Heishin High School, one classroom.
There was still one minute before class began, and the classroom buzzed with conversation. Though there were only around twenty students, they had formed several small cliques.
In Eastern Island, sticking together in groups had practically become a tradition. If you did not join a group... if you did not try to fit into a small clique, you would likely be excluded, or worse, become the victim of school bullying.
Such things happened often in Eastern Island. If one day there was no more school bullying in Eastern Island, perhaps that country would already be finished.
In order to fit in, most people chased after trends... If many people knew about something while you did not, then when it came up in conversation and you could not say anything, it was easy to be excluded.
So even if they did not particularly like something, many people would still look into it, especially girls.
Compared to the other little groups, near the back of the classroom... by the window, a girl whose unkempt hair nearly covered her cheeks sat with her head lowered, playing on her phone without speaking to anyone else.
She looked very lonely...
The things on her phone were almost all ACG-related, making her seem like an antisocial shut-in girl.
Soon, class began. This period was Classical Chinese...
Once class started, the students' chatter quieted down considerably, until a very cute woman walked into the classroom.
She was their Classical Chinese teacher, Okazaki Kanami. Compared with the name Okazaki Kanami, the students preferred the nickname they had given her because she was so cute: "Oka-chan."
"Hehe, everyone, I have good news for you! A transfer student is joining our class."
Standing at the podium, Okazaki Kanami still looked more like a student than