My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As Expected

The evidence was conclusive and undeniable.

This blank period of one year and three months, as if stolen, had seen a stranger's soul enter Yukino Yukinoshita's body. That soul had committed all sorts of terrible acts using her body, reducing her school-wide reputation to the level of hatred.

In the popular lingo of the internet, she had been possessed; someone else had been reborn into her body from another world.

Why had she been possessed?

And would she be possessed again in the future?

As Yukino Yukinoshita expressionlessly exited the school forum, she likely triggered a keyword, and that voice responded again.

[System has filtered the optimal option to avoid possession for you: In a series of optional tasks, perfectly reverse your negative image in the eyes of popular characters.]

What did popular characters mean? Those normies?

In other words, if she didn't quickly reverse the current situation, she might be possessed again by a soul, whether malicious or benevolent, in the future?

A chilling sensation crawled up her spine.

No.

This, she absolutely would not allow.

After lunch break, when Yukino Yukinoshita returned to the classroom, she was not surprised to see her desk splashed with dirty water.

Her expression was calm. Under everyone's watchful, schadenfreude-filled gazes, she took out her phone and took a picture first.

She was so composed, it was as if she wasn't being bullied at all.

The laughter in the classroom gradually died down.

After putting away her phone, Yukino turned to face the ringleader of this farce. "If something like this happens again, I will hold Haru Takada accountable first."

The villainous character Haru Takada scoffed, "I say, Yukinoshita, what makes you think..."

"Relationships between boys and girls are mere hearsay, but school bullying is a tangible crime. Teacher Sanwa isn't intervening because he thinks I'm the source of the trouble, but the Guardian Association won't think that way, right, Teacher Sanwa?"

The Guardian Association in Japan is an organization with significant influence over all schools in a region. Whether a school's skirt length is too short or a teacher's reputation is questionable, they can interfere.

If school bullying escalates, not only students but even teachers will have to bow out and resign.

The middle-aged male teacher who had just entered the classroom opened his mouth, "Yukino-san..."

Haru Takada crossed his arms, looking dismissive. "The Guardian Association won't concern themselves with someone like you, who has fallen so low."

Yukino didn't even lift her eyelids. "Coincidentally, my mother is one of the representatives of the Guardian Association."

There's a rather amusing unspoken rule in Japanese schools: even when subjected to bullying, there's a tacit understanding among students, between the bullies and the bullied.

"No reporting to parents, no reporting to teachers."

Once they crossed the line, they would be ridiculed as rule-breakers, cowards who only tattled, and then face even more brutal bullying or complete isolation.

Yukinoshita scoffed at this.

While she also wouldn't want to involve parents unless absolutely necessary, it was because she was terrible at dealing with her own mother.

"The first rule to avoid being bullied is to appear stronger than everyone else." -- Experienced anti-bullying master, Yukinoshita.

Teacher Sanwa tried to smooth things over, "Yukinoshita-san..."

The girl's gaze, like cold lightning, pierced him. "If you don't want to resign, please shut up."

Yukinoshita's mood was currently beyond furious.

She woke up to her wonderful high school life shattered, her hair dyed, her reputation ruined, and a bunch of guys who didn't know their place were playing school bullying games with her.

Fine, you like to play?

Then I'll show you what the truly cruel adult world is like!

The entire class fell silent.

"If anything like this happens again in our class or any other class, I will report it to the Guardian Association without hesitation. At that time, there will be disciplinary actions for those who deserve it, and resignations for those who should step down."

"Furthermore, Yukinoshita Corporation will issue lawyer's letters to all of you. Believe me, you won't win against a legal team of twenty."

Teacher Sanwa was completely dumbfounded.

Yukinoshita of the International Etiquette Class, Year 2, Group J, had a reputation. She looked like a tough girl with dyed blonde hair, but when she wasn't flirting with boys, she was actually quite quiet, even introverted, appearing easy to bully.

Teacher Sanwa disliked her for corrupting the class atmosphere and ignored the fact that she was being bullied.

Before this, she had never mentioned her family background.

Sanwa was almost in tears. If he had known, how could he have been so lax about the growing bullying sentiment in the class!

Finally, Yukinoshita looked towards Haru Takada, her tone laced with mockery. "I say, you guys, you're not stupid enough to think it's okay as long as no one sees it, are you? You don't think the fingerprint collection agencies of the Public Security Bureau are just for show, do you?"

The villainous passerby, Haru Takada, was almost scared to tears by her.

After thoroughly making him cry, Yukinoshita then found a rag and slowly wiped the dirty water off her desk, starting to listen to the lecture.

Then, she realized she couldn't understand it.

Yukinoshita: "..."

It wasn't that she had become stupid, it was just that this was knowledge from over a year later.

Damn usurper.

Anyway, since she couldn't understand, Yukino began to probe the mysterious existence in her heart.

[Have I already reversed my negative image?]

Keyword triggered.

A semi-transparent screen quickly appeared before her. Yukino quickly glanced at the others. Seeing that the other students in the class were acting normally, she withdrew her gaze.

After being usurped and slandered to the point of ruin, Yukino found herself almost numb. Ordinary matters could no longer surprise her too much.

On the screen, there was a human silhouette, completely covered in pitch black.

Understood. This is telling me to lose color or change color.

The screen went out.

In short, whether it's losing color or changing color, black is not good.

Coercion is also not good. This is not a positive image; it will even make the human figure darker.

[System has filtered the best option for you to break the deadlock: Loudly tell everyone that I actually like girls!]

Shut up.

Are there no other options?

Keyword triggered, and options A, B, and C appeared on the screen in order.

A: Stable relationship with an honest boy, establish a virtuous wife and loving mother persona to reverse reputation (Success rate 46%)

B: Achieve first place in the grade. The strong are always worthy of tolerance. [Success rate 66%]

C: Loudly tell everyone that I actually like girls! (Success rate 88%)

Yukino immediately ruled out options A and B after a single glance.

Option A would harm herself and others and take too long. As for B, she was more than a year behind in her studies, not to mention it was a single word: too long.

She urgently wanted to quickly stop the malicious incident of someone usurping her body. Every extra day meant an extra day of risk.

So, was option three, which seemed the most absurd, actually the most feasible?

After saying she actually liked girls, those girls caught up in boring romantic disputes would probably stop directing their boring hostility towards her.

Of course, this might be followed by scorn and disdain. Perhaps she would face complete isolation.

But this didn't matter to Yukino. In her long life of walking alone, she had long been accustomed to living by herself.

Was she isolated by everyone?

No, she isolated everyone.

Yukino's side was frantically brainstorming, while the villainous character was raging impotently.

"Wasn't it Yukino who dated Hayama and confessed to others?"

"Wasn't it her who hooked up with Hachiman from Class 2-F and made her good friend Yui Yuigahama cry?"

"She's clearly a scumbag, why can she be so righteous!"

Her bad influence friend Maeda comforted her with an awkward laugh, "Haru, don't cry..."

His gaze couldn't help but fall on the stern-faced girl. Of course, many people in the class were looking at her.

Her messy blonde hair, heavy makeup, and bright nail polish were the same as usual.

But he felt that today's gloomy, hot-girl persona, Yukino, seemed different somehow.

The usual Yukino was sensitive and gloomy, mean and nasty to all the girls, as if something was chasing her, threatening her. But she never uttered a word in response to the mockery and bullying from the school.

Such a vicious yet easily bullied person would naturally become the target of isolation and even bullying in the class.

But today's Yukino was as stern as the winter snow. Despite her messy hair and heavy makeup, she possessed an inviolable purity.

After school, the villainous character Haru Takada, unwilling to lose, jumped out again to stir up trouble and spew threats, "Don't think you won today. Sugi won't like someone like you."

A clean-cut boy in a crowd not far away turned his head awkwardly when he heard his name.

Yukino methodically put away her books before turning around.

"From now on, you don't have to worry about such ridiculous things."

Beneath her blonde hair and heavy makeup, her eyes were as beautiful as a cold spring, or perhaps like beautiful transparent gemstones.

"Because I actually like girls."

[Choice complete, Spirit +1]

Before leaving school, Yukino told the homeroom teacher, Teacher Sanwa, that she wanted to transfer classes. The teacher was overjoyed, saying he could resolve the matter in two days.

After getting into her car driven by her family's chauffeur at the entrance of her home, she glanced at the money in her wallet and told the driver to go to the nearest hair salon.

The driver casually asked, "Oh, Miss Yukino, are you going for a hair treatment?"

Yukino replied, "No, I'm going to dye my hair back."

Yes, she was going to dye her hair back.

This golden hair is too blinding!

The driver was startled, "Eh???"

The Second Miss Yukinoshita, who was in her rebellious phase and had a fierce argument with Madam Yukinoshita, even declaring that the world would end before she'd dye her hair back, was actually going to dye it back today???

He was almost in tears, "Madam will be very happy when she finds out."

Yukinoshita: "..."

She instantly lost the desire to dye it back.

After completing the option, she received a reward of Mental +1. She had no idea what this was, only feeling that her memory and thinking speed had improved a little.

The black humanoid figure had also faded a bit, a negligible amount.

She smoothly arrived at a well-decorated shop. The staff here actually recognized her and greeted her with a beaming smile, "Miss Yukinoshita, welcome~"

Stop using wavy lines when you talk.

Of course, Yukinoshita wouldn't be so sharp-tongued with strangers.

In Japan, appointments are usually required for haircuts, but as soon as she arrived, this rule was immediately waived. The stylist came out with a smile, "Miss Yukinoshita, what color are you dyeing it today?"

Yukinoshita was directly shocked, "I used to change colors from time to time?"

Even gold wasn't enough for you anymore, usurper!

"Haha, you even had rainbow-colored hair once, and you pulled it off beautifully."

Rainbow Yukinoshita...