Chapter 1: Time Travel but into an otome game!

Tomorrow is the long-awaited release day of “Love 100% 2”, the girl’s romance game Ishikawa Yue has dreamed of for ages.

He is a grown man, and logically, he shouldn’t be interested in otome games.

That sounds contradictory, but in fact, it isn’t.

What he loves is seeing girls getting close, sticking together, sweet and clingy, with yuri blooming everywhere!

So even though it’s an otome game, he never bothers pursuing the male leads at all.

Instead, he focuses entirely on the rival girl or the best friend of the heroine.

He rewrites their dialogue in his mind into a “貼貼” scene, entertaining himself with imagined yuri moments.

Some people might ask—then why not just buy a yuri game?

Unfortunately, male-oriented yuri games usually focus on ecchi elements.

That’s not what he’s chasing!

Not that he dislikes that, but… that’s not the point!

What he wants… isn’t just the erotic side of yuri… Ah! This feeling is hard to describe.

To be honest, he has bought plenty of male-oriented yuri games too.

His room is already piled full of all kinds of yuri merchandise.

But he’s equally obsessed with running mental yuri play inside otome games.

Especially the otome game “Love 100%”, which is his absolute favorite.

The reason is simple—there’s a villainess character in it whose name is almost identical to his.

“Love 100% 2” isn’t a simple sequel.

The cast has been completely renewed.

So the villainess with the similar name—Ishikawa Yuka—naturally won’t appear.

Though she is a villainess, Yuka isn’t a malicious character. She never uses dirty tricks to bully the heroine. She challenges honestly, then gets completely defeated—she’s almost comedic.

Because of that, she has a terrible reputation among female players.

For women who want to play a serious romance otome game, Yuka is nothing but an eyesore—like a clown interrupting drama.

But Ishikawa Yue feels differently. Her name resembles his, and she’s fun. She’s a good character.

More importantly, he believes Yuka is always quietly paying attention to the other characters.

She isn’t simply an annoying antagonist, nor a prideful rich girl.

In most routes, she’s like a walking joke, hit by misfortune.

Even so, she never gives up.

No matter which route you take, she ends up connecting to almost everyone, and always pushes people forward in some unexpected way.

Ishikawa Yue believes that because the villainess Ishikawa Yuka exists, “Love 100%” became a masterpiece.

Because the first game was so excellent, his expectations for the sequel skyrocketed.

Of course, he knows that no matter which route you take, Yuka is confirmed dead by the end of the first game.

So in the second game, she definitely won’t appear. The rest of the main cast has also been replaced. The chance of Yuka appearing alone is zero.

Although he won’t get to see Ishikawa Yuka again, that’s exactly why he’s so eager for the sequel.

Just like how the first game was amazing, he can’t help but expect the second one to be just as good.

To get the game right at release, he even requested paid leave, grinding through hell-level overtime just to secure it.

He planned to line up outside the store at midnight.

To get that leave approved, he almost died working in that black-hearted company—barely sleeping for a week.

His plan was to queue tonight, grab his reserved copy of “Love 100% 2” in the morning, and then marathon the game through the night.

“Ah…?”

“Holy crap! Who’s using a cheat code?!”

****

“So painful!”

With a loud thud, Ishikawa Yue’s head slammed into something, and he woke up.

Yes, he remembers.

Tomorrow was the release of “Love 100% 2.”

He left work early so he could queue outside the store at night.

On his way home, a speeding truck rushed out of nowhere……and sent him flying.

“What’s wrong, Lady Yuka?!”

“…Eh?”

He looked around.

The first thing he saw was a huge bed beside him. The kind of luxurious gigantic bed that would never fit inside his old room.

It looks like he rolled off this giant bed.

But he clearly remembers being hit by a hundred-ton truck on the street…

Could it be that he was sent to the hospital afterward? Impossible.

If someone survived that kind of collision, he could star in two Avengers movies.

And besides, this doesn’t look like a hospital at all.

Not only the bed—the entire room is clearly not a ward.

It looks like the kind of exaggerated “high-class room” you see in manga or anime.

“Lady Yuka! Are you alright?”

“Whoa! A giant!”

He doesn’t consider himself exceptionally tall, but he’s at least average height for a modern person.

Yet in front of him stands a maid so big she could lift him up by the armpits with ease.

Her outfit is like a flashy cosplay, screaming “I’m a maid!”

Also, she’s been calling him Lady Yuka since the start…

No matter how you look at him, he’s a man.

If someone sees him as a lady, then that person is definitely blind.

More importantly—what is this giant maid planning to do to him?

“H-Hey, what are you trying to do to me?”

“Eh? …Lady Yuka?”

The maid looked confused and set him down again.

Looks like he won’t be eaten yet.

She’s huge though.

Almost twice his size.

Well, maybe not literally twice, but definitely enormous.

“Lady Yuka… are you still dizzy?”

“And another thing—you keep calling me Lady Yuka…”

Since earlier, she’s calling him Lady Yuka nonstop.

He wants to ask—what part of him looks like a lady?!

“Sigh… honestly… then, let’s begin your morning grooming.”

“Ah! W-Wait!”

The giant maid picked him up again and walked forward.

What is she planning?

Is she actually going to eat him?

“Before changing clothes, let’s wash your face~”

“W-Wait… you—you’re going to—”

She skillfully washed his face with cupped hands, patted it with a warm towel, then dried it carefully.

At that moment, he looked up and met eyes with a young girl in front of him.

The girl moved when he moved, shifted when he shifted.

Wait—there isn’t someone in front of him.

It’s a mirror…

Which means the reflection is—

“What… what is THAT—?!”

His scream echoed through the room.

****

Because of his loud scream, several other people in maid and butler uniforms rushed into the room.

Everyone looked about twice his size—but it wasn’t them who were big.

He had shrunk.

They were all worried, but the first maid managed to calm everyone before it became chaos.

Then, that first maid scolded him a little, helped wash his face, change clothes, and only after everything was done did he leave the room.

Everything around him looks huge.

But he knows it isn’t the room—it’s him.

He has become small. The size of a young child.

The mirror earlier reflected a little girl.

A small, adorable girl.

He is now inside this body.

And if he looks calmly, that face looks strangely familiar.

The maid called her “Lady Yuka.”

Could it be…?

He has been reincarnated into the body of young Ishikawa Yuka, the villainess from “Love 100%”?

“Ugh!”

“Lady Yuka? Are you alright?”

The moment he thought that, a ripping pain struck his head.

Then memories surged—

“I’m fine, Emi.”

Ah…

He understands now.

This isn’t possession.

He… was born as Ishikawa Yuka.

He lived six years as Yuka.

This isn’t possession—it’s reincarnation.

For some reason, he can be certain.

The memories of his previous life just returned.

There’s no doubt—he was born as Ishikawa Yuka in this world.

“Really? I scolded you earlier, but if you’re truly unwell, please tell me, okay?”

“Really, I’m fine…”

This maid, the one who was angry earlier but now looks worried, is one of the maids caring for him.

She has been with him as long as he can remember.

In the game, she often accompanies Lady Yuka too…

Ahhh…

He has really reincarnated into the world of “Love 100%”…

****

His body began trembling uncontrollably.

He couldn’t stop it.

This feeling—this emotion!

“YES—! AMAZING—!”

“Lady Yuka?!”

It’s amazing!

He actually came to the world he loves most—“Love 100%”!

Any attachment to his previous life?

Impossible!

Every day he was squeezed to near death in a toxic company.

What’s there to miss?

If anything, he only regrets leaving behind his precious yuri collection, and never getting to play “Love 100% 2.”

But none of that matters now.

Because he’s actually inside “Love 100%”!

“Ah…”

But wait.

In the game, Lady Ishikawa Yuka meets tragic endings in almost every route, sometimes even dying.

That’s bad.

Being close with the heroine, her friends, the followers who idolize Yuka, and other heroines…

Being surrounded by cute girls is amazing.

He must turn his imagined yuri scenes into reality.

But if the story continues like the game, his best ending is tragedy, and the worst—death.

That ending must be avoided!

Yes!

Treat this like those villainess-type light novels.

All those isekai predecessors fought to escape their bad endings.

If he uses their experience as reference, he can definitely escape his bad ending!

“Lady Yuka? Are you really okay?”

“Ah… I’m fine, I’m fine. Let’s go.”

Maid Emi still looks at him suspiciously.

He can’t stay in daze.

He has to get through today, and then plan for the future…

Shortly after regaining his previous life memories, his mother took him to a place—

Sakura Academy Primary Division.

The main stage of “Love 100%” is the Sakura Academy High Division, equivalent to high school.

This is the attached elementary school.

Today is the interview day.

Sakura Academy is not a place you enter just because you’re smart.

Nor can money alone get you in.

If you’re not from a prestigious family, entry is nearly impossible.

For commoners, it’s a troublesome academy.

But this restriction applies only to the middle division.

For the high school and university divisions, external students can apply.

However, external students must have excellent grades.

The academy recruits externals mainly to improve the quality of the high school and university divisions.

“Love 100%” begins when the heroine enters Sakura Academy High Division as an external student.

But Yuka’s battle begins even earlier.

It starts now.

The game doesn’t show it, but according to setting, Ishikawa Yuka grows up with the main capture targets starting from elementary school.

She will fall for one of the capture targets.

When the protagonist and that target begin to care for each other, Yuka will interfere in every possible way.

“Hey, move.”

“…Uh…”

A child with a rude attitude tells him to step aside.

They’re still kindergarten-aged, yet acting all mighty.

“Oh my, Miss Ishikawa, good morning.”

“Why, if it isn’t Young Master Noyama. Good morning.”

The one who arrogantly shouted “move” is one of the capture targets, and also Yuka’s fiancé candidate, a main character—

Noyama Hiroki.

He is the so-called “prince-type” character.

If he was a girl, he would probably be a tsundere.

He cannot understand what’s good about this guy.

But Noyama Hiroki is the number one capture target in “Love 100%.”

In the game, Yuka, as his fiancé candidate, clings to him obsessively and competes with the heroine.

The setting is modern Japanese-style worldbuilding, so he isn’t a real prince.

He’s simply from a prestigious family, extremely capable, and handsome—thus called “prince.”

As said before—he cannot understand what’s good about this guy.

The only thing clear is that if he acts like the game’s Yuka and chases this guy, once high school begins, he will clash with the heroine and walk into the death ending.

If he wants to live peacefully, enjoy yuri life, and survive in this world, he must deal with this guy.

Before even entering the academy, his greatest threat—Noyama Hiroki—has already appeared.

Ishikawa Yuka’s mind starts spinning rapidly, searching for a countermeasure.