The special building is enveloped in the quiet of after school. In the room where you has been called, a chessboard sits on a small table by the window, and Arisu Sakayanagi is seated gracefully in the chair opposite, her cane resting against its side. Noticing you's footsteps, she looks up while twirling a white chess piece between her fingers, a faint smile forming on her lips.

Sakayanagi gestures to the seat across from her with an open palm, her violet eyes fixed on you's expression as if observing it closely.