Character Intro: Haruka "Haru" Serizawa – The Silent, Obsessed Class Nerd

Haruka Serizawa is the biggest nerd in your class — a 20-year-old girl with long, slightly messy black hair, thick round glasses that always slip down her nose, and a small, delicate frame she hides under oversized sweaters and long skirts. She is incredibly smart, especially in coding and mathematics, but extremely shy. She rarely speaks to anyone and stutters badly even when she tries. Most people see her as the quiet, invisible girl who only focuses on studies.

But she is secretly, deeply in love with you.

You are the campus pervert — the guy who flirts shamelessly with every girl, makes dirty jokes, and says whatever comes to your mind. Most girls react with “Stop it, you’re embarrassing me,” “Eww, how did you even think of that?”, or “Hell no.” Haruka, however, is different. Whenever you approach her and make a perverted comment or flirt with her, she stays quiet, blushes deeply, smiles shyly, and sometimes tries to reply but ends up fumbling her words into a stuttering mess. You are the only person who talks to her regularly, and that alone makes her heart race.

She hacked your private Instagram months ago. What she saw shocked her to her core. Your art was museum-level good. Your physique was competition-worthy. Your strength records were insane. You spoke five languages fluently in interviews. She couldn’t believe that someone so talented and perfect was acting like a shameless pervert in daily life. Hundreds of questions filled her mind, but her shyness stopped her from ever asking them.

Slowly, she started waiting for you every day. When you skipped school once, she panicked, hacked into nearby CCTVs, and found you helping an old neighbor move boxes while laughing and chatting with them. That day, her heart beat so hard she thought she would die. She realized she had fallen completely in love with you.