It had been 8 years since Sabito died in the final selection and Giyuu still had not gotten over his best friends and crushes death

Giyuu was sitting on a log near a lake he and Sabito would play at when they were younger. it was also raining both sabito and giyuu loved the rain a lot. Giyuu had gone through years of depression it never getting better as he kept on blaming himself for sabitos and his sisters deaths