The brackets for the Inter-High badminton preliminaries have come out, and in her first match, Riko faces Nozomi Ishizawa, an old middle school friend, who was a semi-finalist in the previous year's badminton tournament. Nagisa tries to give advice to Riko on how to win, but Riko says that she is not like her. The preliminaries begin, and Nozomi has the upper hand as Riko doubts herself...