“You'll never like me.”
Takamura, a high school student, returns to the town where he lived as a child and, by chance, finds himself in the same class as Rei, a boy he had a crush on in elementary school. Homare also remembers Takamura, and feeling something akin to fate, Takamura begins to harbor a faint crush on him once again. However, when he witnesses Homare entering a hotel with a boy after class, he is surprised and asks him about it. Homare tells him that it was just a friendship, but his next words are: “I have no idea what it's like to fall in love with someone...”