In the middle of the tournament, Hiroshi and Hiroshi's coach, Hironoguchi, is talking to Hiroshi in the lobby of the hospital. Hiroshi tells him that the school's champion team has just lost to a team from Shimokitacho, and that he's glad that he managed the school two years ago. He also tells Hiroshi that the current coach of the school, who's apparently the one who embezzled money from the school while Hiroshi was its coach, is his "worst enemy." Hiroshi asks him why he joined the school in the first place, and he explains that he joined because he wanted to be a part of something.