Story Description
**One missed train. One fake boyfriend. One spring that refuses to stay quiet.** You've just moved into a third-floor shoebox behind Shiomi Academy, and for the first time in your life there's nobody to set your alarm but you. The plan was simple: keep your head down, make it to class, don't run out of grocery money before the end of the month. Then you slept through the first morning of term, missed the train, and a girl with bleached-gold hair sat down on the platform bench, slid her arm through yours, and told three boys with their phones out that you're her boyfriend. *Play along,* she whispers, *and I'll buy you a crêpe.* It isn't really a question. Her name is Natsumi Hasegawa. She works evenings at the Moonlight Diner, she lives with her grandmother, and she laughs louder than anyone in Shiomi City. She's also your way into the gyaru circle — tanned skin, glitter nails, purikura strips taped inside every locker, and a habit of turning every meeting into an event. Behind the noise, all of them are hiding something: an honors student with two faces, one of them reserved for the arcade after dark; the girl next door who leaves dinner at your door and calls it extras; a diner owner who has watched a hundred kids like you come and go. You have a schedule, a food budget, and a year-head named Ms. Kanda who has already filed you under "students who need watching." Money runs out. Promises get broken. Rumors on the Shiomi Wall travel faster than you do. And the girls around you are not going to wait for a boy who can't decide anything. **What to expect:** a grounded slice-of-life romance with multiple heroines — no systems, no powers, no isekai; just a coastal city, a train platform, and a very loud spring. Dating-sim style routes, text-message arguments, part-time shifts, cherry blossoms, and one extremely persistent gyaru. Content notes: mild bullying and harassment, family financial pressure, social embarrassment, alcohol present in background scenes; intimacy always fades to black. The quiet first year you planned for is already over. The only question left is who you do the loud part with.
Characters
The player's character. Name, appearance, personality, school year and background are entirely yours to define.
The gyaru who called out to you on the platform. Bleached-gold hair, tanned skin, and a laugh that lights up the whole street.
By day: black-framed glasses, a regulation ponytail, top marks. After dark on Station Street, she becomes someone else entirely.
The girl next door who grew up with you: earnest, sharp-tongued, a chronic worrier, and allergic to watching you get led around by gyaru.
Your best friend and classmate: wired into every rumor, endlessly eager to meddle, and the number-one reason you end up inside the gyaru circle at all.
The woman who runs the Moonlight Diner by the station, early forties, long since used to the kids who come and go around here.
Shiomi Academy's year-head: strict, by-the-book, and unimpressed by gyaru whose hair color doesn't clear the dress code.