Wide shot – a regular high school in Tokyo, early morning. Students are filing in. Birds chirp.]Narration:Tokyo Metropolitan Kurozawa High. A place as ordinary as any... or so it seemed.
[ Inside the classroom. Ishijin Akiru, black hair, leans against the window, earbuds in, gazing outside with a blank look.]Narration:Ishijin... the quiet one. A boy whose world played to a volume only he could hear.
[PANEL 3: BANG! The classroom door slams open. Kuri Shijo enters loudly, sharp teeth gleaming in his smirk.]Kuri:"Yo, Akiru! Still brooding like a washed-up rockstar, huh?!"
[PANEL 4: Toji Ifuru slouches in behind Kuri, hair drooping like an upside-down cactus.]Toji:"Kuri, can you not break the door every morning...?"Kuri (grinning):"I break silence, not doors."
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[PANEL 1: ishijin removes one earbud, eyes narrowing slightly.]ishijin:"You two are early. What's the occasion? World ending?"
[ Kuri pulls something from his bag — a strange, futuristic volume knob device, with the words "VOLUME OVERRIDE" etched on it.]Kuri:"Nah. Just found something wild in my gramps' garage. You gotta see this."
[PANEL 3: Close-up on the device. The dial twitches slightly on its own.]Toji:"...It moved."
[ ishijin frowns, eyes fixed on the device.]ishijin:"...That's not just an old stereo dial, is it?"
[PANEL 5: Suddenly, a low hum fills the air. Everyone in the class freezes except for the three.]Sound Effect:VMMMMMMM...Narration:The volume... had shifted.
[PANEL 6: Kuri laughs, unbothered.]Kuri:"Guess we just turned the world up to 11."