At Himegasaki Academy, there exists a pair of sisters with tremendous popularity and influence.
Their name is the Hikawa sisters. The most famous sisters at the academy, and sisters who are called the strongest in various ways.
Himegasaki Academy General Election, Sixth Place – Hikawa Arisa.
The elder of the strongest sisters, and undoubtedly the academy’s strongest existence.
Her nickname is “Ice Queen.” As usual, don’t bother pointing out the contradiction of a princess being called a queen. That’s just how it is.
Incidentally, until last year she was called “Ice Princess.” It was changed to queen this year.
The reason for the change wasn’t because she moved up a grade. It’s because her younger sister enrolled. She’s another frighteningly beautiful girl, and it’s still fresh in memory how the entire academy went wild about the birth of a gorgeous sister duo of ultimate justice.
The younger sister is also a princess, and she inherited the title that had been used until last year.
The younger Hikawa is the only princess among the underclassmen, the rival my foolish sister most views as competition, the girl boasting overwhelming popularity among this year’s freshmen, and the princess I need to target next.
“The queen had her usual intimidating presence, huh?”
Kazama muttered wearily.
“Tell me about it. My heart’s still pounding.”
“Scaredy-cat.”
“Shut up. Anyone would be scared.”
“Well, true. Up close, she was really intense. I felt this pressure like I was facing a real queen. It’s a weird sensation because she’s so scary but her face is so beautiful I couldn’t look away.”
The word “beautiful” suits Hikawa Arisa perfectly.
She’s always sharp and truly beautiful and lovely.
Shiranui also has well-arranged features, but Shiranui gives off a stronger impression of being a handsome woman. Probably because of her hairstyle too.
In contrast, Hikawa Arisa is an orthodox beauty. Well-arranged features, a straight nose bridge, smooth semi-long hair. Her height is also above average, and her slender limbs are very attractive. She gives the impression of a model.
If I had to point out one unfortunate aspect, it would be that her chest is a bit of a flatland.
“Even from your perspective, Kazama, she’s still beautiful?”
“Obviously. She’s on another level.”
“Another level, huh?”
“As a fellow woman, I don’t want to be compared to her. Like, what she was born with is different, she’s a complete monster. Her facial deviation value is in another dimension, her brain is different, and on top of that her family is wealthy. And yet she’s also good at sports. She’s the type who was born with things that you could never catch up to through effort alone.”
For even Kazama to say this much.
But the frightening thing is it’s not an exaggeration at all.
Hikawa is one corner of the “Big Three” our academy boasts. Since last year, she’s captivated many students as a cool beauty.
Currently, she serves as our school’s student council president and ranks first in her grade. By the way, she’s been top in grades since last year. She’s also the daughter of a certain nationally famous company.
“Does Kanbara-kun like the Hikawa-san type?”
“There’s no way someone like her would pay attention to me.”
“Isn’t your self-assessment too low?”
“That’s not the point. We’re talking about that Hikawa.”
With specs like that, countless male students have confessed to her.
The result? Total annihilation. It was such an overwhelming defeat that it couldn’t even be called a battle. Apparently, among the guys who confessed, some had their mentals break so badly they were devastated.
Hikawa treats everyone coldly. She shows no interest in others. I’ve never seen her walking with friends. Truly a solitary queen. The only exception would be her younger sister, whom she commutes to and from school with.
“Well, Hikawa-san is certainly too amazing. Even after directing support to her sister, she’s still super popular.”
“Directed support?”
“Huh, you didn’t know, Kanbara-kun?”
Kazama blinked as if she couldn’t believe it.
“Tell me the details.”
“Hikawa-san told the people who supported her. That she’d be happy if they voted for her sister in the general election. People around her were apparently surprised. It was the first time she’d made a statement related to the election.”
This was news to me.
Last year, Hikawa won second place in the first election after enrolling. She maintained that ranking all of last year.
However, in this year’s first election, her ranking dropped to sixth place.
I had thought her votes were stolen by her sister, but she actually asked people to gather votes for her sister herself? That makes sense why the votes shifted so dramatically.
It makes sense, but the reason is a mystery. I don’t understand why she’d go out of her way to call for votes for her sister.
Hikawa seemed uninterested in being a princess. Probably, she actually isn’t interested. Being a princess is just a title within the academy, and it doesn’t give you an advantage for advancing to higher education. In the first place, for someone who is student council president, ranks first in her grade, and is a company president’s daughter, she doesn’t need any more added value.
Maybe she disliked being in the spotlight?
That’s also impossible. She’s already in the spotlight just by being student council president. Since she ran for student council president, it’s not like she’s bad with attention.
“Do you know the reason?”
“Not at all. I’ve never even talked to the queen.”
Even the sociable Kazama doesn’t know.
“What about Hikawa’s sister? Maybe the sister wanted to be a princess?”
“I haven’t talked to her, but I don’t think so.”
“Why do you think that?”
“She’s apparently a similar type to Hikawa-san. She has an intimidating aura and gives everyone the cold shoulder—or rather, an ice shoulder.”
This is the first time I’ve heard the term “ice treatment.”
“That’s how uninterested she is in others. I happened to see her once, and she completely ignored a kid who desperately tried to talk to her. I have no idea what that sister duo is thinking.”
The rumors I heard are the same.
The younger sister is also uninterested in others, and her treatment is as cold as ice. And like her sister, she’s also an honor student ranking first in her grade.
“…”
From what I’ve heard so far, this is hopeless.
Even if I could make contact, I doubt I’d find an opening. She’s probably not into VTubers either.
Before that, I don’t even feel like I can make contact.
Classmate Kazama Yukina, middle school friend Tsuchiya Misuzu, Tsuchiya’s best friend Shiranui Tsubasa—they all had connections with me, however slight. It wasn’t like there was zero connection at all.
The Hikawa sisters are different. The older sister is in the same grade, but we’ve been in different classes both last year and this year. We don’t even have mutual friends.
The younger sister is even more impossible.
Like her sister, there’s absolutely zero connection, and we’re in different grades. She’s Ayane’s classmate, but that’s it. Ayane isn’t friends with Hikawa’s sister either.
The road ahead is far too difficult.
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“Alright, let’s connect.”
After finishing dinner and returning to my room, I sat down in my beloved gaming chair. With practiced movements, I booted up my computer and launched a certain game.
Utopia Online.
A multi-platform MMORPG playable on both PC and smartphone. It was a huge hit a few years ago but has cooled down now.
I got hooked on this game around the time I graduated from middle school.
The game’s selling point is its high degree of freedom. Besides hunting, you can build houses, cultivate fields, cook, fish, and even collect insects—a wide variety of playstyles are possible.
That’s not all. This game has a marriage function. There are special skills that only married couples can use, and some people get married for the sake of those skills.
[Ah, it’s Darling!]
When I logged in, a chat message flew to me within seconds.
[Good evening, Nonnon.]
I’m married in this game.
My wife’s name is Nonnon. By the way, my character name is Valhalla.
My meeting with her was cliché—I helped Nonnon when she was in a pinch while hunting solo. At the time, she was a beginner who didn’t even know how to fight properly. We became friends from that, and it led to us wanting to try out the marriage skill, so we got married.
[You seemed busy recently, but did you find some time?]
I’d had less time to play the game since I started pursuing princesses.
[Yeah. Let’s go hunting.]
[You’re so fired up. Alright, I’ll be right there, so stay put.]
Before long, Nonnon arrived.
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