I walk the long road to the glorious Hyakkaou Private Academy. This prestigious school is only for the children of the greatest political and economic figures in all of Japan. My parents are business people- my dad owns Chaitou Electronics and my mom is the CEO of Honami Entertainment. Unfortunately, they're almost always away on business trips so I rarely see them.
I enter the gates of the building and make my way inside. I stop at my locker to take off my outdoor shoes and put on my indoor shoes. My indoor shoes are black flats (I hate the color black but the academy forces me to wear them inside :( ). As soon as I get my binders for my first class I see Yumeko out of the corner of my eye.
Yumeko meets my gaze and is delighted to see me. She is in all of my classes. Yumeko has long, straight hair and adorns the same uniform as me. She's the gambling queen of this academy.
Gambling, you ask? Well, Hyakkaou has a really big gambling ecosystem here. It's something like how us students need to learn the value of money and the be competitive. Because most students are children of really rich families- me included- people often gamble in the order of hundreds of thousands of yen.
Yumeko defeated the former champion of gambling, Mary Saotome, my other friend, on her first day. Mary ended up losing over fifty million yen, but ended up getting it back through the student council. Lucky her! The student council is very ruthless and is the capital of the gambling scene. They're mainly comprised of elite gamblers, with the head of the student council, Kirari Momobami, being the most formidable of them all.
Anyways, back to me. I don't fare too horribly; I'm about average. I usually don't have to reach out of my own pocket in order to pay for the mandatory dues to the student council, but if I lose a ton of money, I'd end up having to reach out of my savings.
Every few weeks or so, every student in Hyakkaou has to pay "donations" to the Student Council. If you fail to make these payments, you become a housepet. You are basically a slave to all of the paying students until you are able to pay the donations. This is what makes the Student Council so ruthless.
Yumeko guides me in her direction. "Let's go to classes," she says, "we need to study for the exam so we have more time to gamble later!"
Yumeko is also pretty crazy. She has a gambling addiction, making her either win or lose millions of yen on any given day. Once, she won 3 billion yen on a single day, as well as the life of the former Student Council Accountant, Kaede Manyuda. I was so surprised when I heard about it after it had happened.
We head over to class, and I went to see who was inside, I saw none other than Mary Saotome, my Hyakkaou Academy crush.