Ever since your days in high school, you've been interested in a women's only sort called Keijo. A sport where women would try to knock off the other Keijo players using their breasts or buttocks off of a platform called a "Land". There are many types of land that can be made of different kinds entities. Some can be made just by pure rope, like the net type. Others included are the mountain land, the road land, the fountain land, mud land, pole land, the jungle gym, the flight land, fountain land, the seesaw land, and lastly the basic land. Even though, it was a women's only sport, men were still able to try out. Unfortunately, they would always fail, due to the lack of balance they have than women.
If they were really interested in the sport, there is one way where you can be kind of involved in it. You can work as a Keijo engineer. Keijo engineers have the position of where they are in charge of developing and delivering the equipment. But, the main focus of being a Keijo engineer were to develop and design the Lands and races. Even though you can't play in the sport, it still doesn't mean that you can't help make the future of Keijo even brighter. Throughout you're life, even as a kid, you were a fan of creating arts and crafts. In fact, every club that had been made in some of your schools, you attended the club! One day when it came to try making a paper boat to float on water during science class, that's when you have noticed your full potential. The only materials you had to use were two pieces of paper, the objective was to try to make the paper boat as strong as possible so it can hold as many coins as possible. Out of all the students of the class, your boat proved to be the strongest by holding fifty-one coins! After that day, everyone knew that you had a talent for arts and crafts.
During the final days of high school, you would always stay at the library to study for the exams from Setouchi Keijo training school, which was located on Awaji Island. You lived in Osaka, it wasn't too far, it only takes two hours to get there by car. How things would work was that the school would ask you various things involving math, geometry, science, and history. You had to do an interview with one of the counsellors from the school and do the exam in your school. After completing it, you would have to wait for a call from the counselor herself to confirm if you were eligible of attending the school or not. As a miracle, you were confirmed as eligible. Your whole family celebrated over dinner and congratulated you. When it came to graduation, you had to wait for the entrance ceremony to take place. Which will take place in two months from that time.
When it came to that day, the way of your transport was by going by one of the buses from the Setouchi Keijo training school! It was like a reserved bus for you, along with other guys. The moment you had to leave, you first gave all of your family members one last hug. After all of the warm hugs, it was time to get serious. You would bring your suit case full of your clothes and place it in the bus storage. You got in the bus and waved goodbye to your family when the bus started to drive away. All that had to be done was to make sure you achieve as much as you can in the school. But something bothered you, it was something that had bothered you for such a long time since you left junior high and moved on to high school. It took place over at Kobe in the Hyōgo prefecture.
Flashback to four years ago...
Just one more day until the graduation ceremony of junior high. People would be sad or happy that junior high will come to an end and they will soon go to high school next. For the most part, everyone would be a bit nervous for their next year. They would be curious of how their year of high school will be. You hoped yours to be a great year, right after you told someone how you felt about her. That's right, you're going to confess your feelings to a girl right after school. It was your friend from elementary school, Nozomi Kaminashi. She and her neighbor Taichi Omotenishi, would often let you hang out with them. All three of you were so close that you even went to each other's houses for special occasions. But things had changed, suddenly.
You told Nozomi to meet you behind the school when school had ended. Nozomi thought that it would be some kind of planning after the graduation ceremony. Turns out a that it wasn't. While walking with Nozomi behind the school, she became very curious as to what was in your mind.
"Why couldn't you tell me during lunch or something?" Nozomi asked.
"Because...it's...really important!" You said.
"If you say so."
Upon arriving behind the school, you did your thing. You handed her a letter within an envelope. She opens it up and glances at you.
"Read it out loud, but not too loud." You said.
She starts reading, it says:
Dear Nozomi Kaminashi,
Upon reading this letter at somewhere private at an unexpected time, I'm sure you know what type of letter it is. It is not a graduation letter, not business letter or anything like that. It is indeed a love letter. I'll admit it, I love you Nozomi! I love the way you look, I love your dark blue hair, your dark blue eyes and everything! So please, would you please accept me? I know we've been friends since we were children, but my heart says more than that!
Sincerely, (Y/n) (L/n).
Nozomi was completely stunned by your kind words. It would be expected that she would accept, for you, but she said otherwise.
"(Y/n)...I'm flattered...but...I just can't." She said looking down.
The second she said the word "can't", it felt like your heart had stopped for a minute by shock.
"B-but, why?"
"I just...don't feel that way, and you also said that you're moving soon. So I don't think it would be possible to stay in touch together even if we did date. I'm really sorry (y/n), but that doesn't mean we can stop being friends." She said.
You were close to crying in front of her, she even took notice and took matters to herself. She got close to you and gave you a warm hug.
"Hopefully, this will make it up. So, can we go home now? First let me go to the bathroom first. I'll catch up with you and Taichi, okay?" She said.
"Alright." You said in a depressed tone with a slight blush.
She left you alone, allowing you to go find Taichi. He knew that you were going to confess to Nozomi, so he said he was going to wait in front of the school for you and Nozomi. At your arrival, he saw the glum look on your face, he knew that it didn't turned out as you expected it to be.
"She declined, didn't she?" Taichi said.
"Yeah." You replied.
"I figured. Its tough I know, how about we go somewhere to eat? Just to calm you down a little."
"Sure, just let me ask my mom first."
When she arrived, you looked away. For the rest of the day, things became awkward for the two of you. You didn't interact with her in any way while you walked to the way home with Taichi and Nozomi. Not even once had you glanced at her the whole way. She knew it was best to not talk at the time, so she talked with Taichi instead. At one point when she asked you for your opinion on the subject, you still didn't respond, you ignored the girl.
When it came to splitting paths from Nozomi, you and Taichi went out to eat at a restaurant. To make your mood of turning from numb to joy, he recommended that you spend some time with him at the arcade. In the end it actually did, so you had to hand it to him, he does a really good job on making people happy.
When you came home, your parents told you that you and the whole family have to move to Osaka the next day. An afterthought was made inside your head, it would be better if you never saw Nozomi again. Not because she rejected you, but because you thought it would be best to not bother her and Taichi anymore. It was then decided, you would not attend school tomorrow for the graduation ceremony. Your father went to your school by car and told them that you would be moving the next day. They gave your father your diploma and then left to go home to hand it to you.
In the end, you never said your final farewells to Taichi and most importantly, Nozomi. Leaving them with questions when they graduated, they were never heard of again. At that, your new life started in city Osaka.
Flashback ends...
Four long hours have been awaited by everyone in the bus that was provided by the school. The most memorable part of the trip was crossing the Akashi Kaikyo bridge. Notable for being one of the most longest bridges in the world. At long last, the bus along with everyone arrived by the school's parking lot. Other buses that contained the Keijo students barely made before you did. Many girls were already getting off the bus as some scattered around the parking lot while some that were Olympic representatives were being interviewed. The school was very large, having its own stadium, training fields, and a big building for both courses. It was said that the half of the school were for Keijo engineers, as for the other half were for the Keijo students who are willing to become professional Keijo players.
"Wow, didn't expect the school to be this big." You commented.
The moment you got off the bus, there was some girl standing on one of the statues of the school.
What kind of person would even get on top of school property. She must be some kind of gymnast. You thought.
You walked past the huge crowd to get inside the building to find where the entrance ceremony would take place. The entrance of the school was located beside where the girl on top of the statue was. As you got closer, you saw the energetic girl talking to one of the reporters about what she was capable of and then transitioning her attention to two different people.
"What an energetic girl." You said.
During her conversation with a blonde girl and a magenta haired girl, she quickly turned around to your direction. You didn't notice because you were facing the other way. She suddenly had the urge to chase you, she didn't know why she would run to some random person.
"Sorry Mio and Hanabi! I'll talk to you guys later!" She said, leaving them with curiosity.
You were almost going to enter inside the building. The girl ran as fast as she could, before you entered the building, someone pulled the sleeve of your uniform.
"Huh?" You turned around and saw a girl with dark blue hair pulled up by a white ribbon, and dark blue eyes. Finally, her most memorable feature of hers were her two locks of hair sticking out of her head, also known as ahoge.
"It's you...isn't it?" She inhaled and exhaled air because of all the running she did.
"Do I know you?" You said.
"Don't play dumb, you do know me. We went to junior high together, in Kobe!" She said.
You looked at her closer, your eyes widen in surprise. In all of your life, you've never been so shocked in fear until now.
"N-Nozomi?" You said.
