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In a high achieving academic world where rankings define everything, Kiyoshi Takahashi has never lost first place. Shiori Hoshino has never stopped trying to take it from him. Brilliant, stubborn, and endlessly competitive, the two have spent years locked in a silent war of perfect scores and late night study sessions. Every mock exam, every ranking board update, every sharp remark only tightens the tension between them. To everyone else, they are the school's most infamous academic rivals. To each other, they are the only opponent worth facing. Surrounded by their sharp tongued, endlessly amused friends Ayaka, Yua, Mizuki, Kaito, Itsuki, and Takumi, Kiyoshi and Shiori navigate the pressure of top tier exams, the weight of expectations, and the dangerous realization that the one person they can't seem to beat is also the one they can't stop thinking about. Because some scores aren't written in red ink, and the only ranking that truly matters is the one neither of them knows how to calculate.