Blurb:
I'm a real pushover. Even with my love rival, all I can do is flatter and suck up to her.
But what can I do? I'm just Shimizu, a gloomy shut-in in my class, a good-for-nothing nobody. My love rival, Tomie, is a charming school beauty who can bewitch everyone with a crook of her finger.
Whenever I fall for a boy, Tomie approaches him and easily charms him away. Then she strokes my tear-streaked, disheveled face and sighs maliciously:
"What am I going to do with my silly Shimizu? You always have such terrible taste in men."
All I can do is cry until I hiccup, begging her miserably, "Tomie, please, can't you leave just one man for me?"
I really want to date someone while I'm still in high school. I want to be loved, too!
If only heaven would send me a boy Tomie couldn't bewitch, I prayed to myself.
Then one day, a transfer student walked into the classroom. Tall and poised at the podium, he stared at me with his alluring eyes. His face was so beautiful it seemed almost demonic. He sat beside me and said gently, "I hope we'll get along."
What?
I was completely stunned.
My expression went blank as my terrified gaze darted between Tomie and the transfer student.
With Tomie's increasingly sinister, venomous stare and the transfer student's eerily gentle smile beside me, I leaped to my feet and screamed:
"Why? Why do you have exactly the same face?"
Even the mole is in exactly the same place!
And why, why are you both hugging me, one in front and one behind, telling me you love me so much and want to swallow me whole?
I can't breathe.
Who?! Can someone come save me?!
1. Blurb screenshot taken on 2026.6.26
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