Erika Hinata

is a supporting character in New Normal. After a series of unfortunate encounters with Haruto Hata, she begins to a develop a romantic interest in him and becomes a rival for his affection against Emi Natsuki.

History
Hinata is a first-year high school student. Born a few years after the pandemic, she has only ever known the world as it is post-pandemic.

Hinata is first introduced having lunch at school. Rather than a communal cafeteria, students eat lunch in private stalls, separated from one another by walls and short doors. Hata, looking for an empty stall to eat in, mistakenly believes Hinata's to be empty and walks in on her while she is eating without her mask. Hinata is extremely upset by this and begins to beat him with her lunch tray, call him a pervert, and cause a scene. She is only stopped by Natsuki who grabs the tray and defuses the situation.

Later, she is introduced as the newest member of the Drone Racing Club, by the president of the club and her older brother. There she sees Hata, calls him a pervert and once again causes a scene, drawing the ire of her brother to Hata who he believes must have done something appropriate to his younger sister. Hata tries to explain the situation, but Hinata drags him away to prevent him from telling anyone that he saw her mouth. She explains that he must not tell anyone that he saw her mouth. To explain the situation, she instead offers to the other members that he saw her panties, seemingly less embarrassing for her than having had her mouth seen. However, while later practicing with the drones, she is curious as to whether or not Hata thought her mouth was cute. When he responds that it was, she is elated.