Number Call

After being cornered, a path opens up.

Ever since he was little, he's been carrying the weight of the name "Eighto". Through the power of "8", he is drawn to a classmate, Hatta Tomoya, nicknamed "Hachi". Exchanging greetings and small talk, his daily exchanges with Hachi steadily build up. These begin to instill change in Eighto. Before labeling this as friendship, if you were to give this feeling a name, it would be ____.