A Musical Talent

One day, at Hope's Peak Academy...

It was almost Christmas and Hope's Peak Academy was preparing itself for the holidays, one week separated the students from two weeks of relax.

Hope's Peak estabilished the period of self-managment for this remaining week, students would prepare activities for others to partecipate in, no lessons would occur.
For some, it was anticipated holiday, that "some" turned to be a good 80% of the students. While the activities surely got afflicted by this absence, the remaining part of the students could get to know each other more!

Although Shuichi was never the type to partecipate in these activities and preferred to stay in class and do whatever his classmates had in mind, this year he had to find something to do. He didn't want to take the days of absence and at the same time he HAD to be somewhere as the rules wanted to know where each student would go for the day, for tracking purposes.

Inspired by his friend Kaede, he decided to spend the first day of the week at the Music Course: It was organized in the exhibition room and he could spend the day sitting while listening to music, that's what he expected

As he entered the room he could feel the emptiness of the school. He was the only one sitting there, noone was on the stage and the music in background was played by a computer behind him. The room was pretty big, almost like a theatre's, it had rows of seats and carpets leading to the stage, all colored with a dark shade of red. It was indeed used for school presentations before and was always on top when it came to performance thanks to the students and atmosphere.

Shuichi thought that he may have got the wrong time or the wrong room, but checking the list again confirmed he was where he was supposed to be.
Next thing he thought was to wait, if noone would arrive in the next 15 minutes, would that mean the course is canceled? Should he ask for informations about changing it then?

He would have asked those things later, for the moment, he chose to just get comfortable on the seat he was on.

Eventually, something happened, the door was slammed open and a girl screamed "IT'S LATE!" before getting taken over by the scenario, just like Shuichi. She thought she was late, yet she was the only one in the room, admitted that she still hasn't noticed Shuichi on the other side of the room.

She quickly made her way to the stage and started setting things up, the instruments, the guitar she brought, the speakers...

Noticing his ghost-ness to her, Shuichi decided to approach her to ask for informations about the course and what was happening, he got up and started calling out for her: "Hello? Can you hear me?"

He screamed through the room, making her jump in surprise, she looked around and then noticed Shuichi waving his arm in the back;

"Hello Hello! Ibuki can't see you very well! Come here!" she screamed back at him while waving her arms

For a moment Shuichi didn't get what she meant by "Ibuki can't see you very well" but nonetheless, he approached the stage, getting on it

"Waaait a minute!" she said, getting close to Shuichi, examining him, "Blue hair, dark clothing, grey eyes, very strong aura...Gooood morning Shuichi!" she commented and then burst out in happiness

"(Does she...know me? Do I know her?)" he thought, she did know his name, but she examined him like she never saw him

"Do you know me?" he asked getting sure in his mind that he never met her before