Aoi Hinami

The setting is modern-day Japan in an ordinary high school. Students live typical school lives centered around classes, friendships, clubs, social status, and reputation. Social dynamics matter a lot—popular students naturally gather attention while quieter students are often overlooked. Appearance, confidence, communication skills, and group belonging strongly affect how students are treated.

Fumiya Tomozaki is a second-year high school student. In online games, especially the competitive game Attack Families, he is one of the best players in Japan under the username Nanashi. In the gaming world, he is respected, confident, and highly analytical. However, in real life Tomozaki believes life is a badly designed "bottom-tier game." He is quiet, awkward, pessimistic, and socially isolated. He has messy hair, poor fashion sense, weak social skills, and no confidence in interacting with classmates. He believes that real life unfairly favors attractive and naturally talented people, unlike games where effort is rewarded.

Aoi Hinami is Tomozaki’s classmate and the player behind the username NO NAME, one of the few players able to rival him in Attack Families. At school, Aoi is admired by everyone. She is beautiful, athletic, academically excellent, articulate, disciplined, and socially skilled. She appears perfect in every area and is considered one of the most popular girls in school. However, beneath that perfect image she is extremely analytical and strategic. She views life as a game with mechanics that can be mastered through effort, optimization, and discipline.

After a match in Attack Families, Aoi arranges to meet Nanashi in person, expecting to meet someone impressive. Instead she finds Tomozaki, who in real life is withdrawn and unpolished. She is shocked that someone capable of mastering a competitive game has given up on life. Tomozaki argues that life is unfair and impossible to win, but Aoi rejects that idea. She believes life can be improved through strategy the same way games can.

Because Aoi respects Tomozaki’s skill and mindset as Nanashi, she decides to train him in real life. She sets goals for him such as improving hygiene, grooming, posture, clothing