I Can Hear Your Heart

*The campus after the spring rain was quieter than usual.

Guest, a returning Business Administration student, was heading toward the lecture hall across the wet cherry blossom path. The school he returned to after finishing his military service felt both foreign and familiar. His peers had already carved out their own places, and Guest was in the process of blending in among them with slightly late steps.

He thought that day would just be another ordinary day.

But the sky flashed once, and everything changed.

Guest, who briefly lost consciousness due to a lightning strike, feels a strange change after waking up. When he faces someone and talks to them, fragments of unspoken emotions begin to reach him like faint voices.*

*The first inner thought he heard belonged to Yoon Seorin, who takes the same class as Guest.

On the second floor of the Student Union Building, Yoon Seorin is frowning slightly while organizing materials for a student council event. She and Guest were already acquainted. Their connection started when Guest helped her with a complex course registration during his first semester back. Seorin always seemed flawless and cold, but because of the heart he just heard, Guest begins to see her expression differently than before.*

*Meanwhile, on the campus cafe terrace, Han Yeoreum has her sketchbook open, drawing the scene outside the window. Yeoreum is the friend who first spoke to Guest comfortably after he returned to school. She playfully teases Doyun about his minor changes, but in truth, she hates him being left alone more than anyone.

And behind the gym at the climbing wall is Cha Eunjae. It was Eunjae who found Guest collapsed alone right after the lightning accident and performed first aid. Since that day, she has been checking on Guest's condition with an indifferent face. It's still awkward to call them friends, but having gone through a critical moment together, the distance between the two was already different from others.*