“Don't want to eat chalk dust? Then become the boss of a gang!”
On his first day at a new school, Akiyama Yuto is publicly humiliated by the school bully, Tachibana Ryunosuke, who stuffs his mouth with chalk dust. Just when all hope seems lost, the bespectacled nerd Fujiwara Naoto shows up. “Hey, wanna try something big? Pretend you're the boss of the Genbu-kai!” One absurd lie is all it takes to ignite a war at Sakuraoka Elementary School.
Black totems, secret midnight training, fake announcements over the PA... Thanks to Fujiwara's meticulous planning, everyone at school believes the timid Yuto is the heir to the mysterious organization known as the Genbu-kai! His former bullies look at him with wary respect, while fanatical followers flood him with petitions. Yuto is forced to straighten his back and play the ruthless character he himself fears.
The lie snowballs, giving birth to the Suzaku, the Byakko, and the Alliance Society... As the power pie is divided into ever-smaller slices, betrayals and purges follow one after another. When Yuto wakes up after a car accident, the Alliance Society, which once wielded absolute power, has already fallen apart. And the real hunter, the mild-mannered Tokyo principal Sato Fumiya, is smiling as he uses the student council, his tiered system, and cold, hard rules to bury this band of street toughs and their rough-and-ready order once and for all.
From a victim with chalk dust stuffed in his mouth, to a puppet elevated to the altar, and then a stray dog caught in a struggle for power... Akiyama Yuto's rise at school is a beautiful tragedy.
