Chapter 1: Creating a Character

Confused, I stared at the scene in front of me. There were two big signs, telling me to enter my name and the silhouette of a person. Next to the person were arrow keys, apparently for choosing the look of this avatar. The scene in itself was already strange enough, but the fact, that I saw this before added a bit to its strangeness. It was the character creation screen of a visual novel I played before. I slowly close my eyes and open them again. Nope, still there. I wait.
...Nothing happens. Ok, I guess I have to create a character. Cute or weird? – I deliberate. I decided against the pink afro with pink eyes and went with a dark red ponytail and blue eyes instead. And the slim body type and light but not pale skin. Now to the name… How do I even enter my name? I touched the sign titled 'family name'. The cursor started to blink. "Oh", escaped my lips. An "O" appeared in the naming field. I see. But how to delete the letter? I guess I will just go with it. Elise Ojousama. I'm bad at naming, but hey, who cares? Nervously I touched the 'Done' button. I wonder, what will happen?

Darkness envelopes me and memories flood into my mind. It all started three years ago, THE HELL?! on my thirteenth birthday…
And suddenly, I stand at the entrance of Iris Academy with my suitcase, in a f***ing mage robe, and more importantly, IN THE BODY OF A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL! With blue eyes and a dark red ponytail of course. I stare at the entrance and wait, but nothing happens. Ok. I mean what the hell, but I will just go with the flow, I guess. Since I played the game before, it should ease my new life. Which I was suddenly granted without any reason, at least
I can't remember being killed by Truck-san or something similar…
So naturally the first thing to do is obvious for me: DON'T RUN INTO PROFESSOR GRABINER.
Should be easy enough, since I know it would happen, if I am not careful enough, and he will – would – give me demerits for it.
I grab my suitcases and look in all directions, before I carefully place one foot before the other, walking as fast as a grandma with a damaged hip.
A bit exaggerated I admit, but hey, better safe than sorry, right? Now, where is Horse Hall? I make one step in front of me, while looking around the halls- and promptly bump into someone. THE HELL?! Speechless I look up to the grumpy looking man with curly black hair and red-brown eyes in front of me.
Where the f**** did he come from? Did he teleport here, just so that I could bump into him? Intimidated by his fiery look I whisper, "Sorry, Sir."
"A new student, I see. And what might your name be? ", he asks me. His voice is surprisingly lovely, but I don't fall for his pseudo-relaxed tone. I know, he will give me demerits for this. Did he bump into me on purpose, just to give me demerits? For a second I consider giving him a false name, but he will probably notice sooner or later, and then I would be in deep trouble. "Elise Ojousama, Sir." I don't continue, since I know he doesn't care about my reasons for 'bumping into him'.
"Miss… Ojousama, is it? Wild seed. How unsurprising.", he says while looking into his book. I have to hold back a childish giggle.
Ojousama is after all a polite, Japanese address for rich young girls. It feels, as if he would unknowingly bow to me. It's also weird, that he doesn't seem to notice how strange my name is. I mean Ojousama is definitely not your typical American family name, right? I wonder, how he would have reacted, if I would have called myself 'Buttface McButts', like a certain youtuber likes to name her characters. Would he have reacted the same?
I'm too old for such childish jokes, but that would have been hilarious. "More than likely, a complete waste of my time. You have no idea how much you have been given and you will throw it all away.", he adds, even though I haven't commented his remark about wild seeds. I beg your pardon?!
As someone born into a magical household, he probably can't imagine how – magical – magic is for us lowly 'wild seeds', so concluding, that we wouldn't know how much we have been given, is a bit hasty. He scribbles something in his book. "Ten demerits. Not a promising start." His voice then grows louder and more intimidating, "Pay more attention to your studies than you do to where you're walking, Miss Ojousama, or you'll find yourself expelled from this academy, before the New Year."
And with that he stalks away. Great. Am I even able to act outside of the game choices, I wonder?
In which case I should probably pursue the "alone and unloved" end. After a while I finally find my room, where Ellen is already waiting.
I try my best to act as if I wouldn't know anything about her, while we introduce ourselves. After Virginia joined our conversation, I follow them to meet her brothers.
I take a hot shower in the evening and after drying my hair a bit with the towel, I stare at my reflection. I have a normal height (around 165cm?), I observe with satisfaction. In my last life I was a bit small, around 155cm and often got mistaken for a minor. I remember buying a bus ticket for children under 12 years, when I was seventeen or eighteen. I always needed my ID for buying alcohol. Well, I guess I'll still be mistaken for younger than I am, in a way.
Apart from that, I have a delicate face, which looks rather cute in my opinion. No pimples. Now that I think about it, I haven't seen anyone with pimples.
Is magic protecting you from blemishes, or something? Kind of satisfied with my new body, I head back to my room.

The rest of the time until we can finally choose our courses for the week, seems to pass by way too slowly, as I can't wait to finally join my first magic classes.
For the first week I focus on each magic colour for a day, starting with red magic. I guess I didn't make a too strong impression on Grabby, as he acts towards me as grumpy as to other students. That's good, I guess. Since I know a bit more about him due to the game, I actually have no aversion against him, even though he is intimidating, grumpy and has a hobby of giving demerits to random students for trivialities, as I know a bit about him due to my game knowledge.
I have played his route before, not even knowing that he really was a romance option, I simply noticed you could choose to think of him at this event with Potsdam.
So I decided to go for him in my next play-through for the 'lols'. I was really surprised, when I actually really liked his route.
It's even my favourite route of all, to be honest. Apart from that, I won't try to go on his route of course. I mean, being forced to marry a grumpy teacher and be ostracized by the whole student body, is not really an experience I want to go through, thank you very much. Speaking of love routes, Ellen and Virginia were also possible options, right? I wonder, if they're bisexual? Though Virginia actually seems to be asexual. Or maybe she's just a late-bloomer.

Anyways, doesn't that make Ellen going through Virginias clothes a bit more awkward? Though it's already awkward enough. I'm not good at acting and don't want to be weird or loose 'points' with my roommates, so I try to casually ask Ellen, what the hell she's doing, even though I already know, that she's sorting Virginias stuff for her due to her own tidiness fetish. Ellen shrieks (as expected) and explains her actions flustered. I enjoy tidiness and cleanliness myself, but I would never mind the dressers of other people, since it's not part of my 'territory'. Ellen is weird, I guess. Not that I mind weirdness though. "Hey guys, what's up?", asks Virginia behind me. "Ellen lost against her inner cleaning demon", I answer, as I already know, that Ellen is doing this out of her own will and not due to being forced into acting as a maid for Virginia. "Huh?", Virginia reacts. ".. Just what is going on here?", she adds. She reacted the same way as in the game, right? Even though I behaved differently. Also, why do I remember the game's conversation so well? That starts to creep me out a bit, to be honest. "I'm just a bit confused…", I mutter to myself.
"She saw me putting away some of your clothes.", Ellen answers Virginia. "Oh, it was you that's been doing that?", Virginia answers.
"I'm sorry! I just hate messy rooms!", Ellen apologizes. "No, it's my fault. I'm not very good at picking up after myself. Mom always does this for me at home.
Still, I didn't think it was too bad yet. We've only been here a week." "I hate having things being out of place. It makes me feel nervous.", Ellen complains.
Virginia shrugs. "I don't know if I can make things perfect all the time." I sigh. We have to live together for a long time, it's not good if we argue about that the whole time. So we should definitely resolve the conflict. In the game the player had 3 options:

1) everyone maintains their own space, 2) Ellen teaches Virginia and 3) Virginia pays Ellen for tidying up after her.

But since I grew a bit anxious about not having a free will apart from the game choices, I would like to go with a fourth option. However, the option should still resolve the conflict as peaceful as possible. "Uhm, well I guess Virginia is a bit too sloppy, it will be uncomfortable for us, if she keeps being so messy.
But it's not like everything needs to be as tidy as Ellen wants, you are after all VERY tidy, and I don't think we can keep up with that. So I guess Virginia should learn from Ellen about how to keep the room tidy and Ellen shouldn't tidy up our private stuff without even asking. Virginia's closet should be out of sight for you anyways, so it shouldn't bother you THAT much, right? That way, things should be alright for everyone, shouldn't it?" My proposal differs from the second option, doesn't it? Right? RIGHT? I mean, I conceded Virginia room for being messy, so it's different... Isn't it? "I suppose.", Virginia admits a bit sulking.
Well, my proposal is not perfect, but that's impossible anyways.