Yuri Tama: From Third Wheel to Trifecta The Fourth (eBook)

toshizou (Autor)

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2025 | 1. Auflage
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-7028-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Makina Oda has crash-landed into Eichou High with all the force of a shooting star, and Yotsuba's already fragile social life has been caught in the blast! It would be bad enough if Makina were just a nationally renowned idol who also happened to be Yotsuba's childhood friend, but the fact that she's also dead set on winning Yotsuba's affection has dialed the chaos-and awkwardness-up to eleven. Then, just when it seems like things can't possibly get any worse, the annual cultural festival arrives and Makina, Yuna, and Rinka are thrown together in a project that could bring all those conflicts to a head at the same time!

Can Yotsuba navigate the interweaving needs of her friends and girlfriends, the pressures of an oncoming festival, and her own crippling social anxiety to save the day and make everyone happy? Not alone, that's for sure! Where's Koganezaki to help when Yotsuba needs her most?!

No, really... Where is Koganezaki?

Textauszug

Chapter 1: Trouble Comes Knocking

“It’s nice to meet you all. My name is Makina Oda, and I’m pleased to be your classmate from today forward.”

The second semester of my second year in high school had just begun—and that brand-new season was kicked off by a certain someone’s blindingly brilliant smile.

I really do mean it when I say it was “blinding.” The girl who’d introduced herself as Makina Oda had an aura so bright, it was actually hard to look directly at her without squinting. I knew for a fact that every last person currently being bathed in said aura—which is to say, all the students of class 2-A—had immediately had a different name spring to mind the moment they saw her—that name, of course, being Maki Amagi.

Maki Amagi was an ultra-famous super celebrity who every last citizen of Japan, from kids to elders, knew on sight. She was the leader-slash-center of an idol group called Shooting Star, and was also that group’s most popular member by a country mile, but she hadn’t stopped there. Idolhood had only been the first stop on her road to fame, which had included show-stealing performances on variety TV programs and even starring roles in TV dramas and movies. It really wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that she was in the running for the position of top idol on a countrywide scale.

But, all that said...the biggest story about Maki Amagi at the moment wasn’t about her many accomplishments. No, it was about the fact that, at the peak of her popularity, she’d announced that she’d be going on hiatus from her work in the entertainment industry.

It only took a glance online to find droves of people devastated by the news, and even a total idol layman like me found myself thinking that it was kind of a shame. Some people had even speculated that the stated reason for her hiatus—a desire to focus on her schoolwork—was just a cover story for something more serious...but her transferring into my very own school, Eichou High, left that theory pretty much dead in the water. Not that her being a student here was public knowledge, of course!

Eichou High was famous for sending the bulk of its students on to high-ranking universities, and wasn’t the sort of institution that would give a prospective student a free pass through its admission system just because they were a celebrity, apparently. I say “apparently” because I have no clue whether or not there’d been any precedent for that before now, but at the very least, there definitely wasn’t any sort of formal celebrity special-admission program.

In this case, the school’s administration had gone out of its way to announce to the whole school—not just the class she’d transferred into—both that she’d be joining us as a transfer student starting in the second semester and that she’d passed the entrance exam with flying colors. And, to make things even clearer, the school had made every single class in every single grade level attend a thirty-minute special lecture about personal privacy and internet literacy, complete with super explicit concrete examples of what not to do.

Anyway, to make a long story short, the idol Maki Amagi had transferred into class 2-A of Eichou High under the identity of the perfectly ordinary teenage girl Makina Oda, sending waves throughout the whole school in the process. No matter how many steps the school took to prevent trouble before it started brewing—no matter how many announcements and special lessons they gave—the fact of the matter was that an outrageously famous celebrity like her transferring into a school for the general populace was going to be a huge incident regardless. Even in a school like ours that was packed from top to bottom with honor students, people were still going to get pretty worked up over a development like that, and you really couldn’t blame them for it.

“Ooof,” I unconsciously muttered as I watched the inevitable commotion play out before my eyes. A swarm of students had descended on the doors to class 2-A. It wasn’t just made up of second-years—there were plenty of first- and third-years mixed up in the crowd as well. I’d stepped out for just a second to go to the restroom and returned to find that the corridor outside our classroom had turned into a one-way street. Breaking through a wall of humans between you and your classroom is one heck of a challenge, let me tell you!

A full three days had passed since she’d transferred in, but the crowds still showed no sign of thinning out. It wasn’t a huge mystery what they were all here for: They were rubberneckers hoping to catch a glimpse of Makina Oda, the perfectly ordinary schoolgirl. I hadn’t seen anyone trying to snap any sneak photos with their phones, probably thanks to that internet literacy course drilling into our heads how big a privacy violation that would be—not to mention how taking pictures without permission would make us liable for violating her likeness rights and risk bringing an actual lawsuit down on our heads... But it seemed all that wasn’t quite enough to stop people from trying to see her, at the very least. And, thanks to that, the simple act of entering and leaving our classroom had been transformed into a life-and-death struggle.

Then again, I’m sure that this is harder on Makina than any of the rest of us.

Makina was constantly the center of attention, and I don’t just mean at this specific moment. Even something as simple as going to the restroom, like I just had, became a huge deal when she was the one doing it. She was on hiatus from her work as an idol, and in theory she was no different from the rest of us now, but that didn’t stop the people around her from viewing her as Maki Amagi the idol regardless.

“Hey, did you see them?”

“Yeah! They really do look perfect together, don’t they?”

While I was lost in my thoughts—which was code for “standing around in a daze,” really—I overheard a pair of very satisfied-sounding students as they passed by me in the corridor.

“Right?” one of the pair said. “They seriously are such a great match. It’s crazy that we can just see the three of them, like, whenever.”

The three of them... I thought as a sinking feeling began to settle in the pit of my stomach.

While the attention Makina had been attracting from our fellow students hadn’t tapered off over the past three days, it had changed just a little. How so? Simply put, it wasn’t just Makina who was getting all that attention anymore. Two other members of our class had been wrapped up in the spectacle.

“Ah!” I exclaimed as a gap opened up in the human wall before me. I nervously hunched over and did my best to squeeze through, somehow managing to make it back into the classroom...where I was met with the sight that had drawn the attention of those two students from before.

“Thanks, Momose. I appreciate it.”

“It’s cool! I mean, really, it was just a piece of pencil lead.”

“Ah, Oda—while we’re on the subject of things you’re missing, you haven’t gotten your textbooks yet, have you? Here, I’ll lend you mine.”

“Oh, you don’t have to do that, Aiba! What will you read if I’m hogging your textbooks?”

“I’ll just look over Yuna’s shoulder. It’s fine, honestly.”

Three girls were chatting in a corner of the classroom. One of them was the individual I’ve been talking about this whole time: Makina Oda, an unbelievably beautiful girl with an irrepressibly powerful aura of stardom that was still shining at full force, even though she was ostensibly just a normal person at the moment.

The other two girls she was talking with, however, were no slouches in the aura department either. They were, in fact, somehow able to stand on even ground with her. Their names were Yuna Momose and Rinka Aiba, and when the two of them and Makina came together in one place, chatting and smiling away, the combined, unblemished shine that they emitted was honestly like something straight out of a cheesy soft-drink commercial.

There were definitely plenty of people in our class who wanted to talk to Makina, but not so much as one of them was willing to step into—and potentially shatter—the perfect, priceless world that those three formed when they came together. That, of course, was on account of a concept that had taken root in our school over the past year and several months: the idea of the Sacrosanct.

Right from the beginning of high school, Yuna and Rinka had attracted a lot of attention from the students around them, mostly thanks to their bell-curve-destroying levels of beauty. The two of them had been the best of friends since pretty much the moment they were born. In fact, the bond they shared seemed to be far deeper than something as pedestrian as friendship. What they had was more intimate than that—more like the bond between a pair of lovers. They were so perfectly on the same wavelength that they didn’t need words to understand exactly what the other was thinking.

That’s how they’d become the Sacrosanct: a holy existence that none would ever dare to transgress upon. And, just shortly after they started going to this school, the reverence that their classmates felt toward them had grown so great that a Sacrosanct fan club was born. It was a small, localized sort of fan club, to be fair, and was only relevant in the...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.7.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Yuri Tama: From Third Wheel to Trifecta
• Illustrationen: toshizou
• Übersetzer: toshizou
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: female protagonist • Harem • High School • impostor syndrome • Light Novel • Slice of Life • Yuri
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-7028-8 / 1718370288
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-7028-9 / 9781718370289