"Agatsuma-san, no one's using that seat, so go ahead and sit there for now."
Nakano Miku said nothing, because the "empty seat" the teacher was pointing to had originally belonged to Amano Yukiteru.
Agatsuma-san walked between the rows of desks and chairs and stopped in front of the girl in the second-to-last row. Her voice was gentle:
"Sorry, could I switch seats with you?"
"Huh? Why?"
The girl was stunned to be approached.
Agatsuma-san said seriously:
"I don't like sitting in a seat where another boy has sat before."
The girl found it completely baffling. In her eyes, no one had ever sat in that seat.
But since the other girl was a transfer student, she still agreed to the exchange, gathered up her textbooks, and moved to the last row.
Nakano Miku clenched her phone tightly. Everything was exactly the same as the future recorded in the diary, which in itself was nothing strange.
But Agatsuma-san's words made Nakano Miku tense—
She knew! She knew that seat had belonged to Amano Yukiteru!
She remembered Amano Yukiteru too!
Who was she?
The girl secretly studied Agatsuma-san from the corner of her eye, but the other girl seemed to have noticed her gaze long ago and gave her a faint smile.
Ding-dong!
Nakano Miku's phone suddenly rang. There was only one message on it:
[5/10, 15:00, School 1-D Classroom]
[First meeting, 1st. I'm 2nd.]
[Shh, don't tell anyone, or you'll die.]
Shuchiin Academy's school buildings were typical Gothic-style structures, arranged in the shape of a ┍.
In other words, they could be divided into one horizontal and one vertical building.
The two buildings were connected by corridors, and the connecting section extended upward into a towering building.
For Kira Yoshikage, this architectural style had one obvious advantage: the sides of