Raising Her Without a System, My Childhood Friend Shoko Falls for Me

Twelve-year-old Hiratsuka Ryosuke only wants a quiet life: get into Tokyo University, inherit the family business, and practice swordsmanship four hundred times a day. But his chuunibyou childhood friend, Nibutani Shinka, clings to him every day, making him act out scenes from "Knight and Sorceress" with her while secretly treating her childhood-friend status as a ticket to becoming his girlfriend. At home, his older sister Hiratsuka Shizuka, famously known as the "Iron Fist of Destruction," is still single and always uses him as a human shield.

Then transfer student Nishimiya Shoko arrives. She cannot hear and communicates with people only through a notebook, making her the class's bullying target. When everyone else chooses to stay silent, Ryosuke steps forward: he lends her textbooks, stands up to the bullies, and even makes one of them kneel and apologize on the spot. He goes from a detached bystander to the one person Shoko can rely on.

But Shinka won't stand for it. Why should the knight who belongs only to her be shared with someone else? One girl needs saving, while the other wants him all to herself. And Ryosuke realizes that the first step in helping them grow isn't romance, but teaching them how not to let the world push them around.

With his childhood friend and an unexpected newcomer both coming into his life, no one will emerge unscathed from this romance that began in elementary school.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.