By A Slight Mistake Chapter 1

01.

Soft light pours down, the beginning of a gentle spring.
Having calmly appeared from a large hall were graduates with flowers adorning their chests and diploma in their hands.
They similarly have a bright expressions and there were hardly any crying students overcome with emotions.
That might also be expected.
This is after all a private school with an integrated educational system from kindergarten to university.
There is practically no student who takes entrance exam to transfer other high school upon graduating middle school.
And next month, no, just after a few weeks, the high school entrance ceremony will be held by the same people.
But the people being seen off seems like they are not leaving either.
Several female students gathered around, holding each other’s shoulders while shedding tears.
Graduates watching them expressed wry smiles.
They were probably thinking, “we were like this last year, too.”
It’s an emotion that is incomprehensible to me.

I, Sagara Mizuhime, have the so-called 『memories of previous life』.
I became aware of it during the autumn of my first year in middle school.
It was during the time I got involved in a certain incident, wandered between life and death, and somehow managed to escape death and recover consciousness.
I will turn down that name.
Because I am not “her” anymore.
As far as I know, “she” properly graduated from a four-year university, found an employment and safely completed her second year in it.
I do not know what kind of events happened to “me” afterwards.
In a typical light novel though, they seem to often remember the cause of death and the events until reincarnation.
I was never completely absorbed in reading light novels so I cannot affirm it.
When I woke up, toward the nearby unfamiliar people who seem to be family, I did not panic.
That is because I was still hazy from waking and I was under the impression that it was a dream.
No matter how many times I woke up on the hospital bed, the surrounding circ.u.mstance does not change.
When I finally began thinking something is strange, I noticed my name hung from the bed rail and became surprised.

『Sagara Mizuhime』

I recognize this name.
And then, from the strangers whom I a.s.sumed to be family, there was an older brother close in age, whose face I also recognize.
I knew his name, too.
The older brother named Sagara Yak.u.mo should originally be one year older than me, but I was surprised that he somehow became five years older. I almost shouted, “That’s wrong!”
I arranged my memories which was gradually becoming chaotic and felt aghast.

The Sagara Mizuhime I know resembles the one “she” knows. And there were also complete differences.
According to the memories of my previous life, the situation I am living in right now is just like the setting of the otome game 『Seventh Heaven』, with some differences here and there.
Being a game otaku and having voice fetish, “she” antic.i.p.ated for Seventh Heaven which was produced together with her favorite ill.u.s.trator and voice actors, and even expressly pre-ordered it.
But when she opened it, dusk came.
The heroine was too disappointing.
It was a regrettable game with too many plot holes and the heroine’s personality was severely criticized.
Still, she fully completed it thanks to the fact that the setting of other characters besides the heroine was quite good, and also for the sake of her favorite ill.u.s.trator and the skillful performance of the voice actors that made her feel as if she could eat five bowls of rice.
Incidentally, it had a sequel.
The t.i.tle was 『Seventh Gate』.
She was too disappointed so she did not purchase that.
She heard from rumors that an eight door will open once you completed 『Seventh Gate』.
She was interested but the heroine didn’t change so she just gave up.
Right, it was for the stability of her own mind.

As for what kind of game it is, the heroine Toujou Rin lost her parents to an accident during the winter of her first year in high school. Her maternal grandparents took custody of her and she became the so-called 『ojou-sama』.
They said her parents eloped.
Her mother was the daughter of Toujou family and her father was the child of a servant. It was a really stereotypical story.
The present head of the Toujou family who learned of his daughter’s death, took custody of the orphaned Rin. She was transferred to s.h.i.+nonome Academy to receive appropriate education as a daughter of the Toujou family.

s.h.i.+nonome Academy had a group of handsome guys known as the Seven Knights. Rin, who had the nature of attracting rouble, became acquainted with them and was able to reach out to them. This is also another common setting.
Those Seven Knights of the academy are very closely related to me, Sagara Mizuhime, a stalking horse-like existence to Rin.

Contrary to the severe criticism towards Rin, Mizuhime’s evaluation was very high.
To the extent that there were complaints like, “she should just be the heroine”.
However, Mizuhime’s setting is a stalking horse no matter how you look at it.
This is because she was the little sister of Sagara Yak.u.mo, one of the top two best routes.
The Sagara Mizuhime that is famous for being a perfect young lady, was a quite a distant existence from the present me.

Because the current me is, very unfortunately, one of the academy’s Seven Knights with the reputation of being a perfect Prince.

At present, I just graduated from middle school but I was already filled with trepidation at the opening ceremony two years later, which was the start of the game.
Please don’t make me a capture target.
It was a very fervent wish.