KAYA – illustratör

Even as a working adult, Sarasa Ichinokura suffers from an unshakable fatigue that’s plagued her since childhood. She goes to bed one night, exhausted from her office job, and encounters a goddess(?) who informs her that her perpetual lack of energy is actually due to a deficit of “mana.” Then, without any further explanation or time to process what’s happening to her, Sarasa is thrust into a fantasy world!

She awakens in the body of a ten-year-old girl in a strange land filled with flying beasts and oversized wolves. She accordingly prepares for the worst, but a monster hunter named Nelly takes her in. The hitch is...now that Sarasa finally has the energy to do everything she wants to, being cooped up in a cabin is just no fun! She seeks to stand on her own in this scary new world—and that’s going to mean learning magic.

It may be slow going, but Sarasa knows what to do—the best way to take her reincarnation is one step at a time!

One night, Sara dreamed of a goddess—or something like it—who granted her a new life. She awoke in the body of a child and was greeted with wyverns, wolves, and all other sorts of monsters the very moment she opens her eyes. Thankfully, a Hunter named Nelly came to her rescue, and they’ve been enjoying fun-filled and peaceful life together ever since... Or rather, they were until the day Nelly went into town and didn’t come back. Sara resolves to leave home and look for Nelly in the town of Rosa, where she makes a friend, joins the Hunter’s Guild, and waits for Nelly to return. All is going well until the arrival of a group of knights throws her new life into a new turmoil! Will Sara and Nelly finally be reunited?

After suddenly being transported to another world in the body of a young girl, Sara gets taken in by a Hunter named Nelly. The two of them live a peaceful(?) life until the day Nelly vanishes, leaving Sara to fend for herself. Sara makes her way to the town of Rosa, where she meets her first friend and joins the Hunter’s Guild. Her search for Nelly continues all the while until, at long last, the pair is reunited!

They’ve now returned to their life on the Dark Mountain, occasionally coming into town. It is on one such visit that Sara encounters a fellow Invited, a boy named Haruto—and their meeting will change the lives of everyone around them.

It’s been one crazy thing after another ever since Sara was suddenly thrust into another world as a younger version of herself, but she’s continuing her journey with her friend Allen and her guardian, Nelly the Hunter. They’re headed for Nelly’s hometown, Hydrangea. If Sara wants to avoid any more trouble with the knights from the capital, her best bet is for Nelly’s family to become her guardians officially. Despite Nelly and Allen’s best attempts to lure her into the life of a Hunter, Sara’s started taking an interest in becoming an apothecary. In their travels, they stop at a town called Stock, which is having a major monster problem. In the chaos, they meet a man named Thedias, who turns out to be Nelly’s brother! Will Sara reach a crossroads in her life in her guardian’s hometown?

Straight to the capital! It’s been a year since Sara traveled to Hydrangea, the hometown of her guardian Nelly. She’s trained all that time at the Apothecary’s Guild, and soon she’ll be an apprentice no longer. That’s when Nelly’s father, Riot, suggests that she make a trip to the capital to introduce herself to the king. Nelly and Chris are along for the ride, with Nelly traveling to hunt migrating dragons and Chris tagging along to test a new drug he’s developed as a dragon countermeasure. As luck would have it, Allen and Kuntz are coming too! However, there seems to be something strange about Allen... What trouble will they find waiting for them at their destination?

Turtle trouble! It’s been a year and a half since Sara’s trip to the capital with Nelly and company. Sara’s back in Hydrangea again, working as an apothecary with her friends and a young noble who calls himself her “fiancé candidate.” One day, Nelly receives a report of something strange in the town’s dungeon and goes to investigate. What she uncovers is a mysterious invisible shortcut in the dungeon’s wall, through which monsters from lower floors are escaping to higher floors! The trouble only spreads when monsters begin to escape out into town as well. What’s worse, one of these monsters is an enormous beast—a continental tortoise! It’s time for Sara to return to her old home of Rosa...and a giant tortoise is coming along for the ride!

Over the eastern mountains! Lately, Sara’s life has been going swimmingly! She’s been enjoying her time in Hydrangea with Nelly and her friends, with no pesky requests from the capital to deal with. However, all this changes when a pair of letters arrive at the Wolverié household from Nelly’s sister Latifah, the wife of a lord in the lands to the east. One letter requests Nelly’s presence, and the other, Sara’s—as it turns out, there’s a new Invited staying with Latifah’s family, and this Invited needs Sara’s help! And so, Sara and the gang head east, planning to take care of an infestation of green grass locusts while they’re there. Will this journey finally be the thing to shake up Sara’s quiet life for good?

Just as Sara is settling into her new life in the capital, a series of surprise visits turn her plans upside down! While working as an apothecary, Sara reunites with a fellow Invited, Bradley, who brings news from Rosa and the Dark Mountain. Soon after, Nelly and Chris arrive in the capital, bringing word that the town of Rosa wishes for Chris to resume his role as guildmaster of the Apothecary’s Guild! Chris has no intention of accepting the offer, but he worries for his old student Ted, who has taken up the position of mayor of Rosa, and so he begins his journey back to his old stomping grounds. Sara decides she wants to go back to Rosa as well, with Allen and Kuntz tagging along for the ride, but when she returns to where it all began, she has a big problem to face!

Nach dem Abstieg vom Teufelsberg, der trotz der vielen Monster dank Saras Barriere überraschend unbeschwerlich verläuft, erreicht Sara endlich Rosa. Als elternloses und weltfremdes Kind hat sie hier keinen einfachen Start, doch dank Allen, einem ebenso auf sich allein gestellten Jungen, wird sie nach einer Weile in der Jägergilde aufgenommen. Dort findet sie zwar Arbeit und begegnet freundlichen Gesichtern, erhält jedoch keine Anhaltspunkte über Nellys Aufenthaltsort. Natürlich möchte Sara ihre Freundin so schnell wie möglich aufspüren. Doch ohne irgendeinen Wegweiser bleibt ihr nichts anderes übrig, als in Rosa zu bleiben und ein Zuhause zu schaffen, das Nelly nach ihrer Rückkehr erwartet. Saras Leben könnte eigentlich ganz angenehm sein – wären da nicht Ted und andere Zwischenfälle, wie die überstürzte Rückkehr einer Gruppe verwundeter Ritter …