"You guys are leaving?" Ichika asks as their future selves head for the door. "Fuutarou-kun should be here soon, having you all help us will be better than just having him."

"Well, we shouldn't really be messing around in the past. Who knows what would happen to the future if we stopped th-" Miraitsuba rambled before her mouth was covered by Futuretarou.

"We'll be...out shopping. Take care of our young selves." Nino walks past Itsuki, her stare lingering slightly longer than normal. "I'm sorry." She mutters as the future squad leaves the house.

"Speaking of Fuutarou-kun...Isn't he taking his time?" Lolitsuba asks as she and Itsuki walk out into the hallway. They find him flat on his face, his younger self begrudgingly carrying a large stack of papers.

"Little help?" Shotarou exclaims, slightly angry and tired. He splits the papers with Lolitsuba as Itsuki wakes Fuutarou from his slumber. "This idiot didn't sleep all night! Then he forces me to do all the hard work!"

"What are these?" Lolitsuba asks as she and Shotarou set down the papers. "There's so many!"

"That's for everyone. Even the kids." Fuutarou rubs the sleep from his eyes as he is dragged in over Itsuki's shoulder. "I know you guys don't have to take any tests at the moment, but starting early is a good thing." His words light up Lolitsuba's eyes.

"Really?"

"If that happens, then maybe we wouldn't have had to leave our last school. If we all passed then..." Itsuki claps her hands together.

"..."

"A-Anyway, let's get started."

The future characters wait by the lake of a nearby park, eating a packed lunch Nino and Miku made. Miraitarou suddenly holds out three fingers as he fishes out some ice from their cooler. A few seconds after, a sharp pain comes to Miraino's cheek.

"Ouch...You really didn't hold back, did you Itsuki?" She rubs her cheeks as she takes the ice. She leans over to the star wearer as her head jerks as her cheeks go flush with pain.

"Do you think we should help them?" Miraiku asks, taking a sip of her soda. "What if our lives change?"

"Let's just guide them down the right path. Make sure they don-" Future Fuutarou says before his form starts to flicker and fade. "What? How? Where am I?"

"Hey, are you alright? Uesugi-san!" Miraitsuba asks, checking on him as he falls down.

"Who...are you?"

"Oi! Me! What's going on?" Shotarou rushes to his teen self's side. Fuutarou falls to his knees, fading and clutching his head.

"What's happening to him?" Loliku asks, looking at her teen self.

"Huh? Young me, is he someone important?" Miku turns her head, her tone curious yet cold.

"Where? What happened?" Lolichika looks around at their things, seeing Lolitsuba completely focused on studying Fuutarou's practice questions. "Itsuki, check his bag for an answer key!" Panic sets in for the kids as the teens turn confused at the man that's slowly losing his opacity. They gather round Itsuki as she pulls out a notebook.

"What's going on?" Lolitsuba snaps out of her trance as the others grab her paper.

"75 out of 100." Teen Yotsuba exclaims. "That's amazing! Good job young me!"

"Really? Then we wouldn't have had to..." Nino exclaims as Fuutarou vanishes from the room, leaving it with only eleven people populating it. "...leave Kurobara."

"Where did I go!?" Shotarou is panicking at the sight.

"Oh, who are you?" Itsuki asks, walking over to Shotarou. "Yotsuba, isn't he the boy you told us about in Kyoto?"

"What did we do?" Lolino turns to her sisters, taking her Yotsuba by the arms. "We...we need to leave Kurobara."

"But how?" Young Itsuki brings up as the kids all enter Yotsuba's room. "And when?"

"From how they look, they seem to be in 2nd year." Miku points out. "So we just need to find a way to transfer to their school."

"Yotsuba." Ichika grabs Yotsuba's shoulders. "We...we're going to all fail so that we get to meet up with Fuutarou-kun and he reappears."

Yotsuba...smiles. "Haha...then...then I can finally be special." She mutters under her breath. "Go ahead and fail. This will just prove that I'm in a different place from all of you." She walks off as they all catch a glimpse of Fuutarou running through the door.

"Still haven't given up?" Nino grabs him by his collar.

"Nino, put him down. He's just trying his best with exams coming next week. The four of us need to pass." Miku says, shocking the kids.

"Four?"

"Oh, Yotsuba-san's here. Are you going somewhere?" Fuutarou asks as Yotsuba heads for the door.

"Yeah, I need new shoes for the track club." Yotsuba grabs the handle. "Good luck with those idiots, Fuutarou-kun."

"Tch, that girl..." Ichika rubs her head. "How does she do it? This is her third year in all the clubs, but she still hasn't failed a test."

"Kurobara must be something, but whatever. Let's get started." Fuutarou sighs.