(rolls up sleeves) oh boy the cenotaph! ok so the full history.

the cenotaph is a little memorial stone that had been around yumenosaki academy for quite a while. it was located on the outskirts of the activity grounds.

it's quite old! it was erected a long time to mourn the passing of a beloved student. it has an inscription in latin that reads; "in memorial of our fallen star(s)".

come yumenosaki's war, which as you know, also resulted in a couple students passing by their own hand. this cenotaph was then adopted to be in memorial of all beloved students that had passed away. in memorial of our fallen stars.

among one of those students who passed was a student who really idolized arashi! they had told her that she was the most beautiful in the world and that they loved her. they ended up killing themselves, and arashi hadn't even picked up that they were troubled; they never came to her to talk about it or anything.

and so she goes to pray at the cenotaph from time to time. she'd imagine him and talk to him and it'd help lessen her burdens and her worries. it weights very heavily on her mind and it's why she's resigned herself to be more proactive reaching out to her friends and making sure they're okay and they feel heard!

unfortunately, it has since been removed as of the summer of ESY1. with yumenosaki's new management, they hoped to help clean up the image of the school, which included the fact that there were students ended up that killing themselves while they were attending.