Sometimes Utena forgets why she left Ohtori Academy (it was because there was a creepy administrator who kept perving on her, who didn't stop until she nearly broke his arm, and then the school insisted she had to leave, right?), but she doesn't let it bother her for long. Her aunt and her new uncle, her friends, her admirers, the school clubs (somehow, she got roped into student council, but it's weird--didn't student council members do more than organize dances and festivals?), all of it keeps her busy, and isn't it wonderful, to be so popular, so adored? And yet, there is a hole in her life, a strangely shaped hole that aches and aches, but she can't ever remember why it aches.

(And then, one day, a girl in a pink dress and a flowing mane appears on the horizon and she thinks oh, there you are as the hole slowly fills in.)