
Mashiro helps pick up the papers and returns them to the man- carefree and mysterious Ai Takano-who then takes Mashiro to see the cherry blossoms in gratitude for her help. When Mashiro arrives at the train station from another evening of cram school, she witnesses an argument between a man and a woman that ends with the woman running into a train and leaving, the man being left behind, and papers scattered on the ground. She feels like she doesn't belong and constantly tells herself to be a "good child" or she will be hated. Third year middle school student Mashiro Serikawa is pressured by her stepfather and mother to do better in cram school, is hated by her stepbrother Shuuto, and is isolated from her classmates because of her constant studying and her status as the adoptive daughter of the Houou Seminar Cram School's principal. Shiro no Eden is a 2010 Shōjo manga series by Ririko Yoshioka.
