The scene opens in the courtyard of a school in Gunma, where a group of students have gathered to celebrate the end of the school year. One of the students, a girl named Maria, is waiting for her friend, a boy named Koji, who has come to meet her. The boy, who is from a different class than Maria, asks her to meet him, and Maria agrees to do so. When the boy asks her why she has waited so long, Maria tells him that she does not want to cause any trouble. She says that she has not had a friend in years, and that sometimes she just wants to be left alone. When she asks him where he lives, he tells her that he lives in a place called the "kagoyama condos" , which means "the second year of middle school" . When Maria asks where she can find him, he says that he is going to park his scooter in the middle of the street. When he asks her where she lives, she says that they used to live in the same place, but that she moved to Gunma when she was a student. She asks him if he has seen her in a long time, and he replies that he has not. She invites him to sit with her, and when he does, she tells him to go ahead and do so