The chapter opens with a discussion of the possibility of graduating from high school without having to take a third year of college. The narrator tells us that he's going to go to a school called "hakuunzan" , which means "middle school" . He tells us about his older sister, who died in a car accident when she was only a child. She was a good player, but she wasn't as tall as her older sister. He's also told us that his younger sister, ameya, is taller than he is, and that she hasn't given him much of a spirit. He says that he doesn't want to "screw over" the other girls on the team, since they're not as good as he thinks they are. He also says that the team has "gone to her head" on the court lately, and he thinks it's time to put "chiyo" in her place. The chapter ends with the narrator saying that he envies chiyo more than he ever did .