The orphans Mary and Metea want to join Nao’s party as adventurers, so Nao and his friends decide to bring them along and explore a dungeon so that they can gain first-hand experience. However, although it’s their first time embarking on such an adventure, the young sisters display an unexpected form of strength. The dungeon that they explore is a strange and mysterious one in which the environment changes with each floor. The bond between the members of the Meikyo Shisui party, both old and new, will be put to the test!

Nao’s party of childhood friends is working hard to earn money and stabilize their lives in a different world. Meanwhile, Nao raises the idea of recruiting two old pals, but the search proves to be more difficult than he ever imagined. Worse yet, there’s another classmate in town–and this one means trouble! Follow Nao, Touya, and Haruka’s adventures as their eventful quest for companions leads them to a new town and new problems!

“Hey! I’m an evil god, but I’m not actually evil!” Those were the first words I heard in the afterlife. My name’s Naofumi Kamiya, and my entire class died in a tragic bus accident. The god told my classmates that he would transport all of us to a dangerous new world, but he created skills for us on request, so maybe he was actually a good god? That’s what I thought at first, anyway. But when it sounds too good to be true, it probably is! I feel bad for my classmates who thought that gimmicky skills would make them invincible. I mean, the god did warn them that there were no cheat skills! Oh well. As for myself, I’m enjoying my life with my childhood friends, putting safety first and staying out of trouble. After all, this world might seem like a game, but it’s not. It’s reality.

When an entire class of high school students die in a tragic bus accident, an evil god sends them to a different world with supernatural skills to help them survive. However, they don’t realize that some of those skills are land mines—powers that seem good but have deadly downsides! Among those students are the childhood friends Haruka, Nao, and Touya, who work together to establish a safe and stable life in this new world. None of them want to be a hero, and that realistic perspective is exactly what they need to survive. After all, the world they’re in isn’t a game. It’s reality.

Nao, Touya, and Haruka finally have the money to leave town and search for their two other friends, Natsuki and Yuki, whom they haven’t seen since they arrived in this new world. A touching reunion takes place, but the joy of seeing each other again does not last long. They have a lot of problems ahead of them to solve, such as searching for a grimoire, purchasing new weapons, hunting boars, and viewing new places to live. On top of all that, they have to help out a beautiful elf whose cafe is suffering from financial difficulties! Their slice of life adventures exploring a different world continues in this long-awaited second volume!

After a skirmish with a powerful band of orcs, Nao’s party realizes that they have to get stronger. so the first thing they do with the loot they bagged? Why, they pay a visit to their classmate, Tomi, who has become an apprentice at the local weapon store. They then start to focus on training and manage to learn new skills—but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The group departs on a hunting trip for giant salamanders (partially as an excuse to relax) only to find giant mushrooms have appeared all over town upon their return! Nao’s party and their adventures in this world are about to hit a strange turning point as their house nears completion.

Nao's party has agreed to temporarily settle down in Laffan, but that means they have to begin saving up money again in order to purchase a plot of land and pay for the construction of a house. In order to earn money, they start with the basics and take on some well-paying gathering quests for herbs, while also aiming for other options that would rake in a lot of money, like harvesting magical mushrooms and capturing giant salamanders. However, there’s no such thing as easy money, so their goal of achieving a relaxing and peaceful life in this different world is still a distant dream. Money comes and goes; that’s the harsh reality that Nao’s party has to face.

Nao and his friends return to Laffan for a short break before accepting a new quest to retrieve a sword—a prized family heirloom that belongs to the House of Nernas. The sword apparently went missing at the abandoned mine they briefly checked out once before, but upon further exploration, they discover that the mine is really a full-blown dungeon! On top of that, they meet Mary and Metea, two sisters who were chased from their home in Kelg because of the Holy Satomi Sect. Trouble just seems to follow Nao and his friends wherever they go, making their dream of an easy life feel further away than ever!

Just when I thought navigating high school was bad enough, I woke up to a rotting, post-apocalyptic world! I thought that the poisonous swamp surrounding my small island would have protected me from all the drama, but what did I see staggering my way? A nasty, putrid zombie! With nothing left to lose, I shoved it away! To my surprise, it turned into a living, breathing, not-so-dead human! So, I have the power to purify zombies. And now I’m expected to save this undead world from the zombie apocalypse? Great. This is so NOT my problem!

Photonics and nanotechnology are popular emerging fields of technology. This proceedings volume contains over 12 selected papers from the International Workshop and Conference on Photonics and Nanotechnology (ICPN) 2007, held in Pattaya, Thailand, from December 16-18, 2007. The papers cover a wide range of topics, from optical and nonlinear optical physics to nanoelectronics.