an ability his team can trust under pressure. Every A-team match becomes another step toward the professional world, not as the striker he once imagined, but as a player learning how to shape the entire game.

Satoko, eldest daughter of the respected Kirigaya family, is beautiful, graceful, and surrounded by marriage proposals, but a heart condition makes her future painfully uncertain. While she still hopes to find a husband who can ease her father's worries, she is kidnapped and placed before Shinpei Goto, a notorious assassin ordered to kill her.Bribery fails, leaving Satoko with one desperate lie: she claims to have fallen in love with Shinpei and asks him to marry her. To her astonishment, he takes the proposal seriously and decides to protect her. Their escape begins with Satoko forced to maintain a romance she invented for survival beside a man who treats the promise of marriage with frightening sincerity.

Years after Majin Buu's defeat, Earth has finally returned to relative peace, but the awakening of Beerus, the God of Destruction, threatens that calm at its foundation. After hearing about a Saiyan who defeated Frieza, Beerus sets out to find Goku and the legendary warrior known as the Super Saiyan God.Goku's current strength is nowhere near enough against a being who can erase planets with ease. When Beerus turns his attention toward Earth, everyone's fate depends on whether Goku and his friends can uncover the secret behind the power he seeks and face a battle measured not merely by martial skill, but by an entirely new level of cosmic strength.

Ranma Saotome's life at the Tendo dojo continues, and the Jusenkyo curse still changes his body whenever cold water hits him. His forced engagement to Akane has not become any simpler, especially with suitors, rivals, and family members constantly turning ordinary days into another challenge.Every opponent brings a stranger technique, and every attempt at normal life uncovers another problem tied to curses, romance, or martial-arts pride. Ranma and Akane continue arguing as naturally as ever, yet the situations they survive together make their growing attachment increasingly difficult to deny, even while both insist that admitting it is the last thing they intend to do.

Sasaki is now far removed from the quiet life he once hoped to build. Traveling with Peeps between Japan and another world is no longer a simple escape from exhausting office work. He has become entangled in trade, magic, and politics on one side, while his government work involving people with supernatural abilities keeps creating problems on the other.As the circles around him expand, keeping the two worlds separate becomes increasingly difficult, and new complications cannot simply be solved by stepping back through a portal. Sasaki continues relying on calm practicality while Peeps supplies wisdom and magic, yet every attempt to organize their lives seems to produce another responsibility. Their strange partnership is pulled deeper into exactly the kind of chaos Sasaki originally wanted to leave behind.

Shiki Ichinose and his companions head to Nikko after an impossible phenomenon appears: Kegon Falls has stopped flowing, and a massive research facility has been built nearby away from public view. What happens inside is no ordinary research, but terrifying experimentation connected to the continuing conflict between the Oni bloodline and the Momotaro Agency.Part-time instructor Hagure Nekosaki joins the mission, while Yu Innami emerges within the complicated case. The closer Shiki gets to the facility, the clearer it becomes that the silent waterfall is only the visible edge of a larger danger, and that people inside may be paying the price for a war inherited long before they were born.