After buying out Pantasia and merging it with St. Pierre, Mr. Kirisaki challenges Azuma and the others to another bread competition, the Yakitate! 9, which is to be televised nationwide, offering Kuroyanagi the position of judge and presenter. Kirisaki also makes Tsukino the president of Pantasia while Yukino becomes the president of St. Pierre. On the plane home, Ken Matsushiro tells everyone about when Kuroyanagi started training under him in Pantasia...