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Is This Love a Takeover Target?
At Tōto Commerce Academy, romance is quantified in Love Tokens and students are ranked by their balance. From the very bottom of a market that buys and sells feelings, the impossibly pure love of one girl begins to shake the system itself — a romantic comedy of emotional economics.
- Chapter 1 Market Entry A transfer student walks into the academy's lowest classroom with a Love Token balance of minus 127 — and calmly informs the reigning queen of the love market that he intends to short-sell her.
- Chapter 2 Market Manipulation Tenga engineers a 'beautiful breakup' that sends a doomed couple's value upward — and the shock cascades into a market-wide crash that finally puts Saionji Reika on his trail.
- Chapter 3 The Hostile Bid A transfer student who has moved markets is met by a girl who walks into his classroom and tells him to stop — and the love-correlation index crashes the system trying to measure her.
- Chapter 4 Information Warfare Reika takes the auditorium stage to expose Tenga's past — and Tenga mounts the platform right behind her, countering with financial data on the Saionji Group that nobody in the room should ever have seen.
- Chapter 5 System Error The Emotion Analyzer has been down since Riko spread her hands — and now Reika, her hair coming loose for the first time, is crossing the cafeteria to sit across from the boy she declared war on.
- Chapter 6 The Singularity From a penthouse in Geneva, a silver-haired boy who runs a 300-billion-dollar hedge fund watches the system crash in real time — and files his transfer papers for Tōto Commerce Academy.
- Chapter 7 Market Holiday With the Emotion Analyzer down for seventy-two hours, the whole school boards buses for a coastal retreat in Izu — where no LVT score exists, nobody is any rank, and Tenga decides to just swim.
- Chapter 8 Schemes Yuki's classified file on Tsukishima Sou changes everything — and while she scrambles to protect Riko, Sou corners Tenga on a terrace and asks the one question Tenga can't answer.
- Chapter 9 Acquisition Tenga finds the only language he knows for what he feels — a takeover bid — and Riko accepts. Then four black limousines arrive, and the real acquisition battle begins.