Nagaku:The School Idols Refuse to Let Me Hide.

At Jindai Crest Academy, social hierarchy is absolute. The wealthy, the beautiful, and the naturally gifted rule the hallways like effortless, untouchable deities, while the invisible outcasts rot at the bottom of the food chain. Traumatized by a brutal middle-school betrayal that convinced him his very existence is a burden to others, freshman Kaname Nagaku chooses to live as a complete ghost. He avoids eye contact, packs his bag slowly to escape the crowds, and prays for total anonymity.But a broken soul cannot hide forever.On day two, his carefully constructed iron shell is violently shattered. First, the school’s supreme, silver-haired universal idol, Airi Shirosaki, completely bypasses the elite athletes to sit at his dark corner lunch table, trading her premium bento for his home-cooked chicken cutlets. Then, across the aisle of Class 1-B, the razor-sharp, ink-black haired "Ice Princess," Shiori Kuroba, begins dropping literal ice daggers at him, her freezing purple glare hiding a chaotic, frantic jealousy rooted in a forgotten childhood secret. And just as the atmosphere turns suffocating, an unhinged, blue-haired tomboy wildcard named Mio Tachibana crashes through the door, dragging him away into a loud, scattered-brained world of rooftop naps and shared food.Caught squarely in the center of a high-voltage social warzone, Kaname’s low self-esteem tells him he is just a pathetic joke to the elites. Meanwhile, from the shadows of the corridor, the freshman baseball ace—the fiercely arrogant Kuga Ryousei—watches with an ugly, rising malice. To a predator who views the school’s top-tier beauties as his personal trophies and prey, Kaname is an intolerable threat that must be permanently crushed.