Inarizaki Training Notes

The ongoing novel Debt Is No Burden has begun serialization.

I also have two works in preparation for a simultaneous launch:

Romance, Their Vermilion Marks: A Heart-Stealing Arsonist and Her Victims

Original, Killing Honeysuckle: Twins × Frail Girl, Campus Light Mystery Romance

If you're interested, little readers, you can check out my author page!

Narrow-eyed, sweet on the outside and dark within × Unruly, brilliant setter

Yukimura Rei, the goddess of Rikkai, comes to Inarizaki and meets the untamed, aloof, hard-to-tame golden fox of Kansai.

The arrogant setter may have a terrible personality, but fortunately, the gods have bestowed three gifts upon him: a handsome face, a pair of twin brothers, and exceptional volleyball talent. But after meeting Yukimura Rei, he realizes that she is his fourth gift.

After the little fox masters the jump serve and jump float serve, he shows off to Yukimura Rei, unaware that she had been a two-sword-style fighter long before him, and in the most literal sense, wielded two swords.

He had meant to play the hero and save the beauty, but instead the beauty saved the hero. With a folding fan, Yukimura Rei deflects a dagger and, at the same time, opens the heart of Inarizaki's arrogant fox.

The first principle in Yukimura Rei's Fox-Taming Handbook: successful hunters always appear to be prey.

The fox-taming progress bar goes as follows:

At the fireworks festival, he is bold and unrestrained, but only dares to confess the love he can't bring himself to say amid the clamor: 40%

A direct confession on his birthday: You don't have to respond. I just want you to know that I like you: 65%

After Spring High ends, one of the players hailed as the strongest challenger confesses to Yukimura Rei: 90%

The second principle: discipline is essential.

Every day after they get together, she teaches him by word and example, until the fox willingly bows his head: 100%

Ultimate taming achievement unlocked!

The upcoming novel Dear Him: Blurb

He looks like him, but he isn't him.

She loves him, but he isn't him.

Everyone knows that Xie Zhaoyun has someone hidden in her heart.

Sheng Huai knows it too. Like a cicada lost in midsummer, he has fallen deeply in love.

Summer is as it always was, and sophora blossoms fall like rain.

A woman with features like melting first snow holds white chrysanthemums in her hands, her gaze softly brushing over the gravestone before her.

Only then does Sheng Huai understand that someone is buried in Xie Zhaoyun's heart.

In the black-and-white photograph, a young man looks back over his shoulder, smiling like summer flowers.

The place where my beloved, Yan Huaixu, rests.

Reader's Guide:

1. The male lead is already dead at the beginning. Memories and flashbacks are interspersed throughout the story. He dies in the year the female lead loves him most and finds it hardest to let him go.

2. Both leads are chaste, and so is the male supporting character. (He and the female lead never get together.)

3. This is not a stand-in romance. The female lead needs time to recover from her grief. The male supporting character falls for her through his own assumptions, and everything is a beautiful misunderstanding. They will all grow and carry on with their lives.

The ongoing novel Debt Is No Burden: Blurb

Debts of money must be repaid; that's only right. Money debts are easy to settle, but debts of love are hard to repay.

Tokiba Takako never expected that the people she had somehow won over would appear in the present day, much less that there would be more than one of them.

Tokiba Takako, who had originally been free of all debts, suddenly felt her scalp tingle. After all, she owed them debts of love, and every one of her creditors was more difficult to deal with than the last.

Creditor One: The bowl-cut curse user

In the deep green forest, where a sudden change had taken place, Tokiba Takako instantly spotted the white-haired boy in a kimono.

The body of Uraume, who had just been about to move, suddenly froze. He turned around mechanically and murmured, his voice breaking, "My lady." At last, he had seen her.

That shiver rising from his very soul: even from far away, he knew.

His lady had returned.

The white-haired boy stumbled forward, the silver bell at his waist flickering: "My lady, Uraume is here."

Creditor Two: The boss of the Black Organization

In front of an elegant, old-fashioned mansion, a silver-haired man kissed his fan. His emerald eyes brimmed with sticky love and greed. "To meet you again is a joy beyond measure."

The longing he had nurtured in a hidden room for countless years was fulfilled all at once in this moment.

He had crossed the river of time to see his own god again. After countless prayers and unnumbered dreams, his shrine maiden, his deity, could never escape him!

Creditor Three: The Lord of the Western Lands

The great white-haired demon sat high above on a pavilion, the silent silver bell at his waist ringing like spring thunder.

Tokiba Takako stroked the crescent moon between the demon's brows, her expression complicated. "Isn't there anything you want to ask me?"

The demon's golden eyes softened for a rare moment. He placed a Shikon Jewel shard in the girl's palm. "One thousand and forty years and fifty-one days. The thousand-year cherry blossom still hadn't bloomed. I came too early."

Creditor Four: The vampire progenitor who loves ribbons

Cold fangs pressed against the girl's smooth, warm neck. "Ah-ha~ My little doll has grown up now."

The sharp, icy fangs made Tokiba Takako shiver. Before she could speak, the newcomer clamped a hand over her lips without mercy.

"Good evening, my Alice."

There was no sting as she had imagined. The elegant, cold-hearted vampire placed a soft kiss on the pulse beneath her skin.

Faced with her creditors bearing down on her, Tokiba Takako was overwhelmed and fled into the Time Administration. Debts of love are hard to repay, so she might as well forget them all. The more debts, the less they matter!

Warnings!!!

1. The order of the worlds is not fixed.

2. Pairing breakup warning (Sesshomaru/Rin).

3. No multiple endings: choose one of four.

Theme: Everyone should live for themselves, seek what they want, and become a better version of themselves.