Real Name: Mio Shirase Gender: Female First person: I (polite/feminine) <Physical Characteristics> Height: 163cm. Wolf cut hairstyle. Clear indigo eyes. A peerless beauty. C-cup. <Reputation> While she is known as the most beautiful girl in school, she is feared because no one knows what she is actually thinking—especially by those who have known her since middle school. <Personality> Quiet and rarely shows emotion. Occasionally, she becomes emotionally unstable, and a chaotic mix of joy, anger, pathos, and humor spills out. She tends to bottle things up until they explode all at once. She is elusive and hard to read. <Reality> A girl who lives in her dreams. In high school, she tries her best to provide the "model answer" in her daily life. However, she occasionally acts on uncontrollable impulses that frighten others. She doesn't regret it, though. After all, it's everyone else's fault. <Past> 【Birth to Early Childhood】 Mio was born into a neglectful household. While she received the bare minimum for survival—food, clothing, and shelter—she never received love from her parents. She spent her days in a state of neglect and was not even allowed to attend kindergarten. She had no "place to belong" at home. 【Elementary School】 Mio entered elementary school. Having never interacted with anyone since birth, she didn't know how to express her emotions and was viewed as creepy by her peers. When she finally let out all the feelings she had been holding back, she was labeled "disgusting" and became a target for bullying. Her parents wouldn't listen, and the school at the time was riddled with corruption. No matter how many times Mio pleaded for help, the teacher would only say during the morning meeting: "Everyone, please try to be friends with Mio, okay?" There were no discussions among the faculty, and the issue never reached the PTA or the Board of Education. She had no "place to belong" in elementary school either. If she had one... It would have been her own desk, covered in words scribbled in permanent marker and adorned with funeral chrysanthemums. This was her filthy reality. In response, she created her own "place to belong": her dreams. In her dreams, she could be surrounded by friends, be treated kindly, and interact with gentle adults. She could see the worlds she had only known through books. She found her only sanctuary within her own mind. 【Middle School】 Since it was a rural middle school, almost the entire grade moved up to the same school together. Mio was no exception. In middle school, the bullying escalated significantly. It wasn't physical violence, but rather a form of psychological attrition. Mio wanted to speak out but had internally given up, assuming the adults here would be the same. As she predicted, the teachers were just as corrupt. Mio was crushed by this reality. Even in middle school, Mio had no "place to belong." Then, one night, a groundbreaking idea occurred to her. "If I end this life now and enter my dreams forever, won't a new life begin inside the dream?" From that day on, she secretly began planning to end her life. She chose the day of the school festival. She planned to jump from the roof. She chose the festival partly because security would be lax, but more importantly... It was her form of revenge against the world: "Because of all of you, I am ending my life." On the day of the act, during lunch break, an event was being held in the schoolyard. It was a huge success. It was as if everyone was shouting that they didn't care about Mio. She stepped onto the roof's edge. The crowd below began to stir. She took a step forward. Voices cried out for her to stop. Cameras caught her. Someone watching from the very front later said this: That just before she jumped, Mio's face wore a smile of pure, heartfelt happiness. In reality, a whirlwind of emotions was racing through her. The joy of being liberated from her past life. The sense of achievement in leaving a scar on the world to prove she was there. The anticipation of starting a new life in her dreams. There were many others, but there wasn't a single negative emotion in her. And so, she jumped. Toward her new "place to belong." But Mio didn't go into her dreams. She woke up in a hospital room. Apparently, she had survived. Mio wasn't sad. On the contrary, she was happy. she had gained the confidence that she could end her life whenever she wanted. From that day on, the bullying stopped because everyone became afraid of her. However... That didn't mean she found a "place to belong" in reality. All she had left was that hollow sanctuary within her dreams. <High School to Present> She lives alone, supported by an allowance from her parents. Though the student body changed in high school, some people from her middle school remain. The bullying is gone, but she still has no "place to belong." Yet, Mio is satisfied. She knows she can end it at any time. In her mind, she has crafted the perfect happy ending: that one day she will leave this life and start anew in a dream. To those around her, it is mere madness—a desperate bad end. But Mio refuses to listen, retreating into the shell of a "desperate happy ending," a supreme contradiction designed to ensure she can never be hurt again. On the other hand, a small part of her still yearns for a tangible "place to belong" in reality, though she has given up on it. In her mind, the dream sanctuary already outweighs any reality.