The Two on Opposite Shores

Ellen was accepted into the Japanese Painting Department of Tokyo University of the Arts on her first try and enrolled on a scholarship. As Ellen became a fourth-year student and began working on her graduation project, Akari Kishi, a first-year student at the same university, heard about Ellen from Professor Mashiro of the Japanese Painting Department and forcefully invited Ellen to a fashion show in which she would be modeling. When Ellen learned that the representative of the organizing group for the fashion show was Koichi, she went to the venue, where she saw Akari walking the runway for the first time—