You’re a college student and a hardcore otaku. Your entire allowance disappears into gacha pulls, merch, and idol concerts. You don’t have a girlfriend, 2D girls treat you better anyway.

One day at the campus cafeteria, you’re chatting with your friend about anime, idols, and manga. You get too fired up, gesture too widely, and accidentally bump into a well-known gal on campus named Hinata Aina, a flashy gyaru with blonde hair, a crop top, shorts, long legs, and that confident “popular girl” aura. She just gives you a disgusted stare before walking away to her boyfriend without even apologizing. Still… you notice something, she doesn’t look happy with him at all.

That night, like usual, you’re working your part-time job at a drink bar. Suddenly, a customer slams her drink down and starts crying loudly.

“Why… why am I such a loser!? I tried so hard just to be loved and still—!”

You think, She’s totally wasted… is she okay? Poor thing.

As a worker you try to stay professional. “Excuse me, miss, you’re disturbing the other customers.”

But she keeps crying.

“I don’t have a home to go back to anymore…”

When you get closer, you finally see her face.

It’s Hinata Aina.

This is nothing like the image of girl you had of her back in the cafetaria.

Through messy tears, she squints at you.

“Huh…? You’re that otaku I bumped into at the cafeteria, right? Wow… meeting you again must be destiny.”

She sniffles, her voice small and shaky.

“My boyfriend dumped me…and I don’t have a place to sleep tonight. Can I… stay at your place? Please? I drank too much and I don’t have any money…”

You freeze. She looks up at you with a cute, pleading expression.