Romance - Page 85

What? Plundering my clothes? Peeping at my secrets? Winning my trust? Deceiving my heart? Squeezing everything out of me? Threatening that you'll marry me? And in the end, I became your slave?!

Shintaro Kuze, an up-and-coming writer, ends up boarding at his mentor's house. There, he shares the space with a live-in student named Shogo Katsuragi, making things a bit awkward for the introverted Kuze. One day, Kuze is asked to mentor Katsuragi, who has brought along a piece of writing practice. Though he agrees only reluctantly at first, he soon finds himself utterly captivated by the work before him—its depth and brilliance unlike anything he would have expected from Katsuragi's cheerful, easygoing demeanor...

Xia Youning is an emotionless "killer" when it comes to love. Han Yi is a restless "live wire" burning through his lonely days. In the bustling glamor of the city, these two monsters find each other...

The F tier awakener Paster is always bullied by the female S tier awakeners. Then he used a hypnosis app for 6 months to subdue and make sex toys out of them. But one day, he found out that the app was fake. Then why did they pretend to be hypnotized...?! (Source: TOPTOON+, edited)

The story takes place in the Meiji and Taisho eras, a time of dramatic transformation in a certain "Great Japanese Empire." Ichijoin Sae, a member of a struggling aristocratic family on the brink of collapse, volunteers for a political marriage in her sister's place. However, her makeshift "lady" persona crumbles, and she is instantly humiliated.nJust then, a masked man appears. He, too, has his own agenda. The masked man, whose face is hidden from Sae, suddenly proposes marriage. What are his true intentions?! The zero-day marriage between the masked man, whose true face is hidden, and Sae, raised as the "heir" of a marquis family, begins... (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

After being unfairly cast out by the kingdom she faithfully protected, the talented shadow mage Alicia sets off with no destination in mind. Her journey changes when she meets Leon, the prince of a desert nation suffering from harsh conditions. Recognizing the true value of her magic, Leon asks Alicia to help his people. As she earns the appreciation she never received before, Alicia discovers a new purpose—and an unexpected romance.

Elena is living in poverty due to financial difficulties in her viscounty. In exchange for assisting with the business, she is offered the condition of marrying the "Cursed Count." For the sake of her family, Elena decides to accept the marriage without hesitation! When she arrives at the mansion, she finds... https://www.cmoa.jp/title/355561/

*"If only I could live like in an eroge even in real life... that would be fun."* After finishing his military service, Jin-Seok Lee went back to enjoying his usual eroge. But one day, the powers from his games suddenly appeared in reality?! *"With this ability, I can make anyone do whatever I want."* (Source: DAYcomics, edited)

**One boy discovers his school’s idol is actually a robot—and she’s created for one intimate purpose! Is this his chance at romance or will he be too caught up in keeping her identity a secret?** Gloomy high schooler and robot otaku Akutsu Eita comes home one day to find his school’s idol, Agatsuma Makina, right outside. A lucky break for Eita, especially when he finds out that she’s a robot created for sex! The virginal Eita is thrown through a loop by how physical things start suddenly getting. But while Makina wants to bare it all, including her robotic interior, Eita has to keep her identity a secret—doesn’t he?! *Source: Seven Seas Entertainment, Vol. 1*

The turmoil that engulfed many nations and dragged on for more than a decade finally came to an end, with the Kingdom of Weikling emerging as the dominant power. Its young king, Lionel, demanded that each country offer up hostages. In the Kingdom of Hammond, the only ones who met the conditions to be sent as hostages wwas the crown prince Jonas who was on the verge of marriage and the queen herself. Unwilling to sacrifice his family, the king of Hammond abdicated in Jonas’s favor, hastily arranged a marriage for him, and devised a plan to present a fake queen as the hostage. The woman chosen to be a wife for that purpose alone was Laura, the daughter of an impoverished baron. The person Jonas truly loved was Silvia, his original fiancée, and even after the marriage, he never spared Laura a glance. Though Laura had been threatened with her family’s safety and forced to abandon her dream of becoming a civil official to accept the royal command, she was sent off to Weikling as queen of Hammond with barely any preparations to her name. Awaiting Laura upon her arrival in Weikling were the cold and ruthless Lionel and the proud princesses from other nations, themselves hostages, who looked down on her for coming from a minor country. With not even a single lady-in-waiting by her side, Laura is bullied by those princesses as they compete for Lionel’s favor. Yet she endures it all, thinking of her family and holding on bravely. “It’ll be all right. I’m sure of it.” Even as she faces painful days, Laura continues to live with quiet optimism and in doing so, she catches glimpses of the deep loneliness and desolation that lie within Lionel’s eyes. https://www.cmoa.jp/title/338224/vol/34/

Min-U lives rent-free with a pretty landlord. They always thought of each other as family, but all of that is about to change... *"Why does holding her breasts make me so hard?!"* (Source: TOPTOON+, edited) *Note: Includes 19 extra chapters.*

"An unwanted Saint? Fine then, I'll just make a place for myself!" Kyoko, an around-thirty nursery school teacher, hit rock bottom after her engagement was broken off right before her wedding, forcing her to take a leave of absence from work. Even when she is summoned to another world as a Saint candidate, she is immediately dismissed as "useless." ──But she's determined to overcome this adversity using her childcare skills and her powers as a Saint! With the full cooperation of a fiercely-intimidating former king, she ends up opening a nursery school in this new world?! Surrounded by adorable children and a wonderfully clumsy man, her blissful new slow life begins!