Maybe I Really Am from the New World

What, exactly, is [Love]?

She doesn't know.

Li Qiu has long, beautiful red hair and skin fairer and more delicate than anyone else's. Her golden eyes always seem to hold a faint hint of ferocity. She is constantly lost, haunted by the discomfort of never truly belonging anywhere.

She comes from a world of humans and ratfolk, but later meets humans in the truest sense of the word. She doesn't know what she really is.

Human, or ratfolk?

There are two paths: one leads to restraint and light, the other to wild abandon and darkness.

Li Qiu chooses the ratfolk.

Who, exactly, is worthy of [Love]?

She can't understand.

People can only give the feelings they themselves have experienced, so all she can do is imitate the act clumsily.

To seek, to fall, to play a part.

She chose the ratfolk, but the world told her that humans could be complicated, and some of them were good. She chose the humans, only to be betrayed by her own kind, and ended up living in Yokohama. She thinks that 'ratfolk' can [Love], so she has to do it, too.

Li Qiu believes she is 'ratfolk,' and has no doubt about it.

She thinks, I am 'ratfolk.'

Those empty golden eyes say,

"So I love you."

"Of course I love you."

He believes it just as deeply.

The salvation that should have come in the story never arrived. Even so, he, left incomplete by its absence, still speaks of [Love].

They embrace, but never snuggle close. They kiss, but never whisper sweet nothings.

Having never known [Love], he naturally doesn't know what [Love] is supposed to be.

But he truly loves her.

And she feels the same.

*Warning: Click into this story to watch the sweet, innocent heroine fall apart.

*The male lead is Dazai Osamu. A slow burn, with other characters' romantic storylines in the early chapters.

*Twisted pure love.

- A crossover sister story with [You Won't Believe Me, But I'm from the New World Next Door]. Both heroines are Hananoi Li Qiu, who is from the New World and is reborn after dying. This story is an if-route, but not the same if-route as Bungo Stray Dogs. It's Li Qiu's own separate if-route (you can read it as a standalone).

Recommendation: [I'm a Magical Girl from the New World, Working in Yokohama] Completed.

Recommendation: Streamer

Something about hitting 100 million views to get you home: a horror game streamer (no), a comedy blogger (yes).

Mi Tuan transmigrates to another world on the night she spends money on the game but doesn't get to draw anything. Then she's told she has to livestream and rack up views before she can go home.

*The woman who cons all of Yokohama

*The woman whose name must not be spoken

Theme: Calling for love from the heart of the world, like a beast