Animal Detective - Chapter 29: Empathy, Listening

A software engineer in his original world, Wayne enters the Chosen Land as a third-rate detective, running an agency on the verge of bankruptcy with nothing but potatoes filling his stomach. Just as he’s getting tired of potatoes, though, fate comes knocking in the form of a pretty girl, a burly man, and a cat. He’s led into a brand new world within this world, which is already foreign to him. Thus begins his adventure of intrigues and mysteries, with a healthy dose of misunderstandings and other shenanigans.Official Blurb:Morning. The light of dawn arrived late, and the lingering radiance of the sun had already faded into darkness. In the city covered in a thin layer of mist, in the church hidden in shadows, in the veins crawling along the walls, amid the noises of gnawing and the whispering silhouettes… a lone figure walked with a lantern.

After a near death experience thanks to his own mother, Jake Hollander has an adverse reaction to people, baseball, and family. His feeling of abandonment is slowly lost thanks to his foster family, The Atkins. They take him in and change his mind about everything. He becomes more open, better at baseball, and craves for family. Slowly all wishes are granted.

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He was a loser in his past life, useless, but at least he never truly lacked anything. He had money, food, a roof over his head, and everything he thought he needed.He had never fought a day in his life, he didn't need to struggle for his life.Then he got hit by a bus… and woke up in another world.A world where destruction and bloodshed were the norm. A world shattered by apocalypse, where people lived on floating islands and sailed across the skies in airborne ships. A world where the weak had no place to survive.Now, he inhabits the body of a Dragon, the weakest of the royal bloodline. A cursed runt abandoned by his siblings, carrying their curse.He is now known as Kaedros, the Dragon of the Sun.He was banished and thrown into the human territory, to fend for himself in the midst of the enemies that wanted him dead.But now as a Dragon, given a second chance, he didn't want to waste it by being a loser a second time. This time, there's inheritance to claim, territories to conquer and galactic, dimensional enemies to fight._________________So I'm going to add this. The pacing is going to be in the middle, not fast or slow. And the MC won't just get insanely overpowered at the start.He's not going to be a weakling either, after all from the title, you already know how things are going to end.I value character developments, so you'll see a lot of that as well.Things are going to develop in a reasonable way.Ps— you're already adding this to your library, so just start reading now!!

On the surface, he was striking and dashing, an object of envy and resentment from all men, but in secrecy, he was the formidable figure that made powerful leaders tremble. A marriage contract had brought him back to the city,In the bustling metropolis, a man fierce and enigmatic like a tiger, watch as he forged his own legend!