Only Villains Do That

From the author of the Gods Are Bastards series comes a new isekai adventure, in which a man is granted sinister powers he doesn't even want. On a typical day, on an average train platform, two warring sister goddesses found their avatars. One avatar, the young Yoshi, was swept away to the world of Ephemera to be a great hero of honor, courage, and light. The other, the not-so-young Seiji, was swept away to become a dark lord out to kill or conquer all in his path. But Seiji is in absolutely no mood for that nonsense. It's bad enough that on Earth he was a closed-off, misanthropic grouch with zero patience for other people. Now he's supposed to muster enough of a give-a-damn to lead vile hordes, crush Yoshi, and take all of Ephemera as his own? No thanks. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a choice. Seiji's patron goddess wants results, and if he doesn't deliver, she's going to take a serious interest in discovering his pain, suffering, and overall misery threshold. But just because he doesn't care about people, doesn't mean he doesn't care whether they suffer by his own hand. After all, just because you're the embodiment of ultimate evil doesn't mean you have to be a jerk about it. The first volume of the hit fantasy adventure series-with more than five million views on Royal Road-now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!

From the author of the Gods Are Bastards series: The wickedly funny action-adventure portal fantasy continues-and things can only get worse . . . Not long ago, Seiji was an ill-tempered, misanthropic man at war with the world. But then he was transported to a strange, savage realm for the purpose of literally making war on the world. In this reality, he's an extremely reluctant evil overlord with a temperamental goddess patron to please. So in spite of his own natural unpleasantness, Seiji has tried to be the best bad guy he can be: providing for the downtrodden, offering healthcare to hookers, that sort of thing. Which has won him some staunch (but still diabolical) allies and a hell of a lot of enemies. Especially his main competitor in chaos and crime, Lady Gray, who really didn't appreciate being displaced by him. But Seiji's coming to realize that despite his brash, bold exterior, his very human psyche is taking a serious beating from the extreme brutality he's committed and witnessed. In fact, he's starting to wonder if being such a big bad dude is all it's cracked up to be-or if there's any way out of all this . . . The second volume of the hit fantasy adventure series-with more than five million views on Royal Road-now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!

In the third book of this brutally funny portal fantasy from the author of the Gods Are Bastards, even the most hideous of creatures can have value-sort of . . . Transported from Earth to another world by a temperamental goddess, misanthrope Seiji was suddenly a dark lord of incredible power. Not that he wanted that exactly. He just hated everything and everyone and wanted to be left alone. So as a big baddie, he's tried to hold back on the pure-evil schtick and make life a little better for his people-without being a total wuss, of course. But sometimes baddies gotta be bad. And now Seiji has found himself caught in a military, political, and possibly genocidal conflict with goblins. Historically (albeit wrongly) considered lowly pests, they've gathered under the banner of a self-proclaimed king. And that means all-out war to the last man . . . or goblin, as it were. It also may offer Seiji the opportunity to create an unstoppable weapon to use against his nemesis: the insufferably good-hearted, noble, super-freaking-annoying Yoshi, the "Hero." The little twerp will never see it coming. Muahahahahahahaaaa! The third volume of the hit fantasy adventure series-with more than five million views on Royal Road-now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!