‘Uwooo!? I… I’ve become the game character Tachibana Tomoki!’

On the morning I dressed in the uniform of the academy I would be attending, I stood in front of the full-body mirror to check my appearance and that was when I suddenly realized that this world was the same as the gal game I had been completely hooked on in the final days of my previous life: The Reversed Chastity Ratio of 1:99 – The Best Youth Spent at Honey Academy (commonly called: HaniGaku).

Then the memories of my previous life as an overworked salaryman in his early thirties surged into my mind like a landslide until the moment of my death from overwork, making my head ache, but honestly, my physical condition was the least of my concerns.

‘I really came to a world where the male to female ratio is 1 to 99…’

If this world were the same as the game, then the title really was as literal as it sounded.

A world where males were precious, only one in a hundred existed and that one boy would be doted on and aggressively approached by girls who had become carnivorous due to the warped gender ratio—basically a world where a man’s dreams had been condensed into a concentrate.

‘I’m a side character so it’s okay if I get popular too, right…’

I played HaniGaku thoroughly, but I knew almost nothing about Tachibana Tomoki.

That was because Tachibana Tomoki barely appeared in the main story of the game.

He was a harmless support character who, from time to time, would appear as the protagonist’s male friend and leave some advice-like comment to help transition scenes.

In the first place, male characters in gal games hardly ever get explored deeply and players who want a reversed chastity world with an absurd gender ratio want a harem with girls, not dudes.

As long as I didn’t go after the heroines of the game’s protagonist, there shouldn’t be a problem.

‘From here on out, I’m a shiny new first-year high school student. Smile, smile.’

I lifted the corners of my mouth with my fingers and smiled at myself in the mirror.

But well, rather than a high school student, I had only been a middle schooler until last month so my skin really is smooth.

‘Come to think of it, this room… does Tachibana Tomoki live alone?’

Looking around the room, aside from a bed and study desk, there was also a fridge, microwave, kitchen, toilet and bath.

It was a one-room apartment.

Not many belongings and a bit bleak.

Naturally, I had never cared one millimeter about the family background of the protagonist’s male friend in the game and it had never been mentioned in the story either, but it was surprising that in this world—where men were so precious—he was allowed to live alone.

Still, this meant I could invite girls over whenever I wanted, hehehe.

‘Alright. That’s enough of a room tour. I should get going to school.’

After all, today was the entrance ceremony.

From here, my new life would begin.

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“Everyone, as you pass through the gates of Mitsugatsu Academy today—”

The academy I’d be attending, Mitsugatsu Academy, was known both inside and outside as HaniGaku and while listening to the principal’s congratulatory message to the new students at HaniGaku’s entrance ceremony, I was experiencing something I had never experienced before.

‘I mean, I can seriously feel people staring at me…’

Everyone was seated quietly in the student hall where the ceremony was being held.

But for some reason, even though they probably thought they were being discreet, the gazes aimed at me were intense.

In situations like this, the one being observed can definitely tell.

HaniGaku accepted the rare male applicants in this world of distorted gender ratios, so it was popular among female students and had a high academic reputation.

The new first-year girls sitting around me were probably daughters from good families.

And yet, the fact that they were blatantly sending me the fierce gaze of wild beasts, breaking all sense of manners, meant that men—especially boys of the same age—were exceptionally rare.

Well, in the original world it’d be like a former all-boys school suddenly becoming co-ed and girls enrolling for the first time.

Besides, Tachibana Tomoki wasn’t as handsome as the protagonist but he was reasonably good-looking.

If they were staring, it couldn’t be helped.

I’d allow it.

While I folded my arms and convinced myself of this,

tap tap

Hm?

Something touched my arm.

“H-hey. W-what class are you in?”

The girl sitting next to me secretly spoke to me.

“Well, since I was assigned this seat, I’m in Class 2 just like you.”

For the entrance ceremony, we sat in the seats assigned during reception.

According to the program, the area our seats were in was labeled First Year Class 2, so the people around me were the classmates I’d spend the next year with.

“Hyoh!? R-right. I-I’m in Class 2 t-too. Ah, my name is Tatara-hama Minami.”

O-oh…

That panicked attitude, the stuttering and the sudden introduction.

She must have run through dozens of simulations in her head trying to figure out how to talk to me, but then her mind went completely blank, leading to this result.

Tatara-hama-san was an erotic-looking girl with long pink hair, a refined face and breasts so large that they were obvious even through her blazer.

Her cup size was 98 centimeters, an H-cup.

Why did I know the cup size of a girl I was meeting for the first time?

Let me explain!

It was because Tatara-hama-san was a named character in the game and the class representative of Class 2.

Well, since she wasn’t in Class 1, the protagonist’s side, she was treated rather poorly in the game…

But still, to think the meeting between side characters Tachibana Tomoki and Tatara-hama-san happened like this.

“S-sorry… for talking to you out of nowhere… I just got overly excited…”

While I was moved thinking about how identical this was to the game, Tatara-hama-san seemed to interpret my silence as rejection and began to wilt.

Heh, she’s desperate.

“I’m Tachibana Tomoki. Also in First Year Class 2. Looking forward to the year, Tatara-hama-san.”

When the other person was more nervous than me, I naturally felt much calmer, so I gave her a gentle greeting with plenty of psychological leeway.

“Eh, that hand is…”

“It’s a handshake for ‘nice to meet you’… unless it’s a bother?”

Tatara-hama-san froze at my extended hand and I wondered if I had gotten too carried away and should pull it back.

“I want to, I want to! A handshake! Th-thank you, I look forward to the year!”

Saying that, she grabbed my hand with a firm, almost painful grip.

“Hey, is she… holding a boy’s hand?”

“What kind of full-throttle dream-novel delusion are you spouting? That kind of thing would never—wait, it’s HAPPENING!?”

“No, maybe that’s a girl cross-dressing as a boy?”

“Our school is co-ed, so cross-dressing is banned. The ‘princely girl’ archetype only exists in all-girls schools.”

“So that means… even though he’s a boy, they’re allowing girl contact?”

“Man, Class 2 is lucky. Our class’s boy didn’t even show up today…”

“That’s normal. Boys only come to school the minimum number of days required.”

The girls around us were buzzing.

Well, a handshake on the first day of school wasn’t common even in my original world, right?

I guess I got carried away thanks to being in the world of HaniGaku.

From here on, because chastity was reversed, girls tended to be treated more roughly than men.

So I would treat them gently, based on my sense from my previous world.

That alone would make girls melt.

The girls would be happy and so would I, so there was no problem at all.

“But the biggest jackpot is definitely Class 1.”

“Of course. Class 1 is the special selection class of HaniGaku, the ultra-elite class where the most outstanding students in academics and extracurriculars are gathered. They say Class 1 gets the handsomest boys assigned.”

“That explains it. Still, it really is incredible.”

The whispering that spread eventually reached my ears as well.

‘Well, this world exists for him, after all.’

I looked toward Class 1, the source of the rumors.

There, surrounded by several girls already, was a boy.

Kannonzaki Haruhi

The protagonist of the game was already wildly popular on the very first day.