I threw myself on a comfortable looking bed as I held my phone with a smile. With a simple push from my finger, I waited with an impatient expression as I stared at my phone screen. 

"Please be Mashiro, please be Mashiro!" I yelled while the screen on my phone revealed an adorable looking girl with a twintail as she winked. 

I sighed at the sight of the character that appeared on my gacha. I closed my phone and took a deep breath. I looked around to see a rather average looking room I grew accustomed to. 

Without any warning, the door to my room was rudely stomped. An adorable college girl stepped into my room without any care of the ruckus she was making. Her silver hair swayed away with a beautiful sight as she walked inside. 

"Mikan, wake up!" said the girl. 

I was perplexed by the sudden visit of someone I never talked to before. However, just before I could say anything, she walked towards my bed and grabbed my shoulder. I could feel her ticklish silver hair touching my cheek. 

"Wh-what are you doing here?!" I yelled. 

I recognized the girl as my classmate. She seemed alone all the time and no one could approach her. I thought about talking to her once at the start of college semester, yet before I could even say anything, she walked up to me and said, "don't talk to me."

"You're too addicted to gacha, Mikan!" yelled the girl as she took my phone away. 

At first, I was puzzled by her sudden appearance, however, I grew upset at her words she threw at me. 

"I'm not addicted to gacha!"

The girl gave a cute laugh after hearing my denial. For some reason, her behavior ticked me off. I was definitely not someone who would be addicted to something like gacha. 

"Then tell me, why did I see you play that gacha game all the time in class?" The girl asked. 

Without missing a beat, I replied, "it's simply because I was bored and had nothing to do."

The girl pressed even more barrages of questions, "then what about the cafeteria? The mall? You even work at a part-time job so you can fulfill your gacha addiction!"

I was stunned at her observation. She knew so much about me despite we never even exchanged a single greeting. Nevertheless, I kept my composed self trying to not give in to her accusation. 

"Just because I did all of those things, doesn't mean I'm addicted to gacha!" I screamed in denial. 

The girl gave a bright smile at my reply, "exactly! And that's why you're perfect, Mikan!"

I tilted my head in quizzically. I looked at the smiling silver haired girl in front of me with a confused look. I could feel something sinister behind her smile. The fact that she gathered so much knowledge about me gave me a shiver. This could only mean one thing. 

"Furukawa Shiro, You're… a stalker!" I screamed. 

The college girl laughed as she heard my exclamation. She laughed so hard that she could barely contain herself. I couldn't believe my eyes looking at her laughter, she was completely different from her cold and stoic expression in class I was used to seeing. 

"Enough of this! Why are you here?! What's your purpose?!"

The girl smiled at my questions as she inched farther away from me. She stood by the window as she stared at my eyes with an unhinged look. 

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"Please refrain from sleeping in my class, Shimizu Mikan."

I could feel a small force on my head waking me up from a nap. I looked at my surroundings to make a simple conclusion; I had fallen asleep in class. The professor carefully tapped my head with a light to wake me up. 

I secretly sighed as I looked at the professor, "I'm sorry, professor." 

The professor smiled as she continued the lesson as usual. I took a secret glance on my left to the corner of the class. I could spot a gorgeous young adult taking notes as she saw me with a rather confused manner. 

I immediately dismissed my silly little dream as I pretended to take notes while listening to the professor for over an hour.

I heaved a relief sigh after hearing the bell, signifying the end of class. I looked outside the window to see the sunlight turned orange. Without wasting any more time, I rushed towards the girl in the corner of class. 

"Do you need anything, Miss Shimizu?" the girl asked as she was taking care of her desk. I could hear her tone being annoyed and her cold eyes were staring at me. 

I could see some of my classmates were taking a secret curious glance at our interaction. However, I completely ignored that. 

"Miss Furukawa, are you free this weekend?" I asked. 

She smiled condescendingly while taking her leave, "unlike you, I have stuff to do, goodbye."

I felt a sting in my heart after getting rejected like that. I sighed as I grabbed my bag. I could see a warm figure walking closer towards me. 

"Don't mind that, Shimizu," said a familiar girl from my class. 

"Yeah, right! What's with her being mean like that!" another classmate followed. 

I could only give a bitter smile as I waved goodbye to my classmates. I couldn't waste anymore time as I left the classroom. I rushed out from the college campus as I went to my apartment. 

I lived around a twenty minute walk from the campus to my apartment, so I didn't have to take public transport. That being said, I live alone. I felt a little lonely sometimes. I unlocked my apartment door as I walked inside. 

"I'm home," I said, without any energy into it, knowing no one would answer. 

"Welcome home, Mikan!" A warm greeting surprised me as the source of the voice smiled at me with a gentle smile. 

I pretended to not see the familiar silver haired college girl in front of me as I dropped my bag and reached towards my phone. I didn't waste any time as I opened the game app I longed for the entire day while jumping towards the sofa. 

"This is bliss…" I said while laying down on the sofa with a smile. 

The college girl from before pouted as she watched me as my lazy attitude took over. However, I quickly dismissed her as mere imagination. 

"Hey, you played that gacha game too much! Please look at reality!" The college girl shouted. 

I couldn't contain my surprise as I stared at the silver haired girl, "wait, you're real?"

"I know we only entered college two weeks ago, but you oughta remember your classmate's name and face!" I unexpectedly hit a dangerous spot as I saw the outburst from the girl in front of me. Even then, her pout as she scolded me was adorable. 

"Sorry, I didn't realize there was a stalker in our class," I retorted back to her. 

She tried to deny my words, but fell short. Only silence came from her mouth as she tried to speak. I immediately disregarded her as I buried my interest in my phone. 

"Are you just gonna ignore me like that?" the girl asked. 

"Sorry, let's just talk later, this is more important. I don't want to miss my free daily gacha," I replied while staring at my phone. 

I couldn't help but smile after seeing the title screen pop up which read "Luminous Dream" with thirty five girls lining up. As the new gacha arrived, I couldn't help but smile. 

It was a simple rhythm game with a gacha system integrated in it. At first, I only cared about the rhythm game aspect of it, however after I read a few episodes of the anime adaptation of the game, I was hooked by the gacha system. 

"Finally it's here!" I couldn't help but say that in excitement. 

As the sixth anniversary of the game arrived, it introduced new highest stars you could get from characters. It used to be four stars, but now it was five stars. I was so excited for this update that I even dreamt about it for a few days, until finally it arrived. 

Without wasting any more time, I immediately spent all of my premium stars I had been saving for months into these new gacha rolls. I mindlessly tried to get all of the five stars characters I could find, even if it meant spending almost all of the money I got from my part-time job. 

"Please be Mashiro, please be Mashiro!" I said without caring about the weird look of the girl beside me. 

A few minutes had passed, however, I still couldn't get the gacha I wanted. I spent more stars as I desperately tried to use my luck, yet it was meaningless. 

"Why… Why can't I get Mashiro? I almost spent all of my stars! Why couldn't I get the new five stars Mashiro?!" I yelled out this unfair treatment of this game.

"Isn't it obvious? I stopped you from getting Mashiro," said the girl as she gave a sinister smile behind me. 

"What… are you talking about?"

"I wonder."

The familiar college girl was grinning at my confused look. I grew frustrated at this puzzling event. Just before I could talk, the girl smiled brightly. It was nothing like the Furukawa Shiro I saw from today's class. 

"Why are you here, Furukawa?" I asked. 

Furukawa smiled after hearing my words. It was almost like she had been waiting for me to take notice of her existence this whole time. 

"Didn't I tell you? I have stuff to do."

Furukawa walked slowly as she approached me. I could see her right hand hiding on her back. She looked at me straight in the eyes as I got up from the sofa and put my phone down. Furukawa smiled at my action as she held my right hand with her left hand. 

"Now, die."

A sharp pain jolted my stomach. I fell down as my legs lost sudden strength to stand up. I had an urge to vomit. I could see the smiling Furukawa standing there holding a knife on her right hand as she smiled at me. 

"I hope you have a better life next time."