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In class 3-A, Rui and Tsukasa seem to live in their own world together.
The dreaded Weirdo Wombo Combo, paired up for a monumentous final year together.
What could do wrong?
"Ok, let's start roll call.", the teacher announced, standing at the front of the classroom.
"If attendance is by seat order, Rui should still have some time...", Tsukasa thinks, tapping his leg in an incomprehensible anxious melody.
"Sato..."
3 seats left.
"Takahashi..."
2 seats left.
"Suzuki..."
IT'S THE SEAT IN FRONT OF HIM! HE'LL BE ABSENT!!!
"Kamishiro..."
"Present!"
Everyone in the classroom looks around in confusion, Tsukasa included.
That is, until someone gasps.
"Look out the window!"
All the students turn to the windows to see Rui, his uniform wrinkled and his body pressed against the wall as he wiggles through the window.
"Kamishiro! Take the stairs like a normal person! And report to the principal's office!", the teacher scolds, and upon landing in the classroom, Rui walks to the door, smiling at Tsukasa.
"You too, Tenma!"
"Huh??? What did I do???"
"Tsukasa, have you ever seen an American movie about high school?", Rui asks.
This topic of discussion strikes while Rui and Tsukasa walk through the crowded lunch room together, each of them clutching a lunch tray piled with food.
"Yeah, a couple. It's not my favorite type, but they're unique."
"Have you ever wanted to start a food fight?"
"Oh, total-"
With that final syllable, Rui takes a meatball from his pasta and chucks it with no remorse
at Kusanagi Nene.
"Oh shit.", the two boys whisper in sync.
She removes the meatball from the floor and stares at Rui. If looks could kill, he'd be long gone.
She grabs a packet of mustard, and she squeezes it between her hands so swiftly and hard that it narrowly misses Rui and squirts directly into Tsukasa's eyes.
He falls to the floor, his eyes covered. "My eyes! My eyes!", he shrieks, and the entire lunchroom bursts into laughter.
Rui, on the other hand, sighs. "How anticlimactic."
At the end of the day, the students all clean the classroom, and Rui heaves a melancholic sigh while clutching a mop.
"Clean, so I never have to see you until Monday."
"Ah ah ah. We have a shift together after work."
Tsukasa sighs, scrubbing faster so he can escape from Rui.
"How do they expect us to clean if we were never taught?", Rui muses.
"We were taught in kindergarten. And we've been doing it almost every day since then."
"Well, normally I skip cleaning. I suppose I should get this over with."
Rui bolts into the hallway and dumps the entire bucket of water onto the hallway floor. The sudds are quick to gather, and everyone who previously stood now slips through the hallway.
Rui then puts on a jacket, and he smiles at Tsukasa.
"This is a mop jacket. Made out of many mops, I can live life as if it's a snow day and still clean the floors!", he grandly explains, and he does just that.
Tsukasa watches in horror as Rui does soap angels and makes soapmen in his mop jacket, but the floor doesn't get any cleaner.
A teacher finally dares to show their face, which turns red at an unspeakable face.
"KAMISHIRO RUI!!"