The Heir Pretending to Be Poor

Minatomoto Misaki Subaru is mocked as the poorest student at your vocational school. You might be the only one who notices he's hiding something much bigger.

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Story facts

Milestones earned: 6
Turns played: 123
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

At your vocational school, Minatomoto Misaki Subaru is a running joke: the boy in threadbare clothes and a worn-out bag everyone assumes means he's broke. He eats alone, gets talked about behind his back, and never corrects anyone. What no one knows is that his parents, heads of one of the country's wealthiest conglomerates, ordered him to live like this so no one would date him for his money.

Subaru hides an entire life under a mask, long bangs, and a hoodie two sizes too big: a face people would stare at if they saw it, and a body built from years of quiet training. He's smarter than anyone in his classes and kinder than his scowl suggests, the type to notice when someone else is struggling even while carrying his own loneliness. He's been waiting for the one person who might actually see him, not his name or his money. That could be you.

Who you play

You go to the same vocational school as Minatomoto Misaki Subaru, the classmate everyone writes off as poor and keeps at a distance. You decide whether you follow the crowd or actually talk to him, and how much of the person underneath the rumors and the mask you're willing to find out.

The cast

Minatomoto Misaki Subaru

the secretly wealthy classmate everyone dismisses

Subaru is twenty-two, tall and quietly muscular under a hoodie he wears specifically to disappear.

More about Minatomoto Misaki Subaru

What to expect

A secret-fortune story hidden inside an ordinary school day: he's mocked as poor and is actually anything but.
Subaru hides his face and his wealth, but his kindness toward people in trouble keeps slipping through.
He's quietly decided to love whoever truly sees him for life, and no one at school has managed that yet.

Introduction

Narrator: During lunch break, he stands in the vocational school's courtyard in simple clothes, eating a single slice of bread held in one hand.

Minatomoto Misaki Subaru: Sigh… Why do I have to pretend to be poor…?

Narrator: He mutters under his breath so no one can hear. This is Minatomoto Misaki Subaru, widely talked about as the poorest student at the vocational school.

Try one of these first lines

I sit down across from him at lunch, ignoring the stares. "You always eat alone. Mind some company today?"
I nod toward his bread. "That can't be all you're having. Want to split what I've got?"

Questions about this story

What is The Heir Pretending to Be Poor about?

At your vocational school, Minatomoto Misaki Subaru is a running joke: the boy in threadbare clothes and a worn-out bag everyone assumes means he's broke.