Romance - Page 86

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!

A steamy take on the romance of Persephone and Hades brings the heat in this new romance manga! In the Realm of the Gods, new goddess Persephone spends her days tending to her fields of flowers. Every new sprout comes at the cost of an old one withering and dying—which is how she meets the handsome but taciturn Hades, who visits to collect the dead. Persephone grieves for the death of her beloved plants, but Hades’s warmth and encouragement touch her heart. Persephone learns Hades is a victim of the Gods’ conspiracy, and she offers up her own body to save the Lord of the Underworld! Can their passion stand against all of Olympus? (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

Ryou is a dull-looking office worker working for the Adventurers’ Guild in Cassandra City. When he rescued a mysterious fairy trapped in a vial, he discovered he was transferred to a parallel world! In this world where men are scarce, and the values of beauty and ugliness are reversed, Ryou finds himself in a situation where he is irresistible just because he exists as a man! “…I’m going to take a room upstairs. Do you want to go with me?” On top of that, he is now being pressed by the S-rank female party, with whom he had no relation in his previous world!? How will Ryou interact with these women, who were now deemed “ugly” and have been ridiculed by society for being “spinsters” – women who are way past their marriageable age? Will he be able to change their views? Or change the values of this world as a whole? Ryou’s encounters with ugly (read: beautiful) women begins here!

Seiji Tajima runs a convenience store in a small town, and thanks to his easygoing attitude toward much of life, he’s still single. Tall, muscular patrolman Shin Nakamoto is a frequent visitor to Seiji’s rather desolate shop, and although the two met ten years earlier, they only recently reconnected after Shin was assigned to the police box nearby. Despite the years apart, they start interacting like nothing has changed—that is, until Seiji offhandedly remarks that maybe he should try his luck with men, unwittingly restoking the flame Shin has held for him for years! (Source: SuBLime) *Note: Includes three extra chapters.*

Yuki Toyama, an introverted loner, has a secret he hasn't told anyone, that he and his classmate Yuzumi Takai are "sex friends." It was supposed to be a purely physical relationship. But when Marika Uehara, a popular girl in the class, begins to show interest in Toyama, their attitudes begin to waver. *Note: Includes 3 extra chapters*

The former company slave who died from overwork was reincarnated as Noctis, a weak lord. Noctis is determined, *"I definitely don't want to work because I'm in a different world!"* However, the territory is always in poverty due to the monsters attacking from the large forest. He becomes an adult and is endowed with skills, he also has an outlier skill called "enlargement & reduction". Furthermore, the demon attack left the lord and his brother as the only survivors. Noctis, who has a genuine neat temperament, will become the lord to create a "world where you don't have to work" in the future! (Source: Nico Nico Seiga, translated)

Kurosaki is a high school boy who has been the subject of many black rumors about his relationships with women and violence. Is he as bad as the rumors say? Or...? What did Shirokawa, an airheaded rich girl, see in the real Kurosaki?* *She wants to use him as an inspiration for her manga