Kamikura Hiroki attends Nadesico Academy, a school that serves both high‑school and college levels, and he dreams of becoming an art teacher. He also serves as advisor to the high‑school arts society, where his cousin Housen Elis is a fellow painter. Although Elis continues to paint, Hiroki has stopped pursuing his artistic ambitions, possibly due to a traumatic event in their past that has affected both of them. When the school hires a new physical‑education teacher, Kikyo Kiri, she encounters Hiroki on her first day and is stunned. She later confesses her feelings to him, but he refuses.
