"Didn't I tell you to switch seats with me? What, didn't you understand what I said?"
Urushibara Mirei and two female classmates had Wakaba Hiiro cornered, glaring at her in annoyance. As mentioned before, students in Eastern Island schools generally had their own little circles.
Even if they did not, they had to have something distinctive about them—for instance, knowing someone influential at school or having connections to someone powerful. Otherwise... they could easily become targets of bullying.
In this class, Urushibara Mirei clearly had her own circle, and she was someone with considerable say within it. To be fair, she was not particularly bad; she just had a terrible temper and could not stand Wakaba Hiiro, who kept herself apart from the class.
Wakaba Hiiro had no friends in the class and was a reclusive otaku girl. Without any surprise, she naturally became the lowest-ranking person in the class.
Urushibara Mirei had never gotten along with Wakaba Hiiro to begin with. She had tried to get her to join her group and listen to her, but Wakaba Hiiro had never paid her any attention, which had already irritated her.
Then Fu Hua arrived a few days ago. With his air of a refined young gentleman, Fu Hua immediately caught her attention. High school was precisely the age when one was just beginning to understand youthful romance, so naturally, she fell for Fu Hua as well.
Yet this gentlemanly, godlike boy truly matched the sort of character found in shoujo manga. Though he gave people a good impression in his dealings with others, he also kept everyone at arm's length.
In just a few days, the girls who liked him could have lined up all the way to the school gate, but without exception, every one of them had been