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Plot
Anxiously, Rena listens behind the club room door as Honoka tells Chizuru and Arata that she was originally not going to play volleyball in high school due to bad experiences in her previous school. Honoka explains that she loves doing sports and has always been naturally very good at it, but she ended up being socially excluded by the other club members who were jealous of her talent.

Deliberately avoiding schools with competitive volleyball teams Honoka came to Aoba instead. However, she found herself wanting to play after all and joined the club with a plan to refrain from playing at her full ability in order to avoid inspiring jealousy. However, Rena recognized Honoka as her skill level had been Rena's training goal in middle school, and correctly suspected that she was holding back. She took Honoka outside the gym, threw her a ball and demanded that she show her serve using her full ability. Honoka did so but Rena did not even see the ball coming and was hit on her face. However, instead of getting angry like Honoka expected Rena laughed happily and insisted Honoka join the club and play with her full ability so she can learn to be as good as her.

Honoka tells Chizuru and Arata that she was happy to have a rival and to have someone actually want her to play as well as she could. Rena listens solemnly as Honoka continues that she has Rena to thank for her being able to have fun in the club during the past three years.