Ize Press

WARNING: SEMANTIC ERROR ALERT! Computer science major Sangwoo Choo lives by the following tenets: reason, routine, and rules. So it makes perfect sense for him to delete his group members’ names from the project they contributed nothing to. If that inadvertently destroys their immediate future plans…Well, it’s not Sangwoo’s problem, right?Award-winning visual arts major Jaeyoung Jang is aghast to find his dreams of grad school in the United States put on the back burner?all because some snitch in his project group caused him to fail a required class. Now with plenty of time on his hands, he grudgingly agrees to fill in for a friend as the designer of a new mobile game?only to come face-to-face with Sangwoo Choo, the very person who screwed him over in the first place!Now Sangwoo is unable to get a moment’s peace as Jaeyoung remains glued to his side, eager for some payback. What’s even weirder is that despite their rocky start and mutual disdain, Sangwoo and Jaeyoung find themselves inexplicably drawn toward each other like moths to a very annoying flame! Will Sangwoo find a way to debug this semantic error before it upends his whole life?

AT THIS RATE, JUNGHYEOK YU WILL DIE TODAY. The next stop in Dokja’s journey is Chungmuro, where the scale of the scenario is far greater than anything his group has faced so far. Making matters worse, the whole place is controlled by the predatory Landlord Coalition, which makes the thugs in Geumho Station look like a joke. Between the various opposing factions and daily monster attacks, the station is one enormous powder keg, and Dokja holds the torch! But while he is preoccupied with this complex chess board, another key player is nowhere to be seen. With Junghyeok’s disappearance, Dokja is forced to consider a chilling question?if the main character of this universe dies, what happens to the rest of the world?

“You have failed to reach any love interest’s ending. As a result, you will be given a penalty.”Painstaking efforts, near-death experiences, unrequitable feelings?everything Penelope has worked for comes crashing down in an instant upon the r eturn of Ivonne, the “true” daughter of House Eckhart. The one to blame? Eckles, the very man Penelope was betting her survival and escape on. But when she goes to confront him for his betrayal, she is instead hit by a shocking revelation about Ivonne…Drowning in fear and desperation, Penelope can do nothing but watch as the clock strikes midnight on the day of her coming-of-age ceremony. The end of hard mode has come-and she must face the music…

The original novel behind the hit fantasy romance comic!When a college student with a tragic past picks up the video game Daughter of the Duke’s Super Love Project, she immediately sees herself in one of the characters. Not the adored heroine of easy mode, Ivonne, but the protagonist of hard mode, misunderstood villain Penelope. Little did she know that she’d fall asleep playing the story…and wake up in Penelope’s body! The only way to escape the game world? Charm one of the love interests and unlock a good ending. But with affection meters starting in the negatives and the inability to speak without choosing from pre-selected dialogue, it quickly becomes clear that a single wrong move means her demise? and this villain might just be destined to die!

A master class in evil…Letitia’s plan to provoke Belaire works like a charm…but what can a mere human do against a bona fide Greater Devil? As it turns out, quite a lot. Duke Belaire may be the most wicked fiend around these parts, but Letitia comes from a far more hellish environment?modern capitalist society! From cryptocurrency fraud to phishing scams, the Devil of Wealth is about to experience horrors beyond his worst nightmares…

“There’s a high chance that my neighbor is the wanted serial killer.” A string of local homicides has left the residents of Ira Street on edge— everyone but Shavonne. The penniless author is too preoccupied with his next paycheck… well, that and his strange new neighbor Lewellyn, who spends his days peeling onions at Shavonne’s doorstep and has an annoyingly cute smile. But when he stumbles upon a gruesome sight while sharing a candlelit dinner at Lewellyn’s place, he quickly realizes he can no longer dismiss the murders—not when he might be next!

“ALL I ASK IS THAT YOU DIE FOR ME.” Eris Miserian finally musters the courage to ask the high priest Hubris for help, only to be confronted with a disturbing truth: Nobody in her situation has ever returned to their worlds alive. To make matters worse, Medea reveals that the principles of causality will not release her until she fulfills her role in this story as Helena’s murderer! Refusing to accept such a fate, Eris begins gathering reliable allies to aid in her escape-allies, as the normally distant Eris quickly learns, who are crucial in a game of politics designed to chain her down.

For Eunho Jung, there has always been one constant in life—his feelings for the boy next door, Jaeha Yoo. From a proposal at the age of three to a confession in his teenage years, the torch Eunho carries for the older man has never gone out…not even when Jaeha got married to a woman. With Eunho now in college, a chance meeting leads the two to reconnect, and Eunho will do everything in his power to make the recent divorcee his lover. There’s just a small hiccup—Jaeha has only ever seen him as a cute and annoying kid…

Beneath the mask… At long last, Letitia and Erden are reunited!The boy who left seven years ago came back a grown man, and noticing how broad his shoulders have gotten, Letitia can’t help but wonder?what does he look like? Is he really as hideous as he says? When a fierce battle leaves Erden’s mask shattered, she finally gets her answer! But just as Letitia is about to sing the praises of his otherworldly beauty, a bone-chilling voice warns her about an ancient curse…

“Even so, I just can’t bring myself to love this world.” Eris Miserian knows the fate that awaits her-after losing her promised husband, the crown prince, to Helena, a daughter of a disgraced Count, Eris poisons her rival as an act of revenge. But after her plan is foiled, she is sentenced to death while Helena and the prince get to live their happily ever after. Or that is what happens in the novel Eris was reading in her past life before she woke up in this world. Now, desperate to return to her own world, she’ll do everything that she can to escape what the story has laid out for her and find a way back to her real life!

Just when Penelope and Callisto think they’re safe, a torrential wave plunges them deep into the ocean! All Penelope can focus on is getting out alive, so...how did she end up with Callisto’s lips on hers?! With Eckles’s affection meter reaching 99%, though, the duke’s daughter can't afford to dwell on the other love interests. Her coming-of-age ceremony is swiftly approaching, which means the end of Hard Mode follows right behind. One measly percentage point away from finally escaping the game-can Penelope make it in time...?!