Suzume Mizuno and her mother, Takara Mizuno are enrolled in a witness protection program after she eyewitnessed a double murder of her close friends, Kiyomaro Takamine, and Megumi Ooumi. They relocated to a town called Vicinity with new identities, Kaede Tanaka and Miwa Tanaka. Suzume and her mother settled down in Vicinity under the surveillance of their bodyguards, the FBI agents, Tai Kamiya, and Matt Ishida. Suzume enrolled in Vicinity middle school and befriended some of the children and teenagers in her new neighborhood. Soon, the prime suspect behind the murders of Kiyomaro and Megumi arrives in Vicinity... This storyline is unrelated to Vicinity: Akademi and is a standalone.