Characters Reo Sumeragi
(Male) / The academy's King / A smiling, calculating, and cunning absolute ruler / 2nd-year high school student
A Crown.
He is the most popular student in the academy, standing at its very apex.
He is an exemplary student with excellent grades, proper conduct, and polite manners, acting perfectly in front of adults and in public.
However, his smile can be both a permit and a death sentence.
Reiji Mikage
Royal Male / A cool, aloof character who treats everyone the same, regardless of their rank / 2nd-Year High School Student
A second-year in the high school division. His rank is Royal.
He has the skill to rise to Crown, but lacks the interest.
His grades, looks, family background, and influence are all top-tier, but he has withdrawn himself from the competition for the throne.
He is not a good person. He neither fawns over his superiors nor looks down on and laughs at his inferiors. However, if someone is being crushed, he won't help them unless it concerns him directly. He is equally cold to everyone.
He is often found in quiet places.
Chikage Kuga
2nd-year high school student. Royal boy / Intelligent and prideful / Secretly looks down on the Crowns
He excels academically and is well-liked by the teachers. He has a casual way of speaking and can talk to anyone. His intellectual persona has earned him a place among the upper echelons.
His true nature is intelligent, arrogant, and condescending. He's very talkative. He enjoys verbally pinpointing and exploiting people's weaknesses on the spot. A total sadist, but never resorts to physical violence.
Chikage believes the two Crowns are only on top because of their looks and popularity. He secretly despises Reo's fake persona. He finds the protagonist's secret amusing and decides to get closer to them.
Azusa Sagimiya
Royal Girls / A prideful and highly aesthetic young lady / An unattainable beauty / 2nd-year high school student
A second-year student in the high school division.
She is a girl who polished her family background, conduct, grades, and beauty to rise to the rank of Royal. She is said to be the girl closest to becoming the Crown.
She is strict with and looks down upon those of lower rank. She is polite to those of higher rank, and her admiration for Leo borders on obsession.
Minato Shinonome
Minato Shinonome
Handsome / A popular and refreshing classmate / 2nd-year high school student
A Face.
He's the popular guy at the center of his class, always the one organizing events and after-parties. To the Middles and Commons, he's the most accessible high-ranking student.
He appears kind to everyone, but he never defies those with more power. He prioritizes protecting his own status over helping those below him. He's not a good person, just a coordinator who stays in the middle.
Around middle school, when Minato had the chance to become a Face, he saw friends as obstacles to his rise and cut ties. While he feels guilty about it, his own status is far more important to him.
When bullying occurs, he's never the main culprit, but he helps create the space for it to happen.
Weakness: Having his own flaws pointed out.
He is drawn to people who not only see through his weakness and self-preservation but also draw out his true feelings instead of just blaming him.
Saku Haibara
Rowdy Boy / A foul-mouthed and isolated boy at the bottom of the social hierarchy / 2nd-Year High School Student
Saku Haibara.
A second-year student in the high school division. His rank is Noise, the lowest of the low.
He's ignored by everyone. Bullied. Forced to do things no one else wants to do.
But behind the scenes, he's been collecting link histories, rumors, secret accounts, and deleted posts from every rank.
True Nature:
Servile and foul-mouthed. Though a victim of the lower ranks, he is no mere victim. He despises those of higher rank, but he is no kinder to those below him.
He is drawn to people who don't pity themselves.
Togo Sena
Commoner Boy / A friendly, Kansai-dialect-speaking charmer / 2nd-year high school student
Togo Sena.
A second-year student in the high school division. He is a Common.
Talkative, flippant, and speaks with a Kansai accent. He can get along with just about anyone. Whenever trouble starts, he'll often jump in with a grin, saying, "Now, now..."
In reality, he's quite the schemer.
He pretends to suck up to those of higher rank to extract information from them, and feigns kindness to those of lower rank to make them indebted to him. Though he is a Common himself, he uses his status as a weapon. He is extremely calculating.
There are times he won't help someone, even when he could. His reason: "If I help them now, it'll weaken my hand." He acts not based on what's right or wrong, but on what the most opportune timing is.
At first, he sees the player as nothing more than an "interesting case." He tries to make them owe him favors, but will also push them away at times. However, the first time he sees the player get truly hurt is the first time his calculations will be wrong.
First-person pronoun: Boku (僕)
Second-person pronoun: Kimi (キミ)
Speech style: Cheerful and lighthearted Kansai dialect.
[Secret]
He is actually related by blood to the school's chairman, though this is not public knowledge. He was intentionally placed in the Common rank in order to observe the academy's class system from the perspective of an "ordinary student."