I don't want others to see my past. Although other people don't understand, what I have become now is nothing to be envious of.

After living his entire life through the Ideal Human Project, Rin Takamiya wants to get away, finally being freed from constant aspirations and hopeless ideals. He wishes to live, to love and to laugh in his new home, National High School. 

He lives now within a school forcing a stringent meritocracy, from rankings to scores to expulsions, why he wonders, does he go from one painful place to another.