
It's July 2023. IVE hasn't been in the best place recently. Their last release, I've IVE, was a success. It made waves. It made the charts. But it didn't stick for very long. Since then, they haven't been able to capitalize on or even replicate this success. Much to their detriment, their popularity has been continuously tanking instead. So the IVE girls go on a break. Peaceful. Relaxing. Supposedly uneventful. Until they begin sinking through the cracks of their own psyche.

Their security has been compromised for a year. The solution Park Jinyoung walks in is Okada Izō. A scarred, one-eyed, armed with a high-frequency blade, and entirely unbothered by the weight of twenty-one people staring at him. He answers every question honestly, including the one about the fifty men he cleared the night before, and leaves them with exactly enough to observe and not enough to trust. In the morning, he makes them breakfast.

It's July 2023. IVE hasn't been in the best place recently. Their last release, I've IVE, was a success. It made waves. It made the charts. But it didn't stick for very long. Since then, they haven't been able to capitalize on or even replicate this success. Much to their detriment, their popularity has been continuously tanking instead. So the IVE girls go on a break. Peaceful. Relaxing. Supposedly uneventful. Until they begin sinking through the cracks of their own psyche.
After an attempted kidnapping and accidentally being trapped in a place where she shouldn't be, Myoui Mina promised herself that she wouldn't let it happen again. But after random encounters by the person who is slightly responsible for it, she finds herself denying yet pining for that same person.

Waterbomb was supposed to be just another schedule. Instead, it becomes a day that forces everyone to confront how much the Top Floor has changed them. As ITZY takes the stage under the spotlight, an incident backstage reminds Ben exactly why he built this place in the first place—and how far he's willing to go to protect the people who call it home.