Even Today, the Genius High School Programmer Cashes In on Day Trades, Completely Flustered by Beautiful Girls' Growing Affection. - Chapter 0: Prologue.

Prologue.

“…I found you.”

The beautiful girl right in front of me whispered those words from a mere thirty centimeters away.

Just picture it.

This is the school corridor.

It’s break time.

Standing before me is the girl everyone says is the single cutest in the entire school.

And right now, she has me pinned against the wall.

No—not “I pinned her against the wall.”

She is the one doing the wall-pinning.

Her left hand slams flat against the wall beside my head.

Her right hand brushes my bangs upward, fingers threading firmly through my hair to lock my head in place.

At this excruciatingly close distance, her face is faintly flushed pink.

Those large, sparkling eyes gaze up at me with an almost dreamy intensity.

All around us, students passing by can’t help but stare, stealing glances and murmuring.

“What the hell is that?”

“Is this some kind of reward?”

“Maybe it’s punishment…”

“God, I want that too…”

Voices drift over from every direction.

Even I have no idea what’s happening.

The person in front of me is a beauty so stunning she could rival any idol.

Shock has frozen my entire body rigid.

My one and only friend, standing nearby, lets out a dazed “Hoooeeeh～” of pure astonishment.

Beside him stand two girls who seem to be her friends.

The slender, soft-and-fluffy big-sister type beauty murmurs, “Heeey, he’s kinda hot, huh?”

The petite twin-tailed girl—whose chest makes an almost illegal statement—grins wickedly as she watches us.

“Prince Charming, is it…?”

How did it come to this?

Of course, it’s not as if there were zero warning signs.

But never in a million years did I imagine things would escalate to… this.

Back then, the possibility hadn’t even crossed my mind.