Chapter 1

Five months have passed since the start of the school year at Rakuzan - a famous school full of snotty rich kids who knew nothing than to play the 'my horse is bigger than your horse' game, the overly intelligent students who lived up to the stereotypical Asian standards, and there were the sports freaks, foolish humans who found physical torment and pain enjoyable all for the sake of a sport. Yet again, it was another normal day in the seemingly normal life of Hime Takagi.

Keeping a superficial image is pointless. I'd rather keep it real than please everyone.

Rakuzan

Hime Takagi stared at the main building of her school, deciding whether or not to go in. She did not want to class again today just because there was another episode of X anime coming out and a new game release of the Persona series. But she also thought that she might get another earful from Suzu Matsushita, her best friend since kindergarten, and there was the principal; and boy, was he scary as fuck too. Her internal debate continued on for minutes as she continued staring blankly at the building.

People barely noticed Hime. As much as she hated to admit it, she bore similarities with Kuroko Tetsuya, the Phantom Sixth man of the Generation of Miracles in terms of lack of presence but in her case she just wasn't deemed interesting enough to be noticed. Although, it worked a bit into her advantage because she hated attention from many people and she could whatever the hell she wanted most of the time without anyone losing their shit about it. They both had met before last summer in a bookstore near Maji Burger back when she was still living in Tokyo and they continued to keep communication because of their same taste in novels.

"Meh. I'm going home." She decided. The girl turned around and started walking towards the front gate only to bump into a security guard on duty in that area. 'Oh shit.' She cursed inwardly. "Ehehehe. Um… I-I'm sick?"

Obviously, the guard didn't buy it she was a horrible liar after all. Moments later, she got dragged into the vice-principal's office only to be reprimanded for the nth time not only because of her terrible excuse of an attendance but also her poor grooming.

She had long unruly very dark purple hair that reached her waist and her fringe covering most of her face. Her tie was haphazardly hung around her neck and didn't even bother to tuck in the white polo shirt into her skirt. So basically the vice-principal was on a rampage.

'Like I'm going to listen to a creepy bald guy like you' she thought. "—Do I make myself clear, Takagi-san?" the vice-principal, Ichirou Kato tried to make his point clear while slamming his hands on the table for more emphasis. Hime winced a bit because it was a bit loud and didn't really see it coming. "You have to work for the student council for the whole month if you still want to be held back a year because of your behavior." He continued in a serious tone.

"Meh.." Hime answered lazily only to get her ear pinched by her best friend, Suzu Matshushita.

"What were you gonna say Himeee?" Her best friend asked while veins popped on her forehead, visibly irritated by Hime's lack of interest on the issue at hand. To Hime, Suzu was like a nagging mother and also one of the few people she could trust not to mention scared of.

"O-okay.. I'll do it." The poor girl answered weakly.

The vice-principal appeared to be pleased that he finally had a bit of control on Hime and decided to push it even further by making her fix her appearance during the last week of her punish—community service to the school. "Whaaaaat?!" She whined like a little kid at times and called her as 'Suzu-nee'. "I don't wanna. Suzu-nee! Tell him I don't want toooo." She started flailing on her seat. Receiving a flick on her forehead from her bestfriend in response.

"No." Suzu replied firmly. "You're going to listen to Kato-sensei."

"Buuuut-" Hime protested further.

"No buts." Suzu interjected.

After two hours, Suzu had finally managed to convince (more like bribed) Hime into doing her community service and fixing her appearance in exchange of the six books and a game she had always wanted to buy but was hard to find.

Hime adjusted her glasses. It was hard to see properly when her fringe is covering most her. Then she stood up and exited the room and Suzu followed after. She was only 5'2 feet compared to Suzu who was 5'6 feet tall. Hime always bound her boobs claiming it was troublesome for her and they got in the way. It already annoyed Suzu that she was flat as an ironing board whereas her best friend hid her breasts yet at the same time wondered how Hime had managed to do so without getting caught and made it appear that she had tiny breasts. Even though Suzu had already told her not to do it anymore since it wasn't good for her. But Hime being Hime, she didn't listen at all.

It was her uncle, Sho Takagi, who wanted her to be in this school just like her late parents, who had died when she was only six years because their old house burned down. However, Hime Takagi didn't really want to be in Rakuzan. She found the school too 'flashy' for her tastes. She only had agreed because she got to live alone in her own apartment and her best friend was there too.

Lunch Time

Lunch was spent as usual under a sakura tree in a secluded courtyard behind the Arts building because people rarely pass by there. Hime was reading, yet another hentai manga she had bought the other day in a store not bothering to hide the cover of the book which openly displayed a busty blonde woman covered in a questionable white fluid. Meanwhile, Suzu continued eating her lunch and continued talking about the hot guy she saw in a magazine.

".. Suzu-nee .. I want crepes." Hime randomly mentioned.

"Let's go get some after class on the way home." Suzu replied after swallowing her food. She opened her phone to check the time. "Oh wait – Hime I have to go now. I forgot I have a meeting with the committee." Because Suzu was in the 2nd year and a member of the planning committee for the upcoming cultural festival of the school, it had been a mandatory requirement that student members attend all the meetings.

Hime gave a small nod and proceeded in reading her hentai. "Waaii.." She said as she plops herself down on the grass. The introvert continued reading until she had eventually fallen asleep. Her glasses fell off while she slept and her fringe moved a bit to the side giving a glimpse of her huge eyebags from staying up playing the eroge she ordered online a week ago and pale face that was obviously barely touched by the sun.

Lunch had already finished, yet she still slept there defenseless until a person passed by. The person chuckled inaudibly when the person saw the cover of the book she had been reading then decided to carry the sleeping girl to the infirmary nearby.

The person left her in the care of the school nurse and just left.