A Record of Their Stories and Memories

At thirteen, she didn’t awaken magical powers like the protagonist of a Japanese anime. At fifteen, she didn’t receive a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

But at seventeen, she unexpectedly came into possession of a crystal bead that could carry her through time.

The first story takes place in the distant past, near the end of Egypt’s Tenth Dynasty. Class tensions are intensifying, royal power is waning, local forces are rising, and the country is splintering as rival warlords vie for supremacy.

He was born in a land where everyone worshipped the gods devoutly, but he believed in none of them.

He believed the gods were nothing but spiritual shackles invented by rulers to control commoners and slaves. Worship had done nothing to change the wretched lives of the people at the bottom of society, and he was determined to overthrow the state religion, bring down the slave owners, and establish an entirely new system of government.

Then he met the one and only god of his life.

Though he had never believed in the gods, he fell in love with the goddess who had blessed him. From then on, he became her most devout believer, kneeling before her statue every day to recite a thousand prayers, all for the chance to see her again.

Also known as: A Record of Memories, On the Lethality of the One That Got Away.

This story is made up of a series of little tales.

No couples, or maybe everyone is a couple. Fair warning: the female lead is, in some ways, genuinely awful, and none of the male leads are good people either.