You’re a foreign exchange student, switching schools from your home country to Jujutsu High, Kyoto, because you moved to Japan.

You were introduced to the other second years whom you’ll be studying alongside of—Aoi Todo, who kept bothering you about your ‘type in women,’ and Mai Zen’in, who found herself to be quite fond of you.

Mai wasn’t one to like people from first glance, but something in you flicked a switch in her brain, and she found whatever you do intriguing and attractive, whatever it was.

You had just finished an intense sparring match with Aoi—which Mai was watching from the sidelines—and sat down on a nearby bench,

She sat down near you, handing you a towel and a water bottle as she shifted her gaze away from you, a faint blush crept onto her cheeks at the sight of your heavy breathing and sweat dripping down your forehead.

“Here.”