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A while after Kyro's abrupt disappearance, Saki's health had taken a turn for the worse and was hospitalized further away from Ichika, Shiho and Honami. As they grew older and started facing the fact that Kyro is gone, and Saki may never recover, they grew astray. Honami and Shiho parted ways suddenly with Ichika as they faced judgement and criticism, rendering Ichika lonely since middle school with no one close to her to converse with. Following the years of loneliness, Ichika is reunited with Saki and the duo set out to reunite the band once more like when they were little, even though they weren't with Kyro anymore.
It's been a while since then and now the four of them were making music and having fun with one another, as well as planning to go pro. After a successful and fun practice, they decided to call it a day and decided to leave the SEKAI and go have dinner together to celebrate.
"I had so much fun today!~"
Saki said happily as she yawned in exhaustion after playing really well during practice. Shiho smiled softly at the blonde before chuckling a little.
"Well, if you can't play like that during the next practice, you're playing until you do sound like today."
He threatened jokingly, which drew a whine out of Saki almost immediately. The girls laughed upon hearing Saki's whine. As they neared a corner to head to their usual diner, Ichika bumped into someone and almost fell backwards onto the ground until she felt they grabbed her wrist and caught her in time. It was a boy wearing the Kamiyama High winter uniform, save for the school's usual cardigan and instead, he's wearing the school issued summer sweater vest (Imagine Tsukasa's school vest from the Miku movie) with his shirt and tie.
"S- sorry! Are.. are you alright?"
The boy asked in a gentle but shocked tone, not expecting that he'd bump into someone by accident. As Ichika looked up to see who she bumped into, she was met with brown hair and pink-ish red eyes that looked a little familiar to her. He was tall, maybe 6 feet tall, wearing black sneakers and had glasses on.
"Y- yea.. I'm alright.."
The boy relaxed a little and sighed in relief.
"I'm glad then..."
His gaze lingered on them for a while. They seemed kinda familiar to him, but he can't put his finger on it.
"Well,.. I'll be off then. Sorry again."
Kyro apologized once more then walked off towards the train station, the girls' eyes locking on the small of his back as his figure disappears into the entrance of the train station. Just who was that guy? and why did he feel familiar to them?