New Characters unlocked =
Main Heroine 5: Akeboshi Meina (2nd year high school)
Doumoto Inori → Kasuga Haru’s friend
Sumie Kasumi → MC’s younger sister
Iketeru Hitomi
Satou
★ It starts with a meeting between the main heroines (Amane, Haru, Hakua) + Inori in the student council room to talk about their love rival, Nanao. All the main heroines are going after the same guy: Izumi. During the meeting, they also bring up the issue of Amane getting close to Nanao. In volume 1, Amane had some trouble with Izumi, but thanks to Nanao’s help, Amane is now able to be close to Izumi again and is brave enough to show a bit of her feelings for him by giving him a homemade lunch every day. Volume 2 will focus on Hakua.
★ As usual, Izumi’s classmate Satou invites Izumi to join a group date with girls from Seirin High School. Izumi always gets dragged along because of his handsome face, which is used as “bait” to make the Seirin girls want to join. While they’re talking, Nanao suddenly hugs Izumi from behind. Like always, Nanao comes to Izumi’s classroom and openly shows how huge her love for Izumi is. They’re not dating yet.
★ On that day, Izumi’s school gets a new transfer student again, even though it hasn’t even been a month since Nanao transferred there. This time, the student is someone who has just come back to Japan after living overseas. Her name is Akeboshi Meina. She used to live in America and studied at a university there, and now she’s back in Japan. Meina joins Izumi’s class, and after introducing herself, she walks straight up to Izumi. Izumi wasn’t really paying attention to the self-introduction, but then he suddenly hears the class getting noisy. When he looks up, Meina is already standing right in front of him. Meina tells Izumi that it’s been a long time and that she’s liked him since way back then. Izumi is confused because he has no memory of who Meina is. Meina explains that she’s the fox Izumi once saved.
★ When Meina forces Izumi to walk around the school with her, Izumi asks more details about their “past relationship”. Meina explains that she’s the fox Izumi helped when he was a kid. But of course that’s a lie, because Izumi doesn’t remember ever saving a fox, and as a kid he was actually really scared of animals. Meina’s true identity becomes more and more of a mystery, so Izumi asks his little sister (Kasumi) to help him find out who Meina really is.
★ The three main heroines (Amane, Haru, Hakua) hold another meeting to talk about this transfer student who seems close to Izumi. But while they’re talking, Meina suddenly walks into the student council room. It turns out Meina is actually Hakua’s subordinate, the daughter of the Shiragiku family’s secretary. Meina was ordered by Hakua to win Izumi’s heart and then “hand it over” to Hakua. But Meina refuses Hakua’s order. She says she’s liked Izumi from the start and seriously wants to get his heart for herself. When Meina leaves the student council room, she runs into Nanao. Nanao asks Meina to work together with her to win Izumi’s heart.
★ After finishing his part-time job, Izumi is approached by Meina and Nanao. Nanao is the first to say she wants to go hang out at Izumi’s place. Of course, Izumi tries to refuse because it doesn’t look good to bring a girl into the room of a guy who lives alone. But Meina joins in, and because of Meina’s pushing, Izumi is forced to let both of them come over to his apartment.
★ Meanwhile, Hakua is preparing food for Izumi. Hakua managed to find out where Izumi lives, and using her family’s money power, she got the room right next to Izumi’s. Every day, she cooks meals for Izumi. This makes Hakua confident that she’s “leading” among the heroines, since she spends more time with Izumi than the others. When she hears Izumi’s door open, Hakua goes out, planning to visit his room and welcome him home. But then she hears another woman’s voice coming from his room. Because the apartment walls aren’t that thick, Hakua puts her ear to the wall to listen in on what’s going on next door. She hears Meina and Nanao’s voices and totally misunderstands, thinking the three of them are doing something indecent.
★ Hakua rushes to Izumi’s room to stop them, but what she sees is Izumi eating super greasy pizza with Nanao and Meina. There’s a funny double misunderstanding here: Izumi thinks Hakua is mad because he’s eating unhealthy junk food. Hakua is actually mad because Izumi brought girls into his room. It’s really funny: Izumi apologizes because he ate junk food, while Hakua thinks he’s apologizing for bringing women over lol.
★ Hakua runs out of Izumi’s room crying because of the misunderstanding. Meina goes to Hakua’s room to calm her down and explain what really happened. Meina and Hakua’s relationship as servant and master is a secret and must never be found out by Izumi. While in Hakua’s room, we find out Meina had planned from the start to live together with Hakua and already sent her things to Hakua’s room. Meina gives Hakua advice on how to be seen more as “a woman” by Izumi. Her suggestion: Hakua should cosplay and wear a maid outfit.
★ Meina goes back to Izumi’s room, surprising him because now she’s wearing a maid outfit. When Izumi asks where Hakua is, Hakua walks in too—also wearing a maid outfit, but a different style from Meina’s. Hakua’s outfit is more like a sexy and cute cosplay-style maid, while Meina wears a more classic maid uniform. Nanao, seeing both of them dressed as maids, also wants to cosplay as a maid. The four of them end up having a mini cosplay party in Izumi’s room.
★ After the three girls leave Izumi’s room, he gets a call from his little sister about Meina’s true identity.
★ Late at night, when Meina and Nanao are already fast asleep in Hakua’s room, Hakua steps out to get some fresh air on her balcony. By chance, she runs into Izumi, who is also on his balcony. Izumi tells Hakua that he already knows Meina is someone sent by the Shiragiku family. Izumi is disappointed in Hakua for sending someone from the Shiragiku family to get close to him. His tone changes, and it sounds like he’s trying to distance himself from her. The reason Izumi is disappointed in Hakua is because he’s no longer involved with his parents’ company (Sumie Group) and doesn’t want anything to do with business matters anymore. He used to be Hakua’s fiancé; they were engaged to strengthen the bond between the two big companies, Shiragiku and Sumie. So when Hakua sends Meina to get close to Izumi, he sees it as Hakua trying to drag him into the Shiragiku Group again.
★ Hakua cries because she can’t explain that it’s all a misunderstanding. She did everything because she loves Izumi so much. She got the room next to his because she loves him. She cooks for him every day because she loves him. She made Meina approach Izumi because she loves him. But since Hakua doesn’t have the courage to confess her feelings, she can only stay silent and cry alone.
★ The next day, Hakua gives Izumi a lunchbox like usual. That day, Izumi still accepts it, but he tells her that from now on, she doesn’t need to cook for him anymore.
★ The climax happens during the school’s cultural festival. Hakua is chosen as a participant in a “fetch quest” style competition, and she’s up against Nanao. It turns out the contest has already been secretly rigged by Meina. All the slips of paper that were supposed to have random items written on them have been swapped with one phrase: “The person of the opposite sex you like.” Nanao immediately runs to Izumi to bring him to the finish line, but Hakua just freezes. Hakua is the successor of her family’s company, and there’s a chance people from the company are watching the event. If she brings the boy she likes to the finish line, it might affect her future as the company’s heir. But all her doubts disappear when she sees Nanao turning around and smiling at her. Hakua starts running toward Izumi, grabs his arm, and pulls him along. Izumi feels pain from both sides as Nanao and Hakua tug on him, and he begs them to let go. But Hakua refuses and says she won’t let go of his hand. When they finally reach the finish line, Izumi, worried about Hakua’s exhausted condition, gets surprised when Hakua suddenly shouts that she loves Izumi very much. Her love confession echoes across the entire field because the host’s mic happens to be nearby.
★ After that event, Hakua becomes more and more open in showing her feelings for Izumi. She gets clingier like Nanao—hugging him at every chance, and so on.
★ While Meina and Nanao are eating together (they’re giving Hakua some alone time with Izumi), they’re approached by Izumi’s younger sister, Kasumi. Kasumi warns Meina not to interfere in their family’s matters. Kasumi also says she can have Izumi transferred out of his current school if she wants.
Kasumi became the official heir to the family company after she managed to snatch the inheritance rights from Izumi.
There’s still no illustration of Kasumi yet.
their reactions were really funny too
