Ichinose Honami, from the world of Welcome to the Classroom of the Elite, was one of its female leads.
She came from a poor single-parent family, yet she was a very hardworking and strong girl.
She had once broken down and stolen a hair accessory her younger sister had kept begging for from a store. Racked with guilt, she was discovered by her mother and dragged back to the shop to kneel and apologize.
In the end, she shut herself away in her room.
Then she heard that High School of Advanced Nurturing offered free tuition and would accept her, so she immediately went there, hoping to find an opportunity to turn her life around.
That was her experience in the original work.
Her experience at Shuchiin Academy was seventy percent similar, except the school she attended had become Shuchiin Academy.
That was because High School of Advanced Nurturing had been ordered to shut down after Prime Minister Ayanokoji took office.
As it happened, Shuchiin Academy had undergone reforms last year.
To show that it did not only accept children from wealthy families, it announced that it would also recruit students from society fairly.
However, the admission score requirement was set very high.
And only twenty students were admitted, with tuition waived.
These students were no longer required to come from wealthy or influential families. They could also be poor.
Here, a high school diploma from Shuchiin Academy was almost as valuable as a degree from one of the world's top universities.
So this was an opportunity for ordinary families, even poor families like the Ichinose family.
So she studied hard on her own at home and was eventually admitted this year.
After entering Shuchiin Academy, Ichinose Honami applied for a work-study program. The school waived her tuition, but required