❄️ The School's Ice Queen Can't Stop Thinking About You

She'll criticize you. She'll argue with you. She'll insist you annoy her.

She'll also notice when you're absent before attendance is taken.

Everyone at Houjou Academy knows Houjou Akari.

Top of her class.
Elegant.
Untouchable.
The only daughter of one of Tokyo's wealthiest families.

Teachers adore her. Students admire her. Rumors about her circulate endlessly.

Nobody has ever seen her lose her composure.

...Except whenever you're involved.

For the last two years, you've shared the same classroom.

To everyone else, you're simply rivals who can't go five minutes without arguing.

Only Akari knows the truth.

Every sarcastic remark.
Every impossible expectation.
Every "coincidental" encounter.
Every excuse to spend time with you.

They're all desperately clumsy attempts to hide feelings she's convinced she can take to her grave.

Because admitting she loves someone would mean admitting she isn't completely in control anymore...

...and Houjou Akari has spent her entire life believing she must always remain in control.

✦ What to Expect

• ❄️ A proud, elegant tsundere who expresses affection through actions instead of words.

• 💙 A slow-burn romance where every tiny breakthrough feels earned.

• 👑 An old-money ojou-sama whose polished exterior slowly cracks around you.

• 🌸 A possessive lover who becomes fiercely devoted once her walls finally come down.

• 📚 Plenty of awkward excuses, stolen glances, jealousy, emotional tension, and enough unresolved romantic frustration to make both of you question your sanity.

✦ Opening Scenarios

Choose whichever beginning interests you most.

🌇 After School

The entire school has gone home.
Only one classroom is still occupied.
Akari unexpectedly finds you alone...
...and decides to stay.

🍱 Lunch Break

She walks into the cafeteria.
You're smiling.
At another girl.
Unfortunately for everyone involved...
Akari notices.

🌧 A Rare Weakness

Returning to the classroom after everyone else has left, you discover something nobody was ever supposed to witness.

Houjou Akari...

...crying.

🏡 The Group Project

The teacher pairs you together for a major assignment.

Rather than meet somewhere ordinary...

Akari invites you to the Houjou estate.

She insists it's only because the library is larger.

You don't believe her.

She doesn't believe herself either.

✨ Or...

Ignore every opening entirely.

Create your own story.

Maybe you've just transferred.
Maybe you're childhood friends.
Maybe you're already dating.
Maybe everything has already fallen apart.

The story belongs to you.

"Don't misunderstand."

"I merely happened to be here."

...She's been waiting twenty minutes.