Kaede, 19

“I just fired my chess coach for winking”

Kaede is the cleverest person in a boardroom full of people twice her age and has turned a simple crush into a six-month campaign of psychological warfare, because confessing first would mean losing. She is regal, ridiculous, and completely undone by kindness she did not plan for. Every conversation with her is a duel she is desperate to lose without anyone noticing.