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The Simulacrum - Chapter 104 - Part 1

"Ue-sama? Are they here yet? Are they coming? Ue-sama?"

"Easy, Ichiko. Easy. They're almost here."

"Really?"

When I nodded, the energetic fox miko stopped pestering me and returne...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 103 - Part 3

Before the guy could defend himself, his girlfriend jumped on him and put him in a choke hold.ree things: fanservice in the form of various levels of nudity (either the accidental, or the 'hidden b...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 103 - Part 2

"We need to find that creep!" Josh declared with his arms crossed, actively destroying the peace and quiet of the lounge.

"We must!" Ichiko agreed by mirroring his stance. "We can't let him r...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 103 - Part 1

Sometimes, a new environment made one realize things that were, in retrospect, quite obvious. Such as that, despite already having a pair of vintage massage chairs back at the base, I never used on...

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The Simulacrum - Volume 5 Extra 2: Memories in the Snow

Timaeus was a pretty big city. Not exactly a metropolis by any means, but as the capital of the island-nation of Critias, it was still a sizable settlement. As such, it naturally didn't only have t...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 102 - Part 4

It's confession time, once again. Before this day, I thought the reputation of hot-spring baths was overblown and inflated by media. Kind of like how anime and manga made an entire generation belie...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 102 - Part 3

I was still lost in my thoughts when the three of us arrived at the lounge. By this point, most of the guys had already settled into their rooms and were busy exploring the resort all over again. A...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 102 - Part 2

The VIP suite was, once again, a great example of how deeply Japanese tropes were entrenched into some weirdly specific parts of Critias's culture. Case in point, the room had the same kind of tata...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 102 - Part 1

"Look, ue-sama! Look! They have massage chairs over here!" Ichiko exclaimed and ran across the entire lounge, making some frankly comical noises as her bunny slippers slapped against the tatami-mat...

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Editing update

Hello, Dear Readers!

Sorry for the radio silence. First and foremost, I wanted to get the re-editing of Volume 3 out of my hair, so that I could proceed with the upcoming chapters without hav...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 101 - Part 3

In my humble opinion, winter was the prettiest season, with the caveat of 'so long as it's viewed from the other side of a pane of glass'. In this case, said window was on the side of the ...

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Volume 5 Extra 1: An End-of-the-year-winter-solstice-related-religious-holiday Carol

The cynic in me always thought that Christmas was just a tad overblown. Whether one approached it from a religious, traditional, or commercial perspective, the holiday season felt like it was const...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 101 - Part 2

The Abyss had its own aesthetics, at least as far as I could be bothered to observe it during my short visits. It was a combination of gothic architecture, with an overabundance of pointed arches, ...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 101 - Part 1

There was something magical about a warm cup of tea in the middle of a snowy winter night, with the only sound in the room coming from the spoon slowly stirring my drink as I gazed out the window. ...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 100 - Part 3

The living room had been early silent for close to a minute while I patiently waited for Roland to digest everything I'd just explained to him. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't feeling just a touch ...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 100 - Part 2

Arriving home late in the afternoon, I unceremoniously plopped down onto my usual comfy chair and let out a long, content sigh. While training with Dominance wasn't too taxing, either ment...

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Minor health update

Here's a PSA for you: when you have a sinus-infection that causes you to be woozy, don't listen to what your boss tells you and climb up a ladder to decorate a big-ass Christmas tree.

I... ha...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 100 - Part 1

"Can we get started already? I'm starting to feel stupid."

"Ki-hi-hi! Don't worry, boss! Nobody's going to laugh at you!" my personal mad scientist tried to placate me, but I couldn't say it ...

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The Simulacrum - Volume 5 - Prologue

My first holiday season (at least as far as I could remember) was over way faster than I expected. Between all the work that came with forming a brand new supernatural power bloc by combining two p...

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Minor update and question

Hello, dear readers.

Long story short, I'm still sick, which put a halt on the re-editing process (the fact that the mess-up with the dates in volume four was worse than I originally thought ...

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Volume 4 Extra 7: There is no escaping the ships

"Nobody has to go to the toilet? Last chance!" The infectiously energetic young man waited for a long beat, and when none of us responded, he flashed an ear-to-ear smile. "All right then! Have fun!...

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The Simulacrum - Volume 4 Extra 6: The magic of the Ferris wheel

"The view's even better than I remembered," I mused aloud as I stared at the sunset in the distance, through the frosted window of the Ferris wheel cabin.

On my right, a seemingly infinite ho...

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The Simulacrum - Volume 4 Extra 5: Weird is the new normal

On this very special day, the base was even livelier than usual. It was not just that this was the first time Morgana and company were invited over, nor because the tournament going on in the backg...

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The Simulacrum - Volume 4 Extra 4: Neutron Star

"Ouch! Careful!" a certain resident shounen protagonist hissed through clenched teeth, at which point his childhood friend glanced up from his bare torso with a hint of disapproval.

"Don't be...

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Generated Images 3: The Revengeance of the Menfolk

All right guys. To end today's stream of new posts, let's have a couple more AI generated illustrations, this time focused on the guys.

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The Simulacrum - Volume 4 - Epilogue

"… kidding me. This is such bullshit," I grumbled louder than usual, yet my words were still drowned out by the cheering crowd in the background.

"Hush, Chief. You are disturbing the people...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 99 - Part 3

Usually my mornings were pretty slow and quiet. I loved to take my time in the shower, grab a bite, and then greet the morning sun as it rose. Since I didn't need to sleep, this routine was what ul...

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AI-llustrations Part 2: Do Image Generator Algorithms Dream of Electric Sheep?

As you might've noticed, I got absolutely fascinated with this AI artwork generation thing, so here's a second batch I cooked up for you guys. 

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Today, I made a discovery

So, apparently AI image generation is now a thing that's readily available on the consumer level. Furthermore, NovelAI has an AI image generation function that specifically makes anime characters. ...

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The Simulacrum - Chapter 99 - Part 2

This is probably going to be a controversial opinion, but sex is kind of overrated.

I mean, it's not unpleasant by any means, but it wasn't the be-all-end-all of human experience it's sometim...

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