A Wish that You Don't Know

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**A Wish that You Don't Know** is a side story that expands upon the Administration Counter Academy and its students.

## Synopsis

> *The Counter Academy is holding a school festival. A girl who is frequently forgotten decides to compete in the relay race with her friends in order to be remembered.*
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## Appearances

* Yang Harim
* Han Sorim
* Cho Hojin
* Brownie Moore
* Naielle Bluesteel
* Mika ★ Star
* Seo Yoon
* Lee Sooyeon
* Administrator
* Yen Xing Lanchester
* Edith Twins
* Kaci Bins
* Arti Lana
* Sky Layfield
* Valeriy (In flashback(s))

## Plot

### Act 1

Yang Harim talks with her friends about the rumor of "Student Thirty-one", a student who remains unidentified despite also being the mysterious repeat winner of Counter Academy's Field Day event. She notes that the rumor is discouraging many students from joining Field Day, but Brownie assures her that she has a way to uncover Student Thirty-one's identity this year: Field Day will be highly televised, and the winner will be rewarded with an artifact known as the Wishing Ball. The first part succeeds, and Field Day gains massive popularity among students and viewers.

Lee Sooyeon orders Seo Yoon to participate as a temporary transfer student in Field Day and win the Wishing Ball. While she doubts it can truly grant people's wishes, Sooyeon believes the artifact must be powerful to have earned its name. Yoon asks why Yoo Mina won't participate instead since the latter is transferring to Counter Academy soon, and Sooyeon explains she finds Mina to be too mentally soft. After Yoon leaves for the Blue Rose Islands where the Counter Academy stadium is located, the Administrator sends Alex after her as a chaperone.

At the Field Day stadium, Yen Xing Lanchester explains the general rules for the games: players will be competing on two teams—Red and Blue—and in each game, everyone will earn both individual and team points; whoever gets the highest points is the winner. Yoon is placed in Blue Team while Naielle Bluesteel and Mika Star are placed in Red. Incidentally, Yang Harim is the commentator for Field Day.

The first event is "Catch the Tail", where players try and take off the scarves of others while avoiding having their own removed. The team whose remaining players are holding the most tails wins. Yoon leads Blue Team to victory by keeping Naielle in check while the others take Red Team's tails, causing Naielle to lash out on her as well as her own teammates. But as Yoon was not the top scorer of her team, Mika questions who was responsible for taking the most tails from Red Team's players, and Yoon herself realizes she can't remember who it was either; Mika wonders if it is the fabled Student Thirty-one.

The next event is an obstacle race in which the representative players—in this case Yoon and Naielle—run along the tracks while the others try to interfere them. During her last lap, Naielle is about to cross the finish line and win when she suddenly slips on a soda can on the way, allowing Yoon to pass her at the last second. Afterwards, two elementary-grade girls from approach Yoon and praise her feats before asking if she remembers a seeing a girl their age named Sky, another Blue Team member whom they claim shined in Catch the Tail. Yoon denies seeing another elementary-grade in either the obstacle course or the previous game.

The third event is "Individual Combat", a standard one-on-one match between two players where even the noncombatants from each team can earn points just by cheering. Naielle goes up against Kaci Bins, one of the girls who spoke to Yoon earlier, but is surprisingly defeated by her due to underestimating her strength.

Meanwhile, while spectating the games, Alex talks to a unseen Counter girl whose ability is to hide her existence. Alex realizes the Wishing Ball is attracting Corrupted Objects to the stadium and tells the girl to go back to her friends while she deals with the threat. A journalist and a cameraman hear her fighting the C.O.s in the distance and head to her location to film the incident, but Alex threatens the two not to publicize or report on the matter. Alex then goes to Yoon and gives her the lunch that she made herself, even inviting the unseen girl and her friends to eat with them.

The fourth and penultimate event is dodgeball. Naielle is stilll depressed over losing to an elementary school student at the previous event, however, prompting Mika to hypnotize and transform herself into her "Mika ★ Apocalypse" persona to save Red Team from losing. Eventually, Naielle regains her spirit when a mysterious voice encourages and tells her not to give up. She and Mika take out Yoon and lead Red Team to victory.

The final event is a treasure hunt where players must find the grand prize, the Wishing Ball, within a large forest. Before it begins, Harim announces the top players of Field Day so far— Yoon in first; Naielle in third; Kaci in fourth; and Mika in fifth; the player in second is apparently skipped over. Furthermore, Edith Twins questions why the points accumulated in all the previous games mattered if the prize was going to be awarded to whoever finds it in the last event, and Yen Xing says she wanted to teach the participants that process and progress are more important than the end result.

During the treasure hunt, Naielle, Mika and Yoon encounter multiple C.O.s throughout the forest, having been attracted to the Wishing Ball. Yoon realizes that the threat could engulf the entire island the longer the hunt continues, and the three of them resolve to finding and using the artifact as soon as possible. At the end of the forest, they find Kaci already holding the Wishing Ball as a large C.O. emerges from the ground nearby. As they all reach out to take the ball away, a flash of light suddenly appears and the C.O. vanishes. The Wishing Ball, on the other hand, loses it glow, indicating that it has been drained of its power.

Seo Yoon reports back to Coffin Company. It turned out the reason why the Wishing Ball was attracting C.O.s was because the PR Manager discarded the specialized case it was placed in and use the ball's glow for advertising purposes. Regardless, Field Day ended with students complaining that the Wishing Ball was a hoax; Brownie Moore even left a note suggesting the artifact was a defect. Sooyeon wants to investigate why the Wishing Ball lost its power and the C.O. vanished, but the Administrator provides her with a report Alex had submitted separately from Yoon.

### Act 2

Sky Layfield was invited to play soccer with some kids at the Academy. Later in the day, however, the kids have somehow forgotten about her entirely to the point they don't even remember seeing her. Sky nevertheless reintroduced herself to them.

Kaci Bins is going out to tend the Academy's flower garden and sees Sky there all alone. Kaci approaches invites her to join her in tending the garden the next time they come, and Sky happily agrees but is eager to start now. Kaci asks why she appears to be in a hurry, Sky answers that the people around her constantly forget who she is shortly after they meet. To find out why this happens, Kaci takes her to her friend Arti Lana, a child prodigy who runs a small lab within the Academy. Arti does not notice Sky at first despite their close proximity to each other and gets shocked when Sky suddenly appears for her; furthermore, she keeps forgetting Sky's name and ends up nicknaming her "Antenna". Positing that all Counter abilities have a limit, Arti hypothesizes that whatever is making people forget Sky can be canceled out by a greater force. To test this, Arti suggests Sky participate in Field Day where she's bound to be noticed by both the players and the audience. Even if people continue to ignore her, Sky could use the Wishing Ball to make them remember who she is.

During Catch the Tail, Kaci, Sky and Arti meet Seo Yoon and cautions her about Naielle. Because of her perception-disruption power, Sky is easily able to take the tails of Red Team's players without them noticing while Yoon keeps Naielle in check, leading Blue Team to victory.

During the obstacle race, Sky volunteers to be the track runner but is completely ignored and thus participates as a disruptor. As Naielle is about to finish the race, Sky takes a soda can from Cho Hojin and uses it to make Naielle trip and fall. When Sky returns the can after the race, Hojin takes notice of her and asks if she wants to be a cheerleader in the next event. Sky agrees.

Kaci is afraid of facing Naielle, but Sky encourages and tells her not to worry about losing the match even if that meant abandoning the Wishing Ball. Kaci manages to defeat Naielle but passes out from stress and taken to the infirmary. When Kaci doesn't wake up after a while, Sky comes to believe she's become forgotten again and leaves. Outside, she sees Yen Xing and Brownie with the Wishing Ball and overhears their conversation where to hide it for the final event. Sky thinks about taking the artifact by following them when she notices a horde of C.O.s that were attracted by it approach the infirmary. Not wanting to lose her friends, Sky rushes over and takes the C.O.s out, meeting Alex offscreen along the way. Kaci wakes up and reminds Arti about Sky, who comes in and is relieved to hear that they still remember her.

While eating out with Alex and Yoon, Alex asks why Kaci is holding onto Sky's hand so much. Kaci answers she's afraid she'll forget about Sky if she doesn't but Alex assures her that a true friend never goes away even if she forgets about her for a while— even if she does, she'll remember her again sooner or later. Yoon later recognizes Sky as the girl who caught all the tails and made Naielle trip and wishes her luck.

At the dodgeball event, Sky is cheering on Arti and Kaci when she notices Naielle moping about wanting to disappear and be forgotten. Emphasizing with for her, Sky begins encouraging Naielle to never give up. Naielle hears Sky's voice but perceives it as her own inner voice since she can't see Sky and is reinvigorated. Red team wins dodgeball, and Kaci, feeling betrayed after all she and Arti has done, blames Sky for cheering for Naielle instead of Blue Team and runs off. Arti assures Sky that Kaci will come back and suggests she give her flowers as an apology if she's that worried. Taking Arti's advice, Sky rushes to Kaci and tries to give her flowers only to find out Kaci has already forgotten who she is. Arti arrives as well but she too forgets Sky and doesn't even notice her. Despondent, Sky leaves and gives up on her hopes.

Later, Alex finds Sky all alone. Sky tells her it was pointless making friends with Kaci and Arti now that they've forgotten about her like everyone else, but Alex reassures her that they'll remember her so as long as Sky doesn't give up. They hear more C.O.s coming from the forest, so the two of them go to take them out and find the Wishing Ball.

Its revealed Harim did not skip over Sky's name when she was announcing the top players and acknowledged her as the runner up behind Yoon. Kaci barely finds Sky's name familiar but Arti instantly remembers. After Arti gives her a complete rundown of what they been doing, Kaci finally remembers as well and goes looking for her friend. Sky and Kaci reunite in the forest and stumble upon the Wishing Ball at the same time as Yoon, Naielle and Mika. The giant C.O. appears and Sky, desperate to save Kaci, uses the Wishing Ball to send her, Kaci and the C.O. to a Shadow Palace. There, Sky and Kaci are empowered enough to defeat the C.O. Afterwards, Yoon follows the two children into the space and suggests one of them make another wish as the Wishing Ball still has a little bit of power remaining. Since wishing away Sky's problem entirely would be too much, Sky and Kaci wish so that Sky would be noticeable so as long as she's with Kaci. After Field Day, Sky and Kaci walk home together while Arti decides to figure out how their wish works.

In the epilogue, the White Rabbit squad, under the Student President's personal orders, sneak into Brownie Moore's dimensional ship as she was preparing to take off on another journey and demand she come back to the Academy for cleanup.