The girls discuss the upcoming rookie tournament, which will determine which school will advance to the spring tournament. The captain of the team, in order to advance, has to be the second-best team in the tournament. He tells the girls not to worry about it, as he will be back soon. He also tells them that he will not be giving them up to any other school. The girls wonder why the captain put their names on the reservation for the tournament, and why they stayed overnight in the same hotel as the captain. They also wonder why she put their clothes on the same day as they did, and they apologize for getting caught up in the charade. They wonder why they were kicked out of the tournament last year, and the captain says that it must have been a bunch of "idiots" on the team. He says that he has yearned for the girl ever since he met her, but she has refused to marry him because she does not want to marry the captain, mikuni. He wonders if something is going to happen at the tournament today, and wonders if the letter lady Kyoko left behind will tell him what he needs to know. He knows that the letter says that the captain wants to marry Kyoko to them, and in exchange, she will ignore the entire issue with him. He worries that she is trying to shoulder the burden of keeping the opponents below 15 points, and he worries that the girl freaks him out.