When the new school term begins, Rei struggles to join the various cliques. With two years until high school graduation, Rei focuses on an upcoming ten-match Rookie Tournament for a rank-deciding competition, though Rei and Harunobu will be placed in separate blocks for this tournament. Rei has lunch with Hayashida at the stairwell, where they discuss about making a Shogi Club together, in which Rei agrees for Hayashida to be the club advisor. However, since none of the other students are interested in joining, Hayashida turns to Noguchi, who is harvesting nattō in the chemistry lab...