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Kanetsugu Gasou is a supporting character who appears as a significant obstacle in the romantic pursuits of the protagonist. Her full name is written as 雅宗 兼次. She is a secondary student, around sixteen to seventeen years of age, and her birthday is on July 1st.
Physically, Kanetsugu has black hair and is of short stature with a slightly overweight and round figure, a trait she shares with the protagonist's own childhood appearance. To maintain her deception, she binds her chest and wears loose, baggy clothing to conceal her feminine figure. After her true identity is revealed, she abandons this disguise and adopts the standard female school uniform.
Kanetsugu comes from a family that was once wealthy but has since fallen into poverty. As the holder of the family name, she is the seventeenth head of the Gasou household, a position that carries a legacy of prestige without the financial means to support it. Her motivations are largely familial; she is deeply committed to providing for her younger sister, Sumire Gasou, and securing funds to pay for her sister's medical care and to repair their dilapidated home. This desperation drives her to devise a scheme to exploit the wealthy Adagaki family.
Her primary role in the story is that of an impostor. Capitalizing on a vague childhood promise made between their grandfathers, Kanetsugu approaches Aki Adagaki claiming to be her long-lost first love, a boy named Masamune. She successfully deceives Aki and her household, inserting herself as Aki's fiancé and creating a major complication for the real Masamune Makabe's plan for revenge.
Kanetsugu is characterized by her cunning, ambitious, and deceitful nature. She is highly manipulative, adept at maintaining a facade of innocent charm to win over Aki's friends and student council, while subtly undermining the real Masamune and framing him as the aggressor. Despite her dishonesty, her actions are not born of malice but of a pragmatic and indifferent drive to secure her family's future, showing little hesitation in playing with the emotions of others to achieve her goals. She also shares a specific phobia with Masamune, displaying a deep fear of insects and cockroaches.
Her central relationship is with Aki Adagaki, whom she pretends to love but views merely as a means to financial security. She is a direct rival to Masamune Makabe, whom she usurps in identity; Masamune often refers to her as the Impostor. Her younger sister, Sumire, is the emotional core of her motivation and the person she works to protect. The character Yoshino Koiwai is also entangled in her scheme, as Kanetsugu blackmails her into cooperating by threatening to expose Yoshino's own secrets.
Over the course of her arc, Kanetsugu experiences a notable development. Her deception is ultimately exposed by Masamune and a confrontation leads to Aki recognizing her feminine features. Following her failure, she does not face severe punishment but instead undergoes a personal transformation. She liquidates her family's remaining assets, sells the mansion, and begins living a simpler, more honest life in an apartment with her sister. With the consideration of the school, she takes a part-time job selling bread, a role she comes to sincerely enjoy. In her third year, she confidently wears the female uniform and continues her life as an ordinary girl, even teasing Masamune in a friendly manner, indicating she has moved past her deceptive ways.
In terms of abilities, Kanetsugu has no physical combat skills or supernatural powers. Her primary skill is her high level of manipulation and social cunning. She is an accomplished liar, capable of maintaining a false male identity and a fake romantic relationship for an extended period. Her ability to quickly assess social situations and turn groups of people, like the student council, into her allies demonstrates a keen, if unethical, strategic mind.
Physically, Kanetsugu has black hair and is of short stature with a slightly overweight and round figure, a trait she shares with the protagonist's own childhood appearance. To maintain her deception, she binds her chest and wears loose, baggy clothing to conceal her feminine figure. After her true identity is revealed, she abandons this disguise and adopts the standard female school uniform.
Kanetsugu comes from a family that was once wealthy but has since fallen into poverty. As the holder of the family name, she is the seventeenth head of the Gasou household, a position that carries a legacy of prestige without the financial means to support it. Her motivations are largely familial; she is deeply committed to providing for her younger sister, Sumire Gasou, and securing funds to pay for her sister's medical care and to repair their dilapidated home. This desperation drives her to devise a scheme to exploit the wealthy Adagaki family.
Her primary role in the story is that of an impostor. Capitalizing on a vague childhood promise made between their grandfathers, Kanetsugu approaches Aki Adagaki claiming to be her long-lost first love, a boy named Masamune. She successfully deceives Aki and her household, inserting herself as Aki's fiancé and creating a major complication for the real Masamune Makabe's plan for revenge.
Kanetsugu is characterized by her cunning, ambitious, and deceitful nature. She is highly manipulative, adept at maintaining a facade of innocent charm to win over Aki's friends and student council, while subtly undermining the real Masamune and framing him as the aggressor. Despite her dishonesty, her actions are not born of malice but of a pragmatic and indifferent drive to secure her family's future, showing little hesitation in playing with the emotions of others to achieve her goals. She also shares a specific phobia with Masamune, displaying a deep fear of insects and cockroaches.
Her central relationship is with Aki Adagaki, whom she pretends to love but views merely as a means to financial security. She is a direct rival to Masamune Makabe, whom she usurps in identity; Masamune often refers to her as the Impostor. Her younger sister, Sumire, is the emotional core of her motivation and the person she works to protect. The character Yoshino Koiwai is also entangled in her scheme, as Kanetsugu blackmails her into cooperating by threatening to expose Yoshino's own secrets.
Over the course of her arc, Kanetsugu experiences a notable development. Her deception is ultimately exposed by Masamune and a confrontation leads to Aki recognizing her feminine features. Following her failure, she does not face severe punishment but instead undergoes a personal transformation. She liquidates her family's remaining assets, sells the mansion, and begins living a simpler, more honest life in an apartment with her sister. With the consideration of the school, she takes a part-time job selling bread, a role she comes to sincerely enjoy. In her third year, she confidently wears the female uniform and continues her life as an ordinary girl, even teasing Masamune in a friendly manner, indicating she has moved past her deceptive ways.
In terms of abilities, Kanetsugu has no physical combat skills or supernatural powers. Her primary skill is her high level of manipulation and social cunning. She is an accomplished liar, capable of maintaining a false male identity and a fake romantic relationship for an extended period. Her ability to quickly assess social situations and turn groups of people, like the student council, into her allies demonstrates a keen, if unethical, strategic mind.