Intro : "The Introit in The New Term"

The white season had passed. The falling snowflake crystal had melt into rain of water, granting the land with colorful flowers and plants. The hibernated animals had awakened and along with the other residents of the world, greeting the long-waited season with joy.

Spring: A symbol of life and hope.

Time goes really fast and the country had passed the middle of spring, or the vernal equinox, a day when daytime and night are of approximately equal duration. Sakura trees around the town were blooming at its best. The petals were freely floating all around the city, as if they know that they were fated to fall in an instant; but believed that they will be reborn someday.

These natural phenomenons had informed every school throughout the country that it is time for them to let go of their senior students. It is the end of their school journey but at the same time the beginning of their new chapter in life. They were now had to be ready to serve the community as members. It's finally the time to live on reality. The school had done their best to support them. Now, they pray for their petals a shining future.

Just like in any other schools, tears of happiness were decorating the graduation day at Maijima High. Everyone felt sorrow in their hearts, even a strong girl like the captain from the girl's karate club or others who were smiling, for they had to accept their destiny to leave their huge tree known as school. Their school life, the best moment in their lives had ended and would forever be cherished.

Such thing as graduation day didn't mean much for Katsuragi Keima but only a mere change of status from junior to a senior this year and a change of class from 2-B into 3-B. Though the letter was not changed, the members of the class were shifted; some of them were stay still while there were also new classmates. However, never for once Keima cared about such thing as classmates. Normal boys on his age would rejoice when they had the cold empress of Maijima High in their classroom; or the lady princess of the school; and other beauties from class 2-B who were lucky to stay together. Nonetheless, like treating other people as mere NPCs, Keima didn't even budge from his seat since there was a more important thing that needed his attention the most.

"Keima-kun, what do you want to eat?" A blue-haired girl asked.

"…" Without saying anything, Keima pointed at 'Kimchi Soup'.

"…"

There was no response from the girl, until 15 seconds after that. "Keima-kun, what do you want to eat?"

Keima flipped his table to express his frustration. He also screamed, "UAAAAAGHHH! WHAT A SH*TTY GAME! I've been playing this since February but it's still unfinished!"

"Calm down, man. You're the god of conquest. It's just the matter of time," a student next to him turned at him, triying to soothe his anger.

"He's right. You've conquered thousands of games. There's no reason for you not to be able to finish this one!"

Keima glanced at him, "Tch. You only make me angrier. If you had time to console me, then do your own job. You are also the god of conquest!"

Suddenly, the door was opened, allowing another Keima to enter the classroom. As he arrived on his desk, he shouted, "Class start!"

Soon after that, one of the students, Katsura Keima, raised his hand, "Sir! I've picked the route Yes-Yes-Show me around the town-Wake her up-Study-Leave the Classroom-Go to the Courtyard-Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit…"

1 minute later.

"… videntur parum clari, fiant sollemnes in futurum-Strawberry Jam but still fails! I now have to start from the beginning!"

"WHAT?" The teacher, Keima Sensei, overreacted; his eyes were popped out and all of his muscles are tensed. He later dropped on his knees, "This can't be… Are we doomed?"

The students cheered him up, "Get the hold of yourself, Sensei!"

"Even after all those hardships we still unable to beat the game…" He muttered. "… We're not done yet…"

"We're gonna take every route if we must!"

Keima shook Keima's hand, "Yes. There has to be an ending to this game! We'll find it!"

"YEAAAH!"

"Ah, disconnected…" Keima said, bringing him back to reality. This time, it's the real 3-B, not 3-KK. The one who's sitting next to him was no longer another Keima, but a short black-haired girl with a pair of small ribbons on the side of her head. She's well known because she was a member of library committee.

Keima couldn't careless. Even though he could've sworn that he heard someone yelled something like 'The B in 3-B stands for 'Beauty'!', he still left the classroom and headed upstair to his favorite spot where the WiFi connection was faster than any other spot in the school. It's closer now since he's already in his third year.

"Ng? It was unlocked already," Keima said as he creaked the door open slightly. Realization struck his mind soon as the door was about to open. "Don't tell me… She's back? But I thought her tour was still not over yet!"

"… Should I run?" he thought. "No. I must finish this game and it's just her. She won't bother me very much."

Keima opened the door to the rooftop, expecting to see a pink-haired girl. However, he didn't. It was not the pink-haired girl who got ahead of him. At the fences, stood a girl. Her beautiful long straight violet hair was whirled by the spring breeze, showing her natural cherry-colored cheeks.

She turned around and stretched out, "Hnggh that feels good~ such fresh air! I will definitely come again tomorrow!"

She noticed that she was not alone. "Hm?"

And then noted that she was not with a random boy. That's why she didn't hesitate to approach him, "Ah, you are Elsie's brother. Katsuragi Keima," she greeted Keima who's sitting on his usual bench, not far from her.

Keima pressed the 'X' button to save the game. He always does so whenever he had to change his sight from the screen. "And you are?" he asked back.

"I'm Haqua Herminium, Elsie's best friend!" she smiled. "We've met before."

"Oh."

"…"

"…"

There was an awkward silence between the two since Keima went back to his world, right after he greeted the girl back. Haqua later remembered that her best friend's brother was that kind of guy. A genius, but weird. Hence his nickname Otamegane. She couldn't help but to sigh.

"So you're going all the way up here only to play a game?"

"Yeah. The wi-fi is better up here for some reason. There's an electricity down the bench too," he explained.

Haqua raised her eyebrow and then asked another question, "How do you get here? There's a password to open the door."

"If you can get here, you should know, right?" he asked back while continued playing.

"Well, I'm pretty sure you are not a member of the student council… I believe we used a different method," she answered while proudly showing her council band that was twined around her arm.

"I see," Keima responded.

"…"

Keima glanced at her. He said, "If you have done whatever you do here, please leave me alone."

She was shocked at his remark. She yelled, "Uwah. How rude! I'm your sister's friend, you know!"

"That doesn't have anything to do with me wanting to be alone."

"You're weird after all. I can't see why Elsie so looks up to you," she commented. "Hmph. it's not like I want to be with you anyway, so good-bye! May our path shall never cross again!"

As Haqua left, Keima continued his game. He had been playing with it since Kanon gave him his PFP back, but he still could not finish it. Normal gamers would just leave such game with load of bugs in the bin. However, Keima was not one of them. He's not normal gamer. He plays not for fun; he plays for the sake of saving the heroine(s) in it. So when the game fought him back, he won't just quit. He'd declare an all-out war to it.

Suddenly, the school bell rang. Break was over. Keima had no other choice but to retreat for the time being.

…

It's home room now. The female teacher was explaining how important for her students to plan their future sooner because they were now seniors. This year would be their crossroad of destiny. They should take things more seriously from now and decide whether if they want to graduate and go to college or go directly for work.

Unlike other students, Keima didn't pay attention to the teacher. Without him noticing, it's already afterschool and he still couldn't beat the game.

On his way to the locker, he bumped into her sister and her best friend. She was very happy to see him, "Ah. It's Keima Nii-sama!"

Unlike Elsie, Haqua glared at him with anger when she said, "Ugh. Though I wished not to meet you again… Are you stalking us?"

"Ridiculous," he muttered. He replied her glare with a sharp glance, under his glasses. "Go away, Vice-President. May our path never crossed again!"

"See! You know I'm the Vice-President! You did stalk me!" she pointed her finger at him.

"I could tell from the symbol on your armband!"

"Who'd buy that? You were so into that stupid console when I showed it to you!"

"Stooop!" Elsie yelled. Her hands distanced the girl and the boy. "Nii-sama, don't fight with Haqua!"

Keima walked past Elsie. He said, "I'm going home."

"Hmph! I'm going to the student council office!"

"Haqua! Nii-sama!" Elsie pouted, "Uuuu… Why can't they get along?"

…

Meanwhile on the other side of Keima's world, the idol Nakagawa Kanon had just finished singing on a stage. The crowds were cheering her, thanking her for the amazing show. The concert just now would include her tour concert for the day. Nevertheless, that wasn't the end of her activity. She still had a shooting an advertisement and a talkshow later. Tight schedule, but she still enjoyed it wholeheartedly.

"Thanks for your hard work, Kanon."

"Thanks for your hard work too, Okada-san," she giggled.

The manager picked her tablet to check the schedule and said, "Our job is not done. Keep up the spirit."

"Understood!" Kanon yelled while clenching her fist.

Okada-san smirked, "Now take a rest. It's still 2 hours away from the studio."

"Yes!"

Kanon grabbed her phone from her purse and began composing an email to her beloved Keima. She had been doing the same thing since the incident of her winter concert.

Keima-kun! I've just finished a concert!
It was a success~ Now I'm on my way to Anikyo's studio for shooting!
Oh, I'll have an evening talk show.
Make sure you watch me, okay? You miss me, right?

After she hit the send button, she giggled, waiting for his reply happily. It was normal for a girl in love to look forward to their crush's reply. A crush whom she had given her first kiss to, at that. A crush who had helped her from her trouble. He's like a prince on a white pony to her. Unfortunately, Kanon herself was just like a busy princess who had no time to make free time for her personal happiness since she had her people to take care of.

Her phone vibrated. The reply had come! In just 1 minute!

"Geez, what took him so long~!" she thought.

Kanon quickly punch the button to open the new email.

It was a short email from Keima.

A very short email.

Hm.

Kanon looked down to her thighs. She felt anger, but somehow able to manage it.

"He's busy with his game again. Typical Keima-kun!"

Her phone vibrated once again. It's another email from Keima. This had made Kanon overjoyed. She was expecting a longer email from him. Soon as the screen showed the content of the email, she skimmed it first and got delighted. "Wah, it's longer!"

However, her happiness vanished in a blink of an eye after she read the message thoroughly.

...

You got into a different class.

…

Lightning struck her heart along with the feeling of despair. Kanon knew that it wouldn't have any significant effect to her since she was always been busy with her life as an idol, but still. Being separated from her only friend at school would make her lonely.

Kanon put her phone back to her purse. Wishing to be able to get over with this matter. She agreed with herself that it's good enough for her to be able to see him once in a while. "Yes, wishing for more than that would be greedy…"

Kanon took a plushie beside her and used it as a pillow, "Gosh, I miss you already… I want to see you in my dream, Keima-kun."

Minutes after that, Kanon fell asleep peacefully. From the mirror, Okada-san who was sitting on the seat next to the driver could see a smile on her face.

A bitter, yet happy smile.

Okada-san averted her focus back to her tablet again and heaved a sigh. She decided not to bother her with unecessary questions. After all, she's just a business partner to her. As how she was now, she would never be able to do anything regarding her client's personal problem. Nonetheless, by being partners means you must trust each other. In this area, Okada-san does very well. During Kanon's disappearance few minutes before her winter concert started, Okada-san who had high position in the project didn't just cancel the concert. She believed Kanon would be back no matter what happened. Even if she had to drag her own legs, Okada-san had faith in her idol comrade that she would come to lit the world with beautiful voice.

"Hang in there, Kanon," she whispered.

Thus, the car took turn to the freeway and continued their journey without any intention of stopping by.

A/N: I'm sorry for the shorter chapter! I'll expand it later. Maybe.

Just in case you are confused, this happens before the very first chapter and AFTER the [Overture]. Ugh. What's done is done. I know i should've wrote a chapter that take place after the first chapter, but…. *Sigh* I'll have to go down this path. Bear with me a little longer~ Please.

In short, the timeline would be: Overture-Intro-~Prologue

Thanks for those who reviewed and read the previous chapters! Cheers!

I wish this chapter is into your liking. I kinda did my research. Maybe not enough though.