THE BILLIONAIRE'S CHRISTMAS GIFT "Why won't you accept my invitation?" When the sinfully handsome billionaire Nick makes an advance on Beth, her heart flutters. They'd only just met a few days ago. Nick had hit Beth with his car and then pressured her to join him for Christmas. Ever since Beth lost her husband two years ago in an accident, she's turned her back on people and any chance of romance. But just being next to this man, who smells of danger, she can't help how her body reacts, even if her heart is saying no. She'd already made up her mind not to ever fall in love again...hadn't she?

Rose, who works as a waitress, has been passionately courted by a Swedish aristocrat and in the blink of an eye they are headed down the road to marriage. However, in the middle of their wedding ceremony at his old castle, Rose gets kidnapped by a man with black eyes who appears from nowhere! He says, “This marriage is a sham. I’ll make you pay for what you two have done.” Confused, Rose is then taken to a Greek island. Xerxes, on the other hand, must tell himself not to be attracted to her and her beauty because she is an important hostage for a deal with the aristocrat!

Brook is shocked when one day her younger sister,Courtney,announces that she will be getting married to her boyfriend,Jeff. However,the two of them are still in high school. "As her older sister,I must put a stop to this reckless marriage!" When Brook consults with Jeff's cool and handsome older stepbrother,Chase,he throws her a $10,000 check,saying bluntly that "I'd like to pretend none of this ever happened"! Shaking with anger that he has insulted her sister by saying she's only after money,she ends up slapping him in a burst of outrage! (Source: Renta!)

**She has learned the sheikh's secret… and for that, she has become a captive of the palace!** Recognized for her work as a tour operator, Melinda visits the small kingdom of Jenna in the Middle East, known as a paradise of beauty and culture. Although at first irritated by the arrogance of her guide Irfan, against her best instincts she finds a way to work with him. Upon accidentally discovering a powerful royal secret, Melinda suddenly finds herself a captive of the palace, kept under close watch and threatened to never speak of what she saw...

Pleasure finds an unconscious man, washed up on the beach, and brings him back to the pension she manages?? Over the next few days, their fondness grows, until the day she learns that he is actually the first prince of a nearby kingdom!?? She also discovers that because of a previous failed romance, he has girlfriends all over the world??What will become of Pleasure when she is invited to his kingdom and she continues falling in love...?

Featuring the stunning work of Kiyotaka Haimura! This collection of illustrations, rough sketches, and more is sure to please any diehard lovers of the beautiful artwork decorating the covers and pages of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria! Included are a long format interview between Kiyotaka Haimura and the author Fujino Omori, an exclusive short story, and illuminating scribbled commentary by Kiyotaka throughout!

The story centers around Ryouta Yonekura, a young man whose motto was "Don't be wasteful." While touring an environmental organization, he comes across the base of a mysterious group called the Kankyou Hogotai Mottai 9. Led by a beautiful woman, the team has vast resources at its disposal such as a giant robot. Ryouta decides to get acquainted with this team in order to show them the true path of not being wasteful.

The Mukai siblings, Sunao and Ai, were having a normal day, when suddenly, a space ship suddenly fell into the yard of their house!? What came from within the ship was a little girl who called herself Yurumi. "We're from the cosmic repair shop, 'Rutsubo Mechanic Company,'" said another girl, Yurumi's partner, Shimeru, who stepped out afterwards. And so, in the Mukai household, a comedy of cosmic proportions unfolds! translated by lynira