Time flew by as the weekend arrived. Every student had been looking forward to Friday's arrival, as they needed to rest after an exhausting time in new environments.

  "Okay Css, it's here for today. Remember to study contents and any materials this week to prepare for your upcoming tests next week"

  "If you don't have any questions, then our css is over"

  The teacher announced.

  Several students sighed and rexed after that. Their first week was almost over but they had to prepare for the tests next week. Everyone began to do their job and prepared to leave. The css was finished at 14:30 so students could have more time to spend on club activities.

  "Sui-chan!!! The old rule, please help this inferior commoner with your top 20 of the wisdom from the Stardust Academy~"

  The aquamarine-haired girl pleaded pitifully, causing Suiri to feel powerless.

  At first, she could get the top 1 in the Academy because of the cheating from her pieces of knowledge and older mentality. However, this cheat would soon expire as her real ability was revealed to the world. That was one of the reasons she couldn't maintain her top spot position in school but achieving the position in the top 20 was already good. That was her best try to overcome her weakness. If she got the bottom at the elementary school, it would be a huge shame on fellow transmigrators.

  Leaving the crown to the Heroine Charlotte, Suiri felt quite normal. After all, her weaknesses were chemistry, physics, and mathematics. The younger generations had a better brain than her so it couldn't be helped that she fell behind. It could be said that if the world didn't have music, she would be doomed and reduced to a useless girl.

  Time passed as the title 'Genius' had been beled on Suiri faded along with the flow of time. The title that every Reincarnator achieved when they were reborn could no longer attach itself to our Heroine.

  Hoshiyuki Suiri's image now was just a girl with high grades, a good appearance, and a good talent in music.

  You could say Suiri wasn't a genius in studies but in music was another different story.

  "One set of strawberry pancakes and one cup of cappuccino...Same pce"

  Suiri said, making Aoi's mouth twitch and her eyes moist.

  "You evil!!!"

  That was right. Aoi was completely broken. Even though she was from a wealthy family, her pocket money was limited, and easily exhausted by her side hobby. Collecting figures and buying the material for art, manga, clothes, and beauty products had emptied Aoi's pocket. Because of her extravagant spending, her parents had put a threshold on her consumption.

  "Deal!"

  Despite her unwillingness, Aoi compromised while gnashing her teeth to save her bad grade. However, Suiri couldn't be bmed. There was a saying, 'If you help someone outside your family members, don't do it for free because others will take it for granted' —a profound lesson from Suiri's previous life.

  "You two will hold a group study, right? Can I have a pce?"

  At this time, Komi joined the fun. In fact, she couldn't ignore Suiri for 2 reasons. First, this girl appeared in her dream with the Goddess of her temple. Second, she believed she had the fate string connecting the two. She knew it couldn't be 'love' but a mystery role the Goddess had assigned her.

  "Ah Komi-san, we welcome but your grade..."

  Aoi made a curious face, intending to ask about Komi's grade in the previous school. This was the common etiquette when asking for others' privacy. Grade was a sensitive topic for teenagers at this age. No one was willing to be compared with each other. Not everyone was Aoi, an optimist not care about the ranking system but safe points in the test. Aoi knew that so she paused to express her question.

  "My grade is not too good or too bad but in the mid"

  Hearing this, Aoi's face bloomed with a beautiful smile, as if she found a comrade.

  "You're welcome Komicchi"

  "..."

  Aoi grinned while patted on Komi's shoulder. Meanwhile, Komi was also surprised by the speed of changing faces of the person in front of her. 'Komi-san' evolved into 'Komicchi' in no time, leaving her no room to react.

  "Woa~, you really redefine my definition of a human being, Aoi-san"

  Komi covered her mouth and spoke in an admiring tone that blended with a little bit of curiosity. This was the first time she'd witnessed such a shameless person.

  "Thank you for your compliment"

  Aoi revealed a proud smile.

  "..."

  "I'm not complimenting you"

  Komi retorted.

  "I know, I know..."

  Aoi shook her head and said. Her facial skin was thick so it wasn't a problem.

  "Not complimenting you..."

  Komi shrugged her shoulder.

  "I know"

  The two continued to bicker between 'I know' and 'Not complimenting' for a while, almost causing Suiri's ears to become callus.

  "Excuse me, I'll go to my 'Go home' club first"

  "..."

  Suiri finished her packing and went out of the cssroom. While bickering and having fun with Aoi, Komi's eyes never let Suiri's figure out of her sight. For now, her role was a little obscure without any specific purpose but being friends with Suiri would be the key. Therefore, she let this undefined retionship develop naturally.

  Anyway, Komi and Aoi was in the same club because both were hidden artists.

  Seeing Suiri walking away, the two of them also returned to their business because they knew Suiri's personality very well. Although Aoi had always joked around and acted like a clown, she never saw Suiri smiling. However, she knew Suiri very well...It was her defective feature since birth.

  Komi also learned about it for a short time.

  That was why Suishi joked that there were two Suiri. One was on the stage singing and the others were in daily life.

  --Sakura's POV--

  In Yume ni Sake club, Stardust Academy.

  I sat on the seat while looking at a group of students practicing the instruments and trying to match each other's rhythm.

  "You, wrong note! And the one pying drum, you are pying too fast!"

  I watched the supposed-to-be Viliness scolding the students on the stage. I felt helpless when watching her educating them. What about the plot? What about my 'role'? Kurabeji Meiko was the only clue that I could investigate the force behind the scene but it seems that she did live well and didn't fall for the dark side of the entertainment industry.

  Besides that, what were you stealing? Rock & Roll genre was a picky type for listeners. Profit contained high risk because not everyone's voice can fit the melody, a heavy bass, and hard metal of electric guitars. Suiri was a pseudo-idol because her rock blended with many types such as jazz, rock, pop, and even old pop of Japanese. As long as you hear the melody, you will know who created them.

  It was so unique that those disliking rock could give her their ears.

  I, a capitalist in my previous life, also knew this basic truth. If you wanted to steal her children, it wouldn't be different from shooting yourself in the foot.

  "Hey, you Pepper, you want to sck off again!"

  Meiko suddenly turned to me and gave me a harsh scold. I didn't know if I could call this girl's racist when calling me Pepper. I admit that crimson hair was very popur in 2D anime. After all, a heavy ecchi anime like Demon X Dragon also has a crimson-haired heroine.

  "Sorry, senpai, I'm practicing, practicing"

  I pretended to press my hands and strike down a clumsy technique on the guitar that every non-guitarist would do to their guitar.

  After reincarnating, I didn't touch the musical instrument so it couldn't be helped. Except for piano, I was really clueless about other instruments.

  "Ouch, it hurt"

  I retreated my hand and saw a swollen but bloody hand. The sharpness of the strings of a guitar was no joke...While thinking too much, I got careless this time.

  "Are you okay? I told you to be careful"

  Meiko grabbed my hand and took out a bandage with a childish icon to wrap my finger. Heh~ So pure. Unfortunately, I couldn't erase the image of you sleeping with multiple alpha at all. I hated Netorare but I loved Netori, damn.

  Don't misunderstand. I still had my moral ethics and I wouldn't do something like the blond-haired boy in those doujinshis.

  "Thank you, Meiko-senpai"

  I let out a polite smile.

  With that, Meiko no longer paid attention to me. She stepped away and looked for Miwako-senpai, a.k.a, Suiri's manager in name. Even though our distance was quite far, my ear could still pick up their conversation.

  "Miwako-senpai, are you busy?"

  Meiko spoke softly.

  "Um...Yes and No. Suiri's album hasn't been on sale yet but many great artists have sent emails to borrow the copyright to do a cover..."

  As expected of the heroine of this world...This Sunday would be the official stream announcing the album. Pgiarism and Time Thief would be released on social media for free.

  The Heroine, Hanayama Nagisha, was eavesdropping them behind. Even though she showed a not caring attitude, her face and ears betrayed her completely. I felt pity for her. In the original plot, Nagisha fell in love with the same sex but her love would never come true. After all, they were in the high-css circle.

  Anyway, if she learned I would date Suiri tomorrow, my third reincarnation would come to me.

  As for what we would date, I would try to test the water first. My favorite pce between me and 'him'...

  Ah...I lost my motivation again.

  *sigh*

  "Woah, those Suishi has pced order in just a matter of a second. The third patch of the album has been sold out"

  Miwako said in an amazement tone.

  'Suishi, huh?' I murmured in my head. This nickname in this world was joked and set because of Suiri and Sushi. However, they didn't even know the deep meaning behind it. As a transmigrator knowing about this world, Suishi was a punning word between Sui 'water' and Shi 'death'. For short, it meant drowning.

  It represented the cause of the death of my teacher.

  Sui-chan must've gone home and had a date with the former heroine Charlotte. I didn't know what they were doing now?...

  --Suiri's POV--

  "Sui-chan, this is the heart rate instrument measure!!!"

  I looked at the idiot blond-haired girl taking out the heart race instrument from nowhere.

  "Don't tell me love can be shown by human technology?"

  Covering my face helplessly, I couldn't come up with a word to say to her.

  "That's right!"

  "..."

  Charlotte smugly raised her nose high to the sky.

  "According to rom-com manga, heartbeat is a signal when it comes to love"

  She expined patiently.

  "You watch too much manga"

  I retorted.

  "Hmm...It's too difficult. As we know, love is mutual from both sides. For now, the love between us is the one-side way"

  Charlotte showed a depressed expression.

  I nodded as I understood this basic common sense.

  For a while, Charlotte spoke up and stared at me nervously.

  "Sui-chan, then how about asking your other personality?"

  "After all, our love can be a triangle...with her existence..."

  Her next question froze me completely, stabbing to the sore spot hidden in my heart. My gaze went down...

  "Did you two have a conflict?"

  She asked but I didn't want to answer.

  "If you don't want to answer, it's okay. Don't switch to her and stab me...Hahaha~"

  Charlotte smiled awkwardly and scratched her head. Joking aside, her eyes kept staring at me as if she was afraid that Hyouri would switch pce with me. Returning to my senses, this girl was the only one discovering Hyouri...She knew my cowardness, she knew the coldness and overprotectiveness of Hyouri, and she knew my dislikeness and likeness.

  I only knew Charlotte through the string of words in the novel but didn't looked at her in front of me. Because of the arrogance of the transmigrator, I never let myself look at the girl in front of me carefully.

  It seemed I knew nothing about her...

  "Shinonawa Charlotte"

  My mouth subconsciously betrayed my thoughts.

  "Yes?"

  She immediately replied.

  "Do you love me that much?"

  Realizing that I had called her, I sulkingly asked but didn't look at her gaze.

  "Yes, I love you"

  She said it without hesitation.

  "It's so unfair..."

  How can the girl in front of me say that so easily!? Remembering my previous life, I didn't have a gut to confess to Erika...

  "..."

  "*Sigh* What do you think of Sakura, Sui-chan?"

  Charlotte suddenly raised a question to break this awkward silence.

  What did I think of her? A f*tanari that only existed in Doujinshi. Beautiful appearance, excellent talent, good at communicating...She was like a male protagonist walking out of a Shoujo manga. Moreover, she had a familiar feeling that I had forgotten...

  "She's a good girl"

  "An innocent girl being dragged into this mess by my indecisiveness"

  I replied vaguely.

  "Is that so?"

  Charlotte spoke while leaning on the wall behind her.

  "What is love?"

  I murmured. Of course, I knew what it was according to many preferences but what about my love?

  "Charlotte..."

  I called her name.

  "Fuehe?"

  Charlotte suddenly jumped up in surprise and her face turned bright red. Eh? Was she embarrassed? Just by calling her name, I could see a red tomato in front of me. I felt so marvelous as if I was in the 2D animation.

  Real people wouldn't have such a reaction...

  "You idiot! I knew what you were thinking. That was because I love you"

  Charlotte covered her face and said while not recognizing her position as an Alpha.

  So cute~

  I couldn't help but feel a refreshing feeling coming to my heart.

  Suiri, you had run away enough...It was time for you to look at the current life. The girl in front of you wasn't a heroine licking the male protagonist at all costs but an Alpha girl was in love with the Omega named Hoshiyuki Suiri...

  She was the heroine of your story, Suiri.

  I said to myself.

  Suiri, move on...You were the heroine of your story...You didn't reject her immediately because you had her in your heart. You just found an excuse not to face this feeling. The feeling named 'Love'...It was time for you to face it, Suiri.

  What was viliness? Stop this Chunibiyou disease!

  "Charlotte"

  I called her name once again.

  "Yes, Sui-chan..."

  Charlotte was at a loss because of my behavior. However, I muttered up my courage to face it. The girl that dragged me out of my comfort zone and forced me to face reality...Facing the deep yearning buried in my heart.

  "Can I hug you?"

  I requested.

  "Umn...Okay, don't stab me okay?"

  Charlotte instantly acted like a coward.

  "???"

  In an instant, all the mood that Suiri had built up shattered...crumbly

  "Idiot!"

  I couldn't help but curse. My body moved on its own as my embrace tried to cover the blond girl in front of me.

  For some reason, I felt so safe and sound. Her smell and pheromone were so pleasant that my negative emotions easily subsided. I didn't know how long we kept this posture but my eyes gradually shut down as my body colpsed on Charlotte's body.

  Everything went dark but I didn't get afraid. This feeling was so comfortable...

  Through the gap in Suiri's room, a pair of emerald eyes flickered but didn't show any disappointment. Instead of that, she felt pleasant and blessed at the same time. Sakura had gone home and watched over them for a few minutes. She was originally not an idiot. She had high EQs so she could tell at a gnce that Suiri had fallen for Charlotte.

  If it weren't for the sake of the plot, she wouldn't act as a hindrance in front of the two of them.

  From the moment Sakura heard that Suiri didn't reject Charlotte immediately, she had known the result.

  It was just that it went too fast. She seemed to be a catalyst for their love but she felt proud.

  Her expression was like a mother watching her children grow up.

  "Suiri, Congratution"

  Sakura murmured.

  But...Who could tell her why she felt so empty?

  Sakura had a question in her heart.

  She remembered him...She wanted to be with him...But her love never came true just like the heroine Nagisha of this game...

  "Sensei, where are you?"