In this chapter, we learn that the captain of the women's team, Sara, has given up her leg in order to play in the third set of the match against the men's captain, Tamura. Tamura and his assistant coach, Hiroshi, discuss the situation with the two women. Sara is the daughter of the Tamuras' business rival, the kamakura family, and Tamura is the grandson of the family's founder, the late Ingomar Uemura. Sara's eldest son is ill, and her younger sister, mira, is also ill. Sara has been working as a maid for the Inugamis, the ruling family in Japan, and Hiroshi worries that she is doing so because she wants to be a servant to the family.