After knocking out her first opponent with a perfectly-timed knee, Natsuo comes face-to-face with Sanae Sawamura in the next round of the tournament. Icily determined to serve Natsuo some long-overdue payback, Sanae proceeds to outclass her with her superior striking skills. As the fight starts to slip away from her, Natsuo finds herself reminiscing about a time, long ago, when she and Sanae had been close…a time when so much in Natsuo’s world had been very, very different.