Her desk in class is next to yours. Bright, positive, and inexhaustibly smiley, she’s popular. But passionate, too—she has a dream that pushes her to cram school after class.

”It’s fun to whisper in class like this, isn’t it?”

Your upperclassman by one year, she attends the same school as you. Her model-class looks have won her fans in every class but her own—is it her stilted speech that sets her aloof? Deep down, she’s a caring older-sister type who’d like nothing more than to spoil you.

”My, you incorrigible thing. Yes, come here, I’ll pamper you.”

A year your junior at your school. As her mother is a busy hard worker, Mai handles the home front. Unspectacularly adequate at class and sports, but a dervish with a broom and alchemist with a spoon.

”My heart always leaps when you pat me on the head.”

A girl who works at the convenience store near your house. She’s got an open, chummy attitude that wins her pals from geezers to wee’uns. For someone who goes to an all-girls school, her hobbies, like gaming and biking, are boyish.

”I want you to gimme a good squeeze! C’mon, get in here and hug me!”