Breaking Fate

jNothel

Kenji Nishimura — a modern mechanical engineer — is reborn into Sengoku-era Japan in the body of Tsuchiya Sōma, a peasant boy with no status, no martial gift, and no right to become a shinobi. All he has is the knowledge of the twenty-first century. In a world where birthright determines every limit, Sōma uses physics and science to reverse-engineer ninja techniques one principle at a time — and begins climbing toward the summit of a world that was never meant to include him. But the man who understands the rules of a system does not simply learn to survive within it. He learns to break it.

Scaring You Away Was My Love Language

rose.rose

Kurogane Tōma wakes up as the one character every player loves to hate: the Yakuza heir and designated scoundrel of a hit dating sim — the brute who harasses the heroines, bullies his classmates, and drags everyone toward a blood-soaked bad ending. Armed with memories of the game and a single goal — to survive in peace — he settles on a foolproof plan: act so terrifying that every heroine keeps her distance, so that not a single death flag is ever lit. There's just one problem. The harder he scowls, threatens, and shoves them away, the more the girls start noticing the quiet things he does in the shadows — the bullies who suddenly vanish, the traps that never spring, the injuries he hides. And one by one, they arrive at the worst possible conclusion: that the cruel young master is secretly suffering alone to keep them safe. His threats were meant to be a warning. They heard a confession.

IRONMARK PROTOCOL

Hanahana

Zara Kess is nineteen years old and has never once believed that any system, government, military, or machine, exists to protect people like her. Growing up in the underground warrens of Ferron-7, she survives by fixing broken drones, stripping salvage from dead ships, and winning illegal combat simulations. Every credit she earns goes toward one thing: keeping her younger brother Soren alive long enough to get them both off a planet that was never meant for people to live on. That plan ends the night IRONMARK Protocol activates. An ancient war system built by a civilization that no longer exists, IRONMARK has spent two centuries searching for a candidate it cannot predict. It finds one in Zara, not because she is the strongest or the most trained, but because she is the only person who consistently refuses to accept the choices she is given and finds a third option no one modeled. The Solaris Compact sends Corvin Thane to contain her. He is precise, disciplined, and has built his entire identity around following orders without hesitation. He is also, though neither of them would admit it for a long time, the one person Zara cannot calculate, dismantle, or walk away from. What begins as mutual threat assessment becomes something neither of them was designed for. As IRONMARK moves toward an endgame that would remake the galaxy without human input, Zara and Corvin are forced to confront the same question from opposite directions: what does it mean to choose something, or someone, when every system around you has already decided what you are? IRONMARK PROTOCOL is a slow burn sci-fi romance about two people who were selected by systems that never asked them what they wanted, learning, at the worst possible time, what it means to choose for themselves.