From every angle, Umaru Doma was one of the popular crowd. She even bought light novels only to support a friend. Tomoya Aki had already given up. In the end, popular kids and otaku were creatures from two different worlds—and Umaru Doma was even the chief culprit behind Tomoya Aki being falsely accused...
It wasn't as if Tomoya Aki had never considered revenge. But with nothing in his arsenal but dogeza and tricks for picking up otaku girls, he had no idea how to get revenge. He didn't even dare show it. Tomoya Aki was certain that if he displayed even the slightest dissatisfaction with Umaru Doma in public, the entire class would ostracize him. Such was Popular Umaru's influence.
Unable to find a way to retaliate, Tomoya Aki grew angrier the more he thought about it. On top of that, his fateful encounter had been forcibly cut short, leaving him increasingly frustrated and furious.
In that moment of agitation, he really did come up with a plan: win over Utaha Kasumigaoka, then make her turn against Umaru Doma!
This was simple for Tomoya Aki. After all, nine out of ten light novel authors were otaku, and the remaining one was a hardcore otaku. Moreover, Tomoya Aki had read Love Metronome. Its fantasies of romance bore more or less the hallmarks of a gal game. That naive view of love made Tomoya Aki feel as though he could fool her eight hundred times over!
Although his fateful encounter had been forcibly cut short, who was Tomoya Aki? A gal game master who had conquered hundreds, even thousands, of heroines. Reality was the same. Whether it was his junior Izumi Hashima or his cousin Michiru Hyodo, hadn't he already wrapped them both around his finger?
So what if his fateful encounter