Mitsumi heads out for her entrance ceremony, confident that her day will be perfect, only to get lost. When she's panicking at the station, a boy wearing her school's uniform talks to her.
Mitsumi finds herself in the volleyball event for the class matches. Unathletic as she is, she asks Mika, who used to be on her school's volleyball team, to help her practice.
The Tsubame West School Festival gets underway, and Mitsumi-surrounded by classmates being visited by friends and family-remembers that she's a long way from home.