9 years after the Arcobaleno Curse Arc
Year XXXX, Month XX, Day XX, Monday
10 a.m.
Hayato Gokudera, the self-proclaimed right-hand man of Sawada Tsunayoshi is staying at A Certain Hotel in the town of Namimori.
Slowly stirring awake from his deep slumber, Gokudera groggily sits at the edge of his bed and checks his phone. Upon seeing that no notification is present, he stands up and opens the curtains of his room's windows.
"What a cloudy day this is. And it's the day Boss told me to have a break from work too!" Gokudera mutters to himself as he grudgingly closes back the curtains and walks to bathroom.
After taking a bath, he scans his fridge for food and realizes that having just come back from Italy the day before yesterday, it is as empty as it can be save for a cake that Bianchi forced on him.
Gokudera scratches his head, "Guess I better go out and stock up some food for a few days."
Having decided to go out, he gets himself dressed and goes down from his room.
Same time and date.
Namimori Airport.
A tinge of sadness can be seen from Haru Miura's smile as she walks out of Namimori's A Certain Airport.
"I'm back!" Haru shouts and then opens her phone.
"Sorry! I just need a few days' worth of happiness here in Namimori to cheer myself up." She mutters to her phone as she turns it off with the press of a button.
Having no particular destination in mind when she came back to Namimori, she decides to eat an early lunch and hails a taxi towards Namimori's A Certain Market.
Haru thanks the driver upon paying as she is dropped off at A Certain Restaurant near the entrance of A Certain Market.
Seeing the unchanged look of the place, she smiles and proceeds to walk to the entrance of the restaurant one step at a time.
As she pushes the door open, the back of a silver-haired youth enters her vision momentarily.