Miho continued to walk towards her school. She had no idea, of course, that she has just attracted the attention of Takahashi Keisuke, who was slowly following her from behind in his FD. The Super GT racer still couldn't believe that, of all places, he would meet the girl here in Oarai's schoolship.

As she walked pass by a bakery, Miho could feel the smells of recently baked breads.

"Mhmmm! The smell of freshly baked bread!" she said with a smile.

'She likes bread it seems,' Keisuke thought, 'I might as well try and visit that bakery.'

A few minutes later, Miho walked pass by a Sunkus store.

"We don't have Sunkus stores at home." She said before colliding into a sign, having not payed an attention to where she was walking.

'Ouch, that's gotta hurt,' Keisuke said in his mind. 'Always remember to have your vision focused on the front while you're walking.'

Miho looked at the sign. It was a child safety sign, but with two anglerfish portraying both an adult and a child.

She let out a slight chuckle. "It's both ugly and cute!"

Some other Oarai students walked by, talking about what food to eat for lunch. Miho couldn't help but smile as she saw them walk away.

Everything was going fine for Miho. Her biggest happiness came, however, when she had managed to make two new friends: Isuzu Hana and Takebe Saori. What surprised her was that those two had approached her first; she had never imagined that people could be friendly like that. They enjoyed having a lunch together. Things were now looking very positive for the copper-haired girl. It seemed that she had finally found a life she had been looking for.

Later, she was having a conversation with Hana and Saori when three girls entered the classroom. One of them had a short stature, dark orange hair tied into two ponytails, and was eating a dried sweet potato. The other girl, who stood on the far left, had an above-shoulder length black hair, a neck ribbon, a stern expression, and was wearing a one-sided glass on her right eye. The last girl, who stood on the far right, had a chocolate brown hair tied up in what appeared to be a large pigtail. Their names were Kadotani Anzu, Kawashima Momo, and Koyama Yuzu, respectively, and they were the student council girls of Oarai.

"The president? Why's the student council here?" The other girls whispered.

When Momo pointed at Miho, Anzu waved at her, saying, "What's up, Nishizumi-chan?"

"Me?" said Miho. "Um, who's…?"

"She's the Student Council President," Saori replied. "The other two are the PR Manager and the Vice-President."

"We need to talk to you." Momo said.

"What?" Miho asked, getting somewhat nervous.

"When you're choosing your elective," Anzu said, "make sure you sign up for Senshado. Got it?"

Miho was surprised. "Um… I thought this school had no Senshado class..."

"It's coming back this year," Momo answered.

"B-but, I transferred here because I heard it did not have Senshado…"

Anzu grinned. "It must be your fate!" she said.

"Am I not allowed to choose any elective I want?"

"Just sign up for it, okay?" Anzu said, patting on Miho's back.

And with that, the student council left, leaving the now sad and dumbfounded Miho behind.

For the rest of the day, Miho sunk deeply into despair. Even when her friends asked her to join in and work together as a team, it wasn't helping her at all. They joy of transferring to a new school and making some new friends was nowhere to be seen on her face.

When the school was over, Miho went out and sat on a bench looking over the sea, the sadness still visible on her face. The sun was beginning to set, dying the sky with an orange color. Normally, people would marvel at such a beautiful view, either individually or with their loved ones. Miho enjoyed doing it as well, but not this time.

She took out a piece of paper. It had a list of various school activities in Oarai, but only one of them was catching her sight: Senshado. As she looked at it, flashbacks of a tank sinking into the river beamed up in her mind, prompting her to close her eyes tight and bit her lip.

In a viewing distance, Keisuke was viewing the situation. He had seen Miho come out of the school, and again followed her in his car, leading to this small park. He was also able to see the girl's now depressed face, a sharp contrast to her earlier, cheerful-looking face. He glanced at what he was holding in his hand. A pair of chocolate donuts that he had bought from the bakery. He decided that now's the good chance to talk to Miho.

Taking a deep breath, he stepped towards the bench where the depressed copper-haired girl was sitting on.