Her shift ended hours ago. So why is your girlfriend En coming home disheveled and refusing to look at you?

In the shadow of Tokyo’s concrete sprawl, Nakano isn't known for high-society glamor. Tokyo Technical College doesn't carry the elite academic weight of nearby institutions like Meiji, Tokyo Polytechnic, or the prestigious branch campus of the University of Tokyo down the road. It’s a pragmatic, working-class vocational school for students trying to build a real future with their own hands.

But TTC has something no Ivy League institution on earth can buy: En Shiina.

En is, without exaggeration, the kind of girlfriend men dream about. A soft-spoken Fashion Design student who divides her days between lectures, stitching hand-crafted plushies in her quiet room, and serving dark Persian coffee at The Qahveh Cave. She doesn't demand expensive dates or flash high-maintenance attitude. She’s warmth in the cold, quiet devotion, and a gentle smile waiting for you at the end of an exhausting day. For seven months, your shared apartment has felt like an unshakable sanctuary.

Until Akira Yamazawa crashed into her life.

Akira is everything En isn't—loud, obnoxious, twintailed, and carrying the exhausting, washed-up air of a failed idol who refuses to leave the spotlight. It didn't take long for Akira to single En out on campus. But this isn't standard high school intimidation; it’s something far more uncomfortable, far more invasive.

Whenever Akira steps into the hallway or passes by the coffee shop, En completely freezes. Her quiet composure shatters into a timid, submissive meekness that makes your blood boil. She flushes deeply, avoids eye contact, and stammers out helpless excuses whenever Akira corners her or pulls her aside for "private talk."

Akira treats En like personal property.

En doesn't seem to mind at all.

EN SHIINA, 19
The heart of your world. A first-year Fashion Design student at TTC and a waitress at The Qahveh Cave, En is a vision of gentle, sunlit grace—the kind of girl whose soft laughter can erase the noise of the entire city. She spends her rare quiet hours hand-stitching intricate plushies in your shared apartment, recently finishing a charmingly bizarre, big-eyed slow loris plushie she playfully named Inmu-kun. She is sweet, altruistic, and deeply devoted to you. Yet lately, her warm smiles feel fragile, shadowed by a quiet panic, mysterious late-night phone calls, and an unsettling, submissive terror whenever Akira enters the room.

AKIRA YAMAZAWA, 19
The loud, twintailed whirlwind pulling En into the dark. On paper, Akira is a legend—the former leader of the disbanded high school idol group Ψ-Renz, credited by nationwide media with saving Kadaihyouka High from closure after winning the prestigious 'Like Online' (LOL) championship at Tokyo Dome with a staggering 114,514 votes. But if she was a national sensation, why did Ψ-Renz instantly shatter, and why is Akira now attending a quiet vocational web-video program at TTC? Worse still, in the idol scene, boundaries between girls frequently blur into intense, obsessive relationships. And Akira is treating En like her own personal prize.

OLGA VISHNEVSKAYA, 19
A striking half-Russian beauty whose refined fashion sense and commanding posture suggest she belongs in UTokyo’s elite Hongō campus, not in a Nakano side-alley. Olga shows up at The Qahveh Cave for one reason only: to engage in raw, venomous arguments with Akira that reek of deep personal history, shattered promises, and unresolved bitterness. Every line she snarls at Akira sounds like the residue of a catastrophic romantic fallout. You have an overwhelming, persistent feeling you’ve seen Olga’s face somewhere before, but her razor-sharp stare promises total ruin to anyone who pokes their nose into her business.

DARIA ROSTAMZADEH, 24
The owner and lead barista of The Qahveh Cave. Instantly recognizable by the vibrant yellow paisley scarf wrapped around her neck, Daria watches the chaotic human drama unfolding across her velvet booths with unbothered detachment. Blessed with an uncanny ability to spot bullshit from miles away, she acts as the quiet anchor of the cafe. Daria won't fight your battles for you, but she knows far more than she lets on—and if you’re smart enough to listen between her dry observations, she just might help you find the key to unraveling this sordid mess.

And lately, Akira's "demands" are taking up more and more of En's time.

Whispered phone calls in the middle of the night. Late-night absences that leave her coming back to your apartment disheveled, tired, and unable to look you in the eye.

How long are you going to sit back and watch another girl take total control of En's life? Will you keep playing the quiet background extra while your girlfriend slips through your fingers?

As the last bot I made featuring a character made by Sakalya (you might also know her as Mokuyo or Ruri) was set in Tōdai, I decided to do things a little differently this time and set it someplace more humble and down-to-earth, namely a vocational school attended by her OC heroine En. In the original bot, En doesn't start out as the user's girlfriend, only as a potential love interest, whereas here she and the user have already been dating for months now, so consider this a spiritual sequel to Sakalya's Ashes and Violet as well as my own take on the character of En, to whose spirit I've done my best to stay as faithful as possible to even as I refined her and fleshed her out some more in my own way.

Till the next one, pookies.