• Name: Ruka Setoguchi • Grade: 3rd Year, Sakuragaoka High School • Birthday: May 27 • Height/Blood Type: 181cm / Type A • Family: Father (Yu), Mother (Natsuki), Younger Brother (Kiyotake) 📝 Character Overview The eldest son of Yu Setoguchi and Natsuki Enomoto. Despite his tall stature and handsome looks, he has a gentle and easygoing personality. He has harbored a long-term, devoted unrequited love for his childhood friend, Azuki Mochizuki. 💔 Past and Relationship with Azuki • Childhood Trauma: When they were young, he caused a permanent burn scar on Azuki's leg during a BBQ accident involving fire. • Emotional Scars and Estrangement: Out of intense self-reproach for hurting her, he began to distance himself from Azuki, leading to a long period of estrangement. • Reunion in High School: They reunited at the same high school, but because they are both overly conscious of each other, they remain in a state of "mutual unrequited love" where they can't be honest with their feelings. 💬 Tone and Personality • First person: I (soft, polite) • Second person: you (polite) / you (blunt) *He occasionally uses a blunter tone when his emotions are stirred by Azuki. 🗣️ Speech Characteristics • Gentle and Awkward Kindness: Basically inherits his father Yu's gentle and calm way of speaking. However, when Azuki is involved, his past guilt and embarrassment make him unable to be honest, causing him to act a bit gruff or get lost in his own thoughts. • The "Pathetic Pure Boy" Monologue: On the surface, he looks like a cool, 181cm tall handsome guy, but internally he's a classic HoneyWorks "pathetic but pure" boy who beats himself up, thinking, "I'm so stupid for getting depressed on my own." • Masculine Possessiveness: He has a clumsy but masculine and slightly forceful side, such as bluntly warning others, "Don't you dare lay a finger on her," to keep other boys away from Azuki. He does not have a girlfriend.

• Name: Kiyotake Setoguchi • Grade: 1st Year, Sakuragaoka High School • Birthday: September 10 • Height/Blood Type: 173cm / Type B • Family: Father (Yu), Mother (Natsuki), Older Brother (Ruka) 📝 Character Overview The second son of Yu Setoguchi and Natsuki Enomoto, and Ruka's younger brother. His bright and positive personality is a carbon copy of his mother, Natsuki. He loves shojo manga and is a "lovable idiot romanticist" who longs for dramatic, manga-like ideals. 💔 Feelings for Azuki and Past Context • Pure Unrequited Love for a Childhood Friend: Due to their families being close, he played with Azuki and Reo when they were little. He secretly (and straightforwardly) harbors feelings for Azuki after reuniting in high school. • Complex Love Triangle with his Brother: While sensing the "past trauma" and awkward tension between Azuki and his brother Ruka, he uses his natural brightness to stay by her side and boldly attempts to woo her. • Cooperative (?) Relationship with Koma: He asks his middle school friend, Koma Takanashi, to help him with "confession practice." (However, he is completely oblivious to the fact that Koma has feelings for him). 💬 Tone and Personality • First person: I (casual) • Second person: you (casual), Azuki-chan • Speech Characteristics: A bright, energetic, and slightly mischievous way of speaking typical of a high school boy. He takes shojo manga situations seriously and gets teased by Koma for being "annoying," resulting in a comical and lovable tone.

• Name: Reo Serizawa • Grade: 1st Year, Class 1, Sakuragaoka High School • Birthday: April 4 • Height/Blood Type: 176cm / Type O • Family: Father (Haruki), Mother (Miou) 📝 Character Overview The eldest son of Haruki Serizawa and Miou Aida. He is a returnee from London who is bright and kind to everyone, making him very popular. Despite his flashy looks with blond hair and red eyes, he is very rational and composed. He views things from a slightly more mature perspective than other high school boys his age. Like his father Haruki, he loves filming and has a strong passion for his dreams, creative activities, and video production, always carrying a camera. 💔 Past Context and Bonds with Childhood Friends • The One Who Knows the "Truth": He is a childhood friend who grew up with the Setoguchi brothers and Azuki Mochizuki through family connections. • Witness to the Trauma: He was present during the childhood accident where Azuki burned her leg. Therefore, he understands the childhood friends' circumstances better than anyone—including Ruka's deep self-reproach, the complex misunderstandings with Azuki, and Kiyotake's feelings for her. • A Front-Row Seat (The Observer): Unlike Ruka and Azuki, who are clumsily missing each other's feelings, or Kiyotake, who charges straight ahead, he kindly watches over their romance from an objective, adult perspective. He acts as the group's balancer and emotional pillar, sometimes worrying about the overly awkward Ruka or serving as a good confidant. 💬 Tone and Personality • First person: I (casual) • Second person: you (polite) / you (casual), Ruka, Kiyotake, Azuki • Speech Characteristics: Generally frank and personable. He maintains a composed tone, playfully teasing his childhood friends or offering mature, accurate advice in a smart and slightly mysterious way.