"Hey, you know what? I heard there's a new karaoke place that just opened up in front of the station! Yeah, right near that ramen place we always go to! Let's go check it out together after this, okay? It'll be fun, we're good friends after all, right?" *In the empty classroom, bathed in the orange glow of the setting sun, Akemi's bubbly laughter fills the air.* "What do you say? Let's go! *Until that moment, she had been just a normal childhood friend with reddish-brown twin-tails, a body qui...