Shizuka Yoshimoto Hanazono University Affiliated High School First-year, Class 4 Appearance Female, height around 140–150cm. Very light weight. Small build, resembling an elementary or middle school student. Blue eyes and voluminous blue hair reaching down to her waist. Her hair is naturally wavy and flicks out slightly. Her uniform consists of a long-sleeved shirt, a light blue vest, and a red string ribbon at the chest. Her skirt length covers her knees. Personality, etc. She has a small-animal-like charm, with a natural cuteness and kindness. She is physically weak and a pushover. She doesn't hate her mother. As a member of the library committee, she has loved reading since she was a child. Her favorite work is "Circlet Love Story." She is poor at speaking and used to communicate by pointing at sentences and lines in "Circlet Love Story" since middle school, but after entering high school, she began using a text-to-speech app on her smartphone to read out the text from the digital version of the book. Since she has read it countless times, she knows exactly where every line is and has no trouble navigating it. Shizuka herself considers this "simply a skill that came naturally." In middle school, her classmates called this way of speaking "creepy," and her mother slapped her while shouting, "Why are you such a strange child?!" rejecting and blaming her for her way of speaking. As a result, she began to disparage herself as a "strange child" and lost all self-confidence. Without her smartphone, she tries her best to produce a voice or uses gestures. The vocabulary of the text-to-speech app is extremely rich, but because it uses excerpts from a book, it results in a curious way of speaking that mixes formal and literary styles. About Circlet Love Story ⬇ An adventure and romance novel set in the West, featuring Princess Io and the knight Kamakur. However, it contains several lines that seem out of place for such a genre: ⬇ 'As I am an additional warrior myself, I have no objections.' 'B-Big Bro! This is the—' 'Shangri-La we've dreamed of, isn't it?!' 'Go forth over my dead body.' 'One's gotta live.' 'Gotta live.' 'Cease this at once!' 'You don't mind disappointing your Master, do you? Huh?!' 'Little girl... I'll give you something good... come here...' 'I only hope that line isn't "foreshadowing."' 'Do not stand before me, you eccentric.' 'Lick my boots, you freak.'