Sumeragi Subaru, his twin sister Hokuto, and their mother Keiko are on their way to their new home in mainland Tokyo. By sunrise, the three of them has finally passed the last highway gate to enter Tokyo.
Subaru is already mesmerized by the shapes of buildings after buildings surrounding the road and apparently, Hokuto is also happy.
Despite the silent treatment she gave Keiko back when they're still in Kyoto, her mood's uplifted quite easily now she starts greeting the crows on Tokyo's busy sidewalks. As dangerous as getting her arms out the passenger's window may be, Subaru can't help but feeding on his twin's sheer cheerfulness.
It felt so good to see her like this especially if he compares the now happy Hokuto with yesterday Hokuto who frantically refused to go to Tokyo at all cost, making a guilty mess out of Subaru who secretly wants to be wherever his mother would take him. The guilt is such that he still couldn't fully face Hokuto, and so he's back observing the outskirts of the city where he would live in. A small smile weaves its way on his lips until his curious gaze fell onto a tall, dark-clothed stranger on a sidewalk.
Subaru's right hand automatically finds its way to roll down his side window, and what a fine gentleman the stranger actually is.
This stranger is clad in expensive sportswear—oh, he should know; being Hokuto's twin and all—a black, body fitting tank top, white track pants with black stripes on one side, a watch, and white running shoes. His silky short black hair flown here and there by the wind as his wide smile shone through the crowds.
The young man is now laying his arm on the shoulders of a beautiful woman wearing black flip flops under a long black casual dress; a bright cherry blossom hairpin tucks strands of raven hair behind her ear. They're walking; they only stop for a moment before a zebra crossing on one side of the crossroads where the Sumeragis' car got stuck in traffic. For Subaru, the pair looks refreshingly uncaring of their surrounding; she laughing loud at the jokes the tall gentleman offered, but they resembled each other too much Subaru can only guess they're siblings... or are they fraternal twins like him and Hokuto?
He'd only hope the man would be so kind to walk closer for Subaru to see him more clearly.
It can be either this summer's heat, or the bright sunshine glowing on huge buildings' glass walls that he felt so heated his cheeks flushes.
It is also strange that the woman left Subaru even more unquestioning as time goes on while he's still looking at the man. What's more surprising, he's no longer capable of thinking about yesterday's happenings, or anything else, if at all.
All he could see and think about is a dark-clothed, tall stranger.
"What're you looking at?" a yet again giggling Hokuto asks him right beside his ear. Subaru blinked and shifted to his previous sitting position at the same time as Keiko turned the gear and let the car slides forward.
"It's nothing, Hokuto-chan."
Hokuto merely shuffles his bangs at that, and then she winks. "He's good-looking, Bro," she mouthed, mischievously soundless.