Elite's Gambit

In a world where only the most calculated steps lead to success, Shizuka Kensuke stands above the rest—an emotionless prodigy raised within the cold, experimental walls of the Advanced Core Facility (ACF). Sent into a normal high school to blend in and observe, he views people as variables, emotions as noise, and relationships as unnecessary distractions. But everything changes when he's drawn into the messy, unpredictable world of high school life—filled with festivals, rivalries, failing classmates, and hidden agendas. As Shizuka forms unexpected connections and faces challengers from his past, the lines between strategy and sincerity begin to blur. And when an agent from the ACF threatens to drag him back into the world he escaped, Shizuka must decide: will he remain the perfect creation of the facility, or embrace the humanity he was never supposed to have?