Reincarnated As The Piggy Duke This Time I M Gonna Tell Her How I Feel Volume 9

Breaking news: Slowe and Alicia are engaged! Cirquista wants to strengthen its alliance with Daryth, and Slowe’s brothers prefer battles over girls any day. Thus, Slowe and Alicia draw the short end of the stick—and are forced into a second engagement against their wills! The entire school is going wild, but the “couple” themselves aren’t happy about it. Alicia is sick of people trying to decide her life for her, and Slowe has finally gotten together with Charlotte, the love of his life. It won’t be easy going against a decision that affects the fate of two nations, but Alicia has one last trick up her sleeve. Hoping to nip this engagement in the bud, she and Slowe take on the infamous Labyrinth of Cirquista: Demon Land! Will they make it out alive and put an end to their shocking engagement?

Ever since the Great Spirit of Darkness surrendered, world peace has finally become a reality. But the antics of Neon—Dustour’s prince and royal pain in the butt—are keeping Slowe from his happily ever after with Charlotte! What awaits Slowe is a love story with many twists and turns, one not unlike his own—a romance between a prince and his retainer. Feeling an odd sense of kinship, Slowe keeps tabs on the couple until an envoy from the north crashes the party with unreasonable challenges of his own. To realize their forbidden love, the couple must overcome these daunting tasks. But Slowe and Neon must be wary, for the night of the arisen is creeping up on them. Blood waltzes in the air like an elegant dance, and Slowe can only hope that the flowers of love will come into full bloom, standing tall and strong against all adversity.

In the popular anime Shuya Marionette, there is a character whom everyone looks upon with scorn: the so-called “Piggy Duke,” third son of Duke Denning and a student of Kirsch Mage Institute. This can only spell doom for the current Slowe Denning, who knows he’s been reincarnated into the world of that anime as said villain! There is a ray of hope, however. If he uses his in-depth knowledge of the anime and his unparalleled power as a master of all the elements, surely Slowe can gain popularity with his peers and change his fate! Perhaps this time, he can make the one small wish that never came to fruition in the anime come true: to become a man worthy of Charlotte, his retainer, and to confess his love to her!

Slowe is invited to the royal castle to receive his reward for slaying the dragon. There, he hears a shocking report: Rooney, a soldier of the Dustour Empire, has appeared in Huzak...which marks the start of the storyline from the first twelve episodes of Shuya Marionette! Rooney tries to start a war with the south using the monster-controlled Huzak as a foothold. Slowe then transforms into an orc and infiltrates Huzak to stop him! However... “Why do I have to wear this?!” He ends up having a big quarrel with Charlotte, who transforms into a pixie!!! And then... “As a token of our thanks, we'll make a bronze monument of you in this village! Oink!” The orc village that Slowe visits begin to wholeheartedly worship him as a hero! Can the Piggy Duke successfully prevent his new life from playing out like the anime?

Despite Slowe's best efforts, the anime's plot continues to unfold. The war between the northern and southern parts of the continent has begun. Slowe arrives in the Dungeon City, Zenelaus, which is under attack by the Dustour Empire. And who does he find fighting on the front lines? It's none other than the anime's righteous protagonist and the heroine princess. "Shuya, Alicia, I actually came to find you two." Slowe knows that the one that will destroy the city won't be the lich, or even one of the Three Musketeers. Instead, it'll be...a berserk Shuya. In Shuya Marionette, the Zenelaus story arc concluded in tragedy. Which path will Slowe choose now?

Then: Kunugi Kou waged bloody warfare as a hero in another world. Now: He’s a perfectly average high-schooler with a perfectly exceptional best friend: Ayase Kaito. The living incarnation of every cheesy romcom protagonist ever written, Kaito’s charming personality and looks that could kill have earned himself the harem of quirky beauties that every protagonist deserves—and Kou is dead-set on supporting him from the shadows as the ultimate wingman extra! And it’s all going great—that is, until a wrench is thrown into the works in the form of another romcom staple: the protagonist’s little sister, Ayase Hikari, who meets Kou under the most outlandish of circumstances possible. Even worse, it kinda sorta just maybe seems like she might have a thing for him? Now it’s up to the world’s most “extra” extra to crawl his way back into the obscurity he longs for!

The bestselling Journey to the West comic book by artist Chang Boon Kiat is now back in a brand new fully coloured edition. Journey to the West is one of the greatest classics in Chinese literature. It tells the epic tale of the monk Xuanzang who journeys to the West in search of the Buddhist sutras with his disciples, Sun Wukong, Sandy and Pigsy. Along the way, Xuanzang's life was threatened by the diabolical White Bone Spirit, the menacing Red Child and his fearsome parents and, a host of evil spirits who sought to devour Xuanzang's flesh to attain immortality. Bear witness to the formidable Sun Wukong's (Monkey God) prowess as he takes them on, using his Fiery Eyes, Golden Cudgel, Somersault Cloud, and quick wits! Be prepared for a galloping read that will leave you breathless!

Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century. Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining one or another of the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick that it obscures the sun. The splintery metaconsciousness of the solar-system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human cousins dirtside, but its minds sometimes wander...and when that happens, it casually spams Earth's networks with plans for cataclysmically disruptive technologies that emulsify whole industries, cultures, and spiritual systems. A sane species would ignore these get-evolved-quick schemes, but there's always someone who'll take a bite from the forbidden apple. So until the overminds bore of stirring Earth's anthill, there's Tech Jury Service: random humans, selected arbitrarily, charged with assessing dozens of new inventions and ruling on whether to let them loose. Young Huw, a technophobic, misanthropic Welshman, has been selected for the latest jury, a task he does his best to perform despite an itchy technovirus, the apathy of the proletariat, and a couple of truly awful moments on bathroom floors. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.