The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 1 (light novel)


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LIFE AFTER DEATH ​Kaito Ukei was destined for greatness in his new world, landing himself the role of a hero and defeating the evil sorceress alongside a band of noble adventurers. When he's double crossed, though, and brutally murdered by his former allies, something inside him snaps. Death brings Kaito neither peace nor salvation. Rather, it instills in him a singular desire—to squeeze the life out of his blasted betrayers in the cruellest manner possible...! The strange twist of fate that gives him a second chance in the world with all his memories intact provides opportunity to do just that, and so begins his quest to stalk and torture the members of his former party in the bloodiest, unholiest, most sadistic ways imaginable!




The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 1 (manga)


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Revenge. But a single word defines Kaito Ukei’s second chance at life. After being mercilessly betrayed and murdered by his so-called comrades, he goes back in time to the day he met the princess who ultimately double-crossed him. But killing her isn’t enough—he wants to revel in every second of her agony as he looks her in the eye and robs her of all she holds dear. Her debt is the first to be repaid, though it shall not be the last. And by the time he’s finished, he will bathe in the blood of every last traitor who dared to cross him…




The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 4 (light novel)


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YOU CAN’T PUT A PRICE ON VENGEANCE With Eumis dead, Kaito, Minnalis, and Shuria head to the trade city of Dartras to exact revenge on Grond, the avaricious merchant who sold out Kaito in his past life. Though Grond all but rules Dartras using his connections to the criminal underworld, which include a pair of bloodthirsty killers at his beck and call, the three partners in crime immediately set to work undermining his business through a combination of subterfuge and good old-fashioned violence. When Kaito finally gets Grond in his clutches, he forces the corrupt magnate to make an impossible choice: Would he rather part with his money or his life?




The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 2 (light novel)


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COME HELL OR HIGH WATER Now that Kaito Ukei’s been given another shot at life, he has set out on his journey to exact revenge on the party members who brutally murdered him. He walks this path of vengeance with the beastfolk girl Minnalis, inching toward the capital to carry out his plan. Their first stop along the way? The City of Learning, Elmia. There, he brushes shoulders with the band of adventurers who purged the place most precious to him...as well as the damned Eumis—the traitorous spellcaster who turned her back on him in his time of need!




The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 3 (light novel)


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WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND As Kaito plots his revenge against Eumis, he discovers that the spellcaster has bolstered her powers by selling her sister Shuria’s soul to a demon. Not one to let an opportunity to humiliate his foes go to waste, Kaito saves the girl from the brink of death and invites her to join him and Minnalis on their quest for vengeance. Now the stage is set for the three partners in crime to corner their common enemy and strip her of everything she holds dear in a spectacular act of retribution…




The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 7 (light novel)


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NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHEDAfter successfully coming back to the other world, Kaito happens upon Leticia, only to discover that she doesn’t recognize him. From there, he and his two newest accomplices, Mai and Yuuto, travel to the town of Zolkia and start climbing the ranks at the Adventurers Guild. Don’t think they’ve turned over a new leaf, however—it’s all in service of drawing the attention of their next targets: a prince of the beast lands named Leon and Leticia’s elder sister Lilia. In the past, this accomplished duo betrayed Kaito out of a conviction that it would save their realm. But Kaito couldn’t care less about their motivations; the only thing he’s concerned with is returning the pain they inflicted on him, a thousand times over.




The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 6 (light novel)


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A DEVASTATING HOMECOMING Metelia ambushes Kaito just after he completes his latest feat of vengeance, forcing him through a portal to his home of present-day Japan. Stripped of his memories, Kaito comes to terms with his tragic new reality—a world where almost everyone he knows is dead, having been sacrificed when he was summoned as a hero the first time, and the few survivors of the incident are being hunted by a group of conspiracy theorists. Even this fragile status quo is disrupted when an assassin nearly succeeds in taking his life. But the brush with death restores Kaito’s memories and powers, giving him the perfect opportunity to take revenge on his assailants and chart a course back to his partners in crime...




The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 5 (light novel)


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Sights set on their next target, Kaito, Minnalis, and Shuria travel to the magical city of Karvanheim, where they find Minnalis’s traitorous childhood friends leading carefree lives. But soon, the partners in crime come across an obstacle not even Kaito could have foreseen—a merchant woman named Leone who was also summoned from Japan and remembers the world of Kaito’s first life. Still possessed of her morals, Leone attempts to interfere with the trio’s rampage of revenge... but there’s no stopping Minnalis from exacting hellish reprisal on the people who doomed her to slavery and killed her mother.




Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Vol. 14 (light novel)


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The prophecy of despair continues... When an unprecedented calamity on the twenty-seventh floor leaves Bell and Lyu stranded, Bell's party needs to keep fighting without him. With their route to the surface lost and Hestia Familia's captain missing in action, Lilly must take command to ensure they all make it home alive. Ten floors below, Bell and Lyu are injured and alone, forced to struggle against the harshest challenge the Dungeon has to offer, which puts their very lives on the line. Bell has never been this deep down before nor completely unprepared, meaning Lyu's knowledge and strength are essential to their survival. However, the forlorn elf finds herself standing on the border between life and death, bound by her past, remembering once again exactly how her devotion to justice died so many years ago...




Sophie's World


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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.