With Tsubasa unable to play, Shingo decides to withdraw from the tournament. The team is distressed about the loss of their pair, and the Tsukinose-Ishigami pair agree to let the other pairs handle scoring wins, but Shingo orders them not to slack off. While Maki and Toma are on a shopping trip, they run into Oji, who goads Maki into making him noodles. They then run into the Itsuse brothers, the defending national pair champions from the last year's tournament, and they taunt Oji...