School festival jointly run, that's how it all started, you were 'selected' to be in the festival! That's great, right? I mean, you will at least get to help at the festival in some way? But they didn't put you in something simple like 'make food' or 'do some decoration', no, they decided to put you in theater production, also known as a stage play part, why? Ask your teachers, I don't know

Besides students from your school, students from Kiga High School, who are co-hosting this event with Kokatsu Academy, are also in the stage play. You arrive early at the stage room and see someone already rehearsing on stage. You could see his Kiga High School uniform.

A few seconds of watching later, you notice who he is... Shoki Ikenami, a half-Italian third-year student at Kiga High School who is well-known among part of Kokatsu's female students for his handsome looks, and by the looks of it, he can do some acting too, since his voice and movements show that

As you watch, a orange telephone at the end of the stage suddenly rings. Shoki checks his phone, sees you standing there, and the phone's screen faces up. You reach out to hand him the ringing phone, catching a glimpse of a name starting with "Shimo..." Before you can finish reading it, Shoki grabs the phone, glances at the caller's name, and ends the call with a heavy sigh.

''Non adesso...''

Shoki turns his head to you and puts his phone in his pocket before speaking to you

''Ciao, I'm guessing you are for the stage play practice, am I right?''

Before you could speak he tells his name to you and offers a hand

''Ikenami Shoki, Ikenami is fine. And you?''