Confession After School, On the Rooftop: Kurami Kagura's Harem Student Council
Spring, and the cherry blossoms are in full bloom. Kurami Kagura, a new student at Iris Private Academy, decides to run for student council president for the simplest of reasons: to have the authority to call his crush out to the school rooftop and confess his love. His oddball election speech unexpectedly goes viral, catching the attention of the school's three most beautiful girls.
The first to approach him is Shion Amakawa, the school's untouchable queen. She is perfect in every way... excep
Confession After School, On the Rooftop: Kurami Kagura's Harem Student Council - Game Addiction Alert! The Day the Sharp-Tongued Otaku's Heart Glitched!
A mid-May after-school.
The multipurpose room was thick with stuffy heat. About fifty students were glued to the monitors set up along the walls.
"The finals are next, they said!"
"It's Tsuyuri-san, right? The favorite to win."
Amid the buzzing chatter, Kurou Kagura tilted his head.
(*A game tournament... gets this heated, huh.*)
It had started during lunch break today, when Kanata spoke to him in the classroom. *"I want you to come to club as our manager, but there's a game tournament today, so you can totally slack off!"* Hearing that, he'd entered on a whim.
And as he kept winning match after match, somehow he'd ended up in the finals.
The girl sitting next to Kagura gripped her controller without saying a single word.
Tsuyuri Nazuna.
A petite second-year, her right eye hidden by her bangs. Kagura had seen her a few times, always deep in the library reading game strategy guides. Only her left eye, glowing a deep reddish-purple, was fixed intently on the monitor.
"Why are *you* here?"
Nazuna spoke without so much as a glance at Kagura.
"Huh? What do you mean, why... I won my way here."
"Excuse me? You're not in my data. A gamer like you, at this school."
Nazuna's voice was sarcastic, with a slight edge to it.
"I wouldn't call myself a gamer. I just used to play with friends in middle school, betting cans of coffee."
"...Cans of coffee."
Nazuna looked at Kagura's face for the first time. Through the gap in her bangs, her left eye had widened slightly.
"Whatever. It'll be over fast anyway. Let's see what you've got, yeah?"
With that, she turned back to the front.
The match-start buzzer sounded.
The game was a one-on-one fighter.
Nazuna's play was flawless. No wasted movement.
First, she kept a safe distance. Then, she deliberately left an opening. The plan was to wait for Kagura to jump in, then drag him into the trap she'd set. Her signature winning pattern, honed through countless online tournament victories.
But.
"Huh?"
Kagura didn't notice the trap at all.
He just charged straight in.
He walked right past the spot where Nazuna's character had set the trap.
(*What? Why?*)
Nazuna's fingers froze for a split second. On the monitor, Kagura's character was already bearing down on hers.
"No way."
Just like that, half of Nazuna's health bar vanished.
"Hey, what was that?! Why would you charge in there?! Didn't you see the trap?!"
"Wait, trap? That was a trap?"
Nazuna was speechless.
And as if to add insult to injury, Kagura mashed buttons at random. By sheer coincidence, it made him narrowly dodge the ambush Nazuna had been about to spring next.
Coincidence, piling on coincidence.
Unable to read the room, unable to see through traps, just attacking in a relentless, raging torrent — Kagura's playstyle completely threw Nazuna off her rhythm.
"Wha— what *is* this?! It's a bug! There's no way this is real!"
Two minutes after the match began.
Nazuna's character was sent flying by a single blow from Kagura.
"It's over! Winner: Kurou Kagura!"
The gymnasium erupted.
Nazuna dropped her controller.
*Clatter.*
The tiny sound lingered strangely in the ear.
"...This is..."
She stayed slumped forward, motionless for a while. Her bangs hid her face. But her hands were trembling, faintly.
"Hey, you okay?"
When Kagura called out to her, Nazuna shot to her feet.
"What are you, some kind of bugged character?! I don't accept this! This isn't even a game!"
She spat that out and fled from the multipurpose room.
Kagura just stared blankly.
(*She's mad? But...*)
The glimpse he'd caught of her face as she left hadn't looked angry so much as on the verge of tears.
---
The next day, after school.
Outside, it was pouring rain.
Kagura was in the library on the second floor of the main building. He was there to finish sorting student council paperwork. Looking for a quiet place, he'd taken a seat in the self-study corner deep in the library, just as Vice President Sakuma had suggested.
Only the sound of rain echoed through the hushed room.
As he looked over the documents, he heard a small *thump*.
Someone was there, in the gap between the bookshelves further in.
A girl was reading in the corner of the library, her right eye hidden by her bangs.
Tsuyuri Nazuna.
(*Ah, the girl from yesterday.*)
Kagura raised a hand.
"Yo."
Nazuna didn't answer. But she looked up and glared at him. Only her left eye fixed on Kagura, sullen.
"...You came back."
"Yeah. President stuff. It's quiet here, so I ended up staying."
"Huh. You don't actually think *that* yesterday was skill, do you? Tell me you don't."
Nazuna closed her book and stood up.
"That was a bug. An accident. A whim of the gaming goddess. In my data, there isn't a single factor that says I lose to you. So we're doing this again. Right here, right now. Let me have my revenge."
She spoke in a rush, barely pausing for breath.
That was when it happened.
A gust of wind howled.
Rain blew in through the open window. The strong wind sent the curtains flying, and swept Nazuna's black hair back all at once.
"Ah—!"
Nazuna instinctively covered her face with her hands.
But it was too late.
Her right eye — the one always hidden by her bangs — was completely exposed.
The same shape as her left eye.
But its color was...
A clear, translucent gold.
Bathed in the light of the setting sun, the golden eye reflected the raindrops, glittering and sparkling.
"D-Don't look!!"
Nazuna's voice was almost a scream.
As she flailed her hands, the stack of books on the desk crashed to the floor. The impact knocked several more from the shelf.
*Thud, thud, thud-thud.*
The smell of old paper rose into the air.
"...Don't look. Please. If you're going to say it's gross, just say it now. Then I'll go back to playing games alone, with no one to bother with me."
Nazuna desperately hid her right eye with her right hand, head down, trembling violently. Her voice was crying, but her tone alone was putting up a front.
She remembered the words from before.
Words a boy in her elementary school class had said to her. *"That eye's creepy, like a monster."* Ever since, she'd kept her right eye hidden behind her bangs. If people saw it, she thought, they'd throw those words at her again. She'd always believed that.
Kagura silently grabbed her wrist.
"Wh-What are you... Let go..."
Nazuna's voice was faint as she tried to pull away.
Kagura didn't let go. He gently moved her hiding hand aside and stared intently at the exposed golden right eye.
Nazuna's body went rigid.
Waiting for the next words.
"Whoa. It's really pretty. Like a jewel."
Nazuna's left eye flew wide open.
"...Huh?"
"Why do you hide it? What a waste."
There was no calculation in Kagura's voice. No pity. Just a natural, honest reaction — he simply meant what he said.
Nazuna's mind went completely blank.
Game theory, data from strategy sites, all her thoughts of analyzing him — they crumbled away with an audible crash.
Because it was the first time in her life.
The first time anyone had called that eye "pretty."
"A-Are you stupid...?! What part of this is pretty...?!"
Her face flushed bright red, all the way down her neck.
She tried to snap back with more venom, but couldn't find the words, her mouth opening and closing uselessly.
Her heart was pounding too loudly. She couldn't even tell what was what anymore.
The version of herself that had been trying to conquer him had completely bugged out.
"R-Right now! Come to my place!"
She shouted, grabbed Kagura's arm, and burst out of the library.
"Wha— Hey, hold on!"
She marched on through the rain.
Without even an umbrella.
Her bangs were still swept back.
Her golden right eye, bathed in raindrops, was glistening.
---
Swept along by Nazuna's momentum, Kagura arrived at her apartment.
A fifteen-minute walk from the school. A six-story building near the station.
"Whoa..."
Entering the room, Kagura couldn't help but exclaim.
In a room about six tatami mats in size, two large gaming monitors. A glowing keyboard. Three of the latest consoles, and stacks of games piled like mountains. On the wall hung championship shields from online tournaments.
"This is amazing! This game's only been out a week. You already have it?"
"I-It's not like... I don't just play games all the time, okay."
Nazuna spoke curtly as she dried her wet hair with a towel. Her bangs were down again. But the tips of her ears were bright red.
"Sit. I'll show you a real game now. This time, 'a bug' won't cut it."
She handed Kagura a controller and immediately started a match.
This time, it was completely different.
Nazuna didn't hold back a single bit. Kagura's character was beaten down again and again.
"There! Why aren't you guarding?! Did you seriously win yesterday?!"
"B-But there are so many buttons!"
"Excuse me? And you made it to the finals with that? That move just now — you didn't pull off a single combo. That's literally the first thing they teach you in the tutorial."
Nazuna's tongue was sharp, but her hands never stopped.
Every time Kagura messed up, she'd demonstrate: "Here, you do it like this."
Over and over.
Because he kept trying without giving up.
Three hours had passed.
"Want a cookie?"
Nazuna suddenly held out a small plate.
Heart-shaped cookies were lined up on it. They looked a little clumsy, but they smelled good.
"Huh? Can I?"
"I just happened to have leftover ingredients. It's not like I made them because you were coming over or anything."
She said it while turning her face away.
(*She secretly baked them before I got here.*)
Kagura stuffed a cookie into his mouth.
"This is amazing! Seriously, so good!"
"I'm not happy just because *you* complimented me. The taste and the looks still have plenty of room for improvement. ...But, well. That's not so bad, I guess."
Nazuna looked down, as if to hide her face.
Her ears were bright red.
Kagura laughed.
(*Sharp tongue, but she's a good person.*)
Teaching him the game. Giving him cookies.
Her mouth was always full of complaints, but her hands were always kind.
He'd gained another important friend.
That's what he thought.
---
It was past nine at night.
"I should head home. Thanks for today. I had fun."
As he was putting on his shoes at the door, Kagura's phone buzzed.
*Bzzzt. Bzzzt.*
Two notifications in a row.
Looking at the screen, it was a message from Hayami Kanata.
*"Kagura-kun, where are you now? You're not going to tell me you're slacking off on manager work to hang out at some girl's place, right? lol"*
The next moment, another one.
From Amakawa Shion.
*"Come to the student council room immediately. That's an order. ...Where did you go by yourself, you huge idiot."*
Almost at the exact same time.
(*...How do they know?*)
From behind him, Nazuna was peeking at the screen.
"Is your popularity stat bugged or something? Getting messages from two girls at once — what are the odds?"
Nazuna's tone was exasperated.
But her face was gradually turning red.
(*...Wait. Am I not one of them right now, too?*)
Dragging Kagura to her place, playing games, feeding him cookies.
Wasn't this exactly what she was doing, too?
"............"
Nazuna took a step back.
"Everyone's such a worrywart. Maybe because I had my phone turned off? I'll reply for now. See ya, Nazuna. Let's play again sometime!"
With a perfectly natural, innocent smile, Kagura waved and left.
The front door closed.
Nazuna slumped to the floor right there.
Leaning against the wall, she sank down with a soft thud.
Her heart was pounding painfully hard.
The room where, just moments ago, Kagura had been, the two of them laughing together.
She could still faintly smell him, or so it seemed.
"I'm seriously in love... This is a bug. It has to be."
She covered her face with both hands.
Through the gaps in her fingers, her golden right eye peeked out.
For now, it was a voice no one else co
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