Inside the school's pastry shop, a group of students and employees gather for a special dessert buffet. Akari, the owner of the shop, greets the guests and inquires about shinji, who is on his way back from a business trip. She asks him if he will eat at the dessert buffet, and he says he will, but that he will not eat the pudding she has prepared for him. She tells him that everything has been sold out, and that she is happy that he has come