Building a Dessert Kingdom at Totsuki Academy

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Coming soon: Nagi's Neighbor Is a Magical Girl. The synopsis is below. Please add it to your reading list!

About the title:

Arisu Yuzu has always wanted to rebuild a dessert kingdom like Saint Mary's Academy in her own world.

But Totsuki Academy, the pinnacle of gourmet cuisine, already has a mature system and deep pockets. Rebuilding a kingdom, or even creating a country within a country, would be a huge hassle.

When the Central Gourmet Organization suddenly arrived at Totsuki Academy, Arisu Yuzu knew her chance had come.

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"Which does the Director-General value more, Nakiri-san or her God's Tongue? If it's the latter... I'd like to recommend someone with the same talent for admission."

"Her name? Ichigo. Isn't that cute?"

The thirty-six stratagems, the twentieth: fish in troubled waters.

About the setup:

A certain esper once said that Arisu Yuzu had been handed the script of the world's universally adored heroine.

So it was perfectly normal for some strange thing called a System to bind itself to her.

But there was a little mishap.

The System that had transmigrated between worlds collided with a dessert spirit from the dessert world.

The System, which had originally tried to bind itself to her, ended up binding itself to the aspiring actor in the next room, whose character was that of a cool guy.

The key point: Sweetheart Idol System.

Sweetheart and dessert aren't all that different. They're both sweet, right?

Anyway, to make it up to her, the dessert spirit, which had landed in the wrong world, swore to help her become the world's greatest pastry chef.

Arisu Yuzu, who had never lifted a finger around the kitchen: Stay away from me!

Her brother, forced to play the sweetheart: ...My character image is ruined!

About the White Knight and his girlfriend:

After the Central Gourmet Organization descended on Totsuki Academy, the White Knight and his girlfriend clashed over their opinions many times.

The White Knight believed in abandoning the self. Edison invented the light bulb, he argued, but it was the factory workers who made them on an assembly line who illuminated the entire night.

Arisu Yuzu argued back: Abandoning yourself is also an extreme form of selfhood. Turning every chef into an assembly-line worker will stifle the next Edison's birth.

The White Knight liked to sulk after every argument with his girlfriend.

Especially when he lost. Once, he spent the whole night tossing and turning, trying to figure out how to win next time.

At dawn, he finally wrote a little note and slipped it to Arisu Yuzu:

You plucked down the moon, then complained it was lonely.

Arisu Yuzu: That's not how you use that line!

[Arisu Yuzu]

[Motto: I want the moon to come to me.]

Reader's guide:

1. No evil female rivals.

2. The romance and career storylines take up most of the book. There won't be any cooking scenes.

3. The heroine is a Mary Sue: rich and powerful, stunningly beautiful, and loves stirring up trouble. In a game, if she gets the Cinderella role, her first instinct is to overthrow the king and take the throne herself.

4. Pairing: Tsukasa.

5. Lots of romantic tension and will-they-won't-they moments.

Please add my new novel, Nagi's Neighbor Is a Magical Girl, to your reading list!

Heroine's synopsis:

The magical girl Michieda Kira, from the Middle Ages, awakened a supernatural ability and was shipped off to Yokohama.

And so, Yokohama gets another iconic scene. Plus one, plus one, plus one.

The Moonlight Tiger combines with the "Dash" Card. A headstrong charge meets the Agency for Special Powers' special iron gate built by the Michieda family, in an ultimate showdown. The magical girl wields the "Power" Card, but even after demolishing the iron gate, she can't hit the white tiger. In the end, her six-foot-two, white-haired neighbor makes the painful sacrifice of his game console and lands a perfect kick on the tiger's head.

The Water Card was perfectly happy at the bottom of the sea, but then humans had to throw a white whale into the water for an ultimate showdown. The magical girl ended up taking advantage of the situation.

The magical girl is taken by the "Return" Card to the time of the Dragon Head War. In this land of one ultimate showdown after another, she says to Katanosuke against the setting sun, "I don't think I can use the 'Time' Card anymore. Even if I go back to the day before I arrived, I'll come back again. Otherwise, I'll never see Oda Sakunosuke again."

On the night of the ultimate showdown between the two dragons, "Dragon's Head" and the "Earth" Card, the "Tree" Card winds and spreads, while the "Fire" Card races along its branches and burns up the whole sky. At last, the magical girl rises above all others.

---Then she runs away from Yokohama to Tokyo with her little boyfriend to live as an ordinary high school girl.

Hero's synopsis:

Nagi is a student at Rikkai University's attached elementary school. He knows how to work the system so he can slack off.

For example, if he waits until his third year to join a club, he can earn club credits, and graduating students in their third year need to spend much less time on club activities than they did during the first two years!

He'd planned to happily coast along, but the tennis team's coach, who'd been introduced to him, spotted his incredible athletic talent at a glance and forced him onto the court.

By the time the tennis U-17 World Cup champions were being awarded their medals, he still had no idea how things had ended up this way.

To avoid being bothered by hot-blooded tennis idiots, he went to Tokyo's Hakuhou High School after graduating, bringing along his magical friends. Not a single one of the school's sports clubs was famous.

Then some weird purple-haired guy dragged him into the soccer club, talking about dreams and bonds and promising to take him to the World Cup.

Theme: Eat well and love life.