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—

A month has passed since Kamiya left the company. Koichi, who has been transferred to Yanagi's team, is bewildered by the way his new boss, Yanagi, does things, which is different from how Kamiya's team did things, and is constantly under pressure from a massive workload and tight deadlines. Yanagi's words push Koichi's mind and body to their limits. Meanwhile, Kamiya, who has returned from Shanghai to see the Young Art Director Symposium where Koichi will be speaking, at the invitation of Mitsuhashi, reunites with Koichi after two years .