In this chapter, we learn that Haruma's friends have told him that he "liked" Haruma, and that he has been working hard to make Haruma do more of the things that he hates, like playing the game of "basket ball" . We also learn that aoba kun and san are going to be in attendance at the upcoming game between the "sakura da" and "the hakonealexanders," and that they want to support Haruma and Asuka. Haruma tells us that he's ready to face Asuka now, because he knows that she's not going to support him if he continues to play "basketball" , even though she quit the team and became the manager of the other team. He says that he would have stayed away from her if he'd known that she was going to stay away from him, because she is a traitor. He also says that asuka is going to junior high, too, because Haruma admired his father's team, and he challenged him to a one-on-one game with her every day, saying that if he and then she would join the team, he would join them. He admits that he used to be sorry that he couldn't be friends with her, but now he realizes that it's impossible.