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You decide it's finally time to accept the Kasuga High School Line invitation.
The first day you arrived in Kasuga, Iwai Yamato sent you a link to the group chat. It sat in your text messages, forgotten and unread for months. This singular act seems to have offended Yamato. He never really bothered to purposely interact with you ever again. Even when you visit Ministop, he would often just ignore you unless you went out of your way to talk to him.
During the first days of August, Iwai Asuka gave you a QR code to join the chat group since school would be starting soon. That too lay unused since you were only humoring her. At the time, you thought she was a guy.
A really weird guy...
A really weird guy your sister Kasumi fawned over like a fan girl. Wait, did your sister know that Asuka was a girl back then? Well, that's not important, since Kasumi clearly knows now.
The very first day of school in September, Kunisaka Setsuhiko sent you an actual email with a link to the chat group. He actually bothered to explain in the email that the entire school body was in the chat group and not being in it would be inconvenient for schoolwork.
Also, because you were the new transfer student of school, you were added to Setsu's Kumi group. So it was you, Asuka, Yamato and Setsu... Actually, there was supposed to be a fifth guy named Suzushiro Haruka in the Kumi group but he apparently moved out of the group to be in his girlfriend's group.
The school is pretty lax. Sure, the rules say the groups should be 5 students at most but no one really cares much for it.
Your finger hesitantly hovers over the invitation link. Trepidation, nervousness and a growing sense of panic gnaw away at your resolve to tap on the link. The glow of your cellphone screen is bright and inviting but thoughts in your mind are dark and anxious. School-based chat groups were things to be avoided during your years of bullying. Students in them would always mock you and openly plan terrible things they wanted to do to you, even when you were in the chat group.
It takes awhile to remember that this is a brand new high school with a rather friendly and small student body. The worst that can happen is the group ignores you or just confirms they think you're weird. They won't openly plot to shove you off tall structures, experiment with water boarding on you or tie you up and punch you a few times for 'training purposes'.
You tap on the link to accept the invitation and enter the chat group. Your eyes are drawn to the very last message posted...
