Danmachi Novels & Stories

I exclaimed, annoyed. Kenan shook his head slowly, then left me to try another game. We tried to play shooting balloons to win a doll; it's a shame Kenan isn't a character in Korean dramas who can always win all the games to give a doll to his lover. "There's something wrong with this gun," muttered Kenan while watching the gun in his hand. "Looks like it's not the gun that's wrong, but the one holding it," I said lazily. Kenan glanced sharply at me, making me shudder in horror.

“Cool.” Silence takes over and the tension is suffocating. “Do you want me to teach you how to play?” I light up. “Yeah.” He takes another game controller and hands it to me. “What are we playing?” I ask as he unpauses the game. “Shaolin soccer.” I groan. “And I'm bored.” He shoots me a glare. “Not really.” “Just follow what I'm doing,” he says, pressing his thumb over the controller a hundred times each second.

“Dante isn’t the enemy, is he?” Damien’s eyes darkened. “No,” he said. “He’s the mirror.” ⸻ Elsewhere, Dante poured a drink, watching live feeds from the estate. “Well done,” he murmured. “Now the real war begins.” Dante Westwood

And from this distance, I wasn’t supposed to be able to hear a damn thing but my hyper fixation on them made it very easy to. “Eyes front, Cara Mia,” he said to her while the endearment he used, my love, felt like acid against my own veins. Her spine went rigid, her eyes fluttering as she forced her gaze away from me and fixed it forward instead. Like she was ignoring me. My jaw locked as my nails pressed into my palm so hard I could swear that I had drawn my own blood. But then I exhaled slowly. The rage didn’t fade, not at all, it just settled. It had to. For now.

The anime on the TV screen was full of various cute and colorful characters and backgrounds. Monica saw three aircraft combined into a fighter robot cat, and it shot out a lot of missiles toward the enemies. "Pew pew pew ka-blam! Boooom!" Monica looked at Misaki with a frown on his face, it was all good for her to mimic the sound of missiles and explosions, but there was no need to spray her saliva on the TV screen.

"I'm in a bad mood, Mia. And I feel like skipping the tutorial." "Let's speedrun this," I agreed. Dax kicked the service door open and walked out into the rain, not as a fugitive, but as a predator who knew exactly where the enemies were going to spawn. [NEW GAME+]

The monitor flickered. Nothing. Damon’s heart slammed painfully against his ribs. “Again,” Seraphine ordered. No hesitation. No pause. “Charge.” Damon couldn’t breathe. “Clear!” Another shock. Another violent jolt. The machine screamed. Then A blip. Small. Weak. But there. The line moved. A fragile rhythm stuttering back into existence. Damon exhaled so hard his knees almost gave out. But the room didn’t relax. No one did. Because they all knew

“Then that tramp will have the pleasure of explaining herself.” Nico leaned back in his chair, watching the fire in Nero’s gaze. The demon was back and out for blood. That same old ruthless certainty burned there. It was the look of a man who’d kill anyone or anything that tried to move his pieces off his gameboard. Nero’s gameboard. “Tonight, then,” Nico said finally. Nero nodded once. “Tonight.”

He could only play now either lose or win. “Sir, are you sure about this?” a man asked Damian seriously. “Yes. Place all the bets on DeathValley,” Damian replied, eyes glued to the arena. Suddenly, a white flash lit up the room like lightning. Adrian wasn’t prepared for it. He’d never watched a live match of the game before, his inexperience made him unaware of the game tricks, and the sudden light blinded him. He stumbled and collapsed to the ground instantly. 3… 2… 1…

"It sounds silly, but it helped us pass the time." "I don't doubt it." Dante leaned back, the picture of casual insouciance. "What would you liken me to?" A dragon. Glorious in his power, terrifying in his anger, and magnificent even in repose. "If you'd asked me before our truce, I would've said an ill-mannered boar," I said instead. "Since we're being nice, I'll upgrade you to a honey badger." "The most fearless animal in the world. I'll take it."