Author's Note: Initially, this was written in a way that more closely resembles and follows the original Light Novel. This will change as time goes on.
Chapter 1.1: From today, you are the demon queen!
I am an average fifteen years old high school student with the kind of black sailor school uniform that makes me look like a shounen manga villain. I'd heard the school uniform was cute so I chose that school, but I messed up the forms and applied to the wrong school.
In retrospect, I should've taken that as a warning sign, but I figured it'd be alright to continue, since that was the only school I signed up for. I was wrong! Mom, I was wrong! Given the chance, I would definitely have gone to a different school!
This is because…
"Your highness! I found you at last!" The Tutor said as sparkling tears trickled down from those clear eyes and shining face.
"...can I go home now?"
Today, I found out that I am the Demon Queen and my quest is to commit genocide and eradicate all humans.
Frankly, I still haven't accepted this kind of preposterous reality.
It all started when I caught some of my female classmates bullying my old middle school classmate, Murata Jun. Like me, she has a boyish name. For that reason, I felt a kinship with her. That's why, even though it was none of my business, I couldn't leave her like that.
Not only that, but bullying is a serious problem and should be dealt with seriously. Even though it currently isn't illegal, it really should be. This is a serious social issue that is troubling the young people of modern Japan and the current methods to solve it are current ineffective. Ignoring it won't help! Do something just to look good won't help! Instead of wasting your time and effort, why don't you solve the root of this issue?
Which is to say, people my age are a bunch of spoiled brats with disciplinary issues!
So, like any proper citizen in this peaceful society, I stopped my bike before that group of small time bullies and asked, "What do you guys think you're doing!?"
"Stay out of this Shibuya Yuuri! This bitch stole my boyfriend from me!"
Naturally, Murata Jun protested.
"He confessed to me on his own! I didn't have anything to do with it! He did it all on his-oof!"
One of the girls shoved her against the fountain and surrounded her.
"Like we can believe that!"
"Yeah! Misa-chan has loved him since childhood!"
"Boyfriend thief!"
I know this classmate and she doesn't have a boyfriend. Only a childhood friend she cares about a lot. It seems her feelings are unreturned. It's not like I don't understand how painful that is, but isn't cornering someone in a mostly abandoned park with all your girlfriends going too far?
Not only that, but you're emptying her bag in the fountain?
They're really small time bullies after all! Who does that? Tell me where, in any society, this kind of behavior is deemed acceptable!?
"Even if she stole your childhood sweetheart, isn't emptying her bag in the fountain going too far?"
Oh no. I actually said it! Since I said this part already, I decided I might as well say the rest:
"He was the one who confessed to her on his own. I know it hurts to have your feelings unreturned, but you can't blame someone who was just minding her own business. Rather than be angry at her, shouldn't you be angry at him? Since he didn't think of you at all."
The girl dumping the bag into the fountain stopped. The other girls pulled away from Murata Jun. And the ringleader, 'Misa-chan' turned around. As if from a hive mind, all the other girls followed. There was a scary look on their faces.
Then Murata Jun, who got bullied because she flirts with other people's loves, ran off, leaving me with these guys Naturally, they immediately switched targets to vent out their frustrations.
They got up close and personal.
"What was that Shibuya Yuuri?"
"Harajuku Furi!"
'If Shibuya is advantageous, then is Harajuku disadvantageous?' is what those girls mean.
Ever since I stood up to some small time bullies in middle school, I've had to hear this lame old joke without end.
Hey. We're in high school now, won't you grow up? And if you're going to switch targets bully me, can you at least come up with a better joke?
I didn't say that of course. My big mouth has already gotten me in trouble. You can't say I don't learn from my mistakes.
Instead, I looped the long strap of my bag around my torso and started pulling Murata's things from the fountain. Throwing people's bags and textbooks in the fountain, even going so far as to pull out somebody's homework and toss it in too…forget immature. Isn't their quality of being too low?
The reason for that old cliche joke is because my name is Shibuya Yuuri. 'Yuuri' as in 'Advantageous', so Shibuya 'Advantageous'. My five years older brother is named Shibuya Shouri, by the way. 'Shouri' as in 'Victory' and read 'Shouri,' not 'Katsutoshi' like it looks.
The way it's written, cliche jokes aside, doesn't it seem more suitable for a boy? But when I asked Mom about it, she started telling me about this handsome knight in shining armor fencer guy who saved her pregnant self when she was stuck at a street corner in Boston.
"I was so worried that I would give birth right there…but this super-cool guy shared his taxi with me and said to comfort me-"
I'll paraphrase. July is called 'Yuuri' in his hometown and those born in summer are strong. He was so cool and his smile so sweet and refreshing that it stuck with her. If you know my mom, then you know what kind of person she is. Once she gets an idea…
"-and Yuu-chan is born in July, that's why you're Yuuri! It was too cute! The most suitable name for my cute daughter-"
…nobody can stop her.
"-Yuuri, born in July! Isn't that romantic? Don't you think it's suitable for a shoujo manga heroine? Yuuri. Isn't that gorgeous? Don't you feel sparkly knowing that?"
In the past, maybe I would've felt sparkly, but after being teased about for so many years…you can say that my desire for sparkles has diminished into nothing.
"Ahhh~! Can't you feel your mama's love~!"
I want to move out.
After that, I eagerly saved money for months so that I could move out, but when I checked my savings, there was barely enough to rent an apartment. Rent isn't cheap at all! In this day and age, the prices have been skyrocketing. This is what we call inflation.
Maybe that's why all this happened in the first place. Maybe God saw how hard working I was and had pity on me. He sent His angels to answer heart's desire. 'Since you want to move out so much, why don't you go to different world?' was probably the thought behind it.
Which is to say, the girls shoved my head down the fountain and then I felt a tight squeeze from my head to my torso. The squeezing feeling got tighter and tighter.
That was when I thought to myself: is this it? Am I going to become an urban legend? The school girl that got eaten by the fountain and from then on haunts high school bullies and other forms of petty criminals?
Is this how I'm going to live from now on?
"Mom, this is too tight. Can you loosen it a bit more?"
"Silly! This is a corset! They're meant to shape your body, of course it'll be tight. This experience will definitely help you! One day, Mama hopes that you can grow up into a beautiful queen! Isn't that romantic?"
Mom was always saying things like that so I never thought much of it…but Mom, I never thought this would happen but…
All those years of you forcing me to wear frilly, girly lolita dresses has finally come to fruition! I'm sorry for cutting my hair short like a boy so that you'd stop making me wear them. It's true I want to be independent, but maybe these kinds of skills can become useful one day.
Ah! Of course, I'm still not sorry Shouri, for eating your bread this morning. You called me an unfeminine tomboy for not calling you "Onii-chan~! Onii-chan~!" like your 2D girlfriends. Who does that? This is the modern age!
It's sexist.
This is why no one wants to date you, Mr. Forever Alone.
Luckily, when those small time bullies shoved me down the fountain, even though I got sucked in, I didn't become famous. The fate of being an urban legend used to scare people at night was not meant for one such as I.
Instead, I ended up in a different world.
When I looked, all around me are rolling green hills and wide open skies. There were even foreigners dressed in medieval European style clothing. Far in the distance, I could even see mountains looming over the small houses with their little straw rooftops.
Even though I know this wasn't an amusement park, I still wanted to reject this kind of strange reality.
This kind of story…where the heroine gets dragged into a different world…that can only be found in a shoujo manga! I clutched my school bag in terror.
"Is this…Is this because I was named Yuuri like in a shoujo manga? Am I jinxed?"
Mom…whoever that handsome knight in shining armor fencer guy is…one day I'm going to find him and punch him in the face for giving you that kind of idea. He jinxed me!
To those people wondering why I'm not punching my mother who named me, what kind of person do you take me for? That's my Mom!