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The Simulacrum - Chapter 83 - Part 2

"How's the Peking duck?"

I glanced up from my plate, and blurted out a flabbergasted, "Excuse me?"

"The Peking duck," Emese repeated from the other side of the dining table. She was wea...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 83 - Part 1

Let me see. Phone? Check. Keys? Check. Coat? Check. Beany? Check. Bag? Check.

After concluding that I'd got everything, I slipped into my outdoor shoes and called out, "I'm off to visit the K...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 82 - Part 3

"Welcome home," Snowy greeted me from the living room the moment I opened the front door. She only had five classes on Mondays, and she had no club activities, so she came home ahead of me as usual...

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Update

I'm sorry this isn't a chapter update, but unfortunately I've been sick for the past week. As in, constant coughing and a 39 degrees Celsius fever, with a dash of insomnia and some nasty diarrhea a...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 82 - Part 2

"And remember children: the most important part of the school festival is fun!" Mrs. Applebottom exclaimed with an unusually energetic smile, and the classroom nodded along. Well, most of the class...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 82 - Part 1

"The ninja maids are really into the holiday season, huh?" I spoke softly, just loud enough for the girls to hear.

"Christmas is just a few weeks away," Elly told me as she nuzzled c...

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Volume 4 - Prologue

"Your terms are pretty damn acceptable. Not to mention, I like the cut of your jib! Count me in!"

I'm not going to lie, I couldn't decide whether I should feel happy or annoyed by that answer...

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Volume 3 Extra 7: Man proposes, dice disposes, DM opposes, common sense decomposes

Childhood friends were often similar. It's one of those inevitable things, where they constantly influence each other as they grow up until they end up settling into an equilibrium. Similar tempera...

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Day 18 Evening - Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable

“This turned out better than I expected,” I mumbled to myself while I used a borrowed silver fork to pick a piece of meat out from the stew, and then I carefully placed it onto my borrowed porc...

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Day 18 Interlude - Liselotte

I was really surprised to see Eriza alive. We were friends. No, maybe not quite friends, but closer than just acquaintances. I first met her years ago, during my time at the Healers’ Pavilion. I ...

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Day 18 Afternoon - It's a small world

“All right, it’s just beyond that hill,” I stated and closed my map.

“Really… Haaah… Are we really there?” Eriza muttered as she staggered forward, her legs visibly shaking with...

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Day 16 Evening - A long trip with ups and downs

“Hmmm… According to my map, we should go this way,” I told my slightly unwilling companion as I closed the DMI and pointed towards an unbeaten path through the mushroom forest.

“A-Are...

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Day 15 Interlude - Eriza

It was morning. There was no sunlight on the windowsill or rooster crying out in the backyard, but somehow my body could still tell. I sat up in my bed and rubbed my eyes. I was still tired. I was ...

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Day 15 Evening - Plans, food, and slight misunderstandings

““““We are terribly sorry! Please forgive us!””””

I looked over the four maids lined up in front of me and bowing in unison, and I couldn’t keep the sigh from escaping my li...

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Day 15 Afternoon - The devil in the details

“So you can’t see the details?” I muttered as I crossed my arms.

I was still talking to Razzie, thought the scenery have changed. At the moment, we were sitting around a fancy wooden ro...

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Day 15 Morning - Dungeon economics 101

Even though the host struck me as something of a muscle head, the reading room of the Raznok estate was surprisingly large. In fact, it was about the size of the public library old me used to frequ...

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Day 14 Afternoon - First impressions are important

"Whoa!”

I let out an undignified cry as I nearly stumbled and fell on my face. The transportation magic itself was fairly nauseating, as it made the world around me disappear into rainbow-c...

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Day 14 Interlude - Liselotte


I woke up to the smell of smoke and burnt flesh. I had trouble opening my eyes. They felt like they were made of lead. Since I couldn’t see, I tried to listen. There was a commotion ...

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The Dungeon Mafter Series - Days 12 to 14

Day 12 - Expedition

The next morning started with a bombshell. After I peeled the sleeping Smaragd off me (while trying to ignore that she was still naked), she told me that she was going t...

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The Dungeon Mafter Series - Days 7 to 11

Day 7 - A meal of meat and fire

In the end we spent the entire last day resting while we waited for Smaragd’s Stamina to recharge. Unfortunately, even with the food, her Health was slow t...

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The Dungeon Mafter Series - Days 4 to 6

Day 4 - Note to self: Goblins, unexpectedly, a

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The Dungeon Mafter Series - Days 1 to 3

Day 1 - Toto, I've a feeling we're not on Earth anymore...

“Hhhh…!”

I could feel my chest rise with a sudden jerk and my mouth opened wide into an involuntary gasp. Soon after t...

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The Simulacrum - Volume 3 Epilogue

Sometimes, asking philosophical questions is inevitable. Not necessarily big ones, and certainly not the scary existential ones, though sometimes that can also become unavoidable. No, I'm talking a...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 81 - Part 4

It was a little unexpected, but my room was quite lively when I arrived home. The lights were still on despite how late it was, and both Judy and Elly were in front of the PC. They were watching fu...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 81 - Part 3

"We have a toilet!"

Penny's excited words raised a couple of intrigued brows in the spacious guest room of the Dracis mansion.

"I expected as much," Roland noted while absently airing t...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 81 - Part 2

"Kihihi! Marvelous! Absolutely marvelous!"

"Master, you're drooling again."

It said something about how excited Fred was that he didn't even bother to snap at the android standing next ...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 81 - Part 1

Normally this was the point where I'd say something along the lines of 'The silence in the room was palpable', except it wasn't. There wasn't even a long, meaningful beat after my declarat...

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Volume 3 Extra 6: After-raid afterglow

The culture and class structure of Timaeus made no sense whatsoever. Well, fine, maybe I'm exaggerating a little, and I admit there's still room for research into the topic, but I definitely wasn't...

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Minor update

Hello, Dear Readers.

Long story short, the final edit of the first volume is done, and the actual audiobook is in the recording phase. That's the good news.

As for the bad one, I got a ...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 80 - Part 3

Limousines are great. They are comfy, stylish, and spacey enough where three people could comfortably sit face to face even while two of them were wearing medieval armor, and there's even legroom t...

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