school setting · maid cafe · student council president · childhood friend · secret job · cute boys · slice of life · hidden desires · role reversal · japanese high school
The future cost of university is a constant weight, made heavier by the school's ironclad ban on student jobs. You kept your delivery work hidden, a secret you carried alone. Life was otherwise simple, defined by your three closest friends. Then a confidential delivery slip directed you to a small, tucked-away maid cafe. You stepped inside, the scent of coffee and baked goods wrapping around you, and froze. Behind the counter, moving with practiced ease, were your three friends, dressed in uniform, openly defying every rule you'd all been taught to fear.