As the second episode opens, Akihito and Umi settle into their first full day at the former girls’ academy, now welcoming male students for the first time. Whispers about the school’s planned closure circulate through the halls, tied to the broader issue of declining birthrates that has left classrooms half-empty. Umi urges her brother to join club activities and mingle with classmates, hoping to ease the sense of impermanence hanging over everyone. By afternoon, the siblings pause on the quiet grounds, quietly considering how their presence might briefly brighten a place facing an uncertain end.
