She was first. She was clearly first—whether it was getting to know Kaguya or...
Ahem!
In truth, Chika Fujiwara was merely worried about whether Kaguya Shinomiya had made any real friends. After all, Kaguya had been alone since childhood.
But there was nothing Chika could really do. Setting aside the Shinomiya Family's utterly appalling family rules—which Chika herself did not really understand—Kaguya's position within the Shinomiya Family was simply... incredibly awkward.
As the daughter of a concubine, Kaguya Shinomiya's chances of inheriting the Shinomiya Family were practically zero. Unless her father and three older brothers all died one after another, there was no way the inheritance would ever fall to Kaguya...
Yet even though Kaguya posed so little threat, her three brothers still treated her as a potential enemy and guarded against her. After all, a chance close to zero was not the same as no chance at all!
Thus, anyone who wanted to get close to Kaguya Shinomiya first had to withstand pressure from her three brothers. So who would be willing to offend her brothers for a Kaguya Shinomiya who was destined never to inherit the family fortune? At most, they might let younger members of the family who were similarly undervalued interact with her. However...
Kaguya Shinomiya had likely never been raised as an heir. She only knew that the Shinomiya Family's rules required people to be viewed as tools, and tools could be discarded... But Gan'an Shinomiya had never taught her how to make those tools her own. Or rather, at the Shinomiya Family's level, all they needed was a simple offer of benefits to use others as tools.
But the Shinomiya Family was the Shinomiya Family, and Kaguya Shinomiya was Kaguya Shinomiya...
To the Shinomiya Family, those younger members whom even their own family looked