ETOROUJI SHIONO

When the Wischtech threatened to invade the fiefs of Szaalanden, the Emperor dispatched fourteen youths. Of these, the Seven Heroes halted the invasion to herald a time of prosperity while the four Lances of Betrayal were supposedly defeated.Two decades later, the Lances of Betrayal have reappeared and formed a bandit militia near the frontier fief Gormbark. A man with a black sword and a scar over his left eye slays an entire troop of that militia. He is identified as the boy, Koinzell, and becomes as much an object of fear as of hope even as his own past, motivations, and purpose are a mystery to those he meets on his journey.Volume 0 encompasses a plot arc which leads directly into the main plot of Übel Blatt in Volume 1. It also introduces and develops the attitudes and motives of a few other characters aside from Koinzell.

The story centers on a fake romantic relationship between a company CEO and his top performer female subordinate. She's been betrothed by her father to the son of a prominent family, a family with both political and business power and this match bring her current corporation - where her much respected superior leads the way - to ruin.

One day, a large hole named Asylum is discovered in Antarctica. At the same time, the mysterious coma-inducing illness Randolph Syndrome begins spreading around the world. Many countries sent an investigation squad to the asylum, believing it to be the cause of the disease, but not a single person safely returned. Sergiu Sol, a boy with a special resistance to the disease, and Antarctica's jack-of-all-trades Hildegard Olympiada Yamada, decide to take on the challenge of the large hole without a map, but...!? What is the cause of the coma-inducing disease? What in the world is the Asylum? Go down to the deep, jet-black bottom, one with insanity.

The story centers on a fake romantic relationship between a company CEO and his top performer female subordinate. She's been betrothed by her father to the son of a prominent family, a family with both political and business power and this match bring her current corporation - where her much respected superior leads the way - to ruin.

Humanity is under attack by the "Imitators", monsters who attack cities and destroy everything in their path! The only defense that exists are the Dyn Machines and their young pilots who risk it all to stop them! The long anticipated Etorouji Shiono’s new series begins now...