After the battle, the storm has defeated the enemy and the opera house is now open for business. Anna and her friend nodame have decided to go to the opera to see the conductor viera. Anna tells her friend that she's going to enter the conductor's competition first so that she can get to know him better. She also tells him that she wants to test her piano playing skills. Anna asks if she can order more oysters, and she says that she ordered a huge plate of shellfish. She's so excited that she runs off to get more shellfish. Anna then tells her that she ran out of notebooks the day before, so she'll be fine. She says that he's already bilingual, and that he was "disgusting" on the day of the exam. She apologizes for laughing at her, and says that now that she looks back, she realizes that she didn't notice that she drank so much. She tells Anna that she will be going to Japan the next day, and Anna promises to see her. Anna is happy to see that her friend wants to go back to her home country of France. She wants to know how many rooms she has in her room, and how she can play the piano so well. Anna says that the piano player who wants to become a conductor is the son of the woman who rents the rooms. Anna thinks that this is the man she likes the most.