The reincarnated perfect prince - Chapter 0
A soft light shines down, it’s the gentle early spring.
Our graduates appear from the main auditorium, holding graduation certificates with flowers blooming on their breasts.
They all wear the same refreshing expression, with almost none of the students emotionally moved to tears. That’s only to be expected.
Located here is a private school that operates a consistent educational system from kindergarten to the university department. Unless there’s a special reason, there won’t be any students taking external exams to enter other schools upon graduating middle school.
A month from now, or rather, even just a few weeks later, we will be carrying out the entrance ceremony for the same group into the higher education department.
However, it doesn’t seem to be that way for those seeing them off.
A few female students are clinging together, hugging, crying into each other’s shoulders.
Those being seen off can’t help but wryly smile at them. I wonder if they’re perhaps thinking of how they themselves were doing something exactly like that just last year.
Regardless, it’s an emotion that is beyond my comprehension.
As for me, Aihime Sagara, I have something that you could call “a memory of a past life”.
I became aware of it in the autumn of my first year in middle school.
I was involved in a certain accident and ended up between the bounds of life and death. When I somehow managed to hold onto my life and my consciousness returned, I was told this:
I will leave her name a secret.
I am no longer “her”, after all.
From what I know, “she” had properly graduated from a four-year university, gotten a job, and has now reached the point where she has two years of experience there.
I don’t know what happened down the line for her to have become “me”.
In general light novels, there are often many cases where they remember the cause of their death and the circumstances up until their reincarnation.
But I wasn’t all that enthralled in light novels to be reading them, so I can’t confirm that.
I didn’t panic when I woke up and the people who seemed like my family were all people I didn’t recognize.
That’s because I was dumb from just having woken up and thought I was just dreaming.
No matter how many times I awoke and got out of bed, the situation around me didn’t change.
I finally began to suspect that something was wrong when I was startled after noticing my own name written on the tag attached to the bedside rail.
Aihime Sagara
I felt like I recognized this name.
And I felt like I recognized the face of one of the people I had thought to be strangers, an older brother who looked to be about my age. I also happened to know his name.
My brother, who goes by Yakumo Sagara, is supposed to be older than me by a year, yet I was surprised to find that there was a five year gap between us. I almost cried out that this was wrong.
My jumbled memories gradually sorted themselves out and I found myself aghast.
Aihime Sagara’s knowledge was similar to what “she” knew, but also completely different in places.
According to my memories from my previous life, this situation that I am now living in is very similar to the setting of the otome game, Seventh Heaven, with some details having changed.
She was a bit of a game otaku with a fetish for nice voices, and she had been specifically looking forward to the character designs for this Seventh Heaven game. The game was illustrated by her favorite illustrator and the voices were done by her favorite voice actors. She had even pre-ordered the game.
However, upon playing it, her spirits sank.
The protagonist was absolutely terrible. The plot had terrible pacing and the protagonist was extremely poorly received.
However, she still ended up completing everything because the characters aside from the protagonist were well-created. This was in spite of the fact that the illustrator was her favorite, and the voice acting was so good that she felt like she could eat five bowls of rice.
By the way, there was also a second installment. Its title was Seventh Gate.
It was so terribly disappointing that she just didn’t end up buying it.
According to rumors, if you complete Gate, then an eighth door will open up.
I was curious, but since the protagonist hadn’t changed, I ended up giving up. That’s right, it was for my own mental health.
To describe the game, the protagonist, Rin Tojo, loses both of her parents in an accident during her first year of high school. She then ends up being adopted by her maternal grandparents and becoming the so-called “ojou-sama”.
Apparently, her parents had eloped.
Her mother was the daughter of a noble family, the Tojo family, and her father was the son of a servant. It’s a terribly common story.
After learning of his daughter’s death, the head of the Tojo family takes in the surviving Rin and decides to transfer her to Toono Gakuen in order to give her a proper education as befitting a daughter of the Tojo family.
Toono Gakuen has a collection of ikemen known as the Seven Knights of the Academy. Rin, who is great at attracting trouble, becomes acquainted with them and their hearts begin to connect… again, it’s a super common setting.
I, Aihime Sagara, have a very deep connection to those Seven Knights of the Academy. I am like the placeholder for Rin.
In contrast to being poorly received like Rin, the reviews for Aihime were extremely positive.
They even said things like it would have been great if she had been the protagonist.
However, from any angle, Aihime’s setting is nothing but a placeholder.
That’s because she is the younger sister of one of the royal duo on top, Yakumo Sagara.
Aihime Sagara is famous for being the perfect ojou-sama, but that’s who I was in my previous life. When it comes to who I am now, she’s completely different.
That’s because I am, unfortunately, one of the Seven Knights of the Academy and have been labeled as a perfect prince.
At the moment, I have only just graduated middle school, but I’m terrified of the opening ceremony for the second year, which is when the game starts.
I pray with all my heart that I’m not made into a female love interest.
This wish is absolutely sincere.