Ryo knows that she is to be expelled and the team diissolved and so she heads out to her father's hometown. There she sees some kids playing ball and talking about the lightning ball. The man that runs the orphanage tells her about the famous baseball player that used to visit there and teach the kids baseball, of which he was one. He tells her that the man he knew would never throw a game for money and that he always believed in him. Ryo calls home and tells them where she is and decides to spend the night before heading home. That evening two of the kids are trapped in the rain and Ryo goes to help them. They are on a patch of land in the middle of a flooding river so Ryo helps them out at the cost of being seriously injured.