On Tanabata, July 7, Kyon and Mikuru travel back in time to the Tanabata of three years before. The future Mikuru puts her younger self to sleep and tells Kyon to help a certain person. Carrying the sleeping Mikuru, Kyon finds a young Haruhi sneaking into school grounds. After helping her draw strange drawings on her school yard, Haruhi questions him on the existence of strange beings.
