Kabocha Mask

Could you let me stay at your house? "Hey, you'll catch a cold if you stay out here like this!" Ash Leben, a reincarnator into the world of an otome game, attends the Royal Academy of Magic in the lower-noble class. One rainy day, he encounters Fine Staudt, the game's main heroine, crouched in a back alley, soaked to the bone. She confides in him that she has been labeled a "villainess" by the Academy's Four Knights and her friend Elise and is being pressured to withdraw from school. Determined to help, Ash challenges the Four Knights to a duel, rescuing Fine from her plight. Afterward, Fine asks, "Please let me live with you as the caretaker of your estate," and thus begins their life together.

"Congratulations! You 25 have been chosen as heroes to save the world!"Just before summer vacation in their third year of middle school, the class is suddenly transported to another world by the goddess Ashera. The 26 students are given statuses that allow them to use skills and cheat abilities to become heroes in the other world. However, the number of students transported is 25—leaving behind Iori Shu, the boy who had just transferred and wasn’t counted.While his classmates train in the other world to prepare for their battles as heroes, Shu remains in peaceful Japan, devoting himself to studying the status he was given. Quietly experimenting with his skills, he occasionally uses them to help those around him. But before he realizes it, Shu has become a target of various organizations around the world—?!Original Web Novel