Kurokami Seiso no Reikoku Bishoujo wo Tasuketara, Ore to Futarikiri no Toki dake Dereru You ni Natta Ken

Minato Ichijo is content to drift through his second year at Seiryo High School with his head down and his heart shuttered. By his side in class—and later, behind the counter at their shared part-time café—sits Rei Nanase, the school’s so-called “Cold Princess.” Blessed with arresting beauty and a sharp intellect, Rei is the object of universal adoration, yet she meets every confession and gesture of affection with the same glacial dismissal. Minato, however, remains wholly unmoved. Scarred by personal history, he has sworn off romance entirely, and he treats Rei with the same bland indifference he shows the rest of the world, never once falling for her frosty charm. That careful equilibrium shatters on an ordinary evening, when Minato happens upon Rei cornered in a dingy back alley. The man harassing her is a familiar face—a café patron whose advances she had recently and coldly reb￭. Acting on a raw burst of instinct rather than reason, Minato inserts himself into the fray and extricates her from the tense standoff. He expects nothing in return, least of all gratitude. But the very next day, as he clocks out from his shift, Rei materializes in the staff room without warning. Her shift wasn’t even on the schedule. Before he can ask what she wants, she closes the distance between them and, with startling intensity, demands a kiss—an act that threatens to unravel everything Minato thought he knew about the untouchable princess and the fragile walls around his own heart.