Light Novel

**Let This Grieving Soul Light Novel** is published by 'GC Novel' and illustrated by 'Chyko'. The official English title is *"Let This Grieving Soul Retire! Woe is the Weakling Who Leads the Strongest Party"* (Nageki no Bourei wa Intai Shitai - Saijiyaku Hanta ni Yoru Saikiyou Patei Ikusei Jutsu), it is published and distributed in the market by 'Sol Press'.

It won the second place of "New Literature/Book Category Award" in the new light novel election 2019", second to The Eminence in Shadow.

**Let This Grieving Soul Retire Volume 1**
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* Prologue: A Dream and Its Fruition
* Chapter 1: Dealing with Slave Labor
* Chapter 2: Wall Spaghetti
* Chapter 3: The White Wolf's Den
* Chapter 4: Thousand Tricks
* Chapter 5: Grieving Souls
* Epilogue: Let this Grieving Soul Retire!

**Let This Grieving Soul Retire Volume 2**
* Prologue: Lost and Yet To Be Found
* Chapter 1: The Stifled Shadow Returns
* Chapter 2: A Nagging Nightmare
* Chapter 3: The Slime and the Assembled Team
* Chapter 4: Obsidian Cross and First Steps
* Chapter 5: The Prodigy
* Chapter 6: Ignoble
* Chapter 7: Abyss
* Epilogue: Let this Grieving Soul Retire ②

**Let This Grieving Soul Retire Volume 3**
* Prologue: The Brainiac
* Chapter 1: The Mighty and The Mighty
* Chapter 2: The Challenger and The Transcender
* Chapter 3: The Convergence and The Pandemonium
* Chapter 4: The Auction and The Relics
* Chapter 5: An Ingenious Scheme and A Silent Battle
* Chapter 6: The True Victory
* Epilogue: Let this Grieving Soul Retire ③

**Let This Grieving Soul Retire Volume 4**
* Prologue: Ever Reliable Master
* Chapter 1: Responsibilities of a Level 8
* Chapter 2: Unusual trials
* Chapter 3: Pursuers and vacation
* Chapter 4: Fun vacation
* Epilogue: Let this Grieving Soul Retire ④

**Let This Grieving Soul Retire Volume 5**
* Prologue: Turning point
* Chapter 1: Hot Spring Rhapsody
* Chapter 2: Formidable foreign enemy
* Chapter 3: Hot Spring Champion
* Chapter 4: Fun vacation
* Epilogue: Strange Grief wants to retire ⑤

**Let This Grieving Soul Retire Volume 6**
Chapter 1 : Gathering of White Sword
Chapter 2 : Dark Pot Divine Calculation
Chapter 3 : Emperor’s Bodyguard
Chapter 4 : Abyssal Pot and Ghost Unit
Chapter 5 : Lost Inn and Lost Children
Epilogue : Strange Grief Want retire
Interlude
Side story : Bad Luck and Good Luck

**Let This Grieving Soul Retire Volume 7**
Chapter 1 : Imperial Studies level 8
Chapter 2 : Fake and Real
Chapter 3 : Infinite Variety Tactics
Chapter 4 : Real Boss
Chapter 5 : Butesai
Epilogue : Strange Grief Want retire
Interlude

**Let This Grieving Soul Retire Volume 8**
Chapter 1: 《Infinite Variety》Defensive Battle
Chapter 2: Slaughter
Chapter 3: Chain of Disaster
Chapter 4: The Strongest Curse
Epilogue : Strange Grief Wants Retire
Interlude
Side Story : tour of the master 《Thousand Tricks》
Afterword

**Strange Grief Volume 9**
Chapter 1 : The whereabouts of the curse
Chapter 2 : The curse people
Chapter 3 : The way of the Divine Tree
Chapter 4: The land of Spirit
Epilogue : Strange Grief wants to retire
Interlude
Side Story

**Let This Grieving Soul Retire Volume 10**
Chapter 1 : Wither
Chapter 2 : Phase 2
Chapter 3 : Battle of the Gods
Epilogues : Strange Grief Wants retire
Interlude : Level 9

**Let This Grieving Soul Retire Volume 11**