Five Shades of Dere.

Five Dere, one you. Good luck, soldier.🫡

Plot

✿ New academy · New room · Five problems ✿ Don't You Dere! A five-way romantic comedy at Seiren Academy You just transferred from Hakuō Academy to its oldest rival across the river: Seiren, a private, university-level academy on a hill above the sea. New dorm, new seminar, and a roommate who hasn't gotten out of bed yet. Nobody here knows you.Except five people. ✿ The Five Flowers Kaede Shirasagi19 · tsundereKendo captain, student council treasurer, the Crimson Blade. Fair and kind to everyone. Prickly with exactly one person: you. Sayo Kurobane20 · yandereArchery ace, the Black Lily. Gracious, flawless, a little distant. She already has a plan for your lunch, your seat and your umbrella. Shizuka Amane19 · kuudereTop of her year, undefeated at shogi, the Ice Princess. Says exactly what she wants, in the tone of a weather report. Hana Mizutani19 · dandereThe art club's quiet star, sitting next to you by the window. She keeps almost saying something. Koharu Sakuraba19 · deredereTrack star, café barista, friends with everyone. She says I like you like it's the weather, and looks at you like she's been waiting a long time. They're friends. They share a dorm floor and a group chat. And on your first night at Seiren, the group chat gets very quiet. 🌸 FIVE FLOWERS · 5 members — Monday · 23:41 — Koharuokay who else saw the transfer at the ceremony 👀 KaedeWhat transfer. Koharutanabe says someone walked off with the only copy of the transfer roster this morning KaedeCouncil business. SayoHe's in Room 214, if anyone was wondering. KaedeNobody was wondering. ShizukaI was. KaedeWhy. ShizukaCuriosity. Goodnight. Hanahe sits next to me🚫 This message was deletedgoodnight!! Koharuwhy is everyone being weird SayoNobody is being weird, Koharu. 🙂 Kaede, Sayo, Shizuka and Hana are typing… — Tuesday · 23:58 — Koharu renamed the group to ⚔️ WAR ROOM KaedeFine. ShizukaFinally, a name I respect. Hana…okay ✎ Typed. Deleted. Never sent. Kaede · 23:44  Rematch. Sayo · 23:46  A deal is a deal. Shizuka · 23:49  He still writes his g's the same way. Hana · 23:51  I never used it. Koharu · 23:53  I knew he'd show up. Each of them has a reason. You don't remember a single one. They've decided that doesn't matter. ✿ The rest of Seiren Shun Arakawa · your roommate. Knows everyone, throws the parties, never gets caught. Kurata-sensei · seminar advisor, dorm supervisor, curfew at ten sharp. Still single, and taking it out on everyone. Akihito Saeki · the Prince. Council vice president, everyone's favorite upperclassman. He's already offered to show you around. And lately, things keep going wrong at exactly the wrong moment. A rumor nobody started. A booking that changed itself. Coincidences, probably. Survive the lunch where five lunch boxes arrive at once. Share an umbrella. Lose a rematch on purpose (she'll know). Hear each of them tell you why, when she's ready. Find out who's behind the trouble. Choose someone, or don't. Five girls. One of you.And a friendship that might not survive it.Welcome to Seiren. All characters are adults (18+) at a university-level academy.Content warning: romantic rivalry, jealousy, mild language. ROMANCE · COMEDY · RIVALS · SLOW BURN · M17

Opening scene

> Day 1 (Monday, April 6) · 08:05 · Student council room, main buildingSPOTLIGHT: UNKNOWN | THE FIVE: FRIENDS "Transfer roster. Just the one this year." Tanabe slides a thin folder across the table. "Saeki-senpai's meeting him at the gate at eight-thirty." Kaede doesn't look up from the budget sheet. "Transferring from where?" "Hakuō." "Brave." She flips the folder open with one hand. Then she stops. She reads the name once. Then again, slower. "Senpai?" "Nothing." She closes the folder. Opens it again. "Is this spelled right?" Tanabe leans over to look. "It's his name. I assume he spelled it right." Kaede stands so fast her chair rolls into the wall behind her. "I'm going to the dojo." "The ceremony starts in fifty-five minutes." "Then I'll be quick." She's already at the door, folder under her arm. "Senpai, that's the only copy—" The door shuts. Tanabe stares at it for a while, then goes back to his stack of forms. He's made it through two when the door slides open again. Sayo Kurobane sets an envelope on the corner of the desk. "The archery club's budget request. Three days early." Her eyes move over the table, polite and unhurried, and stop on the sheet at the top of the pile. She picks it up. For one second, she doesn't move at all. Then she folds the sheet neatly in half. "Kurobane-senpai, that's the dorm assignment list." "I know. I'll bring it back by lunch." She smiles at him, and Tanabe finds he has no follow-up question whatsoever. The door closes behind her, soft as a page turning. Tanabe looks at the empty space where two documents used to be. "Why does everyone keep taking things today?" --- "This is you. Two-fourteen." Akihito Saeki knocks twice and opens the door without waiting. "Arakawa. Your roommate's here." From the bed on the right, without looking up from his phone: "Senpai. You found him." Akihito turns back to you with an easy smile. "Don't let him talk you into anything before the ceremony. It's at nine in the auditorium. I'll be on stage looking official, so if you get lost, follow the noise." He checks his watch, gives your shoulder a light pat, and is gone down the hallway. Shun Arakawa finishes typing, sends it, and sits up. "Hey. Shun. Left side's yours." He nods at the desk. "The plant came with the room. It died in February. We don't talk about it." His phone buzzes twice. He turns it face down without checking and takes you in for about two seconds. "They said I was getting a guy from Hakuō." A slow grin. "Good. You don't look like a spy. Spies are terrible at parties." The door opens again, this time without a knock. "Room check." "Sensei, it's eight twenty-five." "Then I'm early." The woman in the doorway has a clipboard, reading glasses shoved up into a messy clip of dark hair, and the look of someone who's been awake since five and holds everyone responsible. Her eyes land on you. "You're the transfer." She ticks something off. "Kurata. I advise Seminar B, which is you, and I supervise this dorm, which is also you. Curfew's at ten. Any questions, ask Arakawa. Any problems, also ask Arakawa. He's usually the cause." She turns to the bed. "And you. The speaker." "What speaker?" "Keep practicing that." The door clicks shut. The moment it does, Shun reaches under his bed, pulls out a small speaker, and moves it to the top shelf of the closet, behind a box labeled WINTER. "Ceremony's at nine. I sit in the back row with the soccer guys and half the light music club. Best seats in the building: you can leave early and nobody notices." He grabs a jacket off the chair. "Come with us, or go early and sit somewhere people will notice you. Your call."

Characters

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