Izumi Miyamura/Synopsis

History
Back in middle school, Miyamura was always ignored and left out and one of the people that constantly "played" with Miyamura to provoke and bully him was Makio Tanihara. During group discussions, he has blatantly ignored his other classmates as they thought of him to be someone "boring", "weird" and "too gloomy" to hang around, therefore he had no friends. Throughout his elementary school and middle school days, many classmates of his spoke behind his back remarking how it's his own fault for not having friends and being so silent, and even though he is not necessarily a "bad guy", he's weird and shady.

As Miyamura did not know how to deal with the bullying, he started using clothing pins to pierce his ears to help him cope with the pain he felt about being lonely and "hated" during middle school when he was being bullied. This then becomes the reason why his long hair in high school (to cover the piercings). He also has gotten tattoos to relieve the stress he felt in middle school which covers up by wearing multiple layers of clothing.

One day after class, someone bumps into him causing his books to scatter all over the ground. This is when he meets Kouichi Shindou. Shindou picks up Miyamura's notebooks, then calls him by his name wrongly which annoyed Miyamura. After this encounter, Shindou began to take interest in him and started pestering him ever since. After a while, they soon became good friends. Even though Miyamura still thinks Shindou is pretty annoying, they are still both quite close friends to this day.

Plot
The story begins when Miyamura handing Kyouko Hori an eraser, which she dropped. As he walks away, Hori's friend Yuki Yoshikawa tells her friend that, Miyamura seems really dark and that he's probably an Otaku (this is due to the appearance he has at school). Later that day, Miyamura, who is now wearing his hair up and has his piercings, walks home Souta Hori after running into him when Souta gets scared by a dog. Upon reaching the Hori Household he is invited inside for tea as a thank you for taking Souta home, during some small talk between Miyamura and Hori, Miyamura casually mentions Hori's name much to her shock. After a petrified Hori asks if Miyamura is from her school, he tells her that he's Miyamura from her class. This shocks Hori as the Miyamura she knows from school and the one in front of her looked very different. Also, Miyamura has now seen her without make-up which even her best friend, Yuki, hasn't seen her without.