Chapter 1

"**Senpai, you're kinda...**" (センパイってちょっと…, *Senpai tte chotto…*) is the first chapter of the *Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro* manga series.

## Summary

After the end of class, a second year high school boy walked into the library expecting to find it empty as usual, only to discover that a group of four girls were loudly socializing in his usual spot. Timid and introverted, the boy sat a few tables away from them and tries to quietly finish his homework. However, his plan backfires when he accidentally knocked his bag onto the floor, spilling some pages from the manga he has been drawing. Before he had time to react, the manga is spotted by one of the girls who immediately called over her friends to look at it. To the boy's horror, the girls begin making fun of its content and quality, until a text from a friend prompts all but one of them to go.

The remaining girl introduced herself as a first year student and guessed that he was a year her senior ("Senpai"). The girl then began to read the manga out loud: the story of Siegfried, a skilled swordsman who's bad at getting on in the world, and Elizabeth, a beautiful knight from an enemy country who was also his ally and lover. The girl pointed out that Senpai and Siegfried have an obvious resemblance and that he probably projected himself onto the character, going on to describe them both as pitiful.

The girl especially pointed out a scene in the manga in which, after the female lead stated that she has long abandoned being a woman, the protagonist caressed her hair calling her beautiful and making her blush. She proposed to reenact the scene and, after showing her martial arts skills and repeating Elizabeth's exact line, she invited him to play Siegfried's part. However he was too shy to touch her hair, prompting the girl to comment that that's how the scene should have been made, as only confident men could do that while a virgin-looking character like him wouldn't. The girl called Senpai's character "flat" making him cry a little, and he tried to avoid eye contact in order not to made her notice he was crying. However, she forced his back against the wall and called him "gross," eventually reducing him to tears.

She then gently wiped his tears away with her handkerchief and, after cheerfully apologizing for having bullied him, get away leaving him mumble alone on how a kōhai made him cry.

## Characters

* Hayase Nagatoro
* Senpai
* Gamo-chan (unnamed)
* Yoshi (unnamed)
* Sakura (unnamed)

## Trivia

* As of this chapter the two main characters met each others but had yet to introduce to one another.
	+ In the following two chapters Senpai only referred to Nagatoro as "that girl" or "kōhai" (meaning "junior", the opposite of "senpai").
* When Nagatoro's friends (all unnamed and partially unseen in this chapter) commented Senpai's manga the only two with spoken lines are Gamo-chan and Yoshi, however only the first criticized it, while the latter actually complimented it stating it was "Cool" and "Better than One Piece", only at that point Sakura intervenes saying simply that Yoshi's statement was a little too much.
	+ Also, when Gamo-chan said that a friend of theirs, Yuko, was at Mister Donuts and proposed to go there, Sakura responded that she has to go to her shift, implying that she has some sort of part-time job.
* Despite all of Nagatoro's friend are partially shadowed in this chapter, each of the three are quite recognizable for their trademark attire and hairs, except for Sakura who has significantly longer hair.
* Nagatoro giving Senpai her handkerchief after having made him cry is a trope previously used in Issue 1.