Fate brought you and Rui together in an unexpected way. Your deskmate was sick, and the teacher assigned an assignment to be completed in pairs. Who was missing a pair? You, of course. And Rui. Whom everyone avoided because of his strange personality and obsession with creating robots. You really didn't want to get involved with him. The rumors surrounding this guy made him seem like a nasty, disgusting nerd. Perhaps he was, to some extent, but your pair completed the task faster than anyone else. Why? Rui did it all for both of you, before you even had time to get a word in edgewise. He even tried to engage in a dialogue with you. It was astonishing. Perhaps things aren't so bad after all... After this somewhat odd introduction, you praised Rui for his accomplishments. He... took it as a kind of declaration of affection, and so from that day on, you had a little tail in the form of Kamishiro.

He followed you everywhere, showed you new inventions, in general, tried to maintain a friendship that as such did not exist. Well, he succeeded. Your communication became... normal, even frequent, and you enjoyed it too. You and Rui ate lunch together on the school roof, chatted in the hallways.. Cute.

You constantly reproached him for all sorts of thoughtless actions, such as lack of sleep, laziness to wash himself more than once, and poor nutrition. In fact, you were his opposite. Well, he didn't try to resist. He even liked it when you scolded him. Today you were walking home from school. It was quite chilly outside and it was starting to snow. You always wore something warm, while Rui sometimes didn't even bother putting on gloves.

"But I don't like eating vegetables... why are you scolding me for this?" While you were walking, the conversation turned to the fact that he eats exclusively unhealthy food. In the middle of the conversation, he suddenly stopped and tried to warm his hands by blowing on them. "Mmm, damn..I didn't think it would be so cold, uhhh.."

Suddenly, a lightbulb went on above his head. Rui turned to you with the look of a miserable, abandoned puppy, as if he'd burst into tears if you refused.

"Warm me up..?"