But Hikari had a photographic memory, and his powers of observation were quite sharp too.
So it didn't take him long to lock onto one girl, the one sitting by the window in the second row from the back.
She was a girl with low twin-tails.
She had a clean, cute face, and her features were actually rather delicate.
Her big, watery eyes in particular looked lively and bright, hiding some inexplicable spark.
But right now they happened to have no luster at all, so she looked a bit like she had dead-fish eyes and a dead-fish face.
Her wispy bangs were pinned back with a pink X-shaped hairclip, and the stray strands lay obediently against her fair temple.
The twin-tails hanging over her shoulders were tied with hair ties in the same color family.
Two tiny bells were attached to the ties.
Judging by either her looks or the way she dressed, she was actually a pretty cute girl.
But Hikari didn't have much of an impression of her.
That was because this twin-tailed girl almost never spoke in class and didn't seem to have made friends with anyone. She was a genuine outcast.
And yet this outcast girl was an online streamer.
Even more, there was a good chance she'd become a top streamer in the future.
Going by those equally beautiful, lively big eyes, Hikari was basically certain that this twin-tailed girl was the 'Little Yuzu' from online.
An outcast in the class who was secretly a future top streamer. What a gap.
"Come to think of it, what was her name again? I think it was... Nonohara Yuzuka?"
The twin-tailed girl was so low-key and so lacking in presence on a normal day that Hikari had to think for a while before he remembered her name.
And right then, Nonohara Yuzuka seemed to notice the gaze.
She'd been zoning out, but she suddenly turned her head and glanced over toward Hikari.
When she saw that Hikari seemed to be looking her way too, a flicker of reflexive shying away crossed her big eyes, the kind that comes from being watched.
She hurriedly turned her head straight again, looked to the front, and didn't dare to look any more.
Soon she was back to her usual blank, vacant look.
"Being this nervous and shy, compared to being a big-name camgirl... that's some gap, all right..."
Hikari sighed inwardly. Now that he'd confirmed her identity, he didn't look any more and quickly withdrew his gaze.
By now he roughly remembered the story of Nonohara Yuzuka, the heroine of the Underworld.
He also roughly knew her personality: introverted and socially anxious in real life, but cutting loose online, and very likely to become a big-time influencer in the future.
Not long after that little interlude of crossed gazes, the bell for the end of class rang.
As the teacher left the classroom, the class quickly turned into a mess.
Shiina Chizuru, along with Hamazaki Reina, Kurumizaka Ruri and the other gyarus, all gathered around Hikari. They probably took his gaze during class as some kind of hint.
Meanwhile, the other familiar boys and girls formed their own little groups and huddled together to chat.
While everyone was chatting away noisily, Nonohara Yuzuka by the window sat all by herself, staring out the window with empty eyes, looking lonely.
Nonohara Yuzuka had long since gotten used to this.
After all, her grades were below average, she had no special talents, and she had very few hobbies.
On top of that, she was introverted and had almost no friends, so she'd always been a transparent person on the edge of the class.
The only thing she was interested in was probably just entertaining herself.
Especially at night, when her mom was working overtime and she was home alone, that was often her best chance to show off her skills.
And before she entertained herself, she also liked to put on a mask and do an ASMR stream without showing her face.
She enjoyed the feeling of being fawned over, which she could never get in real life.
It also added a bit of fun to entertaining herself.
She'd even boldly thought about whether she should just stream while she was entertaining herself too...
"Hahaha!"
Just then, the girls nearby seemed to have gotten onto something funny and burst out laughing together, completely cutting off Nonohara Yuzuka's wandering thoughts.
She turned to look, her brows knitting slightly, but she quickly looked away, silently lowered her head, and said nothing.
After all, it was break time. It was perfectly normal for other people to talk or laugh out loud.
She was the one sitting there all alone, and that was the 'abnormal' side.
So she had no standing at all to blame them.
But she still felt a little uncomfortable.
Every time she was at school and saw the youth overflowing from her classmates as they talked, it hurt her eyes, like a little mouse.
Seeing those boys and girls gathered together chatting made her feel uneasy.
She worked hard to press that timid, self-conscious feeling back down inside.
Nonohara Yuzuka went on letting her mind wander at random.
'The new electric toy should've been delivered to the parcel locker by now. I want to go home and play with it soooon.'
'If I did an unboxing stream, the chat would definitely get flooded with "Wifey is so good at shopping."'
'It's definitely going to feel amazing...'