The following day, Nagisa suggests forming a school-based swim club to Haruka and Makoto and the three boys propose the idea to their homeroom teacher, Miho Amakata, who agrees to be their advisor as long as they find one more member and restore the school's outdoor swimming pool themselves. Believing the group can also restore Rin's old personality, Gou volunteers as team manager. Later, Makoto runs into their former coach, Goro Sasabe, who reveals that Haruka quit swimming in middle school because Rin lost a private race to him back then and voiced that he was quitting swimming altogether. Haruka, believing it his fault, also quit swimming competitively from guilt. Rin learns of the Iwatobi swim team and joins the Samezuka swim team in hopes of officially beating Haruka.