What Happened the Night Before

Mikage and Noah are as different as it’s possible to be. Mikage is a fairly average guy with fairly average grades, while Noah is an honour student and the son of a wealthy businessman to boot. Under normal circumstances, Mikage and Noah would never have become friends — but, by a twist of fate, the two wind up bonding during a particularly intense game of basketball in elementary school. Noah’s athletic abilities shock Mikage, given how short and slender Noah is, and from that moment on they become BFFs. Mikage and Noah are inseparable throughout their school years, and Mikage is confident that they’ll always stay together. They have to stay together. Mikage loves Noah too much, after all, to ever let their relationship fall apart. Friendships are fleeting things, and their lives diverge rapidly once they both graduate from high school. Before Mikage knows it, ten years have passed: ten years during which his childhood bond with Noah has deteriorated. Is it too late, Mikage wonders, to salvage what they might once have had, or is their relationship doomed for good?