Release Message:  On Tanabata, Mikuru uses time travel to take Kyon (Tomokazu Sugita) exactly three years in the past. Upon arriving, Mikuru is put to sleep by her future self, who tells Kyon to carry her younger self and help out a certain someone.

Description:  On Tanabata, Mikuru uses time travel to take Kyon exactly three years in the past. Upon arriving, Mikuru is put to sleep by her future self, who tells Kyon to carry her younger self and help out a certain someone. Kyon comes across a young Haruhi sneaking into her middle school and is roped into helping her, using the alias 'John Smith' to keep his identity a secret. After helping her draw strange symbols on the school athletics grounds, Haruhi questions him on the existence of strange beings, with Kyon suggesting that they might exist because he knows someone like her at his school. After Haruhi leaves, Kyon wakes up Mikuru, only to find that she has misplaced her time traveling device. The two go to see Yuki, who links with her future self and helps the pair return by having them sleep in a time stasis field in her apartment. After returning to his present time, Kyon wonders if he was the one who inspired Haruhi to attend his high school and start searching for strange beings.