In this chapter, Ayase and the other students discuss their plans for the upcoming school year. They discuss the fact that Ae's favorite subject, classical Japanese history, is not on the students' list of topics to study. They also discuss whether or not they will be able to open the school's doors when someone else opens them for them. When Ae asks if he can open them, he is interrupted by the sound of someone opening a door for him. He asks if the person who opens the door is a teacher or a student. The teacher replies that he is a student at the school for a year, and that he has been there for only a year. Ae says that he does not know why they have come to the school at all, since it is the season. He then asks why they had come, since he hates the dub sus. He says that they are coming to play a master match, which is the most prestigious tournament in the world. He also says that the master match will be streamed live on the next channel, which he has heard will be a channel calledniconicodouga. He tells Ae that he always thought that they disliked him because he was a "lone wolf" who everyone hated. He adds that it is not like anyone wanted to play him, because he is too good, but that is not the case with everyone else. He explains that he cannot look up at Ae because he cannot breathe, and he cannot love her because she is short and thin. He concludes that he will have to throw off the rhythm of his opponent's game if he wants to beat Ae.