The Summer Solstice Festival is drawing near, and the Rucha Festival Tournament will be held the next evening. A boy named Yarsam challenges one of the village boys to a sparring match, which he proves to be quite skilled at. After Yarsam leaves in disappointment, Chagum challenges Yarsam to a match during the festival tournament. Chagum asks Balsa to train him for this fight, but she advises him to lay low and avoid going to the tournament. He ignores her advice and goes there anyways. During the fight, Chagum dodges Yarsam and makes him fall out of the ring, thereby winning the match. Soon after, as Yarsam's father comes to take him away, Balsa arrives and challenges his father to a match herself. She flips Yarsam's father over onto the ground, defeating him as a result.