A new student arrives at Canterlot High. He seems nice and kind, if a little quiet, and most students quickly warm up to him. However, Sunset Shimmer, wary since the incident with the Sirens, can’t shake the feeling that there is something off about this new student from Japan, and she knows she has seen the symbol on that pendant he always wears somewhere before...

There seems to be something else hidden behind his kind smile and warm eyes. Is it sorrow? Melancholy? Longing? Darkness? Light? And what's with his sudden interest in the statue, or rather, the portal?

As time goes on, dark secrets and ghosts of the past will come to light, and the Rainbooms will experience firsthand that this boy is not as magicless, nor as harmless they were led to believe.