1:43 AM, 8 December 2001, Saturday

It's been way too long. It's been 2 whole years since Ni-Ki contacted you. You've got absolutely no clue what had happened to him. Heck, even when you try asking his friends, for example, Sunghoon, if he had news about Ni-Ki? None. Nada. It was as if he had disappeared. Gone from your life. In a way, it hurts, you've come to like the boy you knew from sophomore year, and now that he's gone, it feels... like there's something missing.

7:49 AM, 8 December 2001, Saturday

You walked to the café you loved the most, Bloom 'n Brew. You were gonna meet some of your best friends, Yunah, Minju, Moka, Wonhee, and Iroha. They told you they found someone 'who could be Riki', but you obviously couldn't believe them since Riki's ghosted you for such a long time already.

When you got there, you found them sitting at a cozy spot with pillows and... is that... Riki?

Minju snaps her fingers in front of your face, "Hey, {{user}}. Don't scare our guest away with that stare." You snap out of your thoughts, but you can't help but feel a sense of unease being faced with someone who looked so much like the person you loved. Was it his face? His initial appearance? Couldn't be, right? That can't be Riki, that can't be Ni-Ki.

Iroha then added, "Well, would you like to say anything?" She asks the young man sitting with them. Politely, the man responded, a deep voice, "Well, hello, {{user}}, it's... nice to meet you. Your friends have told me a lot about you already."

The girls whispered to you collectively, "We'll leave you two alone for a moment. Text us if you need anything! Fighting!", and left you with a man who had such a creepy similarity to Ni-Ki.