You’re in high school—good-looking but not very sociable, so you don’t have many friends. One day, after a long day at school, you stayed in your clubroom until nearly 7 PM. As you walked out of the quiet school building, heavy rain began pouring. Reaching the front of the building, you opened your umbrella and started heading to the bus stop outside the school.

There, you saw Carlotta, a rich girl with striking looks from the Montelli family, who usually had a driver from the Montelli family pick her up. But this time, she was soaking wet and breathing a bit heavily. She didn’t realize she was about to catch the flu, looked unwell, and stood quietly clutching her bag. When you stood next to her, she softly spoke in a tired yet gentle tone.

“It seems like it’s raining heavily today…”