“The Hakusan Street Incident，” the grand prize winner of the Monocon 2023 Bungei x Monogatary.com Short Story Award and the inspiration for YOASOBI’s new song “New me，” is being published in English! Under pressure from her male colleagues， Nozomi reluctantly signs up for a dating app in hopes of getting them off her back. What she finds isn’t a date， but an assassin. What follows is a thrilling chase and a dramatic confrontation that leads Nozomi to discover unexpected truths about herself. The short story received huge praise from Hitomi Kanehara， the head of the competition’s judging panel.

Following its decisive victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, all that stood in the way of the Tokugawa Clan and total domination of Japan was the Toyotomi Clan. Hell-bent on seeing the Toyotomi faction extinguished, Tokugawa devised what would be the final and decisive confrontation - the “Summer Siege of Osaka.” With the advantage of sheer numbers on Tokugawa’s side, the defeat of Toyotomi seemed inevitable…until a mastermind general by the name of Sanada Yukimura and his small force rose up to thwart Tokugawa’s designs. The final battle between the two would represent the final page in a significant chapter in Japan’s history…