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FANTASY AND REALITY COLLIDE IN THIS THRILLING CONCLUDING VOLUME!

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WHEN FANTASY INVADES REALITYYoshio was a thirty-year-old unemployed shut-in when a mysterious village-building sim, The Village of Fate, showed up at his door. Through watching and caring for the game’s intensely realistic NPCs, Yoshio has started getting his life back on track—getting a job to pay for microtransactions, and using the villagers’ care for each other as inspiration to reconnect with his family. But despite overcoming the first challenges thrown at him, more complicated issues, both in and out of the game, are closing in. And are the game’s monstrous enemies controlled by real humans, too?

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THE SHUT-IN’S JOURNEYThe game is over for Yoshio. His villagers are gone, all dead as far as he can tell. Just as he is overcome with despair, one final gift arrives from the Village of Fate—a package containing the NPC Carol, and she’s a real, live girl. With Carol in tow, Yoshio leaves the safety of his home to travel to Hokkaido, where the developers are located. He will uncover the truth of this mysterious game once and for all!FINAL VOLUME

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A former human now reincarnated as a vending machine, Boxxo has the ability to procure and sell everything from drinks to snacks! Along with Lammis (the super-strong girl who named him), Boxxo offers refreshments to adventurers fighting monsters. But what will happen when they draw the attention of a famous adventuring party?

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The Village of Fate is a mysterious computer game with characters so realistic, they almost seem like real people. Yoshio rationalizes it as best he can, but when the “offerings” the villagers leave him in the game start showing up at his house in real life, it’s clear something strange is happening. What’s more, ever since he started playing, Yoshio’s life has steadily improved. His relationship with his family on the mend, and he’s reconnected with Seika, an old friend he hasn’t seen for a decade. He even scored a date! Yet Murus soon reappears in the village, and the perils of a game with permanent death become tragically clear…

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Ever since he was selected to beta test the mysteriously realistic game, 'The Village of Fate,' Yoshio's slowly been putting his life back together. Helping save the villagers was the catalyst he needed to help himself. Yet there's one big scar that Yoshio hasn't addressed: The convicted stalker who tormented his sister and wounded him with a knife. When the stalker reappears, could it mean the end of everything that changed for the better...?

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Having gone toe-to-toe with the Monster King's forces, Boxxo's been making quite a name for himself. However, when Shui wins exclusive use of Boxxo in an eating competition, he's faced with his greatest challenge yet: her bottomless appetite!

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As Hakkon slowly settles into life as a vending machine, his activities have expanded to include unveiling new products, giving love advice, and even appearing in a cooking contest. What he hasn't done much of is adventuring, which is fine by him. But when a request to check out some giant crocodiles in the wild comes down, he heads out with his partner Lammis only to wind up all alone in the dungeon...again!

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By the creator of Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon: can the strangely realistic characters in a mysterious video game bring meaning to one man's life...and help him reconnect with the "real world"? Don't miss the original light novels, also from Seven Seas!Yoshio is a thirty-year-old shut-in with no job and no prospects, still living at home after all these years. His mundane life is suddenly interrupted when he receives a copy of “The Village of Fate,” an experimental game with graphics and A.I. like nothing he’s ever seen before. In the game, he takes on the role of a guardian deity who watches over the people of a new village…but he finds that the game characters are so intelligent, so reactive, so human that he starts to wonder if they might somehow be real people. Through his connection to their strangely vivid lives, Yoshio begins to discover the brightness that had been missing from his own existence.

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THE DAY OF CORRUPTIONAfter spending his twenties as a shut-in, Yoshio’s life has begun to change, thanks to getting his hands on an incredible game called “The Village of Fate.” Its graphics are amazing, and the characters are so lifelike that they seem almost like real people. In order to protect them, Yoshio even landed a part-time job to afford the in-game currency. His strained family relationships may be on the mend, but he’ll need every extra point his new income can buy. The “Day of Corruption” is fast approaching, and his villagers will be tested by hordes of ravenous monsters. With the NPCs short on weapons and manpower, can Yoshio protect them until the dawn?

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SPECIAL DELIVERY FROM ANOTHER WORLDAs a long-time unemployed loser, Yoshio’s relationship with his family is strained at best. Worst of all, thanks to failing her during a terrifying incident, his sister has complete contempt for him. But lately, Yoshio’s life has rapidly begun to change. It’s all thanks to receiving an invite to beta-test a mysterious game known as the Village of Fate — a game so amazingly realistic that its characters almost seem like real people. Playing the role of a “God of Fate” protecting a small group of villagers, the game gives new meaning to Yoshio’s dull existence, and soon begins to reveal unexpected new opportunities, some of them even affecting the real world.

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Cause of death: vending machine. Is there any end more suitable for a vending-machine enthusiast than giving his life to cushion the fall of one of his favorite machines? So perhaps it was only fate that he was reborn as a vending machine in another world!

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