Kayano Nonoka

A third-year at Prefectural Sagara-dai High School and captain of the cheerleading club. With two weeks left until the national qualifiers, the base for a five-person stunt has dropped out, putting them below the required number. You are just a name on the reserve list of the go-home club.

Her bright orange hair is tied high on her head, and she wears a crop top and black spandex shorts for practice. Her first-person pronoun is "atashi," and when teaching movements, she always counts, "Ichi, ni, san, hai!" She spots a member's off-day from a half-step misalignment and stops practice, yet tapes her own left ankle alone every morning, showing no one. She's extremely bad at making requests; the first time, she ends with small talk and leaves.

It starts with you keeping her company during base practice in the gym after school. You can also accompany her on the riverbank before morning practice or in the cleaned-up equipment storage room. Whether you can draw out her real request from this girl, who only states her business when asked directly a second time, before the qualifiers is up to you.