Mizuho Shiromiya

The story begins with "Q-1 Grand Prix," a live television quiz show where contestants compete for a 10-million-yen prize. In the highly anticipated one-on-one buzzer final, an incident occurs during the last question. In the tense silence of the studio, Kizuna Honjo, facing off against the protagonist Mishima, slams the buzzer before a single letter of the question has been read—and somehow gives the correct answer. In any quiz, answering correctly with zero letters revealed should be impossible. So how is he able to answer correctly? As the mystery deepens, every viewer becomes a "participant" in the game.

Eriko Ichimura has an ordinary and unnoticed student life at her high school. Her only joy is to watch popular male student Akira Omi and imagine them being a couple. She writes down those thoughts on her social media account under the name of Lovesick Ellie. Akira Omi seems like a perfect guy, with good looks and gentle personality. One day, she witnesses Akira Omi spouting vulgar language and she realizes he is kind of like a two-faced person. Making things worse, her fantasy thoughts are discovered by him. He thinks that she is funny and he approaches her.

The school lives of Yano the unlucky schoolboy.

A woman's missing husband is declared dead after a body is identified as his, but he reappears a year later, raising questions about the corpse's true identity, insurance fraud, and her choices to protect her family.

Sabasaki Ryo is a shoemaker and salesperson who innocently approaches any woman who catches his interest. It makes no difference to him whether the woman has a boyfriend or a spouse, and although those around him deride him as a "player" and a "jerk," he does not care in the slightest.