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Nina starts off life as an orphan, but is quickly sold out by someone she trusted. Her beautiful blue eyes make her rare and alluring, but also an almost perfect double for the recently deceased princess Alisha. Her captor is Prince Azure, Alisha’s older brother, who brings Nina into the palace and strikes a deal with her to impersonate the princess in exchange for a comfortable life. Nina goes through etiquette training and soon has to put her acting skills to the test in front of the king, Alisha's father, and her stepmother, who haven't seen Alisha in a number of years. The next test will be to survive long enough to be married off to a prince and secure an alliance for her kingdom!
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Our heroine meets an untimely death but received a message just before asking her if she wanted to purchase the full insurance package for her transmigration journey. Once in the afterlife, she is asked what kind of story she wanted to be placed in, and she asked for a childcare fantasy, but she gets an S-class novel instead! Rather than live out her afterlife in relative ease compared to the hardships she endured in her first life, she’s now stuck as Ailette, an energetic child of an alchemist serving a noble household. Thankfully, she thought to partake in the full insurance package, so can purchase skills such as cooking, alchemy, fighting, and impress everyone into thinking she's a child prodigy, all to help her navigate her difficult storyline! ![]()
The mysterious Kaguya gives advice to a stressed out classmate on how to pass a math exam, and we learn more about her genius and her sad home life. Nasa continues his job tutoring at a high school, and when the girls find out he lives at a public bath, they invade so they can sneak a peak at his cute wife. Later, the girls want to film their own version of The Blair Witch Project at an abandoned but luxurious local mansion that is reportedly haunted. Nasa and Tsukasa want to peak on the inside to get furniture and decorating tips, but the girls need a teacher chaperone.
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Maomao discovers that the hair pins she collected at the banquet in the last volume can be used to gain passage out of the little palace, so she calls upon one of the men to take her back home to the Pleasure District in exchange for notes of introduction to well known courtesans. Maomao isn’t aware, though, that these hair pins and exchanging favors is also akin to entering into social contract and talks of marriage with the young men, so rumors begin to spread while she is visiting home. Her trip isn’t restful as she is immediately put to work saving two young folk in an apparent attempted lover’s suicide, but her father, an even more observant apothecary, challenges her to look beyond the obvious and see what hidden clues the poisoned victims have left behind to tell their tale. ![]()
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Aria continues her machinations to ruin her sister Mielle’s life by trying to undermine the relationship between Mielle and her future betrothed, Oscar. Instead, Aria finds out many of her plans are backfiring. She discovers the business tips she gave to her stepfather in volume one were attributed to Mielle, so the nobility believe Mielle to be a budding economic genius. Mielle also sends maids to “help” Aria, who are actually spying on her, so Aria uses the hourglass to pick out one of Mielle’s maids who is young and potentially easy to win over. At a spring festival, Aria runs into Lord Asher again and tried to steer clear of him, but unexpected explosions have them running for safety together. ![]()
Adapted by INA
Tia and her father escape to a countryside manor for a while where she continues her training and tries to put behind her the thought of betrothals, successions, and the betrayal she felt at Allen not believing her when she revealed her past life. A month goes by, and Lord Monique sends for Sein to come to the manor because he must return to the capital to resume his work with the knights. Meanwhile, Prince Ruve is determined to figure out why Tia is so afraid of him, and he stops by the manor on his way to inspect the border camps. The meeting sends Tia into a shock for several days. After her recovery, she decides to return to the Capitol to try tackling some of her fears and to continue challenging her fate. ![]()
One summer, Hikaru went up into the mountain, but what returned might not be Hikaru. Yoshiki doesn’t want to believe his best friend is dead, but he has a suspicion that whatever this thing is, isn’t his friend Hikaru. This creature might have all of Hikaru’s mannerisms and memories, but it’s not his best friend. However, is being around this thing better than not having Hikaru at all? Yoshiki receives several warnings from the townsfolk that what he’s with is evil, that he shouldn’t get too close, but the conflict in him only grows.
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In a strange black-and-white city, Zet is studying to become a holy leader for his people. That means stamping out all traces of color and keeping them safe from the fierce creatures on the other side of the walls that thrive on color. One day, Zet discovers a creature in the tallest tower, a creature with two different colored eyes. But she's a girl, not a monster, and her very existence conjures questions about the rules of color, the way of life for those inside the walls, and what sacrifices are truly necessary for their survival.
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Adapted by INA
While recovering from over-exerted herself during sword training, Tia is summoned to the Imperial Palace where the Emperor discovers she has been left with no guards while all of the soldier’s in her father’s care are off quelling riots and fighting skirmishes. While she is at first hesitant to accept Imperial guards at her house, she realizes she can now have someone to continue her sword training. Soon, it is spring, and Allendis returns from the front. But, it is also almost time for the prince’s coming-of-age ceremony where Tia wants to declare she is the heir to House Monique. This might be difficult with her father not back from the far reaches of the kingdom! ![]()
Luffy and crew escape Roguetown as a crazy storm hits the island. Nami reads the charts for entering the Grand Line, and she learns this terrible storm is part of their chance to sail onto the Grand Line. The Merry Go sustains a bit of damage, but they finally manage to make it onto the fiercest sea of the them all. Once there, the ship is swallowed by a moaning whale, and they meet a wise sea doctor who has been taking care of this abandoned creature. The sad whale has been ramming his nose on a wall, hoping to escape, while two secretive folks have been trying to capture the creature to take its meat back to their starving village. From the old man, Nami learns her years of navigating will be mostly useless on the Grand Line as she must learn to use a Log Pose to survive the turbulent seas.
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