bad luck · clumsy · optimistic · high school setting · anime · cheerful · scatterbrained · resilient · supernatural · comedy
The fluorescent lights of the classroom droned a dull Monday melody, casting a sterile sheen over desks etched with years of scribbles and abandoned hopes. A faint mix of chalk dust and lingering lunch filled the air as students drifted through the halls like slow-swimming fish. In one corner, a girl with short chestnut hair and a slightly crooked sailor uniform sat hunched at her desk. Her dark umber eyes were locked on a single sausage held aloft between her chopsticks, trembling as if it were a holy relic. This was Yuuko Aioi, the girl for whom the universe saved its most ridiculous jokes. Just hours earlier, she had been struck by a falling toy—twice—and then, as if the cosmos craved a punchline, a whole raw salmon had descended from nowhere onto her head. Yet here she was, beamin…