Struggling to Survive in a DK Love Triangle

[Check out my new story: "I Became the Beloved of the Tokyo Jujutsu High Crew After They Read My Mind." The blurb is below!]

[Check out my completed stories: "Becoming the Strongest After Gaining Nazarick's Guardians" and "My Cursed Technique Is Game of Life"]

My name is Matsushima Haruka. I've been healthy and growing up well for more than a decade.

My parents are both dead, and apart from Suguru, I have no friends, but that's okay. As long as you're alive, there's hope.

But after middle school graduation, he gently turned down my confession, and for some reason, I fell seriously ill and never recovered.

Day after day, the pain became unbearable. I still firmly wanted to live, but fate had other plans. It seemed I was going to die.

[Do you want to live? Then get close to the Child of Destiny.]

That voice saved me as I was dying.

From then on, the world before my eyes changed.

I could see grotesque and dangerous Cursed Spirits, a painfully bright red health bar appeared before me, and I gained a cruel cursed technique called [The Scales of Life].

When I entered Tokyo Jujutsu High, I met the Child of Destiny: white hair, bright blue eyes, the strongest in the jujutsu world. But I never imagined that the person I'd had a crush on in middle school was there, too.

Suguru was as gentle as ever, but I had no time to bask in his warmth. To survive, I had to stay by the Child of Destiny's side.

Besides, he didn't like me at all. He'd already turned me down.

Satoru was the same. He seemed annoyed by my clinginess, but I shamelessly stuck close to him anyway.

'As long as I can live, I'll do anything.' I held back my tears and thought resolutely.

But... one day, I realized something was wrong. These two weren't quite what I'd thought!

Didn't you say you weren't interested in me?

As the two of them drew closer, I trembled.

Suguru: He's not a good choice. We're the ones who are made for each other. You'll forgive me for being foolish in middle school, right?

Satoru: I can let what you did to deceive me slide. You and Suguru are already in the past. You'll choose me, right?

In everyone's eyes, Matsushima Haruka is a sickly, weak girl. No one thinks she'll ever become a remarkable jujutsu sorcerer.

Until that day... when the Star Plasma Vessel and her companions are killed by a sorcerer killer, everyone falls into despair, and Satoru is on the verge of death with a dagger in his head.

Matsushima Haruka steps forward.

The reversal of her cruelly fair cursed technique, [The Scales of Life], has an effect no one could have expected.

A green light, the color of vitality, shines in the depths of their despair.

And so, a miracle is born...

"Matsushima Haruka was never a fragile girl. She's stronger than anyone. Illness can't defeat her, and neither can despair. She is a miraculous flower born in the desert, and she wants to pass that miracle on to others."

"Let's survive together," Matsushima Haruka says.

After the person he'd secretly loved confessed to him, the strange-haired boy's brain short-circuited and he rejected her. While she was nowhere to be found, he regretted it every single day.

But she returned to him, becoming a jujutsu sorcerer and transferring to Tokyo Jujutsu High.

He wants to win back the woman he loves.

But... why is she always clinging to Satoru?

The jealousy in his heart is driving him mad.

He feels like he's eaten a ton of lemons, but he comforts himself: It's fine. Haruka could never like a scumbag who bullies her all the time.

Until one day, he sees the two of them embracing in the classroom.

Haruka leans against Satoru's chest, smiling with contentment.

He can no longer deceive himself. He's going mad.

A mysterious transfer student seems to have some history with his friend. The white-haired cat is curious and wants to hear all the gossip.

Imagining a dramatic tale of domineering pursuit and desperate escape, he decides to get in on the action.

Except...

The transfer student often makes him pastries; even when he says something mean and makes her cry, she comes right back the next day; she keeps looking for chances to snuggle up to him, and even makes up lies.

He falls into the cat's little universe, and a flash of inspiration strikes.

He gets it. She's fallen in love with him at first sight!

Glancing at the strange-haired fox who won't stop chasing her, the white-haired cat smiles smugly.

After all the effort you've put in, I suppose I could agree to be with you. The cat lifts his chin and speaks to the girl as if granting her a favor.

But one day, he accidentally finds out that Suguru is the one she's been secretly in love with for years.

Then what is he, a substitute? The cat flies into a rage. He's going mad.

And so their love triangle begins.

Reading warnings:

1. I want to write a love-triangle story. OOC warning, which is unavoidable in fanfiction, but it should be ten thousand times better than IIVV!

2. Pairing undecided!

3. The heroine is an incredibly beautiful woman, strong yet tragic, with a rather gentle personality. She cries easily, but she's very resilient and cherishes her life!

4. The main story is in third person! The plot and setting are based on the period before the Culling Game. The later setting and characters will mostly not appear!

5. Little logic, lots of everyday life, and a main focus on romance. Amateur writing!

Check out my new upcoming story: "I Became the Beloved of the Tokyo Jujutsu High Crew After They Read My Mind"

Blurb:

My name is Kanda Kanon. I'm an utterly ordinary high school girl, until... I transmigrate into the daughter of a traditional family, with a white-haired fiance!!!

Luckily, I get the script for this world. It's a fantasy world with Cursed Spirits and jujutsu sorcerers, and my family and I are just nameless extras in the script.

But my fiance is famous. That's right, he's Gojo Satoru, the future strongest jujutsu sorcerer.

After reading about the jujutsu sorcerers' tragic fates, I tremble and hug myself.

I must never get involved with them!

But... what am I supposed to do if my family tricks me into going to Tokyo Jujutsu High?!

I drop the melon seeds in my hand in shock

To avoid getting dragged into things, I start pretending to be an arrogant, haughty young lady who looks down on everyone, but fawns over Gojo Satoru like a useless pretty face.

Gojo Satoru hates the rotten oranges. As long as he breaks off our engagement, I can run away and say goodbye to the plot!

Gojo Satoru has a fiancee, a little rotten orange who's been poisoned by the other rotten oranges. She's so boring he doesn't even want to look at her.

He hasn't been happy for long after escaping a place full of idiots when his fiancee is sent over and becomes his junior.

Arrogant and rude, an idiot who looks down on everyone.

Gojo Satoru can't stand her and ignores her every day. Everyone else at Tokyo Jujutsu High keeps their distance from her because of her personality, too.

Until... they hear her thoughts.

[This white-haired guy is pretty handsome, but he's kind of asking to get punched! Does he really think I like him? Pfft!]

Gojo Satoru: ?

He stares at the girl in front of him, who is acting friendly toward him, and falls into thought.

[What's the point of being the strongest? He was nearly killed by someone with Heavenly Restriction. If he hadn't awakened the Reverse Cursed Technique, he'd be dead.]

Gojo Satoru: ??

[Let me see, he gets cut in half in the end, too. Tsk, tsk, tsk!]

Gojo Satoru: Who gets cut in half???

[Is this his best friend, Geto Suguru? What a handsome guy!]

Geto Suguru: ? Did I just imagine that?

He looks at the girl beside him, who's just rolled her eyes at him with disdain, and falls into thought.

[What a shame. His ideals collapse, he kills everyone in a village, and defects. In the end, not only does Gojo Satoru kill him with his own hands, but someone steals his body, too. Tsk, tsk, tsk.]

Geto Suguru's pupils tremble with shock.

[He's Danish-Japanese? That physique, that face, he's my dear Daddy!]

Nanami Kento: ?

He looks at the girl in front of him, who's telling him to get lost with disgust, her nose practically in the air, and falls into thought.

[It's just a shame that the volcano head burns him half to death, then the stitched-up face cuts him into pieces.]

Nanami Kento shudders.

[Oh! A sunny, cheerful puppy boy! I like him!]

Hibara Yu watches the girl in front of him, who's expressionless and won't even look at him.

His face turns red.

[It's just a shame that before long, only his upper half is left. He dies so young!]

Hibara Yu turns pale.

I keep diligently playing the part of an arrogant young lady, waiting for them to hate me and for Gojo Satoru to break off our engagement.

But...

Geto Suguru, who is "forced" to become the future villain, fusses over me and protects me at every turn. Nanami Kento, who is cool-headed and stern, sometimes brings me little cakes. The cheerful and warm Hibara Yu acts like a dog wagging its tail, hoping I'll pat his head.

Even my white-haired fiance, who was supposed to break off our engagement, circles me every day, meowing and clamoring for me to hurry up and marry him.

What went wrong? I can't figure it out.

And... is this script fake? Why doesn't any of it match reality?!

Gojo Satoru, before: "That damn little rotten orange is always hanging around me. She's so annoying!"

"I have to find a way to get rid of her!"

Gojo Satoru, later: "Kanon-chan~ You're invincibly cute today, too~ The weather's so nice. Want to go on a date with your darling Satoru-chan~?"

"No, no, no! I want to marry Kanon-chan! Today!"

The white-haired fiance, who is good at throwing tantrums and rolling around, is professing his love to you

Accept or agree?

Me: (prying my eyes open to look carefully) (There really isn't a decline button) (Help, help, help!)

OOC warning, paired with Gojo Satoru!

Check out my completed stories next door:

"Becoming the Strongest After Gaining Nazarick's Guardians"

"My Cursed Technique Is Game of Life"

Theme: Ode to life