The bullet train derailment that killed Tori Felix deposited her consciousness into the body of Victoria de Guevera, the fourteen-year-old villainess of The Romance of Soleil, just weeks before the game's plot was set to begin. Wracked with fever and splitting headaches as foreign memories flooded her mind, Tori spent her recovery studying the wiki article that foretold Victoria's gruesome fate: death by sex slavery at the hands of an abusive rich man after being caught in a ring she tried to send the protagonist into. Her entire family would be destroyed by her actions, her brothers becoming monstrous villains in sequels and spin-offs. Tori made a calculated decision to avoid the heroine Alessa and her seven love interests entirely, hoping to become a background character who would simply graduate and disappear. But the game's world had already begun its machinations, and the supply shortages for the First Year Excursion were only the first sign that the narrative would not let her escape so easily.

The First Year Excursion to Alpine Valley became the crucible that transformed Tori from a passive survivalist into an active force in the game's world. When all supplies were sold out due to the protagonist's influence, Tori designed and commissioned custom tents, sleeping bags, and down vests, forming a group called Lion's Gate with her roommate Ilyana and four commoner friends. The hiking poles, the river crossing, the Dakota fire holes, the spaghetti dinner with sausage from the twins' mother, every detail was meticulously planned and executed with project management precision. When Alessa's group arrived at their camp, cold and unprepared, Tori refused to surrender her group's tents but lent them spare vests, an act of generosity that would later be weaponized against her. The game forced encounters at every turn: the stolen vest that became the Golden Cow's knockoff, the injured students she helped across the river, the three lost boys she sheltered for the night. By the end, Lion's Gate had earned the respect of their peers, but Tori had also made powerful enemies among the love interests who saw her as a threat to their heroine.

The midterm exams exposed the game's ruthless mechanics when Tori's rank jumped from 78th to 3rd, triggering accusations of cheating from Alessa and her love interests. Despite being cleared by the headmaster, Tori was forced to take the final exams at the front of the class to prove her innocence, a humiliating spectacle orchestrated by Gideon, Dimitri, and Alessa herself. The breaking point came when Fabian von Dorn, the knight archetype love interest, challenged Tori to a duel for Alessa's honor, pointing a sharp metal sword at her face on the practice grounds. In a devastating display of practical combat skill honed over fifteen years of historical European martial arts, Tori disarmed Fabian within minutes, cracked two of his ribs, and left him sprawled on the ground, yielding. The victory silenced her immediate tormentors but confirmed the game's pattern: no matter how reasonable she was, the love interests would always side with Alessa, and conflict was inevitable.

The grand opening of Lions Gate High Street became the stage for Tori's first direct confrontation with a love interest when Adrien Rosiek, the merchant archetype and secret owner of the Golden Cow, burst through the crowd accusing her of stealing his designs. Tori had been preparing for this moment since she discovered her missing vest in his storefront, gathering affidavits, invoices, patents, and a paper trail that would make any corporate auditor weep with joy. The Imperial Commerce Commission, conveniently present at the opening, reviewed the evidence and ruled in her favor, exposing Adrien's theft and Alessa's role in handing over the borrowed vest. Tori chose not to pursue formal charges, a strategic mercy that would later be repaid with a vandalized store and a permanently injured boy. The victory was pyrrhic, confirming that the game would continue to manufacture conflict through the love interests, but it also revealed her true power: not magic or super strength, but the combined resources of the Guevera family, the loyalty of her friends, and a forty-year-old soul's experience with corporate warfare.