The next day, in this season of blooming cherry blossoms, Miyauchi Hikage, wearing the uniform of Toyogasaki Academy, officially became a high school student.
The class assignments had naturally been out for a while.
Miyauchi Hikage had already confirmed the student information in his class. His luck was very good.
Whether it was Aki Tomoya, Eriri, or Katō Megumi, none of them had anything to do with him.
In summary, he had been assigned to a very ordinary, true-passerby class with no role in the anime.
On the other hand, Miyauchi Hikari was in the same class as Katō Megumi and Aki Tomoya.
Thinking of the part in the plot where Aki Tomoya went to have a direct confrontation with the dean of students in order to show an anime at the school festival, Miyauchi Hikage felt that that class would definitely be very lively, even in the first year.
My dear second sister should like the atmosphere in that class very much.
Thinking this, Miyauchi Hikage, who had arrived at the entrance of his sister's apartment, gave her a call to hurry her up, and then waited at the door.
His sister was still dawdling, but the door next to hers was opened first.
A beautiful girl with blonde hair and yellow eyes appeared elegantly in front of him.
After seeing Miyauchi Hikage's appearance, this blonde beauty was slightly stunned.
Why is the girl next door wearing boys' clothes?
After a closer look, she realized that although the two looked similar, they were indeed not the same person.
Miyauchi Hikage's features were more chiseled, and his eyes were much sharper than Miyauchi Hikari's, giving him a much more heroic look.
Miyauchi Hikage greeted her politely and explained his identity.
After Shiina Mahiru learned that he was Miyauchi Hikari's younger brother, she also very politely said to please take care of her, and then gracefully said goodbye and left.
Watching her departing back, Miyauchi Hikage withdrew his Stand.
Just now, when he sensed that the door next to him was about to open, he had separated a rice-grain-sized scrap from the main body of Yellow Temperance and placed it at the corner of his mouth. If discovered, he could say it was jelly he had eaten in the morning that he hadn't noticed.
"Her breathing is normal, and she can't sense the Stand's presence. Identified as an ordinary person."
If she was an ordinary person, then he didn't have to worry about her for the time being.
It was fine to let her continue to follow her original plot. He also didn't need to worry about the female protagonist of this pure-love anime.
After a good while longer, he finally saw Miyauchi Hikari, all tidied up.
"If you're often late in the future, then your allowance will probably also be a little late."
Amidst Miyauchi Hikari's pleas for mercy, the two of them went to the nearby Toyogasaki Academy together.
"Don't talk about our family's affairs at school. If others ask about Asahigaoka, just push it all onto your sister Kaede. Absolutely do not involve me, otherwise you know the consequences," Miyauchi Hikage nagged his sister on the way.
He had originally wanted to tell his sister to be a little more low-key in class and not to be too ostentatious.
But on second thought, she was already in the same class as Aki Tomoya. How could she be more conspicuous than Aki Tomoya, a super-otaku who didn't care at all about others' opinions?
There was a reason he could be called one of the three great celebrities of the school along with Eriri and Kasumigaoka.
After arriving at the school and separating at the classroom door, Miyauchi Hikage casually found a seat by the window and sat down, then began to observe his classmates.
As expected of a crossover world, even if the class was full of passersby with no role, the average looks were much higher than in his previous life's high school.
Just like a boy sitting next to him, who from the side looked a bit like the famous prince of live-action adaptations from his past life, Yamazaki Kento.
Recalling the characters "ruined" by that actor with somewhat awkward acting skills.
Higashikata Josuke, L, Oreki Houtarou, Saiki Kusuo...
Forget it, better not to think about it, lest I can't resist giving this new classmate I don't even know a punch in the face.
Miyauchi Hikage coughed lightly, then took the initiative to greet this little Yamazaki Kento.
"Hello, I'm Miyauchi Hikage from Saitama Prefecture. Please take care of me from now on."
Hearing someone take the initiative to talk to him, little Yamazaki Kento turned his face with some surprise.
He looked much better from the front. It was just that his face was a little pale, and it seemed this new classmate's health was not very good.
"I'm Sakakibara Kōichi, from Toyama Prefecture, but I've been studying in Tokyo since I was little. Please take care of me."
"Sakakibara... Kōichi. Could you tell me how to write it in kanji?" Miyauchi Hikage said, taking out a pen and paper and first writing down his own name.
For Japanese names, it's very difficult to write the kanji if you only know the pronunciation.
Just like how Hikage and Hikari originally had the same pronunciation but were written differently.
It was only later when the two had grown up a bit that the pronunciation of their names was adjusted slightly to distinguish between the siblings.
And after Sakakibara Kōichi neatly wrote down his own name, Miyauchi Hikage took a careful look, then smiled and nodded at him, once again saying to please take care of him from now on.
Sitting back down in his seat, Miyauchi Hikage tilted his head slightly towards the window, letting others think he was admiring the blooming cherry blossom trees outside.
At the same time, his mind began to race.
Sakakibara Kōichi. This name was not common.
Actually, he had glanced at this name on the class assignment list before, but he hadn't thought about it carefully at the time.
But now, looking at the other's side profile, which was seventy percent similar to that prince of live-action adaptations, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Probably around the time of the chuunibyou incident in Kyoto, when the chuunibyou image of Takanashi Rikka with her eyepatch was very popular, another girl with a somewhat similar image, also wearing an eyepatch, had also become popular for a while.
It was just that compared to the cheerful atmosphere of the chuunibyou setting, the atmosphere on the other eyepatch girl's side was a bit more eerie.
Under Takanashi Rikka's eyepatch was a fake colored contact lens, but under that girl's eyepatch was a real "doll's eye" that could see death.
Misaki Mei, the female protagonist of the horror mystery novel Another.
And Sakakibara Kōichi was the male protagonist in that story.
In his memory, besides being adapted into an anime, Another did indeed have a live-action movie, and it was a work from when that prince of live-action adaptations had just debuted.
Is that why they look so similar?
Miyauchi Hikage recalled the plot of Another.
He remembered that in the anime, the story should have taken place when the male protagonist was in his third year of middle school, when he transferred back to his old hometown from Tokyo due to his family's work.
But obviously, the plot had already deviated a bit now. According to Sakakibara Kōichi's own words, he had been studying in Tokyo all these years.
"Is there a problem with the story itself, or has the timeline been postponed until after high school?"
He couldn't be sure for the time being.
But he would have plenty of time in the future to find out what he wanted to know from this deskmate of his.
And, he had just happened to see the name of that Takanashi Rikka in the chat group last night. Using her as a starting point to mention Misaki Mei would not seem abrupt.