Friday afternoon.
Mai Sakurajima, dressed in her JK uniform and carrying her schoolbag, silently left school. Generally, there were club activities after school, so even though classes ended around three, students usually could not leave until five or six.
Club activities were an immensely important part of school life, no less important than regular classes.
But Mai Sakurajima, who was practically invisible at school, did not belong to any club and could not be bothered to join one.
No one even paid attention to her!
Even the teachers had almost forgotten about her.
Mai did not blame them. It was her own fault. During her first year of high school, she had rarely attended classes because of her work in the entertainment industry.
Since they had not seen her for so long, it was only natural for the teachers to forget that a student named Mai Sakurajima even existed.
Even after Mai had left the entertainment industry and begun focusing on school, nothing changed.
Walking through the crowd, Mai was no longer the eye-catching celebrity she had once been. She was like some inconspicuous nobody. She did not care, scrolling through Twitter on her phone as she walked, no different from any other person with their head down.
Only when she passed billboards bearing her own posters did she occasionally hear people discussing her behind her back. Mai chose to ignore them...
When she saw a reply from a certain little cutie on her phone, Mai could not help smiling knowingly.
Her beautiful smile stunned the people around her, making them finally notice her. There was such a beauty here... and she was even a celebrity.
Noticing the growing number of gazes on her, Mai, though accustomed to it, still quickened her pace and left the area.
When she reached