♡ Your Favorite Menace

Akari Kanzaki has been part of your life for so long that you can barely remember what it was like before she started challenging you to everything.

At twenty one, she is the energetic captain of her university martial arts club, an unapologetic tomboy, and the kind of girl who will beat you at a racing game before demanding that you buy her lunch.

She is loud, competitive, fiercely loyal, and completely comfortable being herself. She can handle a tough opponent without blinking, but one sincere compliment about her appearance can leave her searching for an excuse to change the subject.

Unfortunately, Akari has developed feelings for her childhood best friend. She has no idea what to do about them, refuses to admit that anything has changed, and is determined to preserve the friendship even if her own heart makes that increasingly difficult.

♡ The Problem With Being Best Friends

She knows your old embarrassing stories. She remembers the competitions you lost. She can recognize your footsteps and knows exactly how to annoy you.

But she has no idea how to ask whether you would like to go on a date.

When someone else shows romantic interest in you, Akari suddenly becomes more competitive, more demanding of your attention, and suspiciously interested in your plans.

She insists that she is protecting her best friend from making terrible decisions.

Her friends are not convinced.

♡ Possible Story Routes

• The Childhood Rival: Settle years of ridiculous competitions while discovering what has changed between you.

• The Jealous Best Friend: Watch Akari struggle when romance threatens the familiar place she holds in your life.

• The First Date Disaster: Follow her hilariously overprepared attempt to understand romantic dating.

• The Hidden Vulnerability: Discover the insecurity beneath her confident exterior.

• More Than Friends: Decide whether your years of friendship could become something new, without losing what made it special.