Chapter 410: Secretary Chika Has Joined the Dimensional Chat Group
The moment Kaguya used her invitation, back in the world of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, inside Shuchiin Academy —
In the Student Council office, a girl with pale pink hair sat slumped over her desk, thoroughly, comprehensively bored — close enough to just writing "I'm so bored" directly on her own face and calling it done.
She glanced up half-heartedly at the phone lying beside her, checking the time and date on the screen.
Letting out a quiet, wistful sigh, she murmured to herself, "Why has Kaguya-chan been taking off so much lately... it's been ten whole days since I've seen her. Feels like every few days now, she's asking for another one off."
She glanced over at Student Council President Shirogane Miyuki, buried in work, and then at Treasurer Ishigami Yu, sitting on the couch, calculator in hand, crunching numbers on something.
Somehow, with Kaguya gone, the whole Student Council just felt like it was missing its main source of fun.
And with everyone else in the room being a guy besides herself, there was a faint, nagging sense of unease she couldn't quite shake.
Chika sighed again. Sure, she didn't have much actual work to do today, but nothing about her mood felt like picking up any energy regardless.
She'd only joined the Student Council in the first place to stick alongside Kaguya, after all — and with Kaguya gone this much lately, Chika had already started feeling a vague pull toward just quitting entirely.
Just as she lay there, thoroughly bored, idly fiddling with her phone —
Two lines of text abruptly surfaced in her mind:
[Dimensional Chat Group member "Kaguya-sama" invites you to join the Dimensional Chat Group. Accept? Yes/No]
"Eh?!"
Chika jolted upright as though someone had dumped a bucket of ice water over her head, her slouched posture snapping instantly straight.
Genuine bewilderment flashed across her pretty features — she could hardly believe two random lines of bizarre text had just materialized inside her own head.
A hallucination?
A dream?
Chika quietly pinched her own thigh, hard — hard enough that her eyelids twitched from the sting.
It hurt!
Which meant it wasn't a hallucination. Wasn't a dream, either.
Dimensional Chat Group member "Kaguya-sama"... what did that even mean?
Chika knew perfectly well what a "chat group" was. But what on earth was a Dimensional Chat Group?
And "Kaguya-sama"? What did that even refer to?
Kaguya-sama...
Kaguya...
Kaguya-chan?
Hm... couldn't be right, surely. Sure, Kaguya-chan was also, technically, the heiress of the Shinomiya conglomerate, but why would she be the one putting strange messages straight into Chika's own head?
While Chika sat there, thoroughly unsettled, Council President Shirogane apparently noticed something was off with her expression.
He set his work aside and asked, curious, "Fujiwara-san? Everything okay?"
The sudden question snapped Chika back to attention. Hastily masking her own confusion, she flashed an awkward but polite smile. "N-nothing's wrong, don't mind me — you two carry on. I'll just, um, go to the restroom for a second."
Playing it off as nothing, she genuinely did head for the restroom, ducking into an empty stall and locking the door behind her.
She looked down at her touchscreen phone — right as she'd stepped out of the office, a new text message had apparently come in. Seeing the sender's name, Chika froze. "Eh... a text from Kaguya-chan?"
Curious, she tapped it open. Only a few words inside — and those few words left her genuinely stunned.
The message read simply: "Just accept it."
"Wha— hold on a second! Kaguya-chan wants me to 'accept' something — could that be about the strange invitation message in my head? How did she even do that? Was that message actually something Kaguya-chan sent me?"
Something was genuinely, deeply strange going on now. Did the message in her head have something to do with Kaguya after all?
Seemed like it, honestly.
If this really was some kind of invitation Kaguya had somehow sent her through unknown means, accepting it probably wasn't a problem — there was no way Kaguya would ever put her in harm's way.
Taking a deep breath, Chika tentatively selected "Yes."
In that instant, something strange settled into her own mind, some new presence taking hold.
The sensation lasted barely a second before fading away entirely.
[Congratulations, you have successfully joined the Dimensional Chat Group. As a member, you should choose a memorable chat handle for yourself.]
A handle?
She had to pick one herself?
Was this some kind of cutting-edge black-tech gadget the Shinomiya conglomerate had cooked up recently?
Chika tentatively set her handle to "Secretary Chika."
An instant later, an entire chat interface unfolded before her mind's eye.
She could even see a whole crowd of members with genuinely bizarre handles, apparently chatting away in real time.
Things like "Eternally Seventeen," "Edward Newgate," "Wandering Little Planet," "Hero for Fun," "Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit"...
And then she spotted what looked suspiciously like a matched couple's set of handles —
"Roar of the Evil Dragon" and "RawrSoFierce."
Those two practically belonged together, didn't they?
Total shipping-worthy vibes, right there.
[Ding! "Secretary Chika" has joined the Dimensional Chat Group!]
Crazy Diamond: Ooh? Newcomer just joined! Was this one Admin-sama's pick, or Kaguya's? "Secretary"... hm, this couldn't be some kind of government official, could it?
Edward Newgate: Gurararara, I'll bet one Berry this one's little Kaguya's pick.
RawrSoFierce: I'll bet two Berries our newcomer's definitely Kaguya's pick!
Eternally Seventeen: Welcome, newcomer! You're looking at the undisputed queen of this group's female roster right here — go ahead and memorize this face, a fresh seventeen years young.
RawrSoFierce: And there's our shameless youkai sage, consistent as ever.
Crazy Diamond: Admin-sama, talking about Yukari-senpai like that — you sure you're not kneeling on durians tonight for it?
My True Form Is Cola: Pfft, kneeling on durians, sure — though with Admin-sama's constitution, he could probably kneel in lava and walk away just fine.
Kaguya-sama: Yep, this one's my pick! @Secretary Chika, Chika-san!
Secretary Chika: Huh... eh? Is "Kaguya-sama" actually Kaguya-chan?
Kaguya-sama: Sure is, that's me! Welcome to the Dimensional Chat Group!
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