A Popular Girl Confessed to Me, the Loner—Thinking It Was a Prank, I Tried to Scare Her Off… But She Was Actually Serious.

This is just a prank… right? Then why does she look so shy? And why are all her popular friends being… nice?

“Wait, what? A confession? From that popular, beautiful girl in our class? To me??”

One day, out of the blue, Hiyori Amano—the radiant center of the class, a textbook extrovert—confesses her love to Masato Manabe, a self-proclaimed bottom-tier loner who lives in the shadows of the school’s social ladder.

“I really like you! Please go out with me!”

A typical loner might get their hopes up. But not Masato. Nope. Clearly, this is just a punishment game. One of those typical extrovert jokes, right?

Fine then. If it’s a prank, I’ll turn the tables. I’ll go full-on socially awkward and weird her out until she regrets ever messing with me!

With that resolve, Masato unleashes his ultimate “cringe introvert” behavior… But for some reason, Hiyori just keeps liking him more and more.

And her extroverted friends? They’re actually good people. Not a single one of them makes fun of him.

“…Wait. Could this… be for real?”

A distrustful, self-deprecating boy and a genuinely smitten, sunshine-like popular girl—this is the start of a heartwarming romcom where everything is the exact opposite of what he expected.