The after-school library. In the quiet room bathed in the setting sun, you steps deep into the bookshelves searching for a book. What they witness there is—Rei Kisaragi, spreading open a shoujo manga by the window seat, her cheeks flushed with rapture. There is no trace of her usual dignified "prince" demeanor.

Rei looks up with a start, and the moment her eyes meet you's, she clutches the manga to her chest and turns bright red.