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After school one day, he wakes Mikoto up from her desk, only to find a puddle of drool left behind. Absent-mindedly, he takes some on his finger and tastes it. Shortly afterwards, he falls ill. When Mikoto visits him, she claims that he is suffering from love-sickness, which he most likely got from tasting her drool. From there, the relationship begins, and Akira quickly asks Mikoto to be his girlfriend. Although she accepts, he continually feels that there is too much distance between them. Although they rarely have any physical contact, the two begin a ritual where Akira tastes a bit of Mikoto's drool each day. The drool can transmit feelings, among other things, between the two of them.